The Moon on a Rainy Night - Vol. 8 Ch. 31 - Introspection

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So this has to be a "poor translation" thing, but looking up to someone does not in any way correlate to feelings of the heart in english.

looking up to someone is purely an idealization of the mind, like you logically think of someone as a role model or a goal in a logical outcome.

Heart = romance for feelings in english, the heart and romance are the english version of Eros. Pragma is the "looking up to someone", and most people look up to a parent or authority during development
 
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INCREDIBLE denial from Kanon after Miura-sensei calls her out, truly learning to gay panic just like Saki; love her face in the bottom right of page 12

Honestly I really loved this chapter, we haven't really seen Kanon's perspective as deeply as this before and it's definitely interesting to see that she really does care for Saki, even if she is very in denial about loving Saki
'I feel like I can reach her so it's not like I've fallen for her'

I do feel like Kanon's going to have a bit of a moment when Saki gets to see Umehara-sensei again, but I hope for her it'll be what makes her realise she loves Saki as opposed to just 'looking up to her'
 
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Like trying to grow plants in rock salt.

edit: useless.
 
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I think this actually makes a lot of sense for Kanon to be struggling so much with, because she's mostly just been considering socializing and communicating with other people through the lens of her disability, she hasn't really had a chance to interrogate her own feelings and everything else thats not directly related to her hearing issues.

Meanwhile Saki is like the inverse and has been hyper aware of her own sexuality and how that's shaping her relationships past and present with different people, and so now she's spent a lot of the manga learning how to consider how disabilities also shape relationships and communication.

So really they're both starting at opposite ends and working towards meeting each other in the middle where they can both understand and be understood by one another.
 

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