Hotaru no Hikari

It's not easy to find a really good manga and this one is a really good one. I feel the need to thatnk everyone who has helped me to be able to read it; mangaka, publisher, scanner, cleaner, translator, site staff and...

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Thanks, J-Sis and Arusiasotto.  I've been missing Himono, and that was a really nice chapter.  I've always thought that their taste in women was a foolproof method of telling the men from the boys.

Yay, an update!  Many thanks J-Sis!

Ho letto il primo capitolo che avete tradotto e mi piace moltissimo! Spero che continuiate a tradurlo. Grazie infinite

Grazie a te! Con l'arrivo di agosto dovrei velocizzare un pochino le uscite

When I saw the new chapter in my follows list, I was surprised at how pleased I was.  This series has grown on me.  I've become fond of the characters, and something I once considered a fairly forgettable, middle-of-the-road manga is probably one of my favourites now.

Thanks for the release!

Thanks, J-SiS, for a great chapter in a great manga.  I just hope we've seen the last of the pre-pubescent heartthrob.

Thank you for the update, J-SiS!

Now that THAT is over, she can move on to Buchou!  Heck yeah, aim for a bigger fish!

While I agree with Purple Library Guy, the fact remains that Makoto had problems and was concerned, but never vocalized anything, ever. If you can't communicate, you can't have a relationship. He is a very immature person.

While it's true she should have told him the living situation, obviously this is not the west where it wouldn't matter you have a male roommate. She thought it would just be temporary and she could get out of it easily, but that didn't happen. Both of them together makes it a powder keg for discontent.

Well, well, you may have a point.  That kind of thing is bound to break down in the end, and she was at fault for concealing who she really was.

But it's hard to argue that her instincts were wrong, either.  Would he have stuck with her this long if she'd let him realize from the start just who she was and what she was like?  I don't think so.  Frankly, it doesn't feel to me like either of them really loved each other.  They had a thing for something they saw, something they admired, some facet of each other.  They were building a story more than a life, and for both of them the story was about as much about who they wanted to be as about the other person.  She suspected as much but she really liked the story so she did what she could to keep telling it, he was oblivious but it definitely seems to be the story he wanted.

In the end something like that isn't meant to be, no matter whose fault it is when the house of cards collapses.

Most people aren't pissed that he dumped her. It's why. If he had drawn the line at living with Buchou, I would have seen it as harsh, but understandable. He drew the line at her having a topknot...

He didn't though; during their last couple of interactions, he began to realize how she acts around other people (including her boss), and she never acted that way around him. She's never really shown her actual personality to Makoto until recently, and his comments are basically that he would have been fine with it had he known before.

It's not that he found out, it's that he found out this late into the relationship.

Most people aren't pissed that he dumped her. It's why. If he had drawn the line at living with Buchou, I would have seen it as harsh, but understandable. He drew the line at her having a topknot...