Good reminder I should reread this series. I was kind of aging alongside it for a few years and it would be nice to take a retrospective on it as a whole

Peak.

I love them.

So this was the final, final chapter?

Just married life things. ^_^

3 more chapters to go then, counting the final extra as well.

the series that started it all for me

I'm not reading 140 pages of comments to see if someone said this, but just fyi this comic is peak ADHD x Autism, I love it so much.

my favorite coming to age domestic pair -- I also grew up with these two. feels like just yesterday I was reading this in college.

I didn't expect to cry reading manga today, yet here I am.

The feelings reading this for the first time ages ago came back all together, damnit.

Looking forward to the next chapter.

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yet another of the last few super long running yuri series about to end :(
I will be sad but its been a great series - I will have to reread it all in one go when its done like I did Miss sunflower.

I didnt need a big reveal ending for either just the promises they wanted to always stay together :)

last edited at Mar 13, 2026 9:51AM

yet another of the last few super long running yuri series about to end :(

I think it basically ended in 2023. Just a trickle of specials after that.

Please, Yukiko, keep drawing about the girls, until they (and we) are all old and wrinkly~ =w=

Inject that Seri x Shouko fluff directly into my veins please.

I was in the middle of reading the chapter when it got nuked, very sad

Where'd the new chapter go!?

What happened?

mdex https://mangadex.org/chapter/004e8496-b98f-48cd-bbed-ef0a167925c3/

Maybe unclear whether it's "extra chapter" or "official doujin"? I dunno.

Can I blow your mind for a minute? During most of this series, Sakurako has NO IDEA how pretty Kasumi is.
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If Sakurako isn't wearing her glasses, Kasumi, Yukari, Shouko, etc. are just blurs. Let that sink in.

(you have to be someguymark fans to get this sorry)

Also, yes, they did explain that Sakurako has contacts.

But her eyesight IS 20/100

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Sort of feel like Yukiko is baiting the readers at this point...

I didn't remember Hinako and Fujiho dating. I remember they where fake dating for reason but i didn't remember they end up together for real.

Good for you Hinako, finally officially together with Fujiho and given up on getting between Sakurako and Kasumi. ^_^

That's right, folks. The ambiguity is the point.

Lovely chapter to reinforce the point of the series once again. Always nice coming back to these two.Their love is amazing. Feels effortless for them in a way that confuses the more conventional minded. The discussion of insecurity and anxiety was interesting as well. The need to use labels as brands. Feels like an appropriate way to frame their not worrying about labels or the things others might. So secured and so much trust. Works for them, that's all that matters.

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Wasn't expecting the manga to actually explicitly confirms there isn't anything more going on or to be expected "behind the scenes". They're not dating, not girlfriends and not planning to get married, just friends who love each other and live together. And good for them, because it really summarizes the vibe of the story, but...

Kinda feels like the tags should reflect it. I'm not as familiar as some others with the tags on this site but there should be some better combination than those presently used, like romance and/or couple life feeling off when they're explicitly not dating, and something else to replace it and better characterize their relationship, no ?

It seems a bit strange that a story where them not being girlfriends is the point would have the exact same set of tags as other stories where the characters are girlfriends. Something something trying to apply little boxes (tags) to a relationship that doesn't fit in them.

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Wasn't expecting the manga to actually explicitly confirms there isn't anything more going on or to be expected "behind the scenes".

It’s still “confirmed” through Hinako’s lens, when she herself is needing specific definitions. Sakurako’s “not dating” may be different than how Hinako interprets it.

Sakurako emphasizes things not changing and feeling secure, but we know canonically that she struggled with wanting to date, wanting more, and jealousy. So she’s either misrepresenting things, remembering differently, or has actually settled her mind on this in some comfortable way. Or, grimly, accepted that this is what she will get and puts a brave face on it. We don’t know.

Especially towards the end of the series, Yukiko seems to like ambiguity derived not from contradiction per se, but denying the reader access to the characters’ interior worlds omitting dialogue between Kasumi and Sakurako, instead showing them to us through other perspectives and interpretations from other characters.

Depending on the reader, the series is either frustrating bait or a walk through different types of love.

Personally I like Yukiko but this series still drives me totally up the wall, and that has much more to do with narrative choices than relationship ambiguity. I’m in the yelling and throwing things at the wall camp, and with a degree of projection without evidence that that is secretly how Sakurako feels too.