Roommates achievement got!

Why would she be worried about her bringing a girl home? Saying roommate over girlfriend... I get the vibe they broke up but remained friends?

Right—so the people who were worried about the “divorce arc” turn out to have been right all along. That’s what this chapter is all about.

JFC.

THEIR ADULT NOW!!!!
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_guy_she_was_interested_in_wasnt_a_guy_at_all_ch143#1

Arai did some art of Adult them earlier this year
https://x.com/agu_knzm/status/1936628584208294314

Super cute, thanks for the link to the bonus art!

Also it's a shift in language that feels distant to me, instead of saying I'm living with my girlfriend now, the more distant terminology of roommate feels strange to me. If it's natural to you cool, you don't need to be rude about it though.

The literal sentence is 私にはいま、同居人がいる which means, translated literally, "As for me right now, there is someone living with me".

I just think it's to keep the next page a "surprise" by implying it may be someone else. Not to say that they broke up or something.

Also it's a shift in language that feels distant to me, instead of saying I'm living with my girlfriend now, the more distant terminology of roommate feels strange to me. If it's natural to you cool, you don't need to be rude about it though.

The literal sentence is 私にはいま、同居人がいる which means, translated literally, "As for me right now, there is someone living with me".

I just think it's to keep the next page a "surprise" by implying it may be someone else. Not to say that they broke up or something.

Thanks for the clarification, I appreciate it. I think I figured that they'd be living together so I wasn't looking at from an angle of surprise, and that was the source of my brief "huh?" moment. Looking at it from the angle of, you'll never guess who my roommate is!, helps and it's cute lol

Why would she be worried about her bringing a girl home? Saying roommate over girlfriend... I get the vibe they broke up but remained friends?

Why would the series do that? That's quite the leap. It's a reveal and joke setup with a punchline tied into one. That's all. But anyway, super cute chapter. I'm glad we're seeing them after high school.

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Why would she be worried about her bringing a girl home? Saying roommate over girlfriend... I get the vibe they broke up but remained friends?

Why would the series do that?

Right? One of the repeated tropes of this series (a bog-standard one for SOL romance series) is that one of the MCs, usually Aya, feels a tiny bit of insecurity or a transient jealousy-adjacent emotion, and then Mitsuki blows it all away with a trademark mega-rizz moment for a super-cute resolution.

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blue yuri is coming...

blue yuri is coming...

No don't jinx it T~T

Okay, let me wrap my head around this because I’m a bit confused. So, they graduated, and then the author posted her social media art showing the girls walking together, which seems to symbolize a new direction for them. Now, they appear to be living together, but there’s also a mention of bringing other girls home.

I have a feeling this might get complicated because earlier this year, the author shared posts about the yuri, where the colors kept getting darker, like the light green Yuri and the blue Yuri posts.

But then again, a few years ago, there was a post about them moving in together, so I wonder if, through these artworks, the author is giving hints about events that will happen with these girls.

https://x.com/kyoruyeye/status/1972174281527398707

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Also it's a shift in language that feels distant to me, instead of saying I'm living with my girlfriend now, the more distant terminology of roommate feels strange to me. If it's natural to you cool, you don't need to be rude about it though.

The literal sentence is 私にはいま、同居人がいる which means, translated literally, "As for me right now, there is someone living with me".

I just think it's to keep the next page a "surprise" by implying it may be someone else. Not to say that they broke up or something.

That's certainly the intent, but let's be honest, it's weird. Both the "roommate" terminology, the "did she bring a girl home", and general presentation.

If you look back at the chapter it's clear a setup for a reveal of "surprise, the girlfriends are living together !"... But that setup is kinda forced and off.

The "did they broke up" questions are certainly taking it too far, but at the same time, the first two pages are not written the way you'd naturally write a "they're been dating for two years and everything is smooth sailing". Switch "I've got a roommate now" to "We're living together now" and "Don't tell me she brought a girl home" to "Did she bring a friend home" and there's no issue.

