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The one where the series gets cancelled and has to wrap everything up in a few chapters.
Otona ni Narenai Bokura wa - Ch. 27 - Tuesday
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but he's literally banging her and watching the fireworks and offing with mashiro through many of them until she stops showing
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only the ones without her in them are burning up(unless the one with the bj outside the toilets is her, it's hard to tell but I think that girl has a longer ponytail?)
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I dont think it's this. At least its not what's implied in chapter 26. They drifted apart and he was going nuts alone
Chapter 25 and 26 were SO depressing that I feel the 27 out of nowhere...
Creampie of Haruzi SuzumiyaIf you pay attention to the pages after they doink it you see them do a lot of stuff after,, so my interpretation is that so much time passed after the last fully developed loops that they eventually forgot each other, that they didn't forget about the loop but rather spent so much time in it they became almost braindead. which is why they're not phased when it finally ends
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Yes I agree with this. They spend eternity in the loop that it burns out their memory of each other. Even the reel shows he's doing many other girls including 3P after she suddenly disappear on firework reel.
And it kind of scary to think that maybe it's not only the 2 of them that are trapped in the loop just on different day/time/place since at the end they forget about everything.
the answer was a complete mental breakdown!
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Feels like if we didn't spend so much time fucking around in the other chapters, these two past chapters would've meant something. The idea that they fall in love and slowly drift apart becoming more and more depraved is actualy very interesting, pushing away the only person that shares the time loop with you because both lost their minds and having them eventualy reconnect and end the loop.
All of this we got from one single panel, if the author knew this niche manga wouldn't go very far i would've rather he actualy told the story he wanted to tell all along instead of whatever is we got
All of this we got from one single panel, if the author knew this niche manga wouldn't go very far i would've rather he actualy told the story he wanted to tell all along instead of whatever is we got
In Groundhog day we don't know why Phil was targeted, and is not important, magical realism often has this thing where is not important WHY but HOW, you introduce a foreign magical object, HOW does this affect that environment?
What lacks in this ending is protagonists evolving from their situation.
Phil owns the ending in Groundhog day, he leaves it by transforming into a selfless good person, he is also very lucky to meet someone who can see through his change, that is a 1 in a million girl.
In Palm Spring, the protagonist learns how the "bug" in her reality works, how to counter the timeloop.
Same thing with Happy Death Day to U and Edge of Tomorrow.............somehow the movie "Free guy" is considered a Time Loop, I don't really, but if you do, he awakens he breaks the loop he was stuck in.
So the modus operandi usually is the protagonist learning the rules of the game they are stuck in and breaking them, otherwise this might have been a deus ex machina.
EDIT: In Edge of Tomorrow, only one character remembers, I think you can have them lose their memory, similar to how Futurama first "ended" with Fry and Leela stuck in time and then becoming young again, because you established how they are perfect together and will be fine even if it was the end of the world and they were all alone.
But is a hard sell.
Still want to believe Author could have done it if given more time, but eh...gotta see his next work, hopefully it still be something that dares to be different.
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The description of the story on the Japanese page is:
This is a silly and never-ending story about how we kill time, repeating July 7th. A time-loop love story about two high school students trapped in "eternal youth"!
I don't think the author thought about how the loop started or how it ended he just wanted to write two characters living the same day in different ways.
This is a silly and never-ending story about how we kill time, repeating July 7th. A time-loop love story about two high school students trapped in "eternal youth"!
I don't think the author thought about how the loop started or how it ended he just wanted to write two characters living the same day in different ways.
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I wish someone smarter and more articulate than me could talk about the implication of this ending to the manga's supposed themes. But I'm going to try.
At the beginning there was a big, literally written correspondence between "youth" and being "trapped" in the timeloop. As if even without the timeloop, they were already living their youths aimlessly. We took a pretty long time to see the reason for her becoming an idol, and her answer suggests that this was just because she was searching for something. And him from the very get go was unwilling to "become an adult".
There are tons of anime/manga about coming-of-age in which characters struggle a lot to enter the japanese workforce (and honestly, who wouldn't). But maybe this one is more about the responsibilities x "dangerous freedom" aspect of adult life? What I mean is that he is very afraid of how corruptible "humans" are (projecting how he is, or at least he believes himself to be), and crossing into adulthood would mean he gains access to a plethora of bad shit that can fuck you up if you're just in an hedonistic pursuit.
So he tries to avoid it. Not to avoid working, not to avoid the responsibilities, but to avoid the corruptible pleasures.
Perhaps this is a twist in a way? It's usually how someone, who has been living for pleasure their whole lives, have to learn to grow and be disciplined, respectul and so on. In this case, he already seems plenty functional and capable for working. For him, the test is how to resist the temptation, not to give in. In a sense, maybe those pleasures are more tempting BECAUSE of how reserved he has lived his life until now.
So we either assume that the timeloop is just an uncaring, random occurrence, in which I say based - we don't need an explanation, we're just here for the vibes!
Or in this line of thought, this is a sort of divine/meta intervention, or internal mental struggle, or anything unexplainable which aims to make them better prepared to deal with "corruptible pleasures" in the adult life. Since they both were already ready for the responsibilities, their hell needed to be the other side of adult life.
