First time picking this one up, and it's amazing! The art style is great, the story is cute and making progress, and the touhou characters are well characterized. I especially like Marisa.

I'm more into MariAri, but I never say no to a good ReiMari.

My only complain is that it's up to date (thanks to the scanlation team!). I was hoping to continue reading it with the raw.

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Oooh it got a drama!?? Nice! I feel like they made the black-haired one too cute though... I imagine her as much plainer.

Indeed. While the sempai is quite plain, and she is supposed to be a foreigner, no? Well, I'll still give it a shot!

I think a lot of people are forgetting that Toriko is quite social awkward as well. She does appear as well rounded because we are only seeing her from Sorawo's perspective, but she is shy, does not do well around new people and can have trouble reading the room. So while she does make an active effort to understand Sorawo, her own awkwardness makes her do stuff that are not necessarily the best moves.

In the last page, it's written "l'amour à sens unique", which means "unrequited love" in French. I hope Toriko won't use that bag in the future :)

Glad to read that file in the manga form. I wouldn't have minded a few pages to convey Sorawo's reaction to see herself through Toriko's eye. I remember it being a bit slow in the LN, and very descriptive and it feels more like a flash here.

Well, regardless, I'm so happy the manga went that far! Can't wait to re-read in the physical copy of it!

As hot as it is, knowing how bad I feel with a fever, I don't enjoy reading it as much as I'd like. I just feel like I wouldn't like doing that in that condition ^^'

Damn that’s hot.

Shocked she didn’t just lift up the bra tho. I feel like it gets in the way

The parents are going to hear everything.

Oh god I completely forgot about that part LMAO

Probably a limitation from the prepublication magazine.

I revisit this one from time to time. It never fails to make me emotional. Probably my favorite one shot ever.
See you in 6 months!

That's the kind of subplot that breaks the suspension of disbelief for me. That kind of stuff makes absolutely no sense... At least it's with secondary characters, so I don't, mind as much, but up until now, character's behavior were coherent and credible...

I mean - I like this kind of horror vibe, but the sudden tone shift makes me worry about whether the manga might somehow be struggling - trying to find new readers by going into radical new directions.

On the contrary I think the author must be confident enough to include ,uh, "passionate" content like this. Based on their Bluesky post, they were very eager to draw this scene.

The post expresses concerns for the readership, not the mangaka. Which I can understand, when crossing different categories, it's easy to lose part of the audience. While the author seems to know what they are doing were well, I'm not sure the larger audience will appreciate the change of tone. I hope so though, I'd like to see that manga continue for a long time.

When you pick a flower it rots. In the very modern context, yuri has become somewhat removed from its old taboos. It freely indulges in sex and abuse, examining them as many facets of romance without shame. The roots of Class S remain but it's bloomed wholly anew to be almost unrecognizable at times. If you want to view AriSaku as a bridge across time, a love letter to Class S respectfully carrying it into the modern age, the rotten flower isn't something ugly but a transformation of its beauty. I would not be surprised if this symbolism sticks around.

Thank you for the translation and the notes! I like to hear about the author's comparaison with their previous work.

Im curious as to why you chose to translate 枯れる in rot instead of classic wither/die meaning to it though. Rot is much more powerful word I think, more degrading.

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I know it's not going to happen, but wouldn't it be interesting if Yuni's mom and Nanase's mom kissed?

Just kidding...... Unless??

Seriously I need a spin-off where the moms do lewd things to each other.

I don't really want that to happen, but the mom's are hot, for sure.

many train lines (in tokyo at least) are color coded, but it's not something that comes up on the loudspeaker

And none of the train (except the maintenance trains that appear randomly) is yellow :P

You mean, the chuo/sobu line ?

Nice read! It's also a good reminder that what we are perceiving can be very different from one's reality. I'm glad they found each other, it can make a whole difference at a workplace when we have someone to rely on.

11.1 ? Is there going to be a chapter 11?

this is the first part of chapter 11. Half a chapter is being released every two weeks.

Author is cruel to leave us hanging with last chapter's cliffhanger! T_T

This was a very sweet chapter though. Haruyo's expressions continue to crack me up. Although based on the last chapter, and the ominous note on the title page, I suspect the next half-chapter won't be quite so wholesome.

I'm suspecting that the alumna will want to break MC's relationship. While she acted all excited, I'm pretty sure she is the type of character to be jealous if she is seeing a couple more lovey-dovey than her own couple.

As for the "suki", Haruyo is still not understanding the whole meaning of it. She is still a kid, and her reactions makes me think she hasn't awaken her lust yet, even if she can be very teasing.

Also, I really like how Haruyo have been hurt by Kasumi going behind her back, and how they talk about it afterwards. While there are definitely a shadow looming over the story, those two have a great communication.

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Looks like Kon never let go of her obsession about being "normal".

She chose the wrong partner for that.

I agree. She is not asking that for AI's sake, but for her own insecurities, which is wrong. I wouldn't mind if she was asking that because she thought it would be better for AI's mental state, but that's not how I read the situation.

Ai is struggling, but she is really trying.

