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If I could just build a monument for these pages, I would. So sweet.

That moon thingy... Please don't KyoAni this one.

Too late, it already looks just like Koe no Katachi.

Holy Sugar Motta...

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If I could just build a monument for these pages, I would. So sweet.

Those are some painstakingly-drawn hands by the way. A mark of a good artist.

Girlfriends IMO

That moon thingy... Please don't KyoAni this one.

Too late, it already looks just like Koe no Katachi.

That was a manga first! (also it rules)

But maybe Koyuki isn’t very aware of famous Japanese literary allusions, so her saying, “The moon is beautiful” is just a random meteorological observation—you know, small talk.

(Sometimes I crack myself up . . .)

I really wouldn’t put it past her, she was socially awkward until like four chapters ago

Socially awkward, yes, but a very diligent student.

But maybe Koyuki isn’t very aware of famous Japanese literary allusions, so her saying, “The moon is beautiful” is just a random meteorological observation—you know, small talk.

(Sometimes I crack myself up . . .)

I really wouldn’t put it past her, she was socially awkward until like four chapters ago

Given that the controlling metaphor for the entire series has been an extended series of allusions to a classic literary short story, I’m pretty confident the “moon is beautiful” reference is more than a random coincidence.

But maybe Koyuki isn’t very aware of famous Japanese literary allusions, so her saying, “The moon is beautiful” is just a random meteorological observation—you know, small talk.

(Sometimes I crack myself up . . .)

I really wouldn’t put it past her, she was socially awkward until like four chapters ago

Given that the controlling metaphor for the entire series has been an extended series of allusions to a classic literary short story, I’m pretty confident the “moon is beautiful” reference is more than a random coincidence.

Haha, you’re totally right! In this case I guess it’s Koyuki’s turn to use classical literature to convey her feelings!

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All I could think of for "the full moon is so beautiful" was this creepy-pasta picture I saw years ago

I'm sorry

Also, anyone have an idea on what Konatsu was talking about towards the end of the chapter when she said “So we should....More Properly...”? It could be a subtle way of talking about dating, as in “we should more properly define our relationship” or something about spending more time together, but I’m really curious as to what the author is going with those lines

Also, anyone have an idea on what Konatsu was talking about towards the end of the chapter when she said “So we should....More Properly...”? It could be a subtle way of talking about dating, as in “we should more properly define our relationship” or something about spending more time together, but I’m really curious as to what the author is going with those lines

Follow-up to page 18 where she thought to herself they "should've talked more about a lot of other things and about each other". Find out what she meant next chapter, maybe.

Also, anyone have an idea on what Konatsu was talking about towards the end of the chapter when she said “So we should....More Properly...”? It could be a subtle way of talking about dating, as in “we should more properly define our relationship” or something about spending more time together, but I’m really curious as to what the author is going with those lines

Follow-up to page 18 where she thought to herself they "should've talked more about a lot of other things and about each other". Find out what she meant next chapter, maybe.

I feel like the momentum of the story is going back to the starting chapters, especially around the festival, where As the reader we were able to see how deeply Konatsu feels about Koyuki. Maybe next chapter we get to see explicitly how Koyuki feels about Konatsu.

But maybe Koyuki isn’t very aware of famous Japanese literary allusions, so her saying, “The moon is beautiful” is just a random meteorological observation—you know, small talk.

(Sometimes I crack myself up . . .)

I really wouldn’t put it past her, she was socially awkward until like four chapters ago

Given that the controlling metaphor for the entire series has been an extended series of allusions to a classic literary short story, I’m pretty confident the “moon is beautiful” reference is more than a random coincidence.

Haha, you’re totally right! In this case I guess it’s Koyuki’s turn to use classical literature to convey her feelings!

And even if this should not be explicitly the case, the author surely knows exactly what she's implying with this.

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I feel like the momentum of the story is going back to the starting chapters, especially around the festival, where As the reader we were able to see how deeply Konatsu feels about Koyuki. Maybe next chapter we get to see explicitly how Koyuki feels about Konatsu.

Volumes 5, 6 and half of 7 were a tour-de-force in terms of giving the characters a deeper emotional understanding of their own issues and due to how long it took them to be released, I've seen several readers feel fatigued, but now should be the time to really start paying all that build-up and development off with the interactions between the two. Koyuki would certainly be able to give a more proper answer to Konatsu's question from the previous year's summer festival. Actually I wonder if there will be a chapter where they go to the festival again since summer break is coming up and Koyuki's father suggested she take a break from cram school and go have fun once in a while.

