Otona ni Narenai Bokura wa - Ch. 27 - Tuesday

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them fricking stopped the time loop? i gotta say that felt pretty rushed tho
no i dont think so, if you look at that page like a film reel in the last chapter it seems like they kept looping and going insane, sleeping with other people and killing, it doesnt really say why the looping stopped.
 
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OK, so first of all, this ending sucks ass, but there are a few things to give it credit for that I think are going overlooked.

For one, as has been said, sex didn't fix the loop. They indulged in it for a time and were able to have a few (maybe thousands, there's no way to know) more happy loop days together before it wasn't enough anymore and they relapsed into killing themselves, eventually drifting apart while doing so.

Secondly, the fact that they don't remember anything after the loop has finally broken ties back into the conversation they had in the movie chapter about not being able to remember anything after 500 million years (they had even already forgotten watching that same movie before in however long it had been since the first time). On that point, as the film reel continued you could see shots of him in bed, and it's subtle but that specific drawing repeats into the part of the reel that starts to burn, and I'm pretty sure it was the only one that repeated out of that whole sequence.

So it seems like after a long enough span of time, he started doing exclusively what he said he does in this chapter, waking up, checking the date and then doing nothing, essentially forever, until he eventually lost his memories of the whole affair naturally over the course of however long (assumedly she ends up in a similar semi-vegitative state as well) until one day they wake up, the loop has ended and they notice that the day has changed, which prompts them to actually get up again, even though they don't even remember what the significance of that is by now. They just know deep down that it's something they were waiting for.

So it's not that their memories magically disappeared. We can infer most of this based on what was set up in the movie chapter, and it makes sense considering that they still remember each other and their connection to some extent, even though we've already seen that the "power of love" or whatever did not actually break the loop.

Now, as for what the implications of that are when it comes to like, how they'll live the rest of their lives, I could not possibly tell you. And the fact that we didn't get anything about why the loop started or especially what caused it to end (since we could have at least speculated about the start if we saw the end) is really egregious; but to be fair, the mangaka didn't intend for it to end like this, and it is extremely difficult to wrap something up nicely under those circumstances, so I would cut them some slack.

They did at least try to set up an ending, it just wasn't the ideal one they probably wanted. It doesn't make the ending better, but you can tell that there was still something here, and they could definitely hit the homerun with the next one if they take things in stride
 
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Damn, I didn't realize those were different women. I think I need more sleep.
Yeah I didn't either I only realized it after someone else pointed it out in the previous chapter comments. I can't lie, the axe really hurt this one. It feels like a meandering journey to nowhere.
 
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And then they repeated Tuesday for 500 million years (give or take a million)

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Eh~ Such a shame for the ending .

It could have been so much better if it made some more coherent overarching arc(s) . Like dealing with more serious personal anxieties , or the past or whatever . Something like "I've sold my life for 10000 yen" kinda stuff (Although it is hard to do when the world resets each day)

Still , ending was more or less what I expected , though something more darker like him staying in the loop while girl breaks out of it because of him could also have been great (and ending the manga with similar panel as the starting one where another girl gets trapped with him).

Well , in the end - at least it had a proper end and was not just abandoned. So , thanks guys for translating .
7\10 - Good for one read , but it could have been something much better .
 
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I feel like theres about 5 chapters missing,,,

I also think it's lame they don't really retain the memories. Like what was even the point?
 
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What a sh*t ending...

Don't get me wrong, i really love this manga. The story, the art, and the vibe of this manga is really different from some other manga that I've read. But after it get axed by the publisher, the quality of this project was kinda going downhill. This is the second manga that really got me excited at first, but really letting me down at the end after the Again!! manga.

Based on the previous chapter, i see some twisted timeline on those film panel that could be an interesting chapter each if this manga continued. But in the end, this is all we've got. I'm just wishing that this mangaka can make another interesting project in the future.
 
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From what I understand, the axe came down really quick and the author had to wrap it up in only 2 chapters. I am glad that it seems they included the entire story they had planned, even if it had to happen in a 'montage' sequence.

"Why" was never really the point of the manga. It was the situation that informed the characters' actions and was set up as an arbitrary thing from the start. The only answer there could have been is "they're stuck until they find true love" which is so much lamer than what we got.

As for retaining their memories... that would be a miserable ending lol. They'd be like shellshocked POWs trying to reintegrate into society.
 
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Man I really liked the psychological aspects of this story, exploring what it would be like to be stuck in a time loop. Buuuuuuut the ending kinda sucks. Zero explanation, we don't even know exactly what they did to get out of it, and since they lost their memories... what was even the point of the loop? I guess author did the best they could with the axe, but... I wonder if they ever actually planned why the loop existed and how to break it?
 
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the last few chapter show how mcs becoming mad/crazy especially on the last page of the last chapter, you can see them trying everything like double unalive, drugs, some raunchy stuff heck a panel show his sister doing the deed. I dont think they broke the loop, they just decide to go insane wholetogether doing whatever they want without really caring about it until eventually the loop was broken by itself.

some people said this manga flop and it did but I really like the author way of telling how timeloop can make someone insane
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