I don't think it's wrong pre se, it's a boundary for Kon that makes her uncomfortable and it's not a totally unreasonable thing to ask for.
What I would disagree with is the framing she uses for it, the "it's just normal, what you "ought" to do" part. That's just unhelpful.

I don't think it is unreasonable as well, but I don't like the fact that she hides her insecurities behind "normality ". I don't think she is aware of it, though. But I'm afraid her insecurities will push back Ai at a time when she needs the most support.

Even knowing she has a complex about being normal, I think this is less her hiding behind normality and more the fact that most people wouldn't have this much trouble deleting an ex's phone number especially if said ex had caused them as much grief as Kaede had. If someone would normally delete that ex's number, I think it's fair to wonder why they would deviate from that behavior.

Ai's response is reasonable, though. She gives a proper explanation, gives reassurance regarding their relationship but Kon's response to that is all about normality. Something doesn't sit right with me, especially when she talk about how her ex is a stranger now. It's almost like she wants Ai to completely forget about her.

I know that Ai is a trouble person, but my feeling with this chapter is that Kon is going into jealous/toxic territory a bit. I might be going to far, but again, their conversation doesn't sit right with me.

Looks like Kon never let go of her obsession about being "normal".

She chose the wrong partner for that.

I agree. She is not asking that for AI's sake, but for her own insecurities, which is wrong. I wouldn't mind if she was asking that because she thought it would be better for AI's mental state, but that's not how I read the situation.

Ai is struggling, but she is really trying.

I don't think it's wrong pre se, it's a boundary for Kon that makes her uncomfortable and it's not a totally unreasonable thing to ask for.
What I would disagree with is the framing she uses for it, the "it's just normal, what you "ought" to do" part. That's just unhelpful.

I don't think it is unreasonable as well, but I don't like the fact that she hides her insecurities behind "normality ". I don't think she is aware of it, though. But I'm afraid her insecurities will push back Ai at a time when she needs the most support.

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Looks like Kon never let go of her obsession about being "normal".

She chose the wrong partner for that.

I agree. She is not asking that for AI's sake, but for her own insecurities, which is wrong. I wouldn't mind if she was asking that because she thought it would be better for AI's mental state, but that's not how I read the situation.

Ai is struggling, but she is really trying.

Looks like Kon never let go of her obsession about being "normal".

She chose the wrong partner for that.

I agree. She is not asking that for AI's sake, but for her own insecurities, which is wrong. I wouldn't mind if she was asking that because she thought it would be better for AI's mental state, but that's not how I read the situation.

Ai is struggling, but she is really trying.

You assume the curse 'wants' anything other than pain and destruction.

Doesn't the curse want the host to die? Wouldn't that be a way to be liberated?

That's surprising. As far as I remember, the manga wasn't a big success. The author wanted to continue it but the sales weren't good enough. I guess it's a good thing, it could be a fun adaptation.

The prospect of this series just being toxic yuri doesn't bother me on its own. The fact that Igarashi made het before this is not news to me either, but from the scanlator's comment for this chapter, I now find it hard to not view Dear Flowers as more like a spiritual sequel/spinoff of Dominant than its own thing. And from that I feel kind of silly for getting all excited about this series.

I don't agree at all. I don't know if this is the first yuri work from this author or not, but they took the time to learn, integrate and modernize the class S trope. The similarities so far between those two series is a somewhat toxic relationship present in AriSaku, but we don't know enough about it to know how this will unravel. From my perspective, the author is just playing with their audience ATM. Not sure if it will go to (really) dark places.

Ok that was heavy but look at Paruyo being extra cute here
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/dear_flowers_that_bloom_in_days_of_yore_ch06#1

And look at these idiot couple floofs
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/dear_flowers_that_bloom_in_days_of_yore_ch08

It’s gonna be ok

I don't know, Haruyo's on this page gives me the chill.
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/dear_flowers_that_bloom_in_days_of_yore_ch09#24

did anyone else notice how sayori's hair changes throughout this chapter? during the sweet romantic parts, it's down and mostly loose, while the parts with more conflict or where she's hiding something, it's in a bun. if it represents how "open" she is, then there's probably more to her reaction with the box cutter scene that we don't know yet. pretty interesting!

Good observation! I noticed the change but didn't connect it with her state of mind.

I wanted to read Dominant to have a taste of what AriSaku could become, but it's het and 4 volumes, so I guess not. Thank you BLAMEY for the adding the spoiler.

The ending of that chapter is both a shock and and not a shock at the same time. Since the very beginning, we could feel something looming over the story. Both in some art panels, and because of events (the suicide mention, that was almost mentioned as a detailed is kind of a clue). But I was expecting emotional abuse, not physical one. I guess it's going to be both.

I also like how we learned that there was another letter as well before what we thought would be the first one. I'm even more curious about that part to be honest. I kind of feel like, this cycle has been happening for a very long time, and that Haruyo and Kasumi are there to break the cycle of toxic/bad ending relationships. Or at least, this is wishful thinking. They are so cute, I don't want anything/anyone (or themselves) spoiling them...

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The way the hold their hands on the last page, so cute.