Hikagemono demo Yarinaoshite Ii desu ka? - Ch. 70 - Precious Memories

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After this incident, Nagato is definitely never touching Koharu-chan again. He'd just traumatize her for life :aquadrink:

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He's genuinely accepting that she sees herself as a person in their 30s. That takes some serious effort and consideration, even with his romantic feelings to consider. Not entirely sure where we go from here
 
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It kinda makes the "reconnection after she returns to her own time" resolution to the story apparent. Now that his feelings are pretty much resolved, story can move on without the need to address the romance part until it's eventual end.

Unless this turns out to be actual time travel and she returns to a revised present where everything she's done in this story as a kid again is retained (she has more friends, she is recognized and popular instead of being an outcast hikkineet) that would kind of suck.
 
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Unless this turns out to be actual time travel and she returns to a revised present where everything she's done in this story as a kid again is retained (she has more friends, she is recognized and popular instead of being an outcast hikkineet) that would kind of suck.
I would literally put a hole in my monitor if that were to happen lol
 
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Unless this turns out to be actual time travel and she returns to a revised present where everything she's done in this story as a kid again is retained (she has more friends, she is recognized and popular instead of being an outcast hikkineet) that would kind of suck.
Absolutely not, the closer to rock bottom she is when she wakes up from her coma, the higher the catharsis factor will be when she claws her way out of it, having become a changed, more healthy person as a result of the alternate past she lived inside her head.

Her life before the accident wasn't so fucked as to be objectively unrecoverable, and it's important for the story to reflect that.
 
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Absolutely not, the closer to rock bottom she is when she wakes up from her coma, the higher the catharsis factor will be when she claws her way out of it, having become a changed, more healthy person as a result of the alternate past she lived inside her head.

Her life before the accident wasn't so fucked as to be objectively unrecoverable, and it's important for the story to reflect that.
I see where you're coming from, but at the same time I can understand why others might find it frustrating if 90% of the story and character development was undone. Like, even if Koharu remembers everything that happened and is able to fix up her life in the present, what about characters like Yuuko or Asuka & Mutsumi?

Maybe they figured out their problems on their own, without Koharu, or maybe they didn't and Koharu has to come around and redo everything in an abbreviated version of their actual arc. Either way, though, isn't that kinda lame? Either they have no connection to Koharu and won't have the same relationship with her as they did in the rest of the story, or we just end up with a worse version of an arc we already read.

And these sorts of arcs about Koharu helping various classmates is kinda like half the point of the story, you know? Even if Koharu's own story gets a happy ending, you can't just ignore everyone else and everything we've read about them. That can't all just come to nothing.

I don't necessarily think that she has to wake up in a new future sprouting from all the changes she's made, (which I don't really feel is the direction the story is going in, anyways,) but I don't think that just disregarding everything and having Koharu fix her life from scratch really works as an alternative.

Maybe instead, she wakes up in her old world, but the people she helped manage to recover their memories of the alternate timeline somehow? Or she does "wake up" and disappear from this world, but we follow everyone from this world rather than following her back to her original world, seeing how they fare without her.

I just don't really think that you can undo as much of the story as you're suggesting.
 
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I wonder where the author is going to take this now? More confessions would just get repetitive, and new characters for MC to save would be even more repetitive. Hopefully they focus on developing the other characters and their relationships.
 
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Absolutely not, the closer to rock bottom she is when she wakes up from her coma, the higher the catharsis factor will be when she claws her way out of it, having become a changed, more healthy person as a result of the alternate past she lived inside her head.

Her life before the accident wasn't so fucked as to be objectively unrecoverable, and it's important for the story to reflect that.

My problem with that is it renders much of what she experienced in the past useless/pointless outside of generally contributing to her growth. She'll return to a present where she won't be friends with all of the people she connected with outside of Izumi and who will likely have no reason to connect with her as adults because they will only have memories of her as a weirdo outsider as a kid (or, worse, who contributed to the abuse that she suffered). It almost sets her back to square one except with the confidence that she can do better, which although valuable from a "teach the audience a lesson" standpoint, is kind of a disservice to the story because it means that nothing we read throughout the story actually happened.
 
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It almost sets her back to square one except with the confidence that she can do better, which although valuable from a "teach the audience a lesson" standpoint, is kind of a disservice to the story because it means that nothing we read throughout the story actually happened.
(I see what you're saying, but the framing of it is unintentionally hilarious. What happens inside a story by definition didn't actually happen.)

Nobody's suggesting she should retain nothing (even memories are something), the big problem with having her retain everything as you suggested is that there wouldn't really be any point to her waking up at all. It wouldn't just be a disservice to the story - there wouldn't be a story left to tell. Does she just wake up and poof, happily ever after? I don't see how that can work at all.
 
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(I see what you're saying, but the framing of it is unintentionally hilarious. What happens inside a story by definition didn't actually happen.)

Nobody's suggesting she should retain nothing (even memories are something), the big problem with having her retain everything as you suggested is that there wouldn't really be any point to her waking up at all. It wouldn't just be a disservice to the story - there wouldn't be a story left to tell. Does she just wake up and poof, happily ever after? I don't see how that can work at all.
Is it confirmed she’s in a coma from the truck accident?
 

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