^Miyagi from Shuukura LN 4 cover. On Amawashi's ToC page: https://amawashigroup.wordpress.com/story-about-buying-my-classmate-once-a-week/

Ah, thanks. Looks a lot cuter than I visualize Miyagi.

Probably Miyagi through the Sendai filter.

Actually Sendai likes her grumpy expression so probably not.

Chapter 346: https://kakuyomu.jp/works/1177354054894027232/episodes/16818093082253520419

Bahahaha Miyagi tries to be clever about getting Sendai's input on the necklace, telling her to pick out which page in the magazine she likes best...and she chooses a page advertising sunscreen! Nice try Miyagi.

Sendai was trying to set a date with Miyagi for a steamy session but Miyagi shut her down. Sendai was pretty damn confused why she was having to look through that magazine as her order and had no clue what Miyagi was annoyed about after she picked out her favorite page.

Edit: And they've mentioned "group date" several times, including this chapter. Is this like a mixer or something else?

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I'm very much of the opinion that there's no such thing as a good MTL of any sort of art. Even if it turns out perfectly the best it can achieve is merely "gets the facts across". That's fine if you're using it to translate a sign or instructions or other dry direct form of text but anything artistic, anything vague, anything where tone matters, it's shit. You might as well just be reading a synopsis of the plot.

Nobody is advocating for MTL or defending it as "good" though? But sometimes it's the only option.

Thank Madoka we've now Amawashi translating Shuukura though, because the editing on Shuukura's MTL is basically nonexistent and nobody should start reading it after catching up with the good translation.
But there's little chance Shuukura addicts that had been reading the MTL for over 300 chapters like I have will be able to quit at this point. Best we can do is read both translations.

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What is with the "I don't like girls, I just like this girl" thing that constantly pops up in manga? Feels borderline lesbophobic.

Think I'm gonnae make it my policy to just drop any series that does this. Authors who write wlw and still go out of their way to have their characters say "I'm not a lesbian" aren't worth the time

Eh, it's a bit harsh to do so for this series where the it has a large cast of a wide variety of characters, some of whom are well aware of their orientation, while others, like in this case, are not quite sure yet.

I don't believe we've seen any of the other characters have thoughts about their orientation. This is the first time a character has gotten introspective about it and she seemed to have a somewhat negative reaction to being thought of as liking girls.

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I remember reading this before but couldn't remember the ending. Now, I should forget it again. I shouldn't have read the last few pages. sobs

Why did you bump the discussion thread and subject me to this pain? Do you enjoy seeing people suffer?

I'm so sorry. But if it's any consolation, please know that you're not the only one dealing with this pain.

The expression "misery loves company" rings true yet again.

I remember reading this before but couldn't remember the ending. Now, I should forget it again. I shouldn't have read the last few pages. sobs

Why did you bump the discussion thread and subject me to this pain? Do you enjoy seeing people suffer?

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Thank you for the translation. Please tell me there's more and you'll be uploading it in the near future.

^Miyagi from Shuukura LN 4 cover. On Amawashi's ToC page: https://amawashigroup.wordpress.com/story-about-buying-my-classmate-once-a-week/

^Clearly just a couple of gals being pals. Sheesh take your yuri goggles off every once in a while. :P

^Sounds like what people were saying halfway through the anime ;)

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I mean, I actually do agree that I want Miyagi to confess and turn dere as soon as possible, and I am anticipating something big soon as I mentioned before, but she has good reasons for trying to set boundaries and wanting a clearly defined relationship, and it can't feel great that Sendai constantly pushes her boundaries without giving her any sense of security in their relationship.

Love is a two way street. It's on both of them to define the relationship and both have valid (from their POV) reasons for keeping things ambiguous.

