Koko deserved to end with Mya.

Sakuya needs to chill or she's gonna make Meiling run away.

Put me down as another finding the endings pretty underwhelming, especially the ones about the teacher and her student and the manga/editor, it feels like their relationship had a significant change and then came back to the same place with no sign of moving forward anytime soon. Saori and Shizuku never truly moved beyond the tsundere dynamic but it got a better closure, oh well, maybe Mikanuji will come back to those couples in the future and give them a proper resolution.

I just noticed that the bearded guy in Frost's flashbacks, wishing Frost had never born, is wearing the Black Knight Armor, ergo, is her father.

As I said before, Clarice is a fantastic main character. She has avoided so far all the usual pitfalls romance leads fall into and moving the story at a very enjoyable pace while at the same time growing organically as character. Violet on the other hand, still confuses me, she was introduced as you typical corrupt business owner but the more we see of her and her relationship with Shion, the more human and vulnerable she becomes, right now it seems she and Shion will be the begruding allies rather than the rivals.

Shion is a nice foil to Frost but she seems a bit shallow at the moment and is great to see more of Frost's mental state and how utterly terrified she is of letting someone close to her, ironically, she wasn't wrong, Clarice did have ulterior motives to marry her so I fully expect this little secret to come back and bit Clarice's in the ass down the line.

Lastly, for some reason, I assumed the little girl in Frost's flashback was Shion, implying she is the reason Shion is missing an eye.

I cracked up at Natori looking at Lapis before returning Diana's greeting. Poor Diana is not even in the race and she doesn't know it. That said, Diana going all-in on ignoring teamwork just to show off and then antagonizing Alexandra because of her ties to Lapis is kind of grating and doesn't show Diana in a positive light. Here's hoping this tournament arc actually gives Diana the development she needs and more importantly, it sticks.

Preordering Vol 4 at Animate will give you a 4-page leaflet that is seemingly a modern AU

https://www.animate-onlineshop.jp/pd/3008371/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=book_pd3008371_20250319

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Translations are back!

So, Diana's new girlfriend is a noble, eh? That Lapis is pretty cunning.

Frost absolutely won, she was fighting with a handicap to not give up her identity as the Black Knight and was able to not only force Shion to pull out her mask power-up but end the fight on a stalemate (that as pointed out was less of a stalemate than a dramatic clash on Frost's favor).

Yeah, Clarice is a delight as an MC because she doesn't stay idle waiting for things to solve themselves, she actively pushes head on towards her goals no matter the obstacles. Violet has turned out to be surprisingly sympathetic and I doubt anyone saw the twist about her family coming.

The series is still going, the Japanese raws are up to chapter 25.

Actually, it seems that Diana has a new love interest

https://x.com/nekotarou0721/status/1890300375233958211

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The artwork here is so good, but I want to point out a subtle detail that struck me as interesting. I'm not sure how much it matters, but when Shion puts on her mask, both of its eyes glow, despite one of her eyes being covered by an eye patch, which seems to imply that while her mask is on she can see through both eyes and that its more than just a mask. Similarly, despite the mask having both of its eyes, the left eye is surrounded by a similar flower design to the eye patch so I wonder if the two are connected somehow.

Sometime posted a reference sheet for Shion's mask, actually.

Funnily enough, Sometime admits the mask is just so Shion can transform like Frost does, ala Super Sentai.

Very interesting reveals but is clear that Violet's account of the Day of the Ashes events aren't complete and will be later contextualized when we know Frost's side of the story. I hope that Clarice's love for Frost is strong enough to not be influenced by a clearly biased third party but is a nice counterpart to Frost suddenly realising that she actually loves Clarice.

The series ends in April so three chapters to go

https://x.com/nanatsu_/status/1880268845681631524

https://x.com/nekotarou0721/status/1879472226657063404

Cool Lapis animation made by Nekotarou to remind people to vote for the series in this year's "manga we want to see animated" poll

Yeah it was strange that she didn't materialized out of thin air to murder Meiling for "cheating on her"

I do appreciate that Meiling's schilicking material is of Sakuya, though

It's nice to have a couple of chapters where everyone is less of an asshole to each other and are relatively normal lovey-dovey couples. I think is nice that the story is ending soon and not being dragged to eternity but I feel like there is not enough chapter to give proper closure to all the couples.

Shion and Frost are so similar that it is no wonder they are immediately going for each other's throats, that said, Shion is pretty interesting despite being nothing more than a huge Violet simp right now, it must be her design. I'm curious about what Violet is plotting, certainly can't be anything good but I trust Clarice to be savvy enough to deal with her.

Frost just happening to pick the earrings meaning for your beloved is a huge coincidence, could it be that Clarice if starting to thaw her ice heart?

I wasn't ready for page 26 at all, holy shit.

And once again, it felt like this chapter was setting the end game, I wonder how long Dorothy can keep the mystery going.

Arata isn't even a character, he is just a plot device to explore Yuzu's motivations and insecurities.

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New pic of Shion and Frost

https://twitter.com/Sometime1209/status/1867117186478739892

デカくて強い女たちの戦いが見たいよ～～～！！！！(癖)
I want to see big, strong women fighting~~~！！！！ (habit)

Going by google translate, I think that the text above Shion is calling her "Dog girl servant" heh.

Huh, all this time I thought Gran had blue hair.

It still feels like Yuzu is creating an artificial crisis for herself here, to me at least. I guess I'd understand it more if it was all still an obvious stand-in for her own insecurities about Mei getting too close with Arata, but it's somehow gone beyond that now and she truly wants to save the other academy. I don't really get why she should care that much about it. I guess Yuzu is just this kindhearted a person and it's in her nature to help.

Yuzu is definitely overthinking here, I don't know why she's assuming Akamine Academy will get wiped when everything so far points to merely becoming either the male branch of Aihara or that both academies will fuse into a bigger mixed academy. She even comes off as slightly condescending towards Arata by assuming he is being kept out of the loop despite the negotiations having gone on for a while. At least is nice that Sabu didn't take the easy way and use Arata for more romantic misunderstandings.

I'm more curious about what is going on with Harumin, is she having second thoughts about going to college or is she planning to go to a different college than Yuzu (Overboard maybe?) Also, her grandma is pretty cool, the best adult in the series since Ume.

This series keeps getting denser and wackier at the same time that I stopped trying to predict what will happen. Masaki is weirdly endearing by being so blunt and forceful about her interest in Aizawa (a crush?) and it was pretty nice to have her confront Michi about her feelings for girls.

Also, have I mentioned how much I love all the silly faces characters do?

Regarding the "one wish" thing, to play devil's advocate, this is supposed to be a game and that kind of convenient plot device are dime a dozen. It will be interesting to see how that will translate with actual characters and not just npcs following a script.

I'm still not convinced about the Lapis is Aurora theory. It seems too contrived for my liking, but I'm convinced that Nekotarou is good enough of a writer to pull it off if that is where the story is heading. The OT3 or Poly route on the other hand is something that I'm certain it has zero chance of happening, everything is building up to the Lapis and Natori endgame.