The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All - Ch. 149 - It's Cool, But..

[Hicleric]

Playing devil's advocate, but these are actually legitimate questions when it comes to selling music instead of just making it. Fertile grounds for Mitsuki to mature a bit more, especially of producer-girl comes back into the story.

 

[GreenOwlRanger]

"Oh no! A differing opinion! I can't deal with these I can't be in a band!"
Drama manga protagonist not-spiralling for the smallest thing challenge: IMPOSSIBLE.

 

[anideki]

"This part got great comments, let's remove it!"

 

[Gothic_Catalyst]

Thank you for the chapter.

 

[TanyaTheEvil]

Thanks for the chapter and translation

 

[maeribaeri]

To be fair, this is an entirely valid thing to have a discussion about. In the end, their visions for what kind of songs they want to make just don't quite overlap, and I think that's also pretty much it already. Of course sucks a bit for all of them, but well, can't really be helped.
They do seem like perfectly nice people, just maybe not the right band for Mitsuki if she can't arrange with this at all.

 

[DMBLaan99]

Hmm, am I the only one that noticed the wording of the comment on their video? It said "ONE of them doesn't match the vibe" but not SPECIFICALLY Mitsuki. So unless this was a subtle transition error, I'm putting my money on the scaling back Mistuki's role and/or her leaving, only for them to realize it wasn't her that comment was about. Then they come back to apologize, when she'll hopefully say "no".

 

[KnightCommander94]

Not so great yuri has been injected.

 

[YamiTheWitch]

manipulative ass bitches, mitsuki has terrible people luck, holy shit

 

[MagnaDrake]

Playing devil's advocate, but these are actually legitimate questions when it comes to selling music instead of just making it. Fertile grounds for Mitsuki to mature a bit more, especially of producer-girl comes back into the story.

Especially true for 2020s audience. Attention span is a premium currency. If you want to go big FAST, you gotta go viral, and if you want to go viral, you have to immediately hook a person in 15 seconds max. Long gone are the days of 2 minute intros with guitar solos, as amazing as they are.

The band members aren't strictly in the wrong, this is a real struggle current day musicians, especially guitarists, need to deal with.

 

[Martymowo]

Yep, I decided. I really didn't want this to happen, but as I said last week, the last few chapters have made me feel dissapointed more than excited. I might be done with weekly for a while. It's just not grabbing me post time-skip anymore.

Don't get me wrong, I do still love the series, but these post-timeskip choppy slice of life chapters are not landing for me.

I hope the series continues to do well and that the author can land a solid ending. Will probably have to binge it later.

 

[FionaWitch]

Hanging with dumb girls, you should bid farewell to them, better be a solo artist and do what you love than having a band with a feeling of insecurity because they were over shadowed, they will pull you down with them.

 

[yuri_enjoyers]

"It is going viral, so lets cut off the part that is going viral, so that people are forced to listen to the thing they don't want to hear!"

She is prime CEO material

Agreed

 

[rollerschuh]

honestlly - it's great it's cool, the manga has been experimental and freeform since day1, i think it's best if she takes the process wherever she enjoys it !! ( i mean the author, but also it mirrors the story obvi )

 

[justrowa]

I think Arai is shining light on the shait going on in the music industry rn because why the helly is everything dependent on social media views, songs are getting shorter and shorter and starting to lack meaning and feel. I hate that short form media has fried so many of our brains…

 

[Benw1980]

Author just doesnt want to end the series (which I would normally love since its annoying when it ends just as the MCs get together), but for some reason the author thinks the only way to continue it is by introducing band drama for Mitsuki and what looks like a love/cheating arc bs for Aya…

Cheating arc????
Did I miss something?
What chapter is there cheating?

 

[Benw1980]

Wouldnt be the first time an author does some bullshit like that

Yeah but there was some comments talking about it like it's a current arch not a possibility. If it goes ntr I'm out. This as been a wholesome and real love story I don't want to see that thrown out.

 

[Benw1980]

I would like to see it come back together instead of so much jumping around myself. I'm sticking with it for now, but am I the only one who thinks it's changed and not for the better?

 

[MelonManic]

Why? Y'all need an actual reason fucking bums? Why do you wanna make it shorter? What's you issue with guitar solos? SO I NEED TO SHOW UP AT YOUR HOU-

have day nice a yeah

 

[arcosapphire]

They had me in the first half. I was so happy that they defended Mitsuki and her style but the. To turn around and cut her guitar solo???

The impression I get is that the other girls aren't so much into music as that they personally want to be popular. So they needed someone with more music competency (Mitsuki) to get there.

And they're happy that she doesn't match their style, because then she won't compete with them for popularity. That's why she's good "the way she is".

However, when people start to notice that Mitsuki is the talented one in the band, that is suddenly a threat to the popularity of the other girls. So they want to prevent Mitsuki from standing out.

From this perspective, everything the other girls are doing is consistent with their actual goals. (It would also probably lead to their band failing, but again, that's not their real concern.) They're not even lying about anything, but they are certainly using Mitsuki and being manipulative.