Aya, your girl needs you!

Some empty heads gonna be smashed and broken in the next chapter.And I'm hoping for it.*_*.

Social anxiety is worst random encounter result.

Aaaand now I'm glad I didn't go with the flow of comments and assume this guy was a potential friend. When it comes to children interacting with each other, better hope for the best but expect the worst.

it sure is tough being a kid. took me 10+ years of therapy to learn how to deal with superficial fears and selfhatred like that but until that point... god damn is it scary. i feel for koga. I hope someone comes in and shuts em up and gives koga a big long hug. oh and that koga accepts said hug.

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Time for the gyaru squad to walk back into the classroom and kick a few very deserving ass :⁠-⁠$

Was REALLY hoping for the best here in spite of my immediate distrust...LOOKS LIKE WE THROWIN' HANDS Y'ALL. ON. SIGHT.

What a fucktwad. Who opens and reads other people's journals? Then spreads it around? Crazy.

So they have chosen death, i see. (╬≖_≖)

Well, fuck...

Sooo... Mitsuki wrote a confession song for Aya, and now the school knows about it, and Aya will probably come to save her from bullies, thus seeing the lyrics on the board....

Was that the lyrics on the blackboard? I'd imagine if they were something that important they'd be translated, so I guessed that was class stuff. Also ooh Mitsuki wrote a love song...?

Was that the lyrics on the blackboard? I'd imagine if they were something that important they'd be translated, so I guessed that was class stuff. Also ooh Mitsuki wrote a love song...?

They translated the lyrics with their phones and wrote them on the chalkboard I think

I have no idea what posses someone to turn into a anime villian like this and arbitrarily decides to ruin the life of someone they don’t know and had zero prior interactions with like that just seems like completely psycho shit to me, but bullying is just sorta like that I guess

Could it be a bit of a misunderstanding? Old memories of bullying mixing with the current situation? Maybe the theory of them wanting to invite her to a band are true.

I get the impression the last page isn't literally happening, but is instead how she feels.

...If that is indeed literally happening, then those kids need a practical lesson on the definition of defenestration.

Oh okay. So he's just a classic bully? I can deal with that. At least he didn't steal her song and call it his

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The title “Catalyst” feels so ominous… I’m scared

you were right

I get the impression the last page isn't literally happening, but is instead how she feels.

...If that is indeed literally happening, then those kids need a practical lesson on the definition of defenestration.

I also think it isn't really happening, since it's in black and white(as opposed to the partial color of the rest of the manga) and the classmates are shown as sinister-looking shadows, which are often shown when someone imagines their tormentors.

a practical lesson on the definition of defenestration.

That's a great quote - I just might have to steal it, lol

Ah..... as I feared. Poor Koga :(

i hope aya shows up just in time and defends mitsuki ;-;

I have no idea what posses someone to turn into a anime villian like this and arbitrarily decides to ruin the life of someone they don’t know and had zero prior interactions with like that just seems like completely psycho shit to me, but bullying is just sorta like that I guess

They might not mean it that way. It's already been brought up, but I doubt the last page is literally happening, she's just upset that they're judging and putting labels on her metaphorically and it's causing a panic attack. Whether or not they're being intentionally mean or just careless is hard to say without a larger pattern of behavior. They wrote the lyrics on the board, was that to shame or embarass her, or was it just because they were working on translating a song in a language they don't understand fluently? They're needling her with commentary, is that because they want to put her down or are they just being thoughtless? Doesn't really matter to her trauma, though. I do hope Aya comes to the rescue, but this is something Koga needs to learn to deal with if she's going to keep putting herself out there as an artist.

ITT, everyone forgets what visual metaphor and unreliable narrators are. orz

I'm not saying it's unrealistic (because it's not), but thinking back on it kids tend to bully each other for really dumb reasons. "This person can make music, let's point and laugh".

(If they're even trying to bully her, this might all be in Koga's head).