Maybe I'm finally too old, too married or too obtuse in general to bother about his body's height when the overarching plot heavily focused on him growing up mentally (like, what was Nike supposed to DO with a brat all grown up? A guy her size with the emotional range of a potato? What's that even good for?) and showing how hard a thing to do that is, when the whole world needs to grow up and at every corner he encounters road blocks acting like himself, earlier versions, versions that show him "That could've been me if I never changed". I mean honestly, we ourselves learn this as we grow older: you can learn a new trick but then you interact with the world outside of your own bubble and that smart new trick clashes heavily with the growing process of other humans.
And this story says: Those are not your responsibility (hear that Nike?!) but you can pull them along while stubbornly refusing to stop growing. Painful? Plenty. Ardous? Sweat galore, truthfully. Worth it? Only you can answer that.
I really can't put myself at the same page as most of the readers here regardless wether they are continuously reading but is dissatisfied or if they dropped it.
I started watching the anime waaayyyy way back like 2014 ? I think, I was still fresh from highschool, I was dissatisfied that the anime is not continued and was left like that but I did not find the manga right after. It took me at least 3 years to finally decide that I should search and read the manga. At first I was not amused that livi isn't growing up pretty soon and I dropped this. After a year and a lotta chapters piled up, I started reading again and was amazed that I got up to this moment without even thinking like "why's livi still small?" or "why's there no development on the romance" when that's all I ever complained about last 2019.
But as I see the bigger picture and was shocked, not sure if everyone noticed that details but there is a chapter here where I noticed a dialogue on I think Livi (I think 20 chapters back from the latest one)
saying "a lot has happened this year when Nike came" smthn like that and boy I was surprised just a year has passed?! still?! no wonder livi hasn't grown XD that's a valid reason mygosh.
But yeah I've long ignored his small built and the fact that there's no romance development yet, bc there are far more things to be addressed before all of those that's why the title is as it is. So I'm waiting and savoring every moment before the final thing we're missing which is livi growing up and finally romance development. But so far I enjoyed reading and unfolding all the great mysteries of No Rain in this story. So yeah I just feel bad that a lot of people dropped this and most are just coming back to know what happened to Nike or if livi has grown yet. I think there's more to this story than just the both of them. That's why the title is written as "The world is still beautiful" we can learn many things from just the way they portrayed the world and how ugly it is but even tho it is still beautiful and u should not focus on the ugly things happening which is the true nature of Humans. peace (●'◡'●)ﾉ