I agree with your points. I feel like there could've been an arc where Yuzu had to confront her fears - if she was afraid of being rejected outright, or if there was a bigger risk to their friendship if they got together. The latter, to me, feel more believable of a direction? Like she loves her so much but is afraid of fumbling her and that ruining not only their romantic relationship, but friendship too.

Thank you, I feel like I’m tweaking out for caring so much but also with how every one else chalking it up to misunderstanding, it really feels like Yuzu rejecting Minami was building up towards a role reversal where Yuzu is the pursuer while Minami is more of a passive role, but because things were dragged out for too long, ppl lost interest so it wasn’t able to go that way

Just noticed, why is this marked as "ongoing" while the last chap has already been uploaded?

Just noticed, why is this marked as "ongoing" while the last chap has already been uploaded?

I'm guessing we're waiting for the last volume's extras

This one is really eh

The more things change, the more they'll stay the same...

you can say that again

I've never seen public opinion on a manga turn as much as it did with this one. Y'all were seriously savage against this. It didn't quite live up to its potential, in my opinion, but y'all were HARSH.

I've never seen public opinion on a manga turn as much as it did with this one. Y'all were seriously savage against this. It didn't quite live up to its potential, in my opinion, but y'all were HARSH.

Harsh? Maybe. But some salient points have been made.

I would also like to point out that Yuzu's trauma isn't exactly uncommon, but it is grossly overlooked - both in writing and in real life - as far as romance goes. Oftentimes it develops into something people can't pick up on or relate to because they've either never experienced it themselves, never knew anyone who did, or weren't looking for or expecting it as part of the story in any capacity. And given this story's original premise of a fluffy rom-com with childhood friends and comedic timing sprinkled with misunderstandings, I don't think the romance trauma had any place being here to begin with.

I can't help but feel this white veil over Yuzu's past contributed to folks believing it was just a continued slop of misunderstandings, as opposed to pulling open the veil and giving the readers time to both see it and adjust to it. Instead, the story plateaus at an almost perfectly 90 degree angle into a straight, steep drop with no satisfaction on landing, other than the story being over.

Whatever it was the author wanted to end the story with, I'm confident this wasn't it. I could be wrong on many things - and heck, I might even be wrong about all of it - but as both a writer myself and a veteran yuri reader, I think the story was exceptionally poorly handled from the middle onward once Yuzu's denseness was explored into.

The more things change, the more they'll stay the same...

you can say that again

Lmao I noticed that too, it was like author telling on themselves that this was the extent of story planning for this one.

Whatever it was the author wanted to end the story with, I'm confident this wasn't it

Well, I disagree, I think this is exactly what it looks like when someone bad at writing stories writes one :P Cheesy happy ending without much substance was probably always the plan.

I also disagree about that point about romance trauma, the problem wasn't that it was portrayed at all, the problem is that it was actually just inconsistent with how Yuzu behaved in the first part. Theyre were legit just two different people :P

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Cute.

Wait a minute, someone actually had the fondest time of their life in high school?!

Ya know, after 3 years of following this story, I'm glad it ended here. It was definitely starting to drag, and the prolonging started to feel painfully contrived. That said, still enjoyed it. Glad I got to see the end. It was even pretty dece.