2.5 Jigen no Ririsa - Ch. 195 - FINAL SHOWDOWN

[slackingaround]

Not a fan of Lylisa suddenly ignoring her own feelings, but I guess turning the main heroine into a wingman was the best way for the author to have Mikari win.
I'm still of the opinion that if Mikari was planned to win from the beginning I would've liked more focus on her so I could root for her, instead of her disappearing for entire arcs. But I guess part of the problem is that I kept thinking of this series as a romcom instead of a battle idol manga with a side romance between two side characters.

I kinda agree with you, honestly. I'm on lilisa's ship at first, especially the early volume which is sooo lilisa heavy. However the summer camp arc is my turning point, it's when the author told the reader that love is not determined by fate, it's a gradual progress and build up Overtime. Just because you didn't like someone now doesn't mean it's not gonna happen later. What you feel now is not the end of the journey. That makes me realize that the story love might not be that simple after all.

Also she might not appear often, but she always there every time there's a major turn of events in okumura's life. It's her confession to lilisa, that okumura accidentaly Heard of, that Becames the main reason he started to change his view of 3D girls and starting to try and love again breaking his first wall. It's her selfless decision push to Marina to confront okumura to let him finally healed of his past wound even at a risk of him igniting his old feelings to Marina in the process and leave mikarin feelings unrequited, all so he could be happy and love again, breaking his second wall. It's her chocolate that she sent him every Valentines day that makes him happy, whenever okumura and lilisa had falling out she always be the bigger person, doesn't take advantage of the situation and instead ask him to reconcile and not hurt her best friend. That selfless support is what ends up make okumura finally see lilisa for what she is and not as an extension of liliel, to like a 3D girls again, breaking his 3rd wall. The author show us time and time again, when she Helped lilisa in the school cosplay festival, pushed okumura to reconcile with lilisa, and many others how selfless she trully is, and how this chapter and the valentine chocolate arc shows that she IS okumura's one and only angel. The story does not shift suddenly at the last arc to accomodate the readers intent like many western even the Japanese fanbase claimed, it's already there from the beginning. The author carefully planted the foundation ever since the summer camp all the way to the last arc.

 

[bt187]

I read this and initially thought “ok Mikarin route true end confirmed” as long as they don’t screw it up with some harem or poly bs

but hear me out. what if okamura isn’t the throuple protag, but Mikarin is. lol

 

[Sunji27]

When she was finally moving on and then the besties appeared





Thank you for the TL

 

[Deoxyribo9]

I kinda agree with you, honestly. I'm on lilisa's ship at first, especially the early volume which is sooo lilisa heavy. However the summer camp arc is my turning point, it's when the author told the reader that love is not determined by fate, it's a gradual progress and build up Overtime. Just because you didn't like someone now doesn't mean it's not gonna happen later. What you feel now is not the end of the journey. That makes me realize that the story love might not be that simple after all.

Also she might not appear often, but she always there every time there's a major turn of events in okumura's life. It's her confession to lilisa, that okumura accidentaly Heard of, that Becames the main reason he started to change his view of 3D girls and starting to try and love again breaking his first wall. It's her selfless decision push to Marina to confront okumura to let him finally healed of his past wound even at a risk of him igniting his old feelings to Marina in the process and leave mikarin feelings unrequited, all so he could be happy and love again, breaking his second wall. It's her chocolate that she sent him every Valentines day that makes him happy, whenever okumura and lilisa had falling out she always be the bigger person, doesn't take advantage of the situation and instead ask him to reconcile and not hurt her best friend. That selfless support is what ends up make okumura finally see lilisa for what she is and not as an extension of liliel, to like a 3D girls again, breaking his 3rd wall. The author show us time and time again, when she Helped lilisa in the school cosplay festival, pushed okumura to reconcile with lilisa, and many others how selfless she trully is, and how this chapter and the valentine chocolate arc shows that she IS okumura's one and only angel. The story does not shift suddenly at the last arc to accomodate the readers intent like many western even the Japanese fanbase claimed, it's already there from the beginning. The author carefully planted the foundation ever since the summer camp all the way to the last arc.

I believe it's in one of the mangaka's notes in the anime or in the Q and A where he claims that Lilysa is the protag of the cosplay side of the manga while Mikari is the protag of the Rom Com side. The idea of the angel that saved Okumura wasn't just the 2D Liliel, but also Mikari's silent support. It says something that only after Lilysa breaks his 3D waifu recognition that he starts not being able to handle Mikari's antics. But how the end game will play out will largely depend on how Ashford Chronicles ends and how Okumura has to break the last barrier between him and fully accepting love.

But adding onto that, Mikari win probably wasn't in the works until around Summer Comiket at minimum because the whole series changed from three volume ecchi school romcom to cosplay shonen around chapter 15. Which basically pushed Mikari out for over 20 chapter or so until she got properly reintroduced. And summer training arc is when he started laying down those roots. And also in the mangaka's notes for the anime the ending had already been locked in by the time the anime started airing.

