Tsuma, Shougakusei ni Naru. - Vol. 10 Ch. 74

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We're almost 30 chapters from the end but I kind of bet this doesn't get better. Or if it does it doesn't stay that way. It feels like the ending they'd work towards is Takae getting to say goodbye to her family, pushing her husband to move on, and then fading away so Marika can have a proper childhood life and a repaired relationship with her mom. The husband can maybe give a second thought to finding someone else and try again with the cute co-worker girl, and Mai gets to progress in her relationship too.

Because as sad as it is that Takae goes away, she's kind of holding everyone hostage by being present. The original Marika who didn't know anything of being Takae has been dormant for over a year, her husband is clinging to the idea that if he waits like 8-10 years he can marry a young girl who then has to watch him die while she's still in her 50s/60s, and she really can't have a full relationship with either her current mom (Because she's not a kid and remembers being a mom herself) or her former family (Because Mai can't introduce the little girl she hangs around with all the time as her mother). Marika's mom also has picked herself up and gotten her life together but her "reward" is that she's basically lost the daughter she knew while Marika's personality is subsumed by Takae.

It's bittersweet but it's exactly the kind of bittersweet ending that stories like this love because it gives Takae's return to existence meaning before leaving things better than she found them.
 
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Ngl, I was one week away from retirement...:nyoron:
Anyone, you or the other translator, who cares enough about the series to continue it is absolutely a champion in my book.
You're speaking at LEAST 3 languages. Anyone who says what you're doing is not good enough is a creep.
 
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We saved the TL from the retirement flag, we're heroes!
 
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We're almost 30 chapters from the end but I kind of bet this doesn't get better. Or if it does it doesn't stay that way. It feels like the ending they'd work towards is Takae getting to say goodbye to her family, pushing her husband to move on, and then fading away so Marika can have a proper childhood life and a repaired relationship with her mom. The husband can maybe give a second thought to finding someone else and try again with the cute co-worker girl, and Mai gets to progress in her relationship too.

Because as sad as it is that Takae goes away, she's kind of holding everyone hostage by being present. The original Marika who didn't know anything of being Takae has been dormant for over a year, her husband is clinging to the idea that if he waits like 8-10 years he can marry a young girl who then has to watch him die while she's still in her 50s/60s, and she really can't have a full relationship with either her current mom (Because she's not a kid and remembers being a mom herself) or her former family (Because Mai can't introduce the little girl she hangs around with all the time as her mother). Marika's mom also has picked herself up and gotten her life together but her "reward" is that she's basically lost the daughter she knew while Marika's personality is subsumed by Takae.

It's bittersweet but it's exactly the kind of bittersweet ending that stories like this love because it gives Takae's return to existence meaning before leaving things better than she found them.
Yeah this is for the best. Marika's real family gets their daughter back, dad wont be branded a creep for introducing a little girl as his wife and can move on, daughter can move on with her life too.
 
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Man that's horrifying from this kid's point of view. I mean essentially she was in a outer body/coma like state having 0 idea what happened the last year and the only thing she knows when she finally woke up is that her mom is a lot nicer to her but the downside is her friends now wondering why she's acting weird.This kid is experiencing a identity crisis while still being in elementary school.

Also if we wanna get even darker if the author wanted to they could have the wife and the kids switch consciousness once every year.That would be terrifying Just This girl looking at the calendar of the day She regained and/or lost her consciousness and close her eye once and then open again to see that she's in a different place again having 0 ideas on what happened
 
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Imo, this is a good direction for the story to develop. The original Marika is back in her body, and we get to explore how much the mom has learned from Takae.

It's hard for the guy and the daughter, but everyone has to move on, right? As hard as this situation is for everyone, this is one of the best ways for everyone to develop.
 
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Can you imagine if this shit actually happen after Marika and the dad marrying each other. Returning to your body as an adult and being married to some stranger
 
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damn never really thought about it but the consequence of confusing a child suddenly being time skipped into a future completely unaware of everything that happened in the year before could cause psychological damage if it were to ever happen again
 
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I think that Marika is the reincarnation of Takae, but normally a person don't remember their past life.
Because Marika was in a bad familiar situation and suffering, her personality trying to escape allowing the memories of her past life to surface. But now that things improved and she doesn't have a reason to hid anymore Marika's personality is back and Takae's memory went back to the depths of her soul.
 
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Man its so unfair for the little girl to have lost an entire year, ffs a year to a child like that is like a decade to an adult. Im so glad that Marikas mom is now amazing.
 

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