Okey just got the physical manga and magazines....I have no words from the quality really; that and the attetion of the seller is amazing. Dont know if it's because of the normally treat in business here where I live or what, but the details are incredible. Really glad to experience all

Speaking of Mitsuki's friends, wasn't it established early on that she actually has friends (or at least one friend) in some other class?

In a character bio page yes, but I think that one changed since the manga came out. Spoiler:

The extra chapter in manga about Koga past, we can see that childhood friend so can be or not still in the same school, but given what happened..... don't know if they are still friends...And after that the manga says she closed emotional in school so no more friends after that

If Kanna was around back when Mitsuki lost her first friend and decided to close off, then maybe she'll just want to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Im around that kind of theory too, if Kanna is older than Koga, I think too that probably knows what happened with her in the past and will try to protect her now seeing she got a new friend

First of all, Aya and Koga are so cute in the concert hahaha

And for the new girl, since we have so little and to avoid a Narita case(?; in which a lot of us (yeap me included) thought he was a bad guy, to end the opposite~ I will just write what got my attention and theorize just because I can(?:

1- How they call each other, Kanna just "Mitsuki" but Koga her name with "-san"; so two options for me is, that Kanna is indeed older than Koga and Aya but I don't think too much (can totally wrong of course, and in this I will not mention the cigarette). Or two, is just Koga way to call people, so not to get "so close".

2- The face of Koga is one of shock, but how already told by in some comments, it can be just be a surprise of the moment. So left to see next if she will be happy or not to see Kanna.

3- Kanna towards Koga seems happy to see her, not only the smile, the way she called her with intensity and the "happy" comment?, I will call it that because dont know another expression~ that she looks cooler now.
But after that, we got an off panel of her changing her attention to Aya, "a friend?"; to next see Kanna dropping the smile.... So yeah, ahother thing I will keep thinking until next Sunday hahaha

4- Last one I promise hahaha (for now tho!). The actual conflict of the manga, tho named a good few times the "career paper" situation, I glad we are going a even little back to "why mitsuki is like this at school" (I know some things here but let keep them aside, until we are all free of spoilers(? ). That said, tho difficult, I think it's a good idea if the two things can be aborded like "one" (being the center the two "modes" Mitsuki has); since it could be seen separately but having a character like Kanna maybe it will be a 2x1(?

Amazon Japan has a Kindle version (she mentioned it in her original publication announcement) that became available on publication date. It doesn't seem like an option that reliably shows up if Amazon senses you are out of their local region. So there should be ways for you to get it if you can get around that little roadblock. I'm not sure of digital distributors for it besides Amazon but I wouldn't be surprised if there are.

Oooh! obviously I didn't read that hahaha Ty for the information!

Just curiosity, saw a few talking about the digital version of the manga to buy; never saw anything about it, so it got my attention hahaha how was it? a web selling it or something like that?

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Looks like the book is already getting a reprint. Sounds like a good problem to have!

Just saw it! So happy to see how all is going for the author! And I will wish I can buy that copy too with it's out hahaha

I still waiting for all the products to arrive in Buyee but I dont have a scanner since years....Since I will have probably two copies of the manga and one I could stretch it (I'm an obsessive with book integrity hahaha). But that's it, the only scanner I have my cellphone and is a really old one, and so the camera

Edit: I write this, so until I have them, if no one could scan them, I dont know, I can try with the camera but no promises honestly

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To those who has the physical copy, are there any infos on mitsuki's parents or aya's dad??

Nothing more about either of their parents. There was a clear answer about why Mitsuki had such a strong reaction to Aya getting even slightly bullied by her friends after being associated with her.

Aaaah now I want more to close the box in Buyee to sent it here hahaha but I'm still waiting for the magazines to arrive to Buyee warehouse ~

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She's made a lot of the greens more dynamic with fades and screens that weren't there before early on. Mainly in the earliest chapters when she was still getting the feel for it. She did a transparency on Koga's mask at work for several key moments early on too so we can see how she's reacting vs the black mask originally. She slightly changed Aya's eyes/expressions a several times in the early chapters. To a more precise emotion. Koga too sometimes. Mouths cleaned up. I'd say their iconic moment expressions were the same though so no worries there. One thing I really like as a change is when she used to have a washed grey panel of someone like in a memory she now drew it as her normal style or uses a more balanced screen. That grey just never jived. Most of these changes are early on and balance the pages more or be more intentionally with Aya. It really refined her signature tight transitions even more from the beginning now.

