I'm still under the assumption/hope that the relationship situation will at some point evolve into some form of OT3, whether that's a open relationship style dating + casual sex or full-on triad polyamory (my preferred end goal).

The direction up to this point certainly suggests as much, to me at least

1. Establish important connection between MC and Love Interest A
2. Bring in Love Interest B and form meaningful Relationship between them and MC
3. ???
4. MC (and LI B?) meets LI A and has to reconcile their feelings for A with the same for B
5. MC come to the conclusion that both are equally important and strives to continue them both
6. ???
7. Profit

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gaaahhhhh and just as Asumi resolved herself to start looking again Mai goes out of reach again! Author-sensei sure knows how to tease us xD

speaking as a lesbian who's outlived a girlfriend, this story is not pointless. none of our love stories are pointless, even when they're bitterly sad. but this one was quite kind to its protagonists, i thought- they loved eachother, and it was both healthy and mutually supportive, they made a big difference to eachother, and in the end, they both knew it was mutual. sometimes life doesn't give you that final exchange, yk?

Speak for yourself. None of my personal experiences with love were useful. if i could rewind time i would have avoided living those bad experiences instead. I see everyone qualifying this ending as "bittersweet". i've found the "bitter" part but never found the "sweet" part. just another depressing story for the sake of being depressing. i wonder why the depressing as fuck tag wasn't applied there... art style was good i'll admit but aside from that it lasted way to long for nothing when it could have just been a one shot.

Different people take away different things from a story so if this one didn't resonate with you that's valid. Speaking solely in terms of storytelling though, it was anything but pointless. At the beginning of it Shizuku was suicidal and Kaori was hanging on by a single thread of motivation. Kaori's death was a foregone conclusion but within that conclusion they we're both in a better place for having met each other.
Kaori gave Shizuku the will to live back (not just to survive but to live) and Shizuku have Kaori fulfillment and happiness she hadn't known since getting her ultimatum on life. It's heartrending and sad but also still an ending that looks toward the future positively, not spiting everything that happened but carrying it with it.

ugh fuck me right up T.T

can´t belive it´s been almost a year since the last update here, does anybody knows what happened.

It got recently picked back up by someone over on dex

Wooooo, volume 10 is finally out. Now that there's no more gap between the volumes and the simulpub chapters it's time for a complete reread that will once again plunge me into uncomfortably-close-to-home-hitting realizations of myself

what that tail be doin though

@Star Light the 2023win refers to Winter Comiket 2023. This is an illustration they made for it.

That surprise reveal was a great, delicious piece of dramatic irony. The leader who so inspired her to be one, hated being one herself and both of them taking what Kiki said to her back then to heart is what led them to become partners and dance together.

And also it's a great callback to the very first chapter, where we saw that Kiki was already that tall in elementary school. So it may be a coincidence but it's not completely out of nowhere at all and that just makes it work so well~

There's something infinitely hilarious about a character desperately trying to cling onto plausible deniability in spite of all the overwhelming evidence to the contrary

Fu Hua x Senti goodness~

My same exact thought. Hope it'll be a good translation, the studio doesn't exactly have much to their name

Yuri so fast it just speedran the entire plot of 'Girl Friends' in a single chapter.

Glad it's here now too :D

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Ooohhh, Ever Maiden finally getting an English Release! Let's goooo~

https://twitter.com/lovelabjapan/status/1735665028752191574

Not really sure what Tang Chao's "confession" is gonna achieve, though? Betas can have sex with omegas just as well as with fellow betas, it's not like omegas have different sex organs only compatible with alphas' (at least in the standard ABO setup).

I think the point she was trying to make was like "I can guarantee that she's a Beta bc i've had sex with her and have thus seen all the important bits (or lack thereof), so i should know"

I only just yesterday got around to finally watching LLSunshine and oh my god it's so gay. Definitive OT3 these ones, though ChikaxRikoxYou aren't far behind~

Yen Press picked this one up

Series got licensed by Yen Press

Mhm, we won't know what being "completely uncensored" actually involves until the BD release is out and I agree the one we got rn is already plenty explicit, so it's anybody's guess how they intend to top that.

Mahou Shoujo Akogarete is a HUGE Success !! very good animation and they didn't hold back! you can see A LOT but only if you make sure to get the uncensored version, like WEB (ADN) (tsundere raws)

There are other versions with censorships and also with muted audio

To clarify, all currently streaming versions have at least edited audio.

There are three versions:
TV Broadcast ver. with censored visuals & audio,
Akogare ver. with partially censored visuals & audio for AT-X and Docomo (this is the one HIDIVE simulstreams) and
Chou Akogare ver. with uncensored visuals & audio, which is exclusive to the DB/DVD release.

(No idea what "partially censored" actually concretely means but that's what they said~)

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Argh my fucking heart T.T I'm gonna need a full anime adaptation of this pls, so it can rip me to shreds all over again

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Argh so cuuute T.T

So we'll get a sequel series about Momiji opening her own shop with her wife and their gyaru child, right? right? Q.Q

I dont know if the dynamic of older woman trying to resist tentation and behave accordingly, and younger one been the persistent and pushing force to getting in a romantic relationship was already made into a series, and even uploaded here, but I really would like one like that, the potencial for something deep and romantic, or just comedy and light drama/slice of life could also be great material with that kind of dynamic.

May I direct you to this lil gem
https://dynasty-scans.com/series/jk_chan_and_her_male_classmates_mom

so first Undine, now I'm guessing Ifrit. Wonder if they'll just dump the snake princess' water on her.

No no no no.
In the realm of air, we have Sylph. In the realm of water, we have Undine.
Going by that rule, the fire princess is most likely Salamander.

Question is whether we're going by Tales of rules or not.

I'd think we'd be going by Mana naming, but until we see fire-princess's name we won't know which source inspired the naming conventions.

Seeing the twitter extras after reading the pre-serialized web version and looking at the armor she has on I'm connecting some dots.

Fun fact, these names for elemental spirits inhabiting the classical four elements (Gomes, Undines, Sylphs and Salamanders for Earth, Water, Wind and Fire respectively) are most commonly traced back to the alchemical writings of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician and alchemist from the Renaissance.