Osawa is wrong
#1
Posted 26 March 2012 - 04:24 AM
You can't beat him and you shouldn't; you gotta join him. He supplies the memories, you supply the actually being there with her, and you take care of the girl for him now that he can't.
So now they're talking across each other. He's "I'm going to beat him and then confess" and she's "We have to do this for him"--it's a recipe for trouble.
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#2
Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:43 AM
#3
Posted 06 May 2012 - 02:36 AM
#4
Posted 20 August 2012 - 10:59 AM
On the sports side, the mangaka really understands rowing. I did it my first year in college (eight man shells) and it is a fantastic sport. I have experienced runner's high (before my knees gave out) but the endorphin blast from rowing is just like it is portrayed in this manga. The world gets brighter, your body feels like it's floating, and you feel as though you can row at top speed until the end of time. Not true, of course, but still quite an experience.
The coach from the nationals is someone I have seen before in manga and real life. He reminds me of the more moronic coaches from Adachi Mitsuru's baseball manga. In baseball, he would have thought that Willie Mays merely had good PR and some luck.
#5
Posted 21 August 2012 - 11:29 PM
#6
Posted 22 August 2012 - 02:06 AM
And I'm still amazed at how exciting this manga and it's depiction of the rowing action is, I never had any idea it was such a thrilling sport. I guess I was just never around it before.
#7
Posted 22 August 2012 - 09:06 AM
If you get a chance, online or something, watch the women's 2 person crew from England in their final for the London Olympics. It was pretty exciting.
#8
Posted 22 August 2012 - 07:36 PM
#9
Posted 24 October 2012 - 04:43 AM
#10
Posted 28 November 2012 - 01:25 AM
#11
Posted 29 November 2012 - 08:13 PM
#12
Posted 29 November 2012 - 11:16 PM
#13
Posted 29 November 2012 - 11:41 PM
Yeah, you really may be right....what a complicated situation they're in, it's like a love triangle but it's far, far worse with the added guilt of one of the triangle's actual death. And poor Chiiko, she's almost like an after-thought in the whole mess. She might be a little ditsy but she's probably the only one that's not thoroughly messed up at this point. I'm rooting for her to come out on top.Yes, finally. But I still don't think Oosawa will do anything.
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#14
Posted 30 November 2012 - 12:28 AM
Osawa is redeeming himself in terms of my original post, so I'm pleased: "So I'm gonna go there for him, because he can't now . . . I have to!" That's the right spirit--not competing with his dead friend, but taking up his torch.
Although she sees that it's partly because he blames himself; he left rowing because he blamed himself, and now he's driving himself because he blames himself. But she's carrying her own guilt; she wants him to leave his behind but she can't drop hers . . . it's very strong, very emotionally compelling. Well played, Hara Hidenori-sensei.
Edited by Purple Library Guy, 30 November 2012 - 12:29 AM.
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#15
Posted 30 November 2012 - 02:20 AM
#16
Posted 30 November 2012 - 03:15 AM
Yeah you're right. It was already a very complicated relationship the three of them were sharing even before the death. And while that might have served to clear things up under other circumstances, in this case it only served to make things even more complex and painful for the survivors.
And yeah PLG, I know, I know. But still, Chiiko, while a little dingy, seemed to show a certain amount of intuitiveness when it came to Osawa and his emotional state, both before and after she realized she had some competition. I'm not counting her out of the equation just yet. xD
Edited by svines85, 30 November 2012 - 03:16 AM.
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#17
Posted 08 December 2012 - 08:12 AM
#18
Posted 11 December 2012 - 09:37 AM
Well yeah, except the guy didn't know he was going to die. The KnIM dude had a terminal illness, so he was toast no matter what and used it in a kind of unfair way, but the dead boyfriend in this just pushed too hard out of frustration and got unlucky. At most, you might say he was fey in a rather archaic sense--in a state of mind that sort of predisposed him to doom. But people in that doomed mood never realize it themselves. So I find it hard to blame him.Hmmmm. So the titular boyfriend (deceased) knew that his girlfriend really loved his best friend (and rowing partner) and then killed himself (I don't know whether it was drowning or a heart attack) while trying to prove that there was one place he could beat him. Damn, that's pretty convoluted, and not very decent of said deceased friend. Kind of like the motorcycle racer from KNIM, knowing that the girl loved his friend, but had to die saying that he'd never give her up. It's sort of like knowing you're going to die or commit suicide, so you lay the guilt on everyone who cares for you with a scoop shovel. Not the nicest thing in the world.
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#19
Posted 11 December 2012 - 04:36 PM