Curious thing I noticed https://mangadex.org/title/23356/otome-no-teikoku/covers/
As you can see there, with vol 12 they've shown all the couples and we know that at least with Mio x Shizuka that even if at some point everything goes wrong, they are meant to be together so I guess when it comes to Onibi x Nao and Kaoru x Mask it's only going to get more serious from now on.
BUT what really surprised me was the fact that now that we've gone full circle with all the girls in the covers(12 pairs!) the clock is back to 1AM and we're repeating the couples that appear in them and seems like we're getting them in the same order, so I guess we can expect Airi x Michiru in the vol 15? -------ah! but then I need to wait for a future vol 24 to see Onibi and Nao in the cover again nooooooooooo
Well, at least you're absolutely certain that, when the series reaches v24, you'll get to see them again. Some couples won't ever get a cover... :(
Look at this, the list of pairings has 13 items, 26 girls in total:
Mahi x Mahi
Ai x Chie
Nononon x Yumimi
Honoka x Elisha
Michiru x Airi
Kanae x Haruka
Mari x Yuu
Miyoshi x Ayano
Onibi x Nao
Shizuka x Mio
Midori x Hibiki
Mask x Kaoru
Mayuyu x Mariri
And there are only 12 couples who appear in the covers, and after all 12 have appeared the cycle starts again. There's one couple who got screwed in this deal. :((
Then again, they aren't that popular... :p
If Mayuyu x Mariri get a cover it will be WITH Nononon x Yumimi. I'd say that they are only marginally paired anyway. Up until a couple of chapters ago (in terms of chapters that the debate club appears in) Mariri had a boyfriend, after all... Not that it doesn't look like Mariri doesn't have plans to continue playing with Mayuyu at every possible opportunity. She seems to be a great character that hasn't been utilized nearly enough!
So... exactly how many time will Christmas come around while these girls are in the same grades? Don't get me wrong... I love the series and everything... but it's clear that they are NEVER going to graduate and they will always be living their lives between the start and end of this one school year. That's all well and good, since the relationships seem to actually progress despite the slice-of-life/humor first approach, but it also means we'll miss out on some things, like how Mio would deal with Shizuka graduating, especially if, per chance, she and Kaoru ended up at the same university.
I don't know... it's just one of those things that bugs me... I prefer even comedy series to actually age their characters and let time move in a logical manner instead of putting out seasonal chapters without moving the characters forward. (It appears that there is a Christmas themed chapter about once every two volumes, which would suggest that the manga is semi-monthly and the Christmas chapters are timed for the December issues, since there appear to be about 12 chapters per volume in general?)
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