Thanks for the chapter!
Do we feel like Shiba is too far gone for what she said to have some earnestness to it? Legitimate question; to me this feels very much like a chapter that won't hit completely right until we get to read it as part of a tankoubon. Manga's weird (as a medium).
But I bring it up because what she says is, on its face, an accurate statement: so much of her life up to this point has revolved around that table tennis room. Even the person she is now comes back to her relationship with those dreams of being able to go pro, but you could just as well say that the Shibasawa Yuri who lived in the table tennis room died when she slept with Reiji, or when she tricked her grandpa out of his savings, or when she got out of going to her grandpa's funeral just to see Reiji, or so on. Is the Yuri whose life was table tennis still in there, reemerging for the final time, and the dramatic push-in on the room is just a little embellishing flourish to a simple psychological concept, per the story's genre? Is Nagi (or Nagi's body) in there because Reiji has completely supplanted any and all other passions in her life? Is it a mix of the two for a cute double entendre? Do I need to go eat lunch?
We'll find out next week (I'm going to go eat lunch). Maybe.
All jokes aside, I really am curious on what people's reads of the situation are. Also, was it mentioned in any previous chapters that the Shibasawas are planning on moving out of town? I can't recall it, but I don't think anyone's brought it up yet, so I feel like I probably just forgot.
Do we feel like Shiba is too far gone for what she said to have some earnestness to it? Legitimate question; to me this feels very much like a chapter that won't hit completely right until we get to read it as part of a tankoubon. Manga's weird (as a medium).
But I bring it up because what she says is, on its face, an accurate statement: so much of her life up to this point has revolved around that table tennis room. Even the person she is now comes back to her relationship with those dreams of being able to go pro, but you could just as well say that the Shibasawa Yuri who lived in the table tennis room died when she slept with Reiji, or when she tricked her grandpa out of his savings, or when she got out of going to her grandpa's funeral just to see Reiji, or so on. Is the Yuri whose life was table tennis still in there, reemerging for the final time, and the dramatic push-in on the room is just a little embellishing flourish to a simple psychological concept, per the story's genre? Is Nagi (or Nagi's body) in there because Reiji has completely supplanted any and all other passions in her life? Is it a mix of the two for a cute double entendre? Do I need to go eat lunch?
We'll find out next week (I'm going to go eat lunch). Maybe.
All jokes aside, I really am curious on what people's reads of the situation are. Also, was it mentioned in any previous chapters that the Shibasawas are planning on moving out of town? I can't recall it, but I don't think anyone's brought it up yet, so I feel like I probably just forgot.
