I wish the first chapter had shown the rest of the cancer flashback, particularly whether the cancer is terminal(I assume it is)

They don't give the tumor's full specs in the story, but GI carcinoma is always bad. As in, there's generally mild cancer (basal cell, most thyroid types, GIST), there's the concerning types (most breast types, Hodgkin lymphoma), and then there's the real motherf***ers (lung, stomach adeno, most sarcomas).

Bowel carcinoma sits somewhere between concerning and really bad. But it won't necessarily kill her in six months.

Good point. I hope we'll learn a little more about the cancer in the next few chapters.

I wish the first chapter had shown the rest of the cancer flashback, particularly whether the cancer is terminal(I assume it is) and fully explained why he'd decided to transition. Usually, first chapters do a better job of establishing the premise rather than leaving off on a cliffhanger.

Does the story ever go into detail about how Kikuri and Seika know each other? I know Kikuri calls Seika "Senpai," but I'm not sure how Seika is Kikuri's senpai.

I don't see any realistic chance of Nene and Sumika ending up together after everything that happened, unfortunately. It's to be expected that Kanoko will start to have feelings for her at some point during their fake relationship, although her current self is far from deserving someone like Sumika.

My response:
I've felt it for a bit and especially after this chapter.
It's possible someone is trying to rekindle Sumika and Nene's relationship through Kanoko. Nene is basically being made to go through the same thing she put Sumika through. It's possible this parallel is intentionally meant to force Nene's hand in the same way Nene thought her trist with Youko would force Sumika's hand in the past.

I never thought about that. I’m hoping that’s true though, I dread having Sumika get burned a second time when she’s one of the best characters. It’s only slightly better and will still probably end up messy, since Kanoko doesn’t genuinly seem to care about how Sumika feels and is just doing whatever this mystery person wants, but at least the aim would be to help her this time instead of just making her jealous and forcing her feelings out. I initially thought it’s youko trying to pull the same thing again and it does seem like the stories bringing her back to stir things up again. But it could be the manager since she seemed to want them to talk in the last chapter and the mystery person wanted Kanoko to make Sumika happy somehow

That's certainly possible, but at the same time, Kanoko receiving Yoko's "LIME ID" was presented as a bit of a Chekhov's Gun. Again, it's possible that since Kanoko doesn't think Yoko's as bad as Sumika said she was, she trusts her more than she should and ended up being manipulated. As for Mai, it's possible that Kanoko has her number, but I wonder if the story would conceal her identity for this long if she was the one behind this.

Could someone please explain the relationship between being called a "good girl" and coming? Does it have something to do with the source material?

One interesting thing I noticed in the localized Volume 10 is that unlike the scanlations, in which Nene sounds as though she wants to cut ties with Yoko, in the localization, Nene wants to figure out why Yoko cut ties with her. The localization's version makes more sense and explains why Nene fell prey toko's manipulations

Chapter 52 has been scanlated. For now, the status quo seems to be holding, if barely, but Kanoko still isn't happy with how things are. I'm personally curious what's going to happen next, although I suspect that Kanoko will be forced to come to terms with her unrequited love for Hime and jealousy of Mitsuki before she and Sumika truly become a couple.

It would be a shame if the anime were never continued, since I'm sure the rest of the series could be covered in a 1cour anime season. Still, there are a lot of anime adaptations of manga and light novel series that only adapt a small portion of the work.

I'm a bit surprised to hear that Takahito (Nagisa's father) is Yui(Ai's sister)'s second husband; previously, I thought only Takahito was on his second marriage. Does this perhaps mean that the brother Nagisa mentioned is Yui's son from her first marriage?

The part at the end is a bit surprising, and I wonder if we're entering the final act of the series.

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The localization of Volume 10 recently came out. For those who are interested, the localizers use the term "lesbian," as well as "gay" once when Nene asks Sumika why she's hostile toward Yoko. On the other hand, in Chapter 50, Hime says to Kanoko, "If you have been avoiding Yano because she developed a crush on someone of the same sex."

I was skimming through Volume 10 and this part of Chapter 51 caught my attention, when Kanoko asks Sumika to start dating:

Fan translation: "Please go out with me. Please become my lover, and end your hate for romance."

Official: "Please go out with me. Please be my girlfriend... So I can stop hating romance."

I noticed that, too. That seems to be another pronoun-based mistranslation, like when, in Volume 9, Kanoko claimed that Sumika wanted Hime to quit in the localization, when in the fan translation, she was talking about how Sumika was no longer trying to get Kanoko to give up on her crush.

The localization of Volume 10 recently came out. For those who are interested, the localizers use the term "lesbian," as well as "gay" once when Nene asks Sumika why she's hostile toward Yoko. On the other hand, in Chapter 50, Hime says to Kanoko, "If you have been avoiding Yano because she developed a crush on someone of the same sex."

