I think I am getting more and more confused because it seems to me that both series are on different time line.

Me too. Like, Saori and Shizuku are dating now? Since when?

They're not dating, Shizuku's just acknowledged her own feelings for Saori. This is probably why Saori is asking about confessions, either she's thinking of confessing, or she's recognized that Shizuku has caught actual feelings and is expecting one. But they're not official, so Saori says "I'm not dating anybody" and describes the planned shrine visit as being "with a friend."

What is with the distribution of Denny's restaurants? Is there some sort of gang war centered around Denny's we don't know about? Was Akiba Maid Wars actually about yoshoku diners?

Restaurant chains typically branch out regionally, because they all have to share distribution networks. They get supplies and ingredients from the same place so you want them close enough to keep them easy and cheap to supply while spread out enough that they don't compete with themselves.

It also helps to have them close enough that managers and staff can support other locations if something goes wrong and one is left understaffed.

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I hope Yori will find out someday that Aki loved her. This is just unfair.

Why? If Aki can get over her feelings and go back to being friends, telling Yori does absolutely nothing positive for either of them, and could legitimately eff up their friendship and their relationships with others.

Also, Shiho really is the main character now huh. Not that I'm complaining, she made this manga interesting.

Yeah, I disagree with a lot of the negative sentiments about Shiho in this thread. I've enjoyed this arc and I think Shiho is interesting. But I'm often kind of a sucker for "bitchy girl that turns out to be nice but traumatized."

Cute, but why does she always end up on her left?

She doesn't always, but she always does on the train, and often elsewhere.

Sakura gets on the train first, and she seems to like grabbing an end seat, probably because she doesn't want to be pinned in by strangers on both sides. Takamine always comes and sits next to her. She's probably sitting in the same spot, too, since she's trying to make herself easy for Takamine to find. It could be that it became sort of habit to arrange themselves that way, or it could just be coincidence. Either way, Sakura noticed that Takamine is usually on her right, so she put her cute hairpin on that side, because she wants her to notice and compliment her.

We got ourselves a love triangle fam

Possibly, even probably, though it's also possible that she's just sad that she feels like her friendship is being replaced. There's no real indication that her feelings are necessarily romantic.

The death threats caught me off guard, i lmao'd hard (writing death threats to authors almost never is okay though realistically)

... Almost?

Yeah I also take issue with this word!

Jesus "Game Console" is the most precious thing I can't even aaaaaaaaaaa

It is just entirely too little too late at this point. To be hyperbolic, like negotiating Hitler down from 6 Million to 5 and getting the Nobel peace price ready.

You're aware that it's only been a few months since Shiho left the band and the most recent chapter, right?

Moreover....Could we...not? compare the bitchy singer we don't like to Hitler and the Holocaust?

Even acknowledging that you're being hyperbolic, the fact that your mind even went there makes me question how rational you could possibly be about the topic.

WEAR YOUR SEATBELTS

They might be? The Doc clearly is, and seatbelts in back seats are usually just waist belts, and we don't have a clear view of the waists of the girls in the back seat.

it's not that i hate characters like kamiya, they just happen a lot for how improbable and specific they are. the super self-aware, late in the game sudden appearance of an extra character who is emotionally aware enough to see through everyone, appears to be trying to drive a wedge between the oblivious couple-to-be, but it actually makes them take a step closer. the kamiya then has a moment of bitterness at her defeat, but also is mature and collected enough to give one or both of them a deliberate nudge or two, gives her blessing to the union, and completely breaks off her own pursuit. it's just kind of a convenient deus ex machina-type device that feels a little odd for a romance set in a school where the whole premise is that nobody is fully that emotionally self aware yet. it feels like an alien intrusion into the story, but it's hardly a usual part of romance for like, a strong rival to show up and actually kind of make it LESS complicated, yk?

it hits a bit fairytale for me somehow. like, kamiya almost realises or just knows she's not the main character. when have you ever met a teenager who knew they weren't the main character?

Look, the point of a "deus ex machina" is that an improbable or even impossible event, something that could only be engineered by the gods, swoops in and solves an unsolvable problem. It is what it is because it's vanishing unlikely.