I feel like the momentum of the story is going back to the starting chapters, especially around the festival, where As the reader we were able to see how deeply Konatsu feels about Koyuki. Maybe next chapter we get to see explicitly how Koyuki feels about Konatsu.

Volumes 5, 6 and half of 7 were a tour-de-force in terms of giving the characters a deeper emotional understanding of their own issues and due to how long it took them to be released, I've seen several readers feel fatigued, but now should be the time to really start paying all that build-up and development off with the interactions between the two. Koyuki would certainly be able to give a more proper answer to Konatsu's question from the previous year's summer festival. Actually I wonder if there will be a chapter where they go to the festival again since summer break is coming up and Koyuki's father suggested she take a break from cram school and go have fun once in a while.

I’d love to see a reiteration if the summer festival. I really think the next chapter can go two ways: it’s the long awaited confession chapter, or it’s that start of a new conflict chapter. Honestly I think and hope it will go the second way, mostly because we just got past major development, and I think that it would be a littler jarring to go straight into a relationship given how the pace has been going, and so we can see that realization of feelings ourselves. Neither character has said to themselves how they feel about the other, it was mostly us the reader deducting their feelings. I think the payoff would be great to see that character growth of acknowledgment of feelings. Also more conflict means the story isn’t over yet, really hoping this isn’t the final arc, although the journey has been very satisfying so far.

Also more conflict means the story isn’t over yet, really hoping this isn’t the final arc, although the journey has been very satisfying so far.

https://twitter.com/haginomakoto/status/1276176640054198276

The author said here that this isn't the end yet and to keep following the series.

Also more conflict means the story isn’t over yet, really hoping this isn’t the final arc, although the journey has been very satisfying so far.

https://twitter.com/haginomakoto/status/1276176640054198276

The author said here that this isn't the end yet and to keep following the series.

Yeah I was wondering what her tweet meant, google translate isn’t always the most clear. But yeah we need to know more about Konatsu’s family, Kaede and her sisters, this mysterious boy whose face we’ve seen every chapter, and this budding romance between Konatsu and Koyuki （＾ν＾）cheers to a long run of this art

Can't you two become officially canon already?

juanelric posted:

Can't you two become officially canon already?

Maybe Kaede's friend will show up and be like "I'm glad you made up with your girlfriend, Kaede and I always talk about how you two make the cutest couple in the school" and then Kaede will be like ".......?!!!?!" again

sTOP IT!!!

Wow, this got lewd very suddenly.

Oh from my understanding of Japanese.. isnt saying that the moon is beautiful pretty much a confession?

The volume 7 cover is so good.

Though for some reason Amazon has it in this weird quality where the artwork is low-res but the text is super clear.

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The "Moon is beautiful" phrase is always a confession in my book. I've seen it used soo many times in yuri subtext works that I'm sure it's just authors code for "they gay"

Natsume Soseki.

Thanks, didn't know that. I must say the author is raising my expectations then.

From what I understand, at that time the Japanese could not use a classic "I love you", and "the moon is beautiful" sounds more poetic and romantic anyway. Maybe those who can't show their feelings directly are still using it?
Someone said above that how it would be like in the next ch. seeing Konatsu go outside and realize it is cloudy. That would be funny.

The "Moon is beautiful" phrase is always a confession in my book. I've seen it used soo many times in yuri subtext works that I'm sure it's just authors code for "they gay"

Natsume Soseki.

Thanks, didn't know that. I must say the author is raising my expectations then.

From what I understand, at that time the Japanese could not use a classic "I love you", and "the moon is beautiful" sounds more poetic and romantic anyway. Maybe those who can't show their feelings directly are still using it?

Rather than "could not", it's just truly not japanese, in the sense that saying such a plain and direct phrase such as 私は君を愛する (which is roughly what some english students translated "I love you" as) will:

A - out you as a non-native speaker faster than not knowing how to use chopsticks,

B - sound super tense, forward and robotic, not really conveying the feelings behind those words,

C - make you sound a bit stupid. If you're talking to someone and it's just the two of you, it's super weird to clarify "I" and "you". In japnaese those details are usually tacit, context-deriven.

Couple this with the fact that japanese is a very poetic language, and you arive at the conclusion that subtle phrases such as "The moon is beautiful" are actually better translations of "I love you", despite sounding completely random in english. I think that phrase and anecdote are an excellent way of showing the idiosyncrasies of japanese as a language.

Japanese is very minimalistic as well, so nowadays simply saying 好きだ (verb for liking + verb "to be") is more than good enough. I think the language is also moving away from the flowery language and poetics, much like english has for the past half a century... But personally, I really like when that type of language is used for yuri stories. Doesn't it seem appropiate for the genre named after a flower? :B