so the childhood best friend is the 6th member but has comphet hangups or something?

I don't think it's comphet at all, I think she's ace, but not aromantic. She loves Mei but doesn't want sexual intimacy.

Okay, at this point I think we can classify Mitsuki as a weapon of mass distraction.

This chapter is in the past right?

Yeah. Per my notes https://dynasty-scans.com/forum/posts/875010 Youji has longer hair when Youzi is 6 than when Youzi is 14. And there's the "hard to believe you're already a mom" line.

Also it's clearly about how Youji and Chen met and became friends.

I've been needing something like this since kodama hasn't written anything recently.

https://dynasty-scans.com/series/a_lying_brides_case_for_same_sex_marriage

This dropped a chapter 2 days ago.

Yesss, Join the music buds clique, Hasegawa-san!

Here we go with more forced drama. Obviously she will say yes and 10am race her boss won't come back after a hour and she won't make it to the race.

The quality of the series really went down hill. I think ever since they switched publication or whatever it was and then started the sequel series.

Maybe the author doesn't know how to write a none high school story proper so just forces the drama to make a story. Or they have a editor that is pushing them to add drama.

I'm pretty sure the point here is just to explore the slice of life of being in a relationship, both the fluffy fluff and the little disagreements and fights and inconveniences.

Most people don't deal with "My partner is struggling with their gangster ex rolling back into town." they deal with stuff like missing an important event because something kind of understandable but also pretty avoidable came up.

What is even the problem, just close the shop until the deliveries are done. Three people quitting is already a terrible sign, wouldn't want to lose my last (seems like she still has more?) surviving part-timer. She could even ask someone from her neighborhood, surely there is some nice old regular customer with enough time. If Yamada says yes, I will respect her slightly less.

It's Japan. Sociocultural obligations are kind of a big thing. And Yamada's already kind of a doormat. She'll probably say yes.

Fake fan spotted.

man i swear half these side characters look the exact same, i dunno what it is

Yeah, all these identical teenagers with short hair and record producer fathers who invited Mitsuki to their Christmas parties. ;p

It's not a deja-vu if it's actually happened before. In fact, that's the opposite of a deja-vu ...

:x

Deja-vu is just the feeling of having experienced something before. It's still deja vu if you have actually experienced it, because it's the same feeling. Nothing in the definition requires that the feeling be fictitious.

So they're NOT dating then? For crying out loud...

How is THAT your takeaway from this?

I love that, in the end, you can see where Saori started to tear up the marriage certificate, but stopped. ;p

I mean, I mostly agree with you, there's a lot in the early chapters that makes tagging the series as "subtext" rather silly. Maybe subtext wasn't the right word for me to use... Still, it just feels like romance has been kept at a distance, even when the option was present from the start, and Takamine and Sakura have fallen into a comfortable lull without much progress. A slow burn so slow it just feels warm and cosy, like the Love will remain "yet to Bloom" by the end, so to speak.
Maybe I'm just too used to stories with an endgoal that's easier to guess early.

I suspect however this zine storyline shakes out, the way they both write about each other will spur some kind of development.

Yeah, showing what you're writing, especially the early drafts, can be very embarrassing... And in their case, doubly so, if they're writing about each other! Very cute!
I wonder if this is what will take them from a subtext-y "very good friends" kind of relationship to something more... But I'm not sure of how explicit the author wants to make the series... It still gives subtext vibes to me, honestly.

Honestly, I'd be shocked if this series goes with subtext. The title is literally "A Love yet to Bloom" I'd go so far as to call that queerbait-y if they didn't get together.

I don't know if that's the exact title though (the manga seems to use "Bluer than Love" on its volume covers), but I agree with everything else.

So I'm still learning, so I'd be really interested to hear from someone that is more confident in their Japanese about this, but as best I can figure:

The adjective 青い (aoi) also has a meaning of "unripe" or "inexperienced." Since 恋 より 青く (Koi yori aoku) is using the く (ku) form, it seems like the author is using "Aoku" as a noun describing a time. You can't do this with just any old adjective, it has to specifically be an adjective that is related to time. Since "blue" doesn't have anything to do with time, that implies the other, admittedly rarer meaning of the word. So the translation would literally refer to a time when the romantic love was "unripe", hence the translated title "A love yet to bloom."

