Well that escalated quickly.
(Absolutely wonderful)

It really does feel rushed, which takes some of the emotion away, but I'm glad it ended the way it did - even moreso because of the romantic overtones I wasn't sure if the author was even going to hint at. Maybe we'll get lucky and there'll be an omake in the final volume or something.

Regardless I'll definitely look out for more work from this mangaka. I wish her the best of luck.

I was maybe planning on dropping this series, but Mitsuki's step-sis lust swung me right back in - Mitsuki herself is alright, but the sister is super cute.

Totally loved this anthology. Seeing as how we've been getting more yuri anthologies officially printed in the West, I hope this ends up being one of them

Oh man, Hino - bad self-image or not, how can you think that Koguma felt anything but embarrassingly attracted to you there? And what do you expect after kissing her nape? Truly a baka, Koguma is right.

Amaretto is chef's kiss. Very cute story

Toxoplasmosis is wild.

Got a hearty laugh out of me

I guess I can say it ended better than I expected following the disappointing second half. The art is fantastic and I think the ideas were there, just not executed satisfactorily.

At the very least I'll follow the artist to see what they do next

Every time a new chapter comes out I go back and re-read the last few pages of the last chapter to reorient myself...only to remember just what kind of story tkmiz is writing here, and how useless that is.

Oh man, I really don't want to see this one end in heartbreak. It's not always like this when I read romance manga but I'm totally convinced of Yori's feelings, changes, etc. We definitely need a happy end -.and a conclusive one too, not some wishy-washy ambiguous one.

My only issue with the side couples has simply been that they're not totally moving forward fast enough for me. Minami and Iori are great imo and their relationship was established quickly even as the main couple. But Saori's and the Editor's relationships are still mostly jokes. I want to see Saori and Shizuku (?) angrily tsundere kiss already.

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Why can I see a "I am not good enough for you" flag already? Oof.

This is definitely going to happen - probably a minor thing wth Koguma (the issues she has with her body) and assuredly a larger thing with Hino (we have plenty of evidence to point to her general low self esteem, negative thoughts, etc). Gonna be heartbreaking.

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Didn't expect the jump start of Koguma admiring Hino-san just like that! Maybe, nearly 60 chapters in, we're further along with development than many expected.

This whole series is based on such a clever and interesting idea - and the fact that the individual stories still end up being good on their own is even better.

How lovely! How heartbreaking! Genuinely feels unique among yuri stories - I don't know if I even want a continuation, or if ending it here is best - thematically, emotionally.

Mother almost sounded like a mothercon there... Gimme a minute, I think the screws in my yuri googles are drilling into my head

Taiyaki delving into intergenerational mothercon, exponentially increasing the incest. What a madman

I think I'm coming from a POV that's different from most of you, but I'm absolutely not the type who thinks any creator has any responsibility to be "conscious" or "aware" of what they make - that there are any moral or ethical considerations that have to be taken when creating. A creator only has to create.

And so with that said, I don't really get the response to the last chapter. As someone else mentioned a few pages back, the series has a kind of telenovela feel with its sense of drama, and has since the beginning. The violence has often been treated with a kind of simultaneous over-the-top drama and shoulder-shrugging indifference. Shizuku's introduction is almost played for a laugh the way it catches you off guard and is so over the top, and Iori's sister's intro absolutely is. The series hasn't ever been consistent with the violence - be it the little smacks and boops between Iori and Minami, or the way Iori's sister and Shizuku throw each other around. Minami frequently showed up with bandages in the beginning - and no, this isn't justification for "oh, it's okay that she's beaten", but it's also not something that the series has played for drama outside of Minami's backstory and her time with Shizuku (and even then, their frequent fights in the past are played for laughs). I think it's obvious that readers are not supposed to take the event in ch. 22 as some sort of horrific point of no return for Iori - she wasn't malicious or sadistic about it, and it was obviously, I think, an emotional reaction in that previously mentioned telenovela way. Making so mich of it, with this humanities-department (and I say this as an English major) deep-reading cultural critique of domestic abuse is misguided and foolhardy when it's clear that this series uses violence as a means to an end or to set the stage for plot points rather than being "about" the violence as a critique or conversation instead.

Which isn't to say that I'm trying to invalidate anyone's feelings - react to the manga as you will, it's your right - but I don't believe that "calling the creator out" or judging the series based on your personal standards of right and wrong and responsible is worth it or defensible on a wider scale.

What a shame that it's ending so abruptly. I didn't think this would be super long running but 1 chapter definitely doesn't feel like enough time to wrap things up nicely - I might even say we need 3 or so. I really hope we get some sort of omake when the final volume is released.

All that said, going to look out for what this mangaka does next, I really enjoyed the writing in this, and the art and coloring too.

I think the part we're overlooking is that Hino has nearly 500 pictures of Koguma on her phone. Now that's dedication.

I get that Riko's whole thing is that she's loved by everyone, but man, Kioke just switching feels like it comes out of nowhere. I thought the author had something good going down here, but this chapter really pulled me out of it. I hope the next/last chapter redeems this story.

I'm a little confused - were they bit going to the beach? Obviously the nudist thing was a joke but I still thought they were going anyway. Unless 52 happens directly after 51 and they're going after the first day of swim class.

Anyway, glad that Hino was so direct this time around. And that Kouma agreed to go with her alone. Very cute.

For what it's worth, is actually kinda hard to find yuri ryona stuff, or anything in adjacent categories.

I hope the following volumes, if there are any, are also translated

It's cute, but if I had to rank it alongside other similar recent yuri manga with the same kind of "ends on the same punchline/phrase" thing, this isn't nearly the same quality as, say, "Hino-san" or "The Two of Them are Pretty Much Like This".

Awfully cute and wholesome, but it feels like it's missing a page or something. The end is very abrupt.

This chapter was such a joy. I love the Aria bitcoin thing, all the reaction faces (obviously), the gushing/development between the new rivals/enemies, etc. Really great stuff here.