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Seishun no After - Vol. 4 Ch. 27 - Flowers Blooming Before the Cherry Blossoms
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Firstly, it's a story about honesty.
Whole lot of bullshit would be avoided if any character open up, talk or don't fucking lie.
Secondly, the characters:
Sakura/Umeko - she had a tragic past, parents died and without proper development, was raised by harsh grandma who taught her being not reliable on others but completely scarring her into timidness/introvercy in the process.
She has fallen in love with Kurahashi, taking bullying as attention she craved, completely disregarding fact he truly didn't give a shit about anything.
Then came along Makoto, but her heart was already stolen and took his genuine interest as annoyance in her goal to steal Kurahashi away from Sawa.
Time Slip happened, Makoto grew out mostly out of his abandoning issues and found his true love Miiko. She still has interest in Kurahashi who's now 32, but slowly realised she fucked up with Makoto although still thinking his care and intentions were an irritation as she didn't experienced it before.
Time Slip forward, by living together with amnesiac Makoto she experienced all the hardship of a functional couple, finally falling in love with a person who she treated as an obstacle toward don't-give-a-shit Kurahashi. Unfortunately Makoto regain his memory, most of the trauma of waiting for her and finally finding his true love.
After Makoto reunited with Miiko, who despite Kurahashi's moronic opinion of not being attached to anything, waited for him all 16 years.
Time Slip into past after she went missing, Sakura pack her clothes (the big beret especially) and Time Slip into collage days taking personality as Umeko.
Due to seeing how Makoto truly loved Miiko and heartbroken it's not her, realising how her disappearing messed him up with abandoning issues she got to know from the diary, decided to make Makoto hate her so he can move on with Miiko in the future, not knowing it ignite his pain driven love to her.
Final Time Leap as Umeko/Sakura unfortunately most likely commited suicide under the cherry blossom tree after Umeko/Sakura pushed Makoto under the car knowing Sakura leaped to the rescue, completing the loop as "it's finally over", the students mentioned a knowin rumour...
Kurahashi - Fuck this guy. Although he is somewhat good, doesn't give a single fuck about his actions, for him things don't matter a slightest.
It's "all his fault", if he wouldn't accept Sakura confession in which he wasn't interested actually, as her disappearing (although concerned at first) didn't bother him at all, since he easily dropped an attempt to find her compared to what Makoto was doing continuously.
Miiko - I wholeheartedly admire her patience and sorry she got involved in all that bullshit, but her and Makoto finally reunited without nothing interrupting in the the future, hopefully Kurahashi that she works for doesn't get involved.
Lastly, it was very painful to read, sometimes it hit too much home, but it was a good story.
10/10 won't read again, I'm too emotionally drained.
Thank you very much for scanlation, without your work we wouldn't appreciate this fun but also very depressing story.
Whole lot of bullshit would be avoided if any character open up, talk or don't fucking lie.
Secondly, the characters:
Sakura/Umeko - she had a tragic past, parents died and without proper development, was raised by harsh grandma who taught her being not reliable on others but completely scarring her into timidness/introvercy in the process.
She has fallen in love with Kurahashi, taking bullying as attention she craved, completely disregarding fact he truly didn't give a shit about anything.
Then came along Makoto, but her heart was already stolen and took his genuine interest as annoyance in her goal to steal Kurahashi away from Sawa.
Time Slip happened, Makoto grew out mostly out of his abandoning issues and found his true love Miiko. She still has interest in Kurahashi who's now 32, but slowly realised she fucked up with Makoto although still thinking his care and intentions were an irritation as she didn't experienced it before.
Time Slip forward, by living together with amnesiac Makoto she experienced all the hardship of a functional couple, finally falling in love with a person who she treated as an obstacle toward don't-give-a-shit Kurahashi. Unfortunately Makoto regain his memory, most of the trauma of waiting for her and finally finding his true love.
After Makoto reunited with Miiko, who despite Kurahashi's moronic opinion of not being attached to anything, waited for him all 16 years.
Time Slip into past after she went missing, Sakura pack her clothes (the big beret especially) and Time Slip into collage days taking personality as Umeko.
Due to seeing how Makoto truly loved Miiko and heartbroken it's not her, realising how her disappearing messed him up with abandoning issues she got to know from the diary, decided to make Makoto hate her so he can move on with Miiko in the future, not knowing it ignite his pain driven love to her.
Final Time Leap as Umeko/Sakura unfortunately most likely commited suicide under the cherry blossom tree after Umeko/Sakura pushed Makoto under the car knowing Sakura leaped to the rescue, completing the loop as "it's finally over", the students mentioned a knowin rumour...
Kurahashi - Fuck this guy. Although he is somewhat good, doesn't give a single fuck about his actions, for him things don't matter a slightest.
It's "all his fault", if he wouldn't accept Sakura confession in which he wasn't interested actually, as her disappearing (although concerned at first) didn't bother him at all, since he easily dropped an attempt to find her compared to what Makoto was doing continuously.
Miiko - I wholeheartedly admire her patience and sorry she got involved in all that bullshit, but her and Makoto finally reunited without nothing interrupting in the the future, hopefully Kurahashi that she works for doesn't get involved.
Lastly, it was very painful to read, sometimes it hit too much home, but it was a good story.
10/10 won't read again, I'm too emotionally drained.
Thank you very much for scanlation, without your work we wouldn't appreciate this fun but also very depressing story.
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I don't want to invalidate other people's interpretations, but I'd like to point out some of the ones I read in this thread don't seem correct.
-> The "suicide by the sakura tree more than 30 years ago" story is clearly referring to Sakura's original disappearance (which happened 32 years ago). Not only was her disappearance already referred like so back in chapter 2, but there's a point being made that the people can't even get the tree species right. The tree blooms faster than other sakura trees because it's an ume tree, and the suicide was never a suicide to begin with.
-> Umeko is almost certainly our Sakura after the end. The story is a closed loop. Sakura, by the end of the series, still hasn't learned to time travel correctly. I think it's not unlikely to assume that upon learning more about time travel (and about how she can't actually change the past), she goes back to act like Umeko in the past half because she knows she already did that in the previous loop, and half because she needs/wants that closure anyways. If we consider that Umeko already knows everything that happens, her actions are not really evil. She's just going through the motions and upset that she can't change the outcome.
All in all this was an amazing read. I feel depressed but also satisfied by the ending. I just wish we got some info about what happened with Umeko after she and Makoto broke up, since that's the last we know of Sakura.
-> The "suicide by the sakura tree more than 30 years ago" story is clearly referring to Sakura's original disappearance (which happened 32 years ago). Not only was her disappearance already referred like so back in chapter 2, but there's a point being made that the people can't even get the tree species right. The tree blooms faster than other sakura trees because it's an ume tree, and the suicide was never a suicide to begin with.
-> Umeko is almost certainly our Sakura after the end. The story is a closed loop. Sakura, by the end of the series, still hasn't learned to time travel correctly. I think it's not unlikely to assume that upon learning more about time travel (and about how she can't actually change the past), she goes back to act like Umeko in the past half because she knows she already did that in the previous loop, and half because she needs/wants that closure anyways. If we consider that Umeko already knows everything that happens, her actions are not really evil. She's just going through the motions and upset that she can't change the outcome.
All in all this was an amazing read. I feel depressed but also satisfied by the ending. I just wish we got some info about what happened with Umeko after she and Makoto broke up, since that's the last we know of Sakura.
