Ran in Hana to Yume. Started back in 2005. I happened to get HtY issue that had Chapter 2 in it and at the time thought it was interesting and had a definite s-ai leaning ^^;; Forgot about it for awhile... found the chapter again and went in search of manga volumes in ~fall 2006. 3 volumes were out by then. Quickly ordered ^^ Been enjoying the series a great deal since then (although plenty of details I have no idea due to lack of Japanese skills). Was surprised to learn Vol8 would be it as there seemed to be plenty of story left to tell by end of Vol7... Vol8 came out in March but well, I didn't get it in until Apr 29.
Got V8 (final volume) in Monday 29th... looked at it very briefly then. Went through on Friday night bit more, lots more on Saturday. Sunday was looking for JP fans reviews, blogs, etc. Found a few but still, as best as Excite JP translated, didn't really find a detailed talk about the Volume. *sigh* Finding English fans to talk about it with even harder *head desk* Found one person on LJ,![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
inga_b (2 others mentioned in a journal entry but from 1-2 years ago) who has all the volumes and knows about as much JP as I so one person to fangirl with once she catches up. Series deserves more fans though!
An all too brief description of it here. Ivy Scans did chapters 1-4 more than a year ago. No updates since and her/group page is down/defunct now too.
Mitsuya's grandfather, Yoshimitsu, has always regretted not being able to save (from what he didn't say) his best friend (known since very young) when he was a teen. Mitsuya is hearing this after seeing a picture of his grandfather with Jin as teens. Mitsuya looks exactly like his grandfather. Yoshimitsu prays to god that time would stop, to be able to correct what he couldn't then. An earthquake happens then... Mitsuya who was holding onto his grandfather's violin at the top of a flight of stairs at the hospital starts to fall. His mother, who is bit mentally unbalanced - she never recovered from Mitsuya being kidnapped as a young child and is utterly obessive in trying to keep him safe - tries to keep him from falling but fails. Mitsuya catches her and takes the brunt of the fall. He also thought he heard his grandfather's voice, his wish. He wakes up... in the past. Shortly thereafter he's found by Jin who had been looking for Yoshimitsu who had run away from home. He lives with Jin with his older sister. Their parents were killed when they were young kids. Jin's parents (very well off) took them in as they were good friends with his parents. Jin's mother is Italian. Jin has a younger sister, Aiko. Mitsuya thinks he's dreaming at first and Jin just thinks his best friend is acting strange... and that's the start of a whole lot to come. ^^
Mangaka was also a tease... did fab J&M or solo images of them for the inside and/or back covers and for the chapter front pages but most of those images do not translate to events told in the story!! Argh.
Cover of Vol4, 7, 8
Can't stand ambiguity!! And more looked, and tried to actually read Vol8, the more I thought she had been with the ending as well as giving hope and then taking it away, plus questions left unanswered, plus events that make wonder why she didn't cover and most of all, couldn't it have been a happier (unless how I understand it is mistaken) ending?!!! It's fiction dammit, if I want depressing, I'll put the news on. Went from barely allowed time to express their feelings (romance) to tragedy. ; ________ ;
Questions should have answers for in the manga (Vol8 or elsewhere) if get a better translation that what I can figure out myself:
Who did Yoshimitsu marry?
Kei is Mitsuya's cousin. WHO are his parents?! His last name is Sohma like Mitsuya's (which is a bit of a mystery as it's his mom's dad that is Yoshimitsu Sohma) but Yoshimitsu only had (if they had other living relatives when their parents were killed, would think they would have had to go live with them??) the one older sister, Yuriko. Ok, she did have a son... and Kei is her grandson then?! Her hubby was the guy that had cheated on her before (when were only going out) ?? (a lot of the adult male characters look too much alike making it harder to figure out who is who oO)
Kei saved Setsu and helped Mitsuya out but was it really necessary for Kei to have gone back in time? And was perfectly alright for him to stay back in time?!
Why didn't Jin visit (wasn't at his side) Mitsuya after being shot??
Why did Jin come through the window?
Where was Yoshimitsu the whole time Mitsuya was in the past? That letter didn't magically get in the bushes....
Yoshimitsu explaining to Mitsuya (both on astral plane?) what happened the first time with Jin... why is there the image of the 3 of them happily walking along in school uniforms?!
With the past changed, who told Yoshimitsu about Mitsuya? Jin? Or he somehow knew what had changed even though only his older, present time self was aware of Mitsuya being successful. Yoshimitsu's soul definitely talked to Kei and Mitsuya several times....
Whem Mitsuya slips back to the future... the chess set stayed in the past or not? If it stayed, she failed to draw it in!
Kind of sad. Mitsuya never met Aiko or her child or grandchild at all in his timeline (his original or altered (was it altered at all???))...
Why the shocked expression on Mitsuya's face when he finds out who his dad's dad was?
Jin never went back to Japan after going to Italy with Aiko? Aiko did go back or guy she married had come to Italy with Yoshimitsu?
Jin was killed in WWII... Aiko's husband was too and Kei?? And Yukiko's husband?
Yoshimitsu's violin magically got fixed or Mitsuya's father gave him a different one?!