Now, do they seem more mature or grown after all of this? idk. Their first action together is to skip school. This could just be a fun callback to how they spent all their days, or maybe how they will manage to lead more moderate lives from now on.
At the beginning there was a big, literally written correspondence between "youth" and being "trapped" in the timeloop. As if even without the timeloop, they were already living their youths aimlessly. We took a pretty long time to see the reason for her becoming an idol, and her answer suggests that this was just because she was searching for something. And him from the very get go was unwilling to "become an adult".
There are tons of anime/manga about coming-of-age in which characters struggle a lot to enter the japanese workforce (and honestly, who wouldn't). But maybe this one is more about the responsibilities x "dangerous freedom" aspect of adult life? What I mean is that he is very afraid of how corruptible "humans" are (projecting how he is, or at least he believes himself to be), and crossing into adulthood would mean he gains access to a plethora of bad shit that can fuck you up if you're just in an hedonistic pursuit.
So he tries to avoid it. Not to avoid working, not to avoid the responsibilities, but to avoid the corruptible pleasures.
Perhaps this is a twist in a way? It's usually how someone, who has been living for pleasure their whole lives, have to learn to grow and be disciplined, respectul and so on. In this case, he already seems plenty functional and capable for working. For him, the test is how to resist the temptation, not to give in. In a sense, maybe those pleasures are more tempting BECAUSE of how reserved he has lived his life until now.
So we either assume that the timeloop is just an uncaring, random occurrence, in which I say based - we don't need an explanation, we're just here for the vibes!
Or in this line of thought, this is a sort of divine/meta intervention, or internal mental struggle, or anything unexplainable which aims to make them better prepared to deal with "corruptible pleasures" in the adult life. Since they both were already ready for the responsibilities, their hell needed to be the other side of adult life.
Now, do they seem more mature or grown after all of this? idk. Their first action together is to skip school. This could just be a fun callback to how they spent all their days, or maybe how they will manage to lead more moderate lives from now on.
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Idk definitely feels a little rushed but I mean its kinda been pointed out for a while by the book that, that was gonna be climax of the book so can't really complain. would have been nice to just ignore the sex angle and had a longer book.
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I liked this ending, I'd have liked a few more chapters before it, but it was a good ending. I guess people are mad because there was no explanation for the time loop, but if you think about it there really isn't an explanation for the time loop in Groundhog Day either.
My headcanon explanation is simply that by chance they both got caught in a bizarre spacetime continuum anomaly, Star Trek style. The time loop might have occurred naturally in space and then drifted towards earth or it might have been created by someone/something either accidentally or on purpose, no matter it's origin it's just been drifting aimlessly and sometimes people get caught in it.
But here is the thing the loop is not stationary, it's moving. Think about it, it caught Ichinose first and then it caught Nonaka, in fact it probably caught a lot more people inside than just the 2 of them, they can notice the loop because they were probably closer to the center of the anomaly, it's like the eye of a hurricane, so it makes me think it's moving.
Because it's moving, the time loop was always going to eventually end, or rather let go of them. In fact that might explain them drifting apart in the film reel sequence in Chapter 26. They didn't drift apart, Ichinose was released first, she was first one in so she was the first one out. But of course by then both had already gone completely crazy, so when Nonaka was left alone inside the loop he didn't notice that Ichinose had actually reverted to her normal pre-loop July 7th self, it was just another crazy behavior to him. The nature of the loop is that tomorrow never comes, so when Nonaka was let go he the just joined Ichinose in the time moving forward world.
Come to think, it could even be the same time loop that caught Phil Connors in 1993, it just took 31 years to reach Japan.
My headcanon explanation is simply that by chance they both got caught in a bizarre spacetime continuum anomaly, Star Trek style. The time loop might have occurred naturally in space and then drifted towards earth or it might have been created by someone/something either accidentally or on purpose, no matter it's origin it's just been drifting aimlessly and sometimes people get caught in it.
But here is the thing the loop is not stationary, it's moving. Think about it, it caught Ichinose first and then it caught Nonaka, in fact it probably caught a lot more people inside than just the 2 of them, they can notice the loop because they were probably closer to the center of the anomaly, it's like the eye of a hurricane, so it makes me think it's moving.
Because it's moving, the time loop was always going to eventually end, or rather let go of them. In fact that might explain them drifting apart in the film reel sequence in Chapter 26. They didn't drift apart, Ichinose was released first, she was first one in so she was the first one out. But of course by then both had already gone completely crazy, so when Nonaka was left alone inside the loop he didn't notice that Ichinose had actually reverted to her normal pre-loop July 7th self, it was just another crazy behavior to him. The nature of the loop is that tomorrow never comes, so when Nonaka was let go he the just joined Ichinose in the time moving forward world.
Come to think, it could even be the same time loop that caught Phil Connors in 1993, it just took 31 years to reach Japan.
And this is probably a big reason why it got axed. Publisher probably wanted the mystery to push the plot and instead we got slice of life timeloop.
Like there were hints dropped about her remembering college, and we got no answers to anything. Not the why, the when, or the how.
