(L) 5-Toubun no Hanayome

[amasposu]

Last Chapter:

Spoiler for Last Chapter::

[Forbin]

Basically to reveal the above picture.

Spoiler for For the last page:

It's all a dream, he's still just finished highschool.

[Shadow5YA]

That was misleading.

Yes, it was a dream, but only the marriage/timeskip adult portion was. Everything that happened up until the two became a couple still happened.

This is what happens when you believe speedscans.

[devil_slayer]

Did Negi really have to throw this shit to confuse his fans? And then you have the translator note which made things much worse.

We see the timeline switching back to adult Fuutarou at the very last page.

[wuhugm]

I'll forget about this in a few weeks

[Snowbold]

Originally Posted by wuhugm

I'll forget about this in a few weeks

Likewise, I will just remember the early chapters and Miku's reign as best girl.

[Ulin]

Siriusly guys? It is just another flashback... sometimes I think everything can be used to complain when you don't like the chosen one... Could everything have been handled better? Of course, but I can't see why are you convinced that it was a dream...

[Hakai]

Originally Posted by devil_slayer

Did Negi really have to throw this shit to confuse his fans? And then you have the translator note which made things much worse.

We see the timeline switching back to adult Fuutarou at the very last page.

Nothing confusing about that for most people
Only a few unable to cope with the ending are being delusional about it

[WingedAccelerator]

You don't have to convince yourself or change anything, when Negi made it this way.

1. Everything happened, it's just a flashback.
The most valid reason is the Past-Future paneling and the callback to Chapter 1, the sleeping gimmick. Everything else don't work. Stuff like Fuutarou can't dream about other people's thoughts and conversations are irrelevant and wishful thinking, when other works and authors that pulled the dream card also ignored everything. This is not a golden rule.

2. Fuutarou never married anyone, it's just a dream.
The translation made it more ambigious with the wording. "At that time too" = His dream. The future quints in his dream starts talking about high school, which is the wake-up call. Someone saying he is getting ahead of himself with wedding-like thoughts doesn't prove anything, it's the opposite actually. His proposal is known among the quints. So why would they find it strange if he dreamed about his wedding? Because he never proposed and doesn't date any of them. Just like he never went back to their apartment to spend time with them, not even to celebrate Itsuki getting successfully in for her university. Ichika is also there, when she was filming for that TV drama. It's just holes after holes. Planning a graduation trip also can easily happen even in their early 3rd year, not necessarily after graduation.

The fact is, even if you think people are coping, there won't be absolute consensus about the ending, and Negi is 100% at fault. The same way he neglected developing Fuutarou-Yotsuba, the same way the high school proposal was serious, the same way they are so not a functional couple by nowadays standards, the same way Fuutarou thought the bridal kiss will be their first, the same way Fuutarou refuses to exchange rings, the same way Yotsuba is still kept all of her secrets from him, the same way the others couldn't get over him in 5 years, and the same way the sisters tagged along for their honeymoon.

No one can be truly happy, but debates will still hapen. The ending.

[Chosen_Hero]

Like I said, from the Festival up to this point it was just Negi insulting the fans intelligence, he didn't have a proper ending planned, he just took the cowards way out and chose to have Yotauba win for "muh subversion".

Also, having the series end with a dream means that there was negative development for Yotsuba and Fuutarou making the choice even more baffling than it is. It also shows that he just threw away everything about the bride because he knew that at this point none of the clues fit the Yotsuba choice unless you bullshit it out even more (as seen in the previous chapter). So all the complaints made since "the choice", completely valid since nothing Negi wrote properly supports the Yotsuba choice because the entire premise of the story needed to be dropped.

The best part about this whole thing is that if you erase everything from the choice onwards and gave this to a competent writer that actually cared about the story you could salvage this garbage pretty easily, for example:

Spoiler for Example of a re-write:

- Fuutarou decides to NOT go along with the choice thinking that that's a stupid way of doing things, so he sends them all a message about not going along with that stupid idea.