I did see album art, tshirt art, and posters made more generic. They still specifically talk about the bands/show playlists, which is actually nice compared to other manga that Great Value Brand even band names to avoid trouble, but she can't get away with the album art in the published version 99% of the time it looks like. Unfortunate, but I don't think it ruined anything. Oddly the album art at the festival booth stayed branded Gun's N Roses but it's a different cover. Wonder if they got permission for one instance like that? I'm not familiar with the new cover, but it still had their name on it. Not sure if this is tighter or looser than what a US publisher would require. Hopefully they aren't forced to get goofy with the band names.

No wonder she was working so much, from the bio page I saw in one post that already was changed, I did expect something like that but I didn't know at what "level".
And true....I didn't thought about it, but with brands when it's a comercial product you can't just "put them there" because you can have problems of copyright; so yeap same, that will something that is not really her choice in reality

I got mine in the mail today. The publisher must love her because they got every detail right. It's a larger format, printing under the dustjacket, several color pages (I'm not going to spoil the hair and eye colors), and of course the green throughout. Textured cover and matte pages even for the color pages, but the ink took really well. Very good value for the price.

I didn't immediately notice any large corrections or changes to the art so I assume whatever cleaning up she did was cosmetic. It ends with a new story called Rhythm B which is 13 pages of new content that answered several of my ongoing questions so to me is necessary to the story and not mere bonus fluff. Eventually it will show up online, but it's good to let people have a chance to buy their copies. She's been doing everything for free until now so I'm hoping everything is very successful with this first volume.

I have three bookstore benefits versions still coming and a couple books I'm going to put up on Mercari here in the US. If anyone is interested I can give a shout when I list those in like 10 days-ish. I closed my Buyee box so no more than that coming. Hopefully Kinokuniya in the US stocks them soon too. I want it to do really well.

So nice!!! And glad to know all that <3 Here in the end got the one with manga + 4 magazines. It's already purchased so now to wait, the time already is a 4-7 days to send so I dont have a rush; plus I can't really can ask to send it here until past first week of May because I will not be able to take the delivery~ But the important thing is already done ~

I was looking at the replies to one of the author posts and seeing this: https://twitter.com/si9Psydu9/status/1648712055887904769

Then Koga is the younger one, that is cute~

Oh snap. I hope I didn't tip someone else off here. (looks around) It literally was just there. I had the diner postcard swiped out from under me. They even billed me and had to refund. There is a slight pause between Buyee clearing your money and actually making the purchase for you.

Try to get one or two, but don't let it stress you out if that's all you get. These are hard to nab even domestically. And from my experience yuri extras like this usually stay expensive so even one at or near retail is a win.

Hahaha maybe is someone watching ha! but is all okey, I sure they are happy ~ And oki doki too all, plus I made a preorder so the manga itself is already purchased, so it's better if I search the magazines (really difficult but I can try).

Edit: I shall break the F5 these days(?

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The top bar on Buyee it should say...
Yahoo! JAPAN Auction | Yahoo! JAPAN Shopping | Mercari | Rakuten ... etc.

Just have Mercari selected and then do your search as normal. It lets you select what shop to focus your search from. Maybe this direct will work for you? https://buyee.jp/mercari/item/m12210624648?conversionType=buyee_top_browsing_history

Yes! Ty you so so much!!!

Edit: aaaah didn't make it on time hahaha I will keep searching now how you told me, ty!
Edit: I will keep searching these days, now is one full at 15,555 yen, that one yes is too much for me, but will try to find the magazines mostly

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I see a 7,999 yen listing on Mercari/Buyee for 1 manga + the 3 non-Autumn booklets. A little spendy, but it'd solve your problem all in one go. I think I'm done myself. I was just lucky to already have a Buyee box open for something else when this dropped or I wouldn't have done as much as I did.

Oh! I can't find it, and Im new to Buyee too. How can I search for it? I always used the " Yahoo! Buy" because I searched for offical pages and so

Here is a picture of all of them together: https://twitter.com/chopsticks_sp85/status/1648268673902346241?s=20

I have Winter and Summer along with the movie theater postcard ordered. But it's starting to dry up out there and 99% of the time they are listed with books. Try Mercari in Japan (via Buyee if you aren't local) and you can still find some with booklets for inflated prices.

