What's a mine couple?

I think they meant “main couple”

last edited at Apr 12, 2026 7:01AM

Huh, so I guess everyone now is falling for the mine couple

What's a mine couple?

And honestly I'm surprised it took this long. They're both certified baddies who are super nice as well.

my bad spelling mistake I meant to say main couple not mine couple

Huh, so I guess everyone now is falling for the mine couple

What's a mine couple?

And honestly I'm surprised it took this long. They're both certified baddies who are super nice as well.

my bad spelling mistake I meant to say main couple not mine couple

Ahhh makes sense. I was just like, is this a new term the yuts are using? Am I not in the know?

oh hey, lead singer appears

that recruiter is kinda creeping me out /:

Having girls fall in love with the main couple feels like setup for blue yuri :c

series has felt super unfocused since the time skip to the point I genuinely don't know what the point of anything is.

I agree the series feels all over the place. Can we just get them doing cute shit together again like before the timeskip

Why add a bunch of super angst and drama in a series that never really had a bunch of it before.

last edited at Apr 12, 2026 10:26AM

Nothing against Aya but I wish yuri beetwen them or a couple like this. Please Sumiko-sensei, give me short haired tall girls together.

Perfect.

series has felt super unfocused since the time skip to the point I genuinely don't know what the point of anything is.

Yeah like Chizuru, who aside from being one of Aya's besties, was a major supporting character has just vanished. And Hasegawa's disappeared too.

Bit biased as Chizuru was my fave tho but still

series has felt super unfocused since the time skip to the point I genuinely don't know what the point of anything is.

Yeah, I'm still enjoying seeing the characters but this feels really disjointed

178 woo
Finally a manga character who is exactly my height xP

I agree the series feels all over the place. Can we just get them doing cute shit together again like before the timeskip

Why add a bunch of super angst and drama in a series that never really had a bunch of it before.

I feel like you either haven't read the previous chapters in awhile, or weren't paying attention week by week. There was plenty of angst and drama when they were in high school. Starting with the mistaken identity thing, then there was the "she lied to me" period, and the drama over the concert, struggling with balancing friendships and the new crush, Mitsuki getting bullied, the leg injury and the guilt that came from that, the new underclassman wanting Mitsuki to help her impress her dad, the Prom drama, the thing with Aya doing self-harm while studying...

It's been one thing after another the whole time. The only difference now is that they're actually a couple. And they seem to be doing fine in that sense! Mitsuki's just working through some stuff with her music.

Anyway, This isn't my idea, I can't recall if somebody said it here or if it was on a twitter post, but after thinking on it I feel pretty confident that this is a "band formation" arc. Remember, one of the core themes of the story is "people aren't what they seem on the surface. Obviously there's Mitsuki at the beginning, but then there's Aya, who despite being a gal, it turns out is studious to the point of self-harm. Then there's Narita, who seems like a playboy, but is actually a shipper, and the underclassman who seemed like a romantic rival but turned out to just be a not-yet friend who wanted her Dad's respect. The girl in Aya's class seems like an enemy, but I bet now that the earworm of rock music has been shoved in her ear, it's gonna burrow and we're gonna see her getting into playing it, and this new girl? I'm getting drummer vibes. She's already coming to the rock cafe, she's probably been playing awhile.

This whole arc is how Mitsuki assembles a band that actually suits her vibe.

last edited at Apr 15, 2026 8:12PM

series has felt super unfocused since the time skip to the point I genuinely don't know what the point of anything is.

Yeah like Chizuru, who aside from being one of Aya's besties, was a major supporting character has just vanished. And Hasegawa's disappeared too.

Bit biased as Chizuru was my fave tho but still

They're in college. Hasegawa's still in high school. They're not gonna be around each other that often.

Chizuru, also, probably went to a school somewhere else. It's what happens when you hit that point in your life. Everybody goes off to do their own thing. Sometimes you keep in touch, sometimes not.

I expect both of them will make a reappearance at some point.

^Agree totally, Heavensrun, but on the other hand I can see why someone might mostly remember in their mind's eye the cute "anchor" moments from the chapters--Mitsuki's rizz attacks (and sometimes Aya's), for instance--without necessarily recalling the immediate surrounding context.