This? This is literally a thing that happens. I know people that have done this. I've nearly been this It's a common trope in fiction because it's plausible.

Sure, there are also lots of people who can't take a hint and keep trying, and there's people who keep pushing and worm their way in between the other two, and there's even people who, despite knowing they don't have a chance, actively sabotage the couple out of spite. But the existence of those situations don't make this implausible, certainly not on the level of "deus ex machina".

Why can't those two already have sex?!

But they've had sex already...

Is this a handholding joke?

I think this manga's progression is suffering from its success.

She had to add the "angst about the future" arc to prolong the story, because since she has a hit on her hands, she wants to keep it going as long as she can, which is understandable.

When you have nearly a million followers on twitter for just ONE series, you don't want to conclude it just yet, because there's no guarantee the next series will have the same success and she'll fall back in anonymity.

This is her blessing, but also her curse.

I get that it's pretty normal to speculate about the motivation of the author in various circumstances, but sometimes I feel like people are way too keen to jump to "This work takes a creative decision I wouldn't have taken, therefore it must be the case that the author was motivated by some external pressure, because clearly someone who made a thing that I started to like wouldn't go on to make a thing that I like less, unless there were some such pressure."

A series can't just have a disappointing ending, it was "rushed" because it was "axed". An author can't just be lingering on a storyline because it's interesting to them or because it's the story they want to tell, they're "prolonging the story" because "they're afraid of falling into anonymity" Like, maybe the author just has different taste than you do? It's one thing if there's some kind of indication that they're unsatisfied with the work, but with something like this, you're basically just writing fanfiction about the author's motivations.

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Mitsuki could have an entire harem of girls if she ever managed to harness her accidental rizz powers.

Pretty sure she's practically there now.

Are they not gonna go to uni first? In which case it'll probably be dorms-

Probably is a bit strong. I don't think the proportion of university students in dorms reaches 50%.

That's gonna vary depending on where you go and what country you're in. I'm pretty sure in Japan some schools literally require all freshmen to start out in the dorms.

What? I can't comment what I want to comment? Ignore me because I'm a nobody who just want to whine about my feelings. If you're just so rational about things then ignore petty people with petty comments like me. As simple as that. No need to emphasize that all reading material here has to satisfy my emotional needs. I'm just a karen stating my feelings. That's it.

You can say whatever you want to say, and people are also free to have opinions about it.

So much going on in this chapter, it's even more confusing than usual... So we learn that Mitsuki is not good at studying, or at least worse at it than even Aya. Aya is self-conscious as usual, and then the twins and even her mom confuse Mitsuki for a guy, as well. Haven't they already met her? If not, it's still strange, since Mitsuki does not even present herself as particularly masculine here, apart from wearing a shirt (which isn't all that gender-specific, anyway, I think?). Also, we have a undercurrent of Mitsuki getting lost in thought every time the graduation exam is brought up, and by Aya's reaction, I assume it has something to do with her decision of whether to move the States or not. Lots to untangle...

The twins have met her, but they're little kids who can barely talk, and they don't really understand concepts like "boyfriend", and they've already associated that term with Mitsuki, so that's what they call her. They're literally just greeting her out of familiarity and it's the only way they know to refer to her. Note how Mitsuki pals around with them once they come up with her, they're all familiar, she's just taking it in stride.

Mom doesn't know Mitsuki, so she mistakes her for a boy, partly because of Mitsuki's androgynous style, but also because her kids just ran into the room yelling BOYFRIEND BOYFRIEND! but then the little ones recount that Aya said she was "an Onee-chan".

Why is it here? Putting aside all the genre-tag business which may or not turn out the way you think it will, this story is here because it’s a fun story with cute characters, unusual and evocative art, and sweet interactions among the cast.

Not every story is designed to meet your individual emotional needs. It’s possible to just read a story for what’s actually on the page and not obsess about what other people say about it.

What Blastaar said.

