The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses - Vol. 6 Ch. 68

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Also the sentence "I don't want Mie-san to become a memory" remind me of this author's other work with a saying "I love u, ***-san. But going forward, I'm fine with this feeling becomes a memory. I loved you." and the latter hits like a truck. I think I have to re read that chapter.

Huh... I feel like I've seen a line like that before. But the source I thought it came from, I just glanced back through the only parts that should have had a line like that, and didn't see it. For clarity, it was a work written by a very different author, so couldn't be the same one you're talking about.

Maybe it's a common sentiment for 'losing heroines' of strong emotional strength, though, so that's why I thought it showed up in the manga I was thinking of- it was the one I read just before this one. It was a very hectic, wild rollercoaster of a story full of tear-jerking moments, full of some very well-realized characters. There were many female characters admiring one male lead, but there were only two that he had strong feelings for at any point during the story (edit: and the setup was such that it wasn't really 'two-timing', I'd say, because one was like an arranged relationship, of a sort, that disrupted a long-time crush that was the other), so it felt more like a really long love triangle story with additional 'clingers' so to speak? I dunno if there's a better way to describe the additional 'admirers'.

I realize this sort of thing is generally classified as 'harem' (and certainly carries the tag), but it just felt like something else because of the setup, where only two of the girls are more present in the male lead's thoughts and feelings for one reason or another. And because most of the characters felt more like real people, it was emotional to watch the 'admirers' each get rejected, or reject their own feelings when realizing they would harm someone more important to them trying to pursue those feelings, when it rapidly approached the end. Like I said, it was a rollercoaster. An emotional rollercoaster. And one I'd ride again, some day.


But... I feel like I might have seen another story that might have had a similar sentiment to that. Maybe two. I know one was a more simple and straight romcom with one clear love interest (the manga was even named after her), but there was one girl who showed up having feelings for him, too, before the main couple confirmed their feelings, and she sort of distracted him for a bit, until he eventually realized he loved the title character more, and this other girl had to move on.

The other one was written by the same author as that last one I mentioned, but it was a much shorter, accelerated love story with a bittersweet ending, where they had to say goodbye because one of them had to give up their life so the other may have a second chance at it. I could imagine the one that survived saying something like that. But it does feel like a sentiment that might be more in line with feelings for someone that's still alive, so I don't know...

I'll note that the author of The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses has a number of original stories listed on their profile page here, but not all of them have the 'romance' tag. I may check them out at some point, when I work through enough of my backlog.


If any are curious of the manga I described in this post, I'll name them in order of when I mentioned here behind inline spoiler tags... Nisekoi: False Love, Suzuka, and Half & Half.