Shishunki Bitter Change

I ship Tachibana and Yuuta so this is fine but I can't help but feel that it won't work out in the end how depressing.

It's hard to have a gaytime on your own!

It's adapted from the webcomic which is the original source.

 

Webcomic ending spoilers:

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They do not return back to their original bodies. Yui (in Yuuta's body) commits suicide. Yuuta (in Yui's body) gets married and has a kid. He and Kazama appear to have drifted apart. Yuuta wonders if Yui would still be alive if he had extended his hand during the last time they met underneath the elephant slide. The chapter ends on a really sad note, Yuuta sees two kids playing and remininces how he and Yui were like that, and then it ends with a pronoun that I think Yui or Yuuta used in their original body.

 

I'm hoping for a different ending, but with the way the past chapters foreshadowed regret, I don't think that's going to happen.

That really is a shitty ending

This manga keeps making me love it more and more. I love gender-twisting (not swapping, per se*... twisting). And here, we have an intriguing one: The girl is thoughtless and runs roughshod over others' feelings, while the guy is too sensitive and agonizes over things instead of being honest with himself or others.

Thank you for bringing this to us, kelpy, and for "repainting" it into another language with careful, deft touches. It hurts to see delicate stories ruined because someone who didn't know better uses a roller where a fine-bristle brush is needed. Bravo.

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Also, thank you to those who have been thoughtful enough to hide direct spoilers and obvious hints. To be honest I'm still too suspicious to do more than skim over posts (and flee in terror from scary-looking ones), but I was afraid even doing that much would end in tears.

* - Not that I have anything against gender-swapping. To me it's a storytelling device, and how it's used makes all the difference.

Friendzone, Pseudo-Gay, and ......
.... Oh My God.....
Cliffhanger Ruined Everything

damn, this is so depressive.

 

this is adapted from a novel, right? does anyone know if they ever get to go back to their bodies?

It's adapted from the webcomic which is the original source.

Webcomic ending spoilers:

I'm hoping for a different ending, but with the way the past chapters foreshadowed regret, I don't think that's going to happen.

Is this getting downhill from here? If so, I'm out

damn, this is so depressive.

this is adapted from a novel, right? does yuuta ever tell tachinana of his condition?

Oh dear.

Thanks so much for the chapters Kelpy!! What a cliffhanger!!!! This is getting so messy

The one thing I'm holding out for is Kazuma saying in 51 that if Yuuta won't look out for Yui, HE will.

Just want to reiterate how happy and appreciative I am for the continued updates. Thanks a lot!

so basically, you're saying if this goes the way it was in the original, it's gonna be drinking vodka and getting depressed over fictional characters by the end of it.

 

 

Sometimes the best stories are tragedies. The fact that this could make you feel so strongly, is what can make the story so grand. I'm loving this story, even if it ends in disaster I will follow it through until the end. Also who knows maybe it will be different from the webcomic, but I am still expecting a bitter sweet ending form a story with bitter in it's name. 

Spoiler

On the original, after Tachibana kissed Yui(Yuuta) he started to get confused and conflicted because even though he started to accept being stuck on a girl's body, he didn't want to be seem as a girl, that made him ignore Yuuta(Yui) and not pay attention that she started to get reeally depressed, specially because Kazuma was busy all the time and she was left alone with no one to talk because only they knew her condition.

 

The last chapter is a time skip to more than 10 years later, Yui(Yuuta) is with a child(implied to be Tachibana's) and walking at the street coming back after shopping, he encounters Kazuma after years without seeing each other and we find out Yuuta(Yui) committed suicide because she couldn't accept a life being a boy and no one would ever speak to her like a girl, Kazuma says for Yui(Yuuta) to move on and that it wasn't his fault, Yui(Yuuta) instead said that it was, if he had paid more attention, and it was his responsibility for promising something he couldn't fulfill, Kazuma and Yui(Yuuta) part ways and as Yui(Yuuta) is going back home he started crying with his child asking him "what's wrong mommy?".

 

Basically Yui(Yuuta) never got over letting Yuuta(Yui) die and even after starting a new life, isn't happy at all, because the one he loved was Yuuta(Yui) and he couldn't save her.

so basically, you're saying if this goes the way it was in the original, it's gonna be drinking vodka and getting depressed over fictional characters by the end of it.

After reading chapter 53 on polaris, I'm done with this, it's going the same direction the original webcomic ended with, but at least there it was too vague to care or give too much impact, here? NOPE, I'm not staying to see in details this time, good luck for those that are going through to the end.

Shit I was hoping this wouldn't happen! Thanks for the warning though.

I think it was a translation error.

I'd support your theory using the goukon chapter. Ever since that (Yuuta thought "he doesn't know me" and next panel is a full shot of him looking into mirror and seeing Yui's body) I came to believe that Yuuta doesn't want to change back anymore which the most recent chapter cnfirmed to me.

Yeah, though I don't necessarily think that earlier instance was an error. It's not a gender gaff so much as it's him getting mixed up in Yui's past in a way that's hard to dissociate himself from. I'm sure in his head he still knows full well that he's a he and doesn't really forget that. That memory of his identity doesn't necessarily change with acceptance of the situation.

But there does come a point in their lives where they have to ask themselves, how much of all this is me holding a spot for the other and how much of it is just me living the life that is now mine, whether I want it to be or not? I figure that's probably where a lot of that gets muddled in his head anymore. They keep working under the assumption that they can some day go back and he's finally reaching the point where he's not sure they ever will or that he's really as invested in going back as she is.

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That last part is just your own assumption though, it didn't seem to me that she wasn't happy with her new life (i mean with her husband and child) it's just that she regretted not beeing able to save Yui and blamed herself for it, but that's all.

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Basically Yui(Yuuta) never got over letting Yuuta(Yui) die and even after starting a new life, isn't happy at all, because the one he loved was Yuuta(Yui) and he couldn't save her.

How is the original ending? i'm curious, please tell me, you could use spoiler tag..

After reading chapter 53 on polaris, I'm done with this, it's going the same direction the original webcomic ended with, but at least there it was too vague to care or give too much impact, here? NOPE, I'm not staying to see in details this time, good luck for those that are going through to the end.

oh no :/