that's worse tbh lmao, your friends will neglect you even harder TT v TT

Yeeessss
I need a part 3 with the following date

Who should I tell that chapter 18 starts volume 3 and chapter 26 starts volume 4?

Drpf?

Mahoro's such a cutie TT v TT she's such an honest girl

Wow. Really, a lot of the things you state about friendship are just personal opinions. You really can't impose your own standards, claim them to be actual facts, expect everyone to follow them and claim everything else to be bullshit and don't make sense. If it's hard to believe just because you can't relate, that's your own problem.

She doesn't talk to her like she would talk to an actual friend who would know more about the people involved.

An actual friend necessarily would know of whatever people are involved in whatever worries you're having? Lol? Is that another fact? Actual friends have to personally know all your other actual friends too? Unless it's a fact that any person only has one group of friends, not really.

And absolutely none of it is portrayed romantically, therefore making the whole situation bizarre and hard to
understand how it progressed from one to the other.

Your mileage may vary. Agree to disagree, if it was that hard for you to perceive anything at all

Even the idea that their online friendship was special is hard to accept.

cough personal standards and opinion cough. Kinda really hard to actually reply you, when a lot of these are statements are basically starting with IN MY OPINION, THEREFORE IT IS.

There is still nothing there that indicates any actual romance between the two.

Cus nothing had happened yet lmao
It happened with Nina acknowledged how she felt and made a move

She reached out to a cat photographer that she liked and that was it.

It sure is, if you blatantly ignore everything that showed what their relationship was like
I mean, that sounds like a really lazy way to dismiss any relationships ever, really. "Person A reached out to someone they wanted to get to know better and that was it". Yeah, if you cut everything out, that is indeed pretty much it.

She's a nice person who cares how people feel but there's nothing indicating that she treats Nina more special than anyone else.

Aside from how we actually don't see her treat other people that same way?
Hiruma apparently looks like a loner without friends too, I'm sure that if she acted super chummy and caring when vividly interacting with the rest of her classmates, they wouldn't have gotten the impression that she liked to be alone if she's trying so hard for everyone else as well.

Except it did magically happen with no build up.

And a sandwich is really just two or more slices of bread being an extremely underwhelming meal if you somehow ignore absolutely everything in between the slices too.
A buildup you find bad =/= no build up =/= a buildup you don't find believable

The "romance" just sprung up out of nowhere.

If you disregard any of their interactions, yeah.
I mean, Ayaka was kind and encouraging to Yurine in the beginning, and Yurine hella latched onto her. Ayaka said she'd beat her, and then Yurine forced a few kisses.
Izumi and Chiharu spent idk how many mornings together, hanging out. Izumi eventually grew insistent on helping Chiharu mend her relationship with her senpai, and after a big gesture, we got some signs that they were warming up to each other and got closer.
It's fictional romance, it really isn't uncommon for a character to perceive another under a romantic light after an important gesture or event/trigger of some kind, one that means a lot to them. For Nina, that gesture would be their talk under the rain. And it's not like Hiruma wasn't kind to her in their previous exchanges either.

There was no talks of liking or being in love, it went from internet "friends" to love rivals to "I can't live without you" with nothing transitioning in between.

Tbf, there are no need for such talks to acknowledge/realise how someone feels. Or is this also a fact?
For instance, we've yet to hear Ayaka admit to anyone nor herself whatever she may feel towards Yurine, but it sure as hell isn't hatred. Somehow, without such talks, it's almost like readers can make observations and understand what's going on from reactions, expressions, their behaviour, context and their interactions.
"I can't live without you" is Nina realising she needed Hiruma, because she fulfills a separate emotional need that Amane doesn't. Surprisingly, whether it's romantic or not, it's like different people have different relationships with one another. And in this case, it just so happens that her emotional attachment to Hiruma became romantic as well.
Finding it sufficient to decide whether or not it's believeable is one thing, stating that there are no transitions is another.

