The Anemone Feels the Heat - Ch. 48 - Once Again

[WolfenLady]

4 chapters left until the ending

Looks like the last volume, indeed 😖😖

 

[Karretch]

Honestly, I think this wouldn't be as much of an issue if there wasn't a pressure to think of love as being for one person and one person only. It's natural to have feelings for multiple people, you don't have to forget one to justify feelings for another. And to be clear I'm not trying to say "polyamory solves everything", what I'm saying is that you can't choose who you fall for and you can't choose to fall for multiple people at the same time. Relationships are commitments with rules, sometimes the ruleset is singular pairing, but love is not bound by societal rules. It's ok. So long as you don't hurt your SO it's ok.

 

[anim8tur]

IT'S ENDING????? NO!!!!!!! Why? Is it because that new girl was super annoying? Or is the author out of steam? I'm gonna miss these gaybies!!!!! Gosh... before an anime was made??? I needed this to happen before the end. I hope the author has another GL in the works! Love their art!

 

[Colonel-Picquart]

So Uda is going to get her girl!! I
So proud of her she's spent the series pushing everyone to be their best selves so I'm really happy that the person she likes realises her best self is with Uda!

 

[Kollie]

9 volumes is an incredible run, especially when our main couple got together so early into it, but all things eventually come to an end

 

[Alcove]

Honestly, I think this wouldn't be as much of an issue if there wasn't a pressure to think of love as being for one person and one person only. It's natural to have feelings for multiple people, you don't have to forget one to justify feelings for another. And to be clear I'm not trying to say "polyamory solves everything", what I'm saying is that you can't choose who you fall for and you can't choose to fall for multiple people at the same time. Relationships are commitments with rules, sometimes the ruleset is singular pairing, but love is not bound by societal rules. It's ok. So long as you don't hurt your SO it's ok.

Ooh! Ok, I’ve got a reason to soak my mind on this topic for once! I agree with you, i don’t think love is a single street, or even a street at all. It’s more like an ant hill, you meet, fall in love with, and then leave people all the time, and the depths of those tunnels, or those feelings, vary from person to person. Just because you break up with someone doesn’t mean that you can’t love them anymore, personally i believe that “moving on” isn’t when you stop loving someone, but that you still love someone even if you know you can’t be together. Again, it’s like an ant hill, the branching tunnels are your relationships with others, the deepest ones being love, while the shallower are friends (generally), but it would take more effort to fill in that tunnel again before moving on, then it would be to accept that that tunnel is there, but it’s time to move on past it.

I don’t know if i worded this well, but that’s my thoughts on the matter.

 

[Karretch]

Ooh! Ok, I’ve got a reason to soak my mind on this topic for once! I agree with you, i don’t think love is a single street, or even a street at all. It’s more like an ant hill, you meet, fall in love with, and then leave people all the time, and the depths of those tunnels, or those feelings, vary from person to person. Just because you break up with someone doesn’t mean that you can’t love them anymore, personally i believe that “moving on” isn’t when you stop loving someone, but that you still love someone even if you know you can’t be together. Again, it’s like an ant hill, the branching tunnels are your relationships with others, the deepest ones being love, while the shallower are friends (generally), but it would take more effort to fill in that tunnel again before moving on, then it would be to accept that that tunnel is there, but it’s time to move on past it.

I don’t know if i worded this well, but that’s my thoughts on the matter.

I don't quite agree with the analogy, but yes. People with dead spouses, they still will always love that dead spouse yet remarry because they love someone new. Same with failed romances.

 

[lilyloverxoxo]

man, the news about this series ending in 4 chapters hit so unimaginably hard. I‘ve been cheering these girls on since chapter 1 and seeing them go is painful. Looking forward to more of Sakuragi’s work in the future tho!!

