Wait... Who is the long black haired girl at the end?

Probably pre-haircut Chidori from the last page of chapter 14

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Honami should really work on her ability to say "no" to people. Or "piss off", that works too. Funny how that "teach us how to use a sewing machine" turned into Honami doing all their work for them. Also weird they did not ask Hirose to help them.

Well it's a class project for the festival and Hirose is in a different class (Konatsu's in fact, so also a different year) and Hirose is also probably busy with whatever the Home Ec club is doing.

Kurokawa's friends likely think that the Gyarus are setting Kurokawa up for a major prank of some sort and it would probably be a good idea to distance themselves in order to not get caught in the blast radius. Still kind of shitty of them, but somewhat understandable, especially as I get the feeling they may not be especially close friends with Kurokawa.

Some nice hints in just the first few pages to the twist - Natsu mentioning that the only thing she knows has changed in town is the store across from the cemetery, Chihiro is visiting in August (for Obon), Natsu's feet are always very conspicuously hidden.

Does it mean they only ever hang out on Wednesday and Friday? If she knows she will have to cut her date short she should propose to meet other days too, that's just stupid

Didn't realize how ridiculous that part is. Also a pretty dense thing to do...why did they specifically have dates on those days of the week, lol

I imagine that, with one being an office worker (and given what I've heard about Japanese office policy, has some pretty long hours) and the other being a college student, part-time convenience store clerk, and streamer, they probably don't have a lot of matching time in their schedules.

What is 'totes'? Why did they use that word so many times in this chapter?

'totes' is pretty much the modern equivalent of 'like, totally" from the 80s/90s

Lizard tag???? O_o?

Of course. Yuri is all about lizards and ham.

I was actually kind of surprised that Yamada took so readily to calling the new girl by her first name. She doesn't even call Mikawacchi by her first name, nor vice versa, and they've known each other the longest. It just seems kinda...out-of-character for the straight-laced Yamada. I wonder if this is going to be a plot point.

In the case of Mikawa (and Kase for that matter), Yamada probably learned her family name first from a class introduction or something before they really became friends, and vice versa, so that's just how they started calling each other and it sort of got ingrained, so they likely just stick with that because as Yamada says it would feel weird for a while to change it.

In the case of Hana, she just flat out tells Yamada when they first get introduced to call her by her first name so she did (plus Hana is the kind of name flower loving Yamada would like anyway) and reciprocates.

As for Kase's reaction to the lipstick, I think there's a few factors at play here - as noted Kase had a similar hang-up over Yamada wearing an apron at the school so we have some precedent. Plus she's already uncomfortable being at this fancy cafe plus she found out that Yamada made a new friend she's already on a first name basis with plus Yamada's really happy getting a gift from Mikawa PLUS Yamada is talking about how all the cool girls at her school are wearing makeup and thinks she should too. All of that is kind of a perfect storm for kicking up Kase's already latent jealousy over Yamada to the max. That doesn't excuse Kase, but it does explain her extreme behaviour some.

Whats kind of a massive act of promiscuity is this? Hand holding? With a complete stranger? I thought Mochi was pure.

Now now, they could be distantly related and just not know it yet.

Sooo, any idea, why is it called "Yuunagi Marbled"? I don't recall anyone called "Yuunagi", but it definitely feels like a name.

"Yuunagi" usually means something like "Evening Calm", and if we assume "Marbled" refers to clouds, that pretty much describes the setting when Ena and Mishio first met.

I hope kids who hurt Aoi is not Itsuki when kid.
This two have same hair color and style that made me worry.
It would be very confuse and wrong on many level if they are same person.
But I can't keep this off my mind from above reason. Send help.

Aoi's dad also looks like an older version of male Itsuki, so it could either just be a quirk of how the author draws guys, or Aoi is imprinting male Itsuki over all the men in her memories because she's been ignoring guys for so long.

Also, I'm a little shaky on Praha counting her age starting from when she was proposed in a paper...isn't that like a human counting their age from when their parents decided to have a kid?

