....I can fix her.

To be serious, this is not a character type I was expecting from this manga, and I kinda love her. She's all kinds of fucked up. The blood trickling down her fingertips is just *chef's kiss.

I'm a fan of mentally unstable exes (as long as they get a redemption arc).

why are bi women always represented as evil women who sleep around? dawgg i wish i can’t even talk to someone i like without stuttering

ruka’s brother is so handsome man he looks a lot like her i wonder what was his reaction to this whole situation cuz ruka looks pretty much like a kid in the last panel which is kind of fucked-up…

Rin's age is hard to pin down, at least with just chapters 19 and 41. Definitely in high school. Brother was her first high school friend, she introduces herself as "from R middle school", and there's the line about going through partners in 3 months. Which suggests the two of them met in Rin's first year of high school. But we don't know how long it took for Rin to meet Ruka. The other point is in chapter 19, where Rin talks to Ruka about exams and going to college in Hokkaido, to Ruka's devastation, but we don't know how long they'd been "together". Though I suppose we need to leave time for Ruka to mess around in middle school after Rin left?

Minimum age gap would be early 13 and late 15, maximal would be late 12 and early 18. Bit under 3 years or bit over 5 years, with the younger at the 12/13 cusp.

("early" being not that early -- Ruka and Rin meet in winter of Ruka's first year, so at least half the school year has gone by already.)

You also missed the "one year later" line on page 8.
There's two separate instances of "three months later", once on page 6 and one more on page 9, putting it at least 6 months into the second year.

So Rin and Ruka's brother meet at least 3 months into their first year and Rin and Ruka meet at least 6 months into their second year.
That only leaves the time between Ruka and Rin's first meeting and the events of chapter 19 up in the air.

You're right, I did miss those! Thanks!

I was gonna argue about "one year later" maybe being vague, but from Ch 19 we also know it was winter, Ruka's 1st year (middle). I'm not sure when Japan starts counting 'winter' for school (October? December? January)? but yeah, at least 6 months into the school year anyway (since it start in April).

So 13 and 16 as the narrowest possibility. (Or like 13.7 and 16.75, with the right birthdays.) Median gap is 4 years, 13 vs 17.

ruka’s brother is so handsome man he looks a lot like her i wonder what was his reaction to this whole situation cuz ruka looks pretty much like a kid in the last panel which is kind of fucked-up…

We do know she was several months into her 1st year of middle school; if it's October, minimum age 12 and 6 months, maximum age 13 and 6 months. (March 31 vs Apr 2 birthdays, say).

How people are drawn is often influenced by stylization, like Contract Sisters where the girl looks like a middle schooler (height, some other features) but is actually 17, which I think is the artist kind of cheating for effect.

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Messy ex arc coming up

Angst in my Manga Time Kirara?????
Wow this series must be popular as hell for the editors to allow that LOL

(Also, there comes a time in every lesbian's life when she starts to find sexualizing men's bodies extremely amusing and can't stop drawing them. It's called the Lesbian Fujoshi Effect, and it's similar to Straight Girl Drawing Enormous Tits Syndrome.)

Also Rin's psychology is actually, behind the dramatization, fairly true-to-life: child caretakers tend to develop all sorts of issues. ...not sure about THIS kind of issue specifically.
But also
Why is she getting accused of grooming.
Have you ever been to a college prep school? I have seen seniors date seventh graders. 14 and 17 ain't shit. (She talks about prepping for college exams, but they start prepping in second year of high school there)

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STEP AWAY FROM THE RUKA

But also
Why is she getting accused of grooming.
Have you ever been to a college prep school? I have seen seniors date seventh graders. 14 and 17 ain't shit. (She talks about prepping for college exams, but they start prepping in second year of high school there)

Seniors dating seventh graders is still creepy, no matter how much it happens
14 and 17 is in fact, shit

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But also
Why is she getting accused of grooming.
Have you ever been to a college prep school? I have seen seniors date seventh graders. 14 and 17 ain't shit. (She talks about prepping for college exams, but they start prepping in second year of high school there)

Seniors dating seventh graders is still creepy, no matter how much it happens and so is this

It was universally understood as creepy and nasty when I was in HS. Those years are majorly different for development. A middle schooler to a high schooler is a huge gap. I'm not sure what could have changed or maybe that person is just saying it for the argument.

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....I can fix her.

To be serious, this is not a character type I was expecting from this manga, and I kinda love her. She's all kinds of fucked up. The blood trickling down her fingertips is just *chef's kiss.

I'm a fan of mentally unstable exes (as long as they get a redemption arc).

