Both girls suffer from their own versions of social awkwardness. They're only 16ish.

Oh right. They are still 16 years old. 16 years old since 2012. We are the same age if time moved here as slowly as in Adashima world. Lol

as she is not obliged to tolerate Adachi's behaviour.

She don't have to. Yes she could be more aware of Adachi overall attitude toward her but that doesn't mean she is at fault for what happen at the festival. For Shimamura, Tarumi is just a friend she had lost contact with and want to rebuild their friendship so getting yell at for that is clearly annoying. Plus the "don't want to get bother" attitude of Shimamura, the reaction of Shima was fully expected.

Totally agree.

Just stating the fact that Adachi is weird, not normal and that Tarumi can be somewhat the same. Shimamura seems like a magnet for those type of girls so it is hard to say who is the better choice. No insults or anything intended. Up to you how you want to interpret it but as mentioned in my original post, I do feel bad for Adachi. She was hurt but I can also understand Shimamura's reaction as she is not obliged to tolerate Adachi's behaviour.

Can you please refrain from using autistic as a catch all for perceived weirdness in the future? It hurts. That being said, Adachi could actually be autistic. She's atypical in her thought processes, and inability to connect well with her environment, I'll give you that.

I said Adachi is autistic AND weird. Not sure where do you get all the negativity but sure.

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Maybe we need a 3rd girl for Shimamura, a normal one. Hahaha Why do our main girl always attracts autists and weird ones?

Hey. I'm actually autistic, and I've gone through something like this. Maybe don't use that term with a cruel undertone, empathy should still be used even if you don't fully understand something.

I think it mean the difficulty with socials interactions and communication as Tarumi and Adachi as shown when they're nearby Shimamura.

I'll wait for clarification by the actual person.

Just stating the fact that Adachi is weird, not normal and that Tarumi can be somewhat the same. Shimamura seems like a magnet for those type of girls so it is hard to say who is the better choice. No insults or anything intended. Up to you how you want to interpret it but as mentioned in my original post, I do feel bad for Adachi. She was hurt but I can also understand Shimamura's reaction as she is not obliged to tolerate Adachi's behaviour.

So, to make their relationship works, who needs to change, Adachi or Shimamura?

Sigh...why do I always end up rooting for the best/childhood friend...(RIP Touko x Sayaka)

Touko x Sayaka is a legend ship. Will never be forgotten. RIP.

Thank you, and yes. The legacy, and what could have been, will live on in our hearts...

She met a lovely girl in college, it all ended happily, god blessed...

But still, it was so heartbreaking. The manga was sad enough and then they had to make a Hitoma Iruma's version which made the story more tragic. The end of volume 2 second chapter made me cry, no kidding.

Tarumi's affection is so different from Adachi's. She is not possessive, and seems to really want Shimamura to be happy. She is the safest choice, not too bothersome. Knowing Shimamura's personality, it was natural to believe that she'd choose her over Adachi as the latter is too high maintenance. But we all know that she will go for Adachi so I'm really excited to see why and how it happened.

Thanks again team for this. Looking forward to next chapter hundred times than usual. So wanna see how their relationship will be after this.

In fairness, we only barely know Tarumi compared to Adachi, so saying she's clearly the healthier option might be tempting fate a bit, lol.

But we KNOW Adachi and the way she is now, definitely not the healthier option. Lol.

I thought about that too, like Tarumi seems like the way better option right now in terms of emotional stability. And if Shimamura does end up choosing Adachi, how would that even come to be and what would the story say that says about Shimamura? The emotionally insecure and emotionally distant pairing is a pretty common real-life dynamic and it'll be interesting how it plays out here.

I'm sure though that Tarumi stands no chance. And I believe that she's actually not that different from Adachi. She has the same manner of fishing for compliments/comments, the same barely restrained jealousy at Shimamura's sister and another unknown person tagging along, the same randomly asking Shimamura to do weird shit like sit in the sun for three hours to get a portrait painted. She's not really any "healthier" of an option.

