Could build an anime or manga from this.
I would love see an yuri romance story base on pop idols.

Well... there practically was one already this past season. Oshibudo (If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die) featured a female fan who was obviously over the top in love with her favorite idol, though hyper-aware of the line she couldn't cross and the idol she was a fan of was shy and so in love with her biggest fan that she couldn't communicate with her effectively, so she came off as cold and aloof most of the time. But in the background, two of the girls in the idol group were clearly a couple. There was another two that might have been a couple, but they were more the pair that bicker with each other constantly and act like an old married couple but might just be two girls that complain too much about everything. But, in the OP, there's a section with the idols and umbrellas that showed a couple of them with their biggest fans, the couple together under an umbrella, and the bickering pair fighting over an umbrella... then the main protagonists passing by each other with their identical umbrellas, if I remember correctly. All very symbolic.

I'm pretty sure the end of that chapter was suggesting that what was interrupted during the snowstorm got completed... probably several times...

FFC - Frickin' Fried Chicken?

maybe nagi protected chi from someone or something a long time ago? i have the feeling that's not the first time they met and i think somehow chi has something to do with the scar.

I think it might be the other way around. [Fantasy scenario] Perhaps they met at a festival or something and someone tried to kidnap Nagi because of her rich parents, Chi protected her, but they were both injured in the process. Nagi's back and Chi knocked out, but Chi kept Nagi safe until her bodyguards took out the bad guys. In the process, Chi lost her necklace and it was brought to the hospital by the paramedics, who, naturally, sent it with the more "girly" one's things and not Chi's. When Nagi wanted to return the necklace she was told that it wouldn't be a good idea because Chi had lost her memory of what happened when she hit her head and it would confuse her. So, since that time, Nagi has been keeping track of Chi from a distance and trying to "pay it forward" by helping other artistic types like her ex, but finding that they mostly just took advantage of her, until she determined that Chi really needed her and made her move! [/End Fantasy Scenario]

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Uhm shouldn’t this also have an abuse tag or something. This is just hard and sad to read. I hope that four eyes actually does something and helps Hina instead bc Ai is fucked up and idc if she’s just a kid she can go to jail and die for all I care like wtf I really don’t like this manga but I want to see how far it goes. If it continues with Ai doing fucked up shit to Hina then I’m dropping it bc i don’t want to read abuse . Does this really count as fetish tho? Bc Hina doesn’t seem to like it..

it seems like everyone is misreading something. the 4 eyes friend doesn't want to help hina, she's disgusted by her. her friend is the one named yuu that she says she wants to get away. she doesn't want her close friend yuu to be friends with someone she thinks is so gross.

Very good point! She doesn't want to help Hina escape abuse, she wants to get Hina away from the girl she likes.

Well, considering the fact that Kase is a freshman at a club event, she is kind of restricted in what she can do on her own. At least Inoue-senpai was kind enough to play wingwoman and give the two of them a bit of alone time by sending Kase to buy drinks and squashing down the other first-year girl's attempt to go along.

This is a bit twisted, but it seems reasonably consensual at this point... so... (Though the piercing chapter came darn close breaching consent at the end, Hina seemed almost smug about the secret of where Ai used the piercing kit, so I guess she was okay with things.)

I have to reread from the start, because I don't fucking understand anything.

I did reread from the start because. I recognized the story as soon as I started reading, but it was worthwhile to refresh my memory and I don't really know if I ever read all of the chapters that were posted before.

It seems to be heading toward an A-Chan redemption arc now since she obviously knows about the time travel and multiple futures stuff that Rin-chan is going through. My bet is that she knows more about it than Rin-chan does. I really hope they finish the translation now.

xyzcv5 posted:

Cute girls should not die. ; _;

You mean the ugly ones can?

They're ALL cute!

Interesting... Not sure why I missed the 2nd chapter when it came out, but the first chapter certainly left me with the impression that Akira was "the other person" in Rin's heart that caused her to turn down the girl who slapped her. The fact that it was someone else altogether who isn't even in the picture anymore totally changes the relationship dynamics. So, at this point, we have Mayuki in love with Akira, who is in love with Rin, who seems to be falling in love with Mayuki and probably Rin as well. But Rin is already jealous of Mayuki without even knowing who she is and nobody has confessed their feelings to anyone. Rin probably hasn't realized hers yet.

Rin = Polyamorous Ace?

I haven't seen any evidence that she's Ace. She certainly seems to enjoy kissing Mayuki. The reason she was uncomfortable talking about relationship stuff with the group of girls in chapter 2 wasn't that she doesn't feel attraction to other people so much as the fact that she feels equal amounts of attraction to more than one person at a time and, in the past, has been told that it isn't normal. Also, I'm pretty sure the names she mentioned in the earlier flashback when she was told that she can't date two people were female names and she DID have two people she was attracted to at the time, who were female... so when they were talking about what GUYS they liked, it's understandable that she would get a little uneasy because it would make her feel different from everyone in multiple ways.

