Hah. