^ Yes, I understand that this was the author's intention, I just didn't think this worked very well in this format.

Yeah, that's fair. It had one awkward moment for me when it required shifting reading perspective but otherwise it seemed alright. I get what you're saying, though.

No matter how poorly written or boring an arc or chapter is, they will enjoy it and defend it. I've seen people defend the arc about Arata so...

Yeah, the people who like the series and see these events and dynamics differently just don't know quality. Definitely.

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You think we're adapting to the wedding? I've enjoyed Mei's journey so far and her efforts to open up in her way, particularly in the context of this major school project. I'm still unsure of where Sabu plans to end it, though. Do we know the exact date the wedding took place? I haven't thought about it much, but it might be nice to know how far off since each chapter is dated and a good amount of time is passing.

BTW, our PFP's are almost reverses of each other--just something I noticed because the colors stand out so much. I did enjoy that anime, even though it was so silly at times (unless I am completely getting the characters wrong).

I'd assume she will, since the characters introduced in citrus+ weren't present in the original wedding, so I'd expect Sabu to either explain their absence or to retcon them in. We only know the wedding happened after their graduation and citrus+ was advertised as an "interquel" filling the gaps between Yuzu proposing to Mei and their wedding, so citrus+ should cover the rest of the third year. We are in November and Japan's school year end in March IIRC so we have five months more to go.

And no, the girls in my pfp are Mirei and Mamori from Valkyrie Drive. I just noticed the full pic isn't uploaded here, sad.

Yeah, so your PFP is what I thought it was. I watched the anime for Valkyrie Drive and recognized these two. Thanks for the dates. 5 months is a good amount (of in-universe time). I also wonder if we'll see Arata at the wedding. He seems like a good friend of the couple at this point, but since his involvement is so work-related, maybe not.

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On an unrelated note, I don't understand why this chapter was posted in a long strip format, when it was clearly intended to be separate pages? This made the reading experience a bit frustrating at times.

The raws were posted as long strip, although formatted with the intention of printing it out as a mini zine. It's just that each strip is slightly too long or too short which makes splicing them into equal pages impossible, unfortunately.

Thanks for clarifying. I did consider that the author may have also posted it as long strip, but I didn't convey that in my first comment. Sorry if I came off as rude. I still think this was a weird choice on the author's side, though (unless the raws are posted somewhere that doesn't really support the page-by-page format? Or perhaps they wanted it to stay somewhat consistent with the rest?).

Some creators make content intending to realise in multiple formats. I think this one works either way, and that might have been intentional.

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yes, seven months which is the 7 volumes we have of citrus+ but they already knew each other for a long time. how many of those 7 volumes has sabu dedicated exclusively to showing us the courtship of those two from a romantic perspective and not just crumbs? that's the problem, without forgetting two very important things, they are living their courtship under the same roof and that they are engaged. for god's sake, in this chapter she asks yuzu to write him a letter, when they are face to face alone in the room. I say, wouldn't it be time to have a conversation? I admire people who read citrus+ and everything seems perfect to them, and I mean it (no sarcasm or irony in my words) because they could be enjoying it and not as is the case.

Eh...the courtship was the whole point of the original citrus.

Yeah, great development having Mei show us that she's able to have emotions... after how long is it? 17 volumes? And god knows how long they've been together? And for a couple that's bout to get married?

I get it that some fans might still enjoy these two touching hands once in a while, blushing when the other say something vaguely nice and so on, but we're not talking about a couple that just asked each other out for the first time, we're talking about two engaged girls. And yet they still behave like almost strangers, just casually giving a compliment to each other once every blue moon while they're busy with school mergers, doing homeworks or getting mixed up in other people's unnecessary dramas. There's anything but the proper development of a relationship here and that's not exactly the story as advertised

Mei was repressing her emotions through all of citrus, citrus+ is where she's making an effort to make up to Yuzu for everything she made it go through. And strangers? Mei is actually trusting Yuzu with her plans for the academy, something the old Mei would've never done.