I hope nothing redeems this creep

bruh whats with the math, that doesnt matter, i want that creep to be away from suuna and other innocent people

But also
Why is she getting accused of grooming.
Have you ever been to a college prep school? I have seen seniors date seventh graders. 14 and 17 ain't shit. (She talks about prepping for college exams, but they start prepping in second year of high school there)

Seniors dating seventh graders is still creepy, no matter how much it happens
14 and 17 is in fact, shit

It's creepy for seniors and seventh graders to date, no doubt. That was hyperbole/illustrative. Of how teenagers don't actually have brains
But a 14 and 17 year old dating doesn't necessarily constitute conscious grooming.
Like, you'd have to be pretty out of it to think that.
Toxic? A really bad idea? Yeah.
But grooming? No.

I think she's still redeemable. Unless you think all cluster B havers should be eradicated on sight. The idea that if you do sufficiently bad things you cant be redeemed is just bullshit that encourages people to double down and I hate it

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But also
Why is she getting accused of grooming.
Have you ever been to a college prep school? I have seen seniors date seventh graders. 14 and 17 ain't shit. (She talks about prepping for college exams, but they start prepping in second year of high school there)

Seniors dating seventh graders is still creepy, no matter how much it happens
14 and 17 is in fact, shit

It's creepy for seniors and seventh graders to date, no doubt. That was hyperbole/illustrative. Of how teenagers don't actually have brains
But a 14 and 17 year old dating doesn't necessarily constitute conscious grooming.
Like, you'd have to be pretty out of it to think that.
Toxic? A really bad idea? Yeah.
But grooming? No.

I think she's still redeemable. Unless you think all cluster B havers should be eradicated on sight. The idea that if you do sufficiently bad things you cant be redeemed is just bullshit that encourages people to double down and I hate it

The thoughts and actions she had in this chapter (and 19) didn't seem conscious to you? If you can reread chapter 19 and this one while thinking she just stumbled into this "relationship" by accident, we'll have to agree to disagree. She made a deliberate decision, then acted on it. Chapter 19 was very coercive and uncomfortable by itself. The things she said. The way she looked at middle school Ruka. Then her thoughts in this current chapter. How is that not purposeful and calculated? Rereading chapter 19 is a must, especially after hearing her plans in this one.

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That was resolved quickly.

But man, Ruka looks weird compared to earlier chapters. Or compared to her equivalent in Shino to Ren. And I don't like it.

Suuna-face is constant, I think.

Rejected and hopefully she never comes back! At least this event ended on our couple being cute together <3

That was pretty anticlimactic, which isn't a bad thing, it was just such a dramatic chapter last chapter, I was expecting something more for this one.

Nice subversion. I would've enjoyed seeing her getting torn a new one but depriving her of exactly what she was hoping for is its own kind of catharsis.

Wait that's it? So this entire thing was just used so Suuna could confess to Ruka?

We waited a month for that? How anticlimatic they're seriously just going to let this woman off? And what we're supposed to assume we're never going to see her again? I assume she's going to most likely tell Suuna about her past now so we might learn a little bit more but that woman should be in jail and we're just going to just ignore her and go on about our business I guess? I feel even introducing her was just a waste we could have never seen her or never known what actually happened in her past and nothing would have changed...

I will say the best part of this entire chapter was this creepy pedophile of a woman hoping that Ruka would actually care about her enough that hate her and give her that same face that she was hoping for and the shock on her face when Ruka just flat out and didn't give a shit was very satisfying.

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That was pretty anticlimactic, which isn't a bad thing, it was just such a dramatic chapter last chapter, I was expecting something more for this one.

Yeah. I don't get the need to have her prey on Ruka at that age just to be used for this. Not that surprising, I guess. Unfortunate though because it feels like it really downplays what this girl did back then to a younger girl. I understand Ruka being a changed person, that isn't the issue. The tone of it was a bit off, though. I'll just assume the story switched to become much more lighthearted in the years since those earlier chapters. Maybe she just wanted to forget it and move on from what she set up back then as quickly as possible.

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they're seriously just going to let this woman off

What exactly do you envision a couple of high schoolers in Japan doing?

they're seriously just going to let this woman off

What exactly do you envision a couple of high schoolers in Japan doing?

there are yuri thugs waiting just outside the aquarium

they're seriously just going to let this woman off

What exactly do you envision a couple of high schoolers in Japan doing?

I think they mean narratively and tonally. I doubt they wanted our girls to take her knee caps.

There are yuri thugs waiting just outside the aquarium.

If there isn't already a manga about this (and if you can draw) we gotta team up and put this out ASAP

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That seemed like a very quick and healthy resolution to the situation.

Kind of glad it didn't drag out the drama even if it was anti-climatic lol.

I like how the previous, fucked up chapter was almost entirely in plain 4koma format, but this fluffy cute chapter was largely in normal manga format