 

[_LOOP_]

Ooh! Ok, I’ve got a reason to soak my mind on this topic for once! I agree with you, i don’t think love is a single street, or even a street at all. It’s more like an ant hill, you meet, fall in love with, and then leave people all the time, and the depths of those tunnels, or those feelings, vary from person to person. Just because you break up with someone doesn’t mean that you can’t love them anymore, personally i believe that “moving on” isn’t when you stop loving someone, but that you still love someone even if you know you can’t be together. Again, it’s like an ant hill, the branching tunnels are your relationships with others, the deepest ones being love, while the shallower are friends (generally), but it would take more effort to fill in that tunnel again before moving on, then it would be to accept that that tunnel is there, but it’s time to move on past it.

I don’t know if i worded this well, but that’s my thoughts on the matter.

I find this idea and analogy pretty interesting, I think it'd be worth exploring more in depth. Particularly, I kinda like your idea of "moving on" as leaving an old tunnel as it is while using other tunnels. Filling the tunnel would be, to me, repressing feelings that exist and lying to yourself because in retrospective, it'd have been more convenient if the tunnel had never existed at all. But that doesn't sound very productive, peaceful nor lasting to me. Accepting that the tunnel exists, but not maintaining it by not using it, might be an interesting solution. Maybe the old tunnel will sort of collapsing in on itself over time as a new one is strengthened. I don't want to conclude that it's a better solution, but I think it's worth thinking about.
Hmm, another thought: If you keep every tunnel untouched, at the end of your days, you'd have a picture of how much you've loved during your life. Even if you've only loved (romantically) one person, that one tunnel would be massive. Wouldn't filling tunnels up every time you start a new one equal to denying other instances where you've felt love in your life? In the overall picture, that might feel a bit hollow. Of course, you could argue that a single, deeper (or wider in my analogy, since I see tunnels as becoming larger over time) tunnel is more valuable than a thousand thinner or abandoned tunnels. Anyways, I don't know.

 

[Mmat97]

We got 3 main couples within 48 chapters meanwhile its takes almost 200 chapters for harem protagonist to even confess to a girl.

Seriously need this to be an anime...

 

[Totemslap]

I just found myself thinking that this series won't have much in the way of loose ends once this ship sails. Honestly, it's pretty remarkably long-running for a yuri manga as well. So I'm not at all surprised to see that it's ending soon. It's a little bittersweet - I've really become endeared to these characters and their relationships. And it's always a shame to see a series with such spectacular art reach its conclusion.

That being said, I expect to see Mashiro and Nagisa in wedding dresses. Don't fuck me on this, Sakuragi. I don't ask for much, so please give me a wedding scene.

 

[beThereShortly]

Fluff is back on the menu boys!

 

[Sunspawn]

We got 3 main couples within 48 chapters meanwhile its takes almost 200 chapters for harem protagonist to even confess to a girl.

Seriously need this to be an anime...

Mostly because harem authors have a fair degree of confidence they will be able to stay published for 200+ chapters and know that edging their readers will get them more moneh than resolving things in good order.

Niche authors rarely have that safety blanket, so they resolve their plots in a reasonable amount of chapters.

That's also why I don't expect this to ever get an adaptation.

 

[Mmat97]

Mostly because harem authors have a fair degree of confidence they will be able to stay published for 200+ chapters and know that edging their readers will get them more moneh than resolving things in good order.

Niche authors rarely have that safety blanket, so they resolve their plots in a reasonable amount of chapters.

That's also why I don't expect this to ever get an adaptation.

That explains why there is still no progress in Rent a Girlfriend

 

[Mr.Van]

The manga had to come to an end... The main couple was what made me love this manga but their actual involvement in the story was quite limited, beyond the initial arc and well... this latest kouhai melodrama arc. I have seen many people like the side couples, and as much as they are nice to read as yuri material, their impact was not nearly the same as the main couple. Time to end things as the manga started, hopefully on a fluffy note, with more (positive) focus on Nagisa and Mashiro.

 

[ccyq]

My theory is that Uda sees Riri happily in the cafe and thinks that she can't make Riri happy even if she wants to. Then Riri shows her that she's wrong and it's a happy ending.