So much hand holding in Ch.251. This manga has degenerated into nothing but smut. Where's Yuu and Mari to bring us back to good, old fashioned, christian spanking?

I like Kaoru and Mayoi as a pair because they make great foils for each other. Kaoru is a player but I think Mayoi is the first person she's actually felt something real for. Because of that she's starting to develop a real sense of empathy. Mayoi is anxious and self-absorbed. Her opinion of herself is both too low and too high, basically what Orson Welles called "the Charlie Chaplin disease." Kaoru is a straight talker and isn't afraid to just tell Mayoi to knock it off, and shake her out of her rut.

It can also be called the "Franz Kafka Syndrome". Kafka was a gifted writer who thought everything he wrote was trash. He burned most of his stories after he wrote them, and it was only because his mother and some of his friends convinced him to give them two of his notebooks with his work that there is any trace of his talent.

HaruKana handholding was sweeet~
Hoping they kiss next year.

A confession and hand-holding? Chrimbo came early this year.

So much hand holding in Ch.251. This manga has degenerated into nothing but smut.

Don't worry it has NSFW tag

So Ed was the useless one in the past. Very cute ed x ian, could use some more!
And is this progress for Honoka x eli that i see?
Always so happy for Kanae, living her best life with no regrets now.

h-how lewd, premarital hand holding is prohibited >.<

Couldn't tell if Nao's wearing undies or going commando.

Chapter 250. So beautiful.

Wait how am I supposed to feel about those "I love you"s between Honoka and Eli????

Also wow, chapter 251 is amazing. I can feel how in love Haruka and Kanade are, even though we only see their backs and the focus is on Nao and Hibiki.

Couldn't tell if Nao's wearing undies or going commando.

It's Nao we're talking about. Of COURSE she goes commando XD

That HonoEli chapter was so cute!!! Also I was not expecting younger Ian to have such a different fashion sense lol

Wow... taking hand holding to the limit here.

HonoxEli chads, we made it

That’s so cute, I love the way honoka neither (just) feels reassured nor overthinks it and just calmly says it back. Very cute- adorable even

Haruka is ridiculously pretty.

Also please someone be Mayu's gf, she is very cute.

But not as cute as Ed and Ian lol, what an adorkable flashback.

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Everything about this was perfect but Honoka's reaction about answering while Eli was in sleep was perfecter.

Also I wish Kanae from the initial chapters could see her chad self now.

She really has! She’s come so far and grown so much, and has the girlfriend of her dreams.

Words cannot describe the happiness I currently feel.

So, like...

Honoka and Eli have exchanged love confessions??? And the excuse of sleeptalking doesn't work because Eli admitted she was awake??? So now they have officially put a name on their mutual feelings and they are by their own recognition a couple in love???

WOW!!! ♡♡♡

Also, on another subject:

I had never thought it important before, but...

These three have always been in a line in the main cast page! Kishi only does it for characters who are supposed to have something going on at some point in the story...

Kanae transformed from incel to alpha chad before our very eyes

Kanae transformed from incel to alpha chad before our very eyes

Don't you mean femcel?

Also, I thought there was gonna be something between Nao and Onibi after the chapter where they met, given they were even draw together in the Halloween thingy, but I guess that was a misdirect.

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juanelric posted:

Kanae transformed from incel to alpha chad before our very eyes

Don't you mean femcel?

Also, I thought there was gonna be something between Nao and Onibi after the chapter where they met, given they were even draw together in the Halloween thingy, but I guess that was a misdirect.

They're in the volume cover too (Nao and Onibi), for vol 12 and all the other important pairs have their own cover so I wouldn't write it off so soon.

But yeah Honoka and Eli and Haruka and Kanade, man that's the gooooooooooooooooood stuff!!! like, they're just in their own world, and seeing Honoka and Haruka responding in turn it's so cute!!!

@Serenata yeah, it's really nice finally seeing those two couples together. Especially since, initially, neither Kanae nor Honoka were implied to have a possible partner.

Kanae x Haruka are my favorite pairing ... glad to see them again! If only Ayano x Miyoshi were so honest ...

Honoka and Eli have exchanged love confessions??? And the excuse of sleeptalking doesn't work because Eli admitted she was awake??? So now they have officially put a name on their mutual feelings and they are by their own recognition a couple in love???

WOW!!! ♡♡♡

I wouldn't be so sure about this. You might be right, but ...

My read on Honoka has always been that she is obviously straight. She not only writes but daydreams yaoi manga. Go back to the XMas episode where Honoka is invited over Eli's place and gets to meet Ed & Ian. She gets to witness Eli at her most bootylicious in that outfit (that outfit!!) and she reacts with complete disinterest. Then when Ian says he was going to wear something like that for Ed, she starts drooling while fantasizing about it.

Now, this is just a comic where magical things can happen. But it's not a stretch to imagine that even in a yuri manga, the author might be slightly concerned about the silliness of imagining that everyone within this extended network of friends just happens to be gay. That he might throw in some platonic female affection from time to time - which can still be "ecchi" even if only suggestive.

In real life, women are different than men. They don't shy away from intimate affection in the way men do - they can say "I love you" without having to suffix it with something like ", man ..." in order to make it clear that it's platonic. Granted, there is some scientific evidence that female sexuality is a bit more fluid (the old "college lesbian" trope) than for males, so a sexual thing here could still be somewhat plausible.

Nonetheless, I'm far more convinced of the relationship between Kanae and Haruka, despite them never having uttered the phrase "I love you", than I am for Honoka and Eli. Actions speak louder than words.

EDIT: OK I'm forgetting Haruka's note to Kanae ... still, Kanae never explicitly said it back, and yet the feeling is obviously mutual.

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