Mitsuya's determined to try to get back to the past and then wham Aiko's grandson appears... cruel, just cruel.
Is Jin (why in school uniform) there in spirit to comfort Mitsuya or is it a flashback to Jin having said that to Mitsuya once before??
Questions that don't think have anwsers for and/or only hints/suggestions:
Why didn't Jin write letters to Mitsuya? (put away / kept by him or Aiko until the future)
Why didn't Mitsuya ask his grandfather more about Jin (ok, plot wise would have ben a give away to what happened to Jin but still!!! You'd ask about the person you love and didn't want to be separated from!!)
Why a year after Yoshimitsu died would Mitsuya only be going through some of his things?
Why 3 years (so that Mitsuya wouldn't know anything beforehand??) after Aiko died did her grandson (last name only, Ubukata, we find out) come looking for Mitsuya?
Aiko's grandson, *could* be Jin (killed in 1942) reincarnated... (and not remember his past life... just yet??)
Again cruel to only have them admit to their feelings just before Mitsuya is forced back to the future. ; ________ ;
2nd last page:
幸福が時を超えて届く = Happiness reaches exceeding time.
JDIC
Possible inflected verb or adjective: (te-form)
超える 【こえる】 (v1,vi) (1) to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to pass over (out of); (2) to exceed; (P); EP
Possible inflected verb or adjective: (plain verb)
届く 【とどく】 (v5k,vi) (1) to reach; to arrive; to get through; to get at; (2) to be attentive; to pay attention; (3) to be delivered; to carry (e.g. sound); (P); EP
last page
眩いばかりの日々が = Every day of dazzling
眩い 【まばゆい】 (adj-i) dazzling; glaring; dazzlingly beautiful; ED
ばかり approximately; just; only; merely; nothing but; KD
日々 【ひび】 (n-adv,n-t) every day; daily; day after day; (P); EP
Great so is Mitsuya only remembering the golden days by playing the music or did he slip back again?! ARGH Unfortunately think it's the former. Which means lousy ending, to me anyway... no possible chance of reuniting (until afterlife) ; _______ ;
I thought the image of Mitsuya (although because of what little we see of the figure could be Yoshimitsu) being greeted (welcomed back) by Aiko, Yukiko and Jin had been in a previous volume but it wasn't... soooooooo... did he go back or not?! If she hadn't split the page with a shot of Mitsuya still playing the violin (in the present) then I would have said hell yes.
Think need fan fiction to make for a better ending. ~_____~
Have seen a few doujinshi... a text listing at a JP online shop came up in trying to find out more about a title/circle that had found an auction for. Wasn't JXM pairing though. *head desk*
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May 9: songs possible for fics: Donna Lewis "I Love You Always Forever" (CHORUS parts fit very well, main lyrics not so much); Aretha Franklin "Love Me Forever"
Got V8 (final volume) in Monday 29th... looked at it very briefly then. Went through on Friday night bit more, lots more on Saturday. Sunday was looking for JP fans reviews, blogs, etc. Found a few but still, as best as Excite JP translated, didn't really find a detailed talk about the Volume. *sigh* Finding English fans to talk about it with even harder *head desk* Found one person on LJ,
inga_b (2 others mentioned in a journal entry but from 1-2 years ago) who has all the volumes and knows about as much JP as I so one person to fangirl with once she catches up. Series deserves more fans though!An all too brief description of it here. Ivy Scans did chapters 1-4 more than a year ago. No updates since and her/group page is down/defunct now too.
Mitsuya's grandfather, Yoshimitsu, has always regretted not being able to save (from what he didn't say) his best friend (known since very young) when he was a teen. Mitsuya is hearing this after seeing a picture of his grandfather with Jin as teens. Mitsuya looks exactly like his grandfather. Yoshimitsu prays to god that time would stop, to be able to correct what he couldn't then. An earthquake happens then... Mitsuya who was holding onto his grandfather's violin at the top of a flight of stairs at the hospital starts to fall. His mother, who is bit mentally unbalanced - she never recovered from Mitsuya being kidnapped as a young child and is utterly obessive in trying to keep him safe - tries to keep him from falling but fails. Mitsuya catches her and takes the brunt of the fall. He also thought he heard his grandfather's voice, his wish. He wakes up... in the past. Shortly thereafter he's found by Jin who had been looking for Yoshimitsu who had run away from home. He lives with Jin with his older sister. Their parents were killed when they were young kids. Jin's parents (very well off) took them in as they were good friends with his parents. Jin's mother is Italian. Jin has a younger sister, Aiko. Mitsuya thinks he's dreaming at first and Jin just thinks his best friend is acting strange... and that's the start of a whole lot to come. ^^
Mangaka was also a tease... did fab J&M or solo images of them for the inside and/or back covers and for the chapter front pages but most of those images do not translate to events told in the story!! Argh.
