i’m really enjoying the manga so far, especially how we get to see the cupids' perspectives on the process of choosing the right match for their target. However, I'm curious to know more about the perspective of those who get hit by the arrows. For example, Koharu's friend, before she died, confessed that she liked Koharu, and even after going to university, she still had feelings for her. But in Chapter 6, page 15 (https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_bullet_ch06#15), Koharu's friend falls in love with another girl. Do her feelings for Koharu immediately disappear, or do they gradually fade as she gets to know the other girl better? (Sorry if this sounds confusingI can’t remember their names.)

Your question is answered by Koharu herself a few pages later

Do her feelings for Koharu immediately disappear, or do they gradually fade as she gets to know the other girl better? (Sorry if this sounds confusingI can’t remember their names.)

I mean, even before getting hit she explained at length that all of this was a long time ago and seemed really distant, I think it would be fair to call that feelings gradually fading already :P

Chapter 7 is really cute. Koharu and Kanna are cuties. Wonder about that cupid dude and if Kanna will explain more about cupid world. Chiyo is so spicy lol

Also, this chapter somehow hints more about the possibility (theory)of Kanna being Koharu and Aki's cupid before the accident happened. Like how she was supposed to make Koharu consider Aki's feeling more and developing it into crush when Aki confessed to Koharu.

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Chapter 7 is really cute. Koharu and Kanna are cuties. Wonder about that cupid dude and if Kanna will explain more about cupid world. Chiyo is so spicy lol

Also, this chapter somehow hints more about the possibility (theory)of Kanna being Koharu and Aki's cupid before the accident happened. Like how she was supposed to make Koharu consider Aki's feeling more and developing it into crush when Aki confessed to Koharu.

Yeah, by this point it's clear that there's something going on with Koharu's backstory.

Koharu set up all those couples, yet never fell in love herself. Why did the cupid(s) ignore her after she did so much work for them?

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I'm so glad we saved this manga! It would've been a huge loss if it were to be axed... Thank you all for your work to those who aided in promoting and boosting vol. 1's sales!

The author managed to sell enough copies! I’m so happy for her, now we can continue enjoying this great series!

The author sells enough copies, now we can continue enjoying this great series!

Please note that there's been no indication of a reprint (which would mean all the volumes sold out) from the author yet, so there's no confirmation that the series is out of the woods yet. We can't celebrate too early, especially after we found out that the publisher did have a bunch of books sitting in their their warehouse following the first out of stock notices on online retailers - they only just connected that stock to the online retailers two days ago.

It'll be important to support the series while the author's doing her promotions on Twitter! So please consider supporting the manga if you've been enjoying the scanlations and want the story to continue! Our Buying Guide is here: https://bit.ly/lovebullet

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I'm so glad we saved this manga! It would've been a huge loss if it were to be axed... Thank you all for your work to those who aided in promoting and boosting vol. 1's sales!

The author managed to sell enough copies! I’m so happy for her, now we can continue enjoying this great series!

The author sells enough copies, now we can continue enjoying this great series!

Please note that there's been no indication of a reprint (which would mean all the volumes sold out) from the author yet, so there's no confirmation that the series is out of the woods yet. We can't celebrate too early, especially after we found out that the publisher did have a bunch of books sitting in their their warehouse following the first out of stock notices on online retailers - they only just connected that stock to the online retailers two days ago.

It'll be important to support the series while the author's doing her promotions on Twitter! So please consider supporting the manga if you've been enjoying the scanlations and want the story to continue! Our Buying Guide is here: https://bit.ly/lovebullet

Wow, the publisher sounds scammier than I thought.

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......ok fuck it im hitching a ride on that Kanna x Koharu train, lets go!

honestly I wouldn't be surprised if inee got another publisher to purchase the rights to Love Bullet if comic flapper continues with "lmao get cancelled"

Manga has hopped magazines before, and given how much buzz Love Bullet is getting, either Comic Flapper will be forced to continue properly or another publisher goes "MINE NOW"

honestly I wouldn't be surprised if inee got another publisher to purchase the rights to Love Bullet if comic flapper continues with "lmao get cancelled"

Manga has hopped magazines before, and given how much buzz Love Bullet is getting, either Comic Flapper will be forced to continue properly or another publisher goes "MINE NOW"

Honestly from what I'm reading here I hope everything under them and all authors get rescued from Comic Flapper

Regarding the translator's notes, pigeons are just another name for Rock Doves, specifically but not exclusively the domesticated Rock Dove yet still also used commonly for the wild variety.

