Ah, a classic, from MY youth. That's telling y'all how old I am.

Yeah. I remember that song from high school, hell the whole album was pretty good the way I remember it. When I was the chapter name my mind went to Van Halen (or Van Haggar as they used to say) 'Çan't This Be Love'. But this works too.

OMG OMG OMG YEEEEESSSSSSS

Aya's face is so cute (✿ ♥‿♥)

ASSUME CRASH POSITIONS EVERYONE, BRACE FOR MISUNDERSTANDING!!!

This is about music, not Aya. 100%

If this ends up being about Aya, throw me to the moon. I'll be smiling... stunned, but smiling.

Yeah I'd be genuinely shocked if the "punchline" isn't that she loves music lmao

"i knew it, this is love...! aya really loves music!" betting my whole yuri career on this one

"i knew it, this is love...! aya really loves music!" betting my whole yuri career on this one

Leeeegit. Like nah this manga ain't foolin' me... so what if my heart skipped a beat before I went back and reread it. I'M NOT FEELING HOPEFUL AT ALL </3 (unless...?)

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"i knew it, this is love...! aya really loves music!" betting my whole yuri career on this one

Honestly, that would be kinda... I mean, she already know Aya loves music, why would she realize that just now ?

"i knew it, this is love...! aya really loves music!"

"She's just like me! We'll be the bestest of friends forever!"

HELL YEAH

I definitely love the song choice. Absolutely perfect for this.

Imagine if Aya just managed to get herself a bad bitch by yelling in broken English in front of the whole class.

Okay. Okay. Look. I've been fine with the subtle, low key subtext approach this series has been taking. If they never took things in an explicitly romantic direction, I would've been disappointed, but I'm used to those kinds of stories and it's pretty obvious that you can read between the lines and see the nature of it. I've been reading ambiguously gay fiction for decades, I'm used to that.

But this better not be a fakeout, or I'm gonna be so mad.

It's so weird, I can handle a series that never runs for the finish line, but I can't stand narrative edging. If the future strips continue with this, great, if they pivot to "I love her as a fan! She's my Oshi!" or "Man, she loves Rock & Roll so much!" I'm gonna riot.

last edited at Sep 24, 2023 4:11PM

Okay. Okay. Look. I've been fine with the subtle, low key subtext approach this series has been taking. If they never took things in an explicitly romantic direction, I would've been disappointed, but I'm used to those kinds of stories and it's pretty obvious that you can read between the lines and see the nature of it. I've been reading ambiguously gay fiction for decades, I'm used to that.

But this better not be a fakeout, or I'm gonna be so mad.

It's so weird, I can handle a series that never runs for the finish line, but I can't stand narrative edging. If the future strips continue with this, great, if they pivot to "I love her as a fan! She's my Oshi!" or "Man, she loves Rock & Roll so much!" I'm gonna riot.

It would definitely start to feel a bit suspect but I wouldn't be too mad about it yet. The thought has crossed my mind though, especially after this chapter. This instance could be a fake out but if they eventually make their romantic feelings clear than it's a non issue. But it would be weird to do all this teasing and then end it with them as just "straight" friends. Does the series specifically market itself as Yuri? I haven't ever checked actually.

last edited at Sep 24, 2023 4:24PM

Okay. Okay. Look. I've been fine with the subtle, low key subtext approach this series has been taking. If they never took things in an explicitly romantic direction, I would've been disappointed, but I'm used to those kinds of stories and it's pretty obvious that you can read between the lines and see the nature of it. I've been reading ambiguously gay fiction for decades, I'm used to that.

But this better not be a fakeout, or I'm gonna be so mad.

It's so weird, I can handle a series that never runs for the finish line, but I can't stand narrative edging. If the future strips continue with this, great, if they pivot to "I love her as a fan! She's my Oshi!" or "Man, she loves Rock & Roll so much!" I'm gonna riot.

It would definitely start to feel a bit suspect but I wouldn't be too mad about it yet. The thought has crossed my mind though, especially after this chapter. This instance could be a fake out but if they eventually make their romantic feelings clear than it's a non issue. But it would be weird to do all this teasing and then end it with them as just "straight" friends. Does the series specifically market itself as Yuri? I haven't ever checked actually.

Ah, the good ol' Higashiyama Shou's Stretch route huh?
Surely they wouldn't....right?....right?!

