March Comes in Like a Lion - Ch. 214

[LordofAlI]

A great chapter, really. This is your hell, Shimada.

Sauce for the image?

 

[LordofAlI]

Shimada the goat will keep running like always

 

[signedup]

Sauce for the image?

Ballroom.

 

[apstorm]

Is it just me, or did anyone else have to jump a year back to chapter 206 and reread all the chapters for everything to properly fit together?

For a while now, the chapters have felt disjointed and not made very much sense individually, but now I get it. At least to me, they feel very much like the flash-photo-image style I've seen a few times in anime, depicting a slow-motion crash between two people.

Something like… (with the sound of a camera shutter clicking between images)

Still shot of character A running, head down for speed.
Still shot of character B reaching backward to open his gate to the sidewalk.
A hears a latch click and looks up with a surprised expression.
B backs out onto the sidewalk with a large package.
A tries to stop her momentum and yells a warning.
B looks up surprised, dropping the package.
A and B are inches away in awkward poses.
A and B intersect in a tangle of arms and legs.
A is falling forward, B is falling backward.
A is on top of B, with the sound of bodies landing on the ground.

This is part of why I like binge-reading manga or binge-watching anime- it helps to keep all of the details of a story fresh in my memory, especially if it's got a lot of layers like this one does. Reading a chapter a month (or longer) is slow and means you're probably going to forget details, particularly in more involved narratives. I only started reading this when I did because I binge-watched the two seasons of the anime a few years ago and wanted more of the story, read from the start all the way through to at least the end of Volume 16, I think, which was the latest full volume available at the time.

I run into so many people that ask 'who are these people again?' in comments, and because I'm binge-reading, I have it all fresh in my mind. The problem comes when I'm all caught up on an ongoing story, like this one, and I may feel like I have to re-read it all again in time, because I've started to forget things.

Currently, I have this and ToniKawa as the two long-running manga that I'm following now, and only started following somewhat recently (ToniKawa much more recently). I might be adding Dangers in My Heart (BokuYaba) sometime soon, I think. I have one other ongoing I'm caught up on, but it's barely at 20 chapters even after a couple of years (it's had more releases than that because it releases chapter parts every cycle instead of whole chapters, and some chapters are 3 parts long, others can be as many as 5 parts... it's also a manga adaptation of an LN, too, which is way, way past it and being produced a lot faster- it's Angel Next Door, by the way).

You know... with the exception of ToniKawa (by Kenjiro Hata, though I wonder how much input his wife has), I notice a pattern with the manga I'm reading... they're all written by women mangaka. Something about how they write emotional content, I think.

 

[dghirsh]

This is part of why I like binge-reading manga or binge-watching anime- it helps to keep all of the details of a story fresh in my memory, especially if it's got a lot of layers like this one does. Reading a chapter a month (or longer) is slow and means you're probably going to forget details, particularly in more involved narratives. I only started reading this when I did because I binge-watched the two seasons of the anime a few years ago and wanted more of the story, read from the start all the way through to at least the end of Volume 16, I think, which was the latest full volume available at the time.

I run into so many people that ask 'who are these people again?' in comments, and because I'm binge-reading, I have it all fresh in my mind. The problem comes when I'm all caught up on an ongoing story, like this one, and I may feel like I have to re-read it all again in time, because I've started to forget things.

Currently, I have this and ToniKawa as the two long-running manga that I'm following now, and only started following somewhat recently (ToniKawa much more recently). I might be adding Dangers in My Heart (BokuYaba) sometime soon, I think. I have one other ongoing I'm caught up on, but it's barely at 20 chapters even after a couple of years (it's had more releases than that because it releases chapter parts every cycle instead of whole chapters, and some chapters are 3 parts long, others can be as many as 5 parts... it's also a manga adaptation of an LN, too, which is way, way past it and being produced a lot faster- it's Angel Next Door, by the way).

You know... with the exception of ToniKawa (by Kenjiro Hata, though I wonder how much input his wife has), I notice a pattern with the manga I'm reading... they're all written by women mangaka. Something about how they write emotional content, I think.

As someone reading 25 on-going manga… it doesn’t get easier. Series’ take on completely different tones when reading on serialization, versus binge-reading. Details definitely leave your mind, and monthlies are particularly difficult for more involved narratives as you mentioned (like 3Gatsu).

I do not believe reading on serialization is the ideal way to consume a story.

 

[J_the_Man]

I think many will not agree with this:
Maybe Shimada need Akari in his life, but Akari don't need a Shimada in her life.

I hate the word need. There's no such thing as need. But if you think Akari wouldn't benefit significantly from having Shimada around, you're very mistaken.

Akari would benefit tremendously from having someone responsible be able to take over the role of head of household and secure the household financial situation. Shimada proved he could be that person when Rei hilariously tried to set him and Sensei up with her on that fishing outing.

 

[samon101]

thank you for the translation!!

 

[LordofAlI]

Ballroom.

Thanks. I should've know by that neck. Man I miss that manga. It's been a year now since the last chapter?

 

[celluloser]

maaan, I truly love Shimada! I’m part of the minority (i think?) of shimada x akari shippers due to the fact that I want to be proven wrong that Shimada thinks he doesn’t deserve a partner in his life, that awareness is just T~T (let it be me!) imo, I think that he would be able to offer stability and support for Akari and she who loves adopting sickly ones like him

 

[ziel_demon]

Shimadaaaaaa