Fuck no, you're shitting on us author. She looks like a 20 yo college girls at least

Surely you don't believe that everyone automatically "looks their age"? People's appearance differs naturally, and then that can be affected further by clothing, makeup, and demeanor. I've known a girl who looked 15 when she was 11 (and 19 when she was 15), and another girl who got taken for under 12 when she was 21+, and a bunch of 12 year old girls at a party who did not all look the same age.

And yes, some 16 year olds will wear high heels, miniskirts, and jewels at times. Nothing unbelievable about that.

...how long was the empress in the water? Long enough for the emperor to notice she was late, rush out, and find the attendant?

Ch 5 did have a proposal that they live together for a while for 'study'.

Am I the only one that thinks Ibu likes Yoshi? (I think that are the correct names) Sorry if this has been talked before

No, I think that's actually a new idea. The usual idea is that Ibu (grumpy) likes Umi (MC).

We know that Ibu and Yosshi have known each other a long time; Yosshi uses Ibu's personal name (Yuuki), and they actually had a sweet birthday moment in Okinawa. But I think I've only read them as actual friends. Umi is the one that Ibu is repeatedly clingy/attentive to.

We've only seen Ibu look genuinely happy 3 times. Once when Umi was feeding her, once when showing off the sunglasses Umi gave her, and once when finally saying happy birthday to Yosshi.

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oohhh, coming out arc next?

I wonder how Ibu will take it. Can't imagine that going smoothly.

IN FIRE

I regretfully give Nae a non-zero chance of having jealous snap herself.

Woo!
Did the volume have a character guide, or was that a translator gift? If the latter, we must get more names later in the volume, because we haven't seen a lot of those. (Also, Fuku or Fuki? It's mostly been Fuki before.)

There have been clouds of foreboding before, like Umi drawing "moderate luck" in the fortune telling. Whether it'll go anywhere, I dunno.

Shou has reversed course a lot, from "don't tell your best friend" to "let's come out entirely". Dunno if she's thought about the dorm's reaction to girlfriends sharing a room...

Chapter confirming that Zumi was passively in the bully group, not that I had much doubt. Also deepens her hatred for the place. She calls out shitty neighbors, but before that, nosey people. Is there something she's trying to hide?

I feel Zumi's hair is sliiighty longer than it has been.

Zumi: "why today?"
me: cuz you had a bug in your hair
Shou: cuz you had a bug in your hair
me: woo! I called it.

Fairly low-key chapter-part in background people. https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_blue_star_on_that_day_ano_koro_no_aoi_hoshi_ch18#7 might be the biggest. Yosshi eyeing Umi, Zumi don't care, Makki part of the shield bug group

not sure what's with Zumi's eyes here. At first she's outright glaring, then pensive. https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_blue_star_on_that_day_ano_koro_no_aoi_hoshi_ch18#9

wonder if this is Makki going "it was me". https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_blue_star_on_that_day_ano_koro_no_aoi_hoshi_ch18#16

what exactly does Zumi "get"? https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_blue_star_on_that_day_ano_koro_no_aoi_hoshi_ch18#18

I had no idea that Japanese kids get Santa.

Confirmation Umi has an older brother. I think I thought she had an older sibling from some flashback.

"Hey Chiyo, do we have any real bullets?"

"Funny you should ask, Koharu!"

Nah, the maid is probably making sure no one interrupts them...

Also, what kind of jerk ass elementary kid call their classmate “slut”

Real sixth graders may shock and dismay you.

A journey with lots of friends.

a) a subset of manhua seems so similar it fees like it could be the same artist

b) speculative: this style of manhua approaches photorealism in a way that (1) enhances the feeling of similarity and (2) verges on uncanny valley. While a lot of manga has the 'perfection' of basically being a cartoon.

Put another way, manga character "looks perfect" because there is no detail; these manhua characters visibly could have the detail but don't.

Yet another way (I'm thinking out loud): a manga character is 'unblemished' because they don't really have skin, they're just a 2D cartoon. These characters have skin, and it's perfect.

y'all, has asumi met mai yet??????? when are we at the last arc

No. We don't know.

And thus a new meme game was born:

Food porn or porn porn? :D

Lol! Indeed.

https://www.exurbe.com/tools-for-thinking-about-censorship/

"The majority of censorship is self-censorship, but the majority of self-censorship is intentionally cultivated by an outside power."

She's choosing not to contact Asumi. She knows she can connect but is deliberately waiting to be found instead

Thanks.

Mai WTF

Why "arguably"?

Mostly because I don't remember Bloom in detail enough to recall when they got into something resembling a normal relationship.

How did Mai learn about her in a way that doesn't let her just contact Asumi?

Okay, but there are popular stories more recently that have gone beyond confession.

Citrus, Whispering a Love Song, Kase-san and Yamada, Anemone In Heat, arguably Bloom Into You, Can't Defy the Lonely Girl, Please Bully Me, MagiRevo (esp novels), WataOshi (novels), An Aside Told to You, Blue Star On That Day...

Asumi and Mai are teased in the sense that Asumi finding Mai is The Plot, and I think Mai somehow knows Asumi is looking for her and wants her to succeed, though I'm not sure about that. Mutual desire that's frustrated by poor communication ability.

I suspect Senpai really would enjoy a round with Asumi, and isn't just teasing her, but Asumi seems to have her solidly friendzoned.

It feels like too many yuri stories nowadays end right after the confession.

"Nowadays"? As opposed to some past Golden Age of post-confession yuri?

At laaaast.

IIRC it started really cute, but then got stupidly dragged out. At least it ended... positively?

I liked the casual incest on page 2. "Not in the mood now" -- as opposed to other times. :D

Wikipedia on falcons and songbirds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconiformes (scroll down a bit to the cladogram)

Saying they're closely related to sparrows is a stretch, but they are placed closer to parrots and all songbirds/passerines than to other birds of prey.

this'll be a journey

journey to what, I dunno

Can some people relate

Yes, many can relate.

I prefer fluffy fic myself these days, but there's also the dream thing. The worst dreams are the nice (or sexy) ones you wake up from...