American, not a sports fan, "You'd end up in the third-string." was strange to me, too.

Sorry for the confusion, but the original was also a sports idiom, 三軍扱い (the third army treatment), which is baseball related in Japan and is exactly the same thing.

Think of it as being the backup of a backup.

And remember they were both in the same volley team.

Probably not all Japanese know the idiom, so I guess you can think of it as being the same as them.

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Sorry for the confusion, but the original was also a sports idiom, 三軍扱い (the third army treatment), which is baseball related in Japan and is exactly the same thing.

Think of it as being the backup of a backup.

And remember they were both in the same volley team.

Probably not all Japanese know the idiom, so I guess you can think of it as being the same as them.

Yeah, it made sense given their sports backgrounds. That's how she would talk. Didn't see any issue with it, especially since the context makes it clear what's being discussed anyway.

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I know this is clearly supposed to be a love triangle... But it's so unbalanced that the love triangle tag almost feels misleading

I know this is clearly supposed to be a love triangle... But it's so unbalanced that the love triangle tag almost feels misleading

Honestly, I'm not sure the point is the love triangle, given how unbalanced it is. I think it's a coming of age story that's about how friends (and relationships) change over time.

When you look at it from that angle, the author signaling very obviously who is going to end up together isn't harmful to the story.

I just love these two and their dynamic. It's fluffy :)

Still pretty normal so far, even if this girl has recognized the other from the moment they met. It is kind of strange that nobody has been given a name yet.

"You'd end up in the third-string." Is that a British thing? I've never heard the expression, though I can guess the meaning from the context and the picture.

First-to-third strings are sports jargon since circa 19th century, based on a more literal medieval saying about spare bow strings. Doesn't appear to be limited to a single country's English.

For social standing, it'd be sports jargon leaking through sportsmen and sport fans into colloquial use, and may be of limited spread outside their circles (not into sports myself, I don't remember encountering it before either), but it also isn't a recent fad or specifically British: urban dictionary (crude language warning), urban dictionary again, reddit examples

Thanks for providing the links, and to everyone else who explained this. I now understand that the reason I do not understand this expression is that I spend all the time I could be playing sports instead reading yuri manga.

Well, maybe. I hate team sports and yet am quite aware of the expression; I thought it was pretty common and I'm surprised to see so many people who aren't aware of it. Mind you, I'm old. Maybe it has gotten less common in recent years.

These girls are really fast to fall deeply in love I think

Remember everyone, a triangle is a shape formed by two points, which share a direct connection, and a third, unconnected, point that's wondering why it's all alone.

Boys? Gay boys? In a yuri manga? How rare.

I'm confused. Did we just skip to the 2nd year after speed-running into a date on the first day? Huh?

Apparently progress only happens on the first day of school? First year was first date and second year is "oh so other gay people exist".
At this rate they may kiss before finishing college...in a dozen chapters :P

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Boys? Gay boys? In a yuri manga? How rare.

It's refreshing! Not only one flavor, but two flavors of gay in the same classroom!

DrJamesFox posted:

I'm confused. Did we just skip to the 2nd year after speed-running into a date on the first day? Huh?

Apparently progress only happens on the first day of school? First year was first date and second year is "oh so other gay people exist".
At this rate they may kiss before finishing college...in a dozen chapters :P

That's what I understood too.

One thought her love scared away the other. One thought her love isn't "normal".

So they kept the status quo for the whole year.

Anyway, I think this'll need the tag aaangstsoon.

Everybody already assumed the childhood friend is doomed. I would like to see a twist the friend winning for once.

Sometimes the childhood friend character wins...

I concur. Look at the list under the Childhood Friends tag to find heaps of stories with childhood friends who turn into lovers.

Only when there isn't a love triangle. In that case, they always lose.

actually not some win even with love trangle

Sometimes the childhood friend character wins...

I concur. Look at the list under the Childhood Friends tag to find heaps of stories with childhood friends who turn into lovers.

Only when there isn't a love triangle. In that case, they always lose.

Saori from Yuricam is laughing at you so hard right now...

You bring Yuricam but yhhm she never slepp with main heroine actually like Heroine sleep with everyone but Saori ended in relationship and there wasn't any indicnaring about them doing this in the end and taking character of main heroine we don't know if they even do this without any hind you can tell she win but is this win if she the only who didn't slepp with her love ?

Boys? Gay boys? In a yuri manga? How rare.

It's refreshing! Not only one flavor, but two flavors of gay in the same classroom!

Not only that. It's being used as a catalyst to progress the frozen status quo between the 2 characters :>

I'm confused. Did we just skip to the 2nd year after speed-running into a date on the first day? Huh?

Apparently progress only happens on the first day of school? First year was first date and second year is "oh so other gay people exist".
At this rate they may kiss before finishing college...in a dozen chapters :P

I just re-read the whole work... and yeah, that seems to be exactly it. Chapters 1-9 are early in the first year of high school, then the last page of 9 and chapter 10 are the first day of second year.

wtf

Does the author has a gun pointed to their heads wtf what’s the rush

What is Normal Pacing?

Please stop. It's 20 goddam 24, can we just bury the 'but we're both girls' trope? Enough.

We've been through this already: just don't take off your socks and remember to say no homo at the end.

I like that this one is getting to the point relatively quickly instead of spinning in circles for pages and pages

Please stop. It's 20 goddam 24, can we just bury the 'but we're both girls' trope? Enough.

I'm starting to use this trope as an early litmus test for whether I can expect the manga to have good writing.

Add failing this litmus test to the suddenly wtf pacing and I've now greatly lowered my expectations for this one.

Is " Little Bird Mitsuya " a reference to " Gon the Little Fox " or is it a real thing? Also, I normally root for the childhood friend, but the other two seem really compatible. Not sure the childhood friend even rates.

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