The Moon on a Rainy Night - Ch. 12 - Remorse

[Lilisionnach]

Thanks for the chapter! I’m also curious what sparked the fight. Next chapter will be illuminating

 

[LittleSisterLover]

I thinks this route is fairly realistic. How is anyone but the MC supposed to know that its just feelings of love and not something like Ayano's situation. How can the people closest to Kanon react any differently. Ayano is clearly someone important to Kanons past. How could they gloss over that? Past deeply rooted trauma just to get to the happy fluffy time you seem to want? And stereotypical immaturity? They are TEENAGERS who are each dealing with some shit. How else are they going to act?

That's exactly it, isn't it? Saki knows. None of her hesitation has been related to Kanon's disability, every moment of her romantic fear has been graphically displayed as a flashback to her own past, which was in no way alluded to till it came out of left field as soon as the manga reached a romantic tone. It's not as though it isn't a realistic possibility, it's that rather than exploring the theme of the setting or even utilizing both main characters, the story is being dragged through the mud of the "oh no I'm gay" trope which was pulled out of the magician's hat as a matter of convenient conflict, discounting the value of Kanon as a character. Above all, it feels forced and completely inorganic.

 

[Kamui]

the story is being dragged through the mud of the "oh no I'm gay" trope

This is absolutely wrong. Saki's character was always aware of her own sexuality. The issue here is that she feels guilty about her feelings. It wasn't out of nowhere because since the beginning, for example, it was all but stated that she liked her former teacher more than she ever cared about the piano. Saki feels her position as Kanon's BFF is not really true because she's in love with her. Which is silly, but that's teenagers for you.

 

[210astat]

Good like always. Thank you for the chapter!

 

[Suben]

A story surrounding a deaf character needs to have focus on the struggles experienced by people who live or spend time with people with disabilities.

I'll actually say that I feel like Kanon's deafness kind of feels half-assed at times in. There's way too many loopholes inserted into the story (she can hear fine enough out of her right ear, she can read lips perfectly, she has this special room built for her that amplifies all the noise) that basically mean all of her interactions with everyone are normal 99% of the time except for the 1% of the where her being deaf is needed to set up a plot point, then the loophole is closed for a few minutes until the plot point/drama has been set up and it can be safely reopened.

Like the two chapters before this one where it's all done for the purpose of setting up a heart-pounding sleepover and for Kanon to be snuggled really close to Saki in bed to make for an awkward situation for Saki. Kanon is "deaf" until something needs to be set up, then she's Deaf, then it's set up and she's "deaf" again.

Honestly I find Kanon and the idea of Saki having a relationship with her the least interesting part of the story. Saki's issues with her sexuality stemming from the way that it's affected her past relationships and how she's worried it's going to affect her current ones are more interesting.

 

[owelerie]

Here the thing, I almost got tired with this Yuri, but, I see the world didn't just spin arround the heroine. That's good and I love saki melancholy feeling, at this point, I don't even care if this shit have bad ending, I just want to see more and more saki past traumas, and wtf just happen with her and her mom.

 

[Azerty2000ish]

It's easy to see the number of people who have no attention span and can't even read correctly from the number of people who disliked this chapter. You don't have to agree with what she's saying, but what she went through is what some people sadly face IRL

 

[yungpobo]

Thanks so much for the translation. I'm really enjoying this story

 

[Ebial]

Honestly, as someone in a similar position, it's understandable. When someone relies on you too much, it becomes burdensome. I've had falling out with friends because of that. The healthy way is to make sure you set some boundaries. But well, in Kanon and Saki's situation, both have them... or well, Kanon learnt from fking up her relationship with Ayano, and Saki's just so down bad that she wouldn't mind it if Kanon became part of her body lol.