Gray Summer Taxi - Oneshot

[MangaDex]

 

[Resound]

not much but its still a nc read

 

[coyote_vdb]

So the guy's driving, see someone he knows who struggles walking with crutches under the rain and he doesn't even by himself stop to help, only doing so when she begs him to do it?
What an unpleasant fellow.

 

[CanadianFool]

Nice! Thank you translator!

 

[Izunia]

is her favorite song ao no sumika or am i going crazy

 

[AnimuVsMango]

Any significance behind the license plate numbers at the end?

Also, was private supposed to be misspelled?

 

[Szaal]

I feel warm and fuzzy inside

 

[ErikTheRed]

A bit lacking towards the end but still nice

 

[AmaSuna]

Any significance behind the license plate numbers at the end?

Also, was private supposed to be misspelled?

The licence plate is Kaito's number

 

[jonnywarlock]

That's cosy. I imagine a nice little future for them.

 

[sarusa]

One more note - his mom's not a hooker, she's working as a hostess at a snack bar, where old men go to drink and talk and flirt with the hostesses and the Mama (the owner). Like a maid cafe for burned out salarymen. That's why there's a bald old guy greeting her at the entrance and I had to check the signs to make sure it wasn't the obvious. It can lead to naughtiness on the side, but not part of the job.

 

[mtfunky]

GREEN GREEN GREEN 🍀🍀🍀🍀

 

[PlasmaLance07]

This was nice but really ten years and you didn't look up too see how she was doing seems like bullshit.

 

[halcer]

thank you for the translation!

 

[sarusa]

This was nice but really ten years and you didn't look up too see how she was doing seems like bullshit.

That seems in line with his personality, though? Honestly the most unbelievable thing for me was that after 10 years she actually cared about him that much. Once you hit 25 your high school or middle school years are just not that important for most people unless you were a jock and those were the Best Years of Your Life All Downhill From There and that's not the case for either of them. But hey, if she was still single after 10 years then she might have gone hmmmm....

 

[manabi]

So the guy's driving, see someone he knows who struggles walking with crutches under the rain and he doesn't even by himself stop to help, only doing so when she begs him to do it?
What an unpleasant fellow.

That's deliberate on the author's part. He was unhappy with life, had no aspirations, hated having to drive his mother to and from her job and then he ends up driving Kaito to school and his life starts to change. Seeing Kaito work so hard even though she sucked at basketball and her teammates deliberately injured her was a real wake up call for him.

 

[coyote_vdb]

That's deliberate on the author's part. He was unhappy with life, had no aspirations, hated having to drive his mother to and from her job and then he ends up driving Kaito to school and his life starts to change. Seeing Kaito work so hard even though she sucked at basketball and her teammates deliberately injured her was a real wake up call for him.

You know, I've read the manga, and it's a pretty obvious one, so I don't really need to have it explained to me. I appreciate the effort though, since you took some time to do so, while you probably had better things to do.
I know that the author wrote it that way on purpose, it doesn't change the fact that this guy is not likable at all and that destroys the purpose of the whole story since the rest doesn't manage to overcome this horrible first impression for me. It actually makes the rest of the story quite unbelievable to me as, although I believe people may change to some extent, the level of selfishness at the beginning is such that I think he would need quite a stronger shock to be forced to change than what is described in this story.