It's so weird, I can handle a series that never runs for the finish line, but I can't stand narrative edging. If the future strips continue with this, great, if they pivot to "I love her as a fan! She's my Oshi!" or "Man, she loves Rock & Roll so much!" I'm gonna riot.

It would definitely start to feel a bit suspect but I wouldn't be too mad about it yet. The thought has crossed my mind though, especially after this chapter. This instance could be a fake out but if they eventually make their romantic feelings clear than it's a non issue. But it would be weird to do all this teasing and then end it with them as just "straight" friends. Does the series specifically market itself as Yuri? I haven't ever checked actually.

Ah, the good ol' Higashiyama Shou's Stretch route huh?
Surely they wouldn't....right?....right?!

I don't want to discuss Stretch too much but that felt far less romantically coded than this does. So for Stretch there wasn't that much surprise and its story had its own points it was making. This property however has been more obviously teasing. For example, you cant end a chapter like this recent one and not know what you're doing. I think it'll all be fine anyway. Love the series.

last edited at Sep 24, 2023 4:55PM

Okay. Okay. Look. I've been fine with the subtle, low key subtext approach this series has been taking. If they never took things in an explicitly romantic direction, I would've been disappointed, but I'm used to those kinds of stories and it's pretty obvious that you can read between the lines and see the nature of it. I've been reading ambiguously gay fiction for decades, I'm used to that.

But this better not be a fakeout, or I'm gonna be so mad.

It's so weird, I can handle a series that never runs for the finish line, but I can't stand narrative edging. If the future strips continue with this, great, if they pivot to "I love her as a fan! She's my Oshi!" or "Man, she loves Rock & Roll so much!" I'm gonna riot.

It would definitely start to feel a bit suspect but I wouldn't be too mad about it yet. The thought has crossed my mind though, especially after this chapter. This instance could be a fake out but if they eventually make their romantic feelings clear than it's a non issue. But it would be weird to do all this teasing and then end it with them as just "straight" friends. Does the series specifically market itself as Yuri? I haven't ever checked actually.

I'm not scouring the comments, but I'm confident it's been mentioned the author has explicitly stated it's not to be labeled yuri as they have issues with that term, but it is sapphic from what we've seen of the author's other pieces.

True Fact: I Love Rock n' Roll was originally written and performed in 1975 by the Arrows, a British band. The Joan Jett version is a cover from 1981.

LET'S GOOOOOOOO! SHE SAID THE THING!

GODS I HOPE ITS ACTUALLY ROMANTIC THO!

The best thing about this manga is that they’re teenagers who feel like such inscrutable outcasts because they like the most middling mainstream rock music imaginable

I imagine Western rock is niche in the same way that Japanese music is niche here. Not impossible to find someone who listens to it regularly but it'd be a couple of people out of 100 thing.

Can't imagine singing idol pop in front of the whole grade for my crush though, I wonder how Aya sees anything behind those massive steel balls

Aya's doing the equivalent of if an American teen got up on front of her peers and sang an anime theme with bad awkward Japanese. If the takeaway from this chapter is just "Oh she loves music" I am also going to be mad lmao

^it is. Koga was talking about Aya's love for music and not for her. Koga at this point was super duper dense. I hate it. But oh well, I'm not the author so I'll just follow the story anyway.

I've just been reading the titles for this ever since a couple chapters after the "I'm not a guy" reveal at the concert. I was hopeful that reveal (which was what... 35 chapters ago?) would take things in a romantic direction. And then it didn't, despite how much blushing the characters did in those chapters which was entirely some new form of friendship blushing or something.

And then I saw this chapter's title, and was like "did they fuck yet?" and was mildly shocked to learn that they haven't even realized they're in love yet. My god.

I guess at 4 pages a chapter, 59 chapters is like... 8 chapters of some other manga, so I should just continue to temper my expectations until we get into the hundreds I guess?

Please don’t be a bait n switch. Please don’t be a bait n switch. Please don’t be a bait n switch. Please don’t be a bait n switch.

... Please don’t be a bait n switch. Please don’t be a bait n switch. Please don’t be a bait n switch. Please don’t be a bait n switch...

I won't bet anything here because Koga IS dense hahaha but at the same time we had a little of Koga thinking, mostly insecurities and well, her "admiration" for Aya, but we couldn't see the full picture since it wasn't shown to be 100% sure if she was starting to figure things out. But! we did have the sleepover chat, Aya said "I 'm in no place to talk about love", so IF Koga conected the dots and we have this in mind......maybe Koga will be concernerd about this.....hahaha aahh~

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