You think we're adapting to the wedding? I've enjoyed Mei's journey so far and her efforts to open up in her way, particularly in the context of this major school project. I'm still unsure of where Sabu plans to end it, though. Do we know the exact date the wedding took place? I haven't thought about it much, but it might be nice to know how far off since each chapter is dated and a good amount of time is passing.

BTW, our PFP's are almost reverses of each other--just something I noticed because the colors stand out so much. I did enjoy that anime, even though it was so silly at times (unless I am completely getting the characters wrong).

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One step forward, a thousand steps back. At this point, Lapis really is completely alone (and almost certainly suicidal, as it's doubtful that she expects to survive the implementation of her plan).

But if at first you don't succeed, try again ! Come on, Natori !

The big change is now she's alone out of fear and love for Natori rather than disdain, like with others. Natori means so much to her that she doesn't want her getting muddied along the way or the feelings that come with her presence. That's a big step forward but comes with some unfortunate consequences. But like you said Natori isn't a quitter so we'll see what she (and the athlete couple) can do.

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Again, I'm baffled at all the comments saying that Mei shows no emotions when this chapter is all about showing how out of her depth she is with her own emotions due to having been repressed for so long.

It was nice to see that Grampa Aihara has chilled out and is on good terms with the girls. Ume continues to be a treasure, and Mei asking Yuzu for a letter was incredibly sweet.

I'm wondering what kind of letter she'll expect from Yuzu, and about what.

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It’s remarkable how commenters here care so much more about the boyfriend than the story does.

I mean, the story itself keeps bringing him up. It could have had her dump him several chapters ago; many of us thought she had given the line about her friends trying to get them back together. Instead it's being strung along for some reason. Maybe just for "ooh, cheating!" frisson, maybe something else.

No, you’re right about that. I just mean the discussion about the “proper” and ethical way to treat a character who was introduced as a scumbag and kept offstage ever since.

It's more about what she would want to do. I'd definitely break up over text and go on about my day, but I doubt a young Japanese girl who worries about how she's viewed will want to deal with the results of that.

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I kept getting so incredibly nervous that they would kiss here, the boyfriend would see them, and then a huge amount of drama would explode from there. I'm still scared lmao

I WAS LITERAAAALLLY GETTING ANXIOUS ABOUT THE SAME THING

It REALLY felt like it was building up to that. Glad it didn’t

True lol. Though, I feel like she'd just breakup with him. I'm honestly trying to understand how they'd even present drama from him. She reiterated how she wants to dump him and now has told her actual GF this, so he shouldn't have much leverage.

The leverage he has is him telling all their classmates “She cheated on me so we broke up”

There’s no reason why she hasn’t broken up with him. Just do it over text. There’s zero reason to go meet him in person to break up and it’s safer for her over text.

He was comfortable grabbing her and trying to force a kiss on her without making sure she was actually okay with it, I’m sure grabbing her and begging, “Please, hear me out! I’ll do better!” Isn’t far beneath him— and hurt people are unpredictable. Best to do it over text just to say that you did it, block and move on

It's polite to break up in person, especially if the other person confessed in person. I'm assuming breaking up via text or phone isn't even a possibility in her mind, and would be perceived as a bit rude to her friends and classmates. We'll see though! They made him irrelevant and even joked about that in this chapter lol, so I'm really wanting to see how they handle it. It feels like only comedy would work without feeling like a disorienting tone shift.

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I kept getting so incredibly nervous that they would kiss here, the boyfriend would see them, and then a huge amount of drama would explode from there. I'm still scared lmao

True lol. Though, I feel like she'd just breakup with him. I'm honestly trying to understand how they'd even create drama from him. She reiterated how she wants to dump him and now has told her actual GF this, so he shouldn't have much leverage. The only thing I could see is her friends being involved but her other friend didn't seem to mind already, no?

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And then the boyfriend got lost on his way back to his home planet, so these two became a couple instead. That's how it's going to go right...?

Feels weird that this is "Yuri" and both girls have good chemistry...but then it's all setup for the boyfriend date. I don't like that.

Agreed. I thought there would be a turn or at least a hint of one but there wasn't. She still seems happy to be off to her date with her BF and it ends. At least our MC seemed moved but overall, that's not exactly a fun conclusion. Still, a nice interaction, if it were any other genre. They were cute. Will just have to imagine the future that wasn't shown unless she adds a continuation later.

