Wakaba-san'chi no Aoi Koi - Ch. 27 - Letters

[abdullah17]

I still think this is ass. I don't care if they are in middle school, this trope is shit and I'm disappointed by this author. Doesn't mean I hate it, I KNOW that the upcoming chapters are gonna be peak but I thought I would read something perfect for once

 

[Kurshir]

maybe. But on the other side, it mean that Akira will get less screentime (aside the consuling time with the sisters).
I don't see the author start another romantic route for her because it's not the type of this manga to do stingy drama. Even long after this arc.

And the theme is "4 sister and their romantic life". So Akira will be out without a love interest.

I mean, it is not necessary without a love interest. So far we have 3 straightforward case of 3 sister that succeed. Having one of them failing to get together with her original crush, changing herself and moving on, discovering new things and having others love interest could work if the author can execute it well

 

[rezced]

I mean, it is not necessary without a love interest. So far we have 3 straightforward case of 3 sister that succeed. Having one of them failing to get together with her original crush, changing herself and moving on, discovering new things and having others love interest could work if the author can execute it well

I think It won't work like that in this manga.

For Akira, to exist outside the loop of romantic route, it will need to have slice of life chapters to see how she's doing, with a bit of plot for her to make it more interesting. Else it'll turn like a .5 chapter to see what's going on behind the scene or a 3 pages story twitter style.
Another problem you'll get two story in one : Akira on a side and the sister on the other side. It'll be difficult with the pace of the manga actually.
I fear it'll feel like a filler that'll slow down the other sisters story with their love interest.

 

[Drizzyrobrake1]

he also heard him call her (Akira) "just a friend" while talking to a cute girl, after hearing him deny to his other friends earlier in the day that he and Akira were going out.

So in her mind, those three things mean that he doesn't like her back, sees her only as a friend, would be flustered and rush to deny the possibility of them dating, and him talking to a cute girl means he must have someone else in his life to some capacity.

She definitely made a leap from "he doesn't like me back/sees me as a friend" to "he has a girlfriend", but they're also in middle school and that's not the best time of life to try and work through big feelings and thoughts like that if you're an earnest person (speaking from personal experience, but).

I kind of think the problem with that logic is if she was with friends she would say the same thing. Her sisters know she's likes someone but with how tsundere she was , her reaction would have been the same. With how self reflective she seemed to have gotten In surprised she didn't think that could be a possibility and try to clear up what she saw

 

[newtakn156]

Conversations help resolve misunderstandings? And it doesn't take over 10 chapters to have one? Who would've thought?

 

[UdenEmpati]

I kind of think the problem with that logic is if she was with friends she would say the same thing. Her sisters know she's likes someone but with how tsundere she was , her reaction would have been the same. With how self reflective she seemed to have gotten In surprised she didn't think that could be a possibility and try to clear up what she saw

Has she been self-reflective/self-aware the whole way through the narrative? Or is that something she has gained/honed since this time-skip glowup of hers once she thought she didn't have an actual shot with him?

I would have to go back and really read/analyze her parts of the story to this point, but depending on which is the truth, I think answers the question as to why she didn't suspect that she misunderstood.

*and, if she had become self-reflective and confident after the fact, then I don't see any reason for her to go back and reassess those moments.

She had let go of that potential relationship, and spent weeks working on herself and finding happiness just in being herself, and not for anyone else. To suddenly go "but what if I was wrong?" just opens the door to start ruminating on the past and risk undoing all the progress she'd made.

 

[WitchKing]

So basically she misunderstood the whole situation, cut off all the communion with him without even trying to clarify anything? If not for him trying to understand what the hell has happened and then, once she dropped this whole thing on him, him finding the resolve to take her and clear this stupid misunderstanding, they would have drifted apart entirely

As people above said - quite stupid situation in general and behavior from her in specific, adding this to a fact that she would have given the same answer if had she ever were asked by any of her friends

 

[bigk1ng]

Shes not the brightest huh way to jump to conclusions

 

[Darklight99]

People seem to be liking this chapter but I'll be honest, it just made me mad.

