Tatoe Todokanu Ito da to shite mo

Description

Hopelessly in love, high schooler Uta must navigate living with her brother and Kaoru, her crush … and sister-in-law. Desperate to get over her unrequited feelings, Uta pulls away, but when the cracks in her brother's marriage begin to show, Kaoru begins to confide in her new teenage sister, which just makes matters worse!

Note: The official English release does not have the Epilogue chapter.

Type

Manga

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

If I Could Reach You

Meine unerwiderte Liebe (German)

My Unrequited Love (tMnR)

Tatoe Todokanu Ito da toshitemo

This Love That Won't Reach

たとえとどかぬ糸だとしても

即使这份思念无法传达

Groups Scanlating

Chaosteam

Loaner

Piranhaplant

Latest Release(s)

c.Epilogue by Loaner 5 years ago

v.7 c.37 (end) by Chaosteam 5 years ago

v.7 c.36 by Chaosteam 5 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

7 Volumes (Complete) + Epilogue

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

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Forum

1 topics, 1 posts

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User Rating

Average: 7.3 / 10.0 (138 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.12 / 10.0

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Last Updated

July 20th, 2025 10:38am PDT - 1 month ago

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Genre

Drama Romance Slice of Life Yuri
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Category Recommendations

Listen to My Voice!!

Fake Fur

Nibanme na Boku to Ichiban no Kanojo

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Shinyuu ni Sukina Hito ga Dekitarashii

Recommendations

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Author(s)

tMnR

Artist(s)

tMnR

Year

2016

Original Publisher

Ichijinsha

Serialized In (magazine)

Comic Yuri Hime (Ichijinsha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Kodansha USA (7 Volumes - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #893

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Monthly Pos #1750 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3212

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6 Month Pos #4087

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Year Pos #6280

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List Stats

On 310 reading lists

On 187 wish lists

On 235 completed lists

On 12 unfinished lists

On 132 custom lists

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tMnR's If I Could Reach You Manga Reaches Climax in October

5 years ago

User Comments [ Order by usefulness ]

might have expected too much

by YuriTachikawa
3 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

I dunno. The one-sided feelings of the younger MC were explored quite beautifully, but I couldn't see the supposed growth of the older MC. In the end she still relies on the people around her to make her 'own' decisions. What really bugs me though is that we never get to see how their relationship came to be, neither between the married couple nor the two female leads nor the brother and sister. They were just kinda THERE. The side couple (which is the actual shoujo ai imo) was so out of place and completely unnecessary.

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Well...that's....interesting.

by MatrixM
3 years ago

Rating: 7.5 / 10.0

huh...I don't know what to say about this series.
First of all, overall impressions, it's decent. Nothing to write home about, but decent. So let's say a 7.5, if generous. maybe 7.....no 7.5 feels right.
When I read the last volume 7 chapter, it felt unclear what this series was trying to be..? Like by that point it felt like a slice of life...story about life. About relationships and just about the characters with no actual core to the story, not enough for me to say 'oh this story is about (this)'.
I suppose the main ideas we have here are a person with abandonment issues. And a person with a hopeless love who's trying to figure out the best path in a no-win situation.
Then I read the Epilogue chapter (I was lucky enough to read this a year after it was released and scanlated, so I could read the whole thing and not mistakenly think the last in vol 7 was the last, as that left me wanting more and feeling a bit confused)
And the Epilogue does make the story feel more...whole. In a way where Idk how to even describe the premise or core of this story anymore.
Hmmn

This is in the end not a great review for if you want to know what this story is about. But it's a review that's honest to the feelings I've been left with. (As I literally finished the series in one day and immediately started typing this)

In the end, there's better stuff out there, I'm sure. This is decent. I'm curious what else this mangaka will come up with..

Edit: I'll add that in the end we're not left with many 'good' people in the cast. And that's kinda annoying. Uta is in a no-win situation so it's hard to blame her. And it's understandable really, with the rest of the cast, too, they're caught in shitty circumstances. But honesty would've gone a long way in helping a lot of them.

... Last updated 3 years ago

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It was okay.

by ohgu59
4 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

The story was a bit lackluster, but at the very least it was done in a realistic way. It wasn't overly dramatic and Uta's character was surprisingly mature. I didn't really care for any of the other characters as they all had such horrible personalities. Especially with Kuroe.. her immaturity was supposed to seem cute.. but it was hard to take this manga seriously whenever her story was shown.

Again, pretty much all the characters had some kind of issue which made this frustrating to read. Reiichi with his indecisiveness and irresponsibility. Risako who betrays her friend for no good reason all while expecting everything to remain the same between them. Lastly.. Kaoru who was too dependent on Reiichi and Uta for her own happiness even when its at the expense of their own. As the reader, it's hard to relate with the main character's strong feelings of love when only the negative sides of Kaoru are shown in the manga. I know they grew up together and what not, but nothing was really revealed from the readers perspective as to why that character is so loved. Instead, a lot of time is spent showing how Kaoru is stuck in an unsatisfying/one-sided marriage where she uses her sister-in-law as a stand in for her husband.. Also, the issues with Reiichi and Risako are never really resolved by the end. It just conveniently cuts to a happy ending.

It was an interesting idea. I think I would've enjoyed it more had all the issues been appropriately addressed by the end, and if the side characters were more well rounded rather than being used as disposable characters.

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An interesting and relatively realistic triangle portraying complex emotions and growth

by dashannes
5 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

A story about a couple living together with a teenage girl and the growing feelings between the females. The story focuses on the emotions and growth of the two. Especially the younger one is nothing like a static character as she grows significantly throughout the story and repeatedly surprises both other characters and the reader with her maturity. All main characters share the premise of their feelings having no place in their lives and suppressing them, but in different ways for each of them. I find all of them believable and interesting, though the male lead is portrayed a bit weaker than I would have liked.

What to expect:

A relatively realistic triangle intertwined by different interpretations of feelings of love between a grown couple and a teenage girl.
Character growth and detailed portrayals of conflicting emotions
Well written character interactions
Good pacing (opinions may differ, but I really liked it)
Some fluff, some angst and believable drama inducing a nice journey of emotions in both the characters and the reader.
an overall satisfying but rushed ending (this is where I subtracted a point). The story had potential to be double as long in my opinion. I hope for complementary material in the future.

What not to expect:

One-dimensional or "cute" (a.k.a. naïve) characters (well, one particular side character was a bit disappointing, but it did not disturb the flow too much)
Yuri
cozy comedy (has a little of it, but clearly focuses on other themes)
random lazy-writing plot twists (a drama without a car crash and without randomly evil aunts, yay!)
A quick read (The story is relatively long and should be even longer, settle for a nice slow one)

Bottom line:
I absolutely loved this one and compulsively checked for scanlation updates daily just because of this manga. I liked it for the relatively realistic and serious tone, the believable drama, the portrayal of complex emotions and thoughts, and well written character interactions. I name this my favorite manga, despite the minor drawbacks I mentioned above.
I am now eager to reread the story as soon as I can spare a day.

Additional note: This manga is VERY similar to Ani no Yome to Kurashite Imasu, if you like one then you will like the other, too. https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=128136

... Last updated 5 years ago

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