This was the icing on the cake on possibly the best two and a half minutes of Pokémon content ever.

@Palmfire: By the way, since I noticed you posted this both here and on mangadex, chapter 24 doesn't have scenes at Koyuki's house. I'm pretty sure the first time her room is drawn extensively enough to show the desk is in chapter 12, and the drawer is already there: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/nettaigyo_wa_yuki_ni_kogareru_ch12#49 Then in chapter 18 it's shown to be right under where she put the frog: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/nettaigyo_wa_yuki_ni_kogareru_ch18#16 If it happened to be missing a few chapters ago, the author just forgot to draw it, but it's not a new addition just for whatever Koyuki wanted to hide now.

Can't think of what else it would be, she has already turned in her questionnaire for her future career and Konatsu and Kaede already know she's leaving anyway. Anything else would probably be something that hasn't been seen before.

Its probably just the frog

Right, she bought it together with the salamander while on her field trip the previous year with the intention of giving Konatsu the frog (https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/nettaigyo_wa_yuki_ni_kogareru_ch15#24) but she was too embarassed and just gave her the salamander instead since it wouldn't have as many implications. Then Kaede noticed the frog sitting on Koyuki's desk when she visited her room (https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/nettaigyo_wa_yuki_ni_kogareru_ch18#14 and the next two pages) and now it looks like Koyuki stuffed it into the desk drawer so that Konatsu won't see it upon going to her room, but I expect Kaede to ask where she put it not knowing its real meaning so the cat will be out of the bag.

It's her secret stash of aquatic themed yuri manga

The twist being that she collects them for the inevitable aquarium date scenes to check the fish and hasn't noticed they're all yuri.

Am I the only one worried about Honami-san coming home with a tan? I thought the whole point of the sleepover was that she was going to cram school and didn't have time for stuff. Why would she be outside all day?

You misunderstood the page, even though Fuyuki and Koyuki were the ones on panel when that line was said, it was Kaede saying it to Konatsu, and Konatsu got a little tan because she had been at Aoshima (the cat island) all day with her kouhais of the aquarium club as seen in the previous half of the chapter.

It's not even a case of a side character growing faster than the MCs, Kaede is still behind in dealing with her own issues compared to them and said issues are thematically connected to Koyuki and Konatsu's. I understand some people's frustration in having to wait a month each time only to have to wait longer for what they want to see, but they should know by now that Kaede is the third most important character in the series and every time she receives focus, it's always in the context of her not wanting the MCs to make the same mistakes as her.

Didn't expect the focus to still be all on Kaede but I guess it makes sense since it's still her chapter. Next chapter should be the last one in the volume (be it standalone or divided in two) so it will likely go back to being named after Koyuki or Konatsu and tackle the actual sleepover. Also no break once again, that's nice.

I find it interesting how Kaede seems to be projecting her regrets on both Fuyuki and Konatsu and is acting so that each of them can get more time to spend with Koyuki before she has to leave. Fuyuki is too young to really realize how lonely he will feel once that happens, while Konatsu already lamented before how she wishes they'd talked more and didn't waste precious time with their fight, so in her case Kaede is right on the money. I hope the author has got something good planned for the sleepover.

Also, Fuyuki is a massive scrub at Fortnite.

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literally tho, what else would happen?

They stay up all night talking about their love for aquatic life.

Two cours would be enough to get there, I'm sure the one we're getting will adapt the first three volumes, and the phone call was in the sixth. In fact two cours would be a good stopping point since it could reach the confession.

The only thing that makes me sad about the phone call is the knowledge that the anime won't reach it.

Man, I've been kinda ambivalent about this series, but after that kiss, I'm all the way in. That's all it took. I'm so easy.

Understandable, this series has some of the hottest kissing scenes I've ever seen, and somehow while looking classy rather than raunchy.

I'm expecting Akira to deduce Mayuki is so good at kissing due to Rin and to ask Rin to have "kissing practice" with her so she won't be upstaged when "teaching" Mayuki, thus bringing the whole thing full circle.

