I saw several chapters of the remake some years back, and I really missed the jagged energy of the original art. I have good feelings for this author, and I don’t blame them a bit for hoping to get paid, but I also thought the restart was just an artistic misstep.
From an artistic standpoint I get it; if you are dissatisfied with your work it's just in the back of your mind permanently and can easily kill motivation in the longer term. But yeah, from momentum and fan perspective it's really bogged down so long now ...
... well, she seems to have stuck with her vision so probably shouldn't complain too much if we now get the chance for more finally ;)
Taiyaki was in the position where she could have consistently put down incredible art and been up to fifteen volumes of the original or whatever but she would be trying to sell and promote. to readers and bookstores, a series whose first impression is a roughly sketched hobby Pixiv webcomic featuring half-melted clocks and phone screen contents entirely comprised of wobbly thick lines, so much a YOLO project at the time those chapters were drawn that for some time it was simply titled "Oyako Yuri". Since this is now her sole source of income, there's definitely more practical issues layered on top of the familiar artist impulse to perpetually fix your mistakes (and any perceived lack of progression was more "technical debt" than "lost momentum").
I love the "I am going to bring this thing into the world no matter my ability" feeling in the original art and was initially concerned about the remake plans, but since the worst scenarios were avoided (dropping the series, a partial retreat from the premise) it seems to me, leaning very strongly on the benefits of hindsight, that it was the right move ... even if some people (like me) will probably favor mentally stapling future remake content onto the end of the old version.
But Blastaar's warning about the risk of overprofessionalising was prescient; there's strong use of 3D scene-planning and a resulting very smooth look that Taiyaki has since recognized as overcorrection and dialed back. I have noticed a lot of people citing the art progression in the original as something they found unique and charming, and having a more balanced or even deliberately messier approach from the start might have been better matched the light touch taken with the rest of the remake.
I’m a little confused, if mama is 37 and her child is 16, she would’ve likely gotten pregnant around age 20–21. But the parents are shown wearing school uniforms, which doesn’t seem to match the timeline. :P
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/1_x_my_half_of_you_ch01#22
The original term is "学生結婚" which can technically be used for marrying in high school but is often used for university students (the law has since been changed so you can't marry under 18 anymore). In the old version of the manga, Atsushi and Ayako met when Atsushi was 16 and Ayako was implied to be about 18. with Atsushi proposing a couple years later at 18. Conceivably he could still be in high school, but Ayako's outfit is basically just a dress shirt?
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