There's also no real distinction between other species of dove or pigeons for why they call them that other than generally the size of the birds. Bigger birds in Columbidae are usually called pigeons and doves the smaller, but it also is inconsistent as a "rule".

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Chapter 7 is really cute. Koharu and Kanna are cuties. Wonder about that cupid dude and if Kanna will explain more about cupid world. Chiyo is so spicy lol

Also, this chapter somehow hints more about the possibility (theory)of Kanna being Koharu and Aki's cupid before the accident happened. Like how she was supposed to make Koharu consider Aki's feeling more and developing it into crush when Aki confessed to Koharu.

Yeah, by this point it's clear that there's something going on with Koharu's backstory.

Koharu set up all those couples, yet never fell in love herself. Why did the cupid(s) ignore her after she did so much work for them?

Might be they were ordered to do so, because she owuld be a valuable asset for the cupids? Or maybe it's because she just never paid attention to her own feelings and now as a cupid she is going to learn how? I kinda hope there is no sinister reason behind it.

I'm so glad we saved this manga! It would've been a huge loss if it were to be axed... Thank you all for your work to those who aided in promoting and boosting vol. 1's sales!

The author managed to sell enough copies! I’m so happy for her, now we can continue enjoying this great series!

The author sells enough copies, now we can continue enjoying this great series!

Please note that there's been no indication of a reprint (which would mean all the volumes sold out) from the author yet, so there's no confirmation that the series is out of the woods yet. We can't celebrate too early, especially after we found out that the publisher did have a bunch of books sitting in their their warehouse following the first out of stock notices on online retailers - they only just connected that stock to the online retailers two days ago.

It'll be important to support the series while the author's doing her promotions on Twitter! So please consider supporting the manga if you've been enjoying the scanlations and want the story to continue! Our Buying Guide is here: https://bit.ly/lovebullet

Has Comic Flapper started to play ball yet with promoting Love Bullet? Or even just retweeted any of the promos from the author? Cuz so far I'm glad for the outpouring of love for the series but feel bitter that it's resulting in these bastards getting paid for work they've refused to do.

I'm so glad we saved this manga! It would've been a huge loss if it were to be axed... Thank you all for your work to those who aided in promoting and boosting vol. 1's sales!

The author managed to sell enough copies! I’m so happy for her, now we can continue enjoying this great series!

The author sells enough copies, now we can continue enjoying this great series!

Please note that there's been no indication of a reprint (which would mean all the volumes sold out) from the author yet, so there's no confirmation that the series is out of the woods yet. We can't celebrate too early, especially after we found out that the publisher did have a bunch of books sitting in their their warehouse following the first out of stock notices on online retailers - they only just connected that stock to the online retailers two days ago.

It'll be important to support the series while the author's doing her promotions on Twitter! So please consider supporting the manga if you've been enjoying the scanlations and want the story to continue! Our Buying Guide is here: https://bit.ly/lovebullet

Has Comic Flapper started to play ball yet with promoting Love Bullet? Or even just retweeted any of the promos from the author? Cuz so far I'm glad for the outpouring of love for the series but feel bitter that it's resulting in these bastards getting paid for work they've refused to do.

Yeah unfortunately it's a catch-22 situation, can't support the author and series without also supporting the company that put them into this position.

Has Comic Flapper started to play ball yet with promoting Love Bullet? Or even just retweeted any of the promos from the author? Cuz so far I'm glad for the outpouring of love for the series but feel bitter that it's resulting in these bastards getting paid for work they've refused to do.