 

[Darklight99]

I still don't see this as her changing for herself at all. It is the exact same- someone else did something that had major impact on her so her immediate reaction was to sigma grindset it because big sad. But whatever, what is done is done, good for her.

I thankfully never had a crush go almost bipolar after we just had some nice organic progression and change her whole personality and looks AGAIN after I just told her that I liked her most the way she always has been, all while mutually closest to each other. Don't think I/my ego could tank that.
The confession clearly overpowers everything else and it is a happy moment but, damn, would I be hurt and perplexed at my crush randomly cutting me out of and living her best life for weeks because of a one-sided "misunderstanding" and headcanon.

Also, kinda sad that she instantly gave up fully because of said one-sided misunderstanding that she didn't talk to him about for the whole time and that if he didn't take the lead here it would've been over for them. Just like that. Seems really genuine and balanced.

Oh my god, thank you. You put my own thoughts into words perfectly.

 

[Drcool]

Thanks for the translation

 

[EulBassist]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[Tobesmgobes17]

Peak chapter from a peak manga

 

[CommanderYammarkX6]

"I'm sorry, Tsukimi. I just don't feel the same way about you anymore."

 

[Haydrion101]

It said "liked", brother. You are too late

Lowkey hope she says that to him. I kinda like the idea of a bitter sweetness to this one.

 

[UdenEmpati]

So basically she misunderstood the whole situation, cut off all the communion with him without even trying to clarify anything? If not for him trying to understand what the hell has happened and then, once she dropped this whole thing on him, him finding the resolve to take her and clear this stupid misunderstanding, they would have drifted apart entirely

As people above said - quite stupid situation in general and behavior from her in specific, adding this to a fact that she would have given the same answer if had she ever were asked by any of her friends

not trying to make this a "gotcha" or anything, but - have you never exhibited hypocritical behavior?

Just because she might have done the same thing if in his situation doesn't mean that she wouldn't feel dejected, in the actual scenario written into the story. People think one way and then act contrary to that all the time, it's not some fantastical trope solely found in certain genres of manga.

She had two different occasions to overhear him insist she was nothing more than a friend to two different sets of other individuals. The one thing I absolutely think she made a leap at was assuming the cute girl in the second of the two scenarios was his girlfriend, but to me I would imagine a middle school student already in their own head about the truth of the matter would see two separate instances of denial as confirmation that maybe nothing really is going to happen there, after all.

Hell, maybe it's meant to be seen as "stupid behavior" - we don't actually know what their conversation is comprised of; maybe there's some meta-contextual subtext on the part of the author that's setting up Akira to look like a fool precisely for "making assumptions" and writing off the potential for a relationship all on her own.
I guess we'll have to wait for the next chapter/set of chapters to know one way or another, but simply calling this "stupid" doesn't negate that it's absolutely something that actually happens, like, all the time.
Given how relatively grounded a lot of this series has been, going this route for the sister who's just falling into the hormonal social mess that is puberty-plus-school seems kind of appropriate, because she's exactly the age group to make this exact sort of error in judgment.

 

[seaborn]

damn, that's nice

 

[sthylich]

I don't care how dumb to misunderstanding each other. I'm just glad they made up within just one chapter. If it is other shoujo manga, MCs may took 3+ chapters to realise what happen. And it might be 10+ chapters if it is "Rent-A-Girlfriend".

 

[Superpeanut]

I don't care how dumb to misunderstanding each other. I'm just glad they made up within just one chapter. If it is other shoujo manga, MCs may took 3+ chapters to realise what happen. And it might be 10+ chapters if it is "Rent-A-Girlfriend".

10+ is a lowball. It takes 10+ for the MC in Rent to even form a coherent thought, let alone ponder something. Dude starts up slower than my old car in the winter.