Akina certainly got her money's worth

They're such good kids...

but something does seem to be wrong with Nijika's shoulder in the fourth panel.

Very fluffy

It looks like it's just the regular hospital morgue to me - just that the hitmen are posing as the coroners. So the rest of them barring the corpses that the hitmen are interested in are "regular" natural deaths.

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Damn,so close.

Well,time for another 25 chapters of gentle plot progression before the actual orifice docking.

Congratulations on making a kiss sound like just about the least appealing thing in the world to have happen to anyone, lol

"In any case, you don't need to worry about Sara, since she's mine."

Goodness gracious, no wonder our main couple are such an adorable mess. Apparently there's a finite amount of smooth in this manga's world, and all of it has been given to Yuu.

Yuu drives a Mazda RX-7, nice.

Almost qualifies as a Yurucamp crossover

But I'm wondering about precisely what has actually been depicted in this particular story that is the source of all this vague discomfort or of the aspersions cast on the author.

Well I can't speak for everyone but there's a way that the narrative has dwelt specifically on Koguma's body in earlier chapters - both our characters describe it as tiny and child-like repeatedly. That's not really an issue on its own, because Hino and Koguma are both the same age, and sufficiently well-realized characters with enough other things going on in their relationship that it doesn't feel like the reason the story is being read or written. But now there's this other, actual child character, being crushed on by a high schooler. I'm not used to that. Kids having crushes on teenagers and adults is fairly familiar to me - my older sister went through like ten of them when I was in grade school - but I can't think of any examples from either my own life or fiction where a teenager takes a romantic interest in someone that much younger. It's weird enough to me that it takes me out of the story, I wonder why it's there, and suddenly Koguma feels kind of like a proxy for other, less wholesome relationships the author could be drawing instead.

Is it paranoid to think this way? I suppose so. Nothing depicted between Omichi and Rin in the actual text so far has been objectionable. But the brain is wired to look for patterns, especially in fiction where everything's intentional. And this is Dynasty Scans, we have trained ourselves to look for all possible subtext. :V

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Transgressions? Who do you think I am, Judge Dredd? No, I just think the author is a bit creepy. Does that mean I can't enjoy the work? Not necessarily. Is it a "moral freakout" to point it out even so? I don't really think so.

All the weird stuff the MCs have been doing from the very beginning is just par for the course, but an explicitly non-physical age-gap crush is cause for moral freakouts . . .

Well to put it in a nutshell, I just don't find the Watsonian explanation for Omichi's feelings to be hugely convincing, so I'm left the Doylist one, that the author just wants the high-schooler to crush on the tiny kid. And "all the weird stuff the MCs have been doing from the very beginning" has eroded my ability to give the author the benefit of the doubt as to why they want this.

The Ijichi household is basically just a charity to support wayward bassists

Life is better, down where it's wetter~

This series deserved more attention IMO

130 chapters of "just kiss already" energy all released at once, like yuri Mt. St. Helens

(that whole subplot with Omichi still kinda skeeves me out tho)

She can't keep getting away with this.

Cute!

Mop top hairstyle √
Dalliances with women √

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Typo on page 12 of Ch.116 heat->heart

I think Nijika might be my favorite of the four. She's the common sense of the group, even then she sports her own style and has perhaps the sweetest and best reason to keep the band going. Granted I just watched the anime, so my knowledge is limited.
All she has left to do is wear some cosplay from time to time.

Honestly I found the bonus manga chapter with Nijika and her sister to be unexpectedly touching.

Just as planned

Dang, I didn't think NRT-kun could look this cool

They'll switch personas again for college.

Active imagination!

Compared to, say, Yuugai Shitei Doukyuusei, which has a very similar basic setup of a diligent class rep trying to keep a rambunctious classmate in line, this is the height of wholesome adolescent experimentation on the cusp of sexual awakening.

Not exactly setting the bar high there, lol