Ngl it feels limiting for the characters to be kids. Like I just wonder why they keep making such big stories with preteens. I've been enjoying it but the longer this goes the more they feel like they're 17 or 18 lol
I wish that they would release an English version of the manga so I can actually buy it! It's so good and I just love everything about it. I'm so hyped for the next chapter!
Meanwhile i'm waiting for the french release to publish Vol.5
Coming from the latest chapter upload on MD, here's the thing about Shiho. I'm sure she'll have some tragic backstory and everyone will be friends and it will all make sense (as far as the author is concerned), but what ticks me off about her is not that she's belligerent, it's that she's so needlessly petty. It's not about her being unlikeable, or manipulative, or wanting to get in between them. I like plenty of characters in other manga like that, particularly the manipulative ones. What I can't stand about Shiho is that she's being cruel for no reason at all.
This latest chapter, even just that brief conversation at the festival is so completely unnecessary. To go out of your way to try to ruin someone else's date is so petty and small and lacking in empathy that I just don't think whatever backstory comes out of this will matter. She's cruel, and cruelty doesn't just go away because you had reasons. She's the most toxic person in this manga, and it completely alters the tone of the first half of the story just because it helps drag things out and delays moments like the kiss. And it would be one thing if the author expected me to care about Shiho and I end up not doing so, but as soon as everyone else forgives her and embraces her I'm just going to think less of all of the characters.