I have to say, I am SO happy about the rain. Onodera's very first confession was interrupted by the rain, so this redemption makes beautiful sense. HOWEVER. The rain is... the only good part about this scene?
I have absolute neverending love for mangaka sensei, but I feel like this is rushed. And I say that while I completely understand the pressure of having to deliver a climax after 10 years, so none of us can really be upset. Yet I am a little sad too, and I think that's okay.
Ever since she slightly changed the artstyle a few volume's ago - even though it has had it's pretty moments - it just doesn't feel the same. Especially Takano. I can't help but feel like she had the sharpness of her drawings bullied out of her, and it's a shame because it was one of the first AND last ones of it's kind. And now, in this specific chapter, I just keep noticing the double lines, the rushed expressions, the more and more blank backgrounds... She clearly wanted this to be over - and I don't blame her, but I just wish I lived in an alternate universe where she could deliver what for example Toboso sensei can (and WILL, in her story climax soon).
The story itself has actually always been very telling. She herself IS perhaps one of the mangaka's who can never quite finish in time and had to cut down quality sometimes. It almost feels like breaking the fourth wall this chapter. I hope she's okay and can take some rest after she decides to finish the story for good.
But boy, I hope the me in the alternate universe where sensei did put 200% capacity in this chapter is ELATED with the brave confession schene in the rain where Onodera comes clean about everything he's learned about himself and lays it all out to Takano while asking him to cut the crap and start their relationship for REAL like the adults they are, with SO much detail and emotion on both of their faces. I WANTED A TAKANO TEAR OK??
Anyway, that last page is now my screensaver. I have done my waiting. I spat out my imaginary drink when I read once again that only ONE (1!!!) year had passed since they started working together. Meanwhile I (we, right?) feel like a raisin looking at a time capsule.
Domo arigatou gozaimasu for the effort you could manage. (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
honestly one of the absolute worst stories I have ever tried to read, it just sucks, there is not a single thing I can think of that makes this worth a second of anyone's time, pure disappointment through and through
