Honestly, I don’t understand what Hirose is saying. Why did she feel relieved that Takamine stopped from playing volleyball? Is it because she doesn’t want Takamine to feel the hate from others coz she experienced it before? Or coz she felt that their senpai is right?

Well, Hirose understands what is like to resent a person for being better than you at a sport despite you "caring more" about it, since she had a similar experience with a friend in middle school. Which is why, when Takamine stopped playing volleyball due to her injury, Hirose felt relieved because it meant she wouldn't have to be in a position where she'd feel frustrated or jealous of Takamine for being better at volleyball than her.

this manga provides such good complexity of contrasting emotions in teenager characters, even when it doesn't even need to. As expected of Fukaumi Kon, you can never go wrong with their drama writing skill.

Man, I picked up this one over last weekend... It's so fluffy!! ^^

This is literally perfect 10/10 goated in every metric yuri mount everest I'd buy all the rights just to put it on my headstone

This new chapter was a pretty good one! Fukaumi Kon knows how to handle complicated feelings.

wow. That was great finally resolved eh

I'm starting to hate Hirose, a lot, she thinks she is supposed to be better because she liked volleyball fist but then when someone is better without much effort she resent that person, she didn't like the sport, she like the sense of superiority it gives to her and the audacity to like Takamine, what the hell is wrong with her? the self-importance is huge.

It's like some people can't read anything without having to pick a girl to hate... I mean, Hirose, of all characters? lol

I'm starting to hate Hirose, a lot, she thinks she is supposed to be better because she liked volleyball fist but then when someone is better without much effort she resent that person, she didn't like the sport, she like the sense of superiority it gives to her and the audacity to like Takamine, what the hell is wrong with her? the self-importance is huge.

It's like some people can't read anything without having to pick a girl to hate... I mean, Hirose, of all characters? lol

Everybody is so sweet in this too. The rest of us are doomed, I guess.

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Talk about mastery of the low-key—when Takamine was thinking about how she feels at the thought of not seeing Sakura on the train, I knew she was going to say “sad,” but the next page wouldn’t load right away, and I’m like, “C’mon you motherfucker—Takamine’s gonna articulate how she feels to Sakura! Let’s fucking go!” [Me mashing the reload button.]

She felt a little sad, she guessed.

Good on Sakura for picking up on Takamine's non verbal and taking the initiative on keeping in touch during the break (and planning a date at some point, hopefully :O ). Takamine definitely isn't the expressive type, so she'll probably have to do that a lot :P

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That blush when she realised she likes spending time with Sakura (for purely Platonic reasons, surely) and wants to keep doing it was amazing.

My fucking words that was cute!

the cuties….

So cwuuuuuute!

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/a_love_yet_to_bloom_ch12#5

...I wasn't the only one who, for a second, thought that said "Future Gods Survey", right?

The british English was really thick on this chapter. I wish they'd use normal standard English.

The british English was really thick on this chapter. I wish they'd use normal standard English.

... you made me reread the chapter and I honestly couldn't notice anything but I'm neither British nor American :P Which parts sound British?

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The british English was really thick on this chapter. I wish they'd use normal standard English.

... you made me reread the chapter and I honestly couldn't notice anything but I'm neither British nor American :P Which parts sound British?

Yeah, I’m not sure that a single “maths” counts as “thick British English.”

The british English was really thick on this chapter. I wish they'd use normal standard English.

... you made me reread the chapter and I honestly couldn't notice anything but I'm neither British nor American :P Which parts sound British?

Yeah, I’m not sure that a single “maths” counts as “thick British English.”

The coach would get fired for being drunk at work if this were BrE.

Cute! Kyuuuut! The blush, lord almighty. Bathe me in this saccharine goodness, please and thank you. Also loved Sakura picking up that stray ball and making a huge play. This weirdly gung-ho energy she sometimes has is adorable.

And yet, I think the thing I love most about this chapter is Takamine musing about living in the presence. Especially with how ubiquitous the notion of "growing up" or "becoming an adult" is in Japanese media (at least that I've been exposed to), it's such a breath of fresh air. Even more so coming from a character in the process of discovering herself, what she wants to be, to do, to like, as well as being uncertain about all those things that can and will change - "... and everything that comes after that too...", to really start living in the present. I feel this is brilliantly written, really.

This chapter was really cute, especially when Takamine realized that she likes spending time with Sakura!

The british English was really thick on this chapter. I wish they'd use normal standard English.

It's funny that English came from the Brits yet theirs is not 'standard'.

The british English was really thick on this chapter. I wish they'd use normal standard English.

It's funny that English came from the Brits yet theirs is not 'standard'.

Funnily enough, I was just having a conversation with someone this past week about how the internet is causing British and American English to blend. It was after their phone gave both "canceled" and "cancelled" as auto-complete options, and they couldn't remember which one was the American spelling. Seeing more and more people/places adopt "grey" for "gray" or "axe" for "ax" &c. It'll be interesting to see what happens to spelling over the next 20 years.

The british English was really thick on this chapter. I wish they'd use normal standard English.

It's funny that English came from the Brits yet theirs is not 'standard'.

Funnily enough, I was just having a conversation with someone this past week about how the internet is causing British and American English to blend. It was after their phone gave both "canceled" and "cancelled" as auto-complete options, and they couldn't remember which one was the American spelling. Seeing more and more people/places adopt "grey" for "gray" or "axe" for "ax" &c. It'll be interesting to see what happens to spelling over the next 20 years.

Y'all be making a wee linguistic mess, innit?

The british English was really thick on this chapter. I wish they'd use normal standard English.

It's funny that English came from the Brits yet theirs is not 'standard'.

Funnily enough, I was just having a conversation with someone this past week about how the internet is causing British and American English to blend. It was after their phone gave both "canceled" and "cancelled" as auto-complete options, and they couldn't remember which one was the American spelling. Seeing more and more people/places adopt "grey" for "gray" or "axe" for "ax" &c. It'll be interesting to see what happens to spelling over the next 20 years.

Y'all be making a wee linguistic mess, innit?

I think international streaming has a lot to do with it too. A bunch of Brit TV mystery series with regional dialects would be incomprehensible without captions—I’d ken nowt wi’out ‘em.