While I think Kanna would be well within her rights to tell Joe off, it seems to me like she's been waiting for him to take the initiative. Meanwhile Joe seems to have been stuck in the idea that he had to let her go back then, so he's got no right to reach out now. It would be nice to see two people who clearly still have those feelings for each other work it out somehow, even if either dropping their livelihood and crossing an ocean right away would be a tad one sided.

The ideal way it would work out, in my mind, is they have their big emotional conversation at the airport and Kanna still goes on her flight, but with the two of them actively planning for their future together (whichever side of the pacific they decide to have it in). I would also accept them hashing things out and agreeing it just wouldn't work, shaking hands and parting but with actual closure this time. However it turns out, Joe is providing Mitsuki a great example of how that attitude they share can lead to very sub-optimal outcomes.

Yes! Tell him gurl!!!!

You guys know that you don't have to read, right? You can forget about it for a few months and get back to it if you feel like it.

but they keep coming back no matter what. they just love to hate read.

I hope Mitsuki follows her own advice here, lol.

Saying Kanna would have to give up her life in LA to be with Joe is a bit of stretch. As far as I remember, we don't know much about her life there, if she truly enjoys it or if she would feel like giving up something if she was to go back to Japan. It is also entirely possible that she would like to be back, but doing so, while not being able to be with Joe would be too hard for her, so she prefers to be far away.

I do agree with others though, that if Joe finally confessing or having them talk at the airport is enough for them to be together and resolve the situation is also too much of a stretch. They clearly need time and proper discussions about it, but at the same time, we shouldn't assume what Kanna truly wants out of this.

You guys know that you don't have to read, right? You can forget about it for a few months and get back to it if you feel like it.

i've already done that. we can't express our feelings about the pace now? was there a rule about that?

I fucking creamed, mitsuki looks so good in that suit

Wow you guys are a little tense... lol

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... I don't feel like as readers we were made to care enough about this particular drama :P I sure don't. I get that the author is potentially going for some sort of parallel with the main pair's relationship but I just don't think it works at all.

Completely hoping for Mitsuki to get the girl and Joe to fail at it in the same night, because it'll be funny if that happens

It would be pretty funny, that's why the author won't do it (but If they do, I'd have to reconsider my assesment of this author's writing abilities :P)

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Having a prom wasn't enough, they had to copy the 'running to the airport' trope as well :-D

Love the green yuri.

YES!! Mitsuki said exactly what I was feeling.

This one is ticking all the cliches

I do wonder what will come off the whole Joe x Kanna thing. it seems the two of them have not really discussed their feelings and relationship at all, despite there being so much history - and Kanna might have been thinking about what it means that they have reconnected and she became part of their life again. the jokey comment about acting like Mitsuki's aunt must have really hurt her - because she did want to be exactly that. altough it is extremely unclear to me if she and Joe still have romantic feelings for each other, and whether Kanna had someone overseas (there seemed to be an older guy with her in the overseas montage, looking at her fondly). regardless if they are going to end up together or not, I just hope Joe finally clears the air with her

on the Mitsuki - Aya side I am super excited! it seems Mitsuki is going to skip the music party and head over to the prom! the bouquet HAS to be for Aya!! I really wish we knew just how aware she is of the fact that Aya still wants to date her but the way she immediately asked "didn't you want to go to the prom with me?" and how she literally wrote a love song about her it MUST mean she knows (and let's not even mention their "you only like me bc of onii-san" fight and how she became confident in showing up as her true self at school because of Aya!)

I seriously do not for a second believe that older person listening to her in that montage of her life in America is a romantic interest. I'll go so far as to predict that if the author does give Kanna another partner besides Joe, it'll be a woman. Kanna's had big bisexual energy from the start, with her immediately noticing Aya's feelings towards Mitsuki and teasing her for it, joking about her being Mitsuki's girlfriend.
Joe also had bisexual vibes to me from his style but I can't really cite any text for him, lol. But if Joe gets dumped by Kanna and dates a man, maybe one of the guys introduced as his record shop regulars, I would be very happy lmao

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we all know one guy in this series who's actually constantly pointed out that he's not in the least not interested in (dating) girls…

we all know one guy in this series who's actually constantly pointed out that he's not in the least not interested in (dating) girls…

If Narita got a boyfriend and kissed him before the girls even confess to each other I'd laugh

Though it does feel like with the flowers that the confession coming...maybe...?

