Otona ni Narenai Bokura wa - Ch. 27 - Tuesday

[Sheza]

Not sure why this is rated so high. Started strong but fizzled near the middle and a super lackluster ending.

Thanks for the TL.

i think you just answered your own question there

 

[Zhyren]

I liked it.
I wonder what the symbolism for the loop boiling down meant. Could take it as everyone who has "love at first sight" moment was actually stuck in a endless loop where their existence eventually condensed into just that connection. But I love to overthink. Too bad it didn't get a longer run, seeing how they acted in that snipped seemed interesting.

I feel it's so common to have mangas with interesting overall concepts that get progressively less interesting as they go on and either characters carry them or they get axed. Something to do with how the industry runs and decides what gets published I'm sure.

 

[Sheza]

Yeah I think that too. But still... it's still super rushed and I cant say it was very well done

I mean what do you expect from an axed manga?

 

[Kushikime]

Thanks for the chapters and the work. I really enjoyed this. It’s no masterpiece but I like that they touched on the mental strain of things and weren’t afraid to be dark. I like the ending as well.

 

[malagigi_encantatore]

Actually this felt really good to me so I gotta assume y’all are just Philistines

 

[Lewd_Beast]

Let me address a few of the common points made above...
Yes the end falls flat, but if you're the artist and you get told the gig is up, you can go one of two ways and either make it the best thing in the world ever, for which you'd need masses of mental strength, or you just rush it and get it off your plate as it breaks your heart existing in the ruins of your life. I don't blame the artist for taking route B, and I hope they have other ideas, but if I'm honest, while it was a good story, the art was woeful and the story would have to be good to make me read anything else.
Looking at the filmstrip under zoom, the last time we see Mashiro is her sucking him off outside the toilet block, then he is eating out a girl with long black hair, then necking a brunette with glasses. Then the next frame is someone raising a knife, which looks more like he is killing someone, rather than killing himself. Then yes there is a MFF threesome with two black haired girls, all intermixed with frames of his being by himself. So no explanation, no resolution.
I think the last chapter was probably how it was always planned, but yeah, we are missing any reason for the loop ending. it is a good ending, but we just don't know how we got there, which leaves us unsatisfied... Is the artist in socials? Have they said anything there?

 

[MewOne]

Huh . . . So . . . They don't remember anything from the loop? I feel disconnected that they felt somewhat blissful when they meet each other in this chapter. Since they broke up or went out of the rail in the relationship as shown in with the film reel, I figure they would have some bitterness when they met here. Even if they forgot, this chapter still showed they remember the feelings.

Oh well it is what it is. Thank you as always for the sl!

 

[Lewd_Beast]

Does the last couple of pages of Chapter 19.2 foreshadow this?

 

[shinshom]

This to me seems similar to Endless Eight with a Romantic Twist.

but at least we know why endless eight ended.... here we just gotta guess .

 

[So-chan]

Retarded ending that explains nothing and brings no real closure other than "they had seggs and now they are free somehow, have a good day". Sasuga author-san, very cool. Maybe stop writing?

 

[zHIST]

My interpretation that no, them fucking didn't stop the loop. It seems the loop has a limit, say 100 years, maybe more. Since she began looping earlier she also got out of the loop sooner, so that would explain why Aoi is alone at the end of the previous chapter. It also seems like when the loop ends you lose your memories of it, but not the feelings. Happy end basically.

Judging by the comments people are utterly incapable of interpreting open(ish) endings. Like do you need your food chewed for you as well? Literally the point is, they don't know how to get out of the loop, it just ended at some point.

 

[RHen]

I need a fucking full page of author's interview of what the fuck is happening, why and how the fuck did they break through the loop

 

[weshwg]

Okay, so I'ma throw my hat into the ring as to why it ended this way.

My interpretation is that they didn't break out the loop due to sex, but moreso by completely accepting each other. They accepted each other's love, lust, pain, and joy. With that, they weren't in the loop anymore, But, because they were taken out the loop, they lost all of those memories. Of course, I could be completely wrong but that's just how I interpreted it.

I will say I am still confused on a few plot points, but I suppose some answers aren't meant to be revealed.

I would agree with you if it wasnt for the fact that the last page of chapter 26 u see him eventually not being with her anymore and having sex with other women which rly sucks. So to me this last chapter was basically rushed, a dry conclusion. Basically was a "one random day the loop ended" kinda thing where there was no real reason for it to end it just did, which is fine i just wish i could see more of what happened after the sex scene.

 

[lolfacesayshi]

Let's see if anyone agrees with me since I've been sitting in his ending since the raws came out.

First of all, sex didn't break the loop. The chick went mental because of the loop killing herself over and over and he just fucked her to get her back to normal.

This works for a while and they keep fucking. Eventually she leaves him and goes back to killing herself

He tries to forget her fucking a bunch of chicks but he's always alone now in the loop. He never likes everyone as much they are just fuck things but he's always watching the fireworks alone juxtaposed to him watching the fireworks with the main girl.

Eventually it just breaks for no stated reason

Wish we actually got all of this (yes, even if it takes a thousand chapters). To actually see them grow so close, not out of desperation but out of true love, then have the relationship grow stale, become bitter, and maybe eventually over the gazillion days they gravitate back to each other or something.

I guess it's all inconsequential how they broke it, if it broke at all. Maybe the Alpha timeline guys are still looping forever, and those Beta timeline guys are slowly being influenced by the mass of emotions that links these two together.

 

[muttarpaneer]

Ill take it.

 

[mgRdr]

Should've released the chapter exactly one month ago, on the 3rd of February

 

[Bananawithaknife]

Honestly, I think an open ended answer was the right choice for the ending. However, the emotional resolution needed to be fleshed out a lot more. And I do agree that a glimpe or mention of how the two was like before they entered the loop would help a lot.

We didn't need a full on backstory for either of the two. We just needed to at least to be told hints of what they were like, especially emotionally. As is, the journey that the two of them took is very vague. The Axe really undercut the meaning of the story.

I still really like this story though, It really felt like the author really wanted to tell more but the axe completely fucked up his plan and this was the best thing he can do about it, but what he did manage to tell was really good.

Sadly stories like these depends on the climax and you can tell that the author was basically told "you can only make another volume" at the end of Vol.2. Hope the next story pans out better.

 

[willz8]

Sad that this finished/got axed but enjoyed the ride.

 

[Mithgol]

Like I have already said once in a comment under another translation,

My headcanon interpretation of this chapter is that the main characters of the previous chapters have never escaped the loop and eventually perished… and that here we see their “parallel world” copies who have never been looping (and, instead of it, followed the natural flow of time and continued living as usual to the next day) but who have been supernatually influenced by the integral sum of infinitesimal influences incoming from the infinite number of parallel worlds (from the loops) and thus inherited the feelings of their parallel selves.

It is relatively easy to find the analogy of this trope in the Reading Steiner effect in “Steins;Gate” (where, for example, such influences across world boundaries eventually allowed the happy ojou-sama Akiha Rumiho to access the memories of her parallel self — the orphan Faris NyanNyan).

 

[Septazia]

Is not fair, it should have been given more chapters, or the Editor should have told him to setup the ending earlier, I get the idea of them losing the memories but the feelings somehow still being there for their sanity, but the journey should have been better.