An interview with the author on yahoo news: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/d2c34fc9582742c2534433d56914f67a42b91abb

And a volume review on yurinavi: https://yurinavi.com/2024/09/27/love-bullet-pr/

Has Comic Flapper started to play ball yet with promoting Love Bullet? Or even just retweeted any of the promos from the author? Cuz so far I'm glad for the outpouring of love for the series but feel bitter that it's resulting in these bastards getting paid for work they've refused to do.

An interview with the author on yahoo news: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/d2c34fc9582742c2534433d56914f67a42b91abb

And a volume review on yurinavi: https://yurinavi.com/2024/09/27/love-bullet-pr/

Thanks for that. I had no idea she was (and still is) living in America (likely an American) and studying Japanese when an editor from Japan approached her based on her twitter oneshot. Is that common knowledge? That's surprising. So it's being translated into Japanese with the help of professional translators and then translated back by TL teams for us. That's a bit funny.

Good on the editor for sticking with that kind of international outreach. I wonder if the non-Japanese audience felt some unconscious familiarity with Inee's work and themes and if that helped the series resonate with a non-Japanese audience. So glad for her success and I hope we get more mangaka stories like this one. There's so much talent all over the world.

When this work was first announced, the yuri elements were not explicitly stated, and it seems that it was somewhat unrecognized in the yuri industry, but I hope that this review will help more people, even if just a little, become aware of the work's existence.

That line from Yurinavi is also interesting. The idea that this series was not strongly promoted as yuri in Japan, and therefore may have missed a lot of its potential audience is unfortunate. YuriNavi seems to feel that they also missed this. That's exactly the kind of thing that kills a series and has nothing to do with its quality. Seems like they focused on its action more than anything else. Glad it's on the radar now and got a glowing review from Yurinavi. Hoping for the best.

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Chapter 7 is really cute. Koharu and Kanna are cuties. Wonder about that cupid dude and if Kanna will explain more about cupid world. Chiyo is so spicy lol

Also, this chapter somehow hints more about the possibility (theory)of Kanna being Koharu and Aki's cupid before the accident happened. Like how she was supposed to make Koharu consider Aki's feeling more and developing it into crush when Aki confessed to Koharu.

I had not considered that, but now you've brought it up, it would make sense. Chiyo's primary characterization of Kanna in the little we've seen thus far is that she was a 'lazy cupid' and the seeming diligence and willingness to stand up and fight are new. What if... she was assigned Koharu's file but instead of acting on it noticed that she was good at matchmaking. So then she could just let Koharu do the work, and simply pop the couples she created, thereby reaping the benefit with little effort (assuming of course, there were bounties on her classmates). If Koharu herself got in a relationship, she'd be less inclined toward matchmaking others as there would be a major draw on her time and attention. But it's fine! She's young, and Kanna will get around to shooting her eventually, right? Then she dies without knowing love, all because Kanna was being lazy. That would be exactly the kind of thing that would prompt the sort of all-in behaviour she's shown thus far. It would also explain why Kanna knew all about Koharu from the moment she woke up, if she'd been lurking around her before she died. In that scenario, Kanna's expression in the top half of page 12 isn't just sympathy or consideration toward her kohai, it's guilt.

Granted, there's a fair bit of supposition there. Could be that new cupids are normally assigned mentors to ease them into things, since the goddess of love sure didn't bother to, and that those assigned mentors are just given a dossier on the cupid-to-be to help facilitate that. I hope we'll get to find out.

Please note that there's been no indication of a reprint (which would mean all the volumes sold out) from the author yet, so there's no confirmation that the series is out of the woods yet. We can't celebrate too early, especially after we found out that the publisher did have a bunch of books sitting in their their warehouse following the first out of stock notices on online retailers - they only just connected that stock to the online retailers two days ago.

It'll be important to support the series while the author's doing her promotions on Twitter! So please consider supporting the manga if you've been enjoying the scanlations and want the story to continue! Our Buying Guide is here: https://bit.ly/lovebullet

Has Comic Flapper started to play ball yet with promoting Love Bullet? Or even just retweeted any of the promos from the author? Cuz so far I'm glad for the outpouring of love for the series but feel bitter that it's resulting in these bastards getting paid for work they've refused to do.

