NO WAAAAAY

onodera ritsu. THEEE ONODERA RITSU. CONFESSED????? i fear this may just bring me back & i can proudly say i’ve lived long enough to see ritsu confessed holy shit oh HOLY SHIT

Ritsu has officially confessed to Takano as of Chapter 38!

"I'm the one that loves you more than anyone else in this world!"

🌸 0 Days Left Until Ritsu Falls in Love Confirmed for Emerald Spring Issue - Releasing April 30th, 2024 🌸

The real life Emerald, the magazine Sekaiichi Hatsukoi has been serialized in since August 2014, announced the news via their official TikTok account.

🌸 What IS Confirmed 🌸

As of yesterday, we now know Emerald’s next issue release date is April 30th, 2024 as stated above. This was far earlier than the average Emerald release date announcement, as it’s usually another month of waiting for any such info.

The phrasing of the video above pulls from the countdown boxes often found at the end of Onodera Ritsu no Baai chapters, with a few exclusions. It roughly translates to “Finally, there are 0 days left until falling in love.”

This confirms at least one Onodera Ritsu no Baai chapter in the upcoming Emerald.

⚠️ What is NOT Confirmed ⚠️

Weirdly enough it doesn’t confirm a confession, that’s always been a long standing assumption, but there’s a nonzero chance it doesn’t happen.

That the series is ending any time soon. I’ll write more on this below under the cut because it turns into a whole rant.

I will make additional posts as further information comes out leading up to April 30th, such as the full, digitized magazine cover, content updates, and links to purchase this Emerald. Support the official release when possible!

I don’t know where this misconception of Day 0 = the Series Ending started years and years ago, but nowhere in this announcement did it say the series is ending. There would be more than five separate unresolved plot threads that would be left open with Takano and Ritsu if their story got cut here. That’s ignoring anything going on with the other four couples. A good ammount of these threads were just opened in the past three or four years of what will be 18 years of serialization this year. I just don’t see it as a valid argument. Any time a series has ended in Emerald, where SiH is currently serialized, they announce such over a month in advance. I will update this post if such comes to pass and I’m wrong, but I’m highly doubtful I’ll have to.

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they are the worst couple but i love them so much

my foot fell asleep

Honestly, I feel like congratulations are in order. Not just to Ritsu and Takano, but to all the Nostalgia fans who've been waiting for this moment for years. Your patience is finally being rewarded.

From April 26th to April 28th, we will be holding a Takaritsu-centric event to celebrate the long-awaited Day 0 of Ritsu's love countdown!

On April 30th, the real-life Emerald magazine will release its 2024 Spring issue, which has been revealed to include a 68-page chapter of Sekaiichi Hatsukoi in which Ritsu's love countdown will hit zero days! To celebrate, we will be holding a three day long event a few days ahead of the magazine's release!

Be sure to tag your submissions with #takaritsuweek as well as mention our blog @takaritsuweek!

As always, we ask that you all please reblog this post so that we can get good participation!

NOBODY CARES BUT RITSU ALREADY HAS CONFESSED HE IS IN LOVE WITH TAKANO IN THE NEW ACT OF SEKAIICHI HATSUKOI

HE'S THE (ONLY) ONE WHO LOVES MASAMUNE the most IN THE WORLD

HE'S THE ONLY ONE

HE'S

HE.... AAAAAHHHHHH

EDIT: I was very excited about the chapter, and I had difficulty finding how to express the dialogue in English. But those who follow me on Twitter saw that I translated it as it really is "Takano san who loves you the most in this world is me." Takano then tells Ritsu that he is happy because he loves him too for the past ten years and that he has been waiting to hear those words from Ritsu himself. So don't treat me like someone who doesn't know Japanese, put yourself in my shoes BECAUSE I WAS JUST EXCITED SO STOP CORRECTING ME.

Even if Ritsu didn't say "I'm the only one", it's very clear that he is. Not even Takafumi's love for Masamune was as intense as Ritsu's. But anyway, the shojo manga style confession that Masamune wanted is there, Ritsu is a winner. (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

lol

FINALLY

I was just scrolling Twitter and look what I came across:

Ritsu finally (successfully) fucking confessed to Takano. It only took 17 years y'all.

Source

Sekaiichi Hatsukoi Volume 19 - Regular and Special Edition - Releasing May 1st, 2024!

The special edition will include a brand new 32-page booklet!

Links to purchase below! I’ll try to update it as more become available in the coming weeks.

Amazon JP: Regular Edition | Special Edition

Animate (No Bonuses): Regular Edition | Special Edition

Animate (with Limited Sticky Notes featuring Takano and Ritsu): Regular Edition | Special Edition

so we watched junjou and sekaiichi recently bc like, it’s funny bad, and somehow got onto the track of “what if instead of the publishing industry, they were commercial clammers” so I drew clam industry nepobaby onodera ritsu working hard in the emerald company clam harvesting department…