- When they go to him he tells them that he wants to properly reply to the ones that put effort because they deserve to get a proper reply, but he asks for a bit more time before he can do so. They agree.

- A few days after the festival is over Itsuki tells him about Yotsuba being KG, after that being as smart as he is supposed to be from what Itsuki tells him he realizes that making that promise with Yotsuba in the past is what is keeping her tied down and not developing, he realizes that as long as that goes unresolved she won't change.

- Within the context of the story that was given, Fuutarou then goes and talks to Yotsuba to thanks her for the KG stuff (if you want it can even take place at the swings). He let's her know that she needs to move on from it because it's what been hurting her all along. She agrees with him and let's him know that she also realized that and that she's ready to finally move forward and stop hating herself for what she did in the past and that she is also through with trying to be special and that she is just going to try being the best her she can be. Yotsuba gives him a kiss on the cheek and thanks him for it, he then thanks her also for helping him realize what he wanted to do and for being his friend all along.

- He then also thanks Itsuki who was nearby spying on them for her help and also for being a good friend.

(End of the KG stuff, Itsuki helping Yotsuba and the start of Yotsubas proper development for herself)

- From this point onwards we see a new and different Yotsuba, she is doing better in her schoolwork and she has stopped being overly helpful and instead does what she can without acting like a freaking martyr. She also starts thinking about her future and decides that she wants to do something related to sports (this way when she receives the sports recommendation there is a reason for it instead of it coming from out of nowhere for no reason).

- A few weeks later with the exams fast approaching while tutoring Ichika, she asks him why he decided to not go through with the choice and he explains to her that doing it that way would have been unfair to those that properly confessed and that he wanted to do things properly himself.

After the tutoring session while walking back home together Ichika starts talking about how her acting career might be taking off with better roles and more work that takes her away from home but that before that she has some things to do, and the first thing she needs is to properly hear his reply to her confession and asks him to give it to her now. Fuutarou then asks if this is how she wants her reply and she says yes, he then, within the context of the story we got, tells her about how he has been grateful of her always being there to advice him, about how he has always respected her work ethic and how seeing her working hard on her dream inspires him to work hard towards his, but that he is sorry because he sees her more as a bigger sister than a romantic partner. Ichika then smiles at him with tears in her eyes and thanks him for the reply, then she quickly composes herself and they begin walking again while she teases him about his last two confessions.

(End of Ichika's confession)

- After that Ichika let's everyone know that she worked things out with her manager and the school and that until graduation she will be attending school properly again to properly take the final tests and attend graduation with the others, but that after she will devote all her time to her acting career.

- Around the time of the exams while at work we see that Nino is getting more increasingly preoccupied about her future, she wants to own her own restaurant but knows that getting there won't be easy because first she needs to pass the final exams as her first step. But, she is now beginning to doubt herself which manifest in her work where she stars making increasingly more mistakes the closer the exams get. Fuutarou notices this and tries to talk to her about it, of course she denies it and doesn't want to talk about it. The boss then tells her to take a few days off until after the final exams, she tries to fight back but he won't take no for an answer.

Fuutarou hearing this pieces it together (because you know, he is supposed to be smart) and asks her sisters to talk with her and possibly help her out. Ichika approaches Nino and they talk about her dream of owning a restaurant and how difficult it seems but that her seeing Ichika work at her dream job makes her want to achieve that dream even more. She talks with Miku about how Miku has improved on her cooking skills and how confident she seems nowadays and Miku tells her that it was because of Nino's help and that she looks up to and respects her for being as good as she is at something she loves and because she is naturally confident in everything she does.

She then talks with Yotsuba and they talk about how Nino was always the one that knew what she wanted and how she was always the one to go for something without fear of failure. And last she talks with Itsuki and they talk about how they both have been trying to live up to the example of their mother and how they want to make her proud in their own way and then they decide to study together to be able to pass their exams with the best score they can.