Cover of Vol4, 7, 8
Can't stand ambiguity!! And more looked, and tried to actually read Vol8, the more I thought she had been with the ending as well as giving hope and then taking it away, plus questions left unanswered, plus events that make wonder why she didn't cover and most of all, couldn't it have been a happier (unless how I understand it is mistaken) ending?!!! It's fiction dammit, if I want depressing, I'll put the news on. Went from barely allowed time to express their feelings (romance) to tragedy. ; ________ ;
Questions should have answers for in the manga (Vol8 or elsewhere) if get a better translation that what I can figure out myself:
Who did Yoshimitsu marry?
Kei is Mitsuya's cousin. WHO are his parents?! His last name is Sohma like Mitsuya's (which is a bit of a mystery as it's his mom's dad that is Yoshimitsu Sohma) but Yoshimitsu only had (if they had other living relatives when their parents were killed, would think they would have had to go live with them??) the one older sister, Yuriko. Ok, she did have a son... and Kei is her grandson then?! Her hubby was the guy that had cheated on her before (when were only going out) ?? (a lot of the adult male characters look too much alike making it harder to figure out who is who oO)
Kei saved Setsu and helped Mitsuya out but was it really necessary for Kei to have gone back in time? And was perfectly alright for him to stay back in time?!
Why didn't Jin visit (wasn't at his side) Mitsuya after being shot??
Why did Jin come through the window?
Where was Yoshimitsu the whole time Mitsuya was in the past? That letter didn't magically get in the bushes....
Yoshimitsu explaining to Mitsuya (both on astral plane?) what happened the first time with Jin... why is there the image of the 3 of them happily walking along in school uniforms?!
With the past changed, who told Yoshimitsu about Mitsuya? Jin? Or he somehow knew what had changed even though only his older, present time self was aware of Mitsuya being successful. Yoshimitsu's soul definitely talked to Kei and Mitsuya several times....
Whem Mitsuya slips back to the future... the chess set stayed in the past or not? If it stayed, she failed to draw it in!
Kind of sad. Mitsuya never met Aiko or her child or grandchild at all in his timeline (his original or altered (was it altered at all???))...
Why the shocked expression on Mitsuya's face when he finds out who his dad's dad was?
Jin never went back to Japan after going to Italy with Aiko? Aiko did go back or guy she married had come to Italy with Yoshimitsu?
Jin was killed in WWII... Aiko's husband was too and Kei?? And Yukiko's husband?
Yoshimitsu's violin magically got fixed or Mitsuya's father gave him a different one?!
Mitsuya's determined to try to get back to the past and then wham Aiko's grandson appears... cruel, just cruel.
Is Jin (why in school uniform) there in spirit to comfort Mitsuya or is it a flashback to Jin having said that to Mitsuya once before??
Questions that don't think have anwsers for and/or only hints/suggestions:
Why didn't Jin write letters to Mitsuya? (put away / kept by him or Aiko until the future)
Why didn't Mitsuya ask his grandfather more about Jin (ok, plot wise would have ben a give away to what happened to Jin but still!!! You'd ask about the person you love and didn't want to be separated from!!)
Why a year after Yoshimitsu died would Mitsuya only be going through some of his things?
Why 3 years (so that Mitsuya wouldn't know anything beforehand??) after Aiko died did her grandson (last name only, Ubukata, we find out) come looking for Mitsuya?
Aiko's grandson, *could* be Jin (killed in 1942) reincarnated... (and not remember his past life... just yet??)
Again cruel to only have them admit to their feelings just before Mitsuya is forced back to the future. ; ________ ;
2nd last page:
幸福が時を超えて届く = Happiness reaches exceeding time.
JDIC
Possible inflected verb or adjective: (te-form)
超える 【こえる】 (v1,vi) (1) to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to pass over (out of); (2) to exceed; (P); EP
Possible inflected verb or adjective: (plain verb)
届く 【とどく】 (v5k,vi) (1) to reach; to arrive; to get through; to get at; (2) to be attentive; to pay attention; (3) to be delivered; to carry (e.g. sound); (P); EP
last page
眩いばかりの日々が = Every day of dazzling
眩い 【まばゆい】 (adj-i) dazzling; glaring; dazzlingly beautiful; ED
ばかり approximately; just; only; merely; nothing but; KD
日々 【ひび】 (n-adv,n-t) every day; daily; day after day; (P); EP
Great so is Mitsuya only remembering the golden days by playing the music or did he slip back again?! ARGH Unfortunately think it's the former. Which means lousy ending, to me anyway... no possible chance of reuniting (until afterlife) ; _______ ;
I thought the image of Mitsuya (although because of what little we see of the figure could be Yoshimitsu) being greeted (welcomed back) by Aiko, Yukiko and Jin had been in a previous volume but it wasn't... soooooooo... did he go back or not?! If she hadn't split the page with a shot of Mitsuya still playing the violin (in the present) then I would have said hell yes.
Think need fan fiction to make for a better ending. ~_____~
Have seen a few doujinshi... a text listing at a JP online shop came up in trying to find out more about a title/circle that had found an auction for. Wasn't JXM pairing though. *head desk*
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May 9: songs possible for fics: Donna Lewis "I Love You Always Forever" (CHORUS parts fit very well, main lyrics not so much); Aretha Franklin "Love Me Forever"
If you MUST know, I'm: 
frustrated
frustratedJoin Ryo's blackbook?