Can I just say in ch. 60 I found the bit where she's using her hair-tentacle-ness to brush her back-of-head teeth totally adorable?

I’m gonna say meh on that.. there are tons of instances where people, even young people get interested in something from a begone era… Like jazz or classical or ska… plus for the last 5-10 year’s you’d see teens in the us wearing “vintage” themed tshirts spattered with Beatles, Led Zeppelin and AC/DC logos… also the ironic part of this in connection to grunge retro is grunge and a lot of the music of the first half of the 90s was filled with retro throwbacks.. grunge is just punk mixed with 70s heavy rock like Black Sabbath, Blue cheer and Death, then when grunge died you had a swing fad followed by a 2nd ska revival and then you had the whole Brit pop thing which was again rooted in 60s and 70s stuff.. also.. aerosmith was huge at that time…. My guess because of the retro love mixed in the current bands of that time like the black crows and G&R (who sound like aerosmith most of the time anyway).. things cycle around over and over again..

I agree.

I'm not sure if I said this before, but it seems like an odd objection given that clearly the MANGAKA is interested enough in that kind of music to put people who like it in their story, and the MANGAKA seems to be exactly the kind of person it's been objected it's implausible that they could be into that music. In short, if the mangaka can like it, so could the characters--so not only is it plausible, we have an actual real-world example.

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Hurrah for the power of Love! (and large caliber weapons)

Dang. Not like, a slap. Not a childish shove in anger. A full on DECKING TO THE FACE.

Just what he deserved.

Damn straight.

Get wrecked, nerd.

Wait, say what? You dissing my tribe? That little bastard ain't a nerd. He's the kind who bullies nerds.

Looks like Ichigo's gonna take all of her firsts.

You know what I like about chapter 5? The MC's honour. She's an honourable girl who won't betray someone. Good on her stonewalling that unpleasant person.

EDIT in regard to Kiri-kun's post below: Given that the yuri side character has been stepped up to MC in this story, I'll be interested to see how, or if, the treatment of Shiki here qualifies the interesting, and rather acerbic, take in this article:

https://heartsoffuriousfancies.wordpress.com/2016/12/10/14-sai-no-koi-yuri-iyashi-and-the-lives-of-others-part-2/

Now that is quite a grumpy article. It almost seems to be annoyed that Japanese romance readers are sublimating their desires into this kind of fluff when their attention should be on REVOLUTION. Which, I mean, it's not that I disagree, but that's hardly the manga's fault . . . kinda goes rather far afield from whether 14 Sai no Koi is a good read.

Judging by how they seem to be famous now, the flirting probably counts as fanservice for the other girls.
I can imagine them saying "Sasuga handsome duo" while sticking their ears to the door.

Totally. Trying hard to restrain themselves from busting out in giggles.

Actually curious: Has there ever been a school council vice-president in the history of the yuri genre who wasn't at the very least crushing on the (current, former) president? Cannot think of any off the top of my head. :-/

Pretty sure it's a requirmement stipulated for postulating to that position. I remember a couple of years ago a small group of activisits in Japan were complaining about this discriminatory practice against heterosexual students that wanted to become the vice-president.

There's plenty of shoujo, and probably shounen too, where a hetero guy is the vice-president and crushes on the president. So, the requirement is ironclad, but does not seem to have gender orientation sub-requirements.

Yay!

I have to admit that the mom's attempt at storyboarding her explanation was pretty funny.

That was great. Both just the simple fact that she was doing it, and the way it played on our assumption that the flashback thing was just using a manga narrative convention and then it turns out no, she was totally showing those images.

I kinda want to see things back to the office for a brief moment, like "oh my God, the moment we fired the person who was supporting the whole office, the performance in general decreased in 30% but (((why)))?" .

Yes, I totally feel the same.

Occasionally while I'm reading this it occurs to me again how what's depicted is, looking at the facts, totally horrible and I'd be running away and joining the resistance if I lived in it . . . but then I shrug and keep reading about ridiculous cute vampires and their sexy drinking partners.

When I saw the title I was expecting one of those four page "quick summary sketch and bam!" kind of things.

I can already see upsides. Especially for a reader. Everyone else doesn't remember, but I do--I don't have to re-read the same thing five times. I have five times as much reading time, five times as much studying time. Not only that, for anything that mostly requires memorization, like history, I only need to read it once because I remember everything. If I feel like, I can be a massive child prodigy, skip grades and whatnot. Or I can just study as much as everyone else, but have four days out of five for video games.

Even if I generally end up with the worst version out of a group, I can probably mostly limit that--anything bad that happens to me on the first of a set, I can avoid or mitigate on future days. If I acted exactly the same all five-or-so day-versions, then random variation might make one of them worse and that be the one that follows on--but that random variation probably won't have a bigger impact than my actions to avoid the first day's now-anticipated problems, so in practice I could usually limit it to "What gets picked is the first day of the set".

As a precaution I could also make sure every "first" day to collect some info I can gamble on (sports, stocks, whatever). Not to make money because a day when I gamble myself a windfall wouldn't get "picked" as canonical if it's always my worst day that gets picked. But if something bad happens on some day, that I really don't want to become the "set past", I can overwhelm it by also making a bunch of money that day, leaving the "chooser" with a quandary.