- After having talked to each of her sisters Nino has returned to normal and is feeling more confident on the day of the final exams. Of course, everyone passes with flying colors, of course varying scores but with good enough grades that you can see the difference from where they were in the beginning of the story. They then hold a party at Ninos workplace to celebrate passing the exams, Fuutarou goes to the back of the shop to look for something and Nino follows behind. While there Fuutarou starts talking to her about how he was glad that she got over her slump and how it's great that her sisters were able to help her. Nino remembering what her sisters said to her about how she is the one that is always confident in herself without fear of failure then decides to ask Fuutarou for his reply to her confession. Fuutarou seeing the resolve in her eyes understands that she won't be satisfied until he gives his reply so he starts by telling her about how at the beginning he remembers not being too fond of her treatment of him, but that he could tell that she did what she did because she was looking out for her sisters and while he didn't appreciate that kind of treatment respected her reasons. He also mentions how her treatment of him has improved since then and how she has changed, he tells her how he respects her confidence and straightforwardness and how he respects her willingness to protect her sisters, something he understands as a brother. And within the context of the story we got, he then tells her that while he is glad she feels like that towards him, and he cares for her, he doesn't see her that same way. She then turns around and thanks him for being honest with her and tells him to go on ahead of her since she has something she needs to do. When he leaves we then see her face and we see that she is indeed crying. Then a few minutes later she returns to the party and she is back to normal, she is also nornal around and when she is close to him she says: "You better not hurt her" to which he responds: "I know."

(End of Nino's confession)

- With the exams behind them and graduation fast approaching we then see that Nino has become even more engrossed in her dream of owning her own restaurant and is now going for it full force. We also see how Yotsuba receives her sports recommendation and then she announces that she has decided to join a female soccer team in her university of choice while studying to also be able to become a coach to kids just like her and how she used to be (this is the pay off from the flashback). Then we find out that while Itsuki didn't come in first in the tests, she actually scored pretty high enough that her father (not the blood related asshole, but the real one) is pleasantly pleased and that he has decided to recind the bet they made (guess Negi forgot about that too). We then find out that Miku wants to go to a cooking school to improve her cooking and because she wants to open her own (probably Sengoku themed) bakery. And lastly we find out that Ichika is just becoming even more famous and is starting to get better roles offered to her for after their graduation. Meanwhile, Fuutarou is happy and proud of them all for having found what they want to do and for the effort they are putting into realizing it, but, we also see that he is visibly worried about something, but what?

- We then quickly find out what it was that bothered him, he had gotten the highest scores in the final exams and had settled his bet with Papa Nakano, but then he is asked by him about what he is planning to do in the future with those grades and Fuutarou is unable to answer because now the possibilities before him seen endless. He knows where he wants to go to study, but he doesn't know what he will study. Back at the quints place while during the tutoring session he seems a bit out of it and the quints realize this so they try to cheer him up, it works for a bit, but not completely and he cuts the session short and he leaves, when he is leaving the building Miku comes from behind him, stops him and asks him to do her a favor.

The next day after school, seeing as they both have the day off from work, Miku has Fuutarou accompany her around to various places, which ends with them going and getting stuck in a karaoke joint. While there they talk about everything that has happened since they all first met and then the conversation becomes about how they are happy to have scored well on their exams, about graduation and about what they want to do after graduation and when reaching the last topic Fuutarou goes silent and starts to look worried. Miku then tells him to tell her what it is that is worrying him and that she won't take no for an answer, so Fuutarou decides to tell her about how there are so many things he would like to study but that he is worried that the one he wants to choose isn't the right one and how that decision might end up affecting his and his families life if it ends up being the wrong one. He tells her about how KG helped him realize he wanted to study, but that he never knew what he wanted to become and how his time with the quints have helped him reach a choice, but that it still scared him to make said choice because what if, what if there is a better choice he could have made.