Hahahaha, this manga is something else. Did you notice Mayuki's shirt reads "Turn the table"? She sure did.

Just you wait for the next chapter where they'll sleep together while holding hands with interlocking fingers in a completely platonic way.

I haven't started reading this,because that subtext tag is scaring me away.

Do any of the main characters have feelings for the other ? I don't mind slow burns ,hell, I read the LNs of Adachi and Shimamura and those were sloooow,but burned consistently and I don't want to read a manga where the characters act gay as hell but never confirm anything, I have been disappointed too much already.

Yeah, I suggest you keep waiting on this one, I'd say it's not impossible for it to become more overtly romantic by the end but so far you'd probably just feel frustrated if you're going in with those expectations.

I wonder if Hino and Nagafuji will ever explicitly start dating like Adachi and Shimamura or if they'll just keep their status quo. With the way they're written I think it would be fairly simple to have them start dating without having to dedicate a lot of screentime to building it up, for instance they could find out about Adachi and Shimamura, start talking about them, Nagafuji could mention that it's just like their own relationship, Hino could mull over it for a bit and agree.

I'm pretty sure the only times the fact they're both girls came into consideration were from Shimamura's perspective. I don't remember Adachi ever thinking about societal norms aside from her relationship with her parents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XbVLVBWyc4

I don't recall anything from beyond the first two novels in this PV, though I assume it will at least cover the third one as well.

Shimamura did mention several times before that Yashiro feels extremely light to hold up.

By the way, it felt weird seeing a Demon Slayer reference since I just assumed the series' timeline matched up with when the series started (so 2012-2013) rather than being simply "the present day", but props to the author for writing it in way before its popularity exploded with the anime.

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Surprised at how people are just kinda talking past Adachi And Shimamura's Adventures In Exhibitionism in this chapter. Personally my jaw was on the floor the whole time I was reading it. Shimamura's gotten really gay really fast.

It is one of the best parts for sure, I think the whole way their physical attraction is being gradually explored is pretty heartwarming without it feeling forced or exaggerated. Something I can really commend this series for is how true both characters stay to themselves no matter what kind of new situation they're pushed in emotionally. Although I'd say Shimamura has been better so far since she's the one with the maturity to truly think about things from a wider perspective and thus the way she's becoming more accepting to push certain boundaries feels more satisfying. Adachi on the other hand was the more self-conscious one who wanted to see Shimamura naked and yet she had to be prodded by Shimamura herself.

^I feel like Yashiro exerts some kind of influence that makes others take her presence for granted as one of her supernatural traits. Though I don't think what her deal is will ever be fully explained, her mysteriousness is part of the joke/charm.

Awesome chapter, the air is so scorching here today I almost felt like I was in a hot spring myself while reading, pretty appropriate. I knew from the previous chapter that Yashiro would sneak into Shimamura's bag, she did not disappoint.

The situation is pretty awkward, I feel like there has to be a better balance in how the two of them approach other people, so far it's always felt like Adachi hasn't budged an inch and Shimamura is forced to ignore everything else to focus just on her. In that sense I'm really interested in how her next encounter with Tarumi will go.

@shadesofgreymoon This chapter definitely has more typos than usual, you might want to give it a once over when you're able to.

The first chapter split in half we got happened because of a hard drive failure that made her lose what she had drawn of it and she didn't have enough time to redo it entirely, maybe she found out she prefers this format? Also consider that since then, there hasn't been a break yet and next month we're getting a chapter for the six month in a row while before she'd take a break usually every four months, so this might be a better way for her to manage her workload. That said, I do also prefer longer chapters, once they're all published in volume format it doesn't really matter but for the monthly reading experience they're definitely more satisfying. Though it's a pain having to wait two months at times.

Kaede is in a girlship with Yamagishi, they will spend their adulthood platonically living in the same house where they will act like regular old friends and share appliances and chores like the home economy professionals they are.