Minami's group of friend felt like a wasted potential tbh
They are the best part of this manga. They provided enough support, as long as Minami needed or asked for it but they also maintained a good boundary with Minami's personal life. They didn't treat her love life like some sort of amusement to gush for.

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Romantic ship aside, I really enjoy the chemistry between Yamada sibling and Yuu-Mahi (fake) twin. Kaoru is a shameless, overconfident womanizer when she's outside but when she's at home, she pushes Honoka in any way possible, takes any chance to bond with her (aggressively trying to get in the bath with Honoka), happily dressed Honoka up when she asked for her help. She always shows unfiltered, uncalculated admiration towards Honoka. Honoka, on the other hand, while looks undeniably annoyed with Kaoru's antics most of the time, she still trusts her sister a lot, looks out for her and even goes along with her sometimes.
At the start of the manga, Yuu disliked Mahi twin a lot (because they were really loud and kinda weirdly childish, she couldn't click with them). However, as time passed, they naturally grew on her and started to consider her their big sister/mother figure. Yuu let them cling onto her as well. It was unusual for Yuu since she's a grumpy cat, ice cold queen type of person. Hella adorable.

The way Akebi blushed as she looked at Erika put on the shoe for her
And the way Erika grabbed Akebi's hand and touched Akebi's feet, with the utmost gentle and caring gestures
I cant with these two anymore

Erika what a fine ladykiller you are

Oh the first story sure hit hard. It’s a real struggle to try to fit in, especially in a scummy and toxic environment where you have to fake everything and keep up with a facade so you don’t end up being the odd one out. Shiina is a teenager, I can see Shiina considering her school life as her “world”, the society where she has to adapt to exist. That would explain why she was tormented so much when she had to choose between her school life and her true feeling. Neither of them would bring her peace of mind.

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chap 21 proved that if the VP were less of a weirdo they would have been dating already

Really love how their definition of "she makes this world for me" isn't "only she is my world" but more like "she stepped in and expanded my world". Takamine's life doesn't revolve around Sakura exclusively and vice versa, Sakura doesn't think of Takamine as the only one who matters in her world. However, both of them still has great impact on each other's life decision. Sakura gave Takamine a new hobby, thus influenced her in trying new things and meeting new people, making her own world to become more colorful and rewarding. Takamine, in turn, encouraged Sakura to step outside of her comfort zone and move forward once again, as she knew Takamine was there, rooting for her and supporting her. Their relationship was built on mutual admiration and gratitude, along with the inspiration they both gave and received from each other, giving them a needed push to grow as human being.

Also, my take about erika feeling like she had no right to confess was because she had ulterior goals for aya and koto getting back together. She knew it wouldn't work out between the two, and she was hoping it would finally get koto to move on so she could confess. 

Another Erika's defender trying to find a way to excuse the terrible thing she had done back in middle school lol.
Let me remind you. Erika has been tormented by her guilt in the past seven years. You can see in chapter 8 she also didn't think she has the right to confess when she and Koto were high school students.

Why are you offensive??? The guy didn't even try to defend her. They only explained their take about what motive for Erika's action was. How was that excusing and defending to you?

Also I don’t mean to sound rude by saying this, but after reading the discussion about Erika in this forum, I feel more confused than informed. The discussion about whether she is or isn’t manipulative or selfish etc are slightly distorting my perception of her. At this point, instead of speculating about what might happen, I’m more curious to see how the story unfolds with each update and being surprised along the way. :D

I felt the same way. The first 20~ discussion posts were fun to read but at some point the discussion about Erika always running at the same 2 spots, whether she is a super terrible human being or she didn't do anything wrong. At some point everyone started attacking each other personally :/

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Kyouko's life sucks so much that it became ironically funny

bro and the mc from Zettai BL should swap place

God, this motherfucking school. Jesus fuck. Why would they assign an orphan a task that involves doing activities with family???? Even if she ,gets along with someone well enough to do that task do they even know how much it hurts to be reminded of such circumstance??? Goddamn it’s so mean, so brutal, heartless. Authorities in this school should burn in hell.

It is certainly insensitive, but I think that in the specific case of Nanase, someone must have decided that a hard shove is what she needs to change her perspective. Yes, she does not have any relatives, and that sucks ass. But on the other hand, she has, at the present moment, multiple opportunities around her to create a life where she is not alone anymore, and she does not seize those opportunities because of the bad fortune she had experienced in the past. Nothing she does will give her her biological family back, but she can still find a new place for her to belong, if she reaches out to others. The assignment is mean, but it may prove to be the bitter medicine she needs.

That medicine is way too bitter it became bullying at this point. It's like strict Asian parents method on raising kids. Take it further one more step, cross the line then it's basically abusing children.
With that being said I'm leaning toward "someone swapped Hanako's and Nanase's role" theory. The school still sucks ofc, but at least it would be less brutal than whatever is happening rn.

God, this motherfucking school. Jesus fuck. Why would they assign an orphan a task that involves doing activities with family???? Even if she gets along with someone well enough to do that task do they even know how much it hurts to be reminded of such circumstance??? Goddamn it’s so mean, so brutal, heartless. Authorities in this school should burn in hell.