But sure, if you personally don't think anything that happened counted for much, that's fine. You can't just state your opinions like indisputable facts.
You can argue that it was done poorly, but you can't say that it wasn't done at all, just because you personally chose to dismiss anything that doesn't fit personal standards you try to pass off as universal facts
Your values and beliefs are your own. Even if they are common, they aren't absolute.
There's something kinda different about saying that "it's hard to form a trustworthy, close emotional connection with someone if you don't know what they look like", and "it's hard if they aren't considerate of your feelings but expect you to respect theirs", for example.
Inb4 you go "except everything I said is absolute, they aren't opinions, they are facts"

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That's not where I thought this was going lmao

What?
Man, we gotta start from there?
Well sorry about the screenshots and links, but I don't think you'd take my word for it without referencing to the actual pages.

They weren't friends, they didn't even know each other's name.

The name part isn't super relevant to whether there is friendship or not tho
that's just like, your personal standard, man

They just talked about the cat pictures, that's not friendship

Tbh you can just talk about cats (or whatever topic) with someone and still be friends with them. Maybe not close friends, but still friends.
Except that it isn't the case here, Hiruma would confide in her about her worries too.

and is not absolutely anything to suddenly turn into a "I cant live without you" relationship.

Yeah I agree, that's debatable x)

Nina shows absolutely zero sign of actually being romantically attracted to Hiruma up until her ridiculous confession, only jealousy and dislike.

Well yeah? They never really spoke irl, and Nina only knew of Hiruma as the other girl Amane is showing interest in. It's not exactly far fetched to antagonise whom you're jealous of.
And finding out that Hiruma is her friend online put a strain on that too, and makes it difficult to [continue] acting chummy with her (online), since she resents her for her relationship with Amane. That's just Nina in denial and restraining herself tho, from cognitive dissonance. She likes Hiruma online, but there's no way she could behave that way around her irl, giving the situation. Can't forget Hiruma empathising with her and comforting her.
Lke I said, Nina was conflicted. Hiruma irl is a rival, but also turns out to be her friend online, whom Nina does care about.

The arc doesn't even clarify whether or not Hiruma reciprocates Nina's feelings.

Yeah it's not directly stated, but she gets pretty excited and pensive about her. I mean, she only heavily blushes and looks at her like that.
Hiruma is clearly super fond of Nina, and cares a lot about her and how she feels, going out of her way to reach out to her

I mean, I have defended some mediocre stories before after they get some hate but I can't come up with anything positive to say about that arc. It's just felt like Canno is just going down the list and couldn't figure out how to do a proper poly relationship, so just threw it together and called it a day.

Yeah sure, I'm just replying because you're nitpicking surprising parts of it haha
Like, fine by me if you don't think the relationships are built up well enough to be convincing, but if you start arguing that it's so because it "magically" happened, when it clearly didn't, and then argue that they "weren't friends", when they clearly were (and have stated it themselves), that's just kinda awkward tbh :s

Long haired girl asks every girl she meets to become part of her harem, she doesn't ask her partner for permission, when she finally snags one her old partner doesn't like her, but when she finds out that the new girl is a fan of her cat pictures they magically fall in love and for some reason can't live without each other.

Hiruma (black haired) was legit close friends online with Nina (jealous girl) and would practically talk to her everyday. Nina already finds out early on that Hiruma's her online friend, and grew distant because she felt conflicted over her jealousy and her friendship for the same person.
So it didn't start from nothing, they already had a close friendship. And then Hiruma proceeded to continuously be kind to Nina and care about her feelings irl (like when she brought her an umbrella when Nina ran out in the rain)
Imo what's a bit awks was that Hiruma was so kind despite Nina's attitude, but I guess she's kinda easygoing and empathetic.
But yeah uhm, I guess that if you missed so much shit, I'm not surprised some parts wouldn't make sense.

On the other hand we have Ayaka and Yurine, Izumi and Chiharu, and the Triple-Couple. AyaYuri's arc spreads over the whole series, ChihaIzu had two distinct arcs and a few extras to solidify their relationship… But in Amane, Ryou and Nina's case, everything was established and developped in 3 or 4 chapters. Canno may not like long arcs, but that was just suicidal.