Yeah, I mean, there's plenty of manga on here that are categorized as het, bi, yuri crush, subtext, etc etc. The suggestion that "why is it even here" like, actively ignores that Dynasty is not, nor has it ever been as long as I've been here, just for romantic yuri genre stories.

I love that Kanna knew the whole time and was just letting the dude twist in the wind.

Unexpected Lower Decks!

1. I still love this manga (no matter what)
2. This arc is FINALLY done (ngl, I was sort of hoping Yamada would've taken a break from Kase, esp after her bs)

Honestly Kase's jealous fits would have been way more of a dealbreaker for me than this arc.

1. Kase's teammates SUCK (who tf actively interferes with some one moving out of a dorm to live with their so?!)

None of them KNOW this.

1. "Congrats on your PERSONAL best"... I still trounced you (hard) but, y'know, congrats... (That would hurt SO much).

Yeah, honestly if it was anybody but Kase, it'd be hard to take that as anything other than a passive aggressive burn.

But the MCs are so joined at the hip in this one that Fukami was always going to be emotional road kill, and as several others have noted, unless Kase was going to lose the race and thus cause any number of crises/epiphanies, the entire arc has no real consequences, except that Yamada lost a great apartment because Kase is a fucking dolt.

I get the feeling things with Kase's team are just beginning honestly.

I don't think things with Fukami are quite over, (I think Kase will come out to her and introduce Yamada as her girl, honestly) but I do think this was the climax, I wouldn't say "just beginning."

And the pressure would certainly be there with everyone seeing Kase moving out after a loss as her going back on her word.

Yeah but which is worse, going back on her word with the team or with Yamada? When she said what she said to Fukami in the last chapter she was more or less acknowledging that Yamada took priority no matter what... but she still intended to win.

Yeah, but what we're talking about in this chain of thought is why Fukami might think she can pressure Kase into staying if she wins, and Fukami doesn't know Kase is moving out to be with her girlfriend.

Jocks are dumb regardless.

This is a true. Kase is definitely a big dumb jock.

Well, she did say that to Fukami, but everyone else clearly didn't know this.

Last time I'll jump in: but Fukami was under the impression that if she won, she'd keep Kase. She thinks that in this chapter, near the end of the race. So it really seems as though that was still the assumed result of winning. I guess Kase could feel differently but we never get her thoughts in this chapter. I think it's looking more likely that what seemed like a line Kase drew in that earlier chapter was just a throwaway (or misread on our part, as we struggled to salvage the situation) and not anything serious. Maybe Kase will say something next chapter.

Well, it's also possible that Kase intended that to move the goalposts but Fukami is pretty sure that if she wins she can use the social pressure to make Kase stay, since apparently Kase has the spinal fortitude of a jellyfish.

In a standard "who is going to get together with who?" yuri story, Fukami could have been an interesting character--totally repressed about her own feelings, and ripe for all kinds of self-realizations when confronted with the erotic aura of the clueless goddess-prince Kase.

But the MCs are so joined at the hip in this one that Fukami was always going to be emotional road kill, and as several others have noted, unless Kase was going to lose the race and thus cause any number of crises/epiphanies, the entire arc has no real consequences, except that Yamada lost a great apartment because Kase is a fucking dolt.

(That is, unless Fukami now goes full-metal yandere or something. I don't foresee that happening, though.)

Yeah, pretty much agree with all of this.

Honestly for the longest time I thought Fukami was going to side-couple up with Kase's other little fangirl. I feel like that would have been way more interesting. Maybe that's still where she ends up on the rebound, but eh, it is way less entertaining this way.

(also oh my god these two are so adorable I can't)

60 chapters in, and still no actual progress?

Dropped.

Can I have your stuff?

A lot of readers seem to want what amount to spoiler tags: “If the MCs don’t get together romantically, preferably with at least a kiss if not an actual sex scene, I don’t want to waste my time reading it.”

Dynasty has tended to be careful with tags (like Tragedy ) that give away the ending of a series, at least before the story is completed, so I don’t think there’s a viable way to ever satisfy those folks.

Well, and even if you did, there's other people who don't want to be spoiled, and they would just be upset instead.