Well, I'll be damn, a Comic Soundtrack just showed up...

thank you

the TV Tropes guys are gonna have to change the trope image for "determinator" after this chapter...

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"It's Norwegian, a cheerful yet lonely song"
She's totally listening to Burzum

"nothing good's going to come from falling in love with a dead girl"

...oof that hurts

You'll understand me disagreeing :-)

It's entirely possible some, or all, of her suitors were shot before Koharu even arrived, as was the case with the first chapter, so there's no need for them to be shot now. Koharu's here to shoot her friend so she'll [i]reciprocate[/i] someone's feelings. She could also create a new suitor, if she feels the need to, but that isn't actually necessary.

Fair point. However, somebody actually willing to make a bet that she won't also shot heart-eyed girl in the same chapter that she shoots Aki? Because it's a losing bet, I think.
Just pointing out what seems to be a minor inconsistence betwen the actual action and the internal rules, which as I've explicitly stated, is likely done deliberately by the mangaka in the name of storytelling. Which is a good thing. Storytelling should reign supreme in, you know, story telling.
Of course, if Koharu does not shoot the girl in the next chapter (let alone, if someone actually mentions the girl was already in love), the whole point will be moot :-)

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Unless I'm forgetting some exposition from the previous chapters, I think one has to go into this series under the assumption that Love (that is, actual mutual romance) is not a thing that just happens in the organic way we think of it but always by the hand of a cupid.

based on chapter 5, where we see characters being clearly lovestruck without cupid intervention, it follows that love is something that can happen, and the work of a cupid is to ensure it does happen.

The "rules" of Love Bullet's universe are being doled out in in small chunks, and from what we know love must be sparked by Cupids. But whether those feelings last or fade away afterwards is up to each human and their interactions with the person they fall for. The author mentioned in her interview that she made a world "where love is only possible thanks to Cupids". So we can assume that anyone who shows up in already in love has had those feelings triggered by another Cupid's love bullet/bomb in the past, which was stated to be the case for Aoi and Daito in Chapter 0's love triangle.

That might be what the author tries to depict. That is not what the autor does depict.
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_bullet_ch05#10
Clearly already in love waaaay before being shot by anyone.(1) (Unlike https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_bullet_ch05#5 who is clearly shot from off-panel by someone else).
If those are the setting rules, then the author ignored them (an author, ignoring the setting's rules in the name of the actual story? OUTRAGEOUS!) :-)

(1) I mean, with the whole point of the chapter being that it's going to be Koharu the one that will match that girl and Aki, to say that she has not yet being shot is a safe-ish bet.

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Unless I'm forgetting some exposition from the previous chapters, I think one has to go into this series under the assumption that Love (that is, actual mutual romance) is not a thing that just happens in the organic way we think of it but always by the hand of a cupid.

based on chapter 5, where we see characters being clearly lovestruck without cupid intervention, it follows that love is something that can happen, and the work of a cupid is to ensure it does happen.

I won't lie I would prefer it ended on ch30. With non-chan moving on with her previous owner who was the source of the whole curse and Akari, through non-chan, finds actual friends.

would have been the best ending.
But of course, with Akari around, we WERE bound to have the WTF ending instead.
Anyone actually surprised?

was this manga always like this? should be a real tag

Mission failed sucessfully

Like whatever it is that killed her also wants Michi dead, or was maybe even going through Aizawa to get to Michi in the first place.

I have a feeling that the "going through Aizawa to get Michi" part was not an accident

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tragedy of a different, maybe more terrifying kind than we thought. For the love of God, don't look at page 12!

tragedy

Please do not feed the wildlife
And now you're reading this whole chapter in Sir David Attenborough's voice,

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Thanks for the recap. [Urge to re-read with QFG4 OST as BGM intensifies]
I have a feeling that Aizawa just miiiiiiiiight have something in common with the character whose name I'm using. Let's leave it at that.

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In a sane world, people do not expect you to fulfil the childhood marriage proposal.

Well... Toki Pona is a trigger for many a linguist and/or fans of constructed languages... which may actually make it a good choice for an April's Fool, in general, more than "for this manga", in particular :-D

three pages in and already clamoring for Charlie Foxtrot tag...

...no, seriously, Charlie is dancing the foxtrot all over this one.

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As Akari completely sandbags Non scary doll dimension, i cant help but think about Akari gleefully walking in Silent Hill.
Thanks for the translation!

Aaaaaaand now I have that image of good old P-Head running for dear life away from her. Yes, running.

also, this series in a nutshell

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wat the fuck happened in chapter 24 i am confus

Can relate to them. Happily married because of fictional characters. And I bet if we were to call a raise of hands, there would be more cases among us...

About the "tomodachi ippai" T-shirt... one of the reasons it's as popular in Japan is that it's also a groan-inducing Japanese pun, because it's an almost homophone with the orders to take a ship hard to port or to starboard (just watch how many times those two orders are shouted in High School Fleet), so it not just means "a lot of friends" but also "hard towards the friends".

Also
lots of BONDS

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This is nearly at WTF Am I Reading levels, lol.

"Nearly?" We are well past nearly.

We're at this series deserves a custom joke tag to tell how crazy it is but nothing we could ever suggest would come close enough to convey it levels

lots of bonds

Moe up the butt...

seconded