I think it's always consistent with respect to the big important stuff - themes, characterization, plot. Like I can usually make a claim based on the manga and go back into the novel to find the supporting text.
Maybe I phrased it wrong, I meant that the manga didn't omit anything important from the WN this time. Unlike 44, where it didn't adapt like half of the chapter, here it just skipped the dialogue about Hikari's favorite manga, but all important conversations, as well as Hikari's mood, were adapted pretty well.
I think the other half of 44 got pretty decently summed up in 44.5? The reader knows Hikari is mad, knows why she's mad, and knows she's got mixed feelings about seeing Yuu again.
That's kinda the point - they had to release an extra "chapter" to cover a part of what was missing, and they still didn't cover every important thing that happened in the WN. Him sending that message was what ultimately led her to brightening up and likely making this chapter possible.
Eh, breaking up the chapter this way could have always been the plan? The reader knows Hikari is feeling ambivalent even w/o the .5.
If it's important than it'll likely show up in the manga at some point. But also I figure she was always gonna make up w/ him cause it's her personality, just like she says in this chapter. And I think Maruto kinda says in his tweet - one translation puts it as Hikari has "the strongest sense of self" & that's how she's always read to me.
You can't be serious. There was an intentional split once with chapter 35, but it was released the same day and the split made sense because it had dual POVs. In case of 44, there was no point in breaking the chapter up, and the extra page was released after a week or two.
I agree, but instead of keeping it vague, the WN already has an answer to what exactly led to her mood changing. The manga doesn't, and so we got a few posts saying something like "what's happening and why is she suddenly okay with all this???".
I don't think being consistent with her characterization is vague? And Hikari says on pg 8 that that's who she is.
What's wrong w/ that perspective? It's a panel of a fantasy.
I think the extra page isn't needed for 44 or the story to hold together but adds extra insight into Hikari. I think most of the extras have functioned this way - dig deeper into telling us things we already roughly know about the character. Yom and Maruto could have looked at their schedule and decided that carving off that last page into an extra made sense.
I mean, story645 basically is saying Yuu was always right all the time when he said "Hikari will be fine" to Haru and Yuki, and Hikari would go to his house sooner than later.
I'm definitely a Yuu defender, and strongly challenge the idiotic claims that Hikari didn't do anything wrong. But not even I would claim Yuu hasn't done anything wrong. All three characters are badly flawed.
I'd say "her mood brightened up because that's what kind of person she is" is vague compared to "her mood brightened up because Yuu sent her a message about her friends trying to resolve the situation".
The bed behind their backs. There's something terribly wrong with it, like it's an extremely narrow bed (if you look at the bed legs) with an enormous mattress that seems to go through the wall.
It's not about the story holding together, we're discussing how much important content the manga misses. For the current chapter it didn't skip any imo, but that one just ended abruptly, skipping the resolution of the situation. The manga chapter was just left unfinished, and even 44.5 only half-fixed it.
As I said, he only did something wrong in the chapters 36-38 brief period (how he himself recognizes in chapter 38, and yes, other Yuu´s material who was ommited by Yom, she really hates this boy), this is the reason why Maruto made so awful Yuu´s previous discussion with Yami, to explain why Yuu was acting so strangely in those chapters with Hikari, and even there, his original intention when he says the BS of "the dead phone" is probably just return to home to cry more for Yami, and is Hikari who carries him to the dance and later the gym, like Setsuna forcing to Haruki to going to Narita Airport in IC ending despite he didn´t want to go. Of course, this couldn´t end well.
It wouldn't even be so bad if the new releases were better structured, it feels like we are seeing the process of an author filling in the blanks between point A and point B without any proper order and just as he comes up with it.
I mean, that's the core idea: that aside from the emo and self-destructive ramblings of Yami and her mother, it's all been a pretty typical teenage drama, even if, like the prudes we are, both we here in the West and the Japanese there, are horrified by the idea of a teenage girl having sex in love hotels with her teenage boyfriend, because that's the only truly "serious" thing that's happened in this whole mess (and what probably led to publishers rejecting the author's project, forcing him to go independent).
Especially when probably around 50 percent are the same few people.
Not the way he deserved to be treated by Trashkari up to this chapter.
Agreed. but that's NOT what you claimed. You claimed Yuu did NOTHING wrong. No matter which character in this series people support, this is the sort of claim that's just plain stupid regardless of which character it's about.
Ok, so went back and looked and that was about dinner. Some indeterminate amount of time ago. And also I still think there's space for this to be mentioned if they talk in an upcoming chapter.
But that's the thing, I don't think it skips anything particularly important. If the text from Yuu is a motivating factor than the reader will probably find out in the next couple of chapters.
Meh, it's supposed to be probably full sized going by the pillows/headboard. And also imperfect and hazy cause this is a fantasy.
Hikari being forgiving doesn't mean she's fine. That's why she's still after the truth even now. And why she's willing to reconcile with him, b/c that's part of her reset to "fine".
