March Comes in Like a Lion - Vol. 14 Ch. 141 - Nostalgic Flavor (1)

[MangaDex]

 

[kaminomikan]

noooo kiriyama why are you sending Akari away.... dammit author!!!!!

 

[knightcky]

everyone likes curry huh? XD

 

[miyako19]

@kaminomikan Because he only likes her as a older sister. No matter how I see it, he is a kid and she is an adult. Quit it with the older woman fetish. Asians generally dislike when the woman is older than the man. We even have an ancient idiom to make fun of couples like that. And I have never see that kind of couples work well, they either get a divorce(which is rare in our society) or the man cheated with some young girls like my aunt's situation, she tries to wear clothes and make up to make herself looked young but then her husband left her at home, doesn't even want to be seen in public with her.

 

[tsunamininja]

Kiriyama being Shimada and Hayashida's wingman at the same time lol

 

[glintel]

@miyako19
Now now, don't be too serious about it. The whole shipping thing is often about the reader's preference over a character, rather than about the couple themselves. I shipped kiriyama kun with the witch, but that's about it. Even i know that relationship will go nowhere. Kyouko cannot provide him the comfort he need.

 

[goodhunter]

@miyako19 Look, I get that Japan may have a culture like that, but it's fucked up and wrong. I don't give a fuck what your culture is like, but when it spreads discrimination and pain to people who are just trying to seek happiness like that, I can't stand behind it. What's so fucking wrong if a guy marries an older woman? I'm not even talking about like the 10+ years older kind of deal. I'm not saying that Kiriyama should have ended up with Akari, but their age gap is 3-4 years at best and is honestly not that bad really. I know plenty of couples where the older one is the wife, and they are happily married. The only reason why you struggle to find someone happily married like that wherever you are is because of the stigma and discrimination they receive from dated and unhealthy cultures of considering it automatically wrong.

 

[NoraDaimio]

I see the Rei shares our wish to see the Sensei-Shimada battle proceed forward!!

 

[flashmozzg]

Well, isn't Shimada in his 40s? That means that he'd likely die while Akari is still in her 50s or early 60s. Not good at all.

 

[ThrystaVindr]

I see Kiriyama's matchmaking plans are proceeding well~

 

[Konrad2]

Thanks for the translation.
'What, call a teacher and a pro shogi player for this? :O' she asked the pro shogi player she called for this. xD

 

[undeadclown]

@flashmozzg he's 31. Same age as the sensei. He looks older than he is and the manga frequently jokes about this.

 

[flashmozzg]

@undeadclown damn, that dude needs something healthier than shogi in his life.

 

[WhatTheCarl]

@miyako19 what the fuck are you on about, kiriyamas age gap is the same whether he's with akari or hina. they BOTH are 3-4 years apart FROM HIM in AGE

 

[Leluoch707]

So not only the readers, Rei also knows about this love triangle lmao.

 

[apstorm]

@miyako19 Look, I get that Japan may have a culture like that, but it's fucked up and wrong. I don't give a fuck what your culture is like, but when it spreads discrimination and pain to people who are just trying to seek happiness like that, I can't stand behind it. What's so fucking wrong if a guy marries an older woman? I'm not even talking about like the 10+ years older kind of deal. I'm not saying that Kiriyama should have ended up with Akari, but their age gap is 3-4 years at best and is honestly not that bad really. I know plenty of couples where the older one is the wife, and they are happily married. The only reason why you struggle to find someone happily married like that wherever you are is because of the stigma and discrimination they receive from dated and unhealthy cultures of considering it automatically wrong.

@miyako19 what the fuck are you on about, kiriyamas age gap is the same whether he's with akari or hina. they BOTH are 3-4 years apart FROM HIM in AGE

Actually, Akari is about one to two years older than Hina is younger than Rei (Hina 16, Rei 19, Akari 24, thereabouts). Not that I think that's a sufficient reason to say they don't belong together- age gaps don't mean much to me, outside of situations with minors (which this is, so... technically it does matter).

The real reason is the fact they haven't had nearly as many formative moments between them, and, most important of all, Hina's personality lit a fire in the boy's heart and made him give a damn about things in a way Akari never could have done for him. Akari was willing to just have her family just cower and hide away with the bullying arc, just like was Rei's tendency at the start of the story. If it wasn't for Hina's insistence to fight, the story would have gone very differently, and Rei would have never found the fire to express himself that he has had for awhile now.

@miyako19
Now now, don't be too serious about it. The whole shipping thing is often about the reader's preference over a character, rather than about the couple themselves. I shipped kiriyama kun with the witch, but that's about it. Even i know that relationship will go nowhere. Kyouko cannot provide him the comfort he need.

You are quite right about this... But that doesn't mean I can't be upset about it. To me, shipping should be about what a person feels is appropriate for the characters, not the character they're most attracted to being paired with the protagonist just because reasons. That just feels so messed up, to me, trying to replace the main character with yourself like that in your head. He has his own traits and personality distinct from us readers, and his own experiences that define who he is, and who he is most suited to and who he desires to be with regardless of who we think is 'best girl'.

I can't deny I'm most attracted to Akari, too, but I don't agree with pairing her up with Rei, because, to me, it just doesn't work.

 

[Kaarme]

Can't they just google to see how it's done? It seems kind of pointless to reinvent the wheel by going through all that work and trouble.