alright alright one more comment before i let it go, I think the seemingly rushed last chapter could be redeemed with a season 2. Everyone's disappointed at the time skip + not seeing na ra so a s2 or continuation could fix that and we'd all be happy. If it truly does get left at this though and we never see more of these characters (๑•ㅂ•)و✧ i'll just be sad lmfao
SPOILERS!!! My thoughts: don't read if you haven't read the end ALSO today's the anniversary of ch40 (aka the last chapter) It was uploaded 6.14.2019 and today is 6.14.2020 so I did actually rush the past week to get them all out by today. Cool
Okay so to me the ending is bittersweet bc yes she comes back BUT it takes f i v e years. That's wayyyyy too long. Now I understand why she left because she needed a break to regain her love of swimming/overcome her guilt however she was able to leave Ha-Yun for five years so easily which just UGH! Hence why it's bittersweet, because they are together but it took forever. I can't fathom the 5 yrs bit. Anyways in the comments of the raws people were mentioning a season 2 BUT I have seen no news of that on the authors twitter or anywhere (as far as I know) so I don't know where they got that info from but if it were true that'd be great.
bro everyone hates ha yun lmfaoooo but honestly she's not that bad, she didn't like mo young romantically and made it clear from the start not to mention mo young is clearly selfish so while they both have their little unlikeable quirks its unfair to be like "hayun CHEATED on her gf, hayun BAD" like thats not what happened (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
I thought maybe it would be like a romance thing between them but looking at the raws it seems i was wrong. So it's not a story between two people, but more like a story between multiple characters and then drinking/having adventures is the plot. Kinda like that other drinking yuri manga where they talk about diff wines every chapter. I get it
Even then, still hope for some sort of romantic development between Kamiina and Ibuki. But maybe it'll take a while for that to ever happen