I guess you never read any of those hundreds of Isekai-Harem-Superpower-PERfEct-IMMortAl-EvenGodLovesYOU stories...

I mean. Why would you? :|

IIRC, the frog dies in the original story.

Don't they both die? I looked it up once, but can't quite recall at the moment.

The short story has no real ending. The salamander and the frog spend years stuck in the cave and they still stubbornly refuse to admit they appreciate each other's company.

Tsundere couples, in MY classic lit?!

^It's a pretty common surname, probably not in the least because it's also the name of a... whole bunch of locales.

^ Hai hai~ Kroos desu yo~

My guess is that her childhood friend is the one who is gonna die.

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:v

Oh, don't get me wrong, this series is currently my second favorite after the obvious Yagate Kimi ni Naru; on the other hand, while I do love Ani no Yome as well, the latest chapter implying that Nozomi will be dragged to a mixer now is not where I would have wanted it to go. We'll see how she reacts to this, though.

edit: Potential spoilers for other series spoilered.

Ritsuko, the best friend hauling her out of doors, is a lesbian.

I doubt she assumes the same of Nozomi, though. But that does alleviate my fears a bit.

The paranoia level, it's OVER 9000!
crushes scouter

lmao @ the entire assembled managerial dept. unanimously taking the opportunity to gather kompromat on Da Chief

And I'm not saying this necessarily means Saburuta doesn't make fun of HaruYuzu shippers through Nene, but since I believe there were some underlying feelings from Harumin, I don't think she'd make fun of her own writing.

Self-depreciating humor is a thing you know.

^no. She first turned up before the Whateverth Impact that put Shinji out of the picture for years and stuck around as the whatchamacallem resistance groups other EVA pilot thereafter. Insofar the term remains applicable regarding the pilots the two aged together.

3*s are also a plague upon Recruitement search pulls so there's that >_>

^^^not so much basically as literally - for the entirety of the first in-universe school year she was just another nameless face in Akane's group and had a grand total of maybe three or so spoken lines (I counted once). Her sudden upgrade into an important and prominent character (and de facto Kuro's first actual friend at school) at the beginning of the second year IMO stands as a textbook example of the creators' enviable skill at making nameless background figures just distinctive enough their role and characterisation can be expanded at will.

Something very similar was later done with Asuka's, Sachi's and Emoji's friends to good effect.

Can you not assume that English speaking people know French. This is just gibberish.

If a few random bits of widely-known phraseology render it "gibberish" to you I daresay the issue is found between the proverbial keyboard and chair instead.

-she was getting late
-managed to have sex with her girl anyways
-avoids being late
h-hayai

She just became faster than a laser bullet, half man half machine. Painkiller. o3o

I'm an old reader and I don't get what you mean. Is it about how the author doesn't want to label her manga as Yuri?

When the author spoils the end you think people would take the hint.

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sho good ;_;

Chances are high Miku's either lying through her teeth about that deadline or simply certain she'll have Kyouko won over long before, anyway. It's pretty obviously yet another device to light a fire under Kyouko's butt so she doesn't procastrinate over the matter - as she herself admits she well might.

Never forget that Miku clearly knows her osananajimi inside out and has no compunctions about pushing her buttons to expedite matters (and, presumably, for funsies - girl comes across as an inveterate troll after all).

I have NO CLUE on what the seashells are signaling to.

Hanky panky o3o

I looked up Momiji's species and apparently she's a goat? I thought she was a weird dog lol.

She has horns you know... Technically a caprine or "goat-antelope", goats proper (Capra) are in a different branch of that family tree.

^ Miku has the "lil' shit temptress" act down to an art form :D

...so did we sack Rome along the way? Somehow I have the worst hangover and no recollection of last night...

:v

Yoshitomi delivers

I particularly like the juxtaposition of Miku's nigh-perpetual troll smirk and Kyouko's constant frown that says she knows perfectly well her strings are being pulled but goes along with it anyway because gay af :d

Fish flavor ice cream?

That is a thing, apparently.

There is authorial intent that's shown in the afterword. ' "As long as they have each other, they don't need anything else." It's a bit of a dangerous line of thinking, but the two of them can acknowledge those feelings and try to have a normal, happy relationship.' I think that saying that there is zero authorial intent is a tenuous claim, even if exact interpretations of the text can vary.

And trying to decipher from that what the author intended to say with this story basically amounts to divining from tea leaves.

I'm honestly pretty impressed by the rigor with which clear answers of any kind have been excised from this work.

Except that's exactly what you did:

If this were a different story with less clear themes and plot, I would certainly agree. This story's intent was very clear from the second chapter, --

You also engaged in some pretty textbook projecting there so, yeah. Doesn't take much of a mental gear shift to read very different meanings and authorial intent to the story as a brief parse of this whole forum thread readily demonstrates; say contemplative spiritual-mystical symbolism can readily be argued to be just as "clear themes and intent" as the specific psychological paradigm you're thumping for.

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The point I'm making here is that you're choosing a very specific normal-human-behaviour paradigm to interpret the story by and arbitrarily declaring that as "very clear" authorial intent.

Which is bupkis to be quite blunt about it, not to mention terribly limited and more than a little arrogant.

The author no doubt entirely deliberately only gives the audience some ambiguous hints and no clear answers whatsoever; the meaning and even in-universe content of just about everything that could be claimed to be important in the story is very much left open. If anything whatever particular meaning and interpretation a reader ascribes to the narrative arguably merely reflects his or her particular preoccupations and ideas.

I would argue this story is something akin to a koan or a Sufi parable - it holds a mirror to the audience, so to speak, inviting them to bounce their own ideas and values off itself and challenging them to contemplate such themes and meanings as they may find in it.