To those who have been keeping up with this.
I've been wondering if I should get back to it or not. I enjoyed this series a lot up until volume 8-9, but then I started to lose interest with each chapter and I don't think I ever got around to reading volume 11 at all. To clarify: the reason I dropped it was because we were getting more and more AU/side stories with each volume and I just wasn't very interested in all that. There's only so many "what if" irrelevant scenarios I can handle. I remember feeling that things I expected to see —e.g. first kiss or a conclusion to the Tarumi situation— never happened and instead I was reading it about the 100th parallel universe where they meet. Which I suppose is okay, just not my cup of tea.
So my question is, are there any chapters from the new volumes that would be worthwhile for me to read? And by that I mean chapters that continue the story of the protagonists that we know instead of alternate versions of them in parallel universes. Time skips and glimpses to the future are okay (I actually really enjoyed that one chapter where Shimamura talks with her mother a few years later), just no more parallel universes please