Houkago Kitaku Biyori - Ch. 61 - Let's Listen to the Sound of the Waves

[bejad007]

she definitely squirt a little from that sudden ear whisper

 

[rymar]

If they don't progress before she leaves for college the relationship might be doomed

 

[Dreqm]

Generally exchanging contacts is how romance manga start, not how it reaches its climax lol. And somehow ts is still peak asf.

 

[crash147]

Whispering in her ear 😆

 

[Chronigan]

So, why didn't he ask her for her contact info while she was on the phone?

Or she could have gotten it from his brother.

 

[RockyRose]

That's the other series Pingas is working on. The losing heroine one. The story behind the hiatus is pretty awful. For those that don't know, the artist and author basically got screwed over by their editor who shirked a bunch of his work and lied to them about the series' sales figures. After getting dicked around for a while they went to the magazine's editor in chief and tried to get something worked out, but then the EIC scheduled a meeting that was supposed to involve everyone only for the artist/author to show up and find out that their editor was told by the EIC not to come, basically negating any chance to solve the problems.

So they quit the magazine and have hooked up with another one to continue working, but are getting the rest of the year to plan and prep to try and get things back on track.

Damn, that's actually a pretty crazy hiatus backstory!

 

[Volcronia]

great chapter yet again

 

[Fennil]

That's the other series Pingas is working on. The losing heroine one. The story behind the hiatus is pretty awful. For those that don't know, the artist and author basically got screwed over by their editor who shirked a bunch of his work and lied to them about the series' sales figures. After getting dicked around for a while they went to the magazine's editor in chief and tried to get something worked out, but then the EIC scheduled a meeting that was supposed to involve everyone only for the artist/author to show up and find out that their editor was told by the EIC not to come, basically negating any chance to solve the problems.

So they quit the magazine and have hooked up with another one to continue working, but are getting the rest of the year to plan and prep to try and get things back on track.

What the hell, that really sucks for the artist and author

 

[Qwest]

Its totally fine if this series ended within 70-80 chapter ...story pace actually good and you don't need to reach 3 digit of chapter as long story quality was great

It doesn't bother me if a story ends short and was paced well. I'm just a bit tired of how Japanese romance stories always end after the confession and then just have a massive timeskip or no timeskip at all. There's been a small trend of that changing and mangaka showing relationships afterwards but sometimes it shows that mangaka don't know how to write that

 

[dummymura]

The romance of cellular phone technology

 

[GoldenSpin]

Yeah youth is romance. Can't express how much I love this.

 

[Velificatio]

It doesn't bother me if a story ends short and was paced well. I'm just a bit tired of how Japanese romance stories always end after the confession and then just have a massive timeskip or no timeskip at all. There's been a small trend of that changing and mangaka showing relationships afterwards but sometimes it shows that mangaka don't know how to write that

I mean, that's a different narrative entirely then. I'm perfectly fine with this ending with them getting together because that's the story. To continue after that you have to find narrative tension from another source - which might work, might not, but it almost certainly won't be as good as the initial will-they/won't-they. It's the romcom condition as old as serialised romcoms have been around in any language - why Daphne and Niles getting together in Frasier is both the peak of the show and the start of its decline.

We want more, of course, because we want to bask in this lovely and beautiful relationship - but it's also flatter and less compelling than the travel to get there (or worse, more contrived in an attempt to pull dramatic tension in from somewhere). You can play it a few ways - first kiss, first time having sex - but the central problem and risk within the story is never the same. Kaguya-sama handles this pretty well for a while but is also hard-carried by a side ship in its second half and then completely falls off into contrived bullshit. A more interesting example I think is Takagi-san, which carries on with a low-stakes spin-off post time jump - knowing there's no tension so just being pure slice of life.

 

[UnemployedFeller]

progress

 

[Seetee]

Thank you for the translation!

Man, she really can lose herself in a fantasy. Going so far as to really picture herself on the beach. That is romance for you.

 

[HyperSonic0509]

Omelette du fromage

 

[Siddy00]

D'aww ^_^

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[EulBassist]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[coyote_vdb]

Thanks for the translation.

 

[irem01]

Cute as always

 

[Quantum_Intellect]

There's a certain romance to the unexpected call during the trip. Definitely should get each other's numbers though (onii-san should have written Shun's contact info on her coffee cup).