Well as for Izumi and Chiharu, their second arc came like, four volumes later. (In fact, after the first arc, you only find out they started dating through a phonecall in the extra of v2, it was like bam, here you go). Volume 6 is still sorta recent, dunno if the 3TP couple would get more material later, or if that's pretty much it. I mean, until a second arc happened, we couldn't have known that Izumi and Chiharu were gonna get more development

To go back on chap 34, Haine's character arc confuses me a bit honestly. It started with "I have to become an independent adult quickly" and ends with "oh, I can cling to my big sis until the end of time after all."

Yeaah she got influenced by her peers, thought she had to grow up and stop relying on Aika as soon as she could. Now that she know she doesn't have to though, she can sorta find a balance for her feelings and be more honest about how she feels, what she feels insecure about. But yeah Aika is definitely part of her comfort zone

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oh thats cool

...
I already announced this and no one cared

ouf
rip for ppl who dont visit the video games thread i guess

Aw i like the new girls

Same here. Does this enough to make you change your best girl? (They almost got me though) XD

Never. My best girl will always be Hifumi u_u
I can still like the other girls a lot tho lmao, i find everyone really likable

Aw i like the new girls
Momo seems like someone a bit more anxious than the carefree Naru
I like her dynamic with Aoba
It's like, similar to Aoba's desire to catch up to Kou, but because they're the same age, there's a different feeling to it
Ah yeah, even if Aoba has seniority, they have this rivalry feel. That's nice, Aoba getting a rival that's more or less on the same footing as her
I feel really proud of Aoba, how far she came, and how Momo was acknowledging her

Lmao the pages being out of order sure threw me in for a loop. Seems like it was fixed really quickly though, so that's nice
"when you just suddenly burst into tears"

"The love affair of just the two of us"

Isn't "Futari dake no Abanchuuru <3" supposed to be "The adventure of just the 2 of us <3"? It still sounds wildly gay either way, though less explicit.

from what i was told:
アバンチュール
(n) amorous adventure; love affair

Minutoh posted:

Ah, it's great to see Sato legitimately murder someone for once. Seeing her manipulate people is cool too and all, but I don't read yandere stories for the blackmail and manipulation and all that, I read them for the cold-blooded murder.

I dunno that that counts as cold-blooded murder. Guy was clearly going to attack Shio so Sato was fairly justified even if murder is too far.

Yup, this.
Lol, the only murder we know of so far has been committed because the one person she trusted/thought she could trust and went to see after finding Shio, immediately tried to kill her.
But damn though, everyone's expression of 'love' is pretty extreme/psychotic. I wonder if it's "just cus plot", or if there's something about Shio/Sato that brings people to such extremes. Like, rather than a setting like Murcielago where there's a bunch of serial killers loose, there just happens to be a bunch of emotionally unstable and affection thirsty people in her uh social circle.
(Though the manager lady's affections targeted young men, it wasn't about directly about Sato)

The cat was used as an ice breaker lmao, nice

http://i.imgur.com/uZdwJIp.jpg

From the licensed version.

Slightly disappointed.

What is happening ? Did she slept with a guy ?

They're disappointed with the joke not translating well in english

Bless Kanan's abs

She runs over a girl
Tries making up for it
A lot
Seems to stick to her with some sort of other motivation in mind
Mc freaks tf out a lot
Other girl goes to extreme lengths
Backstory revealed: tl dr, they're sisters and she wants revenge on her father
Lets do it
Makes baby
Lets get married too
... that's really 0-100, isn't it

Bless mezashi's bday doujins

Also after my fifth reread did anyone notice that the other two girls being interviewed were the two from the second season of the Anime. Guess we might get to see this chapter as an episode this very season

Yup the other two is new character from second season. I gonna spoil a little bit that they will officially come to manga at chapter [...]

Yo, frostburn, bro, why do you do this lol
This is like at least the second time
Can you like, not refer to stuff you know is gonna happen? Indirect spoilers like what you posted about Rin/Kou's relationship and picking out future chapters still suck for some ppl tbh
Can you spoiler tag please?
Thanks

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Matcha?
its* original price
This sort of thing?

Step sisters or sisters in law tho

On another note, it seems Canno is publishing a one-shot in this month's Manga Time Kirara.
https://twitter.com/mangatimekirara/status/890854465133137922

Do you think you'd pick it up?