Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsu no Ma ni ka Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken - Vol. 5 Ch. 18.1

[Narf]

From what I gather, it seems to be an older tradition that has faded in popularity in recent times - along with White Day in general.

Huh, interesting. So White Day is on the way out, at least kinda? Good riddance. Is valentines seeing a decline in popularity too, or is that one still unchanged?

 

[apstorm]

Such a weird thing for a girl to tell a guy to go on the offensive with the target right there.
Even though we know that she’d be ok with it, she’s directly told him the opposite.
He’s really threading the needle.

TBF, she hasn't said anything like that in nearly half a year at this point. As such, he's leaning hard on her not having directly changed her position as an excuse for not dealing with the actual difficulties he's not ready to confront yet.

Half a year? I thought they said they only started getting to know each other about two months before Christmas? And it's been about a month and a half since then to get nearly to Valentine's Day. I suppose about 3 to 4 months might count as 'nearly half a year', depending on one's definition of 'nearly'.

But still, you have a point- she hasn't explicitly contradicted her earlier statements, and just made exceptions for certain more recent moments, at the very least.


Also, I will admit that I liked that in the anime, when Chitose says the stuff about going on the offensive, there's a 'clink' sound as Mahiru apparently is shook-eth by what the other girl said, and had a 'Mahiru.exe has stopped working' moment. The manga here seems to just ignore that she'd overhear that stuff entirely and react. It also derails the conversation in the anime into talking about their relationship status, essentially, and prompts an internal monologue, things that don't happen here in the manga, and instead we get talk about how Amane could get more attention if he showed his face more at school and comparisons to Yuuta, which kind of feels moot when we already see that sort of stuff later in the chapter part, anyway, once at school.

I still love the presentation that the manga gives, but I dunno if I like the choice of what they decided to show of the first scene here, if the anime and manga are taking from two separate parts of the same conversation in the apartment in the LN.