Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso

Nice buildup.  Thanks for the chapter, EGS!

@Insanity18: Cool, good luck with that.

 

I think the way they keep losing might be part of the trope by now. I mean, I'm sometimes more drawn to "the other girl" in a triangle precisely because I can tell she's fucked and her futile advances look kinda tragic. So maybe that's their thing now, people feel for the girl who was just minding her own business, enjoying a quiet life together with normalhighschoolboy-kun when out of fucking nowhere, some magical tsundere catgirl came to drag him off on an adventure.

It's a dog eat dog world. Even in love, you have to make the first move. Enjoying is basically standing still. Time waits for no one.

Outstanding new chapter, thanks a lot EGS!!!

@Insanity18: Cool, good luck with that.

I think the way they keep losing might be part of the trope by now. I mean, I'm sometimes more drawn to "the other girl" in a triangle precisely because I can tell she's fucked and her futile advances look kinda tragic. So maybe that's their thing now, people feel for the girl who was just minding her own business, enjoying a quiet life together with normalhighschoolboy-kun when out of fucking nowhere, some magical tsundere catgirl came to drag him off on an adventure.

That is romantic

when will a new chapter come out

Childhood friends, always poor losers in the game of love.

really? nah ah I don't think so they do work out sometimes though

This manga is so good!  This is my kind of love story; with lots of rocks and potholes to trip over along the way!

i like how most of the comments here called each character of this manga with something like mc, that guy, violinist girl and childhood friend. lol

shows that perhaps this manga didn't have that much impact on the character side.

btw, tsubaki-chan should switch from baseball to poetry. her monologue is good.

Very awesome, thanks a lot for the new chapter EGS!

the only thing i don't like is the violinist girl. i personally can't stand her type. she rushes in to everything and doesn't seem to think about other peoples feelings. like when she decided he was to be her accompanist and calls him pathetic and stuff, then hits him around. i just don't like those kinds of characters who have no respect for other peoples feelings but there own. i pray to god she changes or i'm just gonna drop it

It's a front. Chapter 9 shows us that she's not as callous as she pretends to be and she knows that the way she treats him is harsh. However at the same time, it's better to have someone who drags you out of your "pity party"  then just idly watches and hopes you get over it.  Depression isn't usually something a person can fight on their own and he's probably suffering from borderline clinical depression. A father that's never home, a mother that died, an abusive household situation when he was younger. Yeah he's 3 degrees of bat-shit crazy. Ironically going to school was probably the best thing for him and is also the only reason he didn't end up a homicidal maniac.

...Wow is it just me or did this guy like piss everyone off in the past when he was popular and famous. God though what brats they need to get OVER it... I mean yeah he beat you... then again if he didn't beat you in the contests he got physically beaten at home.... I think the brats who are pissing and moaning about losing need to STFU. It doesn't look like they are being tortured (literally) when they lost or missed a note. Gotta wonder if all aspiring pianists are this emo.. is it a requirement even when your not coming from a seriously broken home?

dating another guy hoping to run away from the love that you have... I dont think this gonna ends well

I can't take much more "childhood friend loses" *sigh* At least the poor girl is trying to date another guy.

Childhood friends, always poor losers in the game of love.

Just occurred to me--he kinda reminds me of Kiriyama Rei, MC of 3-gatsu no Lion.  Which is a work of genius.

Well doesn't it just suck to fall for the same person as your best friend?

Poor self-loathing, oddly lovable MC. He's got no idea how to deal with this.

The author better not wind this charming story into a tragic teenage melodrama, or I'm gonna be more than somewhat upset. There's so much potential for a cheerful and charming story of redemption here, and if that gets squashed under teenage angst it would ruin everything I love about this.

Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso just won the 37th Kodansha Manga Awards as the best Shounen manga

http://natalie.mu/comic/news/90258

It feels like the romance aspect of this manga is going to become frustrating and disagreeable.

@Namlaks: I really hope this is just a little test to show off her inner strength and develop her character and such.

It's gonna suck so much when you're right.

My 2c on people complaining about headstrong/selfish/ignorant characters
If you break up with your significant other - which one would make you heal quicker?
Someone who forcefully drag you out or someone who lick your wound?
(Got a friend who recently broke up so I had to play that role)

I don't think you can make a general answer for that question.  It depends.  Sometimes, with some people, pushing them too hard will just make them resentful; in mangas it seems like people always end up going along with forceful people who push them, but in real life they often just tell pushy folks to fuddle-duddle off and pull further into their shell.  Too much sympathy for too long can be bad for a lot of people though.

And then there's a question underneath--how quick is quick enough?  We have this feeling in the modern world that there's something wrong if you're not happy happy all the time.  I'm not sure that's so great either.  There's a time for sorrow.  If the relationship was important to you it's OK to feel sad for a while when you lose it, good for you in the long run even.  So overall, I believe in letting people wallow a bit first, helping 'em even, then pulling them out after.  YMMV.

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