I'm so over the main gimmick but i adore boob-girl's blushes and squiggle mouth reactions. I'm in it mainly for that.

And I guess you read Playboy for the articles, hm?

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Does that joke even work anymore? I mean, nowadays, internet porn is easy and ubiquitous, so if anybody reads Playboy, yeah, it probably would HAVE to be for the articles. ;p

Well, once upon a time, there were great articles and interviews in Playboy. Also short stories & comics by really good authors. Perhaps that's still true for the magazine today? I have no idea...

But, as for the naughty stuff, this is what wiki has to say:

In October 2015, Playboy announced that starting with their March 2016 issue, the magazine would no longer feature full frontal nudity. Playboy CEO Scott Flanders acknowledged the magazine's inability to compete with freely available Internet pornography and nudity.

However, Playboy announced in February 2017 that the dropping of nudity had been a mistake, and furthermore for its March/April issue reestablished some of its franchises. Also, in the July/August 2018 issue a reader asked if the print magazine would discontinue, and Playboy responded that it was not going anywhere.

So it would seem that, yeah, the naughty pics are an important sales point for the magazine. Even in Internet times. Go figure. 乁( ⁰͡ Ĺ̯ ⁰͡ ) ㄏ

Dialogues are bad. Like, godawful bad. >_<

This chapter, in a nutshell, is made of Mr. Exposition spouting the Author's Message.

I'm so over the main gimmick but i adore boob-girl's blushes and squiggle mouth reactions. I'm in it mainly for that.

And I guess you read Playboy for the articles, hm?

d( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

I really hope there's at least depressing as fuck tag since tragedy would be a spoiler.

Actually, tags are always spoilers. But they spoil the general aspects and main lines of the work rather than the specific details. It's another kettle of fish altogether than, say, revealing the name of the murderer to someone who's about to read a mystery book. Thanks to the tags, you know in advance the mood of the story and the broad issues that will be tackled, and 99,9% of readers find it extremely helpful - as it let them pinpoint releases they will like and avoid releases they will dislike.

In the case of this oneshot, depressing as fuck is definitely needed. And no, it's no spoiler.

Um, so this wasn't selling well and they had to cut it short? Or sumthing?

2) "Um? I remember something happened at the gym, and then I fainted. But what was it that made me faint? I got a feeling it was something important... Aw damn, I have forgotten!"

This. My money's on this. Totally this.

All hail the king Status Quo the Unchanging!

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Bonba366278 posted:

When will you have more chapters posted?

NEVAR!

because?! did something happen?

Don't pay attention to that. That person is just being mean and messing with you.

There are truckloads of people who, just like you, come here to ask when more chapters will be scanlated, and some old-timers of the forum find it so annoying that they reply with misleading snarkery. 乁(ಥ ͜ʖಥ)ㄏ The correct answer is: right now, nobody knows when or whether someone will eventually pick up the scanlation and bring us new chapters. ( T ʖ̯ T)

I feel there's a ton of untapped potential in this setting.

For example, Misaki-chan: she looks like a warzone refugee. She isn't even wearing an uniform! That's not the normal look for a high school romcom heroine. Both readers and people in-manga should be complaining and demanding that she takes a bath, combs her hair, wears a proper uniform, etc. etc.

And the blonde beribboned loli, will she be ok? Yeah, cuz if you look closely, she's a loli... haha, I guess it was the obvious addition to this cast of romcom heroines: if you've got osananajimi, tsundere and kyonyuu, the obvious fourth is a loli. I worry about her safety in a war manga, what's gonna happen to her??? (Actually, my little bro said that the answer is evident: "She gonna die in 10 minutes, DUH!" But I hope that's not it...)

And Misaki should have an impressive set of survival skills, seeing as she has been living and scavenging in a war area for some time... she prolly can use guns, jury-rig all sort of devices, fight with improvised weapons, make a campfire and cook food on it... but, so far, she hasn't had the chance to put any of these to use... that's a side of her that should definitely be explored...

In conclusion, leaving this manga as a oneshot is a crime. I demand a series! ヽ(͡◕ ͜ʖ ͡◕)ﾉ

This is brilliant in so many different ways.

I kinda wonder what is Protagonist-kun thinking of these recent developments, lol. (Not that I really give a fig about him, but still...) It must have been shocking enough that two different girls maneuvered to prevent him from touching boobs two times in a row, but that last one improv at the lockers resulted in him taking a thorough beating... 乁( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)ㄏ

(For those who don't get it: it should have gone like "P-kun enters the classroom, meets a girl, asks her to hide him, then she takes him with her into a locker and the sensei fails to find them." Instead it went like "P-kun enters the classroom, meets no one at all, stands there like an idiot, then the sensei finds him and beats the shit outta him.")

Heh, sounds like a princess with a heart of gold who's just too good for this bad bad world, and needs a dashing prince to come for her asap.

You do realize that describes about 80% of the Mary Sues out there, right? lol

Or they both go a little crazy and chitose stays with ayaka.

