Nagi no Asukara Episode 19 Discussion

Kaname each day is more aggressive to Tsumugu. Being Kaname is suffering.

Anyways, even though Chisaki says she still loves Hikari I'm sure she will end up with Tsumugu. Again, being Kaname is suffering.

And now, the Sea God. That God is quite a prick. But I wouldn't mind if he takes Manaka again.

I feel so triumphant and yet empty (considering the time spent) at the same time considering a few weeks back I was arguing with someone who said Chisaki had already moved on from her past life while I told her NO SHE HASN'T!

Well whatever.. this episode is a big "fuck you" to Chisaki x Tsumugu shippers. It's going to take a hell lot of twists for Chisaki to change her feelings. And no, Chisaki's feelings isn't simply admiration or family love like some people here claimed. They purposely showed us a scene on how Chisaki fell for Hikari and had her basically re-live the scene as well as that talk about what's important is your feeling, not your age. She likes Hikari who always protects Manaka and Manaka's return as well as Hikari's action in this episode only reinforce the part that made Chisaki adore Hikari so much (his desire to protect Manaka).

It would seem that my theory that there will only be ONE pair at the end, just like Okada's previous works, is getting closer. I hate to say it but as much as Okada likes to mind fuck her viewers, she always ended up with the obvious choice that she has established since the first episode. In this case it'd be Hikari x Manaka with everyone else chasing after someone else's tail like they are currently doing.

No it was clear that she meant it in romantic way. She resembles Sakura and Ino from Naruto series who can't let their childhood crush over Sasuke go.

I am really sorry for Tsumugu who by far the most matured character among all and deserves someone better than Chisaki. I hope he will leave the village and Chisaki after his research will be over and never come back letting Chisaki stay with her dreams over Hikari as much as she wants.

While I am 100% a TsumuguxManaka shipper, I recognize the fact this probably won't happen :'-(

But for others, do you guys think Tsumugu's feelings developed for Chisaki before or after time skip? I mean, couldn't the feelings have developed from or because of the situation at hand, since they were kind of the only two left out of the equation? Or do you guys think Tsumugu developed feelings for Chisaki before the time skip?

But he's kind of a brick wall so it's hard to tell. -.-

Love this episode because it shows Chisaki's feeling for Hikari still hasn't changed.

I really hope HikariXChisaki can become the true pair and age doesnt matter as the writer showed this by Akari(Hikari's older sister) married to the man who is like 10 years older or something.

Tsumuga seems like he can live as a single person and Kaname has Sayu.

Hikari just open your heart for Chisaki and you don't have to remember about Manaka

Im rooting for ChisakiXHikari

Has Tsumugu said. They haven't moved on, yet.
Was funny to see Chisaki wanting to get drunk :3
The confrontation between Tsumugu and Kaname was good.

And of course Chisaki's feelings for Hikari now are forced, she's just escaping the reality that she is now.
The reality of she being an adult, while her childhood friends are still kids, and her parents and everyone else being "frozen in time", which makes her unable to move on and start making her life with Tsumugu.

This straight line of one-sided love is so complicated as I thought it would be .
"But that just means you need to fulfill what you lost with new things."
Chisaki did grown to be an adult-like figure , but she remains the same ~ .
I wonder if there is a good ending at the story ~ . Miuna ~ .
VERY GREAT EPISODE . "Frozen times ." "Look Forward ."

@Linkark07 Sorry for responding to this so late, but yes. Kaname essentially realized what was going on, it was always Hikari at 1, Tsumugu at 2 and him at 3, it's even brought up in ep 24 I believe he straight up tells her that if the love for Hikari didn't work out, then it would be Tsumugu next then himself. She quickly corrects him saying she can't love Tsumugu, in which he then likely realizes she had feeling for him. Funnily enough, in that same period of saying all this, she still emphasized that she liked/loved (with love being the correct translation) Hikari.

However, people usually think that her liking Hikari here would bring about a potential ship between the two, which was never the intent here, it's the nature of her love or the dynamic of her love for him that was the point. Even though she loved him, he's always loved someone else (Manaka). The same thing is happening here for Kaname; he loves Chisaki, but Chisaki loves someone else (Hikari and Tsumugu) however, her love for Hikari isn't possible via her kind of love being unrequited in nature, which both have in common.

Hope this clears up any potential misconception.