Possibly the most "BOYS be like... GIRLS be like..." series I've ever seen

yurrrp

I am not sure if I want to follow this. This is way too shounen for me.

lol, yeah, fair. it is literally published in the "shonen champion" magazine, after all.

somehow Girly dressing up as the Jersey Devil didn't even feel as stupid as Eru's big reason and his "rousing speech" on why he must find a girlfriend. maybe it's just cuz it's established quite early on that Girly will go to ridiculous lengths, bumbling or otherwise, to try and make people around him happy.

I for one am glad the chapter just straight up went "just be the signboard girl you dumbass", even though the set-up was very obvious already. that Girly went at lengths to praise Eru for being cute is kinda a bonus.

"She's way out of your league, pegasus boy!" lmfao you tell him kid!

With the sex update they can also go beyond cuddling

"sex update" sounds so much like a joke yet is just actually canon in the most literal & not-up-to-interpretation way, which I think makes it funnier

also I thought after watching the show I would come to appreciate this ship more than just "wow such pretty & cute artworks" but that's still basically where I'm at. though there are a couple of meaningful & gentle interactions on the show between them so I'll take what crumbs I can get.

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"are they standing outside Pomni's room?!"

that would be really funny but it's probably just a archway inside the public space (note how tall it is). after all their individual rooms' door are all rectangular.

Adorable. Go get yer girl, kid! Get those corner combos

"and all unbreakable right now, all unbreakable. stop. STOP!"
while I personally enjoy seeing Riko continue to get tormented by Aika thus she's probably going to make a stand soon.

I'm a bit disappointed by the apparent direction. The initial setup of "I'm into little girls, that sucks and I'm trying to cope" was pretty interesting. Having an 8 year old 'fall' for her reduces the realism and undermines the premise.

I've also no idea where this manga ultimately will land on. like you said it's an interesting premise but even since the early chapters from the way Aika is drawn in specific focused panels (and including this very newest chapter) it seemed to go against that premise at least from the author's intent. though to be fair Riko has gotten some focused panels like this too, so.

@johnb ??? isn't it obvious they'd rather people not doing it at all, a.k.a. aged up or not, NOT sexualized?

anyways, 67, haha, lol! (I will say the funniest part of these shitty gen Z & gen alpha memes is just how some genuine grown-ass adults get so pissed off at them)

Also nice subtle Gangle x Zooble on the first page.

I just recently binged the series, can't believe Zooble actually got what they wanted in such an explicit way, LMFAO. and just to clear any possible doubt as to who it is the door next to their room is ajar.

anyways, great RagaPom comic! DreamSyndd's art is just so lovely as usual.

all of the people who just always mysteriously show up to comment on artworks depicting character as fat with sudden and urgent legitimate health concerns are quite interesting, no? (no, not really imo)

assuming y'all who behave like this have the BEST possible intentions and respect towards others you can possibly muster, I can only still assume it's at most 50% about actually caring about people's health, as for the other 50% (most likely much more, if not 100%,) it's probably kinda obvious what those are.

but hey, I guess restraint can be appreciated, at least they're not straight up hurling insults, so kudos(???).

edit: also people being positive use normal positive words challenge (honestly, whatever, surely there are people out there who's super into being infantilized with playful languages such as the ones on display here, and also Falin is not real, lol, so I probably should stop being negative for nothing. y'all have fun, it's a free forum.)

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Why are we tackling another issue when we still haven't wrapped up the other issue that's been dragging on for months at this point smh

I think we have ... sort of ... maybe ...

The symbology of the Vega And Altair chapter shows them apart on separate islands, trying and failing to reach each other (Aya's broken ladder/bridge) and then them coming together via the Zebra and music.

Thus it can be implied that they have resolved their issues, but have left the details out of exactly how.

aren't they depicted quite young compared to their college selves in that one? I personally interpreted it as a cute callback to how they first got together via their shared love of music, then flash-forwarded to them together in the morning. the juxtaposition is used to imply that the love is still there in their currently slightly troubled relationship. bottom line is I don't think that chapter says "they have resolved their issues"

it's like a mini version of Aya and mitsuki
never mind just got to page 4...

unless...
you can't tell me that boy's got featured thus and there won't be some character development for him.

could be though that all the other kids' reactions are solely for Aki to have a moment defending his sis and think about the challenges he didn't know she'd be facing

As with many other tags, so people know it's there if they wish to avoid seeing it.

or the opposite of that. I have to imagine for example on AO3 the "dead dove" tag with its slew of associated tags serve as both a warning of "don't like don't read" and the informative invitation of "do like do read", just for different readers.

but I'm just being pedantic here lol I don't doubt at all that this particular tag is overwhelmingly just a blacklist suggestion to most people.

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^^ english Miku gets norwegian miku now? grats

• I'm sorry Ange I know you're going through a hard time but KarasuTear is kinda fun.

yes please
(also thx for compiling all the best Aizawa-frames in 'do it for her')

also YES FINALLY the BIG REVEAL so happy for Micchy to find the strength to do so

These 4 have a lot of ground to cover.

it's always a treat to finally get to this part in a mystery work

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牛郎 Mitsuki & 織女 Aya
absolute cinema

that's quite an unorthodox way to show devotion

welp, that's one way to learn of the scores & upsets as someone who's not remotely in the loop
cool art, also like the Teto in the background

so if I understood this bit correctly there are up to three (out of five) more potential Mikus to trend depending on future match results

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former evil general's total victory

Picked up by Seven Seas

woot woot! happy for the author.
wait but does that mean we will no longer get noighd's awesome scanlations & the, to be honest, quite necessary, per chapter analysis? aww.

edit: quite happy to have been instantly proven wrong >:D

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Scorpion, I believe you should explain what you meant by using this specific sentence. I'm sure you meant no ill intent, but Sillie is right to point it, even if they annoy the hell out of you.

no thanks. I have zero need to defend myself against the most bad-faith and baseless accusations.

