PS: In fact, all of you try to imagine that all this time, Senpai has been singing Despacito in the roof

I want this to ruin the manga for me, but it's only making it better.

Also, Lily was totally into Marika before the switch, but I think we already kinda knew that. Reading about parallel worlds, purely by coincidence? Either she was trying to find something to get close to her, and saw she was interested in such things, or...

Hmm...

i'm wondering if Lily might know more about all this than she's let on?

That's ... actually a really good catch. I forgot about that little detail since it was so early in the story.

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I'm placing my bets right now:
Our-world protagonist is secretly a lesbian and has been in denial about it, even dating a guy she didn't like. Yuri-world protagonist was straight and couldn't accept a world where she couldn't date men. Yuri-world-protagonist found this alternate world where a lesbian version of herself was acting straight purely to stay "normal" and realized she could take her place, freeing Our-world-protagonist from feeling persecuted for loving women by giving her a reality where that is considered normal, while also instantly landing herself in an already-established relationship with a guy. Win/win. I also predict 1 of 3 endings:
1) Our-world-protagonist will find a way to get back to Our world, realize her boyfriend was happier with alternate her, realize alternate her was miserable in Yuri world, and realize she was happier in Yuri world than Our world, then swap back and just let their swapping-of-places last forever.
2) She'll swap their places back, which can't be undone, and she'll finally accept her lesbian-ness, stop worrying about being perceived as "normal," and respectfully break up with the boyfriend to date women in Our world, while the author will just gloss over the fact that Yuri-world her is stuck being miserable again.
3) She'll wake up and it will all be a dream or coma, wherein she discovered her "true feelings," freeing her to finally be herself in our world.

For the first time in my life, I'm hoping the next chapter has the "yandere" and "horror" tags, and she gets an exclusive vacation trip to see the ocean floor in person. But given this artist's innocent work, I'm... not holding my breath.

CAPTAIN OBVIOUS here!
This kind of story is depressing but also great, because it's a good reminder to evaluate your relationships carefully and see things from your partner's perspective. The main character sees what she's doing as "making more money so we can have a more comfortable life," while the girlfriend just sees it as "I promise I'll never let you be lonely... now excuse me while I work late hours every day and take a 2 week business trip during the fireworks festival I promised you we could watch from here."
RIP relationship. Don't let your life turn into a Drama tag.
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS, awaaay!

Why is it all the working woman's fault? The whole "If my partner really loves me, they would know how I feel" thing has destroyed many relationships. Love doesn't give you magic empathic powers. If her girlfriend felt lonely, she should have said so. So I think there is plenty of blame to go around.
It's a real shame, It looks like there was real love between them.

Edit: Sorry. After rereading TehSlan's (AKA CAPTAIN OBVIOUS) post, I think I got the wrong idea the first time. I think Tehslan is pretty much saying the same thing as me.
There is an important lesson here people! You should always reread a post, a couple of times, before posting a rant against it. You don't want to look like an idiot, arguing the wrong point.

To clarify, you are correct, I don't mean to throw all the blame at the working girl, not at all. In her heart she was helping the relationship, and helping the woman she loved. It's just an issue of the 2nd girl not communicating while the working girl is blinded by love and optimism. It was miscommunication from both sides. I worded my first post a bit poorly, but they BOTH needed to see the other's perspective.

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CAPTAIN OBVIOUS here!
This kind of story is depressing but also great, because it's a good reminder to evaluate your relationships carefully and see things from your partner's perspective. The main character sees what she's doing as "making more money so we can have a more comfortable life," while the girlfriend just sees it as "I promise I'll never let you be lonely... now excuse me while I work late hours every day and take a 2 week business trip during the fireworks festival I promised you we could watch from here."
RIP relationship. Don't let your life turn into a Drama tag.
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS, awaaay!

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@Harmony102 - this is a really really old picture sadly. 2009 in the corner. I'm pretty sure Toweringman is never coming back.

I guess they BOTH wear the pants in this relationship.

Nah, the spoilers are clearly for that big kiss they had at the end of the first season. That kiss that definitely happened. YOU CAN'T TELL ME OTHERWISE!

I don't know about "the best," I feel like it's just "okay."

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The endless jokes on this site about hand-holding being lewder than sex have gotten a bit old, but when she says "squeeze my hand with our fingers interlocked until we make it to school," I can't help but feel like her hand-holding is actually lewder.

I for one love the new credits page. But also, it's nice to see these two having some development that doesn't feel like backpedaling in 7 and 7.5. At the end of 6 it felt like things were going to "DRAMATIC BACKPEDAL FOR THE SAKE OF FILLER."

Just nonchalantly gonna point out that with a title like that, this could have been a VERY different manga...