Koi wa Hikari
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@-musouka- Ok, I tried looking up spoilers after your comment, but I got basically nothing. All I got was people comparing it to....a certain velocity.
Mind spoiling it for me? I really don't mind.
Mind spoiling it for me? I really don't mind.
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this is very special
I had to look up that one word that youkari wrote on page 1.
So yeah, if that really is the outcome, then I can't say that it would surprise me.
Manga that deviate from the three rules are rather rare.
After reading what Osananajimi means I assume that the childhood friend from the won't win. But to be fair, that isn't unexpected. Mostly these rules apply to romance manga/anime:
Rule 1: Childhoodfriend never wins. At least in like 95% of the cases.
Rule 2: If you have a love-triangle situation, in most cases the first girl that was introduced wins.
Rule 3: The further apart two characters are in the beginning (they hate each other, she is a "tsundere"-character), the likelyhood of her winning a love-triangle increases.
Rule 1: Childhoodfriend never wins. At least in like 95% of the cases.
Rule 2: If you have a love-triangle situation, in most cases the first girl that was introduced wins.
Rule 3: The further apart two characters are in the beginning (they hate each other, she is a "tsundere"-character), the likelyhood of her winning a love-triangle increases.
So yeah, if that really is the outcome, then I can't say that it would surprise me.
Manga that deviate from the three rules are rather rare.
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Comments are back! I just want to say, thank you for scanlating this through to the end - I think this was an unusual manga in a lot of ways but I enjoyed it overall, and I'm glad that I got to see its conclusion. I think the final resolution makes total sense too.
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That is my expectation reading this too. I love Kitashiro, but my gut feeling after spending 2+ yrs reading nothing but romance just tells me "yeah she gonna lose for sure". I'm not mad tbh, just dissapointed.
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The light that the MC see represent "instinctual love", or the natural love of a woman towards someone, and the desire to be loved back. but Kitashiro's love for him is "logical love", as she is willing to put his happiness above hers, so he can't see anything coming from her.
Or at least, that's my interpretation, don't dig me too much, I'm pretty confused myself.
Or at least, that's my interpretation, don't dig me too much, I'm pretty confused myself.
My interpretation of "love" presented in the story is that, rather than calling them "instinctual" and "logical", the terms "selfish" and "selfless" love should be more logical terms. The two characters able to see lights that represent love can do so because they subconciously looked for what they missed in their childhood. In the case of the JK, she was able to see lights representing "selfless love" since her mother, a narcissist, drown her with "selfish love", loving her only because the mother want to be loved back, so the JK instinctually seek "selfless love" as a result. Our MC, on the other hand, never received either kinds of love from his mother or his family, but since Kitashiro, who was with him since their childhood, gave him her "selfless love", the kind of love that place your loved one's happiness above one's own happiness, so he was only starved of "selfish love" and grew up seeking them. (Goddamn after writing all of this I feel even more pitiful for Kitashiro)
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This is manga is well written and characters are rather endearing, but love triangles like this bore me to tears. I don't see the point in spending hours reading something to, in the end, leave the characters mostly unhappy for the most part. There are enough reasons to be frustrated in real life to avoid getting there when reading.
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Aki Eda's perspective on love and her putting it to story is always dazzling, and this manga is no exception. Like always, the artstyle is a thing of beaut, and the characters are so, so mostly charming. The thing that captured my heart the most was how the characters expressed their own feelings - eloquent and authentic. The ending wrapped up everything decently and is overall just a perfect last piece for the puzzle called "love" this manga was trying to solve. Anyone who have a different notion on how that puzzle should be solved, will inevitably disagree with the author's.
I'm one such person. It's day and night how everything was so nicely set up in the first half, only to be bizarrely torn down in the second. Love is subjective, sure, but this manga just leaned way too hard into it to the point of self-indulgence and vanity. The chemistry between the male lead and all female leads is non-existent - just because you (the manga) acknowledge it does not mean it isn't there and you shouldn't improve upon it. Love, in this manga's blind pursuit to define it, was carried out terribly. Every other factor suffered as a result. Koi wa Hikari is anything but an enjoyable story - an interesting literature debate? Sure! But it's so frustrating seeing all the potential around the premise and world-building gets plateaued by the main cast's passiveness and looping in place - all just to reach an alien and unsatisfying conclusion. I truly appreciate the author always trying something new in all of her works. But if you want to read a truly thought-provoking, no, just a pleasant piece of art, you're better off looking somewhere else.
I'm one such person. It's day and night how everything was so nicely set up in the first half, only to be bizarrely torn down in the second. Love is subjective, sure, but this manga just leaned way too hard into it to the point of self-indulgence and vanity. The chemistry between the male lead and all female leads is non-existent - just because you (the manga) acknowledge it does not mean it isn't there and you shouldn't improve upon it. Love, in this manga's blind pursuit to define it, was carried out terribly. Every other factor suffered as a result. Koi wa Hikari is anything but an enjoyable story - an interesting literature debate? Sure! But it's so frustrating seeing all the potential around the premise and world-building gets plateaued by the main cast's passiveness and looping in place - all just to reach an alien and unsatisfying conclusion. I truly appreciate the author always trying something new in all of her works. But if you want to read a truly thought-provoking, no, just a pleasant piece of art, you're better off looking somewhere else.
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