Namida Ame to Serenade - Vol. 14 Ch. 72

[MangaDex]

 

[imhikarucat]

Well, this raised more questions than answers. Did the necklace come first, or did Hina come first? If Hina leaped back in time and caused the marriage between Takaaki and Hinako to break down, then who gave Hina the time traveling necklace in the first place? Because if not, the arranged marriage would have continued and there would be no future Hina. My guess is at some parallel timeline, Hinako realized her love for Taketora, rendezvoused with him in the future, got the necklace, and traveled back to the Meiji era to live the rest of her life with Taketora somewhere. But if that's the case, story Hinako would never have become friends with Hina like in Chapter 2, because their meeting wouldn't have happened. Which leads to Hinako never passing down the time traveling necklace to Hina. So, it's a time travel paradox. I guess if the story has reached this point, Hina will leap back in time to live with Takaaki with her last stone in the necklace. Perhaps both couples live somewhere peacefully and Hinako grows old with Hina, as page 32 might hint at that future (or past) or maybe it's just Hinako remembering her days with time leaped Hina. Before this reveal, I assumed Hina in the modern day leaped back to the past, married Takaaki, and then gave birth to Minako > Mana > then Hina. So essentially, Hina in the past was the great grandmother of Hina in the modern day. But then, it also raises the question: which Hina came first and who gave her the necklace? In summary, I am just overthinking this and I should just turn off my brain and let the author cook and sorry for the long read of my rant.

Real talk

Because you can't tell your grandmother that you stole her mom fiancé

 

[cheesecakegood]

Love love love that we’re getting some resolution. Heroes.

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

Well, this raised more questions than answers. Did the necklace come first, or did Hina come first? If Hina leaped back in time and caused the marriage between Takaaki and Hinako to break down, then who gave Hina the time traveling necklace in the first place? Because if not, the arranged marriage would have continued and there would be no future Hina. My guess is at some parallel timeline, Hinako realized her love for Taketora, rendezvoused with him in the future, got the necklace, and traveled back to the Meiji era to live the rest of her life with Taketora somewhere. But if that's the case, story Hinako would never have become friends with Hina like in Chapter 2, because their meeting wouldn't have happened. Which leads to Hinako never passing down the time traveling necklace to Hina. So, it's a time travel paradox. I guess if the story has reached this point, Hina will leap back in time to live with Takaaki with her last stone in the necklace. Perhaps both couples live somewhere peacefully and Hinako grows old with Hina, as page 32 might hint at that future (or past) or maybe it's just Hinako remembering her days with time leaped Hina. Before this reveal, I assumed Hina in the modern day leaped back to the past, married Takaaki, and then gave birth to Minako > Mana > then Hina. So essentially, Hina in the past was the great grandmother of Hina in the modern day. But then, it also raises the question: which Hina came first and who gave her the necklace? In summary, I am just overthinking this and I should just turn off my brain and let the author cook and sorry for the long read of my rant.

Real talk

Because you can't tell your grandmother that you stole her mom fiancé

Maybe I'm missing something. I thought the necklace was made in the future by the science fictional adoptive "mom" of Taketora, went to Hinako who held onto it and then gave it to her great grand-daughter Hina, who then travelled back in time with it, first briefly when she was little to a few years before the events of most of the story, then to meet Hinako and do the main storyline (which happens before Hinako is given the necklace in the future. I'm assuming when she returns to the past, it will still be to a time after Hina has been sent to the present again). That would be a fairly basic chain of ownership.

Yes, it makes no sense and involves reverse causality, but that's time travel.

So say you have a timeline, you get
--SF woman comes to the past, finds Taketora, brings him to the future and brings him up
--Hina first appearance in the past; triggers yearning in Takaaki (has necklace)
--Taketora goes to the past, takes role of the person who ends up Hinako's tutor
--Hina second appearance in the past (has necklace)
--Main story line. Hinako does not yet have necklace
--Hina sent to the present without memory (has necklace)
--Hinako grabs Taketora, goes to future with him, is given necklace
--Hinako (probably) returns to the past with Taketora (and necklace), goes elsewhere in Japan, has kids, grandkids
--Great granddaughter Hina born; Hinako passes necklace to her
--Hina has first to-the-past incident
--Hina has second to-the-past incident
--Hopefully, Hina has third to-the-past incident, reunites with her beloved and lives happily ever after. Not yet happened in the story.

--Future; Taketora grows up, takes trips to past
--Taketora goes on main story's trip to past
--Taketora returns to future with Hinako before final return to past
--End

Does that work?