Anyone understand why it said, "Let's turn back time a little" at the beginning of the chapter?

It takes place prior to the previous chapter (ie, before Wanko texts Sakuma telling her she flopped). The next chapter (68) will start with "Back to the present".

Ah, so time really did turn back just "a little"! Thanks!

Anyone understand why it said, "Let's turn back time a little" at the beginning of the chapter? Given that Wanko showed her agent her new nameplate, which she and Sakuma installed the chapter before last, this chapter seems to take place in the present.

So sad to think of what this manga could've been. The opening chapters had the making of an utter classic, and then it just utterly derailed. I could feel the bitter, painful unenjoyableness in finishing this series. These last pages felt soulless.

We all know they were supposed to have feelings for each other, but that wasn't explored at all. The story unnaturally twisted itself into pretzels to avoid the obvious truth. It was truly weird, like the really old stories of the before-LGBT times that know they're stories about sexuality but try to normalize it in a heteronormative world. It was so cloistered.

This felt like a couple steps back. I'm saddened because I knew this chapter was coming--where they meet in Tokyo again, but even still they can't express how important they are to each other. Like something beautiful snuffed out in the womb.

This awkward fish-salamander talk is excruciating, I want to cry at how closeted this series got.

This is 100% what I felt about the series. I dropped it when the author confirmed it wasn't yuri on Twitter, and I can't imagine having stuck it out to the bitter end for this. If the author wanted to write about two girls who have a special connection that fit comfortably outside of the dichotomy between the romantic and the platonic, I'd have been here for it. I might even have called it progressive for highlighting an unconventional type of relationship -- this is one reason I actually liked Maria-sama ga Miteru a lot. But, unlike in Maria-sama, the author seemed to go out of her way to make me feel that the characters were, in fact, in love with each other, and were restrained from actualizing their love simply because they had the misfortune of being characters in this particular story. So we're left with a story about two lesbians doomed to eternal longing and celibacy. It feels incredibly regressive.

It was so good in the beginning. What squandered potential.

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This is perhaps the only manga I legitimately like to hate-read, mostly because I think it's hilarious the author seems to think she's endeared these characters to me, while actually having made me hate them irrationally. But it's even getting hard to enjoy the hate-reading with 12-page chapters coming out every 3 months in which absolutely nothing happens!

Seirin Academy is clearly a reference to "A kiss and a white lily" (the high school there, Seiran Academy, also had an attached university), and Nakatani Piyo's name is a reference to Nakatani Nio, the author of "Bloom into You". Are there any other yuri references I've missed in here?

IMO it's really nice to see authors reference yuri classics; it makes it feel like they understand the community on a more intimate level.

wow!! never would have noticed this myself.

sorry; it's the internet and I can't tell -- is this sarcasm?

Seirin Academy is clearly a reference to "A kiss and a white lily" (the high school there, Seiran Academy, also had an attached university), and Nakatani Piyo's name is a reference to Nakatani Nio, the author of "Bloom into You". Are there any other yuri references I've missed in here?

IMO it's really nice to see authors reference yuri classics; it makes it feel like they understand the community on a more intimate level.

This has serious "Run away with me, Girl" vibes, except if Maki had a spine and was kind of vengeful.

Normally a lurker, but...

Can we talk about how prominently the Star of David is displayed on witch's necklace in the 1st panel on page 10? Like the story tells us that there's actually a group of people who work directly for world leaders in secret -- and upon telling us that, the nameless witch it uses as a stand-in for all witch-kind is wearing the symbol of Judaism. It plays into all the antisemitic conspiracies about a cabal of Jews secretly running the world.

I was ready to chalk it up to the trend of Japanese appropriation of Jewish symbology as a shorthand for generic mysticism, somewhat similarly to how western cultures do this with pagan symbolism, but then they go and name the most hateful witch introduced so far "Miriam" (a Hebrew name for girls which is almost exclusively used by Jews).

I dunno -- I like the story for the most part besides this, but this really sours it for me. At least for me, it feels intentional.

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