Houkago Kitaku Biyori - Ch. 54 - Let's Talk a Little About the Future

[ctrI_key]

She has the "dead wife vibes" around her, im scared

 

[dummymura]

 

[phorx]

Turn those bolts into a set of wedding rings you silly fools!

 

[PapaJohn42]

Practically a proposal ring.

 

[nyoron77]

Chokki-chan ...it's good to be sentimental there ...

But you should at least pat that good boi abit

 

[Castane]

Yeah, why does she need the bolts?
Does she have a screwing need or what?

 

[magsir23]

Omg knee surgery this week! If only I had memes prepared for when you have knee surgery

 

[Nitrorare]

She's bolted to him

 

[Mingu113]

So sweet, I love the two of them

 

[UdenEmpati]

I hope the author doesn't pull that japanese bullshit of "wait fir me for a decade so im worthy" or anything that doesn't end in them spawning a soccer team.


It'd be amazing to have her see the romance in romance and figure out is just way too painful to part ways

nothing's for certain, of course.
But everything about this story, and the author's treatment and handling of it, tells me that such a situation coming to pass isn't in the cards.
Everything about the relationship between Shun & Chokki truly feels ...different, compared to so many other romcom manga out there. A lot of the usual tropes are subverted or outright avoided, and even the flags surrounding their mutual hesitance of speaking their feelings aloud as they pertain to one another feels grounded in who they both are, and the course of events they've experienced together and the potential paths ahead.
I well and truly believe that faith can be placed in the author not going a route like that.
If anything...I think the "wait for me" route that does make sense for them, is because Chokki is about to graduate while Shun has his 3rd year ahead of him--one notorious for being full of stress and responsibilities for students as they prep for college entrance exams and strive to acquire what they need to secure recommendations and scholarships and the like.
And, he's going to be pushing into STEM-type classes, when he admits himself that sticking in humanities would be smarter. Shun's gonna have a lot to do in his third year, and a relationship--even one both he, Chokki, and us the readers know is important to them both--would be lower on the priorities list, especially as they won't even have physical proximity as an advantage once Chokki graduates.
But...I don't see them simply letting this go between them entirely. If it gets paused while they situate themselves, then I could see an argument for it as a temporary measure that the manga itself skips over in large part in a sort of "jump forward" to them both a few years down the line, with further growth happening off-screen in the interim.
I personally would love to see them get together and work through the new circumstances and constraints of a longer-distance relationship or something, but that depends on how much the author wants to commit. That sort of story could go on for years, and even if we would love to see it, the author needs to be ready for that level of responsibility.



But that's me rambling at this point, more than anything. Suffice to say, I'm very much not worried about how these two will be cared for, and I trust the author to do right by them both.

 

[scragglyisback]

GIVE ME MOREEEEEEEE

 

[coyote_vdb]

Thanks for the translation.

 

[Nemo2342]

Damn it girl, grab him and don't let him go! Go tutor him in science or something!

 

[outinthegardener]

"We got 'zoi'd!" that's romance. So is sharing the screws from your knee surgery.

Heartwarming to see Shun has picked a direction for his life, professionally. Now we need for Chokki to find something she wants to do. I could see her thriving in a whimsy-based career- travel blogger, or children's book author, or Mom to their five kids.

 

[razorshaleh]

I love Naoki's expressions, she's so cute and adorable to me in this chapter

thank you for translation

 

[rob1610]

I really got hit with a lot of knee talk that just makes me wince, huh? Yeah, I'm pretty squeamish when it comes to this stuff. It's odd, though. I'm fine with zombies and the like. Heck even though I was iffy on it in the first place for this reason, Attack on Titan is one of my favourite anime. But talk about knee construction like my mum does and I just tense up. That aside, this was still a fantastic and incredibly cute chapter like always. These 2 are so sweet and I love them so much.

 

[CaDragon]

Didn't I do it for yoooou?

 

[feignedremoteness]

the way she just pats his stomach when he says he’s having surgery….her sense of boundaries is so funny

 

[MrQ]

Peak as always- I'm surprised how invested I am in Shun's arc of finding himself beyond his initial passion for soccer, in addition to the already adorable romance.

Also, "Next Chapter May 2"? Are we switching to a different biweekly schedule?

 

[ThFlx]

Honestly I don't know how the fuck this series manages to make each episode a thousand times better than the last