Also the new girl on page 169 looks like another walking mess. I'm in.

I think this might be an early sketch of Minato from Hello, Melancholic, which is fully scanlated:
https://dynasty-scans.com/series/hello_melancholic

But I'm not sure, especially since that second girl maybe looks a bit like Hibiki but not quite :P Could be early sketch and all that.

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Also the new girl on page 169 looks like another walking mess. I'm in.

I think this might be an early sketch of Minato from Hello, Melancholic, which is fully scanlated:
https://dynasty-scans.com/series/hello_melancholic

Yeap. Definitely is them.

And that’s a wrap! It was enjoyable the whole way. Thank you translation team.

Imma miss this series:'(. I hope we get small sides every once in a while, mainly about Louko and Koyuki cause I wanted more from them (mainly, some gay shenanigans).

Her current series hasn't been picked up by anyone yet, it involves a married woman (married under "false pretenses") pining after her true lesbian crush so, like this one, I expect this site to be Extremely Normal (TM) about it. Only one volume so unless the scanlators are in a hurry to devour more Yayoi (i' would be, ngl) I'd expect someone to not start until 3-4 volumes??

Super appreciate Gouma-Den for finishing this one out!!!

Fantastic series! The main romance was fantastic, and the subplot with Aoi has produced some of my favorite moments I've ever seen in yuri manga. I love her. Gonna miss this series.

I was under the false assumption that this manga had 45 chapters and now I’m really sad. However after following this for years I’m glad it was finally finished! Thank you translators!

damn it’s over… what am i gonna stalk the recently added page for now?

I wanna thank everyone who worked on the translation of this from the bottom of my heart. Looking at the rate those later chapters were put out at, you must have worked like machines holy shit.

Loved it, thanks a lot to the translators

happy gay kiss

Live Love Laugh Ohsawa Yayoi, a great end to a great series

"should have added more flirting though"
Absolutely.
The flirting was so stingy in this manga, I kind of didn't feel any chemistry between the leads.
Like, Nanami liked to take care of Kaede, but it didn't seem like much more than just ... looking after your kid sister who you can't leave alone. Until suddenly she was like "am I in love?!?" and then went into crisis mode.

Ahh another series ended. Another void needs to be filled again.

The afterword finally explained the massive focus that Aoi was given in this manga: Ohsawa-sensei liked a side character she came up with so much, she wanted to write a spin-off about her, but instead rolled it into her main series as a tangent arc instead. Not complaining though, Aoi is still my favorite character here. :-)

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Also the new girl on page 169 looks like another walking mess. I'm in.

I think this might be an early sketch of Minato from Hello, Melancholic, which is fully scanlated:
https://dynasty-scans.com/series/hello_melancholic

Yeap. Definitely is them.

Oh, now I see it. I was hyped for a second. ^^

It's ironic how Aoi kinda became everyone's favourite, but she's also the only character without a happy ever after/hopeful bright future.
Ngl, kinda hurts to see her situation. Maybe, idk.
Not Pog at least.

It's ironic how Aoi kinda became everyone's favourite, but she's also the only character without a happy ever after/hopeful bright future.
Ngl, kinda hurts to see her situation. Maybe, idk.
Not Pog at least.

I wouldn't say she is everyone's favorite, but she definitely the most controversial so far. You are right that she won't get a happy ending, but she also knows her flaws and owns them. That juxtaposition of flaws and self-confidence is what makes her interesting, while, to me at least, her ability to back off before her Player tendencies cause real problems makes her sympathetic.

It's ironic how Aoi kinda became everyone's favourite, but she's also the only character without a happy ever after/hopeful bright future.
Ngl, kinda hurts to see her situation. Maybe, idk.
Not Pog at least.

Everyone's favorite?
Count me out, I hate her, hate everything she does and I hate every character that is like her.
She doesn't deserves a happy ending.

It's ironic how Aoi kinda became everyone's favourite, but she's also the only character without a happy ever after/hopeful bright future.
Ngl, kinda hurts to see her situation. Maybe, idk.
Not Pog at least.

I think she might be fine with where things are for herself. She doesn't have other people's idea of a happy ending but she seems satisfied.

I think the idea of a character 'deserving' a certain ending is somewhat strange, since at the end of the day, they're not real. What I want from a story is a narratively satisfying ending, and that's what we got with Aoi.

I think the idea of a character 'deserving' a certain ending is somewhat strange, since at the end of the day, they're not real. What I want from a story is a narratively satisfying ending, and that's what we got with Aoi.

Totally agree. Aoi is yet another example of what I’ve called the Tomolo character (“The Other, More Overtly Lesbian One”). Typically the third wheel in a love triangle or otherwise an intrusive threat to the happiness of the OTP, she’s an out lesbian (at least to herself) when the main characters are often oblivious to or dithering about their feelings for each other or about the very possibility of same-sex romance.

And for many readers the Tomolo is absolute catnip. No matter how badly she behaves (and to be sure, she doesn’t always play a heavily negative role—she’s just more forthright about her same-sex attractions), readers will beg for her to get paired off with someone or otherwise receive a happy ending, or they may in fact ship her with one of the OTP. (Or even recently, with the rise of the “Everybody Must Get Poly!” movement, with both of them.)

And the author’s obvious intentions for the character or the story’s cues about what’s going to happen don’t seem to matter to those readers much at all.

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Totally agree. Aoi is yet another example of what I’ve called the Tomolo character (“The Other, More Overtly Lesbian One”).

Oh, that's a great find and a cool name for the archetype, which I am definitely using from now on. I myself have noticed that a lot of yuri mangas feature same-sex couples who are further along the relationship track than the MCs and thus can mentor them in a way, but they tend to be much less contentions because they are "safe", as far as love triangle drama is concerned. A Tomolo is more impactful on the MCs' relationship, and hence can get much more hate, but she is also, like you've said, pure catnip for some readers.

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Rereading this, Aoi def comes off as polyam/practitioner of polyamory, but burnt out by her failures w women/"tying" a woman down to a more serious relationship (lots of lovers, but no partners, if that makes sense), and she ultimately caves to heteronormative monogamy.

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