After hearing him out, Miku grabs his face and looks him straight in the eyes and tells him, "Whatever choice you make, it can't be wrong as long as it is what you want to do", "whatever decision you make I will wholeheartedly support you, we will all support because we know that whatever choice you make, it will be the right one for you", "and, if it does turn out to be the wrong one for you, then we can just help you look for a new thing, because you helped us find what we want, so we will help you find what you want... I will, always." The after having heard her words Fuutarou closes his eyes and realizes that his mind is now clear and only the one answer was left in his head, he then opens them and looks Miku in the eyes and with a smile says "You're right, thank you Miku for always supporting me when I need it the most. Those words really helped me, I now know what my answer is." Then, with the atmosphere cleared up they spent the rest of the night singing and goofing off with karaoke.

- The next day he visits Papa Nakano to tell him the answer to his question, to which he replies that he wants to be a teacher (which makes sense for Fuutarou) and that his time with the quints helped him realize that this is what he wanted. Papa Nakano seems to approve, and as Fuutarou is ready to leave he says, "Before you go, I was told that you spent all of last night alone with one of my daughters who didn't return until this morning... Care to explain?"

- An so the days pass and we finally reach graduation, we see them in their classroom waiting for the ceremony to start and they are reminiscing about how they got to where they were and all the things that have happened. Then, when it's time for the ceremony they go and are finally able to graduate. All the graduates gather outside and cheer while crying and smiling, then Nino and Ichika propose plans to go and celebrate, Itsuki invites Fuutarou join them but he says "I'll join you later, there's something I have to do first" and then he leaves, Itsuki stands there with a perplexed look and Yotsuba asks "what could be so important that he has to do it now?" and Nino and Ichika look at each other and with a smile tell her "What he needs to do."

- We then see Fuutarou go up the stairs and out into the rooftop where we see Miku is standing and waiting. He stands a few feet apart from her and he says "I'm glad you saw the letter and decided to come", "but I don't want anyone but you to hear this", "Miku, I have been waiting some time to say this, I love you." Miku hearing the sudden declaration surprised and stunned and Fuutarou goes on, "Do you remember when we first met and how I tried so hard to convince you to join in on the tutoring sessions? Well, back then I wasn't exactly thrilled about the prospect of helping people that didn't want any help, I admit that I was initially doing it for the money... but then you came along and put me in my place and showed me that doing something with a half-assed attempt was the wrong way to go about it. You showed me that I need to put actual effort into my job as a tutor if I wanted to gain your respect and in then end, it worked and I was able to gain my first proper student by my own merits", "it was you who then supported me no questions asked whenever I need help and I willingly relied on you", "It was you who made me realize that I wasn't paying proper attention to my relationship with the five of you and that I needed to let go of the outdated student and teacher chemistry and to see that it had become more", "You were the first one I was able to recognize and now I realize that it was you who had planned that for all of our sakes", "that time you confessed to me while we were babysitting, I was scared and didn't know what to say so like a coward I acted like I didn't hear it... I can say the same about the Kyoto trip, when I heard what Yotsuba said at that time and I knew about your true feelings, but once again, I acted like I didn't hear it, once again I was scared because at the time I didn't properly understand, so I almost made another excuse", "It was because of you that I was able to properly start to understand what love is", "And that's not all, it was because of you that Nino was able to change and in turn help Yotsuba", "Ichika told me that it was because of you that she was able to be more honest with herself", "It was you who picked up my slack during the school festival and it was you who was able to fix what I couldn't or wouldn't fix", "it's because of you, that I am able to stand right here and say these words, I love Miku."

We then see Miku standing there with her hands covering her mouth and tears rolling down her cheeks, then while crying out of happiness she smiles and says "I love you too, Fuutarou" she then goes up to him hugs and kisses him and he kisses her back. Later they go and join the others at the celebration and they learn they have started to go out. Ichika congratulates them and teases Fuutarou, Nino tells Miku "You won fair and square, I have no regrets", and Yotsuba and Itsuki also congratulate them.

