One Week Friends

[MangaDex]

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

Hazuki Matcha writes sweet stories but seems to be absolutely awful at bringing things to a resolution. Well, dunno, for some that may be a feature, a positive aspect of style that's a bit different from the standard. But I'd be happier if she could just seal the deal.

 

[Tcof]

I don't know why but see a lot people complain through each site i saw. this is one of most powerful ending to me.
She afraid of "friend" so she forget her memory. But be with him. Because she can reply on him. now finally she can believe in friend and accept that memory.



Yes, they will friend at the end and we only get hint. but to me it make the end more clear and their bond is more solid than any couple can be. this is all the matter. and make the whole story worth. the hint very obvious though.

I think because what the reaction so the anime change the solution in to some dump shit, nonsense drama at the end. what a shame

 

[Tcof]

@Purplelibraryguy : can you tell me specifically what you don't happy about it ?

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

I'm not a subtle person, frankly. So if I see a story with a relationship where the guy clearly loves the girl in a more-than-friends way and it seems like the girl feels similarly (even if she hasn't really sorted it out), I like it if they act on those feelings rather than the story leaving things in limbo. Not only doesn't that happen by story's end, we have a .5 chapter with a timeskip in which they appear to be taking steps backwards--nothing said, nothing acted on, but now they rarely see each other any more. The male lead is still feeling uncertain, afraid and embarrassed to say his true feelings. That makes me sad. We can say it's implied that something will presumably happen sooner or later, but as I said, I'm not subtle by nature; I want to see the resolution, the payoff and the happiness. To put it a different way, I like both leads and so I want to see them happy, and what I'm seeing instead is them, while not completely unhappy, certainly somewhat frustrated, a bit anxious, and surrounded by a faint sense of futility, like they'll be forever trapped in this not-quite-where-they-want-to-be zone . . . and at that, for no real reason that I understand.
The sort of vague secondary couple of grumpy guy and cute incompetent girl takes it even further; they've completely lost touch with each other, adding to the general feeling of uncertainty and malaise.

I'll admit it's a matter of taste.

 

[Tcof]

@Purplelibraryguy i want to say something more, hope you not get annoy by more my word.

we all want to see something. but thing is, like i explain in a below comment. the story is never just a story boy met girl. they in love and over. he is what she need to believe in friend again. if they become lover which is i love to see, it will make the story lost the focus. I feel disappointed yet but the story is complete in my point of view. they certainly more than friend yes but life will keep going and we can't see it. it feel like can't my kid not anymore in my hand of protection (not have any though). But i have to believe in them these kid will doing fine.

between something really happen , we satisfied, closed it and moving on or this. Not lie, really hard to chose the latter. but the author know what truly create their bond the whole time. it is the faith not any attachment.
And this i said the meaning of story is about trust yet ?

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

@Tcof: I kind of see your point. But I would like to claim that trust and support can exist between lovers (and having been married for 20+ years I think I'm in a position to say). Is it really so trustworthy to be holding back the strongest part of his feelings about her? If he really was just her friend and wanted nothing different, that would be fine and it would be a story about friendship and it would be complete. But the story actually gets a lot of its drama and a good deal of its comedy from the tension between friendship and unrequited love. Then it refuses to resolve that tension. You can call that a lot of things, but "complete" isn't really one of them.

I think it's perfectly valid to like the story precisely because it's incomplete and open. That's just not my taste and it's not going to suddenly become my taste. But I'm not going to go along with the idea that the story is paradoxically complete like that; it isn't. Romance was introduced, nurtured, plot elements of jealousy and rivalry were brought in, and then it wasn't resolved. The paper airplane one by the same mangaka does something similar (although a lot lighter).

I still like it, but I'd like it better with a solid end.

 

[Tcof]

@Purplelibraryguy It do have love. obviously. I don't mean they should not be lover and the story is about friendship.
but because this in my opinion show how more how them important to each other more than just let them be lover. And the image of him go ask her to be friend make it remark the story point.
Also, i don't think there anything left not resolved though ?

And just let them enjoy their youth. they just not ready for it

 

[realcaze]

Kinda boring ending tbh, expected more

 

[Nightlilygirl-]

It's a really sweet story and I enjoyed it a lot, but the ending is open and indeed a bit disappointing... still very cute

 

[iMaztar]

Disappointed with the ending, if youre going to a have a large time skip like that at least have something happen.

 

[119811]

good now make a sequel but with actual romance in it

 

[Phuocphuc46]

Spoiler

Romance and (some) characters are actually only drama and plot fuel, other than that there’s actually none of it being resolved at the end! None!

No doubt it’s a good story, but the end just leave a hole too big for anything in the manga to compensate for. I did enjoy reading it, but throughout the whole manga it just feels like there’s always something missing.

 

[Sollertia_]

For some reason when I saw the title of this manga, I thought of that one shot about two lovers who could never be because of something related to the week

 

[KnotUntied]

How about a reboot, just the two of them?

 

[ngkn92]

This manga would had been great if it went straight fluff without all of those cheap dramas.

 

[Clone_Nero]

@Sollertia_ You mean the Hello Hello and Hello Novel??

 

[noneofurbiz]

The ending was disappointing. The whole manga was really good starting from the message to the delivery, but the ending was missing the closure i wanted. Sure, it looks like they were GONNA date each other but it was an open ending.

 

[d2d2]

Spoiler

big oof, i wanted to see who she would end up w and ofc i had 2nd ml syndrome fmllll the author only hints at a future relationship but after reading all those chapters i wanted to SEE it happen like bruhhhhhhhhh whyyy ((((((((((

 

[Exia1987]

How stupid to me to expect an actual ending....