A good story but a decidedly rushed ending, I hope they do an extra chapter showing them together!

That's a hell lotta flowers x)
Also I think they did the best they could with what they had, it's not unusual to see a serie having to rush to finish the story in a last chapter.
It's saddly the destiny of a lot of yuris.

Yeah, I agree, it felt kinda rushed. It’s so weird that the story didn’t get at least 2 or 3 volumes. Usually, characters take much longer to realize and accept their feelings, but here she just had one chat in a bar, and everything magically resolved itself—along with the insecurities that had been haunting her for her entire life? That's not how it works irl.

Correct me if I'm wrong. But it seems like Ayame told Ema I love you as a friend, but give me time, and hopefully I'll learn to love you as a lover. A straight girl trying to make a relationship work with a lesbian, there's no way that will implode on them. So happy ending, I guess.

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Correct me if I'm wrong. But it seems like Ayame told Ema I love you as a friend, but give me time, and hopefully I'll learn to love you as a lover. A straight girl trying to make a relationship work with a lesbian, there's no way that will implode on them. So happy ending, I guess.

I don't think she's straight. The part about being 'normal' to me felt like a clear depiction of desperation due to compulsory heterosexuality. Maybe its because I'm a lesbian but I understand the weirdly boy crazy chase while trying very hard to be normal before recognizing yourself for who you actually are.

I did the same thing. I wanted so badly to be normal. To not feel weird and wrong. And it took me until I was 26 to unpack all that and finally come out as a lesbian.

To me this feels very similar to that.

hm

i do think ayame has strong heteronormativity but i guess it'll work out for them! it's a fictional story!!!

Correct me if I'm wrong. But it seems like Ayame told Ema I love you as a friend, but give me time, and hopefully I'll learn to love you as a lover. A straight girl trying to make a relationship work with a lesbian, there's no way that will implode on them. So happy ending, I guess.

I don't think she's straight. The part about being 'normal' to me felt like a clear depiction of desperation due to compulsory heterosexuality. Maybe its because I'm a lesbian but I understand the weirdly boy crazy chase while trying very hard to be normal before recognizing yourself for who you actually are.

I did the same thing. I wanted so badly to be normal. To not feel weird and wrong. And it took me until I was 26 to unpack all that and finally come out as a lesbian.

To me this feels very similar to that.

You're probably right about the author's intentions with this. However Ayame's line "But someday, I like to hold my head high and say they(her and Ema's love) are the same!" leads me to doubt that conclusion. It says to me Ayame isn't quite convinced a romantic relationship with Ema will work for her yet.
I guess it boils down to I would have really wanted to see Ayame have her all in moment before I could accept the "happily ever after" ending this story is apparently trying to give us.

I mean, straight women also feel pressured in being normal (having a partner, marry, have kids) especially at a certain age, they don’t only have blind dates, they have blind dates exclusively for marriage. In japan there is even a joke about women over 25 being and compared to christmas cake.
Obviously this can be read as comphet, but I think women, independent of sexuality, are imposed a “normal”.

Honestly, even if it was kinda rushed, it still felt like it stuck the landing sufficiently. Up to this point I'd been pretty frustrated with Ayame, but the chapter did a good job of getting into her headspace and reframing her prior behavior. Mind, I think all of that could have probably landed better if it had more room to breathe and unfold naturally, the turnaround definitely feels too quick; but still, for what it was it managed to take a story I wasn't really feeling all that much and turn it into a story I wish we could have seen a slight bit more of. Soooo yeah.

Glad the last panel implies Ema grows her hair out again, and that that in turn indirectly kinda suggests Ema changing herself to try to appeal to Ayame was something the story/author was aware of being a bad idea. Might even be the case, with that context, that the short hairstyle looking so bad in comparison was intentional to underline this.

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Thank the lord she has a bob it really is lightyears better. Kinda rushed ending but still decent.

I know the “It was axed!” comments always pop up everytime a manga ends (without any link or info) but this author has only short works most are one shots or 2 volumes, only one of her series is 6 volumes. Most series from Hug Pixiv are one volume too.

I know the “It was axed!” comments always pop up everytime a manga ends (without any link or info) but this author has only short works most are one shots or 2 volumes, only one of her series is 6 volumes. Most series from Hug Pixiv are one volume too.

Thus 100%. The Axe™️ is easy to blame, because nobody likes a publisher the way they wanna like a mangaka, but truthfully, it just isn't that common. What is that common is an artist not doing the best job with pacing.

The pacing at the end of the chapter feels way off. Ema was so restrained at the beginning of the chapter, we didn't see any of her for the few pages in between, and then she has an Eruption of Feelings at the end as if we'd been watching this build for much longer... :/

She's been going through this for years at this point, and I think the line "if only you were a guy" is a very justified reason to finally break.

Yeah but we didn't read those years. That's my point; story pacing, not just general logic.

Nana if it were actually gay.
Anyways I actually liked the ending, even if it was extremely rushed idc, at this point I expect gl titles especially those that don't center high schoolers to get the ax, so authors have to wrap the stories quickly. I also disagree with the comments saying Ayame is still straight by the end of this, and only told Ema she loved her as a friend. I thought it was pretty obvious her feelings were mutual but I suppose some people do need to see a final kiss on the lips to confirm it.
All in all pretty decent story, and I have to imagine Nana must've had some kind of influence on the author.

I love the way her headspace is explained here, and how they’ll spend their years growing into their new relationship. Overall a very solid story in my opinion, with very cute art, and I’m excited to see what this mangaka makes next!