Bro what the fuck is wrong with Kanoko ? Like, I thought she was going to finally become likeable and she goes and does this shit. Holy hell,at this point I expect soap opera levels of villainy from her.

That aside,do we have any idea how old is Sumika ? She dresses like a high schooler,yet given how long she has been working at the cafe plus the fact that she seems to have a semi-managerial position seems to imply she is around her early 20s

As far as I know, Sumika was a high schooler at the time of Liebe's founding, so she was 15-16 at the time and is 17-18 now. Nene's 20, Mai's probably in her 20s, and Yoko's most likely at least 21.

I personally think it's still too early to judge Kanoko. Without spoiling anything, we don't know who the phone caller is, their motives for reaching out to Kanoko, or why Kanoko's going along with it.

I'm curious about why Miko is living with her aunt, since it's implied her parents are still around, but I guess that question will never be answered.

Home sweet home, Alabama.

Alabama doesn't have a monopoly on incest. House of the Dragon features an uncle-niece marriage and even a marriage between two full-blood siblings. Cersei wasn't exaggerating when she mentioned that the Targaryens wed brother to sister to keep the bloodlines pure after Ned confronted her about her relationship with her twin brother Jaime.

While interesting, I don’t think our protagonist is particularly bright given her supposed age. For one it would be REALLY easy to determine which day was chosen. She just needs to keep a journal and mark down a number for each day. Which ever number is kept when the next day comes around is the day that was chosen.

Also, it would be actually pretty easy to prove what’s happening with the help of 1 other person. This person wouldn’t even have to know about her condition. Simply ask them to generate an word file with a ton of randomized words. The next day after the word file is generated she’ll ask to be told a specific number word in the sequence. Whenever a day is chosen she can reiterate all the words she learned from the days that weren’t chosen, proving she has information she couldn’t have.

the first idea is good, i think, but as for the second, how would anyone but her know what the correct strings of words from non-chosen days were in order to check?

The person who generated the list would know. They would generate the list a day before beginning the experiment so that it would remain fixed.

The first one sounds like a possibly good idea, but as for the second one, I'm curious as to how Ayaka would convince someone to accept her rather odd request without explaining her condition. Considering what happened when she tried explaining it to her mother, and that she doesn't have anyone who trusts her implicitly enough to listen to such a request, I'm not surprised that she gave up on the idea of people believing her. As such, I think judging her as not "particularly bright" based on this oversight is a bit harsh.

Personally, it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine when viewers of fictional media who are able to watch the story dispassionately, with the benefit of time to digest what they've seen and knowledge of the consequences of characters' choices, second-guess decisions made by characters in the story, who may not know as much as the viewers do and/or may have emotional baggage that affects their decisions. It's personally more than a little odd that viewers who take all that effort to think of the things a character should have done seldom take the time or effort to see things from the character's perspective.

Incidentally, I have to wonder if fiction like Groundhog Day exists in this series' universe. For all Ayaka knows, not only are there no other people like her, but no one has even imagined the concept of a person who relives each day multiple times.

Sorry if this sounds like a rant; as I said, this is a pet peeve of mine.

This is an interesting premise, but the manga is definitely heavy on the internal monologues, so you can tell that it's a light novel adaptation that lifts a lot of the text from the manga(although I'm sure a fair amount of the first person narration got cut out). It reminds me a little of Adachi and Shimamura in how it has a highly introspective and relatively unemotional main character who does a lot of thinking.

They were very sweet - but suggesting living together the next pannel after confessing lol. Thats too fast even for yuri!
Strange how most yuri is too fast or way too slow.

While I concede that many of the stories on this site have pacing issues, I think that it's partly due to how a lot of it is one-shots or short series that need resolution of some sort within a short time frame. There's also Sturgeon's Law, which definitely applies considering the broad variety of creators here, from amateurs to serialized professionals.

I'm afraid to ask, but did I miss something somewhere about where this ends? I thought it was over, and since then there have been like four chapters or so and none of them feel like "And this is a bit from after the end of the story, that wraps up some side thread or puts another ribbon on the main couple's relationship" it's just . . . more nice chapters of Miss Sunflower, going nowhere in particular as usual, with the typical tiny hint of something that might look like progress if you squint.

So did the series reboot or something? Or if not, how many more of these will there be--I need to prepare my heart.

These are "extra" chapters. While they're listed as Chapter 101-104, if you look on the first or second page, you'll see Extra #1-4. I don't know how many there are, but I think there will probably be about five to eight total, since this is the final volume.

does any one know how many more chapters to come ?

Little did they know in 2013...

Interestingly enough, because their comment is near the bottom of the first page, I see it almost every time I visit the forum.

It's nice to see Mitsuki taking the initiative to reach out to Aya. Of course, I suspect that the ensuing conversation in which they make up* will probably be long enough that it takes at least two chapters.

