Let's come back to Citrus indeed. Crunchyroll picked it worldwide. And the next Yuri Hime magazine, released sunday will give some more news about the anime since there isn't any chapter this month.

The chapter is on hiatus this month (Yuri Hime February issue released the 18th of December) because Saburouta asked to report the publication to next month, in the March issue of Yuri Hime that will be released the 18 th of January. We don't know why, some people could assume she has some health issues or maybe she wants time to adjust the plot because she's not satisfied with what she intended to draw at first.

Well, we can imagine that Himeko had some doubts, since the chapter where she tried to stop Yuzu being invested in Mei, but Himeko had the confirmation in the previous chapter, including the fact that Mei reciprocated Yuzu's feelings. Matsuri told everything, the ring, the romance. So she knows the extent of their relationship now.

Ah ah, yes, if we should count all readers that bought some volume after discovering the serie thanks to Chaosteam, that would be a good number. Same for me.

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It is. Volume 2 extra : https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/citrus_vol_2_special#8

A scar that Saburouta forgot to draw in the bath scene of the volume 32 and that another mangaka remembers. Too bad the official author never mentioned it again.

You have a point too and your post is very interesting to read. That's why i really hope the author will make up for that. Were there pressures from the editors to add exagerated drama that she didn't plan in this way ? We'll never know.

I particularly agree with you on one point : all Mei's progression is clouded and wasted because of that. And yes, now, when we read all the previous chapters, including volume 4, all Mei's actions are marked by doubt and lies. Everything is under suspicion now, including the chapters where she did show progress. Was she aware that she was engaged when she tried to make Yuzu jealous by using Sara's crush ? Man, i hope not because what a disappointment.

I wonder if it is what the author really wanted. Because, you are right, Mei sunk in many readers esteem, after 10 good chapters. How can Saburouta screw one of her MC like that ? I hope it is for the best.

And yes, i really loved the times when this romance was blossoming at a very realistic and serene pace. I miss volume 6 and 7. And the first two chapters of volume 8.

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@ Klice. Yeah, Cannibal answered to a post written by Shawn just before, hence the numbers for each arguments. And i also was answering to Shawn about Yuzu's lack of seriousness.

Sadly, it seems he/she deleted his post.

Edit : Yes, Yuzu is best girl. An incredible and admirable character. If someone defends Mei, and there are arguments too, trying to critizise Yuzu to put Mei in a better light is not the good thing to do.

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Valid arguments from everyone in the last posts.

Cannibal, i totally agree with you concerning Yuzu. All Mei's defense arguments shouldn't involve Yuzu's responsability. She is beyond reproach here. She did everything to make things work and was let in the mist by everyone except Harumi and Matsuri who warned her in volume 6. All we can say is she was too naive, but in my book, it is not a fault. So yeah, let's remember that Mei is at fault here. Her degree of responsability is uncertain but Yuzu doesn't deserve to be under critics for people who want absolutely clear Mei's mistakes. She fixed things so many times (saving Mei's grandfather, reparing Mei and Shou's father-daughter relationship, giving Shiraho and Nene real friendship, forgiving Matsuri's malicious actions in arc 3, helping Sara even though it was hurting her, helping Harumi in arc 5...).

And Shawn, i strongly disagree with you about Yuzu being not as serious as she is. Really ? Rings, notebook, commiting to Mei forever (library speech), picturing her as Mei's wife in chapter 11 (pages 23-24) and so on. You cannot say that because you want to lessen Mei's faults here. I may add that in the last arc, Yuzu did understand Mei's timidity and difficulty to voice out her feelings. She clearly saw through Mei's lies when she joked about sharing a bed. So no Yuzu's fault here. And Yuzu's persistence almost succeed to force Mei to confess... it was just bad timing with Matsuri discovering the truth at the same time. And you have the end of the chapter where Yuzu is sorry (really, the poor girl feels she need to say sorry whereas she doesn't know the truth) and soothes Mei stating that she will wait. I would really love to have a such "no serious" girlfriend. Really.

I'll give you that, the actual arc needs to force Mei to really progress and stand up for Yuzu against traditions. I hope the author will not milk the drama too much around this fiance plot. As i said, it was expected (from my point of view), but the author needs to deliver good writing and not screw Mei's characters if she become once again the empty shell she was in the volume 1.

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I hope too this arc will be resolved as quickly as it came. I would have loved more hints too. The lack of Mei's POV weakens the storyline here. But we are like Yuzu here, it is too abrupt for us because the manga is from Yuzu's POV, who was totally ignorant of this particular outcome.
We have to hope the Saburouta knows how to wrap things without screwing Mei's character. That 's why i hope she doesn't know she's engaged for the moment...

