To anyone that kept up with this, does anything happen with Sumika and Kanoko beyond just friendship or no?

At this point, it's too early to tell.

Kanoko and Sumika become schwestern in Volume 4, but Kanoko still seems to have her unrequited and unconfessed crush on Hime(resulting in jealousy-induced hostility toward Mitsuki). That said, in Volume 8, Kanoko does get Mitsuki to be honest with Hime, thereby convincing Hime not to quit Liebe. As a result, both Hime and Mitsuki accept that Hime doesn't return Mitsuki's feelings(although there are more than a few hints that Hime is starting to fall for Mitsuki, even if she doesn't understand it yet).

Volume 9's cover shows Sumika and Kanoko, so perhaps we'll get another arc about them now that the latest Hime/Mitsuki arc has concluded.

Does anyone know how many volumes of the series have been released in the original Japanese? I thought Volume 8 was near the end of the series, but apparently not.

I think one of the most palatable ways to handle a couple with power imbalance is for the person with the least power to be the most gung-ho about the relationship while the one with the power is more adverse to the idea.

I guess it shows that their power wasn't misused to manipulate the other person.

That's true, and it's probably why, in most teacher-student romances I've read, the student is the one asking the teacher out.

I love age gap, but responsible student x useless adult teacher has been overdone and feels bland

In all fairness, having an age gap romance in which the younger party is relatively mature and the older party is relatively immature helps mitigate some of the power imbalance issues in the romance, although there's still the fact that this is also a student-teacher romance, which has its own issues.

That last panel has to be intentional... The M is upside down indeed. :D

"WcDonalds" is a fairly common way for anime and manga to include McDonalds without violating trademarks.

I'm curious to see what the results of Ai's competition at work are. I wonder if they're being saved for the next chapter because the outcome could be more significant than Nagisa's slight improvement in his grades.

In the "distracted boyfriend" meme, the girl the boyfriend's looking at is in the foreground, the boyfriend is in the center and the girlfriend's on the right. Granted, the perspective's turned to focus on the couple, but the girlfriend playing the role of the boyfriend isn't turning as much, and the other girlfriend doesn't seem as angry.

The manga's been released in English on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Believe-Slept-You-Vol-ebook/dp/B09NMYWW72/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=even+if+it+was+just+once%2C+i+regret+it+manga&qid=1643164297&sprefix=even+if+it+was+%2Caps%2C123&sr=8-3

I might check it out, but I'm not at all fond of the title("I Can't Believe I Slept With You!); it reduces the impact of the "title drop" just before Ritsuka confesses to Chiyo. I only realized it was the same series because of the synopsis on the back and the characters on the front.

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There's only one thing you need to understand about boku. Don't watch the anime

Unrelated but I lost my virginity while watching that anime, and this is 100% not a joke.

What anime are we talking about? I searched and found a dozen with boku in their names.

I personally think of Bokurano, the title of which means "Ours" in Japanese.

As for the pronouns, "Atashi" is a cute and feminine pronoun mainly used by girls, an abbreviated form of the somewhat more formal "Watashi." "Boku" is a somewhat polite personal pronoun used by males, usually young or teenage boys, or by tomboyish girls. "Ore" is a rough and rather informal first person pronoun that is used almost exclusively by guys- the only girls who tend use it are either very rude or pretending to be guys.

With that in mind, we know Teruko uses "Atashi," but what does Doujima Taiga use- "Ore"?

The second and final volume of the anthology came out today. I liked it better than the first one, especially since a couple of the stories take place between Chapter 44 and 45 of the main series, and one of them was done by Nakatani herself.

I wasn't all that interested in Ano for most of my first playthrough, but I warmed up to her after I learned that she could see(but not hear) the kindred spirits late in the game, and played some of her POV scenes. I still prefer the Yuna/Hina ship, and while a Yuna/Ano ending might be nice, I'm not sure how they could incorporate it given the Daily Planner system lets you jump around between scenes.

It's nice to see fanart of this VN after playing through it recently. I wish there was an easier way to reset all the scenes you've unlocked and start the game from scratch for a fresh playthrough.

As for your question, yes, it's worth playing. There's a good variety of couples in the VN(although one is a teacher-student romance if you're not into that) making it a nice slice of life style VN.

