And I'm back too! Yeah finally here I am happily typing away under this nice weather *yay*, unbelievable but true spring time reached England as well..how cool to enjoy the power of sunny days once in a while!!! It would have been perfect with less wind but hey you can't have everything, can you??...Anyway we've gotten to the end of March which tells me that a brand new season of the year is already started ..speaking of new seasons I am really excited because La Corda D'oro ~secondo passo~ is finally out.. Great!! I waited for ages and finally the series is here. Well actually I cannot really describe it as a "series" but more of OAV since ~secondo passo~ features only two episodes ( the greedy fan-girl in me is very disappointed about it ). The first one is already out and about all over the Internet (CR will make it available for everybody in a couple of days) whilst the second ( and alas final) episode will be aired on the 5th of June . Looking at the bright side of things ( feeling really positive today) I will have something to look forward to ...
The manga is still ongoing in all its mighty greatness and chapter 57 has been scanlated as well. I am not sure If I have ever posted the link to chapter 56 though. I remember reading the raw with the help of a text translation in english ( which I am sure I didn't posted because I was too tired). Anyhow, you can find the scanlation by Kaito Zero on Manga Fox. I will spare precious minutes of frantic search by posting here the links to chapter 56 and 57 Chapter 58 is said to be out at the end of April ^_^ OMG April is so going to be a good month... BGI ( first and foremost!!!) and La Corda d'oro as well *squeals of joy*

watch the 1st episode..here

So here we are to chapter 49. I know that my commentaries have gotten way ahead of the scanlated chapters ( the last released chapter is 46) but couldn't resist any longer. Therefore If yuo don't like spoilers please, please, please do not read further.
Before I get started with the story I would like to thank my buddy Suifantasy for all her help with the chinese raws. Without her I wouldn't have been able to understand most of the chapter. So all the merits and credits of this summary go to her!!!

Chapter 49 is the first of the latest 3 chapters of BGI. Presumably they will be part of the possible volume 13 of the series but at the moment they were published only in Betsucomi ( Oct, Nov and Dec 2007 issues).
It's Nanami birthday today and as she told AKi ( back in chapter 45) her intention is to get on with her life. After work she will go out and celebrate with Takeuchi without seeing Yano. However, the idea is proving harder than she thought. The day at work is passing by very slowly. She forces herself to concentrate harder than usual not to let any doubts creep in, The only thing she keeps her going is the idea that soon as the day will be over and this feeling of uneasiness will disappear. "Finally, it will be over, everything will be over." This is what she keeps repeating herself since the morning.
Aki however is still intentioned to make Nanami and Yano meet again. She stops Nanami on her way out and asks her to go see Yano. Nanami refuses saying she still has work to do ( she off to bring some copies to the sensei before going home). Aki tells Nana that she knows she is pretending and although she thinks she can be happy with Take she can't ignore her feelings. So if she can't do it for herself she should do it for Take's sake at least.
Nana asks why she should go, considering that he hasn't come to look for her all this time. She then admits she can't go on like this. She reached the point where she prays they not pass each other on the street by chance because she doesn't have the strenght and confidence to face him and break up with him. In the end, she continues, in these five years she hasn't changed a bit but she also has to move on. Aki then asked if she could have Yano for herself since she gave up on him. That is, if she could live with the idea of Yano being with someone else. Nana replied that she is has to .

Whe then move to Takeuchi's office. He is trying to finish his work but his mind recalls Aki's phone call. She told him about Nana and the fact she tried to convince her to see Yano. Takeuchi replied he was OK with it since she has the right to choose one more time. However, Takeuchi is now worried since he knows he waited too long to take action.

Nanami takes the copies to the sensei as last task for the day before meeting with Take. Before she leaves the house the sensei asks where there was something going on and Nanami replied it's her birthday and she will celebrate tonight . Nana however finds really hard to hide her true feelings so after a moment of hesitation asks What to do if the person whom she is been waiting for a long time shows up now that she's happy with someone else.
After a pause the sensei asks who she is referring to. Nana replies the person she fell in love for the first time and shared lots of different experiences with.. several "first time" memories about happiness and sadness and the promise many new experiences to share in a future together.
The sensei responded to not give up on what she cherished so far as these memories are worth much more than a simple hesitation .