Edit : concerning the lack of more hints, that i regret too, maybe a key is in Himeko's speech. She stated that Matsuri and Yuzu cannot imagine how this tradition of arranged marriages is a common procedure. She also told Matsuri that it wasn't her business (so nobody really wanted to explain that to Yuzu). If someone so observant than Matsuri didn't see it coming, it shows how Yuzu's world and the other girls one are on total opposite sides. In the volume 8 extra, Ume mention too the fact that she doesn't know the "society's standar of importance".

In fact, it saddened me also because Yuzu was perceived as a real black sheep from the start in this Academy and was deprived of the right to have a better insight on the toxic traditions that occur here. Everybody knew, even had a fiance like Shiraho and Himeko but nobody told Yuzu. Only Harumi warned her.

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@ Klice : Yes, i read you former posts and you remind very well that this arranged marriage plot doesn't come out the blue. It was foreshadowed since chapter 1 and i may add, in volume 5 (Yuzu says she has to treasure her time with Mei because Mei could chose to leave her) and volume 6 when Mei, in the library, clearly talks about more hardships in the future to come for them and has a very sad expression when Yuzu askes her if she can be by her side forever, love her and date her forever.

In fact, readers can think that the fiance trope is boring and unoriginal (and very stressful for my poor heart) but they can't say it is unexpected, or they didn't read all the chapters neither take into account the social background/country of the characters.

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I would say that Mei is aware that she's supposed to have a suitor like Himeko and Shiraho. But she doesn't know she has a fiance yet. The call the manager received implies that her grandfather or the real head of the Aihara family made a move. He could be the candidate and finally accepts.
Mei's distraught comes from Himeko's situation. It reminded her that she lied to Yuzu on her future. But i really don't see where people assume she knows she has an actual fiance. It is more the prospect of it. Because she knows her grandfather would not wait. She will probably spill the beans in next chapter. If she's already engaged, that would be a disgrace for her character. That's why i think she's more nervous because she didn't explain to Yuzu all the consequences of her decision to rule the school.

Himeko explains that very well. All rich girls who attend the Academy are supposed to have arranged mariages, that's the tradition as she said. Mei is fated to follow it if she wants to be the next headmistress of the school where the most powerful and prestigious families put their daughters.

My theory here that could bomb in next chapter is that Mei probably postponed meetings with different candidates until this chapter where, apparently, someone has been selected (the manager) and accepted. She trapped herself by sparing Yuzu and at the same time her grandfather (and those who decide in her family since her father lost this privilege). She was weak, not malicious or malignant.

Edit : @Klice : i read your edit. Some anon on /u translated the sentence that the Grandfather told. The official translation tells that she can do what she wants to do (implying forever).

Here what the anon told : "In Japanese it's clear the grandfather was not talking about forever, just for a while (しばらくの間)" So the "for a while" ended with the prospect of Mei having 17. I may add that the Aihara family, as the grandfather sees it, is very old-fashioned in a very traditional background in Japan. Having the future head of a school, where girls from the most prestigious families go, being lesbian and dating her stepsister cannot be accepted. So Mei will have to make a choice. Until now, she tried to have a foot in both camps. Once again, not out of malice.

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Absolutely. And concerning Saburouta, let's remind us that she had the volume extra (10 pages to draw), all the bonus content (color cards ...) exclusive to some shops (ComicZin, Gamers...), the extra leaflet offered with Toranoana (another 4 pages to do) and last, but not least, all the corrections she had to do for the volume 8. All the chapter 29 (adding layers of shades on the hair and the background for more than 30 pages) and many corrections in the other three chapters.

So yeah, it was almost expected she would not polish a chapter that usually she doesn't publish when a volume is released.

Volume 7 was delayed for one month probably because of scheduling problems. She could not delay this time because a sign event meeting with the fans was scheduled the 21th of october.

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Yuzu has natural black hair. When her father died, she tried to lighten them and add blonde color like we see in the extra to cheer her mother. After that, she dyed her hair in blonde to keep a connection with her father and to honor his memory as it is said in chapter 17. Her father was blonde as Ume said in the same chapter.

Like NTR, the anime will not adapt the 8 volumes. 12 episodes make it impossible. The manga will continue after the anime that serves as promotion material. NTR is still published even though the anime ended.

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The author already stated that Mei and Yuzu will have a happy future and a happy ending (see all the author’s words at the end of volumes 5,6,7) so no death for Mei but a health problem serving a plot device drama is possible. Yuzu lost her father maybe cause of illness (cancer ?) so i would not be surprised that one of the girl could be ill. But that is probably for another arc.

Yes but she never told it to the main person concerned : Yuzu. It need to properly be done before being more intimate.

Also expect chapters 19 and 20 in the near future.
We have 2 new translators now,one of them is taking care of the citrus missing chapters and extras.

What a great news, for the missing chapters and for the group.