(laugh) This is the only manga I have ever read where I started reading a chapter, thought I'd hit a time skip, and then realized it was actually a flashback.

Also holy shit, way to blow up the status quo. These girls don't do anything by half measures, do they?

Exactly what happened with me. I clicked on Chapter 20 without noticing Chapter 19, and then saw it start up with the reveal from the previous chapter.

I personally find that a threesome between Sasaki, Nanasawa and Seto is a bit of a copout, since it doesn't let Sasaki come to terms with Seto not returning her feelings. That said, it might be interesting seeing Sasaki actively competing with her younger self for the girl they both like.

The fact that Nagisa's father specifically warns him that he'll have to move out if anything happens with "that woman"*- the phrasing is vague enough that Nagisa doesn't get it but the implication is clearly that he's talking about Nagisa falling in love with Ai- seems to imply that the story will eventually take a romantic turn, that Nagisa's father will find out about Nagisa and Ai being a couple, and that Nagisa and Ai will have to deal with the consequences. While I'm not a fan of that potential plot development, I have to admit that a part of me is interested in seeing how things play out if Nagisa's dad finds out that his son and sister-in-law are romantically involved.

*Incidentally, I wonder if his use of the rather rude term "that woman" seems to imply that he doesn't like Ai very much, maybe because Nagisa's staying with her rather than his father and stepmother.

Indeed, it does seem like Nagisa's father doesn't like Ai too much, even though he's the one who initially left his son to her...

As a precision, Nagisa's father didn't use one of the harshest way to talk about Ai, i.e. he didn't say "yatsu" or something like that, he said "ano josei", but still, he didn't even address her as, i dunno, "his wife's sister" or "Ai" or anything...

As for the fact that we're getting this warning from him as a story element, I'm wondering if we must take it as a Chekov's gun, or if this plot element will be dropped, which isn't impossible with manga, deadlines and axes.

Excited for the next chapters!

Generally, in fiction, any time someone gets pre-emptively warned not to do something and they don't completely understand the warning, they tend to do the thing they're not supposed to do.

Nagisa's father uses "-san" on his own wife when talking about her with Nagisa, so it seems rather noticeable that he doesn't use a similar level of courtesy on his sister-in-law, even if he isn't quite as rude as I first thought.

The fact that Nagisa's father specifically warns him that he'll have to move out if anything happens with "that woman"*- the phrasing is vague enough that Nagisa doesn't get it but the implication is clearly that he's talking about Nagisa falling in love with Ai- seems to imply that the story will eventually take a romantic turn, that Nagisa's father will find out about Nagisa and Ai being a couple, and that Nagisa and Ai will have to deal with the consequences. While I'm not a fan of that potential plot development, I have to admit that a part of me is interested in seeing how things play out if Nagisa's dad finds out that his son and sister-in-law are romantically involved.

*Incidentally, I wonder if his use of the rather rude term "that woman" seems to imply that he doesn't like Ai very much, maybe because Nagisa's staying with her rather than his father and stepmother.

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I'm a bit surprised that Chapter 6 jumped ahead after Chapter 5 left off on a semi-cliffhanger. I thought it would pick up where Chapter 5 left off and have Yvonne try to lock herself and Elsa inside before the time ran out.

Not sure how there was a cliff-hanger at all? They found a sealed room, they locked it, and the system accepted it. The countdown was just them finishing the hour-long requirement. Presumably they exited shortly after, since Elsa has the keys.

Maybe I misread it, but it seemed to me that the task wasn't finished yet, since the message says, "Sealed Room Found: Time to Task Completion," and Yvonne seemed worried about having only eight minutes left.

I'm a bit surprised that Chapter 6 jumped ahead after Chapter 5 left off on a semi-cliffhanger. I thought it would pick up where Chapter 5 left off and have Yvonne try to lock herself and Elsa inside before the time ran out.

It's a bit of a nitpick, but Toga calls Ochaco by her first name.

Is her name Shuu-chan or Fuu-chan, or both?

I had the same question, too. It seems to switch back and forth depending on the panel.

I'd personally like to see an ending in which the younger Nanasawa ends up with Seto, while Sasaki comes to terms with her feelings for Seto, takes solace in the fact that Seto got together with Sasaki's younger self and moves on. It seems like it would be the best ending for all involved.

