Imasara desu ga, Osananajimi wo Suki ni Natte Shimaimashita - Ch. 35.2 - Her Name is Sudou Ayami

[essensue]

My drunk prediction:

Their "dark" and "light" roles will get reversed.

Haha, ya jerk, ya beat me to it. That's my worst case scenario for where this is headed because I'm afraid the author won't be able to pull it off, especially seeing that Hikari's monologue this time has some of the same cringey elements as Ayami's in the other half-chapter. That thing about loving Aya for her secrets is also like

Personally, the reason last chapter's insight into the mind of Ayami bothered me so much is that the specific kind of conscious self-awareness she was showing pushes her from "dark" to "edgy," where darkness is genuine and edginess is affectation. Part of her being an effective foil to Hikari comes not just from light vs. dark but shallowness/naivete vs. depth/realism, and having Ayami be just another self-pitying edgy teen with very little actual depth throws the doors open for Hikari's initial characterization to ALSO be surface-only. That both of them were always the opposite of how they first appeared and are putting on personae to make it through every day. So it wouldn't even be their arcs crossing so much as a twist revealing that things had always been that way from the jump, and that would be deeply unsatisfying unless there's also a Yuu arc that further undoes all that.

Please just rejoin the present timeline with Yuu pulling away from a kiss with a confused Hikari instead, revealing that Ayami is her Tyler Durden.

 

[ShyGuy-096]

My yuri senses are tingling...

In all seriousness, while I don't really think it's going to end up yuri, I'm baffled as to why it's been written so much like yuri rn.

 

[phonixxgv2]

oh nah the plot twist has a plot twist that filled with inner plot twist

 

[Saybah]

"She is my light"

"I love her darkness"

Yuu the friendwrecker:

 

[88man]

Can someone explain timeline for me? When Ayami and Yuu met for the first time he was in 3rd year middle school and when they were dating he was in 1 year of high school, and I guess Hikari too. We get a 1 year skip, Ayami is back to school and she's in 1st year hs together with Hikari? How? And before one year time skip it was said that Ayami turned 17 on the day she broke up with Yuu, and when Ayami meets Hikari it's said that Hikari's 15. And the author said that after this chaper we come back to timeline after second year school festival, so in this chapter it has to be second semester of 1st year hs.

I don't get it at all, how did Ayami and Yuu dated, broke up when Ayami was 17, then we skipped a year and she went to 1 year hs to be in class together with Hikari that's 15. It would mean that Ayami is 18 in this chapter (and 19 in original timeline) and she's still in 1 year of hs together with Hikari that is 15 (I guess Hikari and Yuu are the same age). + What happend to Yuu? He was entering hs when he meet Ayami and dated her for few months, they borke up, and then we got one year time skip and he's still in 1 year?

It makes no sense at all and would only make sense if Ayami and Hikari were in second year of hs in this chapter and in the original timeline they are in 3rd year. That would mean that Ayami was entering her second year when she met Yuu and he was entering hs at the time (we know that they met somewhere in March/April because he was doing high school entrance exams). Then we get a 1 year time skip, and during this time Ayami didn't go to school, and she came back to be in second year, and during this year, Hikari and Yuu advanced to second year. But it also makes no sense if Hikari is 15 when she meets Ayami, and in original timeline they are in second year, because if timeline that I explained above would be true, they should be in 3rd year now. I guess another explanation would be that Ayami had to start school over from first year (which is wierd, at least where I live you start where you left off). But that still doesn't explain how we got a one year time skip after Yuu was entering high school and he's still in 1st year? (I mean we don't know that I think, but form what I understand Yuu and Hikari are the same age)

I know what I said is a mess but if someone can understand what I'm talking about, please explain it to me because I'm lost with the timeline.

 

[Tinker_OwO]

Then Yuu destroyed this beautiful friendship by daring to be just a normal person

 

[mgRdr]

We get a 1 year skip, Ayami is back to school and she's in 1st year hs together with Hikari?

The first 21 chapters: Ayami, Hikari and Yuu are all 2nd year in HS
Chapter 22: Ayami is 1st year of HS about to be held back a year, Yuu and Hikari are 3rd year of middle school
Following chapters up to chapter 35: Hikari and Yuu are 1st year of HS like they are supposed to be, Yami is 1st year of HS because she got held back a year.
Chapter 36: supposedly we're going back to present day, which is school festival 2nd year of HS exactly one year from now, and everyone is 2nd year of HS.

 

[GennArc]

The first 21 chapters: Ayami, Hikari and Yuu are all 2nd year in HS
Chapter 22: Ayami is 1st year of HS about to be held back a year, Yuu and Hikari are 3rd year of middle school
Following chapters up to chapter 35: Hikari and Yuu are 1st year of HS like they are supposed to be, Yami is 1st year of HS because she got held back a year.
Chapter 36: supposedly we're going back to present day, which is school festival 2nd year of HS exactly one year from now, and everyone is 2nd year of HS.

Just to complement this - after getting held back a year in February (chapter 22) and until September, Yami continued to skip classes, that's why she only met Hikari in chapter 31 for the first time.

 

[hawk7034]

Hey man that's cool and all but remember a few weeks ago when she almost sex trafficked a girl?

 

[Litreara]

Can someone explain timeline for me?

 

[ChicagoRot]

This is a baffling train-wreck so far ngl

 

[story645]

Personally, the reason last chapter's insight into the mind of Ayami bothered me so much is that the specific kind of conscious self-awareness she was showing pushes her from "dark" to "edgy," where darkness is genuine and edginess is affectation.

She's been written this way the entire time though - the whole Yuu arc her thought process was "oh, gotta play cool here".

Which the Hikari parallel of Aya playing edgy is Hikari playing smiley but underneath being such a ball of anxious nerves - here she's kinda going off the deep end w/ how strongly she likes Aya and wants to be her friend, in asking Yuu to the festival she catastrophizes him knowing that she's upset. Both Aya and Hikari just feel a lot more deeply than they want folks to know.

Which also, that's why I don't think forgiveness is a given. B/c that would be the surface "persona" emotion for Hikari & not necessarily the deep real one.

That thing about loving Aya for her secrets is also like

I think it goes back to this manga essentially being an exercise in structural parallelism. While Aya is attracted to Yuu and Hikari for their innocence/brightness, she thinks Yuu likes her uncomplicated persona and here we get Hikari explicitly saying she likes that Aya is complicated. Which yes, it'd be nice to get into Yuu's head and see the version of Aya he sees. But the reader also knows that Hikari eventually gets through to Aya and gets her to open up b/c Aya brings the girls to her step-dad's penthouse and tells them she had an ex in the first 20 chapters.

Hate the tell not show here and I feel like the author is rushing cause readers are so done with the flashback, but the author is also expecting the reader to fill in the gaps that their friendship got stronger to get to where Hikari wants them to be in this chapter.