This story has me anxious these last few chapters, I hope they start hanging out together again. The teen angst is a little too realistic for me to handle. I need a chapter like in fireworks one, cute and serious, not just serious.

i enjoyed the angst but i want them to make up soon... and also, i relate to much to konatsu that it hurts too much reading her pov. dang

I love this but at the same time I'm getting Stretch flashbacks

I just want these two to announce how gay they are for each other but I don't think it's gonna happen

dang it, friendship is really strong in this one, so much they don't even realize, confessing or nah?

"There are things you are better off not knowing"

I don't know why anyone can think this is a good idea. It's NEVER the case that you're better off from lacking information about someone. It's such a horrible inhuman manga trope to use this.

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If I recall correctly, Konatsu originally thought about that in regards to finding out that Koyuki doesn't seem to consider their first encounter special like she does. I also agree that knowing everything is better, but that's not true for every person, for some it can be tough to deal with it. "Ignorance is bliss" and all that.

For fucks sake, it's just a little alcohol. Get over it. ^^

"There are things you are better off not knowing"

I don't know why anyone can think this is a good idea. It's NEVER the case that you're better off from lacking information about someone. It's such a horrible inhuman manga trope to use this.

That's far too big a NEVER--it totally depends on the situation. You may have a reasonable argument if we're talking about interpersonal situations like in this manga, but there have been lots of times when I found out something about someone I used to know that spoiled my positive memory of them.

(Or like if you become friends with someone you used to dislike a lot--"I used to fantasize about smacking you in the face" isn't information that needs to be made public just for the abstract principle of candor/full disclosure.)

Sometimes previously unknown information coming out doesn't do anyone any good.

So, are they gonna gay or are they not gonna gay?

The angst is too real to me too. :'(

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I want the gay ughhhh

Everyone in the chat: are they gonna gay oooor ???

To gay, or not to gay. That is the question...that we all want.

To gay, or not to gay. That is the question...that we all want.

im so curious about it HAHAHA

I was re reading the first chapters and it's pretty shameless from the author to say the story is "not gay". She should go back and read what she wrote o.o

Apparently the mangaka has come out and said that there is no gay.

Citation needed

Minran posted:

Apparently the mangaka has come out and said that there is no gay.

Citation needed

Here.

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Hagino-sensei drew Konatsu singing karaoke on her twitter since she was too gloomy to do it in the actual chapter.

I hope they get the chance to sing after all the storm is clear

So, are they gonna gay or are they not gonna gay?

The angst is too real to me too. :'(

I think it's gonna be left off open-ended I guess. But the subtext is indeed strong. Guess you could call this one of those romantic friendships among adolescent girls that end the moment they graduate and then end up marrying men.

So, are they gonna gay or are they not gonna gay?

The angst is too real to me too. :'(

I think it's gonna be left off open-ended I guess. But the subtext is indeed strong. Guess you could call this one of those romantic friendships among adolescent girls that end the moment they graduate and then end up marrying men.

I think you mean "the two friends end up as friends living together as friends in a big house full of aquariums because they're friends."

I think you mean "the two friends end up as friends living together as friends in a big house full of aquariums because they're friends."

Better than that one yuri one-shot where a worker gets turned into a mermaid via a black-market process, to help save her failing aquarium from closure, but in the end isn't turned back as previously agreed and is instead stuffed and mounted with her "real" mermaid girlfriend for permanent display instead...

Well while I still believe the author didn't want to spoil the ending just to please one reader who can't wait for the ending to know the ending I'm gonna say that even if the story ends and they're not lovers then... I'm still 100% sure they're lesbian... So for me, dating or not is irrelevant XD

Apparently the mangaka has come out and said that there is no gay.

Which breaks my heart, because that takes this series from "two introverted loners find love and discover themselves" to "two autistic fuckheads struggle with basic human communication."

This level of pining and drama and anxiety just doesn't make sense to me without a romantic element. I couldn't get enough of this series when the first vol was being released, but now I'm pretty close to dropping it...

The author has not said there's no gay, she said she doesn't consider it yuri.

But 'yuri' doesn't have to mean 'gay stuff, it's frequently used more to refer to just the romance genre of fluffy cute girls crushing on each other stuff. It can still be hella gay but not be yuri.

No problem. If you think they're gay then they're gay. This is also how i read non yuri mango.

Apparently the mangaka has come out and said that there is no gay.

Which breaks my heart, because that takes this series from "two introverted loners find love and discover themselves" to "two autistic fuckheads struggle with basic human communication."

This level of pining and drama and anxiety just doesn't make sense to me without a romantic element. I couldn't get enough of this series when the first vol was being released, but now I'm pretty close to dropping it...

The author has not said there's no gay, she said she doesn't consider it yuri.

But 'yuri' doesn't have to mean 'gay stuff, it's frequently used more to refer to just the romance genre of fluffy cute girls crushing on each other stuff. It can still be hella gay but not be yuri.

I feel like some of you need a course in linguistics. If you pay careful attention to what the author says, it makes perfect sense that she's using the concept of rejection of categorization in languages in order to describe a concept which can include anything ranging from an event to an identity and so on. Yuri in Japanese is an umbrella term that has come to be applied to anything that involved girl-on-girl action, so in a certain sense it's a term that's constantly being thrown around even if a certain work isnt even about yuri. It has lost its meaning. And it makes perfect sense for the author to reject the trend of putting labels on absolutely everything and instead chooses to be revolutionary and allowing herself and her readers to give it their own interpretation.

It does not mean they will not end up romantically together. It simply means that the author is rejecting.labels. at no point in that post does the author say that there is and will never be any romance between the two main girls.

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