Osananajimi wo Erabenai! - Ch. 16 - I Love You

[Astraexxv]

ok so i know its not getting axed and im pretty sure it wont end in 1 chapter but where will the story go next? Seems like if they continue the main idea will be very different to what we've seen so far.

 

[Xical]

You are unfortunately also forgetting that the scanlator had already explained in the endnote page of chapter 15 that this manga is getting an official English translation, with no hint that volume 3 is the final volume. I don't know about you, but I don't think a manga that's about to be axed would end up getting such a privilege as being officially translated into another language, least of all English (which targets a massive international demographic).

You are overestimating the meaning of getting an official English translation, as an example - Spider-Man: Octo-Girl - got an early announcement of english official release and a Good traction in the international fandom and all of that didn't prevent it to be cut at 4 volumes.

Is uncommon for a mangaka to make direct appeals to the readers, the last one I remember was the creator of the manga about the Bunny boy and the Wolf girl and he asked for the help of the international readers because readers in Japan (the ones that really mean for the editorials) weren't buying it.
The most common thing is mangaka making an announcement in the last or before the last chapter announcing the end of the series.

At the beginning of my post I put a big "IF it ends" because I still have a little hope for it to continue amd shows all that was foreshadow in chapter 01 but it simply seems like Japanese readers aren't that invested as the overseas ones.

 

[koga88]

You are unfortunately also forgetting that the scanlator had already explained in the endnote page of chapter 15 that this manga is getting an official English translation, with no hint that volume 3 is the final volume. I don't know about you, but I don't think a manga that's about to be axed would end up getting such a privilege as being officially translated into another language, least of all English (which targets a massive international demographic).


From the author's reply to me on the matter, it seems that this current trajectory has always been their plan from the beginning. And I should note that "we can't go back to the previous status quo, it's disrupting the world too much, so we must remerge Karin into a single individual" doesn't necessarily mean that we'll no longer see her myriad personality facets; in fact, I suspect that Karin will become a personality-swapper, switching between her various facets (with corresponding appearance changes) in a manner similar to the female protagonist of Change 123.

Well of course the author is going to say that the story is continuing in public. What are they going to say? Oh sorry, my editor is telling me to rush the story through so they can axe me at the end of this volume, and tank their readership or anyone that would buy current volumes?

And as others have said, an official English translation means nothing in the long run unless the series is already going steady. Series have gotten English translation announcements and have literally ended the very same month or long before the first volume ever hits the presses. I'm pretty sure I've seen one or two that literally ended the same week their English licensing was announced.

 

[TGN]

I'm sorry, are you talking about this series? How did it "kill its main premise"? I've been out of the loop for years despite wanting to get back to reading it.

The first few chapters all have a similar premise: Shikimori and MC are doing something together, fate tries blasting his ass, and we get a large panel of Shikimori saving him while looking badass. Formulaic, but sweet and to-the-point. Eventually, the series got longer chapters that dropped that formula. While I was initially excited, the series started to devolve into a generic rom-com, fall into the same pitfalls as, say, Kubo, and just stopped with the shots of Shikimori... not just being a cutie. Unpopular opinion, but I would have preferred a shorter series that kept the formula than what we got.

I see this series in a similar boat. Theoretically, there should be loads to write about the girls getting along and trying to work through their split minds. Practically? I have little faith in rom-com writers to write romance, not drama. And it seems the author had the same thought, since they're pulling the plug here instead of trying to keep writing.