I, for one, am still in it for the YoriHima.

I was lukewarm on this series when I first picked it up back in 2019, and just more or less followed it out of habit. But when the anime came out and I got an excuse to re-read the manga from scratch, something clicked and Yori is now by far my favorite character. For a long time I've been into characters that are some combination of edgy/brooding/tomboyish/androgynous/flat-chested; they're like that compromise between masculine enough to be relatable to me, while still being feminine enough to be attractive to me. Maybe I just wasn't pay attention enough on first read or something.

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I thought YuGiOh was about cards......maybe I should catch up on the series....

Shame though, not a single "It's time to D-d-d-duel!!"

I kinda thought the same thing. The seed was planted with Dark Magician Girl but adding moe anime streamer monsters is really modern and next-level.

I think its a waste to make a doujin about characters who dress in elaborate costumes and then have them just wear boring contemporary clothes for the duration.

I feel the same way about every goddamn "high school AU" fanartist out there.

Finally... the anime is un-dead(?) https://x.com/sasakoi_anime/status/1857347811882459618?t=RqY0EHC4YaS42QST6BhggA&s=19

Plus, chapter 53 raws are out https://imgur.com/a/sasakoi-chapter-53-raws-EDhTxPI
It's still a short chapter, but most of the people who wanted to see either YoriHima and/or AkiShiho back will be happy

English translation is out... So I read the raw, but since I'm still a beginner in Japanese, I misread the bottom right panel on page 1 as Himari asking Yori to hand-make her own lunches. What she actually said though... Yori's like the daughter-in-law already

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It almost feels like Ouka-senpai's intentionally dodging out of situations where she can have sex with Asumi-chan, which makes her stand out as one of only two characters in this series, along with Mai, to not have had sex with Asumi-chan yet.

Since I'm a huge pervert, I want both Mai and Ouka-senpai to have sex with Asumi already. Nothing against Nanao, but I don't want to see Asumi become "exclusive".

Genshin is still in the "too big to fail in the forseeable future" stage but it's been out so long it's probably easier to find someone IRL who burned out on it than someone who still plays every day. It happened to me after 2.5 years.

That's just how it is with a lot of live-service games in general, no matter how big they get. They leave a big trail of people who don't play it anymore.

momoka and hajime have been together for some time

Are they actually a couple or do they just hang together a lot, bound by shared dead loved one?

My guess is they've been in love with each other for a while, but both are too shy/awkward to make it official because of the Kyou situation.

I commented last month on how I had just finished The Summer You Were There, but what I didn't mention was chapter 51 of this came out right after and jumping from KimiTsuzu back to this arc, I got this creeping feeling of dread that I was wasting my time reading this. AkiMiki is a non-starter because even if you like incest, you should know it's never going to happen. Takeshima isn't going to drive a wedge in between AkiShiho just one volume after saying she wants to draw many more adventures with them.

I reread the YoriHima chapters every so often and there are still so many golden moments they have, so this manga isn't completely dead to me, but I recently binged A Kiss and a White Lily and now I wonder if SasaKoi is also going the "couple buffet" route... AyaMiki could take as many as 15 chapters to resolve; HajiMomo may overlap with this and then continue on after AyaMiki are resolved. By then we could be as far as 2028 IRL.

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I forgot to comment on this when it got featured last week but I mixed this up with A Kiss and a White Lily a few weeks ago and thought "surely I had at least read the first chapter of this? Probably didn't finish it tho"

So I read both... and I'm not completely sure I actually finished this years ago but either way it's a nice read. AnoKiss was also really good too.

Is this considered original? The brown haired girl is from NEET Girl Date Night, made by the same artist https://hitsujigoods.itch.io/ngdn

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What the hell this is so cute! I've only played the original VN and had no idea there was an expansion full of yuri. I probably ignored this when it was first uploaded to Dynasty and only caught it now that someone put it up on e-hentai lol.

Now I gotta wishlist the Plus expansion...

Ok, I'm a late arrival but I had to comment.

I didn't really know of this manga's existence until Dynasty/MangaDex had already slapped it with the big fat Tragedy tag, and I usually shy away from those. But from a sudden recommendation from an internet buddy I tried it. Binged it in just over 2 hours. The epilogue as well.

Cried quite a lot. This is one of the greatest manga I have ever read. Re-read it from scratch. Cried some more. Re-read just the sad parts. Cried EVEN MORE. Just devastating. ABSOLUTELY GUT-WRENCHING.

I don't like getting hurt, but this story is still so beautiful I'm re-reading it over and over again; obviously I wanted them to be a couple for real too ;_;

It changed my life. I lost weight after reading this. Made me just nauseated from sadness for a few days. Going back to another manga I loved, Whispering You a Love Song, I got this dreadful feeling that it was a huge waste of time. I guess it's just because the arc it's in right now is boring but yeah.