And we haven't actually settled on a definite direction for the "they're together--now what?" arc yet, although your theory is a pretty strong one.

As to the supporting characters, that's what happens with high-school friends. Once people aren't seeing each other and sharing experiences every day, even if they "stay friends" over the long term it becomes a totally different relationship dynamic when they have to make it a point to get together, to keep in contact, etc. Having Mitsuki, Aya, and Narita all together is already a bit of stretch at this point in their lives.

Edit: Or, what you said.

last edited at Apr 12, 2026 3:44PM

This whole arc is how Mitsuki assembles a band that actually suits her vibe.

Setup chapters they may be, they still feel kinda disjointed and directionless. I guess they might read better on a future reread, after we get the payoff, or at least something more explicit as a thread that ties them together and not just implications of "this is how Mitsuki assembles her band".

This whole arc is how Mitsuki assembles a band that actually suits her vibe.

Or a squad for a heist :-)

A heist of what? Lesbian hearts?

This whole arc is how Mitsuki assembles a band that actually suits her vibe.

Setup chapters they may be, they still feel kinda disjointed and directionless. I guess they might read better on a future reread, after we get the payoff, or at least something more explicit as a thread that ties them together and not just implications of "this is how Mitsuki assembles her band".

Yeah, assuming we form a band that will be cool and I look forward to that possible outcome. I mainly wish we had more connective tissue to point us in that direction, because disjointed and directionless are how things feel at present.

Yeah like Chizuru, who aside from being one of Aya's besties, was a major supporting character has just vanished. And Hasegawa's disappeared too.

Bit biased as Chizuru was my fave tho but still

They're in college. Hasegawa's still in high school. They're not gonna be around each other that often.

Chizuru, also, probably went to a school somewhere else. It's what happens when you hit that point in your life. Everybody goes off to do their own thing. Sometimes you keep in touch, sometimes not.

I expect both of them will make a reappearance at some point.

Oh yeah I completely agree that from a real world pov it makes sense. But from a stroy perspective it is weird to me that important characters who had multiple pov chapters are just gone with no comment.

Sure they'll pop up again but would feel better imo if we like saw Chiruzu in the background still working at the shop, or someone commenting on being in touch with Hasegawa about music.

Yeah like Chizuru, who aside from being one of Aya's besties, was a major supporting character has just vanished. And Hasegawa's disappeared too.

Bit biased as Chizuru was my fave tho but still

They're in college. Hasegawa's still in high school. They're not gonna be around each other that often.

Chizuru, also, probably went to a school somewhere else. It's what happens when you hit that point in your life. Everybody goes off to do their own thing. Sometimes you keep in touch, sometimes not.

I expect both of them will make a reappearance at some point.

Oh yeah I completely agree that from a real world pov it makes sense. But from a stroy perspective it is weird to me that important characters who had multiple pov chapters are just gone with no comment.

Sure they'll pop up again but would feel better imo if we like saw Chiruzu in the background still working at the shop, or someone commenting on being in touch with Hasegawa about music.

Absolutely with you here, there's a difference between real life and a story - if a character is introduced it kinda odd for them just to drop out with no comment.

I would really like to see Chizuru again

Absolutely with you here, there's a difference between real life and a story - if a character is introduced it kinda odd for them just to drop out with no comment.

Where exactly did this criterion come from? Is it supposed to be specific to serial manga or generally to "a story"?

Because characters drop out of stories all the time. I get liking and wishing to see again characters who have been dropped (for the present, as far as we know) because they are now extraneous to the MCs' character development, but in stories like this that focus on a protagonist pair and make no pretense of being an ensemble vehicle, characters disappearing without an explicit explanation is anything but odd.

last edited at Apr 13, 2026 4:28PM

A heist of what? Lesbian hearts?

"The Phantom Thief she was interested in wasn't a guy at all"

A heist of what? Lesbian hearts?

"The Phantom Thief she was interested in wasn't a guy at all"

persona 5 if it was cool and awesome