Short answer: No. The point of inee's promotional push on Twitter is to prove that the manga is worth it for Flapper to 1) continue the story, and 2) put actual effort into the marketing. The latter should've been given to the manga from the beginning, but that's not the case for a lot of mid-tier magazines or publications that are iffy at marketing in general. The former is easiest to prove with undenaibly good sales volume sales, as Flapper would be shooting themselves in the foot by not marketing it more at that poiint.

Something interesting that a JP user on twitter noticed was that the Yuri Navi article was a sponsored one, meaning that inee/Kadokawa paid for it to be uploaded. However, the article says "PR (inee)", instead of what should be "PR (Kadokawa)". The user was questioning why the author was given the responsibility to arrange the PR article when the publisher/editor is supposed to. I don't like peddling conspiracy theories or anything, but all signs during this last month of sudden daily posting and new content from the author (with no retweets from Comic Flapper, though the parent company Kadokawa at least posted the interview article) heavily suggest that it's the author doing everything she can to increase sales while the publisher is more waiting to see the results before investing any more time/money into Love Bullet.

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Please note that there's been no indication of a reprint (which would mean all the volumes sold out) from the author yet, so there's no confirmation that the series is out of the woods yet. We can't celebrate too early, especially after we found out that the publisher did have a bunch of books sitting in their their warehouse following the first out of stock notices on online retailers - they only just connected that stock to the online retailers two days ago.

It'll be important to support the series while the author's doing her promotions on Twitter! So please consider supporting the manga if you've been enjoying the scanlations and want the story to continue! Our Buying Guide is here: https://bit.ly/lovebullet

Has Comic Flapper started to play ball yet with promoting Love Bullet? Or even just retweeted any of the promos from the author? Cuz so far I'm glad for the outpouring of love for the series but feel bitter that it's resulting in these bastards getting paid for work they've refused to do.

Short answer: No. The point of inee's promotional push on Twitter is to prove that the manga is worth it for Flapper to 1) continue the story, and 2) put actual effort into the marketing. The latter should've been given to the manga from the beginning, but that's not the case for a lot of mid-tier magazines or publications that are iffy at marketing in general. The former is easiest to prove with undenaibly good sales volume sales, as Flapper would be shooting themselves in the foot by not marketing it more at that poiint.

Something interesting that a JP user on twitter noticed was that the Yuri Navi article was a sponsored one, meaning that inee/Kadokawa paid for it to be uploaded. However, the article says "PR (inee)", instead of what should be "PR (Kadokawa)". The user was questioning why the author was given the responsibility to arrange the PR article when the publisher/editor is supposed to. I don't like peddling conspiracy theories or anything, but all signs during this last month of sudden daily posting and new content from the author (with no retweets from Comic Flapper, though the parent company Kadokawa at least posted the interview article) heavily suggest that it's the author doing everything she can to increase sales while the publisher is more waiting to see the results before investing any more time/money into Love Bullet.

I wonder if her distance from Japan might influence their decision making? Since they apparently help translate chapters into Japanese and for correspondence. Maybe they consider that when deciding what resources are required? Either way, I hope it works out for her and they start putting in more effort.

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Short answer: No. The point of inee's promotional push on Twitter is to prove that the manga is worth it for Flapper to 1) continue the story, and 2) put actual effort into the marketing. The latter should've been given to the manga from the beginning, but that's not the case for a lot of mid-tier magazines or publications that are iffy at marketing in general. The former is easiest to prove with undenaibly good sales volume sales, as Flapper would be shooting themselves in the foot by not marketing it more at that poiint.

Something interesting that a JP user on twitter noticed was that the Yuri Navi article was a sponsored one, meaning that inee/Kadokawa paid for it to be uploaded. However, the article says "PR (inee)", instead of what should be "PR (Kadokawa)". The user was questioning why the author was given the responsibility to arrange the PR article when the publisher/editor is supposed to. I don't like peddling conspiracy theories or anything, but all signs during this last month of sudden daily posting and new content from the author (with no retweets from Comic Flapper, though the parent company Kadokawa at least posted the interview article) heavily suggest that it's the author doing everything she can to increase sales while the publisher is more waiting to see the results before investing any more time/money into Love Bullet.