*Of course, I wonder if "make up" is the right word, since they were merely acquaintances who met up by chance at a place Aya happened to frequent. As such, this is part of the reason why I'm relatively sympathetic to Mitsuki for not realizing how emotionally invested Aya was in their relationship.

I'm more interested in ever than hearing about the cause of Aizawa's death after seeing the article that mentions that her family didn't want the cause of death publicized. It's understandable that they'd value their privacy, but I suspect they noto only know how she died, but have some reason for not wanting it publicized.

Hmm, not to start a yuri-or-not-yuri discussion, but to me this looks much more like her adopting the cactus girl as a mother/older sister than anything romantic. And tbh, with how childish the girl looks I am more comfortable with that anyway

Technically, the girl is supposed to be a working adult, even if she doesn't look the part.

I agree that the cactus is more of an adopted little sister/daughter, especially since she calls the protagonist "Onee-chan."

I would have liked to see more. It's a decent start to a series, but there isn't enough closure for it to work well as a one-shot.

Yea if they pull some nonsense again after doing it in the previous chapter imma get abit annoyed.

I'm personally rather disappointed with this chapter. I was hoping that Nagisa would make a confession at the end of the chapter, ending on a cliffhanger but making it unambiguously clear he'd taken the plunge, but no such luck.

It's a bit disappointing that the update isn't a chapter, but it's nice to see another flash-forward page. I'd be interested in a sequel series that shows them as adults.

Mitsuki and Aya look great in overalls.

I predict that Mitsuki and Jerkface will be doing committee work alone since Aya won’t be helping out anymore. Jerkface will ask why doesn’t she just tell Aya who she really is and we get a trauma backstory on Mitsuki’s insecurity of why she doesn’t feel like she can stand next to/confront Aya.

Bonus prediction: Mitsuki’s insecurities maybe come from the “childhood friend” we have yet to see, but that’s just my stab in the dark shrug

Isn't helping out at the festival mandatory? That would explain why Jerkface chose a role that would let him go home early, but it should also imply that Aya can't just quit.

While Mitsuki will have to take the initiative, Aya will also have to come to terms with learning about Mitsuki's gender so she can talk about her feelings in a way that will resolve the problem. In short, both of them will have to work through their feelings first, so it's unfortunate that Aya not only can't bring herself to talk to Mitsuki, but is avoiding her.

On a non-spoiler note, I wonder how far ahead the manga is, since Volme 11 getting an English release date presumably implies that it's out in Japanese, and most mangas have at least one to two volumes worth of material ahead of the tankobon releases. For this reason, I'm also grateful to the scanlators, although I plan on buying Volume 10 in English at the end of November. It's worth it to support the creator, see a professional translation and have an ad-free experience.

Volume 11 hasn't come out in Japan yet, but Chapter 56 (the last one to be part of that volume) was released a week ago.

Thanks for the information. Now that I think about it, since Amazon doesn't have a cover for Volume 11, and the description includes the generic summary of the series, the Japanese volume hasn't necessarily come out yet. In fact, the June release date is probably tentative, and it could very well be pushed back.

Chapter 51:
I was personally expecting Kanoko to have a complete emotional meltdown this chapter. She's lost her main source of support now that Sumika refuses to talk about Hime, and her jealousy of Mitski is getting worse, since she ends Chapter 50 begging for someone to help her. It would have been quite the note to end Volume 10 on, just like how 1 ends with Mitsuki revealing her identity, 6 ends with Hime resigning and 7 ends with Hime and Mitsuki in tears.

I mean, that's kinda how last chapter ended, with Kanoko having an emotional breakdown. Either way, I'm sure we're going to get a flashback in Volume 11 (which, by the way, has an estimated English release date of mid-June, so I'm more grateful than ever to the person who decided to start scanlating this series), explaining what happened between chapters 50 and 51, where we will see Kanoko's desperate state. I personally like how the latter subverted our expectations.

What I meant was something even more severe than Kanoko slapping Mitsuki in Volume 7, something that could get her suspended/fired from Liebe and/or strain her friendship with Hime. Then again, perhaps this was too dramatic of a result, not to mention that I don't know what would be bad enough for the former outcome(Yoko was never fired, even if Mai no longer trusts her).

It's certainly possible that a flashback to earlier in the story will happen. It happened before, when the story flashed back to when Miitsuki first learned that Mai's arm had healed in the spring.

On a non-spoiler note, I wonder how far ahead the manga is, since Volme 11 getting an English release date presumably implies that it's out in Japanese, and most mangas have at least one to two volumes worth of material ahead of the tankobon releases. For this reason, I'm also grateful to the scanlators, although I plan on buying Volume 10 in English at the end of November. It's worth it to support the creator, see a professional translation and have an ad-free experience.

It's a decent one-shot, but there are a lot of things that could have been elaborated on if this were a series, such as Takamine's injury. There's also plenty of room for the couple to grow, and it would have been great if they had enough time for a slow-burn romance.