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We'll that's one way to get them to join up lol. Yuri and leader are so great. Love their relationship. Everyone in this series is various levels of hilariously scummy but I guess at least Leader hasn't been on a killing spree like our main two. I wonder if we'll truly find out what Yuri is keeping from Leader too. That secret account. Series is always a lot of fun.

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but because this is girls, and not a gay man/trans woman its ok right?

Yeah that's all it is. You've cracked the code. I'm in awe.

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I feel not much is happening...I want more toxic mess!

The crazy girl lying her head on the piano promises some mess and a "date"(?).

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Who is piano girl or Taki?

She's the girl that was introduced 2 chapters ago and Taki is Fuuko.

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Reminds me of SpellAstra for some reason, just change pink hair for red.

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This manga is so awesome.

Indeed. The introspection aspect is so great. I really should read the novel, but it's a bit off putting that there are so many volumes.

I command you to read them. There might even be cake once you're done.

last edited at Jul 15, 2025 2:00AM

This isn’t even romance, not even a hint of it, just a good person saving someone and they become friends. I could see a foundation for romance here but…..this is all it is lol

It's the (hopeful) start of something. It has a call to action in the past page. It wasn't meant to be a full story. It's basically pitch. For what it is, it's really fun. I'd love to see more of it.

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O.K... I mean for a one shot, it feels uncompleted.

It feels like coming from an LN prologue.So good, yet it feels lack of LOTS OF continuation.

It ltierally says "If you want to see those two again, share and comment". This is the author trying out wether this would be popular as a full series.

I seriously doubt that Chigusa can handle one more series when her hands are full at the moment with three manga and a bunch of illustration jobs.

Well needing consistent income comes first unfortunately and manga series don't pay that much.

last edited at Jul 14, 2025 11:57AM

Lovely. How haven't I read this already.

Mai hasn't been around long enough to show chemistry with Asumi.

Yeah that's the problem.

I wouldn't really say it's a problem personally, more so that it's something that will in theory be expanded on soon. It took awhile to work up to the reunion, but assuming the series keeps going for awhile there's plenty of time for them to establish chemistry and so forth. It's something where I'm curious how I'll be feeling about Mai next year. At least so far I want a happy ending for everyone lol

It's a problem because the series developed her relationship with Nanao too much considering how flimsy the Mai stuff has been, so that now they seem like competing routes when I don't think that's really where we're going. We're supposed to root for her to friendzone someone the series showed actual chemistry with for someone we rarely see because they were childhood friends. It feels odd.

I don't feel like Nanao was meant to be anything more than another sex friend, so I think their chemistry was overdone. I'd be surprised if Nanao is treated like the serious love interest some people want but I can't blame them when the story presented her like one. We'll see though. I'm imagining MC will just hit it off with Mai now and we won't seriously touch the Nanao stuff. Still a cute series anyway.

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Mai hasn't been around long enough to show chemistry with Asumi.

Yeah that's the problem.

I don't think this story is very focused on game logic. The games background seems more for setting than anything else. This series hasn't been like other isekai like "Please Bully Me Miss Villainess." It doesn't spend much time on that game logic stuff and we get nearly no mentions of systems beyond the typical isekai basics. I view this as a fantasy series with an MC who has future insight; so I also don't expect any mystical force governing things and I think that would be odd tonally at this point. The rest just seems to be the politics of the situation. I just realized someone else mentioned PBMMV too.

last edited at Jul 13, 2025 7:03PM

i still havent seen how this relates to ice cream, 0/10

It may not be yuri, but if you want the most convoluted explanation to that... watch Hyouka.

Anyway, this ended surprisingly well for how short notice it was. Still a better ending than How Do I Get Together With My Childhood Friend?

I resent you for reminding me of that series.

When sensei told her to show up just as she is and she shuddered, I figured she just didn't have underwear on, or had a toy or something. Wasn't expecting her to have full on shibari getup. My mind isn't as perverted as I thought I guess.

Same. We should be ashamed.

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