Yeah I found the ending pretty beautiful, but the comments were stuff like "I hate Koyuki or I hate Konatsu! and this whole arc was awful and they even said they hate the author too! I can feel they weren't happy at all to read this chapter, they just were "about time!!" that kind of desperate people really piss me off, and I'm in a good mood now, I don't need that vibe!

Of course, saying that this took too long to concluded is valid criticism (it feels longer because of the schedule) but there's never need to hate o.O and those comments are just a waste of time if they'll come back next chapter anyway.

You ain't seen inane complaining until you've read the post on /u/ blasting the author for drawing too many pages and selfishly taking space away from other authors in the magazine.

I've always felt like an aquarium date should be a no-brainer for this series. Maybe they can have one once they're both in Tokyo.

Heck, for Koyuki at least it wouldn't be out of place to work at an aquarium in Tokyo during/after university.

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I'm not well-versed in what kinds of behavior can be construed as autism, but she definitely fails to pick up on cues and can tend to get single-mindedly fixated on some things. I've always simply ascribed it to her upbringing though, she was the honor student with no friends and a lot of pressure so it's no wonder she's bad with others. In this chapter she managed to recognize her selfishness towards Konatsu as born from her lack of empathy, whereas Konatsu recognized her own selfishness as being more malicious and caused by not wanting to let Koyuki stop having to depend on her. So in that regard I can see Koyuki's issues as being more deep-rooted and less voluntary than Konatsu's.

I understand their frustration but I feel it was mostly due to misplaced expectations, all the angst that happened was not for the sake of having angst and was completely necessary for the development of the story and characters in a way that parallels The Salamander and deals with loneliness and stubbornness like that.

I can't believe George will eat them in a terrible training accident.

I want to point out this nice parallel (in case the bottom panel on the first page didn't ring a bell):
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/nettaigyo_wa_yuki_ni_kogareru_ch26#41
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/nettaigyo_wa_yuki_ni_kogareru_ch12#47

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By the way, the story has finally moved on past the Salamander short story, which ended with the salamander and the frog still unable to admit their loneliness to each other. Uncharted waters ahead.

That's why the author didn't mess up any existing term but created her own in 'girlship'.

Man, the author poured every ounce of her soul into this one. It just kept going with highly detailed "underwater" sequences and page spreads.

@shojie07 I think the conflict from now on will be mostly external rather than internal. Koyuki and Konatsu will have to struggle with having to be apart once Koyuki graduates, there's already a hint at the end of this chapter with Konatsu looking unhappy before making her joke.

The narrator of the first chapter of volume 4 is neither Adachi nor Shimamura, it was a random schoolmate of Adachi's during middle school.

I think the only thing she does is making sure that every batch of four chapters that will make a volume will come up to around the usual ~180 pages.

It's 58 pages. The chapter cut in half would've been over 70 and the magazine couldn't spare the space in a single issue.

It's the longest chapter in the series yet, so I'll cut them some slack.

You're comparing adventure series to a slice of life, but yeah, I don't think anyone will debate you on the pacing being slow.

I would've likely grown very impatient had I been following the series since it started in 2012, but reading the translations at such a good pace since mid last year I've had no issues with the slow development, I think there's been meaning in every chapter so far and some of the slowness is felt due to the medium itself, as a novel takes time to read and can afford to spend a lot of words on describing actions and feelings. Look at Adachi and Shimamura's manga adaptations and their pacing is inevitably a lot faster, though I'd say they lose a lot in the transition between media.

There's not really a decent stopping point for a one-cour show anyway. This latest translated chapter was the first major turning point of their relationship and it wouldn't fit in one cour unless they skipped around a lot, and it would still need some aftermath to be satisfying.

If it's just one cour, it'll end up being like Bloom Into You, where they unfortunately build up to the stage show but fail to get to it.

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That's not a portrayal of multiple personalities. It was just her frustration built up over a year (and over her whole life with stuff like feeling her mother hates her) coming to a boiling point.

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I wonder if it'll be that quick. I'm sure Shimamura will be spurred to think long and hard about Adachi's words, but acting on them to accept Adachi won't be easy for her since it would require her to stop living life the way she does, keeping safe distance from others. And that is, even if Shimamura chooses not to interpret Adachi's confession as romantic, which is another can of worms she'd have to deal with otherwise.

Well, that chapter killed any discussion of the rest of this volume, I see...

While we're at it, are the other blue-haired girl and the kid in the hat during the what-if kindergarten chapter supposed to be characters from Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko? I know Yashiro apparently is in it, but I'm not any more familiar with it or with the author's other works otherwise.

Me after seeing 4 chapter updated: Aw yiss, more Adachi and Shimamura !

Also me after reading some comment here: ...You almost got me with your cliffhanger hell. I think I will wait

sneikkimies is the best villain of 2020 and we're barely a month in.

There are no therapists in Japanese fiction. The best one you could expect here is unironically that quack fortune-teller.

I couldn't help being reminded of Hatoko's legendary outburst from Inou Battle.

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I've seen a page from the next chapter in the author's livestream a couple weeks ago. They do talk, or at least begin to. Here's hoping Konatsu stays and listens.

First time posting here just to say that this is the second "yuri" manga I read I'm loving it.
The first one was Citrus and I beginning to think that I'm cursed with all the angst and the main character being "useless lesbians" xD

Anyway the last chapter was really promising and I hope that they finally confess their feelings.

Btw I'm not a native speaker so forgive me if what I wrote seems weird xd

Hi! Go read Kase-san if you want something free of angst.

At the moment the one that shows the most signs of romantic feelings such as jealousy, envy, guilt, their first special encounter, anxiety, their special bonds with them, depression, egoism, is konatsu.
For koyuki she simply ignored her own feelings, too busy opening up to others, but seems to want to fix everything and really care about konatsu other than thinking. Because at first in the history ,koyuki seemed to be the one who was more attracted to her.

Then again, what's happening right now is consistent to what happened very early on with Konatsu hoping Koyuki also thought of their first meeting as special and being disappointed that Koyuki didn't have a deep reason for coming to talk to her in the first chapter. Back then Koyuki already had no clue that Konatsu wanted to hear a different answer because she wasn't concerned with her feelings, and it's telling that in this chapter she thinks back to their first meeting as well when realizing how much their time together means to her. I wouldn't be surprised if the matter came up during their upcoming talk.