I wasn't expecting anything new from higashiyama shou so this is a pleasant surprise, the flow is kind of strange but it's interesting enough that I'm curious to see more
Probably more of a theory, but I wonder if "One" is supposed to indicate the single mitten Sumin gave Seju, I was wondering why she only gave her one, before realizing that the title could be connected (like how Seju moves on and how her love turns into left over feelings in the same way she tells Sungji that's what the mitten represented) I wonder if it' supposed to also mean something like, having found someone to hold the other hand without one (because she left a journal with her sticker booth photo with sumin, as well as sumin's last note seeing her off, but we never saw her leaving the mitten)
I was thinking about this single glove that Sumin gave to Seju and whether she still has it with her and your theory actually makes a lot of sense.
Other, much more simple one can just suggest that the story is called One because Seju, after long years is not just finally on her own, but is also living her life for herself for the first time, without her family and ex-girlfriend as a part of the picture. Although I like the mitten theory more, especially the part about holding hands
I was thinking about that too! I'd really like to see her grow and live for herself now that she's left everything behind, I'm really excited to see how her story goes from here
yeah, I just hope that the next chapter we get will be the beginning of One
I think the side story did a wonderful job at giving us a better understanding of why Seju couldn't move on for so long and fought so hard (I think it was always already established that Sumin meant a lot of firsts to Seju not just romantically but seeing it first hand really drives the point home) How Sumin must have been the first person she considered a friend, the first person she genuinely liked spending time with, the first person to tell her not to go, the first to say they liked her, the first to actually make her happy, the first to actually defend her, the first who made her their priority (it kind of colours her in a way where in, even broken and dragged through the mud in the years that followed, their relationship became something difficult to let go of, for someone like her who's been so scarcely loved her whole life) but also, I like how it also gives us the reasons why Sumin was so heart scarred as she was, how well her relationship with her parents were, how much she valued Seju, how much (forgive me for not using a kinder word) sex meant to her (how it's something she had to mentally prepare for for a year and did so nervously) and how much devastating Seju (accidental as it was) cheating on her was (as if sex didn't matter and was that easy to give), it even shows during the time she was dating the woman with red hair (I apologize but I care not to search for her name) when she was seemingly coerced to use a toy and she suddenly imagines Seju in the woman's place, doing it with a man, before breaking out in a cold sweat and feeling sick right after, Seju was love starved who had understood happiness for the first time and Sumin was soft and doting and it makes everything feel so devastating because if they only had some time, if Seju's 'brother' didn't interfere the way he did, they might have been able to find their way back because once upon a time Sumin really did intend to end things properly and during that time she wasn't as broken as she was after her assault, and Seju wasn't as twisted as she was after Sumin came back the first time. But more than anything I like how this truly gives us a look into how far they've come, how much was at stake at truly ending things and how everything they've gone through to get here changed them into people who could finally let go.
As much as I love the writing though I can never seem to really like the side characters that serve to complicate the relationships into complex triangles (Dawoon, Nami and Sunhwa) because all of them also seem to be written into the plot without past evidence and just more as plot device (such as in the Case of both Dawoon for Sungji and Sunhwa for Sumin) or written out of it (such as Nami not even seemingly being 'the closest' and 'the only friend' Sumin had in highschool as she and the other characters always claim because she didn't fit the narrative properly, I'm assuming, even just a silent one panel scene of her talking with Sumin in the hall could have helped bridge that discrepancy I think)
I forgot three other important firsts, which would have been her even being held as warmly as Sumin had during that first anniversary, she seemed so genuinely puzzled at what Sumin had wanted and seemed so pleasantly surprised, the first time anyone had held her in such high regard, as well as the first time she'd ever even hoped and looked forward to a future, which I still find completely heartbreaking.
I'm unfortunately a bit confused between who's who quite a lot because of how similar both their hair and faces are, a little put off by how their expressions are also seemingly singular (that of a permanent frown), the story hasn't established much of their personalities or plot outside of the bare bones (former delinquents trying to date) I think I'll pass up on this one, just leaving a review as one does a book (for people who'd like to know what someone else had thought before reading)
The last line made me laugh so bad, I love Nishi Uko, her art and her story telling are both wonderful, but injecting 'baby' at the end to somehow relate it back to the whole theme was really really funny :'))
I absolutely love this, I've read this a few times before, only to realize now that this is part of a series of oneshots, I could be wrong, but I think this follows "Love Magnet" and that the sequence of oneshots with Yui goes:
Multiplying Lights > Infinite 20 Minutes > Love Magnet > .925
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Absolutely love Nishi Uko's work, I do believe this is part 3 of Multiplying Lights and Infinite 20 Minutes
Yeah, and Yui-san is rlly something else. #－.－)
This manga started off interesting (and the art sort of drew me in) but every chapter that follows make it feel like it's pulling a citrus (basically, it's a satirical level of drama and bad plot twists) so far the twists have been foreshadowed which makes it a step above that. But i'm slowly losing hope, especially given the way the 'doctor' interfered and seemed to keep butting their nose into things instead of letting them sort it out on their own (these are highschool students, why the heck would a grown arse woman scream out and reveal one of them without having any contextual understanding of what is going on, you would think she could have just calmly pulled the girl aside or asked them to talk in private, how tactless) from what I know though, this has only 2 volumes (? I could be wrong) but I'll stick to it and see if it gets better.
I disagree. This manga has some silly things, yes, but to call it as bad as citrus, which is so stupid plot and character wise I'm convinced the author was trying to write something terrible, is kind of unfair to it.
I don't think it's 'as bad as' citrus, as I said, it's a step above it considering there's some fore thought into the plot twists at the very least, although the climax felt forced and the denouement a bit flat, it's still a much better story than Citrus if not a bit strangely paced, now I just feel like maybe they were probably told this was going to run short and was trying to get the whole story in as fast as they could
Agreed there. I thought this was going to be a one-volume thing with the reveal occurring in chapter five.
This is honestly the cutest thing, I've kind of given up on japanese 'highschool' manga for quite some time (nothing really against it, but when you're long passed the age of being in highschool, you kind of just want something a little more personally relevant) I think I was just curious about the one page a day format and decided to check it out, but both the male and female leads are likeable and they continue to be that way all through out.
I didn't know what to expect, but I'm pleasantly surprised,I look forward to reading more!