For a while this seemed like it would become another downer chapter, and there certainly was a lot of anxiety there for a big part of it, but in the end they've both not just truly accepted the respective plans to make their future together work out, but also made it to a point where they're no longer afraid of this and can genuinely be happy again.

Even though things went swimmingly this chapter... And can't fucking get ride of this sense of anxiety and dread.
I need fluff.

Really love this series. Handles a lot of the smaller moments well. They're going through some troubles but that's life and they're making the best of it. This is fully showing what it can be like after you get together. Making a life together is often like this, it's not just walking into the sunset.

I love that they argue sometimes, make-up, struggle to make decisions, disagree and do it all together. It's stressful and there's always a layer of anxiety but there's also always the quiet (and not quiet) happy moments thrown in there all around and that's how it is sometimes. Just gotta choose where to focus and that "where to focus" can say a lot about perspectives. They're honestly living a really interesting life right now that not many could even imagine.

Looking forward to what comes next and I wonder if we'll get a time skip to after the year at some point. I imagine they'll want to show some of the long distance situation though, since we need to see how they navigate that.

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Even though things went swimmingly this chapter... And can't fucking get ride of this sense of anxiety and dread.
I need fluff.

I feel the same way, and I think a big part of the dread we feel is all the fluff from the early chapters. By frontloading the happiness the main girls have had, the author has raised the stakes incredibly high for their success. I do not think we the readers would feel the same amount of existential anxiety as the main characters, had we not seen how happy they were at the start. This manga is not about fluff, but about perseverance and making tough choices for the sake of the one you love -- however, it wouldn't work narratively without the fluff at the start. This is very good storytelling.

So far this is orders of magnitude better than some popular serials that lack true character context/background and characters having actual connection to the society at large as well.

Of course, that will only be the case if it stays that way until the end. Story that is this intense and character-focused is easily ruined by couple of bad chapters.

This one actually has plenty in common with My Dear Lass as well. Another story that is about finding your place, and it being a process that doesn't always go smoothly or old contioned reflexes getting in the way. Some true ambition and a dash of selfishness being required from the characters to get what they want.

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The reality is relationships are hard. Building a life together is hard. I appreciate how the story handled the couple's naïve idea that they could just run away together, live in an idyllic countryside, and all their problems magically go away.

As a wise man once said, "Wherever you go, you're still there."

I dunno about this. Relationships aren't THAT hard when the world isn't throwing crap at you. And where you are does matter--places are not all just the same, and going somewhere else can genuinely solve problems. So for instance, if your problem is that you're gay and it's illegal for you to get married, and you go somewhere that it's legal, that problem just magically went away.
The kind of fatalism that says it doesn't matter what place you are in is ultimately not different from the fatalism that says nothing can change in the place you are already at.

I sense a timeskip coming up. Not as a bad thing, but to get-things-moving more.

The reality is relationships are hard. Building a life together is hard. I appreciate how the story handled the couple's naïve idea that they could just run away together, live in an idyllic countryside, and all their problems magically go away.

As a wise man once said, "Wherever you go, you're still there."

I dunno about this. Relationships aren't THAT hard when the world isn't throwing crap at you. And where you are does matter--places are not all just the same, and going somewhere else can genuinely solve problems. So for instance, if your problem is that you're gay and it's illegal for you to get married, and you go somewhere that it's legal, that problem just magically went away.
The kind of fatalism that says it doesn't matter what place you are in is ultimately not different from the fatalism that says nothing can change in the place you are already at.

It really depends on the situation, these two young women had moved to run away from the very harsh pressures of new adulthood and starting their careers. There was no better legal situation for them, no abusive family they were creating distance for themselves from, or particular opportunity they were moving for. What ended up happening is basically those concerns followed them, as they realized they needed a stable income to survive, and part time work wasn't going to be easy/available consistently enough to insure their survival in the place they ran to. So yes, where they went to, their career worries followed them.

Basically it's going to be a whole thing on 'you make home where it is' and home is obviously her wife

I can see feeling awkward about freeloading in the house of your gf's aunt without your gf... OTOH seems like you should get a job before giving up free rent.

Though I guess I'm not sure the location is good if you don't have a moped ride, either.

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I can see feeling awkward about freeloading in the house of your gf's aunt without your gf... OTOH seems like you should get a job before giving up free rent.

Though I guess I'm not sure the location is good if you don't have a moped ride, either.

Yeah, they don't even mention the transportation thing, but it is a big issue with how far that house is.

Chapter 14 has been reuploaded? Has the translation been updated?

it's a duplicate. Someone made a mistake.

Where are you moving to Haru lol Tokyo?! Another bumpkin place? Back home?

The term "anxiety yuri" just keeps being more appropriate. And I'm especially shocked here. I didn't think Keyyan was willing to be this cruel for a manga that began so idealistic. Hopefully that brighter tomorrow is still on the horizon, just a ways further off than they thought.

crippling depression

;w;

Thats ... Not wholesome at all....

Well fuck me...

Delicious drama that is also quite reasonable.

I hope this is a long serial.

Sad chapter

Well, if it's any consolation, what looks shitty at first glance can often be a blessing in disguise. (See the story of the Taoist farmer.) Wasn't the issue here Hii-chan going back to Tokyo, while Haru is stuck in a place she can't afford? Maybe it's a sign that Haru should go back to Tokyo too. Sure, it'd be a bit of a 360 after all they've been through, but they'd go back to their original lives a little older and wiser.

Oh cmon why? She didnt do it that bad in the interview, could it be she was hestating too much in the answers?

Depressing as fuck, and wouldn't be nearly half as depressing if we didn't see how happy those two were in the first chapters. -__-

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Well, if it's any consolation, what looks shitty at first glance can often be a blessing in disguise. (See the story of the Taoist farmer.) Wasn't the issue here Hii-chan going back to Tokyo, while Haru is stuck in a place she can't afford? Maybe it's a sign that Haru should go back to Tokyo too. Sure, it'd be a bit of a 360 after all they've been through, but they'd go back to their original lives a little older and wiser.

Eugh, that’d be a terrible way to end things. Forgive my dramatic flair, but the whole point of them leaving Tokyo is because they felt suffocated by the lives they were living. While it makes sense that they'd have to struggle and make compromises to adapt to the rigors of adult life whilst trying to go against the grain, them going back to Tokyo would represent a total loss. An admission that they can’t carve their own path to being happy, and that the only way forward is to convince themselves that they’re happy as they consign themselves to the machinery of society. At that point, what’s next? Do they need to break up, find husbands, and have kid, all while telling themselves that they’re happy and wiser for their past experiences, because that’s what they’re expected to do as part of “growing up?” Not that I’m saying that’s what would happen, but you get my point. They have to draw a line somewhere, even if it’s hard.

No, I’d rather they continue to struggle against this pressure being piled on them so that they can eventually come out in a place where they can be happy without taking the path of least resistance. Maybe it won’t be exactly what they want. Maybe it will require them to suffer for a while longer, but fighting for it will make that eventual equilibrium all the sweeter.

Hot damn, haven’t written something that dramatic since high school

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