If I have or take up a nerdy, otaku-ish hobby, I could be a social lion in that circle because I'd have five times as much lore (or more, given my eidetic memory). I can hone my social skills by trying social interactions various different ways on different days and seeing the reactions; sure, in the short term I may get whichever day was worst as the day other people remember, but in the medium term I can quickly stop making stupid social mistakes that my age-mates are still totally making.

Really, game this right and it has some serious benefits.

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Okay, so hear me out—idea for a manga:

There are these two girls, both of them cute, and they’re young—high school-age, say. And something brings them together—club, shared interest, whatever. And as they get closer they have emotions, lots and lots of emotions.

But here’s the kicker—they’re both lesbians in love with each other, but they don’t realize it!

So, possibilities there, maybe?

Too far out, man. Nobody'll ever try it.

All in all, I've decided I don't much like this genre. Too artificial for my taste.

Super convoluted setup. I guess the gist isn't too hard to understand, but still. Quite the mess.

Historical setting are so good

Yes, modern times really miss those virtual cards that influence random people into doing random stuff ...

I find myself imagining someone saying "It's time to (palace) du-du-du-duel!!!"

The author said that instead of being a work that could be classified as Yuri, the story is about the relationship between women (which can, indeed, mean friendship; please let’s not come back to the yuri or yurin’t debate).

Sumiko uses the word "aijou" in that interview, which specifically means "love" or "affection."

"Ai" is all forms of love: parent and child, brother and sister, romantic, platonic, etc. If you want to talk specifically about passionate (sexual) love then "koi" is the right word to use. When the author said that her story was not about yuri but rather about "generic love" between women she prolly meant that there won't be a lesbian/sexual side in the relationship between Aya and Mitsuki. (But maybe I'm wrong...)

Well, that would require a major transformation in the relationship though. I mean, the basic feelings our gyaru has had about the mysterious record store employee has been very much weak-at-the-knees infatuation, not "Gosh, what a nice person, I'd like to build a friendly relationship based on mutual understanding". And indeed, the relationship with the classmate has revolved around intermittent flashes of that same kind of doki-doki causing confusion.

In the case of both the version she thought was a guy and the version she knows is a girl, the feelings have been revolving around lightning bolts of desire and passion, not sisterly platonic stuff. So it would be weird if they ended up just buddies.

Oh nooo she doesn't look happy!

This chapter makes me worry, not because of anything happening in the story, I think they'll work it out, but because I think this means we'll be finishing this story soon. This feels like a point of no return.

Unless this goes on after they start dating! :o I like when stories do that.

To add a layer to your worries, individual chapters have their own titles in the original and these were not translated in the scanlated version, also the overall title of the series is not actually using the correct tense in English. The series is actually titled "The One She Is Interested in Wasn't a Guy", present tense. This chapter, however, is titled "The One She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy", past tense (ironically, the tense the scanlated version has been incorrectly using since the beginning).

I feel bad for Aya because this means she is really heartbroken. This was probably her first love and it ended with her finding out the person was lying and that they are not who she thought they were.

Well, DECEPTIVE. I'm not sure she has actually made any false claims--like, I don't think the record store employee ever said "By the way, in case you're wondering, I'm totally a guy and a separate person from your female classmate!" So she hasn't, like, lied as such.

This is one person who I really don't care if they're hot. How many years has it taken Miss Sunflower to regain a fairly normal affect? Hell with her. Anything she might have to say will have to be pretty amazing for it to have been worth unmasking her.

Now there's a guy asking for a beating. If he's that lucky...

The moment she saw that guy semi-collapsed, I thought "It's a guy. Must be a trap. Probably half-assed."

Not sure if the scanlators even read this, but on this page on the next-to-last panel it should say "REHM! SIC 'EM!" Very easy mistake to make since it's not a common word.

We'll end up hating the fortune teller, won't we?

Barbara seems to have a similar role as a drill sergeant. Yes, you resent and hate them in the moment, but the lessons you take away from the hardship might end up being worth it when your life (or in this case, magic) is on the line.

Mind you, I think even most drill sergeants wouldn't be down with actually killing a recruit in the hopes that the other recruits will be competent enough to bring them back to life. That's a tiny bit edgy in my book, maybe I'm just a fuddy-duddy.

Holy hell! Mimei is freaking sexy I even love her attitude she's so blunt and doesn't give a shit my type of girl <3

Meguru continues to basically tease her so we know her sister is alive and overseas. So she either got married and dipped or left for school and just left her alone I guess? And her adding that 10th rule to the contract proves she was not only slightly jealous of Mimei but has some kind of alterative motive herself... And that almost face up and into the hug was fucking dirty haha. I'm also glad she admitted she actually does have a slight ulterior motive which we already knew anyway but it's the first time she actually admitted it.

Also really loved that waitress and hope next time Memei and her meet up they go back there and she gets to hear more of the story because she's basically just us haha.

It's always possible the nice waitress lady will get more than just hearing the story.

So the fortune teller is sketchy ("I wonder if I can make use of them") but HOW sketchy?