No stretchings, biggest disappointment of the year. I guess the editor wants to wrap this up?

Still, Ran is a freaking cutie.

Too much plot!

Don't really care if this gets to be yuri or not. I am reading it cuz its one of the very few mangas I find interesting enough to read for it's story... Even if it has a lot about stretching.

So it wasn't just a fling and an incredibly fast shotgun marriage, It was actually a relationship that started in Uni.

As we've all suspected, she pushed him back. Going as far as throwing objects at him. Still, I feel like he's a bit dumb for saying "I don't know what changed" when he already knew of the miscarriage. I understand that someone that was all love-love now becomes this person full of hate and anger can be startling, but come on man. Could of dropped a call to a doctor or researched online "Why is my girlfriend acting this way?".

I understand why she feels like shit though. She continued working while pregnant ( over here in the west women do that almost till birth, or if there's health complication ) but in Japan you'll almost never see a women with any semblance of baby bump working. They all quit, temporarily or permanently, when they get pregnant as to "safe-guard" the live that's inside them. She must feel like it is all her fault and that phone call with her mother must of been "you whore bitch, that's what you get, etc..." Which probably didn't help.

She says it herself near the end before meeting her current roommate, "I haven't changed".

Also, the "But did I really consider that... just now" probably means she considered train suicide ( which is a common and pretty successful way of committing suicide ).

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No stretchings, biggest disappointment of the year. I guess the editor wants to wrap this up?

Still, Ran is a freaking cutie.

What are you talking about? The continent was stretching in the last few pages

On the plus side, we've actually got some straightforward yuri elements. Thinking Ran is cute, being inspired by her, thinking about how she liked her even when they hadn't seen each other for ages, and finally that reunion. It might not be a lot, but it's many times more than we've had to date.

On the plus side, we've actually got some straightforward yuri elements. Thinking Ran is cute, being inspired by her, thinking about how she liked her even when they hadn't seen each other for ages, and finally that reunion. It might not be a lot, but it's many times more than we've had to date.

Totally agree!

Yeah, this actually puts Keiko as either repressed or bi. She's totally into Ran.

Also, the "But did I really consider that... just now" probably means she considered train suicide ( which is a common and pretty successful way of committing suicide ).

nah she might be thinking there're casualty by the quake and delighted by the tought.
probably other get miscarriaged.
(i assumed her mother probably if she lived in touhoku....
she smirked after heard that!)

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Call me hater or whatever but I quit this thw moment it became het...I'm a lesbian but keiko isn't doing anything more but disappointing the hell out of me...I'm sorry I've seen too mess up.shiz in my life and don't want to ger depress with this...drop.

I'm hooked on a porn artist's manga because of the story. Either I have gone more insane than ever, or he's doing something right.

I'll assume the latter. I don't even care if it's not yuri anymore.

Also, the "But did I really consider that... just now" probably means she considered train suicide ( which is a common and pretty successful way of committing suicide ).

nah she might be thinking there're casualty by the quake and delighted by the tought.
probably other get miscarriaged.

Oh that makes more sense, well that's even more dark of a thought, wish harm on others. I see why she was taken aback and why she looked down on herself again for still being the same.

From the author of such classics as Japanese Preteen Suite and Nymphodelic...(I haven't actually read those I just looked at his mangaupdates page)

To be fair his art is pretty and his hentai books are above average in term of stories. Although most of it is Lolicon, CNN would have a field day.

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...CNN would have a field day.

XD

and I don't get why someone would drop this now? yeah there is het, but that is all in the past, aren't you forgetting about keiko's current situation? she is living with ran, what we are seeing now is all backstory, and like some others have mentioned, there are more serious yuri elements in this than the rest of the manga!
bottom line, don't drop it yet!! >_<

Wait I don't get it, I thought Keiko hate her mother because her mother forced her to do abortion, but it was not, I don't see what did Keiko's mother do to make Keiko hate her that much, even "can't forgive" her, then what is the reason ?

I hate it when girls think being a virgin is embarrassing and trying to lose it just because of that.

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Awww ... too cute to not be yuri, no fair dood

Wait I don't get it, I thought Keiko hate her mother because her mother forced her to do abortion, but it was not, I don't see what did Keiko's mother do to make Keiko hate her that much, even "can't forgive" her, then what is the reason ?

I hate it when girls think being a virgin is embarrassing and trying to lose it just because of that.

