Ayumu could also be the beast. Oh yes indeed.

I get the feeling of Ayumu's anxiety here — like, not even that Yu's thinking or caring about Ayumu less, but that Ayumu is worrying more about the relationship. Its status, its condition.

Glad for the recent influx of top Rina.

Is Mia grumping at Yu because she wants to be included or because she doesn't?

I guess Mia is trying to keep herself from taking advantage of Rina, though I get the idea that Rina wouldn't mind being taken advantage of. ドキ ドキ indeed.

Vroom vroom, Yu-senpai.

Awww, this is adorable.

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Aww, this was great! The setup, the buildup, the payoff, the post-coupling punchline — a great story.

Mmm, love that ShioPomu.

(Which apparently my autocorrect wants to turn into "shipping". Huh )

Oh, my.

Aside from the obvious, it's an interesting look at Yukiho's attitudes towards following her sister. (I'm thinking that Umi's probably known Yukiho for just barely less time than Honoka has, but...)

Truly the unsung heroes of Nijigasaki High.

Now, now, this is by Myon — this Ayumu got over Yu in a big multichapter epic.

It's very sweet. Looks like Yu was over for a late night gaming session and dozed off...

This is just plain adorable.

I've always wondered how much of the fan animosity in the SIFAS days towards Lanzhu and from Karin and Ai joining her Association in season two came from the fact the whole situation was framed for us by Kasumi, the one member who took it as a personal betrayal. So it's great that we did eventually get to those two being so close.

Mmmm, gotta love the Nijigasaki polycule, just all the girls sleeping together.

... explaining the motivation of teasing is tacked on, pointless, or forced? It's not exactly uncommon to see Rin's canonical attachment to Maki read as some degree of interest, and revealing that Rin is teasing Maki because she's feeling kinda jilted makes sense for this story. "I get that she feels that Nico is especially important to her — but it hurts that she doesn't feel that I'm special to her at all."

(I mean, Nozomi would instigate things without any personal stake in the situation, but if Rin weren't feeling hurt, she probably would have just bugged Maki to set personalized ringtones for everybody, instead of the focused needling here.)

Tacked on would be something like the back half involving Honoka coming out of nowhere to complain.

Oh, god, it's anime!Ayumu getting possessed by the evil spirit that possessed Famitsu!Ayumu. That's a thing of beauty.

(Though now I think of it, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter is such a weird game to even exist. I mean, it's a licensed game of a comic from Valiant Comics, of all the obscure comics publishers. And Valiant didn't create him; the '90s Valiant book was a revival of the character, who first appeared in 1954.)

Oh, and it's since been posted here: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/lets_kiss_cuz_were_friends

There's something of an adversarial edge to a lot of SetsuKarin depictions, and I'm not entirely sure where it's coming from. I'm thinking specifically of Setsuna's coldness here and in the other "SetsuKari Book", and in "SetsuKari Precious", where Karin's teasing has more of an edge to it, and Setsuna seems to be retreating to, well, more of a Nana mode. Maybe it's coming out of the start of season 1 of the anime?

That's a long way around to say I enjoyed this, but enjoyed Setsuna being flustered more than her being cold.

This is very cute and sweet, but here I am wondering what this does for my theory that the God of School Idols is actually Yu.

(To explain: the Famitsu 4koma, the very early comic that had jerkass!possessed!Ayumu, and which is the origin for Sasuke and Ayumu's trip to Mars, is practically the only Ayumu material that doesn't mention her childhood friend. It does, however, show that she's close with the God of School Idols, a plushie of whom is there on the bed — and therefore the God of School Idols is actually, in some manner, her childhood friend, whether that's the SIFAS PC or Yu. )

(Of course, if you ignore that theory, you're left wondering exactly who is the God of School Idols. My alternate theory was that they're one of the gods of the Great Kanda Shrine, as seen in SIP, but when I checked the gods enshrined there are Daikokuten, who blesses harvests and matrimony, Ebisu, who blesses fisheries and business, and the tenth-century revolutionary Taira no Masakado, none of whom seem particularly school idolish. Sumire's family's Onden Shrine is built to Omodaru and Ayakashikone, a couple who also bless marriage, as well as skill at art, which is closer? Then again, there's the long-standing fan theory that Honoka — given her apparent powers of weather and gravity control and time travel — is a god, or maybe even the God. So maybe the Famitsu comic had cameos from two members of μ's.)

I actually looked it up — I thought it would, from the timing, be Riko's initial UR, but the costume confirms that it's her second one, her first Spotlight UR, A Clear, Unwavering Melody/Blossom Prelude. https://allstars.kirara.ca/card/120

Wooo. Rina's got them figured out, certainly, though I'd wager Shioriko isn't going to clue in very soon.

Awwww!

Rina's always been very into Umi. Umi's SIFAS bond stories included a sequence where Rina tried to get Umi to take her as an apprentice — including the line, "If I can't call you master, can I at least call you Onee-sama?" — and the Daily Theatre episodes include http://sifasdt.waxwolf.com/?date=2021-04-29 .

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I mean, the implication of Haruka touching her lips at the end is that she was aware of Chihaya's first kiss, back in the office, and that Haruka was feigning sleep — and potentially had made up that they'd planned the sleepover — to tempt Chihaya into doing exactly what she did.

Yes, this is no way to conduct yourself in real life, but if your sexual morals come solely from your pornographic reading, you've got bigger troubles.