Yofukashi no Uta - Ch. 185 - A Girl Called Nazuna-Chan

[SpunkyDragon]

if you don't turn within a year you can never turn. we know this because ms detective didn't turn within a year (after having her blood drunk by nazuna) so now she can never become one and her blood tastes foul to vampires, but she still lives. also I think nazuna may not be able to fully turn him into a vampire as she is half blood, or at least that's why he currently is just half vampire

That could also explained why Kou turned half vampire. There's a lot of things that involve Nazuna not being a full converted vampire that we haven't been explained. And I still think that Mahiru kun death was left unclear as to they really died cause they loved each other.
Then there's Nazunas mom who supposedly tried to turn human. Considering Nazunas is around 40 years old, if she managed to turn human again, her mom would be an unrecognizable old lady of around 60-70 years. So it would explain why no one has seen her again.

 

[deathpigeon]

We think the most obvious explanation for Mahiru's death is that, because of the particular bond he had with Kiku, she acted as a weakness to him and him for her such that being around each other left the two of them vulnerable to being wounded and killed. This is why they were both capable of dying, but neither of them died until after the sun rose.

The two of them laying on the hillside embracing each other was basically like handing that blood starved vampire his wedding ring or taking off Akkun's glasses and putting them back on again.

So there's obvious risks involved to drinking a human's blood when the love is mutual, but it won't, like, kill you in and of itself.

 

[T0XI]

To anyone confused about the whole blonde thing, look up "ash blonde".

 

[profroche]

I think its important to remember first and foremost that the vampires like to give really serious sounding proclamations about what will or won't happen, but they are basically just guessing; and they're all pretty unserious people when it comes down to it. They're just reiterating what they've been told by other vampires at this point, and vampires are inherently unreliable sources.

 

[sandhanitiser]

I think its important to remember first and foremost that the vampires like to give really serious sounding proclamations about what will or won't happen, but they are basically just guessing; and they're all pretty unserious people when it comes down to it. They're just reiterating what they've been told by other vampires at this point, and vampires are inherently unreliable sources.

Exactly this. Since they are mostly solitary, if they find out they die from something chances are nobody will even realise they are gone until it is too late to figure out what happened.

 

[BuyVelomobiles]

Seri didn't die when she drank Akkun's blood.

It's been a while, but wasn't the entire point of her arc that she's tired of thinking about romance, that the guy developed a one-sided love for her?

 

[deathpigeon]

She was tired of continually pursuing romance and did not pursue it with him, not even after he was turned into a vampire, but, also, whenever she had pursued romance, she was never in love with them, and it was clearly different between her and Akkun with her feelings. She was clearly in love with him, even if they still haven't become romantically entangled.

 

[BuyVelomobiles]

She was tired of continually pursuing romance and did not pursue it with him, not even after he was turned into a vampire, but, also, whenever she had pursued romance, she was never in love with them, and it was clearly different between her and Akkun with her feelings. She was clearly in love with him, even if they still haven't become romantically entangled.

So fan theory. Got it.

 

[deathpigeon]

That's all any of us have.

 

[Jsaac4000]

Looks like the theory about the whole manga being a flashback holds some real water.

Please elaborate. I completely missed this.

 

[NotSomeone]

Please elaborate. I completely missed this.

Tbh I am too dumb to explain it properly and I can't find the original comment by @Eighty-six

 

[Eighty-six]

Please elaborate. I completely missed this.

I go into detail (with the Japanese script) here, under the spoiler. The long and short of it is that, when examining the raws, I was led to hypothesize that this narrative has been framed as an extended flashback since chapter 1 given that Kou has occasionally monologued in the past tense about information that-- at those times-- has yet to be seen, or otherwise occasionally monologues in the past tense in a way that puts a suspicious amount of distance between the monologue and the scene at hand.

Those instances don't happen a lot, but Tonikaku (for the time they were scanlating) translated in a way that slightly obscured the aforementioned particularities (if they did at all, part of it is that I also didn't consider the possibility at all back then) while the Viz adaptation is poorly done in an inscrutable way.