(End of Miku confession)

- After that we see them being an actual couple instead of keeping the status quo for some stupid reason, they go on dates, they kiss, they spend a lot of time together alone, etc. We also see the other quints, Ichika and her rising fame, Nino becoming increasingly more popular because of the school festival but also we see how she is focusing on accomplishing her dream. We see Yotsuba acrually doing sports stuff coaching a kids team or helping out at sporting events along side that one chick from Seven Goodbyes who is now her friend. We also see Itsuki and how she is still studying but now we see how much she has improved and now she is the one tutoring others.

We see them attend their respective universities, we learn that he goes to Tokyo U and that he visits Miku during holidays or break and vice versa, we learn that Miku and Nino go to the same cooking school, but Ninos focus is owning her own restaurant while Mikus focus is more along for a bakery. We see that Ichika is now taking on roles in foreign movies overseas where she has become a phenomenon. We see Yotsuba in her university doing well in both studies and club activities and lastly we see Itsuki in her university of choice studying to become a teacher like her mother.

- We then see them revisiting their grandfather, Fuutarou also goes and thanks him for the advice he gave him back then with the grandfather finally fully accepting him.

- And lastly, we see the wedding, no dream bs, no quint game bs, nothing, we just see the entire wedding from beginning, and we finally see all the bride clues paying off instead of getting retconned. And then we end with Fuutarou and Miku having just moved into in their home looking at the pictures reminiscing about the past. The end.

I literally just came up with this example on the spot, now imagine what an actual writer could do with it if they got their hands on it.

Negi screwed up real bad and those interviews clearly confirm that he either never gave a crap or was just that stupid at executing what he wanted. What a waste of potential, it ran the marathon just fine until at the last second Negi put a tripwire with razors and poison in from of it and the story fell at the last second, broke and mangled both of its legs and just crawled all the way to the finish line while painfully suffering only to die knowing the finish line never existed.

I will never read anything from this mangaka ever again.

[~Yami~]

oh lord.. even in the last chapter, Miku still proved to be the best? and Nino still... oh no

anyway, cheer for the author for his consistency in building the story from start to end
Yotsuba's victory is not as controversial as we thought but I prefer if they actually expand the story a little bit especially for that bell in the mountain part
There are several components that could be used to deliver this ending but.. oh well.. people don't care that much since the top 3 popular girls lost

In my heart, I still prefer Miku or Nino... but Yotsuba is never a bad choice. Her character development is much weaker than Miku, Nino, or even Itsuki though, which potentially could become spinoffs

I might remember this manga for quite a while especially because it started and ended almost at the same time with Bokuben... not the best ending but still a fun ride

[Lex79]

I have mixed feelings for this last chapter. The part when we got a parallel between Fuutarou and Yotsuba talking about the quintuplets was nice, but I would have liked more if he showed all the wedding giving context to all the bits we saw during the series. The ring part, for example, is still unexplained.
The multiple honeymoon...ok,they are a really close family, but it's a bit excessive. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if an extra chapter reveals that they actually live all together as Fuutarou's concubines.
The chapter seems to imply that Fuutarou at some point learned that the bell kisser was Yotsuba. Thanks Negi, but I would have preferred this to be explicitly shown in the story, and to get an explanation for why Yotsuba kissed him.
The chapter also has Yotsuba say she still has something to tell him, this seems to imply that he doesn't know yet she is the Kyoto girl. Meh.
Now, the elephant in the room. The dream. No matter how you interpret it, adding more ambiguity when you failed to properly address all the mysteries of the story is pure idiocy.

