Ah, I love this pairing! Rita is so abrasive with everyone else but turns unexpectedly sweet and concerned around Estelle.

Hopefully not too soon or I'll end up reading at 4AM again with work in the morning.

Hey look, it's that time of the month again.

If it ever gets officially released in my country I'll definitely pick it up and re-read it, it wouldn't even be in English anyway so it would be somewhat of a fresh experience.

Dude... when Shima said the L word I was SHOCKED

Lesbians? I love Scott Pilgrim.

What about the smut he also undoubtedly writes for similar reasons? Hopefully he shares that too when the time comes.

Same, I got blindsided by Shimamura replying that she loved Adachi right away. And later she doubled down, pretty nice.

My headcanon is that in the AU where they meet for the first time on the train as office ladies, the ending of Your Name is taking place on the same train.

"That's a nice wrap."

suddenly new rivals

How convenient, though I'm glad it's not ending yet.

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I couldn't remember if summer had already passed but yeah, I guess it hasn't so that could still happen too. They go up a school year in chapter 24 and since then Konatsu took some time off from the club, but they didn't say anything about summer break so it should be coming up soon in the story. Maybe it'll happen.

Yeah, same. Like, come on, let them go on a cute non-explicitly-romantic-but-totally-romantic Christmas date.

Since this chapter sets up Konatsu being without Koyuki in her third year of high school, I hope it doesn't get skimmed over or outright skipped because there's potential there. Both with Konatsu's point of view where she takes over the aquarium club and has to live up to Koyuki's legacy, and from Koyuki's where she tries to get used to her new life in Tokyo. And then they could meet a few times throughout the year before reuniting for good at the end with Konatsu also going back to Tokyo.

From Hachimitsu Scans: "I read somewhere that Hagino had lost the data for ch. 27 while she was working on it, so she had to do it over (I think someone said she mentioned it in one of her YouTube videos), but she didn’t have enough time to finish 27 entirely, so it was split in 2, but since it was going to be one chapter anyway, the volume will just combine the two into one, and end volume 7 with chapter 28."

Explains why there was no chapter in March despite a break not being planned and why 27 was split. Poor Hagino-sensei, that must've sucked.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I just recently noticed that Konatsu's father is still wearing his wedding ring, so it can be assumed that Konatsu's mother is dead rather than divorced.

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Come for the girlship, stay for the great dads.

Kase’s general antipathy to guys can be easily explained by those grotesque swirly things they have on their noses.

Heh, now I'm imagining that guys in the Kase-san universe canonically have henohenomoheji faces and everyone but Kase just sees them as perfectly normal.

It was towards the end when Inoue comes back and they meet at school, Yamada calls her Kase's ex-girlfriend and they clear up the misunderstanding.

As for Kase being overly protective and possessive towards Yamada, while it could be seen as harmful, she obviously doesn't do it with bad intentions so I don't think too hard about it.

I think she only said she won’t love anyone but Yamada.

You're right, but she said that after Yamada said she was jealous because she thought Kase had dated someone else beside her. So if Kase did, she kinda dodged admitting it to her.

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Feels like that would be some unimportant amateur team rather than something Kase would be really aiming for with her talent. In fact I'm sure the current silly misunderstanding is that Kase is only going back to her hometown to help out her department store's track team for one particular event rather than planning to move back and join it full time.

Tip: Don't date anyone so weirdly possessive they try to keep even your random friends from trying to score. Especially if they compare starting a conversation with someone you like to "selling yourself cheaply" like the world's biggest creep.

At least Kase didn't leave it at that and suggested that Hana go to the beach hut and introduce herself to the college guys. I've always found Kase's possessiveness to be a little excessive, there were times where guys were talking to Yamada normally without trying to pick her up and she still came up and told them off like they were. In this case though, she was just looking out for Hana by directing her to people she knows she can trust.

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Hana-chan sure is thirsty.

I don't think so, her tipping point was her experience with Gon that gave her the push to re-evaluate the depth of her relationships with others.

I knew it, Adachi and Shimamura's first date will be in Yashiro's spaceship.

Isn't this ad saying that volume 9 will release this year? Beware of spoilers since it shows the cover of volume 7: https://twitter.com/k_tawao/status/1248483523243028480

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Technically we don't know if Yashiro is a girl. Alien biology and stuff.

Would you be okay with it if the series ended with no explicit yuri but then the author made one of those "official" doujins that has it?

Sweet story. But yeah, what happened to mom? And did Konatsu not have any friends in Tokyo?

Kind of feels like excessive angst recently given the lack of actual 'text'.

Going by how Konatsu imagines the salamander suggesting she lay low and just try to fit into her class if she didn't want to feel lonely in the first chapter, it's likely that's what she also did before in Tokyo and that she just had some shallow friendships with classmates, none of which deep enough for her to stay in touch with them after moving to Ehime. She definitely never had anyone she connected with on the level of Koyuki, which is made pretty clear by how hurt she was by seeing her hang out alone with Kaede despite Kaede also being her friend. So if she moves back to Tokyo now, she feels like she's going to lose something irreplaceable as it's not simply a matter of making more friends or reconnecting with the ones she had. This distinction would be much easier to see if the series was explicit romance, but we'll take the girlship and like it.

Also, it seems rather bizarre that the aquarium club is so important to the school -- has special events -- and yet had only one member who was a super revered student. Like, you'd think some fans would show up, or students guilt-tripped into taking one for the school, either way.

Koyuki did have fans, or at least guys with the hots for her, but her status as model student never let her fit in or seem approchable enough for others to want to join the aquarium club. Koyuki's father probably could've strong-armed a couple students into joining the club to give her a hand, but he was aware of her loneliness and it's difficult for a parent to interfere and impose something on their child, so he stayed close and helped her out himself until she was able to find someone on her own.

As for the club's importance, apparently in real life the school the one in the manga is based off of has the only aquarium club in the region, and in the manga it's treated as a local attraction. It's definitely not a common sight in a high school. Ironically the manga has become an ambassador for the real-life town it's set in and last year they organized a tour with various cross-promotion, so it probably ended up making the real aquarium club more famous.

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