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For years I was all-in on the HajiMomo train, even after the Kyou death reveal, but just last week I read "The Summer You Were There" and I cried and cried and it's one of the greatest manga I've ever read and now I got traumatic PTSD and I'm not so sure if I want HajiMomo to just go out immediately. It doesn't feel so "right" anymore.

And when Miki was all like "I love Aya-senpai, but not romantically" I was like "I've heard this damn story before already with Himari -> Yori and Aki -> Shiho, they both fall in love for real, so just go out with Aya-senpai already, you'll get over your Nee-chan and fall in love with Aya-senpai for real before you know it"

No we need someone to play (whisper) a love song first. That's the name of the game and I'm wondering if we'll find some creative way of doing that here too. The first two were very different. I don't think Aya senpai plays music though so who knows, maybe Miki or Momo does something. Gotta keep music involved somehow.

Well, Miki's already in the Wind Instrument Club (insert blowing joke here), so she can at least make that love song. She might not be able to sing like Shiho/Yori but hey, Aki sung something, even though in-universe I think it wasn't as good, and she got the girl.

Momoka's part of Laureley with Hajime and Shiho, remember? lol I think she's the bassist. She could do the same.

I'm also wondering if Takeshima-sensei regrets writing Miki as having dated a boy. Surely she couldn't have just forgotten? I'm not going so far as to say the anime was an active retcon, but I dunno.

For years I was all-in on the HajiMomo train, even after the Kyou death reveal, but just last week I read "The Summer You Were There" and I cried and cried and it's one of the greatest manga I've ever read and now I got PTSD and I'm not so sure if I want HajiMomo to just go out immediately. It doesn't feel so "right" anymore.

And when Miki was all like "I love Aya-senpai, but not romantically" I was like "I've heard this damn story before already with Himari -> Yori and Aki -> Shiho, they both fall in love for real, so just go out with Aya-senpai already, you'll get over your Nee-chan and fall in love with Aya-senpai for real before you know it"

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^yeah, buuut should've still had more flat cleavage, then.

Yuama I think promised a chapter with a lot of YoriHima kissing and she delivered

8/10 not enough cleavage

"You suck"

"But I gave it my all!"

"Thanks, but the mood was enough to satisfy me."

This cliche really does happen all the time.

But also, I can't be the only one who uses chopsticks for chips/crisps as well! Keeps the "cheeto dust" off my fingers.

We pseudo-incest now? smh either commit to the incest tag or don't lol

Or at least, I don't think Takeshima-sensei is going to pull out the "NOT BLOOD-RELATED" card... unless the tagger knows something I don't?

We can argue forever about this generation being better than that or whatever, but imo every generation has produced some absolute fuckin' waifus

Cynthia is the best Champion for sure. Not just hot, but her Pokemon team is just the nastiest.

Why is this 10-year-old doujin of a series that hasn't had any new media in 6 years on the "Most Popular of Past 7 Days" list? It's not a BAD one, and Madokami knows I already read it within the week it came out, but still.

Site glitch? View botting? Or just one/a few really, really dedicated fans inflating the view count "au naturel"?

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I've been caught up on the manga since before the anime was announced, but man, I'm finally watching the anime now that Blu-Rays (with the least possible censorship) are out and it is still so hilarious and hot at the same time that I almost regret not following the anime threads from other sites to see the reactions and throw a shitpost of my own here or there

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Wait, is that Yuama-sensei from the manga The Summer You Were There?

Yes. She's a big fan of SasaKoi and seems like a good friend of Takeshima too. They've made multiple crossover artworks together between these two series.

https://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/22437

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Next chapter (raw) is out and looks like the incest route is real?! https://imgur.com/a/sasakoi-chapter-50-raws-TO8QAyj

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Ayaka also showed up in chapter 38, before the vol. 8 extras came out. Bit of a Chekhov's gun, heh https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/whispering_you_a_love_song_ch38#17

This development is comedy gold (and I say this with love)

• If Miki is in love with Shiho, what a tirefire that would be. Another car crash to Shiho's collection.

• If Miki is in love with Aki, well, that's incest, but I don't really mind a bit of love between sisters, so I don't think that would be quite as crazy from a comedy/drama perspective.

• The most boring and fairly unlikely outcome is that Miki is not in love with anyone at all, or is actually in love with Ayaka-senpai and is just mad Aki and the other girls kind of jumped the gun on that confession there. I'd also lump "Miki is genuinely straight or asexual" into this boring category as well.

• The fourth option and true wildcard is that Miki is in love with another established character, and that could go any which way.

Ummm... I don't like where this is going to be honest. Like please be something else, please. At least the “incest” plot in Citrus they are half sisters that didn't grow up together or were raised by their parents, they were strangers, Mei and Yuzu's parents relationship is weird, not the point. Here, in sasakoi if they are going that pat is blood related incest, it's gonna ruin this story for me.

Adding I was expecting a messy story with HajimexMomoka and being in love with the girlfriend of your deceased sister.... please no incestplot.

Who knows? We might get a "they're not blood-related" plot twist here as well.

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