Nanji, Hoshi no Gotoku - Vol. 3 Ch. 12

[MangaDex]

 

[E45onmyWhip]

bruh

 

[Septazia]

I can see that is not for me, but I wouldn't call it bad.

 

[Guyincognitus]

Well that was a goddamn rollercoaster. I found this last half to be more than a little off putting. A lot more melodramatic tropes shoved in at the end plus the teacher with all his baggage showing up at the end to be this weird "voice of reason" sort of character, it all sort of detracted from Akemi and Kai's personal journey's in favor quick dramatic turns. Thematically I found the conclusion pretty fucking sour too but that would be a whole thing to get into.

 

[Lobo]

Everyone is different, and relationships can get messy and complicated. Good manga, thank you for bringing this last batch of chapters to English!

 

[ipmanvsthemask]

I really like this manga, but I would like the ending better if it weren't for the vague flashforward in the 1st chapter. This is definitely a case of misled expectations.

 

[Goyal99Raj]

Grooming is just Societally Wrong, not Actually Wrong - the manga

 

[Xandersenpai]

Uff this is a bittersweet ending. I used to hate Kai a lot but I kinda felt bad for him. He paid a high price. Ending with the book seems nice to be fair. Not the best manga but I enjoyed it

 

[Roman99]

Its a solid manga, just not my taste (2)
One thing I'm glad is, even after that long-abrupt-painful journey, Akimi keep walking on the way she believes (helping her mother, took the embroidery profession, broke up with Kai), then get paid everything she deserves. Even with the decision to took care Kai-it may be off-putting for some- I still glad she do it because "she wants to do it". No regret, and become wiser adult at the end.

 

[pokefairy]

So many of these melodramatic "no one can judge us, only we know the truth" stories redeem characters through cancer. I'd like to see one where the characters make peace without something as extenuating as life threatening illness

 

[PeterAn4798]

I honestly don't know how I should feel.

Like I can see the meaning of the story about just live the life you want without caring about what others would say about you.

But the writing, specially with this last patch of chapters, is just so bad, a full non-stop trainwreck just for some melodrama. The continuous timeskip just hurts the story and characters' development, it's hard to understand and gasp the situation, the charaters' though, or how a bunch of side characters just keep appearing out of nowhere and being forgotten soon later.

The entire story doesn't have anywhere to breath freely, this last chapter is the prime example, Kai just couldn't catch a breath, Akimi came back to his life and he just accepted it like nothing really had happened, Kai's mom showed up for a single panel, he died soon later...

Kitaha-sensei is probably the only thing I actually enjoy, probably because he just acts the most reasonable and knows what he's doing.
Oh and the "What a mess of group we are" panel is beautiful, just sum up perfectly this manga, such a mess.

 

[Cchnlan]

tf did i just read bro😭✌️

 

[auodere]

I usually like manga showing how messy relationships are, but I haaated how 90% of this is just men cheating and how the women deal with it 😭

 

[whitewabbit01]

Well, it's great but questionable. I can't sympathize Kai because of how he treated Akime with their relationship. Neglecting and cheating on her. This might seen as karma on Kai. And I see Akime being a fool till the end. I would be happy if she moved on after Kai's death.


Nonetheless, solid 8/10.

 

[Kushikime]

Thanks for all the work. Life, love and family are all messy. Sure this does go overboard like some others mentioned but what I found really great about this story was how hard life can be when we feel the need to attach to things - the struggle to find the “correct path” and not letting the outside noise bother us.

 

[dogmeister238]

Grooming is just Societally Wrong, not Actually Wrong - the manga

Yeah like I get the lack of conformity the author was going for, but it undermines itself when it's actual clear cut crimes. For instance, if we take the illustrator, the author could've achieved the same thematic message with the illustrator if the guy he was in a relationship with was an adult, as the author could've just made it an adult making a false SA allegation to protect himself from his family and the societal stigma. The stigma against gay relationships and a lack of conformity would've been more than enough to tarnish the illustrator's reputation in the same way and to a similar extent.

In general, Japan is such a rigid, conformal society that there are plenty of societal vices that aren't moral/ethical vices to pick from. So even if the author refuses to have it be false SA accusations from an adult, the author could have the illustrator be a person that also ran away from their parents; that violates societal norms, but it's hardly a moral vice. And for the teacher, they could make him in a relationship with a foreigner in a rigid family where he failed to defend her, causing her to run away. He then atones for this by moving away from his family. That way, we don't have clear cut crimes as the societal vice and personal vice.

Basically, there are so many more defendable societal vices to choose from that aren't crimes or clear cut ethical vices. Why did the mangaka choose grooming and statutory rape as the societal vices when they're also actual vices and crimes?

 

[Panino]

It was more a melodrama than I thought it would be.