Felloffalot posted:

Are we all just gonna gloss over the fact that she fucked a ghost?

I guess I just had a different interpretation but I thought she was actually alive then. Like Sarasa discovered illness 3 years ago > broke up > 3 years later maybe the she got even more ill > missed ex gf > went back to see her for the last time > things here > Sarasa was content > time skip to funeral > and that part in the window was ex gf reminiscing...

...along those lines? Maybe?

She says she came back the day of the funeral. Funerals don't happen immediately after you die. It takes time to plan and you have to give people time to find out about it so they can pay their respects. I am in the "It's a dream" camp. She came home from the funeral, fell asleep, and dreamt about Sarasa coming to visit her.

Are we all just gonna gloss over the fact that she fucked a ghost?

I took it as her dreaming. Makes sense, day of the funeral, obviously this whole issue weighs heavily on her, and is therefore prominently on her mind, naturally, it seeps into her dreams.

Though, looking at it again, it could have been a ghost. Which would actually take away part of the tragedy, since the two of them would have a clear chance of seeing each other again. Probably the reason I did not read it as a ghost story.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is a dream. Sarasa fades out as the sun comes in to wake her up.

I think Angst and/or Drama, and maybe even Supernatural would be appropriate, non-spoiler tags.

Supernatural would absolutely give away the twist.
(edit: and I'm not convinced anything supernatural happened here)

last edited at Dec 17, 2017 9:26PM

;__________; I'M NOT CRYING YOUR CRYING

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/a_song_about_missing_you#11

I totally missed what was happening there. I need some sleep. On second glance, it's nicely delivered with her disappearing as the light moves over Asuka.

But all in all I can't relate to the overall message of running away if you're dying. A dog or a cat might do that to find a place to die, but isn't it kind of your duty as a human being to bury your friends, companions and family or at least to be there to "bear witness"?

She wanted to spare her the grief of losing her to a slow, debilitating illness. Better, she thought, if she remembers me fondly, or even hates me and moves on now than if we stay together as I lose everything that makes us happy together.

This series is really cute, but honestly, Arisa's purity is wearing thin. I'm past finding it funny and it's just kind of making me feel bad for Mari, who is just desperate for affection from her girlfriend.

Eh, even if it's cheating, that doesn't mean it can't be nuanced. Yeah, cheating is bad and Reiichi is bad for doing it, but that doesn't mean he might not have complex reasons for doing what he's doing, or that he can't still be a good brother and/or even care about Kaoru. I'm just a little :\ about all the people who are so quick to go to "I'm sure this exceptionally sketchy looking situation that has been carefully foreshadowed since volume one isn't actually a sign that he's doing something wrong."

So I'm pretty sure that the husband has his reasons for cheating (I think he knows how Uta feels about Kaoru, and I think he suspects that Kaoru married him out of guilt for their past and affection for his sister), but I feel like it's kind of gross how many people here seem desperate to excuse what he's doing here. At the very least, he's been lying to his wife and seeing her friend behind her back. The flashback implies he has a history with that woman and that he's hurt Kaoru over her before. His "business trips" are obviously cover for his infidelity and she even used the same excuse when she came to visit Kaoru. Even if he has complex motivations, I promise you, this guy is a cheater and has betrayed Kaoru's trust. He has not earned the mental gymnastics you guys are going through to justify the situation. If this was meant to be a misunderstanding, we probably would have been shown more of his side of it. If the next volume doesn't explicitly start with a flashback showing how it was an actual misunderstanding, then yeah, he's dipping his wick, and he deserves a visit from Truck-san.

I really don't think we have to worry about a dead lesbian trope. The author has jumped forward multiple times and shown scenes where they're already together, and there are tons of illustrations of them when they're older.

Not to say there isn't going to be drama along the way, but I doubt there's cause for panic.

SJ is probably sick. Or Xiaonan confessed and she's freaking out. Or there was an accident and she's in the hospital, or she misunderstood something and is in panic mode, or....

Okay, so there's a lot of possibilities.

Pretty sure she's not going topless apron.

That bare ass on page 5 means full-on naked apron.