I appreciate you trying to be more respectful than I managed to do.

the most charitable thing I can try say about SillieHonka is: she would be admirable if she has this much passion about transgender community and racial justice in real life, and making real people around her happy and empowered, or just less alone. and so I sincerely hope that is the case.

I don't care all that much what's accused of me, and she can continue to assume that I'm white, cisgender, heterosexual, and so on. I'm not about to just out myself like many other posters here did to try spare myself from her wrath.

I'm done here.

thank you so much. and this time I'm sincere. (/sincere /genuine)

Sylke perhaps you should've just listened Casusby, lol. seems like this forum had already calmed down otherwise.

I'm the one who went too far, that's actually fucking hilarious. SillieHonka I continue to hold very little, if any at all, respect towards you, and if you can believe it it's not because the fact that you're a trans woman, but I'm sure you can't believe that. I'm sure the feelings pleasantly mutual as your first reply towards me had aptly demonstrated.

Eru isn't an example of a predatory transbian archetype because the character is clearly framed as sympathetic, even in the previous chapter and certainly in this one. Even if the sympathetic backstory itself is kinda nonsensical lol.

yeah ch5 really drives this point home with the, again, very meh, backstory (but since we're reading this manga not like there's other choice regarding its story than just take it as it tells us):

his mother's sick but she insists on working because she's the signboard girl -> he needs to find a sighboard girl to alleviate her burden -> the first girl he found (that kinda looks like his mother?) rejects him but offers him a suggestion (find a girlfriend) -> that suggestion becomes his holy grail -> he needs to find a girlfriend with the primary (if not only) goal of alleviating his sick mother's burden -> he accidentally cross-dresses and got a girl's contact info for the first time so he's been doing it since -> [then, hopefully, as many have already suggested, he stops being a dumbass and realizes there has been a signboard girl aside from his mother all along]

Idk if I can root for this pairing, at least as it is now. Until Girly overcomes his aversion in another way, an "it's okay if it's you" will always leave a sour taste.

I think that should be addressed somewhere down the line

(Also obviously I must uphold the agenda of shipping Kitano with the MacGirlfin and Girly with whatever schmuck so we can have yaoi and yuri.)

wait, hold on, you GENIUS, keep cooking. also MacGirlfin is just great.

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kind(?) and intimidating horse

okay yeah no that backstory was really quite nonsensical -. - hopefully there'd be more compelling ones for the other classmates down the road. like Girly's backstory was great, exaggerated per this manga's style but still reasonably believable and compelling -- the sources of his drive to find love.

it's kinda ironic after all the arguments revolving around this work for it or against it only for the next chapter to be this much of a dud, with nothing else problematic (ok well there's still the panty shot thing from last chapter) besides just really a meh story.

still rooting for Kitano & Girly though, idc idc.
the Chekhov's make-up poison is definitely gonna be used, just hopefully not intentionally by Kitano, c'mon, please

also thanks for the fast translation (and all your work as a whole) ElPsyKongroo! it's only been 3 days since the last chapter! (not remotely suggesting/requesting that you should keep this pace btw :P)

If when someone implies that a work you like may be transmisogynistic (which, again, it comes with the genre) you react by shutting them down while making them seem crazy, as another trans poster, that makes me wary of you. What was the purpose of your reply other than to make fun of them because of a hypothetical ally who could feel alienated by their post? I think trans people, especially transfems, need to be afforded more patience than others.

the purpose of my reply is to call-out a rube behavior that I perceive as not acceptable. there's plenty of ways to present this opinion that doesn't involve in insulting everybody else. I truly believe there has to be a reasonable middle-ground between groveling pleads and condescending insults one could talk in, maybe even lean towards the latter if you want but just don't fully go all in to that side.

this reply makes it seem like you are one of those people who thinks that, like I've said, "as long as your cause is just & your heart is pure you can simply insult anyone and everyone around you and if they did not like that then they're simply a lesser community member or ally who crumbles and defects the moment their little feelings are hurt." but perhaps I'm wrong in this assessment. again, I disagree with this line of thinking.

still, at least you are trying to be respectful and I can at least try to appreciate that. you can think of me however you want, that's not gonna change the fact that I will continue to do no harm towards the community, unless you consider me defending myself thus as doing harm.

as for the work itself, I think there's no other reasonable reading for Kitano than that she's a trans girl especially from what I've read in chapter 2, in spite what the author would've intended (be it from preference, ignorance, or outright bias). even though I selfishly more wish to see genderfluid characters in works like this (even though that's probably even further from the author intention) who can be comfortable in either presentations. on a side note I also read Crossplay Love because of this but it's increasingly obvious that Hanae's also very trans-girl-coded (which, good for her, I mean there's literally no other way to read the line to her sister "you're lucky, you can be a girl all the time" as anything but that. (on a side-side note that work is also pro-trans and queer and contains much less or perhaps none at all of the vulgarity this one contains)). way earlier in the thread I was just trying to defend the fact that we as fans can try to interpret these how we want especially if it doesn't come from a place of bigotry.

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I think that SillieHonka's concerns are more than justified and it doesn't sit right with me to be treating another trans poster like they're crazy for correctly pointing out a transmisogynistic trope and not being happy about it just because you didn't like the language they used.

I absolutely did not like the language they used and I treated them like the asshole I perceived them to be.

I understand there's a sentiment for some people online that as long as your cause is just & your heart is pure you can simply insult anyone and everyone around you and if they did not like that then they're simply a lesser community member or ally who crumbles and defects the moment their little feelings are hurt and I just do not agree with it.

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