Chapter 70 - 70: Friends, Rivals, and the Tension Before the Final Stretch

Many fans of Crimson Maple tend to skim through the magazine if they are short on time. For those who read chapter thirteen of Anohana in isolation, the impact was likely modest. On the surface, it seemed like a straightforward sequence.

The friends launch a firework, the launch is a success, and the heroine is still there. However, for those who had followed the journey from the very beginning, the emotional weight of this chapter was on an entirely different level.

The individual personalities and struggles of the six characters, Jintan, Menma, Yukiatsu, Tsuruko, Poppo, and Anaru, had been scattered like puzzle pieces throughout the preceding eleven chapters. Their tangled emotions, their unrequited loves, and their conflicting views on Menma had been meticulously gathered by the author, Shiori Takahashi, detail by detail, until they formed a cohesive whole in the readers' hearts.

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