We have seen some growth. Yeah, Arisa is still super flustered every time but Mari is definitely getting more comfortable with her new role as the more... active partner, even proposing to Arisa. Still, progress is pretty excruciatingly slowly on the Arisa front, and I wouldn't expect that to change much any time soon. Could be another 10 chapters til we see anything on even the scale of their hot springs trip. But hey, you never know! It's still pretty consistently cute, and there's usually at least one good gag per chapter. (Not a lot for what is essentially a comedy 4koma but hey, I'll take what i can get.)
edit: Also, and this is by no means a complaint to the good people scanlating it, updates are almost always gonna be less frequent in non-official translations, which doesn't help the sense of scale/time for progress.
(And make no mistake, I definitely don't deny that the character development and story is inching along at a... relaxed pace.)
last edited at Oct 5, 2018 4:58PM