By pushing boundaries do you mean Sendai initiating intimacy? It's totally fine if Miyagi turns Sendai down when she starts making sexual passes at her, but what about casual intimacy? Like when Sendai gives hugs or kisses here and there and Miyagi often brushes her off?
Sendai has incredible fortitude, because if my "live-in situationship partner" consistently gave me the cold shoulder like that, I'd devolve into a spiral of negative thoughts regarding how my partner feels about me. That they're just putting up with me and don't actually enjoy having me around.

Also, damn, Miyagi really can't live down the running away accusations, huh? Can those who are caught up to the MTL not agree that she has grown past that, and very much demonstrated to Sendai that she has grown past that as well? Guess that one really stuck a nerve with y'all.

Unfortunately I can't yet agree we're past that because Sendai hasn't thought about how she's past that. Around 15-20 chapters or so ago in the MTL Sendai has thought about how she's afraid of having sex because she might tell Miyagi she loves her in a moment of passion. And she's scared of doing that because that might push Miyagi too far, causing her to abandon Sendai.

The way Sendai plays it cool all the time (even though we, as the audience, know better) makes it seem like she constantly has one foot out the door even if it isn't the case.

I've only vaguely been aware of this and kind of mentally wrote this off as Miyagi's abandonment issues from her mother being projected onto Sendai. I'll add it to the list of subtle things I missed when reading the MTL.

^Tasty until you notice she has apocrine sweat glands lmao.

^Underwear on the brain? Profile pic checks out :P

They say more to each other in this fanart than they do in the entire Penacony storyline.

Super cute. Hmmm I wonder who's idea it was.

For some reason this reminds me of Kara no Shoujo 2.

So true bestie!

So that now we've seen the Rei x Shiori meeting arc, the one-sided love arc, the confession arc, the dating arc, and the break-up arc... I still have absolutely no idea why things are the way they are. Unless Shiori and Sono are dating to get back at Rei? For... Sono breaking Rei and Shiori up??

Don't worry, we'll answer that over the course of the next dozen chapters with another flashback :P

We're never going to escape this room. Welcome to the neverending sleepover.

Holy massive blocks of spoiler text, Batman!

First time checking the comments for this one and wow that is a ton of blacked out text in the comments.

From the look of that object, this manga may soon need some hentai tags...and not vanilla ones.

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I haven't read this in awhile and it looks like they're still in their sleep over.

They're stuck in that room forever. That's the new plot.

It does feel like that. Surprisingly the flashback started "only" 11 chapters ago in Ch 36 and the sleepover a few chapters before that. Feels like it's been going on for over half the manga though.

This one is definitely going on my list of manga that's better to binge than read as it's posted.

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Well it's nice we're unified on loving the Shuukura girls! And we're balancing each other out by each of us feeling frustration with a different girl! :)

I will circle back around to highlighting that my frustration with Miyagi can almost entirely be attributed to the MTL doing her a disservice. I haven't felt frustrated by Miyagi when reading Amawashi's TL.

What is with the "I don't like girls, I just like this girl" thing that constantly pops up in manga? Feels borderline lesbophobic.

My first thought as well. And although I agree with @17hunter00 that there are worse usages of this trope, I don't think that means we should accept it without criticism.

Then there's Rae Taylor, nuking that trope from orbit.

That's why she's one of the GOATs.

Oh my...suddenly got a little spicy in this wholesome manga https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/my_goddess_spurs_me_on_ch03#21

I'm assuming the tall girl/animator will get a continuation since it cut off abruptly like that.

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Without checking, I'm pretty sure Sono is Rei's younger sister that the "MC" has been crushing on. Or did they have a physical relationship?

My memory's getting dodgy as I get older.

She's smart enough to build a robot that can simulate emotions but doesn't include anything like the 3 Laws of Robotics as a fail-safe?
And she tells the robot all that stuff instead of simply reprogramming her? If you see her as a robot then treat her as one...no explanation is owed to "it" before you reprogram.

Kinda breaks my suspension of disbelief. Would be quite the oneshot if those issues were fixed.