This might be one of the most exhaustive attempts at "I don't want to see trans people in media but still want to appear progressive" I've seen. The idea that anyone has ever been pressured into being trans is pure TERF fantasy.

This seems like a gross misrepresentation of the entire conversation here. Quite the opposite, more representation for any minorities, including trans, can only be a good thing. Even if experience shows that especially with manga it's always smarter to expect more traditional characters and be pleasantly surprised when they turn out to be different, rather than expect a character to be trans, ace, aro, etc. and be disappointed when this turns out to be not the case. But in this particular case, people in the story have specifically caused this girl a lot of pain exactly because they have questioned her identity mostly based on her more androgynous looks. If I may have come across as accusing the commenters of the manga of doing the same, I apologize, my point was only that the events of this chapter may have made some of them feel like they've been doing the same as the people in the story.

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An unexpectedly lovely chapter. ^_^

Good job, Fuji!

Very nice!

Utena is in danger. :D

Very nice. ^_^

Cute.

Lovely. ^_^

Interesting. :D

Nice. :D

Good. :D

Nice. :D

Cute.

Cute.

Beautiful.

Nice!

Especially with a scene like this this, come on. Those characters aren't "pushing her to be trans", they're treating her as an other for not living up to womanhood, which nobody here did when they implied to share a similar struggle with her and relate as a trans person.

That scene, less so. Some of the quotes here, though...

It's still raining.

What a way to provide more magic. Looking forward to them needing to use even more then. :P

Past trauma, and the girl who helped her overcome it. ^_^

And what a way to make half the people here feel bad, seeing how people pushing the idea that she might be trans, whichever way, was exactly the problem here...

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There's our unintentionally smooth Hana. ^_^

And Kamu has a sixth sense for sweets, obviously.

Bath bombs it is, then. :D

Excellent! :D

"We're going home to fuck!" How refreshingly frank. :D

Lovely. ^_^

Feels like they're already broken up, based on that discussion. She doesn't even call him her BF anymore and the friends were setting up a meeting to get them back together. Seems like he got the (silent) boot after their last issue.

That was an interesting bit, yeah... Felt like we were missing a part of the story there, but if they're really no longer together, that can only be a good thing, of course.

Lovely. ^_^

And then that extra page. :D