It's Like A Spring Storm

[MangaDex]

 

[Thiron]

It really goes all over the place, the pacing is way too disjointed...

Feels kinda like a draft

 

[Lilliwyt]

@Thiron Feel more like a One-shot to me.

 

[naivety]

agreed that the pacing is weird, but this is still a pretty cute work

 

[Random_Passer-by]

I'm sorry, but what she did in ch. 1 (ie

Spoiler

leaving somebody waiting at the altar

) is, to me, by far the biggest affront one can do to somebody. The circumstances portrayed don't excuse this sort of behaviour in the slightest.

4/10. But maybe that's the curmudgeon in me talking.

 

[igenetycs]

@Random_Passer-by

Well, keep in mind that was something like an arranged marriage situation. She barely knew anything about him, and the inverse is probably true as well.

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

@Random_Passer-by You have a point perhaps, but you can't call it being a "curmudgeon" if you're too young to remember when this was the standard romantic/rebellious gesture, as immortalized in e.g. "The Graduate". We old guys get to be "curmudgeons".
I'm old enough to almost remember when rebellion against society was more important than individual civility. Nowadays, the closest thing to a rebellion against society (and it's not very close) is accomplished via a sort of radical individual civility, like knowing exactly how to tactfully and appropriately address every sub-variety of person. But it was not ever so. This feels like a blast from the past to me, with a modern twist; by running away from her oh-so-establishment het marriage, she is sticking it to the man. And no, I don't mean an individual man such as the one she's marrying, I mean "the man". So, sure, sucks to be that individual guy, caught in the crossfire when one of his fellow obedient social drones suddenly decided to rebel. But I'm not willing to weigh that politeness as heavily in the scales as you.

 

[Random_Passer-by]

@Purplelibraryguy "The Graduate"! Heavens, how I hated that movie. I hated every single character with a burning passion, with the possible exception of the male lead's mum for whom I had more of an indifferent loathing.

I won't spam the thread any more; still, I do stand by my earlier statement. I'll PM you if I want to rant more.

PS: Did no-one notice how the person left at the altar is drawn completely faceless, as if we're meant to think of him as a non-person?

 

[igenetycs]

@Random_Passer-by He has eyes on p28. The author seems to skip eyes out of convenience (and presumably time constraints), rather than to dehumanize anyone.

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

@Random_Passer-by I'm certainly not going to argue that anyone in The Graduate wasn't either a putz or downright malevolent, or for that matter that the finale had any real motivation--he hardly knew her when he ran off with her. It was very 60s.
But for the current manga, I'll just ask one question: Then should she have married the guy?

 

[Random_Passer-by]

@Purplelibraryguy Well the ideal for me would be to:
[ul]
[li] give us readers important reasons and motivations for her actions; [/li]
[li] call the marriage off before the day of the ceremony, or at least a few hours before; and [/li]
[li] give a profuse apology towards the groom, or at least somehow acknowledge that his feelings on the situation do matter.[/li][/ul]
Doing all three of those would have made me support her. Doing just one of those, even just the first one, would have felt like less of a slap in the face absence of facial characteristics. But no; she elected to do precisely none of them.

The only thing I will acknowledge is that a loveless marriage is an affront that lasts for years or decades, whereas what she did is an affront that will die down within months with "merely" her being excommunicated by everyone who was invited. I mean yes, to some extent being hit by a car is better than being hit by a train, but…

 

[Babydel]

Nearly everyone in the 1st chapter during the wedding doesn't have eyes, including herself and what I presume to be her father. I personally think it is just meant to be her blanking out in the sitatution she really doesn't want to be in, she only comes back to life when Chiho barges in. Or the author just didn't bother.

 

[ma_zedong]

The first chapter is honestly a 3/10, but everything afterwards so far has actually been great. Like, when the author actually slows things down it's really a refreshing piece of adult-life yuri but for the first chapter they were just bulldozing through the story to try to set up the context for future chapters as quickly as possible.

 

[PsychoTheRabbit]

Sadly feels like this might had been axed... cant really find info and hasnt been published for over a year.
Try to look over the author twiter and pivix but theres a few other series been working all together so is messy.