We cut now to Aki, she storms in Yano's office and drags Yano in the staff kitchen away from the colleagues. She looks quite fed up by the whole situation.. She is desperately trying to reunite Yano and Nana for one last time but none of them seem willing to let their guard down in spite of their feelings. When the two are alone she asks him to speak to Nanami at least once. Yano tries to act cool and says something along the line : What we could possibly speak about? the good old times? Aki looses it and slaps him ( loved Aki for this!!) then tells him to stop pretending he doesn't care about Nanami because after all these years she's still the most important person to him . Then insists he has to talk to Nanami at least to give her an explanation. Yano ( trying to look as jerk as possible) "an explanation for having changed my mind?" ( if I was Aki I would have slapped him again). But Aki just replies " An explanation for having betrayed her". Then tells him that she heard some rumors about him living with someone else and asks him if it's true. Yano does not deny that but the colleagues who overheard the conversation could not hide their surprise since nobody knew about it ( looks like Yano was keeping the whole thing secret.)

It's 5 pm already and Take is getting ready to leave the office to meet Nanami. Nana is on her way back to the office to leave for the day. She receives a text from Take who warns her to take an umbrella as it looks like it's going to rain soon. Nanami thinks about this afternoon and she feels ashamed of her doubts. She wants to be able to return Takeuchi's feelings as he is the person who has been staying by her side until today.
Takeuchi walks towards the train station. He then stops with the other passengers waiting for the train . he holds a small case in his hand containing the engagement ring for Nanami. He looks at the case silently and his mind goes to Takahashi. Take is well aware that tone day Yano would have been back and Nanami heart might have doubts. Deep inside he admits that he has always known the bond between the two of them is too strong .
Aki is still at Yano's work place. She and her colleague are taking some group pictures of the staff. She looks at Yano is posing together with his work mates and sees him smiling. She notices his smile is still unchanged. Before leaving she calls Yano to one side and confessed him that she longed the love he and Nanami shared back in high school. It was like the perfect dream. Their relationship was the ideal love she had been wanting for herself. she thinks is so sad that the two people she envied the most ended up like this. She also tells Yano that she knows he is still loves Nanami and that's the very reason why he is avoiding any contact with her. She then thanks him for ending her one sided love.
It starts raining. Take continues his monologue saying that he always knew he could never win over Yano. The only thing he could possibly win was the time during which Yano and Nana were apart.

Chinese raws can be found here

I was going to use this post to start the summary of chapter 49 but first and foremost BIG NEWS about the manga series.
Bokura ga ita is due to restart very soon and this time is not just a rumor!!! Betsucomi confirmed the update yesterday and in the next month issue ( Japanese release date is 13/04) there will be a dedicated appendix to a BGI special book! OMG!! Finally!!! I still don't know if the appendix will include a review of the latest three chapters ( 49-50-51) or any upcoming chapters
(ahh think about it finally some spoilers about the airport scene..that cliffhanger is seriously killing me)

Here's the news as it appears on Betsucomi's page ..The wait is almost over!! Can't wait to read more BGI chapters soon!!!

If you loved the original soundtrack of 5 centimetres per second half as much as I do then you may want to take a look at this. This is the single edition of the song "One more time one more chance sang by Yamazaki Masayoshi.

The single contains 3 different versions. The Canon one, the instrumental, the solo/acoustic version..All three are equally beautiful so I recommend to listen to them all. You can find the single here. I apologise because I can't credit the uploader properly since I lost the page with the original link ...gomen..if anyone knows the uploader please let me now I can credit or remove the direct download to and linkback to the original site..

On YouTube I also found a beautiful piano version which is not featured in the single. You can listen to it here. I posted a link to the video but I plan to a second source as well. Recently Youtube is been hit by a huge copyright claim craze and tons of my videos ( as well as the favourites one) are disappearing....what a pity, seuriously.

So tell me, what do you think of the recent blog restyling? I absolutely love it hands down. Especially the new header ( with Yano and Nana), soo romantic.
All merits and credits go to my creative friend Drax who is the mind behind this lovely layout. Arigato gozaimasu!! *bows* m(_ _)m

Speaking of Bokura ga Ita ( like I always do) here's the link to Bokura ga ita Pinoy . it looks like a semi-official website mainly dedicated to the anime. Among the usual stuff you can find the episodes scripts ( all in Filipino though) plus pictures and info about the local voice actors. I am sure I have been on this site before however I never browsed it thoroughly mainly because I am not able to understand the language ( although some parts are written in English). Anyhow today for some reason I ended up in the video section and I found several clips from the anime. The dubbed anime !! Wow !!!This is brilliant news if you are an AMV fanatic like me ( or if you are simply curious to hear what the Filipino dub sounds like *lol*). Anyway is still a good news since I have been looking for raw episodes forever and to date I only managed to get two .
Voilá, here's a clip from episode 11 enjoy