Well to a robot, particularly a self-evolving one like Hiro, their own data would be everything - like a combination of their genes and soul - so the date when her initial primary data loops were published is probably the day they consider most important to their own conception, so it would be a reasonable birthday for them to infer.

And with Nene joining the company, shows another possible side of bullshit from the gaming industry, and that is if you know someone in a company you are more likely to get the job, now obviously Nene is skilled, but I just wanted bring up the fact that if you don't have a good network in the industry, you will have a harder time getting highered.

To be fair, this is true of every industry. And in Nene's case she actually went the other way anyway - she started as a part-timer in debug/testing, got hired for that on the merit of her abilities and did her networking within the company while she worked there in order to get a full-time job later.

Keep in mind that Kou is a "Big Name" in the universe of the manga - she got a special interview for her very first gig and is the reason Aoba decided to go into this line of work. She's like the Toriyama or Amano or Kaneko of Eagle Jump. That's why the publishers wanted her to do it in the first place.

And aside from giving herself a personal challenge, the competition was suggested by Aoba in order to force Kou to actually do the illustration - Aoba is still one of Kou's biggest fans so of course she'd rather have her do the illustration rather than someone else. But aside from that, she's still going to do her best to see how she stacks up now against her idol and mentor.

Also on Aoba's side - beyond showing that she's willing to step up, I'm sure her main reason for suggesting the challenge against Kou was because it would force Kou to draw something for the key art, rather than Kou turning it down for Aoba's sake and the publisher getting an outsider to do the key art.

lool the sister is getting the younger sister drunk....that's naughty lol

i'm drunk as well xDDD I hope they go to the hotel xDD

Well thanks to Stan's goof, we already know.

This is all kinds of fucked up. So A-chan fucks around and gives her kids for MC to raise? And rather than love that the author tried to convey it came off as emotionally damaged kids crying for attention. There's no build up to explain anything and it all comes off very creepily.

I think lack of build up is kind of the point - we're experiencing things the same way Rinko is and it's really fucked up. As for the kids I think they do love the Rinko they know (exactly what kind of love is up for debate) but they're already sore about their mom fucking off somewhere while dumping them with Rinko and now their 'adoptive mom' is saying that she's really a middle-schooler and doesn't know any of them. It's kind of amazing they don't freak out more than they do.

Uh, that wasn't Futaba, it's the young Mako-chan-sensei. Futaba never had anything to do with the whole peter dream thingy.

Well Futaba IS the dream-master and taught Ai to fly with a broom - a reference waaaaay back to chapter 38.

Elenora and her wife look pretty happy in the upper left panel on the last page, and they're having their own child, so probably.

Its one of the most annoying tropes in romance series for me. This one is specially annoying since the girl who supposedly likes Tsukasa, is the one pushing the most and hasn't show an actual interest for her.

Hating on only Kotooka about this is weird when Tsukasa is doing the exact same damn thing with Washio.

The reason this one probably seems more normal than Dowman's other works is because this is an adaptation of a story by Hoshi Shinichi, a very prominent japanese sci-fi writer. This was part of a collection of manga adaptations of Hoshi's works.

I don't recall the "g word", when did they mention that Tooru gets triggered by it before?

Tooru has a beef with God
Dragon thing, I guess.

She also fought the gods, and the gods almost killed her.
So yeah that can get you grumpy with higher powers.

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I think Yamada's "I did it!" speech from ch5.5 just makes girls go gay for whoever said it.

Takashima's heroines have an odd tendency to do that kind of "cute explosion":

Agreed. But if it went into a magazine the artist probably had to crunch it, and change dialogue to fit the shrunken chapter for the audience flipping through the pages. The magazine version is 40 pages long versus the original 58 page version.

It's the other way around - magazine chapters come first and are a usually a first draft and often have tighter deadlines. The tanks come later, have more lenient deadlines and allow the author to make changes to make the art more consistent, and occasionally add some more pages to make additions if they deem it necessary.

RE: Inoue-Sempai - While it's possible they got together for a while afterward, it didn't really seem like she and Kase had a romantic relationship back in chapter 6. And there wasn't too much time between that chapter (which was a prequel) and chapter 1.