[WingedAccelerator]

He learned about the BK via the kiss. Shocking, disappointing, unbelievable, I know.
They tease each other of being nervous, there Fuutarou says it's because Yotsuba brought up that 5 years ago thingy, he even touches his mouth and connects the dots that she must have talked about the kiss under the bell. He even goes to say something (probably that she was disguised as Itsuki back then), then comes the woman with the ribbon. Some people say that Fuutarou recognized Yotsuba as KG there, hence the "Why didn't you say anything to me sooner?" line, but I doubt it. I think Fuutarou simply continues the BK discussion, otherwise Yotsuba wanting to tell him many more things hardly makes sense. So another disappointing implication is that the bridal kiss was going to be their first kiss in Fuutarou mind.

[256]

Man, instead getting pissed off at Negi for further muddying the waters, some people rather blindly defend his hackery and start shitting on others.
Btw, I've seen multiple japanese readers on twitter wonder if it was a dream or not. Seems it is confusing even for the native readers.

Originally Posted by WingedAccelerator

But have fun with these priceless ones.

Wew. Almost makes me want to laugh.

Originally Posted by WingedAccelerator

Because he never proposed and doesn't date any of them. Just like he never went back to their apartment to spend time with them, not even to celebrate Itsuki getting successfully in for her university. Ichika is also there, when she was filming for that TV drama. It's just holes after holes. Planning a graduation trip also can easily happen even in their early 3rd year, not necessarily after graduation

It's actually super easy to prove:
They are wearing their summer uniforms, so that scene happens at the very least before chapter 117. And I don't think there was any tutoring between chapters 114-117.

[WingedAccelerator]

Nice detail with the summer uniforms.
The last time the issue of graduation came up was in Branching Moment. There, Fuutarou went to their apartment looking for Ichika. He also said his recurring piece about graduation with smiles on their faces to Ichika, when he was together with Miku at her agency. The calendar only turns to September when she leaves. Her wanting to leave got revealed on August 14th, on Rena's death anniversary. So she had 2 weeks to quit and do the necessary administration, while Fuutarou also had time to handle her case. We don't know when did he manage to convince her to graduate with them, but taking summer uniforms into account and that Ichika didn't wear her uniform, the graduation trip planning was after she quit school. But to connect graduation and the graduation trip planning, it would fit that it happened before Ichika has left officially at the station. She will graduate with them, they planned their trip already, but soon she will leave them to live for her dream. The last official appearance of the summer uniforms are in Chapter 97.

[256]

Planninng the graduation trip might have happened before the festival, but after reading the translation it does look like a flashback.
If not for Fuutarou waking up and asking about the wedding. What's the point of that?
This is so stupid.

[DragoonKain3]

Argh, Runeterra now occupies my freetime mid-week, so couldn't post since it's release almost a month ago. Sad, since now we're at the final chapter, but alas, Runeterra expeditions were so much fun. XD

Originally Posted by 256

Man, instead getting pissed off at Negi for further muddying the waters, some people rather blindly defend his hackery and start shitting on others.
.....
It's actually super easy to prove:
They are wearing their summer uniforms, so that scene happens at the very least before chapter 118. And I don't think there was any tutoring between chapters 114-118.

Actually, if anything, they are still on winter uniform during the time they are deciding on the graduation trip (aka 'final scene').

First off, Ichika is not wearing a uniform unlike the rest of the quints, which means she's not going to school as often anymore. This means that the final scene MUST be post c94, as that was when she 'quit' school.

What else can we notice? We see that Itsuki is wearing long sleeves in the last scene. In contrast, in c96-97, Itsuki is explicitly shown wearing short sleeves. And since Itsuki isn't shown to wear uniform in the evening of c98 (plus Fuutarou was on a date with Miku in the morning), we must conclude that the final scene must happen c99 or after, where we are shown Itsuki wearing long sleeves underneath her blazer.

Now that we established it must be c99 or later, then let's look at Sunrise Festival. During the first day, Ichika has a shoot in the evening, so the dream couldn't happen then. Day 2 is also impossible as Yotsuba is in the hospital. Day 3 is of course not gonna happen since that was the confession day.

Ergo, while we don't know exactly when the final scene occurred, it MUST be post confession.


