Silly question. The girls are in normal with each other, and that's normal and great.

Not sure if you meant the call back, but I laughed regardless. "Normal, normal, so much normal!"

Glad to see this series here, I've been rather enjoying it.
Apparently the voice actress Ayane Sakura left a comment on the Volume 1 physical release. 「何者でもなかった彼女たちを、この恋が変えた。良くも悪くも。」(not sure what a clean translation for the first part is, so I'll just leave the original quote). But I think quote is somewhat a good description of this series' direction lol.

Thanks for translating and picking this one up!

Apparently the voice actress Ayane Sakura left a comment on the Volume 1 physical release. 「何者でもなかった彼女たちを、この恋が変えた。良くも悪くも。」(not sure what a clean translation for the first part is, so I'll just leave the original quote).

"Love changed these girls who weren't anyone. For better or worse."

Apparently the voice actress Ayane Sakura left a comment on the Volume 1 physical release. 「何者でもなかった彼女たちを、この恋が変えた。良くも悪くも。」(not sure what a clean translation for the first part is, so I'll just leave the original quote).

"Love changed these girls who weren't anyone. For better or worse."

Thanks!

Everybody already assumed the childhood friend is doomed. I would like to see a twist the friend winning for once.

Sometimes the childhood friend character wins...

I concur. Look at the list under the Childhood Friends tag to find heaps of stories with childhood friends who turn into lovers.

Only when there isn't a love triangle. In that case, they always lose.

Is that a Japanese yuri thing? Because in Chinese baihe manhua the childhood friend usually gets the girl, no matter what the competition is. Off the top of my hat I can think of Childhood Sweetheart Liaoliao, The Daughter of Evil and Miss Devil, and My Dearest Nemesis, all series you can find on the Dynasty reader.

I renumbered the chapters as 1,2,3 as in the volume, instead of the raws site numbering.

Apologies for the confusion.

With this, I can put their title though.

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Normally I would say the childhood friend is doomed but it is quite unusual to get a chapter from her perspective that early on. So it is hard to guess where it will go.

Everybody already assumed the childhood friend is doomed. I would like to see a twist the friend winning for once.

Sometimes the childhood friend character wins... but I don't think it will be the case here because tomboy girl bombed it. Any chance she could have had was destroyed the moment she firmly stuck herself into the other girl's friendzone.

She could have done, oh, so many many things. But she did squat zilch. Even worse, when the other girl said she wanted to fall in love with someone else, tb girl was like: "All right, I'll support you!" Ten seconds later, that's exactly what happens: the other girl falls for someone else at first sight... and tb girl is like: "Oh no, my life is ruined!" Wtf, dude?

It wasn't so much "my life is ruined" as "big, dramatic change incoming, status quo is breaking down". For that matter, what exactly are you suggested the alternative to "All right, I'll support you!" is, when the friend is going all "I want me some succulent manflesh"?

For that matter, what exactly are you suggested the alternative to "All right, I'll support you!" is, when the friend is going all "I want me some succulent manflesh"?

Lmao
I think the point they're making is that maybe, just maybe, things would not have reached this stage if she had spoken her feelings before.

The two friends have been together all their lives. They're what now, 16? Plenty of time to say "You're the most important person in the universe for me, I want you to stay by my side forever!" But she never said it, she took the black-haired girl for granted... and now she's gonna learn the truth in the old saying "You snooze, you lose."

Is it even a triangle if two of them already like each other? I mean, "An Easy Introduction to Love Triangle" would be the realest triangle relationship so far and we all know how it end LOL

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I renumbered the chapters as 1,2,3 as in the volume, instead of the raws site numbering.

Apologies for the confusion.

With this, I can put their title though.

Thank you for your work on this, it's really appreciated.

I think the whole "childhood friend" thing is a meme, however you almost always can tell who will win any sort of romantic competition and it's the first person to have a "spark" with the mc. The one time I can I think of off the top of my head where the author went out of their way to subvert that, "Domestic Girlfriend," the ending turned out to be universally reviled lol.

For that matter, what exactly are you suggested the alternative to "All right, I'll support you!" is, when the friend is going all "I want me some succulent manflesh"?

Lmao
I think the point they're making is that maybe, just maybe, things would not have reached this stage if she had spoken her feelings before.

