Imasara desu ga, Osananajimi wo Suki ni Natte Shimaimashita - Ch. 28 - As The Short Journey Ends (First Half)

[Metalheadzaid]

I understand people really didn't like their fluffy romcom being....not a fluffy romcom out of nowhere, but this story definitely deserves a higher rating, but alas surprise genre change is rough.

 

[Quroh_JG]

Honestly, despite me liking their relationship, its clearly unstable as fuck and not perfect. Her saying that they should move together after only a few months of dating, and when they're teens at that, is a huge red fucking flag that can't be ignored. Not to mention her being extremely insecure and jealous of a girl she hasn't meet is not a good thing. If, in chapter 29 Yami and Yuu are still together, then it all but means that they were dating throughout the first arc, up until before chapter 19.

Fair enough. I should have used quotation marks in my comment, I was referring to "perfect" from her perspective, even though in reality something was off, but I wasn't clear enough. My bad, haha

 

[wrpd_mnd]

Stop.

Stop what. I was explaining why it was NOT an analepsis. Reading comprehension, please

 

[thedinowarrior]

Please just fucking kill yourself 😭🙏

 

[Sleabedybarb]

Man, the tl is really bad
don't try to translate into a language you don't know

 

[Xystus]

And then a few years later, each and everyone of these characters have different lovers.

Such is life.

 

[silentkill]

GET OUT!!!!!🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

 

[ExchiEnjoyer]

Aren't they 15/16? How are they booking hotels and reservations? How do they have the money to do any of what they do? I get how the girl might have a job so that she keep her mind off things. Are their parents just that irresponsible? Letting two unsupervised teenagers off to stay in a resort in a different prefecture.

 

[ysil69]

I honestly couldn't care less about this arc.

 

[noleafclover75]

Man, the tl is really bad
don't try to translate into a language you don't know

That's uncalled for. The guy has been translating the whole series and it has been solid. Especially with them having it translated and uploaded within 2 hours of release.

 

[Takuma_Aki]

I. Fucking. Called. It.

But man... The Night is reaching its end now and Light is coming back soon? I'll be looking forward to how this will develop.

 

[Dingo777]

No, it's not. An analepsis is an interjected scene taking place in the past from the active narrative. The reason people like you are complaining about how long it is taking is specifically because it is not. You are still seeing Hikari's POV as the main plot. We know now that it isn't.

Your argument would hold weight if this arc wasn’t literally taking place in the past. It’s clearly a connect story designed to provide context to the story’s current events, it’s a flashback. Just because the POV shifted doesn’t mean it’s not a flashback. There’s been an established timeline up to this point, and it’s suddenly regressed to provide context.

And presently it’s taken 3 fuckin months to slog through just so we can know what happens next. The pacing is fucked. You can’t suddenly shift POV and jump backwards in time for 3 months IN THE MIDDLE OF A STORY ALTERING MOMENT and not expect it to be poorly received. The author executed the story’s pacing like a dog in the street in order to fluff up a side character.

 

[SprinKah]

Time's up b*tch give us back our best girl!

the childhood friend is FAR from being best girl material xD
not saying the senpai is perfect, but hell, at least she knows what she wants and got it.

I bet if the childhood friend wasn't the girl first shown, most people wouldn't care let's be honest

 

[mgRdr]

How do they have the money to do any of what they do?

It is more clear in the LN, but Yami, through trickery or blackmail, gets money from her mother and stepfather

 

[nittanykat]

I've just caught up from chapter 20 to now and boy...
The comments hating the author are overblown but I can understand how some might just want a more typical wholesome romance. Similarly, for those complaining about the translator, shut up. You are getting free manga.
For me, I commend the author on the thorough planning required to pull off this brutally effective twist.

As others have pointed out, I believe the Dark Yami flashback arc is coming to a close and I expect to return to the school festival. I still hope that Hikari wins.

For the Yami lovers out there, why? I am expecting it is mostly just for rage bait.
How could you choose a homewrecker over our wholesome chungus osananajimi?

 

[KiARume]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO I KNEW IT WASNT GONNA LAST BUT I DONT WANT IT TO END

 

[wrpd_mnd]

And presently it’s taken 3 fuckin months to slog through just so we can know what happens next. The pacing is fucked. You can’t suddenly shift POV and jump backwards in time for 3 months IN THE MIDDLE OF A STORY ALTERING MOMENT and not expect it to be poorly received. The author executed the story’s pacing like a dog in the street in order to fluff up a side character.

This paragraph shows you really don't get it. The first volume was not the sole "main story". Yami is not a side character. You need to let go of the idea that Hikari is the main character. She is one of them. There are more. We might even switch perspectives in volume 3 to Yuu

 

[mgRdr]

Pacing is a buzzword of the month.

and not expect it to be poorly received

How well received something is is not a good way to gauge an artistic work, nor does the author cares about the reception, otherwise they wouldn't have burnt the bridge the way they did in chapter 21.

a side character.

The manga has established that that is not the case in chapter 21, and it should've been made moreso clear in the following seven chapters. She's as deserving of the spotlight as Hikari is, and Hikari has received 20 chapters of empty fluff where nothing happens, not on the surface at least.

 

[Dingo777]

This paragraph shows you really don't get it. The first volume was not the sole "main story". Yami is not a side character. You need to let go of the idea that Hikari is the main character. She is one of them. There are more. We might even switch perspectives in volume 3 to Yuu

Swapping to Yuu’s perspective is whatever at this point, but can we please fucking get back to the current timeline? Backstory is neat and all but the actual plot has not progressed at all for 3 months. A better author would have peppered it in throughout rather than what is essentially a protracted beat down for future Hikari.

 

[Dingo777]

Pacing is a buzzword of the month.

How well received something is is not a good way to gauge an artistic work, nor does the author cares about the reception, otherwise they wouldn't have burnt the bridge the way they did in chapter 21.

The manga has established that that is not the case in chapter 21, and it should've been made moreso clear in the following seven chapters. She's as deserving of the spotlight as Hikari is, and Hikari has received 20 chapters of empty fluff where nothing happens, not on the surface at least.

What I’m saying is people are (justifiably) frustrated because not only did they rug pull us with a VIOLENT tone shift, they also put a full stop on story progress for 3 real life months just to full up a character who was hardly more than a Friend A during a moment when the story should start speeding up.

Calling it a pacing issue isn’t a buzzword, it’s a valid critique. Pacing is paramount to a good story. A good story told poorly is a poor story.