I mean, I get it. An author wants to add twists and surprises and emotional reactions from the readers. I'm just not too keen on how it was done in this chapter - telling the readers they're still together after the timeskip could have used a bit more seriousness rather than be revealed with a forced bait-and-switch.

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No but the "roommate" thing did make me a bit concerned because I remembered Sumiko-sen drawing adult versions of them where Aya is crying a while ago and I'm like, oh no, is breakup arc real? But looking back at those, they had different adult designs than the ones we have now, so that's probably different timeline/further in the future

Also, since I was just in Instagram to find those, I saw that there was a single panel between the last chapter and the time skip (on twitter as well). For the uploaders, I think that it's technically part of the manga and should probably be included at the start of this chapter, or the end of the last. That single page would make the transition to adult life slightly less jarring, as I think it's supposed to signify "Moving Forward"

^ She had also drawn these designs a few months ago: https://x.com/agu_knzm/status/1936628584208294314

I wanted to see more kisses!!! xD but I'm glad they're living together

The author has been giving glimpses of the MCs’ future (specified as “possibilities” since the two weren’t yet officially a couple) since over three years ago.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_guy_she_was_interested_in_wasnt_a_guy_at_all_ch18_1

Personally, I didn’t think that the author was implying, “In the future, these two might wear adorable outfits while shopping together and be super-cute putting together IKEA-style furniture in the apartment they share or they might never get together or they might get together and later have an angst-filled breakup.”

I assumed that the author’s implication was, “The MCs will have a lovey-dovey future together and I just can’t help myself from showing you glimpses of it ahead of time.”

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actually, you can tell it's the divorce arc by the fact that they're listening to oasis

I mean, I get it. An author wants to add twists and surprises and emotional reactions from the readers. I'm just not too keen on how it was done in this chapter - telling the readers they're still together after the timeskip could have used a bit more seriousness rather than be revealed with a forced bait-and-switch.

Some of the reactions are really curious to me but the issue is responding to them makes this seem even more of an issue then it needs to be. It's a simple chapter with a well used and innocent joke; I don't get the problem. What really needs more seriousness? Was anyone actually worried they'd be breaking up? The previous chapters were happy. What explains the worry? It's also 4 pages. It's not as though it was multiple chapters of wondering. It was a few panels--a page. Any doubt should have lasted .5 seconds, then got a chuckle. Is that really too much?

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I mean, I get it. An author wants to add twists and surprises and emotional reactions from the readers. I'm just not too keen on how it was done in this chapter - telling the readers they're still together after the timeskip could have used a bit more seriousness rather than be revealed with a forced bait-and-switch.

Some of the reactions are really curious to me but the issue is responding to them makes this seem even more of an issue then it needs to be. It's a simple chapter with a well used and innocent joke; I don't get the problem. What really needs more seriousness? Most people seem to get just fine. It's 4 pages. It's not as though it was multiple chapters of wondering. It was a few panels--a page.

Could be that it’s just that establishing that there was a time skip, that the MCs are living together, and executing the joke was a bit much to try to do in 4 pages.

I thought the, “Return home > call out > house is dark > partner nervously says, “I didn’t expect you back so soon,” sounding guilty > suspicious reaction > “It’s a new home theater!” as a callback to Aya’s long-ago refrigerator crack was pretty funny.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_guy_she_was_interested_in_wasnt_a_guy_at_all_ch51#2

Maybe the investments that readers have in these characters and the way that the series does take its serious moments seriously (Aya’s reaction to Mitsuki not revealing that she was “Onii-san,” Mitsuki’s reaction to her songwriting being exposed at school, etc.) make it easy to forget just how fundamentally fluffy this story has been all along.

Has there been any conflict or emotional issue in this series that hasn’t ultimately been resolved in the most benign way possible?

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This was a totally innocuous chapter IMO. It's not the author's fault if some readers can't follow clear narrative cues. I'm surprised people interpreted this to be in any way suggesting that they weren't still dating.

Mitsuki seems to have a lot of disposable income, buying an entire home cinema set on a whim. I wonder what she's doing to earn it.

