guys guys guys guys motherfucking anime confirmed OMFG it s happening everybody stay calm.

EXCITED FOR THE ANIMEEE
2018 THE YEAR OF MORE YURI ANIMEEE

I love how everyone is spreading the news like the freaking Gospel, myself included. XD

Excellent use of the karate chop to the head to get her attention, she was surprised !! Yuu was getting her point across very well. I agree with everybody the matter is not over yet! might see some interaction/reaction between Yuu, Touko and Sayaka I can get very interesting I suspect that Sayaka and Yuu let their feelings known if Touko pick it up. Yes were was the writter Koyomi of the play? I wonder if Akari might start noticing Suguru after the play? so many questions no?
And finaly I would like to hear the conversation between Touko and her parents.

Bugs Bunny .....Brother what a way to run a railroad!!!

Good chapter. I'm smelling a satisfying (acceptable) yet bitter sweet ending.

Damn, my feels. This is definitely one of my favorites, and I can't wait to see where things go from here; as others have said, the play is over, but the story is far from. Plus, the anime is coming at some point, so there's that to look forward to...

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I'm still not remotely ready for the emotional turn this series has taken.

This has been everything I look forward to in a yuri series. Yeah, the play was everything that one would expect... but I'm still so glad to see it. And it was still a better production than I expected. I was kinda expecting Sayaka to find out the deal with Yuu and Touko... and to be driven by empathy (imagining herself in Yuu's position) to yell at Touko.

And if the anime gives a het ending to all this, I fully expect it to still include the Sayaka side story to completely undermine itself.

And if the anime gives a het ending to all this, I fully expect it to still include the Sayaka side story to completely undermine itself.

This series has had about the least het inflection short of the 404: Men not found tag that I can possibly imagine. Anything's possible, of course, but the male het pickings in the manga itself are pretty slim.

• Maki: Don't play that game.
• Akari's crush: Lying dickwad.
• Glasses-kun: Akari's next target.

I guess we should be on the lookout for an anime-only male character or a reworking of one of the student-council geeks as a Warning: Slippery when het signal.

And if the anime gives a het ending to all this, I fully expect it to still include the Sayaka side story to completely undermine itself.

This series has had about the least het inflection short of the 404: Men not found tag that I can possibly imagine. Anything's possible, of course, but the male het pickings in the manga itself are pretty slim.

• Maki: Don't play that game.
• Akari's crush: Lying dickwad.
• Glasses-kun: Akari's next target.

I guess we should be on the lookout for an anime-only male character or a reworking of one of the student-council geeks as a Warning: Slippery when het signal.

Jesus christ they can't possibly make it a het ending. o.o It is popular in Japan as a yuri work and Nakatani had better throw a fit if that was ever suggested.

Jesus christ they can't possibly make it a het ending. o.o It is popular in Japan as a yuri work and Nakatani had better throw a fit if that was ever suggested.

That’s almost word-for-word the alternative post I considered writing, but I had too much fun thinking about the tiny herd of boys in the series and their obvious shortcomings as potential romantic leads.

So I’m glad you did it.

... what about the guy who confessed to Yuu before the story even started?

... what about the guy who confessed to Yuu before the story even started?

Aaargh! You're right. Surely he has gone off to be a hermit in the mountains after that rejection . . .

Holdddd up. Anime? When?? Where was I? Huh??

Holdddd up. Anime? When?? Where was I? Huh??

Yes. This coming October. Not in places where the news exploded, apparently. Yes.

If I was Touko’s father, I would say something like this.
http://imgur.com/f9kFN1I

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Now I really wonder how things would turn out

Character development. Good. Chemistry development. Good. Unscripted future. Good. I'm seeing all the things I want to see in this genre. Nothing is set in stone (or obviously so). I like it, keep going. I mean, I know how I want it to end (as I'm sure many of you have your own hopes), but it isn't about me (or any reader). It's about the story as a whole. Good.

I sense drama coming

Touko's reactions on pp. 11-12 look a lot like Yuu's walking up to her and smacking her was not in the script. Sayaka's baffled stare on p. 9 also makes me think Touko might have ad-libbed her previous line - maybe Yuu saw that from the sidelines and was encouraged to one-up.

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Touko's reactions on pp. 11-12 look a lot like Yuu's walking up to her and smacking her was not in the script. Sayaka's baffled stare on p. 9 also makes me think Touko might have ad-libbed her previous line - maybe Yuu saw that from the sidelines and was encouraged to one-up.

That's pretty plausible--if any cartoonist is expressive enough to visually distinguish between characters acting like they're acting on the one hand and giving a real response while they're supposed to be acting on the other it would be Nakatani.

If Touko's line is an ad-lib, that would be the first time she's indicated that she knows Sayaka is in love with her, right?

If Touko's line is an ad-lib, that would be the first time she's indicated that she knows Sayaka is in love with her, right?

No, the ad-lib would be aimed at Yuu. That line doesn't quite match anything the girlfriend says during the play, let alone what Touko knows of Sayaka.

If Touko's line is an ad-lib, that would be the first time she's indicated that she knows Sayaka is in love with her, right?

No, the ad-lib would be aimed at Yuu. That line doesn't quite match anything the girlfriend says during the play, let alone what Touko knows of Sayaka.

Well, time will tell if the line means anything in particular at all outside of the the context of the play. As you say, Sayaka’s astonished expression suggests that it’s a surprise to her, but if so, the upshot of such an ad lib is hard to specify without more context.

I do suspect that Touko has at least some inkling of Sayaka’s feelings, though. (Again, an example of Nakatani’s “options open” narrative style: Touko might have no idea, or she might have known all along, and either one would be consistent with the previous story.)

If I was Touko’s father, I would say something like this.
http://imgur.com/f9kFN1I

Your kids are going to hate you if you make a habit of randomly shipping them with people you've never met. ;p

Touko's reactions on pp. 11-12 look a lot like Yuu's walking up to her and smacking her was not in the script. Sayaka's baffled stare on p. 9 also makes me think Touko might have ad-libbed her previous line - maybe Yuu saw that from the sidelines and was encouraged to one-up.

Ehhh, I'm pretty sure they're just acting. The blocking and dialogue follow the context of the play pretty closely, and if they'd ad-libbed, the author would have shown the other characters reacting to it, either during the moment or at least after the play was over.