johnb posted:
Was the boy her brother, one of her students, or just a friend? He didn't look old enoygh to be a serious romantic prospect.
Edit: Even reading Kirin-kun's quick translation left me confused, about it.
Seriously I don't get the boy's relationship to the girl. I've read the story twice. He seems to be a student where the girl is student teaching or something. He apparently has a room where she lives. Unless she is sneaking into his dorm room. He knows her parents. So they must know each other outside of school. Then there is the one panel of a woman, the boy, and a little girl on pg 3, that I can't figure out. It's almost like they are suggesting he's the older one. Which obviously can't be the case. I mean he looks like freakin an elementary schooler in the bottom panel of pg 2. Can anyone PLEASE clue me in.
Page 1: Present time, the woman is a teacher and the dejected looking boy is one of her students. They seems to be in middleschool.
Page 2 is a flashback: the boy is in elementary school and the girl is still in college, so they should have something like 10 years difference. They are childhood friend and neighbors, obviously. The college version of the girl just went through a break up, because her mother cursed at the person she brought home, so she came into the boy's room to complain. He calls the girl Onee-chan and mother "Oba-chan" (old woman/auntie), so they are close, but are not siblings.
End of page 3: fast forward to a wedding (with a "new" partner for the the girl I guess). The boy is in middle school, he wears a gakuran. The woman (his own mother?) , the little girl (his little sister?) and the boy are attendees of the wedding.
Page 4 : The punchline. Seeing the outfits, this is a Shinto (religious) wedding, where they exchange vows, not an official wedding.
What's a bit confusing is that there's 3 sequences in time. Page 1 happens just after page 4.
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