Copying from Discord:

not sure "gone said" is wrong, but it sounds weird to me. "gone unsaid" is standard, but for the opposite, I think "been said" would be better.

SIDENOTE
Most of I See You, Aizawa-san's chapters are free to read (only for today) on the official site.
If you have the time, it would be cool if you gave it traffic. Like Arisaku, you can give each chapter 10 hearts at the end.
The magazine Aizawa-san was published in recently shut down and the mangaka's other manga just got an axe notice, so it always helps to offer a little support. I'll be adding a guide similar to Arisaku's next chapter but Aizawa-san has been on the usual post-volume break these past 2 months and they're doing a New Year's special offer. I'll delete this part of the post when it's over.

I’ll definitely heart all of these since they’re so great. It sucks that magazine was cancelled though. Does that mean there won’t be any more physical volumes or anything?

Link to the raw chapter 14.2.

The ending is so cinematic, turning from Mia's face popping up to her cover page in the present. Can't wait to see how Yamabe fumbled and unfumbles this.

I love that Igarashi's working the anonymous letters back in too. It's a fun device HaruSumi sadly had to graduate from but I hope it sticks around for a while. Maybe Yamabe never even worked up the courage to let Mia know who she was? That could be part of why she regrets not taking her hand back then. Interestingly, it doesn't seem like Mia had anything to do with the rejection letter Yamabe left either. That and the original letter are likely saved for future pairs. Hanamonogatari's influence grows.

Little bit of trivia, Igarashi apparently studied architecture in university. She's surely pulling from experience with Yamabe's engineering college, which she described as getting to draw messy while Kasumi's school needs to stay idealized and dreamlike. Igarashi also admitted to being nervous her depiction of Mia could come across as mean-spirited towards non-native speakers, and you can feel that in how friendly her classmates are. In Igarashi's words, "I don't want to make a manga that hurts anyone [reading it]."

SIDENOTE
Most of I See You, Aizawa-san's chapters are free to read (only for today) on the official site.
If you have the time, it would be cool if you gave it traffic. Like Arisaku, you can give each chapter 10 hearts at the end.
The magazine Aizawa-san was published in recently shut down and the mangaka's other manga just got an axe notice, so it always helps to offer a little support. I'll be adding a guide similar to Arisaku's next chapter but Aizawa-san has been on the usual post-volume break these past 2 months and they're doing a New Year's special offer. I'll delete this part of the post when it's over.

I’ll definitely heart all of these since they’re so great. It sucks that magazine was cancelled though. Does that mean there won’t be any more physical volumes or anything?

Physical volumes will still be releasing—volume 5 is out on February 6th. The manga has been on its usual post-volume break too while Dorothy plots out the next one.

Igurashi Jun you’re so fucking real for this. I have, at various points in my life, been trying to learn both spanish and japanese, and working up the courage to speak it with a stranger only to be responded to in english just destroys my confidence every time ;-;

I wonder if we'll circle back to the other side couples or is this really an anthology of those who've done the letter exchange.

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I'm a little confused on this chapter.

I love how many side stories we’re getting of students from the school.

Ah, that was lovely. ^_^

I thought the girl on the magazine looked like the girl being led by the hand at the end of 14.1
I wonder what happened to them. My guess is that Mai confessed, but Yamabe pushed back. Maybe she was worried Mai was going to be dependant on her, or maybe it was some internalized "girls can't love girls" thing, maybe a mix of both and/or something else.

An interesting thing I just thought of is how we keep having some sort of issue between our main two, and then they meet a previous pair that had a similar issue, but crashed on resolving it, but our pair resolves it by communicating. The first pain point in the relationship was Haruyo backing out of the initial meeting and the pain that caused Kasumi, mirrored by Asai trying to back out of going to the same college as Ono. But where they crashed and... seem to have repaired their relationship, Kasumi and Haruyo were open about why it happened, why it hurt, and came to an understanding together. Now, they're having issues regarding what this relationship is beyond the roleplay of it, and it seems like Mai and Yamabe are going to have similar issues in their story.

Caisson ?
Hmmm... So like, I don't recall seeing this word on the chapter but thank you for the extra information that I've never heard of (⁠ ⁠╹⁠▽⁠╹⁠ ⁠)

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THE HONEYCOMB-CAISSON METHOD

I've been sitting on ~150 of these sketches puzzling over how to release them. Igarashi draws a few every week; I could potentially upload them in small batches after each half chapter but it feels better to release in bulk each volume. Some come with behind the scenes insight or relate directly to specific chapters though I don't think they're very hard to figure out.

I organized these first two volumes together, meaning some of the cutesy art from the 1st one and dark art from the 2nd doesn't quite line up with when Igarashi posted them. But it felt right and I'm not looking up exact dates over this. This also meant I bundled all the pages with Igarashi jotting her thoughts down at the end of vol2 to keep a better flow when reading.

If there's more crossover art in the future I probably won't do a separate upload but Dominant needed its own introduction.

Cute.

Thank you for the doodles

These doodles were super cute. Dominant sounds pretty interesting too

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/dear_flowers_that_bloom_in_days_of_yore_ch5_7#35

"Monster without a name"... is this a reference to Monster (which I've seen) or Psycho-Pass (which popped up in a search)? "crunch crunch gulp" does sound like the fairy tale in Monster.

Doodles mostly cute but then we get one like this: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/dear_flowers_that_bloom_in_days_of_yore_ch5_7#40

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Please don't follow the Dominant route :prays:

"no violence planned (yet)"

The author is really creative for making these doodles and having her hair be a side character :D

What I'm getting from the Dominant crossovers and the "I want her in a collar eating dog food" picture is that Igarashi would draw the most perfect BanG Dream! doujinshi

"I love silver hair and blue eyes most, so..."

Too bad, Haruyo actually has blond hair and warm brown eyes~

I wonder if the younger J.I.'s submissions to Ribbon were already as spicy/unhinged as Dominant or if this streak of darkness is a later development

We were very much primed for another sad story, but really, it wasn't. Some missed opportunities, but all things considered it was still a rather nice time, and it all helped Mia so much. (And we still don't know what happened when they met again...)

My heart is going to hurt so much cuz realistically Mia wouldn't know who she is unless she speaks up ;A;

Yeah no like, Yamabe engineering Mia's entire social life from the shadows is surprisingly cute and bittersweet knowing she did all of that work to make Mia feel better while keeping it entirely to herself.