Maybe we need a 3rd girl for Shimamura, a normal one. Hahaha Why do our main girl always attracts autists and weird ones?

Tarumi's affection is so different from Adachi's. She is not possessive, and seems to really want Shimamura to be happy. She is the safest choice, not too bothersome. Knowing Shimamura's personality, it was natural to believe that she'd choose her over Adachi as the latter is too high maintenance. But we all know that she will go for Adachi so I'm really excited to see why and how it happened.

Thanks again team for this. Looking forward to next chapter hundred times than usual. So wanna see how their relationship will be after this.

In fairness, we only barely know Tarumi compared to Adachi, so saying she's clearly the healthier option might be tempting fate a bit, lol.

But we KNOW Adachi and the way she is now, definitely not the healthier option. Lol.

I feel bad for Adachi. I really do. But this chapter was too much, even for her. I am not in any position to tell her how she feels but in my opinion, I mean, the way I see it, her feelings for Shimamura was more of an obssession than love. Rather than wanting Shimamura to be happy, she wanted Shimamura to be with her and only her, without taking Shimamura's feelings into consideration. I would not be surprised if Adachi turned into Joe-like person from You series and just put Shimamura in a cage once she get tired of Adachi. LOL, but kidding aside, all the things she said in the call are truly terrifying, so insane. Shimamura's response is understandable.

Tarumi's affection is so different from Adachi's. She is not possessive, and seems to really want Shimamura to be happy. She is the safest choice, not too bothersome. Knowing Shimamura's personality, it was natural to believe that she'd choose her over Adachi as the latter is too high maintenance. But we all know that she will go for Adachi so I'm really excited to see why and how it happened.

Thanks again team for this. Looking forward to next chapter hundred times than usual. So wanna see how their relationship will be after this.

Sigh...why do I always end up rooting for the best/childhood friend...(RIP Touko x Sayaka)

Touko x Sayaka is a legend ship. Will never be forgotten. RIP.

"Well, whatever."

This, right here is Shimamura.

From what I read, the 10 year timeskip is only on the first chapter of Volume 8, then they reminisce about their first trip back in High School. Chapter 2 to last chapter still focused on their high school trip. The first chapter is just a flashforward.

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Thanks,team! That was a good volume. Adachi is so brave. She didn't back off even if Shimamura was so reluctant about her staying over. Hope they will get past the siblings like relationship soon. But yeah, it was still funny when Shimamura's mom thought Adachi was like a big sister to Shimamura. Lol, if only she had read this LN. Haha

Now, I am so excited to finally read volume 5. I heard that in that volume, we'll be able to see the peak of Adachi's uh, autism? weirdness? Can't find the right word but she sure is not normal haha.

Small update on the pdf/epub versions. I managed to get Amazon to stop downscaling images, and those have now been updated to use higher resolutions ones. The kindle cover have also been replaced with the novel versions (someone mentioned about that). This will be the practice going forward, but I won't update the old images here on dynasty since that's too much of a hassle.

The rest of this volume should be out in a day or two.

Thank you!!!! Looking forward to spending Christmas reading Adashima haha.

When Shimamura is talking with Adachi, there are times when she purposely making her voice sound unkind. Anyone knows why she's doing that? To tease Adachi? I dont really get why she does that.

Yeah it's funny cuz whenever adachi isn't around shima is subtly missing her, when shima has to hang around others she's thinking about how it would be better with adachi... and then with adachi she's like... ok can I go home now?

Don't get me wrong im still enjoying the series, It just annoys me cuz it feels kind of artificial, like in the first volume or two the two of them were constantly lowkey flirting, finding excuses to touch each other, etc. Now they're circling around in a status quo, when there's such more interesting ideas the story could be exploring.