 

[wiseeu]

Woah mikari route locked in !???

 

[Lex79]

But adding onto that, Mikari win probably wasn't in the works until around Summer Comiket at minimum because the whole series changed from three volume ecchi school romcom to cosplay shonen around chapter 15. Which basically pushed Mikari out for over 20 chapter or so until she got properly reintroduced. And summer training arc is when he started laying down those roots. And also in the mangaka's notes for the anime the ending had already been locked in by the time the anime started airing.

I remember it was around that time I started suspecting that Mikari could win. My prediction was quite off the mark, since I thought the goal was to get Okumura out of the story by pairing him with the childhood friend so Lilysa would focus only on becoming a cosplayer.
I wonder if it would've been better if Lilysa never fell in love with Okumura but maybe when the author decided the ending it was too late to change that.

 

[unfilteredjw]

I kinda agree with you, honestly. I'm on lilisa's ship at first, especially the early volume which is sooo lilisa heavy. However the summer camp arc is my turning point, it's when the author told the reader that love is not determined by fate, it's a gradual progress and build up Overtime. Just because you didn't like someone now doesn't mean it's not gonna happen later. What you feel now is not the end of the journey. That makes me realize that the story love might not be that simple after all.

Also she might not appear often, but she always there every time there's a major turn of events in okumura's life. It's her confession to lilisa, that okumura accidentaly Heard of, that Becames the main reason he started to change his view of 3D girls and starting to try and love again breaking his first wall. It's her selfless decision push to Marina to confront okumura to let him finally healed of his past wound even at a risk of him igniting his old feelings to Marina in the process and leave mikarin feelings unrequited, all so he could be happy and love again, breaking his second wall. It's her chocolate that she sent him every Valentines day that makes him happy, whenever okumura and lilisa had falling out she always be the bigger person, doesn't take advantage of the situation and instead ask him to reconcile and not hurt her best friend. That selfless support is what ends up make okumura finally see lilisa for what she is and not as an extension of liliel, to like a 3D girls again, breaking his 3rd wall. The author show us time and time again, when she Helped lilisa in the school cosplay festival, pushed okumura to reconcile with lilisa, and many others how selfless she trully is, and how this chapter and the valentine chocolate arc shows that she IS okumura's one and only angel. The story does not shift suddenly at the last arc to accomodate the readers intent like many western even the Japanese fanbase claimed, it's already there from the beginning. The author carefully planted the foundation ever since the summer camp all the way to the last arc.

Holy shit someone with media literacy

o7

 

[Fgerjon]

 

[slackingaround]

I believe it's in one of the mangaka's notes in the anime or in the Q and A where he claims that Lilysa is the protag of the cosplay side of the manga while Mikari is the protag of the Rom Com side. The idea of the angel that saved Okumura wasn't just the 2D Liliel, but also Mikari's silent support. It says something that only after Lilysa breaks his 3D waifu recognition that he starts not being able to handle Mikari's antics. But how the end game will play out will largely depend on how Ashford Chronicles ends and how Okumura has to break the last barrier between him and fully accepting love.

But adding onto that, Mikari win probably wasn't in the works until around Summer Comiket at minimum because the whole series changed from three volume ecchi school romcom to cosplay shonen around chapter 15. Which basically pushed Mikari out for over 20 chapter or so until she got properly reintroduced. And summer training arc is when he started laying down those roots. And also in the mangaka's notes for the anime the ending had already been locked in by the time the anime started airing.

Damn, i didn't know about that, it's all make sense now.

 

[bt187]

I believe it's in one of the mangaka's notes in the anime or in the Q and A where he claims that Lilysa is the protag of the cosplay side of the manga while Mikari is the protag of the Rom Com side. The idea of the angel that saved Okumura wasn't just the 2D Liliel, but also Mikari's silent support. It says something that only after Lilysa breaks his 3D waifu recognition that he starts not being able to handle Mikari's antics. But how the end game will play out will largely depend on how Ashford Chronicles ends and how Okumura has to break the last barrier between him and fully accepting love.

But adding onto that, Mikari win probably wasn't in the works until around Summer Comiket at minimum because the whole series changed from three volume ecchi school romcom to cosplay shonen around chapter 15. Which basically pushed Mikari out for over 20 chapter or so until she got properly reintroduced. And summer training arc is when he started laying down those roots. And also in the mangaka's notes for the anime the ending had already been locked in by the time the anime started airing.

Lilysa x Okamura always felt weird to me because all the romantic development happening outside of a cosplay context was with Mikari. Plus Lilysa’s confession didn’t feel like it changed anything.

 

[the_legendary_klobb]

Mikaribros, assemble! The path is now clear and the end goal is starting to reveal itself. Let's savor these final steps to glory, and pay no attention to the naysayers and the illiterate that claim this comes from nowhere or isn't earned. We've been mocked, slandered and ridiculed but we held fast. Copium? Nay, it was faith and love that brought us here!