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This chapter REALLY threw me off lol.

The “roommates” joke or whatever it was supposed to be felt kinda weird, but I figured it might just be some weird translation thing that made more sense in Japanese or something. Still seems like they’re together and it was just some awkward attempt by the author to force a “is she cheating on me? No of course not, she’s just being her same old mega rizzler autist self.” joke.

The sudden time skip REALLY came out of left field though. Really could have used at least a panel or two of establishing the new setting, like a “X years later” or “We’re in university now” or SOMETHING instead of just time skipping so suddenly like that. Especially since the last chapter gave no real indication of this coming; it wasn’t even focused on the main couple!

Despite the clunkiness of this chapter, I’m actually more excited for this series now. I’ve actually been kinda bored with it for quite a while now since it felt like it explored all the stuff it needed to already long ago and was just kinda dragging on. I was really just reading each new chapter cuz of sunk cost fallacy. But time skipping them to college and seeing how all the other characters are doing and stuff could finally open up some new interesting things for the story.

blue yuri is coming...

Blue Yuri already exists.

https://dynasty-scans.com/series/lilium_terrarium

Typical high-maintenance gf vs. low-maintenance gf. Also this is clearly their domestic arc, not their divorce arc...

The sudden time skip REALLY came out of left field though. Really could have used at least a panel or two of establishing the new setting, like a “X years later” or “We’re in university now” or SOMETHING instead of just time skipping so suddenly like that. Especially since the last chapter gave no real indication of this coming; it wasn’t even focused on the main couple!

As doughnatsu said, the author drew an illustration yesterday that prepared for the timeskip: https://x.com/agu_knzm/status/1971919056929452229 It's still meant to be a surprise, but with this in the volume release the presence of a break will be clearer.

As for the timeskip itself, it should be around a year since Aya notes the callback she makes to predicting Mitsuki buying furniture behind her roommate's back happened two years ago and it happened right after they entered the third year of high school while we last saw them on high school graduation.

What did the author do to Aya's hair, man

I mean, I get it. An author wants to add twists and surprises and emotional reactions from the readers. I'm just not too keen on how it was done in this chapter - telling the readers they're still together after the timeskip could have used a bit more seriousness rather than be revealed with a forced bait-and-switch.

Some of the reactions are really curious to me but the issue is responding to them makes this seem even more of an issue then it needs to be. It's a simple chapter with a well used and innocent joke; I don't get the problem. What really needs more seriousness? Was anyone actually worried they'd be breaking up? The previous chapters were happy. What explains the worry? It's also 4 pages. It's not as though it was multiple chapters of wondering. It was a few panels--a page. Any doubt should have lasted .5 seconds, then got a chuckle. Is that really too much?

The thing is, yes, the doubt only lasts 0.5 seconds - but after that, it still isn't funny to me. Maybe Aya saying "did she bring a girl home ?" lands as a joke for some, but to me it comes off as poor taste and out of character, like the chapter prioritized a quick "gotcha" over telling their story. And honestly ? Because they're together, because they're in love, because the series is meant to be fluffy, the real Aya would never think like that if it wasn't true. Same with calling Mitsuki just a "roommate". That's what stings.

That said, it really is a matter of taste. If you enjoy this kind of meta joke (one that works from author to reader but not from within the characters themselves) the chapter probably lands well. But if you're more invested in the story's internal perspective, extra-diegetic jokes like this can feel jarring and fall flat.

Could be that it’s just that establishing that there was a time skip, that the MCs are living together, and executing the joke was a bit much to try to do in 4 pages.

Maybe, yes. I think really the two elements that would have made this land better would be to not do it right after a timeskip, where their current situation is not clearly established to the readers (it's less about genuine doubt, and more about not using plausible uncertainty to make such jokes), and to make the joke as something that comes out in the characters' own voices, for example, Aya teasing Mitsuki with a playful "did you bring a girl home ?" (which feels in-character) rather than framing it as if she's genuinely worried.

If I had to sum it up in one line : pretending they might have broken up as a joke just isn't funny to me.

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