I think Shimamura just doesnt want to spend too much time with anyone. But for that little time that she wants to be with someone, she prefer that someone to be Adachi.

Adachi is so awkward but also very straight forward. Her lines are smooth but her actions are not. This chapter really showed how much she missed Shimamura. And that was a very awkward phone call ah, do people really think that hard during phone calls? About who should speak now and think of a topic and stuff? Or maybe that was just Adachi and Shimamura thing? Really, these two are so strange yet so cute.

Thanks again sneik,shadesofgreymoon and team! The past 2 chapters were lacking interactions from the MCs so I was very happy that you guys quickly released a new and a very sweet chapter.

PS:
Where does Adashima takes place again? Not in Nagoya right, because they had to ride a train for 20 min to get there.

Gifu or somewhere between Nagoya and Gifu. Gifu Castle is mentioned in the story later on I think.

Yeah thanks. Also, I read in Hitoma and Moke's interview that the mall in the story is MALera mall in Gifu.

Adachiiiiiiii. Why is my baby so lonely? It hurts.
2 chapters were released without much interaction from Adachi and Shimamura. And although this volume is making me sad, I think the story really needed something like this for Adachi to have the courage to move forward. Im very excited for the next chapter, because the two of them will hang out again right? Right??? I realy missed seeing them together.

Again, thank you sneikkeimies and team!

PS:
Where does Adashima takes place again? Not in Nagoya right, because they had to ride a train for 20 min to get there.

I want Taru to show Shima the GAY. She needs help getting there.

I don't specifically need it to be Taru, but the deeper we get into this thing especially knowing that they do eventually start dating the more curious I find myself getting about how Shimamura - with her attachment to the low-energy status quo and low-energy nature - is going to react when somebody inevitably comes right out and asks more of her.

Taru looks experienced, right?
But it may kill Adachi if some other girl will be the one to show Shimamura the GAY.

I'm feeling nervous because Shimamura's birthday is April 10th and it's stated that they're two weeks into the semester, which started in the beginning of April. I wonder if it'll get skipped or it'll be another event flag, because personally I definitely want to see Adachi make a big deal about it and try to do something special for her

They skipped Adachi's birthday too in their first year.

Taru's a surprisingly fun, likable character for a love rival. On the other hand, I'm becoming increasingly unclear on what anyone sees in Shima

Strange girls tend to like Shimamura because she tolerates their strange behavior.

This is why I really love the volume 8, coz it's all written in Shimamura's pov.

Oh? So the school trip is all written in Shimamura's POV? As much as I love her, I still wanted to read some chapters in Adachi POV, cause obviously, her POV is much gayer. Lol

New chapter, yay! It became a habit for me to refresh this page daily, so I am really happy when there is an update. Thank you again sneikkimies, shadesofgreymoon and team!

Well then, I have always wondered how Shimamura currently feel about Adachi and this chapter basically showed it, even though she didn't interact with Adachi at all. I was under the impression in the last volume that Adachi was slightly special to her but it seems like I was wrong. Yep, she is just going with the flow. Adachi was doing all the effort to maintain their relationship and Shimamura just can't say no to Adachi or to anyone. It's like Adachi isn't even her friend, just another classmate. On the last part of the chapter, she is even on the verge of forgetting about Adachi and go with the current flow which is hanging out with those 3 new classmate and Tarumi. So if Adachi didn't call out to her in the end, their story would have likely ended up in Volume 3. Current Shimamura would never make a first move. She is mysterious, uncaring, but that is probably why people wanted to get her attention. Shimamura is such a chick magnet huh. Oh poor Adachi.

I am looking forward to Shimamura's progress in her love story with Adachi. Can't wait to see someone like her finally fall in love.

They are all interesting, but above all, the last two of volume 8. It makes me very curious about their current relationship because the reciprocity seems quite obvious.

Well, it is volume 8 already after all. We all know Shimamura will eventually reciprocate Adachi's feelings.