Might be a bit late to join this discussion, but anyway
I think the one thing about this manga bugged me the most is that how it depicted cheating. Cheating and two-timing appeared way too romantic and cutesy, even with a little to no amount of guilt Youko had it was brushed off so easily under the name of "love". The second thing is that the "supposedly to be" drama trio lacks too much depth in their character, especially Boyfriend-kun. He exists only for a sole reason to make Youko to feel guilty, and, even then he wasn't that strong of a reason to make her feel bad. He has no traits, no personality, no feeling of his own. Such a boring existence. It bothers me so much that what could be a good triangle love that portrays teenager's ugly side, selfishness and complex, conflicting thoughts and emotions was executed so badly due to writing choice. It's not about how a manga MUST be about goody two shoes human being, it's about how flat the story and its character went with this manga. Heck, most characters from Kuzu no Honkai are way more terrible in their personalities than Youko, yet I still enjoyed Kuzu no Honkai a lot. Because its characters feel "alive", they are jerks but they still have struggles, they still have their own lives and their emotions to deal with. Sadly it's not the case with Motto Hanjuku Joshi. Every single character feel so flat, drama happened because the plot said so.
To be fair Motto Hanjuku Joshi isn't bad, objectively. I'd put it around average in quality compared to romance manga in general. It's just that Hanjuku Joshi was so damn good and Morishima Akiko is one of the better mangaka in yuri sphere, therefore, I had higher expectation, ended up feeling dissatisfied and disappointed.

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Now that the heat has died down I just want to say Hinori and Tsubasa jumping straight towards Minami to hold her because they thought Minami was going to give up everything is pretty sweet. And Hinori's angry kabedon in her attemp to persuade Minami lmao

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Meguru’s disgust towards sexual desire and lust must have been related with her parent’s divorce. Maybe she had witnessed how lust brought her family down, had to live in a broken household, which explained her resentment about sexual desires in human being. Now she’s traumatized and only believes in plushies.

judging from the last page she must have been a biological female? (unless that person is bald and they uses fake boobs)

Hinori my beloved
Hinori please lend me a shoulder I need you

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Hope Kurata can learn how to balance her love life and her study in the future. It’s always not too late to join the date game after she finishes her academic goals in high school after all. Not being able to attend your dream uni/college and make it in life just because you were so immersed in dating stuff honestly sounds like a nightmare.

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this manga is basically every Asian parent's nightmare lmao

Well there are several showing sessions. I guess it will show the play and focus on Sakura's reaction properly in later chapters.

I enjoyed this story a lot more than I expected. At first I thought Shuukura belonged to one of those industrial generic LN because of its long ass title (then again, guess they gotta do what they can to gain attention in this world full of words for titles). After reading like 2 chapters of the manga, it piqued my interest then I speed ran through 90~ish chapters in 2 days lmao. Thank you Angela so much for translating. It's very fortune that I got to read your translation before seeing MTL one.
The strongest point of Shuukura is that its storytelling can be strongly captivating. Shuukura, even with Miyagi and Sendai tiptoeing for god knows how long, is rather straight forward with its story. All the existed events has been fulfilling their purposes well enough, which was pushing the plot to keep going or building personalities/creating development within characters. Its course of events happened like a train going on its journey with a fixed destionation in mind, created a weird satisfied feeling for readers. It does feel nice to read a story that has author who clearly know what they want to write and achieve with the world they built up. The way Haneda Usa swapping Miyagi and Sendai's perspectives played an important part into keeping the story fresh. I kept wondering what the heck was going in Miyagi's head in Sendai pov and vice versa. The more I read, the more I got to learn about them, the more it stirred my curiosity toward them and their progress. Haneda's style actually reminded me of Minato Kanae's works but gayer so sometimes Shuukura pacing makes me feel like reading a mystery novel in romance form lol

I think it's funny to imagine a meeting between the four girls. I can just see Miyagi and Adachi sitting there glaring daggers at each other thinking don't touch my woman, while Sendai and Shimamura sit there having a pleasant chat. Not that Shima is very social but she could at least hold a conversation.

AdaShima and MiyaSendai (?) meeting can be very interesting in a meaning that they probably won't hold much interest toward the other pair. You have girls in cute SoL go kya kya everytime they make friends while these 4 would just pratice minimum socializing needed to not get in troubles. Well at least Miyagi is capable of holding conversation and making friends like a normal person in society. Adachi would probably... think of where she and Shimamura could go for a date instead of like, considering befriending them.

Kafka is done with waiting. Now she's aiming at the real game

Is Bai Yan really straight
There’s a lot of mix signal here

I recently reached 20, did a reread on this manga and oh god, it hurted so much, compared to the first time I started reading it 2 years ago. Still not normal today portrays extremly well the crisis which young people, or specifically people who has anime-manga as a hobby have. Even though I fairly content with my own hobby most of the time, sometimes looking at my peers who have more "acceptable" hobby to the society or weeb friends who dropped their interests long ago makes me wonder if what I chose is right and if my life direction has gone the wrong way. The sense of being lost and the doubt I have for my own life decision, I can see them very clearly throughout Yamashita and Takahashi. They might be considered as outcast to this normal society but the fact they found each other is so amazing that it can be very difficult to find such trusting relationship in normal life. The core of the relaionship which Yamashita and Takahasa has was built on mutual trust and gentle caress they give to each other's feeling. They can be very straight forward, yet when the other felt loss or hurted, they were always there to soothe the pain, to reassure their dear partner that while life can be suck sometimes, at least it less sucks when they have each other's back, all through small actions that can be viewed as trivial and insignificant from outsider's perspective. This relationship wouldn't be achieved if they didn't have deep-seated respect to each other to begin with.
Still not normal today is a hit or miss type of manga. If you can relate to either one of the main characters then it will be so relatable that it hurts. Otherwise, it might be a bit incomprehensive and confusing to readers who can't find its appeal.

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Erika the biggest natural flirt ever. You can’t just tease a girl who is having sad puppy eyes by saying “We can’t” half the sentence like that T.T