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This is seriously one of the best stories around, yuri or not. The yuri is just icing.

I have had this one on my "to read" list for a long time and finally got around to reading it over the past few days. Up to chapter 57 now and LOVING it! At that point, it is very clear that Shino, at least, is, as someone mentioned earlier in the comment section, at least bi. Ritsuko is also obviously also at least bi since she flat out said to Non-chan that the main reason she and Taishi knew they could never be a couple wasn't really the fact that they were childhood friends, but because they had the same taste in women. If you read between the lines of the sections between Nozomi and Ritsuko, you can see that Ritsuko did one of those horrible, self-sacrificial wing-woman things back in high school, where she made sure that the girl she was in love with was happy by getting together with the guy she loved instead of trying to win her heart, then went off to America to work so she wouldn't have to watch them be together all the time.

Chapter 60: Man... ouch! It's clear that the pain is still raw for everyone concerned. The scene at the end with Tachibana calling Taishi's phone is just painful AF!

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I totally agree with the sentiments of the credits page!

Ouch!

So... let's see here...
Chapter 1: Ito's favorite idol shatters her illusion of her by acting like an entitled brat and she tells her off, which makes Sumika want to get to know Ito better and to learn how to become this ideal idol she seeks.
Chapter 2: Ito gets roped into playing a non-speaking role in her drama that, for some reason, gets kissed, and Sumika actually kisses her instead of doing a "stage kiss". Also, Ito overhears some people spreading rumors that Sumika has a horrible personality.
Chapter 3: Sumika has to fill out a questionnaire that she has no clue about so she seeks the help of the only person she feels could help her: Ito. They go out on a date and, from all appearances, have a really good time. Some rude girls recognize Sumika and put down Ito, but Sumika refuses to give them a selfie because she's "on a date", with a little show of dominance and it is clear that she is actually starting to have feelings.
Chapter 4: Ito and her friend attend the event the questionnaire was for and Sumika does a pretty good job of making a girl who has similar self-esteem issues to Ito feel better about herself, thinking she did a good job, and Ito starts telling her off because it is too similar to the two-faced type of things the girl-next-door, who she obviously used to crush on, used to say to her face, despite saying mean things about her to her friends. Then the girl-next-door herself shows up and throws Ito into a whirlwind of panic and she pretty much makes Sumika feel like SHE was the one at fault when, this time, it was ALL ITO.
Chapter 5: Sumika is depressed AF. She wants to quit her job but is convinced that she needs to be a professional. The jerk from before (most likely) posts trash talk about Sumika being a horrible person and her management team tries to keep it from her. In her depressed state, Sumika wanders off after a shoot, worrying everyone. Ito figures out that it's probably her fault so she helps look for her, finds her, then, Sumika convinces her to let her play in the school pool, where Sumika confesses to her and what does Ito do? Does she think back on the fact that she has actually gotten to know this girl as a person and enjoyed her time with her? NO! She DOES come to the realization that her IDEALIZED idol Sumika is not a real person that exists in the real world, but does that realization help her come to grips with the fact that the "uncomfortable feelings" she has when she thinks about her might be something to do with attraction and romantic interest?

NO!

She takes it as some sort of personal affront and rejects her outright!

Ito is, frankly, damaged goods thanks to her girl-next-door and is currently a raging bitch! Sumika seemed like a bitch at the beginning, but at this point, I don't think she is one.

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Somehow I feel like her insisting on what she does and feels being "Normal" is a subtle nod to Yuu's denial that the things she did for Touko in Bloom Into You were any indication that she liked her and that she was just doing what anyone would do... it was "normal". I absolutely LOVE the part at the end of chapter 8 though, where she nearly slips up and then says that "last year she wasn't normal"

Who woulda thought it was Midori who actually asked the title question?

One of the better chapters of the manga so far!

Wait... Mai just... matured and... became a better partner, a better school president, AND a better PERSON!?!? Who is writing this manga again?

Somebody else is kinda in love, too... since she gave up the committee assignment she wanted in order to be on the one with her "friend".

I'm thinking that she's not really understanding her own feelings yet, but now that the concept of girls dating each other has been brought up she might think about it more and more.

It's so pure that it'll almost make you forget about the fact that an adult groomed a 14-year-old girl.

...I'm not convinced Ema's terribly confused and rather pitiful fumbling can in good faith be called "grooming".

I'd say that, especially by the end, Anna is far more emotionally mature than Ema and it's made fairly clear in the text that she's been supporting her, albeit remotely, over the past year, via their text exchanges, so I'm not so sure I'd call it "grooming" either. In a sense, Anna "groomed" Ema into an independent woman who could successfully get out of the toxic relationship that was damaging her while protecting herself from the woman who had already assaulted her once.

Coming soon: The Charming Pajama Party! End Part: Punishment All Night Long!

This looks really good!

Well, that was a bit confusing until Yuu showed up mid-chapter.