I wonder if her distance from Japan might influence their decision making? Since they apparently help translate chapters into Japanese and for correspondence. Maybe they consider that when deciding what resources are required? Either way, I hope it works out for her and they start putting in more effort.

I was looking into more due to this discussion and inee thanks an editorial company called "Sunplant" in her Afterword in Volume 1. A quick Google search shows that they're an editorial company that connects authors to various publishers. If inee's been working with them, it's possible that she doesn't have an editor at Kadokawa, but an editor at Sunplant and there's not much direct contact between her and Flapper/Kadokawa at all. (This is going a little too deep, but a Twitter account with "Inaba" included, the name of her main editor she also thanks in the afterword, is one of the 4 accounts that the inactive Sunplant Twitter account follows).

That's not necessarily a bad thing since apparently Sunplant was in charge of editing Girls Last Tour which sold great and got an anime, but it would suggest that most of the marketing, promotional stuff, and probably translating was the responsibility of Sunplant and the author until this point. Also considering schwinn's bad experience with her editor at Flapper during Hanamonogatari's run, it could be better that inee's editor might not be from Flapper lol

If it's an American author with a foreign audience, maybe she should just be making a webcomic in English...

If it's an American author with a foreign audience, maybe she should just be making a webcomic in English...

This is like asking why a musician doesn't just upload to soundcloud for free instead of signing with an actual label, lol. The international audience didn't even exist more than two weeks ago, it only blew up because big Western twitter accounts caught wind of it, liked it, and shared it after the few international fans started promoting it hard. All it needs is a similar event to happen on the Japanese side to get a bigger audience there; that's called exposure. That's also the exact place where marketing from the publisher is supposed to come in but as we know the publisher hasn't done anything (yet).

If it's an American author with a foreign audience, maybe she should just be making a webcomic in English...

This is like asking why a musician doesn't just upload to soundcloud for free instead of signing with an actual label, lol. The international audience didn't even exist more than two weeks ago, it only blew up because big Western twitter accounts caught wind of it, liked it, and shared it after the few international fans started promoting it hard. All it needs is a similar event to happen on the Japanese side to get a bigger audience there; that's called exposure. That's also the exact place where marketing from the publisher is supposed to come in but as we know the publisher hasn't done anything (yet).

Right. The Japanese publisher saw her work on Twitter, and thought she was a Japanese mangaka with a lot of talent. She didn't reach out on her own. Besides, it makes no difference where she's from.

The series just wasn't being marketed right, based on what YuriNavi itself has said. They didn't even know it was a yuri work, since according to YuriNavi's Japanese review, it was apparently being primarily pushed for it's action (if it was pushed at all).

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It feels so strange to me to hear Love Bullet being framed primarily for its action, because that's such a small percent of the actual content and definitely isn't the primary focus? It's well done every time it comes up but it's always there to serve the emotional story rather than them having action frequently and finding story excuses for more action. And in general selling a comic based on "action" feels like it would be pitching to a very immature audience who wouldn't appreciate the deep emotional content, especially stories where you do not get the simple most desirable outcome like Koharu ending to with her childhood friend because of her death and then needing to assign that same friend a new lover. Shounen type audiences seem to really struggle with feeling frustrated at that kind of denial in a story, because they're used to getting what they want in entertainment media targeting them, rather than stories about the complex emotions when you don't get what you want.

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Just binged this, really enjoyed it. A small detail I thought was interesting was how the cupids react differently to being "shot". During the love triangle fight, Ena and Kanna (the more mature Cupids) get shot and immediately throw massive tantrums about how they want to fall in love. But when Chiyo (the aggressive, selfish Cupid) gets hit, in both the love triangle fight and ch. 5, she instead falls into a depressive state about how no one will ever love her. I wonder if that's just a joke based on their personalities, or if there's more to it.

A cupid's promise
I considered it as the author Inee sensei's promise too.