Uncle and Koga about to bond over girl trouble, and he's probably gonna tell her to not make the same mistakes he did.

I got the roles wrong/reversed, apparently. Lol.

As much as Kanna and Joe had chemistry in the past, I just don't see it in the present, other than them being old friends/exes. If they are bonding over anything it seems to me to be Mitsuki (and Aya). The family path might be a viable way forward, but am just not seeing much other than the lingering past and reflections on that between them.
I mean this is certainly an emotional moment, but is it enough?
The gantlet is clear - go and bring her back, proof is gonna be in the pudding

This won't just be the shitty het cliché straight up, right? Surely there will be a clever twist or something

Saying Kanna would have to give up her life in LA to be with Joe is a bit of stretch. As far as I remember, we don't know much about her life there, if she truly enjoys it or if she would feel like giving up something if she was to go back to Japan. It is also entirely possible that she would like to be back, but doing so, while not being able to be with Joe would be too hard for her, so she prefers to be far away.

I do agree with others though, that if Joe finally confessing or having them talk at the airport is enough for them to be together and resolve the situation is also too much of a stretch. They clearly need time and proper discussions about it, but at the same time, we shouldn't assume what Kanna truly wants out of this.

The reader doesn't normally have to make unfounded assumptions about this stuff, because a drama plot normally tends to set up the stakes in a timely manner so the reader has something to go on when trying to predict outcomes.

In other words, it's actually reasonable to assume that Kanna was not unhappy with her life or career overseas if this detail has not been brought up so far, given that her subplot seems to be right on the cusp of its climax.

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we all know one guy in this series who's actually constantly pointed out that he's not in the least not interested in (dating) girls…

If Narita got a boyfriend and kissed him before the girls even confess to each other I'd laugh

Though it does feel like with the flowers that the confession coming...maybe...?

I feel like Narita is meant to be the token aroace friend who helps out the main couple bc he likes romance but not for himself (like Maki-kun in Bloom Into You) however, I would absolutely love it if he turned out to be gay

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Saying Kanna would have to give up her life in LA to be with Joe is a bit of stretch. As far as I remember, we don't know much about her life there, if she truly enjoys it or if she would feel like giving up something if she was to go back to Japan. It is also entirely possible that she would like to be back, but doing so, while not being able to be with Joe would be too hard for her, so she prefers to be far away.

I do agree with others though, that if Joe finally confessing or having them talk at the airport is enough for them to be together and resolve the situation is also too much of a stretch. They clearly need time and proper discussions about it, but at the same time, we shouldn't assume what Kanna truly wants out of this.

The reader doesn't normally have to make unfounded assumptions about this stuff, because a drama plot normally tends to set up the stakes in a timely manner so the reader has something to go on when trying to predict outcomes.

In other words, it's actually reasonable to assume that Kanna was not unhappy with her life or career overseas if this detail has not been brought up so far, given that her subplot seems to be right on the cusp of its climax.

You do have a point. It's not super clear if her life in LA is satisfying for her or not. But the fact that Kanna went back to Japan, not just for visiting but for a few months, the fact that she tries to get Mitsuki to go to LA with her and the fact that she left in a hurry after what happened with Joe are enough hints for me to at least suspect her life in LA is not ideal. I guess we will find out pretty soon.

Here I am, checking in after years, to say, while I understand some of the quibbles people are having with plot and pacing, the sight of Oosawa-san under the disco ball has absorbed any lesser moment into its magnificence. This chapter is a triumph of pace and storytelling.

That last page gave me flashbacks of 'Sixteen Candles' and 'Some Kind Of Wonderful'. For those to young to know, those were two movies about teens from the late 80's at least one or maybe both by John Hughes. Great for their time, decent in general, and both featured actors and actresses that went on to be huge.

just kiss and fuck already

Gayrealization letssssss goooooooo