Hikaru ga Chikyuu ni Itakoro……

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High-school student Koremitsu Akagi finds himself attending the funeral of Hikaru Mikado, who had died in an accident during Golden Week. He’s not sure why he’s there, as he only exchanged a few words with Hikaru at school. However, Hikaru doesn’t seem to be completely gone from the world, as he comes back as a ghost in order to fulfill a promise to Aoi Saotome, his fiancée. Since Koremitsu is the only one who can see him, he asks him to carry out his promise in his place.

Complying with his request, Koremitsu tries to fulfill Hikaru’s promises to the rest of his “girlfriends”, helping them overcome past misunderstandings and repair broken relationships.

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When Hikaru was on the Earth......
ヒカルが地球にいたころ……
光在地球之時……
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Haipher
Haipher rated it
August 2, 2018
Status: Completed
All in all, this is a good novel. The characters seem to be well made, the growth of both of the male protagonists is developed really smoothly and the mysteries are solved in an essence with each volume, at the end too. The girls also introduced in each volume brings us closer to the truth with each of their background making a slight impact on the story and the ghost protagonist. The only thing I felt disappointed in is, the last volume kind of made me feel as if the... more>> mystery lost some points or there was no point to it at all.

Nevertheless, if you are into a story with a bit of cosy feeling added with a bit of tragedy, mystery and romance then I recommend you to read this. <<less
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UselesslyUseless
UselesslyUseless rated it
July 23, 2018
Status: v10
This is a pretty good novel, all things considered. The arcs are clean and self contained, and the flow of events is quite sensible. The only thing keeping it from 5 star is the rather lackluster ending and the MC being blindingly obviously written by a woman. I can't point out where, but his thought process just feel wrong somehow.
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Rampage Debut
Rampage Debut rated it
November 11, 2022
Status: v10 epilogue
Beautiful. That's probably the best way to describe this novel. It isn't some masterpiece that would blow your minds away but something you can definitely call as good. Objectively speaking, it can be said to be a plain story but sometimes it is simple stories like these that are remembered and cherished the most.

Theme
Contrary to what other reviewers may say, this novel isn't about progressive growth of Koremitsu but showcasing his inner good heart behind his savage appearance. As the saying goes 'Don't judge a book by the cover'... more>> and Koremitsu, who had always been judged by his appearance as some deliquent, is a living example of this. Of course there is growth in his character as he learns not to detest girls but as Hikaru himself said that it is Koremitsu's inner personality that shines the most.

Writing
The writing is flowery in a literal sense. Every volume begins with Hikaru narrating about some kind of flower and ends with him narrating how that flower resembles the girl whose arc was covered in that volume. Needless to say, being a Shoujo-esque novel, it suffers heavily from the flowery language and useless info dumps which isn't my cup of tea. If you can ignore this, you will be pleasantly surprised with simple, mundane yet attractive, well fleshed out characters.

Romance
Despite giving shoujo novel vibes, romance isn't the main focus here; it's merely a subplot. Drama, frienship and different colors of love seems to be more pronounced. As one reviewer pointed out, the trade off between these and romance leads to romance being sidelined and current girl's drama being given more priority. So yeah, the romance feels awkward and sometimes misplaced at times. It's like author decided to put snippets of it in between, submitting the volume just before deadline...

Criticism
There isn't much criticism I can offer since I have little to no knowledge about shoujo novels (This is the first one I have ever read). However there is a very, very major issue that I would like to address:

Spoiler

From the very beginning of the novel, Asai mistrusted Koremitsu on being Hikaru's friend because she knew that Koremitsu came to school only once before Hikaru's death. Koremitsu himself admitted in the very first volume that he had talked with Hikaru only for few minutes. Yet Koremitsu knew about Hikaru's girls in depth, ranging from their likes, dislikes, their talk with Hikaru, memories, promises etc. Logically, a mere few minutes talk cannot explain how Koremitsu knew about girls in so much depth. Asa knew it and yet she never tried to investigate how he knew and remained frustrated about it.

To make things worse, Hikaru had talked with Tsuyako about his convo with Koremitsu so she also knew that Hikaru had merely talked with him for few moments. And yet she never questioned how Koremitsu knew about her. All other girls knew this too but they too never questioned how it was strange. Now I do know it's hard to believe in supernatural stuff but Asa or other girl could have atleast questioned the ways how Koremitsu had intel that goes beyond minutes of talking to territory of years long frienship.

And the excuse of supernatural stuff was clearly blown away when Asa said she believed in vengeful spirits like Rokujo. And yet she didn't believe in ghosts. Aoi clearly heard Hikaru's voice in her date and yet she failed to draw the connection. It's like how everything is laid on the table and yet author went out of their way to forcibly nerf characters' intelligence over just one topic to hide their incompetence of leaving a plothole big enough to drive a truck in.

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My personal gripe

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I liked Honoka in the beginning but as volumes went by, she became less and less interesting. Her development came to a halt at the very first volume itself and her trauma with men was left unexplained and was totally forgotten as she interacted with men without any problem. The last 3 volumes just make Honoka unbearing and a totally different character. On the other hand Aoi continuously got development as her various problems came up and spanned through many arcs (It is very clear that Aoi was intended to be the main heroine).

Koremitsu was clearly attracted to Aoi (including Honoka), even Hikaru pointed this out yet he couldn't make his mind about her just because she was one of Hikaru's flowers (Did Koremitsu forgot he fell in love with Yu, who was also one of Hikaru's flowers?) In spite of Hikaru saying he doesn't mind if Koremitsu cherished Aoi, Koremitsu continued to remain indecisive. I was actually looking for a proper conclusion to his turmoil but I was greatly disppointed by the ending.

Koremitsu was torn between choosing Aoi and Honoka, and when he went to rescue Honoka he immediately declared he loves her. I admit I am being biased towards Aoi but even so I would have liked to see a proper reason as to why he chose Honoka but he never explained his reason. He decided to take a plunge and in the heat of moment ended up confessing to her without properly thinking it through. In fact, not only Koremitsu but also the author seemed to be confused between Aoi and Honoka which is clearly evident from the previous volumes and then they decided 'Meh, let's just go with first girl wins ending. Who cares if Honoka isn't sticking to her character?' Such a shame but I shouldn't have been surprised. Ever since romance was relegated to subplot from second volume, there was no hope for proper romantic plot.

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Not considering my personal gripes with this novel, overall I would give this novel 4 out of 5 stars, one star deducted for huge plothole. I rarely find a novel as simply charming as this one so I think it well deserves a 4 despite its flaws. <<less
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