🌸 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.
Since I assume that you're asking for recommendations for Takaritsu fics that's what this list is going to consist of, hope that's what you meant lol. Odds are if you're asking you've already peeked around plenty of these fics and authors before because of the sheer word count they've put out for this pairing but I don't see the harm in getting out the word to more people LOL. Putting my rambling under the cut in case it gets long idk how much i’ll actually write yet.
My first inclination is to point you in the direction of @literally-ritsu and @misscorn's content, their content can be found on Ao3 and Fanfiction respectively at the hyperlinks above. That’s already 35 stories overall between the two of them, and they’re both still around adding more to their current stories and working on even more for future reading! I’ve always appreciated their characterization of the SiH cast bc for me at least that can be something that majorly turns me away from reading some fics. And if you read one story and like it, with them there’s plenty to go through!
This next one I may be a bit biased to since I run @takaritsuweek every year, but I go back to it a ton so I feel like I have to drop it here too! Cherishing You was a series of stories based off of prompts from 2020′s event. It’s by @saysaeri! She also has plenty of other Takaritsu fics to go through if you take a liking to her writing! Little Hearts is another one of her fics that I think about often.
All of the above were all fairly recent in the scheme of things when you consider how far back these fandoms go, but I’ll round out this list with something older! I remember reading through this series for the first time years ago, I stayed up way too late but didn’t regret it at all lol. The Silence is Thy Friend series is definitely an old favorite of mine. It has four separate one shots that total just about 50k words, so you can definitely take up an entire afternoon reading through all of them. I so badly wish there was a fifth entry to it, but considering how long it’s been I won’t hold my breath lol. ppl write fanfic for fun and for free after all, so we should be thanking ppl for letting us read their work 🥺
anyways i hope you haven’t already read all of those already, thank u for the ask :^)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Takano happens to look up at the exact moment he’s going to pass Ritsu while out on what he didn’t even consider to be a date. The only problem is, he’s still in college and Ritsu just got back from studying abroad.
How are the two of them meant to proceed when one of them wants absolutely none of this and the other is perfectly content to pick up where they left off? Or maybe it’s a bit more complicated than that.
I was reading that chapter where they say what their shoe sizes are and I got the idea to figure out their heights from there and I did research and estimated Ritsu's height as 5'8 and Takano's as 6'0
Then it actually occurred to me that they definitely have their canon heights listed somewhere so I checked and Ritsu is actually 5'8.5 and Takano is 6'1.5
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The boys meet in ~1996, Ritz probably has a Gameboy he plays Pokemon on. Ritz is 15/16, Takano is 17/18, making them 40/41 and 42/43 today respectively
The manga starts in 2006. The boys have to see those delightful early 00s cg graphics on their work computers. A low poly Twinkle offering help in the taskbar like the Microsoft paperclip
A year later, it's 2007 and Ritz confesses, yay! It probably takes a few more years after that for the boys to be completely comfortable with each other and for Ritz's trust and Takano's abandonment issues to heal somewhat. Let's call it 2010
And what do they do during the last 11 years? Go on cutesy dates, work towards healthy communication, and fend off a dozen or so love rivals probably. Probably move in together. Enjoy their mid/late 30s through early 40s (now) with occasional dips into "holy shit this is great i wish we could've done this 20 years sooner"
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