I'd also like to see Nanasawa find out about Sasaki being her future self, since that could lead to some interesting interactions between the two. It might also be nice if Seto could learn that Sasaki is Nanasawa from the future, which might help her to realize Nanasawa's feelings for her.

You raise some good points, especially about the overtime in Japan. I suppose I'm slightly reminded of Claire Dearing from Jurassic World, who was a successful career woman(at least before the dinosaurs broke loose and killed a lot of people on her watch), but a lot of people in universe thought less of her for not getting married. This included her sister- never mind that she was getting divorced at the start of the movie. I can't help but notice that this archetype is much more likely to be female than male (although that doesn't necessarily mean that the desired person has to be a man or even a spouse).

Maybe it's just me, but I notice a recurring archetype in yuri series- successful career woman who's probably the best in her given field but feels as though she's missing something in her life (i.e. romance) and may not have basic skills like the ability to keep house. I know these kinds of stories are romances, but just once, I'd like to see a woman like that who doesn't need someone else to complete her.

I'm a bit surprised that Ai's sister is already talking about bringing Nagisa to America with her. I'd personally thought that this sort of possible permanent separation between Ai and Nagisa would happen in the final story arc of the manga, after Ai and Nagisa have developed a close bond. Then again, maybe the manga is already coming to an end.

There is AT LEAST up to chapter 14 left, since that's what's out by now, so no worries for now :)

I see. That's a relief.

This chapter didn't do much to improve my opinion of Nagisa's father and stepmother. The former came off as rather neglectful of his son and both his wives, while the latter apparently had no idea what she was getting into when she got married(a bit like Eri Minami, the Temperance Social Link of Persona 4, before she changed for the better).

This chapter's art was rather odd. The shading was strangely done, almost as if it was originally supposed to be color but was then converted into black and white, or if a different artist/assistant did it. I'm not very good at art, so I can't describe it all that well, but it looked different from the previous chapters.

It might be just me, but even as an introvert, I find Shimamura's attitude toward her "pseudo-friendships" with "Pancho," "Delos" and "Santos" to be a bit too cold and cynical. Not all connections with other people have to be deep or lasting, but she too easily writes off those three as not worth her time instead of recognizing that they're trying to be friendly and trying to genuinely respond in kind.

I think Shimamura might actually be on the spectrum. The way she handles social interaction, and the way she thinks about things are pretty atypical. Her difficulty relating to the new girls likely stems from a incomplete grasp on the simple nuances of interpersonal relation that comes naturally to the typically-minded. Also explains why she is confused by Taru's actions and behaviors.

That's certainly possible, but as someone on the spectrum, one of the most important things I've learned in life is that you have to be somewhat sociable from time to time, whether spending time with your family or talking with your classmates or coworkers when they make conversation with you, since doing so can help endear you to the people around you and make it easier to work with others. Maybe Shimamura, who's still in her adolescence, doesn't understand this yet.

I rarely say this myself, and even don't like much when others do so, but this sure looks like an axe job. Not as bad as Yuri Moyou, but still a very sudden ending. The extra bits at least look like Igarashi may have the best chances there, so at least that is nice to see, though.

I agree. Basically, nothing seemed to change at all. I was hoping the MC would go back to being a boy or there'd be some sort of romantic resolution, but it definitely seems as though it got canceled and the manga artist had to write something resembling an ending.

It might be just me, but even as an introvert, I find Shimamura's attitude toward her "pseudo-friendships" with "Pancho," "Delos" and "Santos" to be a bit too cold and cynical. Not all connections with other people have to be deep or lasting, but she too easily writes off those three as not worth her time instead of recognizing that they're trying to be friendly and trying to genuinely respond in kind.

@Girigiri

Just before the last mission, you can choose to marry anyone in your army who is:
1)Alive
2)Has an A support with you and the required points for S Support.
3)Has a compatible sexual orientation.

The bit about "Edelgard and 2 dudes" is probably referring to the house leaders. At the start of the game, you have to choose to teach one of the three houses- Edelgard's Black Eagles house, Dimitri's Blue Lions house or Claude's Golden Deer house- and while the house leader is implied to have feelings for Byleth, you can choose whoever meets the above three criteria.

As for how you get together with Rhea, that's something I can't explain without spoiling the plot, but it requires taking a specific story route, making the right decision when the time comes and getting to an A support with Rhea before the end of Part 1.