(Edit to add: The ku form can also turn an adjective into an adverb, but there's no verb to ad here, so I don't think that's what's happening, unless there's an implied verb I'm not aware of)

Either way, my previous point stands, honestly, you don't use 恋 unless you're talking specifically about romantic love. The usage of that word in the title takes this pretty directly out of subtext territory for me.

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Yeah, showing what you're writing, especially the early drafts, can be very embarrassing... And in their case, doubly so, if they're writing about each other! Very cute!
I wonder if this is what will take them from a subtext-y "very good friends" kind of relationship to something more... But I'm not sure of how explicit the author wants to make the series... It still gives subtext vibes to me, honestly.

Honestly, I'd be shocked if this series goes with subtext. The title is literally "A Love yet to Bloom" I'd go so far as to call that queerbait-y if they didn't get together.

I speedread this in 2 days. I honestly evaded the series when it just started because I wasn't sure if it was queerbait, but I'm happy to see it delivers. That said, I found the last arc a bit weird? Not that it would be unrealistic for Aya to get jealous like that, but the way they behaved around each other seemed a bit random more than anything. Other than that a very nice read.

Jealous? Aya didn't really get that jealous in this last arc. That was where we all thought it was going to go when the arc started and the underclassman started going after Koga, but that was a misdirect. UC was actually just interested in Mizuki's music, and Aya recognized the opportunity she presented for what it was and tried to push her to take advantage of it, even though she really, desperately wanted to ask her to prom.

Jesus, I don't know why, but something about this dynamic is so frustrating. I get why, but they're like, two dropped assumptions and one honest dialogue away from both having exactly everything they want, but Gotou won't just say "I like you and I want to divorce my husband" and Shigisawa won't let go of "She's straight and she's just using me!"

YOU LIKE EACH OTHER. JUST SAY SO YOU F***ING IDIOTS.

LET'S GOOOOOO

anime is happening !!!!!!!!!

That's awesome, but I really hope, but also wonder if, they would actually license the western music to support the show's story. I honestly feel like the soundtrack is such a critical part of the story's impact, it'd suck if they replaced it with generic original music.

Forgiveness is earned, not owed.

Wrong. Forgiveness isn't earned, but trust is. Never confuse them.

Yeah, forgiveness is given. It's the choice of the person giving it.

All those Aerosmith CDs when they only have 2 songs

You bite your damned tongue.

And man, "You're my favorite song" is probably the smoothest metaphor Mitsuki could possibly have hit for their relationship. The rizz on that girl is INSANE.

If they don't at least try to kiss in the next comic, I'm crying absolute foul on that last panel

The above comment on how do they pay for it all is germane because the answer is they both have jobs.

The jobs are mostly for extra spending cash.

The keener point is that they're...college students. It's probably a combination of money their parents set aside for college along with various forms of financial aid. College loans aren't as common there, but I'm pretty sure Kase's on some kind of scholarship and Yamada's probably there on her parents' savings.

If I understand correctly, what may coincide with Kase's competition is the local exhibition of the president where Yamada goes to learn with her classmates. The competition where Yamada participates is in September.

True enough. For some reason I thought we'd been given a specific (earlier) time for that one as well, but looking it again, it only says it's on a day off.

Yeah, Yamada's contest is in September, while Kase's match is in July, so no conflict there, but the thing with the upperclassman is vague, and a Sunday in July would definitely be "a day off."

I kinda hope they don't go that way, as it's a bit cliche, but as mentioned, that's pretty on-brand for this manga.

Honestly, I agree with Meguru that it makes me want to throw up. Not sure why but I find it especially gross in this story - maybe because I'm afraid they'll just have Hiromi married off and never bring it up again. I'm not saying Hiromi should get with her sister but she deserves better than "live according to your father's wishes and maybe he'll allow you to do things :^)"

Oh yeah the father is disgusting. She's an adult and she's only allowed to see her sister if the father "allows" it? Fuck that. Also marrying his daughter off to a man that looks like him? Fucking weird. She needs to find personal agency and rebel against him.

I don't think he's literally supposed to look like him. I think it's that Meguru sees them as "the same".