My (not-serious-but-also-wish-it-will-happen-just-for-the-lolz) predictions:

Next chapter, Akira runs away from Hime to avoid replying to Hime. Five chapters later, while still avoiding Hime, Akira talks to five other characters for advice, who all account to her how they have been confessed to by childhood friends. Their backstories help Akira realize that it is bad to avoid replying to Hime and finally approaches Hime to reject her.

After being rejected, Hime then spends three chapters talking to other characters, who tell how how they have been rejected by childhood crushes, and she realizes that she needs to move on from Akira. Akira, sad that her friend isn't talking to her, talks to six other characters for help, and they help her realize that she can still be friends with Hime.

Akira talks to Hime, and they become friends again. Cue in obligatory flashback to their childhood, when they first became friends. Fast forward to the present or future, where Hime says, "Turns out the real Kanojo Ni Naritai Kimi to Boku was inside us all along." The last page is a panel of all the characters walking next to each other towards the beautiful sunset, smiling.

The End.

I think we've all learned a little something here today, hm?

Stone power.

he/she(because it wasn't specified)

The most respectful address if you're unsure is generally just a neutral "they".

Tetsu doing some pretty solid emotional support in this chapter considering his age. It is a shame that no one double-checked with Mogumo whether they were on okay terms with the sister who just shows up at their workplace and starts misgendering them.

Ueda's got a real penchant for garbage heap senseis, huh?

self indulgent whining.

Nothing wrong with self-indulgence if the part of yourself you're indulging is "it really fucking sucks to see domestic violence handled so clumsily".

sure enough the chapter 15 could be the last but fingers crossed that there could be shorts or side stories as well. Or maybe it’s saying the last one as in of volume 3?

Nah, that sort of note is inserted to indicate a "wrapping things up for good".

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.

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.

Creators don't have any innate responsibility to an audience via their work, you're right, but likewise an audience has every right to dissemble, analyze, and (yes) condemn a work on the basis of its messaging. No one here is obligated to take Fusoroi no Renri at face-value, or to pretend that Mikanuji's intention is the only thing coloring the manga that we end up reading.

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 do you suppose is the role of critique, which is an entirely subjective pursuit? I agree that there are many types of nonconstructive and/or haranguing criticism, but tbh if we allow that authors should fuck up routinely so too should the people consuming their work.

To be very clear, I only mean with regard to the piece itself. If people were to go harass Mikanuji because of this bad plotting and tone, that'd definitively be over the line.

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Chika/honoka tag?

Shouldn't this be added?

Maybe not since there's no confirmation that Honoka reciprocates?

any upload: *is tagged poly*

comment thread: "Oho! We'll see about that, won't we!"

Anyway, this was excruciatingly cute and I need more content riding this wavelength.

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Specifically, that this series wants us to care about Minami’s traumatic history and distrust of intimacy and then has Iori hitting her at the drop of a hat isn’t smart. It renders the drama unconvincing while the drama makes those attempts at lighthearted moments grossly discomfiting.

IT KEEPS GETTING NASTIER WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING

Talk about "Truth Unveiled".

I don't know if this was asked before, but what exactly is Sei's goal in letting Mochida know she's gay and having a relationship with a high schooler? I don't really see how that helps her in any way, unless she somehow knew she would tell Haruki all about her relationship with Aya.

I think it’s more or less in line with what we’ve seen of Sei up to this point. She stays seething in the closet in order to keep her livelihood intact, then engages in the most toxic sorts of relief to destress.

In this case, when Mochida tries to hold her sexuality over her head, Sei realizes that she essentially holds all of the power in that moment - they’re alone, Mochida is seen as a goof-off, and there’s a degree of sexual threat too - and decides to engage in some pretty juvenile one-upping. She’s basically flexing a “yeah, I am; who the fuck are you even going to tell?” It’s very in the vein of traditional abuser tactics, like a lot if Sei’s behavior.

As for the Mochida's reasoning thing, I apologize for how unclear I was. I was actually asking why Mochida told Haruki about Aya and Kuro's relationship. She obviously wants Aya to stay with Kuro so she can hook up with the math teacher, but I'm struggling to understand why she thought that telling Haruki about their relationship would actually help her.

From how she’s been presented my take is just that it was typical teen goss combined with a bit of wanting to badmouth the woman her crush is crushing on to clear her nerves. I don’t really see Mochida being quite so manipulative; if she sabotages Sei it’ll likely be a decision she makes in the moment.

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“Deadly semen” seems like one of the few ways you could make a relationship involving a lesbian demon feel skin-crawlingly puritanical.

Well that's some expertise - to cum while thinking your beloved is dating someone else.

Wouldn’t exactly be the first time a person is sad when cumming.

My heart goes out to every kid who was the vehicle for another kid discovering their glasses kink.

Hey, I resemble that description!
Xiao Xing is totally us isn't she.

I’m no successful artist so as far as I can tell she’s leading me on all counts.

Ngl this reads like the most deadass parody of generic ecchi. Even other of Mira’s very early works I’ve read have had some additional conceit.

Can’t wait to see Aiko actually kill a bitch.

RUN GIRL RUN

Ah, okay, I’ve definitely seen the “fairy” expression in other translations. Makes sense.

This was more than a little clumsy. And kind of couldn’t manage to be sexy towards the end even when that was mostly the selling point.

I should also say: thanks to the scanlators for their work finishing this!

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Taiyaki's just gonna go ahead and say it, huh?

This feels like their thesis lol

I was surprised to see the series end so suddenly but I’m glad Taiyaki pulled it all together with that final line.

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Are my eyes playing a trick on me or that girl actually has elf ears?

I looked over that “gazing into the distance” panel like a dozen times trying to clarify whether the elf thing was figurative or literal and tbh I’m not seeing it.

Yuu x Mari is in strong competition with Mask x Kaoru for series’ hottest couple.