EDIT: you forgot the hot and thoughtful dads

We honestly need a spinoff based on the dads. I'm thinking something like- A Tropical Chad Yearns for Bros.

What if this final arc where everything connects actually turns this manga into a yaoi :0

What if this final arc where everything connects actually turns this manga into a yaoi :0

Hagino: Welcome to the official How to Establish that Nettaigyo is Absolutely not a Yuri series Meeting.
Editor: Literally nobody was informed about this.
Hagino: So I'm thinking that we'll put a heterosexual relationship into the manga to convey that it isn't about lesbians.
Editor: But het relationships have girls. That's, like, 50% of a yuri ship right there.
Hagino: Damn it. Okay, forget about the girls. Remove them entirely. Let's make the manga about BL.
Editor: But that shows that you're willing to explore gay relationships. Just like yuri.
Hagino: Screams incomprehensibly

What if this final arc where everything connects actually turns this manga into a yaoi :0

Hagino: Welcome to the official How to Establish that Nettaigyo is Absolutely not a Yuri series Meeting.
Editor: Literally nobody was informed about this.
Hagino: So I'm thinking that we'll put a heterosexual relationship into the manga to convey that it isn't about lesbians.
Editor: But het relationships have girls. That's, like, 50% of a yuri ship right there.
Hagino: Damn it. Okay, forget about the girls. Remove them entirely. Let's make the manga about BL.
Editor: But that shows that you're willing to explore gay relationships. Just like yuri.
Hagino: Screams incomprehensibly

Forget page long theories, this is so accurate we can just archive this thread at this point lol

EDIT: though I really do wonder what role the editor plays in the story. Like do they just go “we need to add some more anxiety here, so how about 6 pages of monologuing, and end it with them gazing into each other’s eyes in the most heterosexual way possible”

last edited at Oct 29, 2020 3:58PM

You forgot the part where she goes back home and cries herself to sleep into her life-sized Toothless plush.

You forgot the part where she goes back home and cries herself to sleep into her life-sized Toothless plush.

Everybody associates their closest friend with a fictional animal and then sleeps with a life-sized plushie body pillow of one—it doesn’t mean anything sexual.

What?

EDIT: though I really do wonder what role the editor plays in the story. Like do they just go “we need to add some more anxiety here, so how about 6 pages of monologuing, and end it with them gazing into each other’s eyes in the most heterosexual way possible”

(Very) broadly speaking, there's two types of editors- the stretch it out types that encourage authors who've written successful series to keep churning out popular content for maximum moolah, human conceptions of time and behavior be damned; and the cut it down types, who inform authors that their fifteen act stream-of-consciousness Bildungsromans that approach the lengths of The Odyssey with the writing style of Ulysses might not be comprehensible to yon regular consumer. I can see Nettaigyo's editor being either, or possibly even both- maybe they told Hagino to sprinkle as much ambiguity and longing into the manga as humanly possible to pull readers in with agonized expectations, only to fill the final volume with enough yuri to make Virgin's Empire look, well... virginal (this might be me desperately projecting my hopes and dreams onto reality).

You forgot the part where she goes back home and cries herself to sleep into her life-sized Toothless plush.

Everybody associates their closest friend with a fictional animal and then sleeps with a life-sized plushie body pillow of one—it doesn’t mean anything sexual.

What?

Heh, I just re-watched "But I'm a Cheerleader."

"Everything thinks about girls, right?"
"Oh my god, I'm a homosexual."

My heart aches when I read this, I think it's a good thing?

It means it's working as intended.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/nettaigyo_wa_yuki_ni_kogareru_ch30#15
so, in the right upper panel, is that a rainbow in Koyuki's door thing? hmmmm.......

It's a rainbow of friends.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/nettaigyo_wa_yuki_ni_kogareru_ch30#15
so, in the right upper panel, is that a rainbow in Koyuki's door thing? hmmmm.......