At this point, I kind of expect a variation on that last part, since from Chitose’s point of view, she’s never been with Ayaka at all.

So: Ayaka realizes that she’s actually fallen for Chitose, then has to convince her to a) forgive her for the deception; and b) consider her as a partner in her own right.

Of course she will forgive. She's perfect. She can forgive anything. She understands other people's pain (like Ayaka's), and doesn't care about the pain inflicted on her. She'll heal Ayaka's wounded heart and redeem her in a jiffy.

You know, this release made me realize something: Chitose doesn't have any personality beyond being perfect. She's perfectly cute, perfectly sweet, perfectly selfless, perfectly devoted to the one she loves, and her only reaction when someone hurts her is to cry and suffer in silence. She's the Japanese version of Mary Sue. No wonder people complain that this story rubs them up the wrong way.

I should not have read that spoiler... but I wonder if Kagami just hates the idea of the maiden thing or if she just isn't honest about her own feelings? She does say she won't let anyone else have Shinobu, and I just don't get the feeling that she kissed Shinobu just because she felt like it, there's gotta be something more. Ooba's reaction to Kagami tutoring Shinobu is quite telling about how this is clearly unusual behaviour for Kagami, too. As a hopeless yuri optimist I guess I'll just keep hoping...

I think that's just Kagami being tsuntsun. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°) This sort of thing, doing something that reveals you have feelings for someone (because you were nice, affectionate, etc.) and then falsely claiming that you had a selfish motive, or that you acted at random and without caring, is 100% typical tsundere behavior!

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A gesture of affection by someone you like, and who likes you, shouldn't be a target for vilification. The whole notion is just plain wrong.

A healthy reaction would be something like this (by someone who was surprise-kissed a lot):

Cuuute!

Is a surprise kiss really a bad thing? Hmm...

What, you trying to start a 25-page debate over whether grabbing and kissing a girl without first asking for permission is ok or not?

It depends on many things -- context, circumstance, your relationship with her, the things said at the time, all that happens before and after the kiss. Most of all, what's on her mind about it.

In the end, she judges it. It's her decision whether it's ok or not.

I find it endlessly amusing that some people believe this development (suddenly making up a tragic past of horror and violence for one of the MCs,

Like whatever you like, by all means, but Minami as a victim of habitual physical violence was in Chapter 1.

There's a huge difference between this and that.

Aw, y'all wanna be gigolettes like Mao and have rich young girls spoil you?

It's super easy! As long as you are as beautiful, sexy and gallant as Mao, it will come of itself!

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Lol, poor Shinobu. Right when she thought everything had become clear and her worries were just a misunderstanding ─ BAM, surprise kiss.

Hm... wait a minute...

Why did I say "poor" Shinobu? Is a surprise kiss really a bad thing? Hmm...

Can I say something potentially controversial (as if I ever care lol)?
I don't think Bloom Into You works as an anime, it's just slow and inherently introspective which is totally fine in a manga format but not great in anime format. Unlike Citrus, for example, which in my opinion worked much better as an anime, with all the details given to ambient and so on, plus the awesome soundtrack (and without the torture of waiting long between cliffhangers).

This is my opinion as well. It pretty much sums up the core of the problem.

Also, faces and voices.

HOW CAN YOU HOLD HANDS BEFORE EVEN UTTERING THE SENTENCE "But we're both girls"?! THERE'S AN ORDER FOR THINGS. KIDS THIS DAYS, SERIOUSLY...

You’re absolutely right, this younger generation sure has gotten wild.
You can’t just go

straight

to the gay stuff without having a yuri existential crisis first, gosh

Excuse my French, hm?

LOL

Sounds like bullshit straight out of that cancerous "Pick-Up Artist" scene tbh.

That's exactly where it does come from, and don't Google for any examples unless you really need to have your opinion of humanity lowered considerably.

Funny thing is, it kind of worked for those guys, hehe. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

The theory of a "neg" is, iirc, that you should hint or suggest to the girl that you have a negative idea of her ⎯ that she's uggs, or dumb, or has a bad personality, or something. Then the girl will desperately try to show you that she's not like that! Then you sit down and relax as she makes every effort to prove herself to you...... and, after a while, you tell her "Ok, you win, you've persuaded me, let's go on a date!" and she's like "Yay! I won!" and doesn't even realize that you have manipulated her.

So you see, you could say that Nanaki totally fell for the neg, as she was furiously trying to make Kanade look cute just to "show those assholes" that they were wrong! If she succeeded, one assumes that the guys would say something like "Yeah, ok, your efforts have paid off, we're convinced, you two can hang out with us!" to which Nanaki would go "YES! I did it! Wait, what???"

(Hmm... come to think of it, it still can happen in ch8...)

I'm reminded of this:

https://dynasty-scans.com/series/is_my_hobby_weird

Only with boobs instead of butts.

I loved "Is my hobby weird?" to bits, so I have a feeling I'm gonna love this one too. :D

Good to see there are some of you enjoying the anime so much. I'm not convinced yet...

We need more "choose your own adventure" yuri manga. Totally.