So yeah, not gonna lie, I'm pretty miffed at Negi because KG/Rena reveal didn't happen. I wasn't expecting a grand moment of tear-jerking realization like say, last year's K-drama Chocolate, but I was expecting at least SOMETHING. But NOPE! No KG realization, no talk about why Rena even existed, NOTHING! Was really angry at how he could leave such a big loose end untied in the end.

But upon closer inspection of the ending, I saw that Negi is still putting in the little details so we can piece it together in order to get the whole picture, just like the above "dream or not a dream" sequence. Made me think that maybe I too, was under the wrong assumptions, and my anger was built on unfounded ideas.

So that made me think of one of my other theory... that possibly Fuutarou had always known "Yotsuba" was the one he went to Kyoto with (as Maruo obviously said it when he found them). His initial confusion with asking "Rena" her name is that he was specifically asking for her FAMILY name, as all he knew KG was "Yotsuba", and "Nakano Yotsuba" didn't speak up when he asked if they met before. That's why he gives off a weird face when she gives the name Rena, and why later on in Sister's War he asks "Rena" why she named herself after her mother.

Probably the one thing that gets me still is that Fuutarou doesn't know the true significance of why Yotsuba wore the ribbon in the first place. This is IMO Negi's biggest "could have been" moment, as all he had to do in the final chapter is to have Yotsuba say to Fuutarou "I started wearing this ribbon because a certain boy didn't recognize it wasn't me during my elementary Kyoto trip. But now it's fine, because no matter how similar my sisters and I, I now have someone who will recognize me always." Doesn't even need to change any panels, but alas, what can I do?

Still over all, 5toubun no Hanayome was a pretty wild ride. Was really this close to put it as 4.28/10 because of the KG loose ends fueling my rage, but upon closer inspection maybe my rage was just me being a speedreader. But considering how much discussion I had here, plus how entertaining /a/ threads were (latest LOL moment was when Yotsumight was outed to be the same as Hunterchad - respectively the biggest proponent of a Yotsuba end and a bait-and-switch end), I must say 5Toubun was a very good manga. It won't top Your Lie in April as my favourite manga of the decade, but it comes close.

Final Score - 4.28/5

[WingedAccelerator]

Long-sleeved Itsuki doesn't trump over Nino, Miku and Yotsuba having Chapter 96-97 outfits. In fact, Negi, the guy, who once was overly meticulous about details, drew Itsuki with his Winter uniform during the whole Festival. Then, when Fuutarou had to get her out of their apartment during the Mudou drama, she is back to her short-sleeved attire again with the red vest, without the coat. And of course, there is Fuutarou with his 3 different outfits from the festival, changing in few pages if Negi is not in the mood to care. Canonically, they changed to their Winter uniform once in Chapter 13, starting with October 1. But that also makes them wearing their coats, no one is an exception. So a mixture of their attires would be like pre-festival, pre-confession September. It gets a bit colder, cold enough to wear long-sleeved outfits, coats if you want, but they noticably didn't switch to their Winter uniforms. Post-confession (1.5-2 days), it's already cold enough that they started wearing their Winter uniforms with their coats, all of them.

While I'm at it, I would like to say that despite my disappointment, gripes with the manga, I enjoyed discussing it with everyone here weekly. I had a lot of fun. Thank you!

[Lex79]

Could there be an epilogue when the last volume comes out? The times of hopes, speculations and disappointments might not be over yet.

[amasposu]

Everything is so true, except the last one.

Nino

Spoiler for Nino:

OR

Itsuki

Spoiler for Itsuki:

OR

Yotsuba

Spoiler for Yotsuba:

OR

Ichika

Spoiler for Ichika:

OR

The BEST Nakano of Them All

Spoiler for BEST Nakano:

But...

Spoiler for :

who is this?

Spoiler for who is this?:

https://www.deviantart.com/xshadowsh...kano-786354597