So to get back to A Divine Love Alone for a second, I was leaving it off to read all at once because I was getting confused at all the similar-looking characters. Should I actually bother with it, or go read Kase-san again?

So to get back to A Divine Love Alone for a second, I was leaving it off to read all at once because I was getting confused at all the similar-looking characters. Should I actually bother with it, or go read Kase-san again?

I would read Kase-san again myself but then i did read A Divine Love Alone all the way thru... . I suppose that if you're up for reading a good set-up for a story that's only the beginning, skips past the middle and doesn't have a proper ending then go ahead. If not then don't bother.

last edited at Aug 12, 2014 5:51PM

So to get back to A Divine Love Alone for a second, I was leaving it off to read all at once because I was getting confused at all the similar-looking characters. Should I actually bother with it, or go read Kase-san again?

Let me set up a little chart...

|Do you wanna see hugs?| |You don't care about hugs?|
kase-san || kase-san kase-san || kase-san
kase-san || kase-san kase-san || kase-san
kase-san || kase-san kase-san || kase-san
kase-san ||_________________|| kase-san
kase-san kase-san || kase-san kase-san
kase-san kase-san || kase-san kase-san
kase-san kase-san || kase-san kase-san
kase-sankase |Re-read Kase-san!| kase-sankase

Not sure about the ending, but at least the art was nice. Thanks, Yuri Project!

from yuri project:

Several updates concerning this series to wrap things up:

Chapter 7 received a major update to include 2 missing pages from the middle of the chapter
http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/a_divine_love_alone_ch07#15
http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/a_divine_love_alone_ch07#16

Chapters 8-10 were updated to reflect the change in page numbers (only the file names were changed, so feel free to ignore this one)

reader has the updated pages so it should be fine.

last edited at Aug 16, 2014 9:40PM

Kinda sad it ended
I really liked this series

As much as the ending disappointed me, I don't think the manga itself was that bad. Sure, for a manga based on threads of fate and relationships between people (romantic or just friendly) things really didn't go anywhere, but it was a cute journey. We got some feeling from it all, we managed to find a cute OTP to follow and be disappointed at not happening in the end. I mean, if it really was all that bad we wouldn't have been disappointed, would we? And if we go by the "accepted rumour" that it was cancelled and thus had to end it here like it or not we really could've had much worse than we did.

All in all, 7/10. We didn't get to see the desert, the main course was half-finished, but the starter was satisfying and interesting enough.

An ambiguous ending but I still enjoyed the series.

Finally got to sit down and read the whole thing as one complete story, rather than separated chapters, and the ending seemed perfectly fine to me. No particular dangling plot points, no change in pace from the rest of the series, people and gods come to understandings with each other and life keeps rolling on.

Totally not seeing what people are complaining about, it's a sweet slice of life story with an appropriate, if relatively open, ending. But even that is in keeping with the series' style so it works.

Why it has to end???

Where's my Satoka x Shiori?! T_T

Seriously though, I'm agreeing with Nez-chan two posts up. Take away the yuri tag and this becomes a wonderful little slice-of-life story. Don't let expectations get you too worked up.

...Even if the childhood friends should totally be the OTP. <.<;;

it feels like I'm the only one who liked the ending :(

You're not the only one, my friend. Seriously I liked the ending. Kotori is still an unexperienced god, so of course she wouldn't know anything about how the human mind works. She isn't aware that if you wish Person A happiness, Person B would be in despair. It all cancels out to zero. (Like Chika x Kotori x Satoka) So I was really glad that Hiwa and Kotori became friends and also she asked for her guidance too!! That would really maintain balance as such the other one severes bond, the other is a matchmaker.

Ah dang. Finally got around to reading this one and I feel robbed of the initial promise of those warm, warm god hugs. I was way too invested in the divine hugging of Satoka x Kotori to be content with god forever chasing after an uninterested middle schooler.

Well that's s bit... Like the secret world of ariety. Why is it that japan is ok with not getting closure?

Well that's s bit... Like the secret world of ariety. Why is it that japan is ok with not getting closure?

Japanese fiction is traditionally open-ended. There's a long literary tradition and a lot of older mangas (see Urusei Yatsura for a good example) were similar in that they'd not so much end as stop. Often without really resolving anything. So I imagine readers there are pretty accustomed to it.