She wasn't particularly nice to her during her childhood and more importantly the thing she can't forgive is probably the words that were exchanged during that call.

It was a bit naive of her to think after all this time where they didn't even keep much contact ( she moved to Tokyo ) her mother would be provide the much needed support in these tough times. To be fair, she wasn't in the most lucid and normal state of mind.

She said "liked" >//////<

She's been with a partner for years, was pregnant, and about to get married. Saying anything else but "liked" in this situation would of been pretty weird.

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Whoever suggested Keiko is repressed or bi, i totally agree. Me thinks this page and the previous page sums it up: http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/stretch_ch22_5#15. I say this because I think in the flask back, she was thinking of Ran.

Now from Ran's point of view, I'd like to see a flashback of when she and Keiko first meet ( http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/stretch_ch22_5#4). In panel 2, upper left, why is Ran blushing so much? Maybe she is shocked/embarrased because a 3rd year is talking to her, but I think there may be something more.

Keiko is the opposite of Ran who worried sick and rushed too called her mother after a quake.
Keiko on the other hand just do evil grin....

She said "liked" >//////<

She's been with a partner for years, was pregnant, and about to get married. Saying anything else but "liked" in this situation would of been pretty weird.

she still hasn't got her awakening...

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Now from Ran's point of view, I'd like to see a flashback of when she and Keiko first meet ( http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/stretch_ch22_5#4). In panel 2, upper left, why is Ran blushing so much? Maybe she is shocked/embarrased because a 3rd year is talking to her, but I think there may be something more.

I believe she's blushing because Keiko told her that she just came back from a hotel. That conversation was mentioned in one of the previous chapters

She wasn't particularly nice to her during her childhood and more importantly the thing she can't forgive is probably the words that were exchanged during that call.

It was a bit naive of her to think after all this time where they didn't even keep much contact ( she moved to Tokyo ) her mother would be provide the much needed support in these tough times. To be fair, she wasn't in the most lucid and normal state of mind.

I see.

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looking at the panel when the guy is above her and they're having sex made me uneasy i don't want a guy above me like that I want a girl on top of me...thanks I'm coming to terms with my sexuality

I really want this to be yuri so my opinion might (will totally) swing that way. But I think she had tears when she told her fiance she was pregnant because she was regretting being pregnant. She remembered Ran because that was at the point of realization that she could never be with Ran now w/ a child (like how so many "yuri" end (uggghhh)). When would anyone that's pregnant randomly remember a semi-close acquaintance and stay up in bed thinking about them if it wasn't romantic?

She was probably so angry and upset when she lost the baby because she realized her feelings and she unconsciously hurt her baby/fetus or whatever because she was working too hard on purpose. And we see that on page 15 where she says, "if there's something I want, but cant have I simply try to fill the void with something else" Maybe she filled the void with her fiance and the baby when she really just wanted Ran but didn't know it yet. Since I don't see how her mothers death (from earthquake) would relate to filling a void compared to marrying and having a child w/ a man instead of being with a woman for the rest of her life?

yuri yuri yuri yuri!!~~~

well this is turning depressing.

I really want this to be yuri so my opinion might (will totally) swing that way. But I think she had tears when she told her fiance she was pregnant because she was regretting being pregnant. She remembered Ran because that was at the point of realization that she could never be with Ran now w/ a child (like how so many "yuri" end (uggghhh)). When would anyone that's pregnant randomly remember a semi-close acquaintance and stay up in bed thinking about them if it wasn't romantic?

She was probably so angry and upset when she lost the baby because she realized her feelings and she unconsciously hurt her baby/fetus or whatever because she was working too hard on purpose. And we see that on page 15 where she says, "if there's something I want, but cant have I simply try to fill the void with something else" Maybe she filled the void with her fiance and the baby when she really just wanted Ran but didn't know it yet. Since I don't see how her mothers death (from earthquake) would relate to filling a void compared to marrying and having a child w/ a man instead of being with a woman for the rest of her life?

yuri yuri yuri yuri!!~~~

Don't mean to be a downer, but this sounds a lot like wishful thinking.

Wow mostly everyone's hypothesis about Keiko have been dead on!!

I don't really understand the last 3 pages like the 'shaking' part and everyone in the crowd all talking about something?

well this is turning depressing.

It was going this way for a while.

eh no problem as long as it has a good end