It's clearly a reference to her favorite children's book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rainbow_Fish Yes, I totally just searched for "rainbow fish" and was elated something came up.

last edited at Nov 14, 2020 10:27PM

https://twitter.com/haginomakoto/status/1332279344949956613?s=21

If I’m reading correctly, it looks like vol. 8 had some omitted stuff ( 9 pages across the chapters) that are going to be included in the release next month. I wonder where they’ll go?

casually includes kiss scene at the end of 28.5

casually includes kiss scene at the end of 28.5

Inb4 the final scenes involve a tsunami wiping out the town and killing everyone, so the last volume is set in the afterlife. Highlights include God literally getting off her throne, locking our leads in a room, and screaming at them to do each other so that millions of people every month can stop praying to her to make Nettaigyo yuri.

Three more pages of Konatsu and Koyuki putting their hands together in 28.5, three more of Aoshima's cats in 29 and three more of Konatsu platonically stroking Koyuki's hair in 30.

Three more pages of Konatsu and Koyuki putting their hands together in 28.5, three more of Aoshima's cats in 29 and three more of Konatsu platonically stroking Koyuki's hair in 30.

I’d agree that there are probably a few that go in ch 30, but it’s pretty long, so she might add something in 29.1 or 28.1. A few pages may not seem like much, but in a manga like this, small things tend to have a big meaning later on. There’s probably nothing that is monumental to the plot, but important enough for her to want to have it drawn. I’m thinking some Kohai stuff in 28.5. Though, since she did mention that it was drawn how she wanted to, it may be more like those artistic and abstract paneling that we see sometimes (i.e Konatsu drowning for 5 panels straight). Sucks that we probably won’t see until vol 8 comes out in English and we buy it ourselves.

Volume 8 cover is out!

https://twitter.com/haginomakoto/status/1334462717168549889?s=21

I’d been wondering what it would be, and it’s totally perfect.

Kaede’s eyes are now purple lol

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Nice.

Oh my that IS really beautiful... Look at the tiny frogs, so cute

I think the new pages Hagino's talking about are just bonus illustrations like a lot of the volume releases have had, going by a google TL of volume 8's amazon page - not expansions of existing chapters. But we'll see!

last edited at Dec 15, 2020 12:12AM

https://twitter.com/haginomakoto/status/1340513912744071168

Volume 9 will be the end, unless I'm very mistaken. Thanks for everything, Hagino-sensei.

oh... so the time has come... I am going to miss this one a lot, still my favorite current manga... how many chapters remain then 3? 4?

So we will reach the conclusion soon... I'm going to miss Hanigare a lot. It's been a while since the last time (if not the first time) I invested too much emotion in a single title. In her tweet, Hagino-sensei said she's writing the story she wanted, so I think the conclusion will satisfy everyone.

I was hoping it would get to 10, but if the author sees no reason to drag it out, then I'll trust her on it. Let's see how it ends.

I’m happy that this manga is going to end exactly how it was intended to, but I’m also sad to see it go. Hagino-sensei said it right in another tweet: don’t tell the marathon runner who’s near the tape that they should keep running past the finish line. She’s got an ending set, and we should just trust her on it. It was one of my favorite manga, and I can’t wait to see how everything ties together.

Anyone listened to Hagino-sensei's Twitch stream today? She talked about many things. She said that if nothing happens, the serialization will concluded in March, so 4 more chapters left. She drew what she wanted, and never thought to prolong the story just to meet certain volume numbers, stating that if one volume is about 200 pages, Hanigare probably would end in volume 7. Hagino-sensei knows that some fans are hoping for anime adaptation, but there's no plan for it (since the manga will end soon), and if there's an offer, she'd refuse, citing that she didn't want anyone to intervene with her story. She also said that this year was tough for her, since she didn't meet anyone except for supermarket's employee and doctors during the pandemic, and her cat's passing.

She talked a lot, but unfortunately, according to her tweet, she was unable to save the stream even though she intended to.