Eventually I'll put a few of my extra books on Mercari US. I don't need all of these dupes. Get some circulating here. Heh.

I used Buyee to ask for one, but given the price is a "only" manga, I will use buyee again for the autumn one, but winter is without stock (plus is with manga) and the others two (spring and summer) only could find them with the manga

Will keep searching after dinner

Edit: ufff is true.... in Buyee the prices are already insane....will try the official pages, but wow. At least could order for the autumn one from a offcial page

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I was looking in the author Tw post and rt; and tho there are specific illustrations; there is too 4 limited magazines (autumn, spring, summer and winter), each one with 8 pages telling a short story, and each one different from another~

(Correct me if Im wrong tho)

Edit: OMG I tried to see if I could buy one and is already without stock! (winter magazine + manga)
Edit 2: In Toranoana, they have the autumn maganize to sell individualy

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I just receive the manga. Sumiko-sensei did a wonderful job! Color pages at the beginning, a long additional chapter at the end, and bonuses (and three different bonuses depending on where you buy it).

Oh! if is not problem, could u tell about the bonus if they are images or mini stories? No need to tell what it's if u don't want, I respect the people don't want to show it since it just came up for sale~ It's curiosity, if it adds some info that is good to know (tho surely not, so it's fair for all ~ )

"The official playlist of the manga released today....now available https://umj.lnk.to/TheGuySheWasTP
The song that Mitsuki and Aya are listening to is selected by the author Sumiko Arai."
https://twitter.com/UNIVERSAL_INTER/status/1648523163238809606

Honestly never put much attetion to rock or search for it, but woah, really like the playlist, so good! <3

No matter how many times I read it (and I lost count hahaha); I keep wondering, if Aya is acting like this, having gay panics just from seeing Koga (like ch 40, at the start with that little panic), what will be of her when she figures out her feelings; the more deep ones hahaha

Buyee is a proxy service in Japan that will handle the domestic ordering > international shipping of items (usually auction sites etc but other sites too) and I did a search for the book there with Yahoo Japan selected (search for 気になってる人が男じゃなかった) and it came up. I have a feeling they ship to more countries than an individual store would, but you'll have to double check your specific situation. If you're confused on how Buyee works you can look on youtube for tutorial videos from anime fans showing them shop on it. Hope that helps.

And while there has been no English publisher announced, it seems like she's done a lot of work editing and cleaning up pages so it should be a way smoother process for her any a future publisher since that step from web comic to print is already done.

Thank you!! Will check all those things and see if I can apply them to my case then. Again ty!!

Hi, sorry for asking here but for those who Amazon doesnt deliver the manga in their regions, know another method? I wanted to support the author so I checked all the links in their Tw (tried to understand japanese the best I could hahaha) but I can't find another way.

And that said, could be someone had a discord server for this manga? maybe is better if I ask there.

Tha's all! Ty and sorry for the questions. Good day!

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That makes me think… Will the story continue after the physical release in April? If not, we only have 8 chapters left for Aya to realise it and tell Mitsuki. That’s just 32 pages and imo it’s a bit too early (??)
Anyways, as long as the author ends the story in a nice way I won’t complain about the pacing.

this was something I thread about after hearing the publication announcement. it's a great thing for the author so we might as well enjoy the ride for the next 2 months.

Same with you both with the thinking of enjoy it whatever it will over after that or not. Just that I think it could be too, just a "Part 1" of their story, but we dont know the terms the author did with the publisher, some mangas are some "small" than others. And even writing this comment I didn't check if the name in the sites of sale have some description of this.
Could be like happened in Tw, that the part 1 (and this publication) is going to involve until they become friends.
So~ 20 chapters lets say (not counting extras and less just in case I forgot something), 40 pages? plus some extras~
Sorry if I did some horrible calculation hahaha writing this kinda fast hahaha

Nice! Glad it's a continuation of previous one, plus now it's official that Koga has her bedroom in top of the CD store; one that.....is not soundproof it seems hahaha tho they were being loud hahaha
Now Im curious (tho not important) how is that place constructed, but given Aya reaction, it's in a way that doesn't resemble like you're "passing" from a store to a "house", that or Aya was just to angry to care hahaha

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I would have liked to know what color is that tulip hahaha but even so, it's not less than a rose; I'm not a expert but pretty much I think it's like a symbol of true love/devotion/happiness/loyalty~