March Comes in Like a Lion - Ch. 205

[JKTV]

its kinda wild how stupid people think this manga was JUST about Shogi. NAh its about Rei's life and him growing as a person. And guess what shogi and the wholesome family a part of his life are so of course they're main characters and their lives and what do they are a part of this manga

DUH

 

[sirflimflam]

I'm gonna be real, it might be super controversial but I lost interest in the shogi bits and these little hina moments are what keeps me reading.

 

[alucard680]

Rei and Hina are indeed a cute couple, but I still think Rei and Akari were a better option for the story, the autor didn´t make any other character had a development with Akari until now so any character other than Rei feels weird for Akari. This makes me feel that the autor sacrificed Akari when Hina already had the baseball guy with who she already had a long relationship even before the story started, they even have the same age. But don´t get me wrong I like Shimada and sensei but they don´t have any development with Akari until now and the story is near the ending so there are not enough episodes to develop something for Akari with anyone. But oh well, I hope Akari ends with a no name character in a time-skip and that character is not shown so that doesn´t feel weird.

 

[apstorm]

They can't because Hina isn't 18

I will note that an anime, centered around a modern-day marriage between an 18 year old male and an (ostensibly) 16 year old girl, showed her literally come to the guy's apartment in the first episode with a marriage certificate and signed permission from a guardian (the woman who took her in ages ago, only see her in the second season)... so it's not like there isn't precedent or apparent loop-holes for under-age marriage.

The anime was ToniKawa, by the way. That show was absolute diabetes in video form. I need to read the manga sometime.

 

[apstorm]

Rei and Hina are indeed a cute couple, but I still think Rei and Akari were a better option for the story, the autor didn´t make any other character had a development with Akari until now so any character other than Rei feels weird for Akari. This makes me feel that the autor sacrificed Akari when Hina already had the baseball guy with who she already had a long relationship even before the story started, they even have the same age. But don´t get me wrong I like Shimada and sensei but they don´t have any development with Akari until now and the story is near the ending so there are not enough episodes to develop something for Akari with anyone. But oh well, I hope Akari ends with a no name character in a time-skip and that character is not shown so that doesn´t feel weird.

As I said before... Akari has just never truly 'seen' Rei. Sure, she found him around town and dragged him back to the Kawamoto house, but, again, as I've said, she was only attending to his physical needs, and only just. Hina has taken far more note of him from the very beginning in Ch.1 and made a point to help and care for him, or give him special attention above and beyond what Akari does, at the very least. And the moments that they have shared only between the two of them have been far more memorable and significant for him, like the time he was encouraged to follow Hina who had left during the obon depicted in Ch.6, and he ended up staying with her as she cried her grief out over her mother. So much more of the standalone art had depicted just the two of them together, as well, even early on, it seems... And chapter title page artwork showing sans Akari for a good chunk near that very start, as well, having Rei walking with Hina and Momo.

 

[apstorm]

I can't say I'm here for the shogi because I never learned the names of the pieces, the rules, the strategies, or the moves. However, I can still appreciate how the matches are depicted, even if the finer details escape me. So, I'm here for the whole package of character development, Rei and the sisters. I don't actually like how Hina first totally rejected even the sheer idea of dating Rei, yet then suddenly accepted it. Now their romance is so cute I don't mind the history anymore, though. I guess such things would happen in RL as well.

I feel like it wasn't so much rejecting the idea as it was finding it hard to believe he felt that way about her. It's a common trope in anime and manga and such to have characters that are clearly coded to end up together to doubt the other feels the same way, even if it should be painfully obvious based on what has been said. She convinced herself that he was only saying that to help protect them, and dared not hope it was anything more, most likely. That's kind of how these sorts of things go, and how the 'will they, won't they' of these sorts of things perpetuate.

There was one anime I watched somewhat recently that had a male lead and female lead essentially promise to stay by each other's side forever multiple times through the course of the series, usually at the conclusion of each season, but never dared to think the other held romantic feelings for the other until they finally confessed during the four-part finale season or TV 'movie' mini-series, somewhere during the second episode of said finale. Shit like that can arguably go on, seemingly beyond reason, until a plainly-stated confession and clearly-worded reciprocation of that confession take place.

I say that last part, as even with a confession there was one series where the principle couple of the series basically misunderstood each other in the process, and thought that the other party didn't 'like' them the same way they did, and it took a bit more time after being beyond depressed at the thought the other didn't feel the same before they resolved the issue and finally became a couple.