The two friends have been together all their lives. They're what now, 16? Plenty of time to say "You're the most important person in the universe for me, I want you to stay by my side forever!" But she never said it, she took the black-haired girl for granted... and now she's gonna learn the truth in the old saying "You snooze, you lose."

For real, the reason childhood friends usually lose out in love triangles is because they're playing a long game without realizing it, since they've gotten used to a certain closeness (and a certain distance) and at best a passive approach to closing that distance. A newer more proactive rival will catch up and surpass easily if the childhood friend is careless. And it happens pretty much every time. I would love to see the trend bucked more and I'm always down for poly endings to love triangle situations, but oth of those occasions are rare, and for it to be both? I don't have high hopes. Only time will tell.

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I think the whole "childhood friend" thing is a meme, however you almost always can tell who will win any sort of romantic competition and it's the first person to have a "spark" with the mc. The one time I can I think of off the top of my head where the author went out of their way to subvert that, "Domestic Girlfriend," the ending turned out to be universally reviled lol.

It's a meme taken from het harem romcoms, probably specifically Nisekoi. But yeah, most of the time it's easy to guess who'll "win." Though Ichigo 100% is another example of an ending that "subverts" the tendency you describe, and while that was controversial it was overall well-received especially in hindsight. But that's probably enough talk about het harems on the Dynasty forum lol.

To return to this manga, what I find curious is how much emphasis was put on the tomboy character -- she gets an entire spotlight chapter early on -- despite her clearly being the third wheel. She's being set up to play a major role and I'm curious to see what it is.

Was really hoping for a A likes B but be likes C and C likes A kinda triangle but this is fine too I guess.

Also this is just my interpretation but I don't think the childhood friend knew it was romantic love that she felt for her bestfriend until now. I think she only realized it when she saw her friend look at that Bob-head and was like "Ohh I wish she looked at me like that." Ykwim?

The last lines are pretty explicit as to what the tomboy feels:

The sound of falling : her "friend" falling in love
The sound of breaking: the sound of her own heart breaking.

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Everybody already assumed the childhood friend is doomed. I would like to see a twist the friend winning for once.

Sometimes the childhood friend character wins...

I concur. Look at the list under the Childhood Friends tag to find heaps of stories with childhood friends who turn into lovers.

Only when there isn't a love triangle. In that case, they always lose.

you should read kashimashi girl meets girl. though it disappointed me because i wanted the other girl to win, if a childhood friend ending is what you want, that's got it. and in general, within yuri, childhood friends get a fair shot. i would even say they often win over the initial crush/object of admiration, it can be a little frustrating!

as for this manga, the art is gorgeous. i'll read it for that alone. time to look up raws and binge!

Normally I would say the childhood friend is doomed but it is quite unusual to get a chapter from her perspective that early on. So it is hard to guess where it will go.

It's not just that, but the emphasis on "normal", both in the dialogue and the title, makes me think the "love at first sight" moment is just an inciting incident

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This is gonna HURT, isn't it? I'm just going to enjoy the size gap couple figuring things out, before everything goes to hell.

All this talk about childhood friends made me wonder, y'all reading Asumi-chan?
Because that's one series were the childhood friend is endgame and it's been set in stone from the very beginning! Asumi goes through dozens of girls and has all kinds of relationships, while all the time looking for her childhood friend, and the moment they meet and get together is when the manga will end.

Sometimes the childhood friend character wins...

I concur. Look at the list under the Childhood Friends tag to find heaps of stories with childhood friends who turn into lovers.

Only when there isn't a love triangle. In that case, they always lose.

Saori from Yuricam is laughing at you so hard right now...

Claymore Gaby posted:

All this talk about childhood friends made me wonder, y'all reading Asumi-chan?
Because that's one series were the childhood friend is endgame and it's been set in stone from the very beginning! Asumi goes through dozens of girls and has all kinds of relationships, while all the time looking for her childhood friend, and the moment they meet and get together is when the manga will end.

This post might be really fun to come back to in a couple years; we'll have to see.

Of course childhood friend loses right? Unless...

Bro the childhood friend has no chance after that backstory lol

That was the fastest speed run from love at first sight to date. Blonde girl is SPEEDY