I presume that @NotSomeone took the opening monologue for this chapter as of the same kind as the monologues I singled out (I think he's on to something, even if it's not as blatant as the closing monologue in chapter 104).

 

[Arturo2481]

With every chapter that passes I love this manga even more ngl, I can relate with how he feels about love and also love his mom’s reaction to the question, absolutely adore how human emotions on this manga are represented

 

[recklessribbon]

Finally caught up! Thanks for the translations!

 

[CookieMonster]

Mom reaction, lmao.
Everyone is so sharp in this manga, but second later they can't realize most obvious things. Like come on, after all that happened it should be clear as day why Nazuna refuses to drink blood.

 

[BuyVelomobiles]

Like come on, after all that happened it should be clear as day why Nazuna refuses to drink blood.

Every vampire in the manga, bar one, does not fall in love. One of them took literal centuries, dedicated effort, and godfucks of grooming. If you weren't a member of the audience, plainly aware of the fact that you're reading a story, you wouldn't make the assumption either.

 

[deathpigeon]

Mom reaction, lmao.
Everyone is so sharp in this manga, but second later they can't realize most obvious things. Like come on, after all that happened it should be clear as day why Nazuna refuses to drink blood.

It isn't clear what will actually happen if Nazuna drinks Kō's blood, actually. We have inconsistent evidence from a single time it's happened and a bunch of rumors and legends that the speakers of them explicitly don't know the veracity of.

 

[CookieMonster]

Every vampire in the manga, bar one, does not fall in love. One of them took literal centuries, dedicated effort, and godfucks of grooming. If you weren't a member of the audience, plainly aware of the fact that you're reading a story, you wouldn't make the assumption either.

It isn't clear what will actually happen if Nazuna drinks Kō's blood, actually. We have inconsistent evidence from a single time it's happened and a bunch of rumors and legends that the speakers of them explicitly don't know the veracity of.

At this point Kou and Nazuna both know what could possibly happen if she falls for him. And Kiku-Mahiru case doesn't make it any better. Maybe it's just a legend and It's not clear what would happen considering their non-standard vampire nature, but it's obviously that Nazuna won't take any risks. And Kou should easily put two and two together or at least assume the reason why she stopped drinking his blood.

 

[deathpigeon]

The Kiku-Mahiru case shows that, if you drink the blood of someone you love, then you can subsequently die to the sun. It's unclear of how long this lasts, if other things could kill you, if you could still survive indefinitely without going out under the sun, etc. However, very clearly, it did not instantly kill Kiku or Mahiru and it did not make Kiku or Mahiru human.

Mostly, what happened between Kiku and Mahiru resembles what happened after the starving vampire was given his wedding ring so it's safe to assume it works somewhat like that, but that still leaves questions. Is it the fact that you have sucked the blood of someone you love that makes both you and them vulnerable? Is it that you're in their presence? Is it that you're in the moment of transformation? There's a lot of possibilities that have yet to be answered.

 

[Jsaac4000]

I go into detail (with the Japanese script) here, under the spoiler. The long and short of it is that, when examining the raws, I was led to hypothesize that this narrative has been framed as an extended flashback since chapter 1 given that Kou has occasionally monologued in the past tense about information that-- at those times-- has yet to be seen, or otherwise occasionally monologues in the past tense in a way that puts a suspicious amount of distance between the monologue and the scene at hand.

Those instances don't happen a lot, but Tonikaku (for the time they were scanlating) translated in a way that slightly obscured the aforementioned particularities (if they did at all, part of it is that I also didn't consider the possibility at all back then) while the Viz adaptation is poorly done in an inscrutable way.

I presume that @NotSomeone took the opening monologue for this chapter as of the same kind as the monologues I singled out (I think he's on to something, even if it's not as blatant as the closing monologue in chapter 104).

thank you for this indepth explanation