The pacing at the end of the chapter feels way off. Ema was so restrained at the beginning of the chapter, we didn't see any of her for the few pages in between, and then she has an Eruption of Feelings at the end as if we'd been watching this build for much longer... :/

She's been going through this for years at this point, and I think the line "if only you were a guy" is a very justified reason to finally break.

Yeah but we didn't read those years. That's my point; story pacing, not just general logic.

I think between the flashback panels and the way their relationship was explained it got the idea of how long they’ve been doing this across pretty well. It was meant to be a short story and we didn’t need to see everything. That’s just my thoughts, where the pacing was fine in my opinion and I loved it overall, it’s fine if we agree to disagree.

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That's a kind of scary ending... "It'll be okay because they love each other"... frightening. Good luck to em, it was sweet, it's just... good luck

Ema is my soulmate. I hate black coffee as well. Glad the whole thing with Ayame got resolved.

Correct me if I'm wrong. But it seems like Ayame told Ema I love you as a friend, but give me time, and hopefully I'll learn to love you as a lover. A straight girl trying to make a relationship work with a lesbian, there's no way that will implode on them. So happy ending, I guess.

idk man, we MIGHT need a sequel for this. pretty good piece, but ends are left untied. rather large ends to say the least.

I hope we get at least one extra chapter with them as lovers, but that probably won't happen.

I got the feeling that the focus was comphet when in Ayame's flashback you see her "love questions" survey thing has "man" crossed out and person written in where it asks her preferred type. That was the one detail that convinced me this was about Ayame's struggles with chasing something she doesn't really want and suppressing what she does want.

I agree the ending felt rushed, as it didn't seem like something that should have been resolved in one chapter - I would have liked to see a bit more walkthrough of Ayame's headspace, rather than the bar girl wrapping things up with a epiphanic "everyone has their own normal" and essentially being done with it. This is one of those stories where I think the epilogue could be as compelling/interesting as the main story - Ayame now has a lot of life navigating to do after she's given up on "normal", essentially reinventing her life drives. An epilogue would also be very slice of life and cute, which is totally my jam so I'm biased.

This was really incredibly good, I thought the pacing was really tight and the emotions were conveyed very strongly. It felt a bit like a volume-length oneshot, almost. It's really interesting to see people feel Ayame's turnaround was rushed, I thought the atmosphere of the story and the expressions she makes at different points set a really strong groundwork, where it felt like Ema's tearful face after the kiss punched her right in the gut and she knew EXACTLY what Ema had been expressing in all those other situations that she had ignored.

Sometimes moments like that bust right through your accustomed daily life and thought patterns, and it felt like once Ayame could actually recognize Ema had been in love with her all along, she had a really good head on her shoulders and knew what direction to go, and went through an emotionally realistic amount of trouble to figure her shit out. I love that by the end, she knows the shape of her own feelings, and where she wants to be in her life, even if she hasn't had the time to fully sort out her feelings. Sometimes life is like that, and the way they talked it out was so genuine. To me the hug at the end was more satisfying than if they had kissed. You solidly know where you need to be, and it's by this person's side.

It's really cool seeing a realistically emotionally intelligent character like Ayame who has very specific blind spots based on her own issues, and once they get beyond them realize they've fucked up and what they need to do to make it better. I love how much intentional effort she is to not hurt Ema or leave her stuck in that terrible uncertainty. She confessed in a public place, and told Ema she had turned down the guy that asked her out: she showed Ema she's facing it head-on, and her vulnerability and room to grow into her emotions are real but are not uncertainty. It needs to be very clear she's not doing this out of pity, and she's not going to force it and pretend to be at a place she's not yet. She's a good gal.

I really enjoyed this whole story, so tightly-written and well-executed.

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I also fucking love the title drop in the last chapter??? Like it doesn't 100% fit the story until RIGHT then. When it makes it clear this is exact application of the title was what it meant the whole time. It really strikes home what Ayame must be feeling, and how it's re-contextualized everything for her.

Well thank heavens she's growing her hair back out.

This was really incredibly good, I thought the pacing was really tight and the emotions were conveyed very strongly. It felt a bit like a volume-length oneshot, almost. It's really interesting to see people feel Ayame's turnaround was rushed, I thought the atmosphere of the story and the expressions she makes at different points set a really strong groundwork, where it felt like Ema's tearful face after the kiss punched her right in the gut and she knew EXACTLY what Ema had been expressing in all those other situations that she had ignored.

Sometimes moments like that bust right through your accustomed daily life and thought patterns, and it felt like once Ayame could actually recognize Ema had been in love with her all along, she had a really good head on her shoulders and knew what direction to go, and went through an emotionally realistic amount of trouble to figure her shit out. I love that by the end, she knows the shape of her own feelings, and where she wants to be in her life, even if she hasn't had the time to fully sort out her feelings. Sometimes life is like that, and the way they talked it out was so genuine. To me the hug at the end was more satisfying than if they had kissed. You solidly know where you need to be, and it's by this person's side.

It's really cool seeing a realistically emotionally intelligent character like Ayame who has very specific blind spots based on her own issues, and once they get beyond them realize they've fucked up and what they need to do to make it better. I love how much intentional effort she is to not hurt Ema or leave her stuck in that terrible uncertainty. She confessed in a public place, and told Ema she had turned down the guy that asked her out: she showed Ema she's facing it head-on, and her vulnerability and room to grow into her emotions are real but are not uncertainty. It needs to be very clear she's not doing this out of pity, and she's not going to force it and pretend to be at a place she's not yet. She's a good gal.

I really enjoyed this whole story, so tightly-written and well-executed.

Well said!

I also fucking love the title drop in the last chapter???

I didn't even notice it, unsure if it counts when it's not a character saying it (but I get your point :P)