i saw the cover and went "oh this looks pretty, who's it by" and then just screamed "WHOO???" when i read that it was sumiko-sensei <3 <3 <3 good god i'd read absolutely anything and everything by this artist, she's absolutely brilliant

i'd be on board for like a ten-minute episode adaptation of this at some point,,,

galim, in a perfect world, you wouldn't speak

this is adorable. the art style is charming enough that it would make for a great series, but sometimes tender one-shots just hit different

the thought of having to read god knows how many chapters to actually get to some semblance of conflict in this manga makes me sick to my stomach but tuning in now (chapter 35), i'm kinda here for it lol

Ah yes, how to pass a rag to your antagonists to try to justify their actions: create someone shallow who is crueler to them for no apparent reason, that will maybe make them look less bad

i don't think the point is to make them less bad but to address how they deal with those circumstances. arguably, satsuki is in a pretty shitty position too where she and her friends get the short end of the social stick pretty often, but she goes out of her way to save people no matter what. antagonist-kun here sees cruelty and thinks that the way to react to it is with even more cruelty (however deserved in those admittedly shallow examples it may have been).

coming back to this comment section to wonder why is it that the love triangle manga are always the most heartfelt ones ...

oh NO it got SPICY

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lesbians-doing-makeup

[screaming, crying, throwing up, etc.]

aaaaAAAAA god i love this series

kinda disheartening to see people crying about the plot being boring, hopefully the scanlators don't drop it at any point ... i've been hungry for a multi-faceted story for a while now, this manga has been a joy in its careful setup and continuous fleshing out of the characters (i would be very interested in learning more about komachi later on, too)

glad to see that the uma musume fandom is alive and well

can't believe i've slept on this one .. [sigh] yet another cute little comic to drag me back to this website ,, i am not complaining.

all the parallels, i can't </3 please let this ending be at least bittersweet

in the year of our lord 2022, i just said "and they were roommates" out loud

my favorite horses <3

this came so out of left field and i'm so here for it

every day that arai sumiko blesses us with her art is a good day.

[chef ramsey voice] finally some good fucking art

yeeee They <3

yessssss

everyone: "you've connected the two dots! you've connected them!"
aya: "i haven't connected shit"

i retract my previous statement

watched season 1 and given what i've heard about season 2, i'm just gonna pretend it doesn't exist until season 3 comes out and i can judge from there. i keep re-reading this one-shot (mostly because it's very good), but now so i can pretend that it's canon lol

waaAAAA i've never even read the original manga or watched the anime but this made me feel all kinds of emotions ;A;