It seemed to be about friendship and loving your fellow man, but yet not... what a mess, but I still liked it for all it's cheerfulness, the spiritual stuff and all the huggs, so much huggs! The tag sure didn't lie.

It was a meh ending but I liked the art

It’s funny. For all the characters proclaiming to “love” each other, I never really felt any romance between them. None of them ever seemed to want that love to grow into a relationship, poly or otherwise.

On the flip side, “Not A Lizard” has yet to use the word love once, and is still stuck as subtext, but the characters clearly want something to grow between them.

last edited at Oct 8, 2018 11:47AM

Ummm.... this was kinda boring, 4 chapters in and I can't even anymore... like can't even get invested in the characters, cant even remember thier names and can't even see any kind of plot thickening. Its like porridge but its manga?

Maybe it’s because I read it all in one sitting but I liked this story a lot. Kotori, Sotoka, Chika, Shiori, and Hiwa are all interesting characters that have multifaceted personalities, and we get to see each of them interacting with and learning from one another.

Seeing Kotori’s (and to a lesser extent Hiwa’s) development throughout the series as she tries to understand human emotions is really interesting direction to go. Seeing her go from being innocent and pretty much an air head to being a little more aware of her own feelings and struggling with relationships that can’t be mended and jealousy is fascinating to see.

It’s hard to say that any one character is the protagonist, they all just happen to be living in the same time and place and we see them all interact for the short window of time the manga reveals.

...although I do feel like some of the angst could be solved with polyamory.

...although I do feel like some of the angst could be solved with polyamory.

I think her attempts at and failing to tie the red string to both Chika and Satoka saying that it wasn't an option

Not gonna lie I thought the ending was kinda. Some things were left unsolved and unshown but ill chalk that up to it loosing publication early. Im shipping Hiwa with Kotori because the concept of two gods that are supposed to be opposites and work against each other being married is cute. I also like high energy-airhead girlfriend and stoic-cool girlfriend dynamic.

i thought kotori will end up with satoka :(

this was much better than i remembered. i read it as it was being scanlated, and got too hung up on the doomed? satoka x kotori ship. even though shiori x hiwa is pretty much the only fully requited love, it's a pretty delicious yuri. kinda need the growing gods to physically and mentally match pace better with their love interests, or step aside cause they're gods.

despite the color full pages, satoka and kotori in particular seem particularly ill-matched in a romantic context. satoka just can't get out of the familial onee-san role and kotori is so smothered in little sister love so she can't really grow. that's probably part of why chika is such a breath of fresh air.

hiwa not understanding that she's the one standing in the way between shiori and chika is adorable af and i really think seeing that play out would have been great. probably the best moment in the manga other than kotori's dream about chika and satoka. it's very well done and a very good character moment that allows for probably the best part of the story if you're willing to give up on satoka x kotori. while totally ruling out polyamory is such a decade! ago vibe, it's also true that polyamory is very much not for everyone.

rare shipping brain moment

the ship i want to sail the most is satoka x ayano (class rep). despite being probably the most unpopular ship, it's not impossible as it does have minimal little support! satoka finds ayano adorable, and ayano has one (1) doki, one (1) grip and one (1) beat panel of "love?" towards satoka in intermission 2. the relationship dynamic seems good with ayano being spoilable and genki as satoka likes, but is also adult enough to prevent satoka from going full adorable little sister mode. honestly, ayano liking satoka in the beginning could explain her being the first manipulated? into helping satoka study. it would be cute and make sense if ayano's request to play with kotori gained a secondary goal during that aforementioned beat panel. finally, ayano is also the only one who's seen satoka's ikemen side and that'd be an adorable "only i know that side of you kyun." who doesn't love a good "only i know that side of you *kyun."

if, as seems likely, kotori ends up with chika, or kotori bows out causes she's an actual god, then i think the following could happen and would be delicious if it did. satoka more or less might unconsciously seeks a replacement kotori in ayano (intermission 6). when ayano doesn't even get to choose between the (non-blood) sisters, then she might end up with her second choice as the only option. both would feel like they're settling pretty hard even though the alternative relationships wouldn't work well in practice. even better, both seem observant enough to be able to tell that the other is feeling that way. such a unstable relationship would be pretty cute and painful in equal measure. what's best is whoever falls deeper at any one time would be so vulnerable to doubt and heartache. so delicious.