Yoooo, this just delivered way harder than I thought it ever would.
I feel kinda dense for not seeing any kind of foreshadowing in their sky TREE date plans, but it was worth being maximally unprepared for this chapter.

Speaking of color, the manga duo have pink and blue hair? Whaaa

Wouldn't an unrequited twin sister mean you're her twin, but she isn't yours? And it's mutual so they're both only twins one way. Heck of a family situation.

I can't believe I waited 5 seasons for this, never got it and feel totally satisfied by the finale anyway. Holy shit does Hibiki deliver when her wife is on the line.

You know how sometimes an author will write the afterword using their own characters as stand-ins? It took me most of chapter 28 and 29 to figure out that
a) Those aren't Mikanuji and their editor
b) Those aren't Iori and Minami either
And then just as I started telling Iori and Rara apart, the author introduced Rara's identical looking coworker.

Well, as long as they're all cute, really.

@Madologist
Whyyyy.
Honestly, going out of your way to take the touhous out of a cool place like gensokyo and drop them into boring old highschool almost offends me.
I mean, it's still a nice comic, but

I wish this didn't insist on a single page format. Individually the strips are heartwarming, but reading them in a row it just gets all mechanical.
Though I wonder why this doesn't bother me so much in comedy manga.

Seems to me like Marisa's about to get them into trouble and Alice doesn't even mind.

I've just been staring at "So kawaii. I can fun it for myseft." for the last 5 minutes.

Yeah, I mean catgirls are famously hideous monsters. Makes sense she'd be self-conscious about it, yeah.

I can't help but be a little bit disappointed in how easily she fell in love. I actually really enjoyed the uncertainty over whether she even swung that way or was just desperate. A somewhat unhealthy romance between genuinely caring friends sounds really interesting, like a Kodama Naoko manga but with decent people. I'd go for that.

Instead, all I'm getting is this cute vanilla yuri. How dreadful.

Now this is a designer pairing. The colors just look wonderful together.

I keep coming back to this one. It just fascinates me how the repetition basically turns the joke into a vehicle for tragedy. Start with black comedy and then wear out the comedy and all that's left is black.
It feels like actual grief or regret to me, too. Just circling around to the same conclusions cause there's nothing you can do now. Real shit.

I feel like this "innocent, but kinda creepy" look should actually be worse than full creepy, but the pastel colors bring it all together somehow. Cool.
Writing is super normal, though. That's the weird thing.

Oh boy, another lifespan-themed one. My favourite.
Nah, but really I did love this one. Chatamaru's one of the best at AliMari and the story was super sweet.

cough but still not as sweet as if Marisa just became a true magician, you know, like Alice once did. She even expressed interest in immortality in some of the games, too. Why set a story about facing the reality of age and death in a world where it doesn't have to be that way cough wheeze

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Oh, for the love of...could both of you bad ideas just fuck off to a different manga?

So, we done with the drama, then? We done with fucking "my parents tried to kill me every day"?
Nice.

I wouldn't mind some more age gap manga about different stages of adulthood rather than the same broad-strokes comparison of kids and grown-ups.

Whether or not her dad's actually shipping her, I'm glad he and the little brother are nice folks. Many authors would've given her a really cold family, but it's not really necessary for the story to work. Koyuki can still be characterized by her loneliness and her relationship with Konatsu can still be heart-warming even if she isn't completely alone otherwise.

You know, this manga might still be sweet enough even if it ends with just subtext, but I'm gonna be completely baffled if that happens. All it has to offer so far is a heavily romanticized relationship between adorable girls. Is there literally anybody reading this who would prefer it doesn't go full yuri?

Seriously, someone explain to me why this level of subtext is a thing.

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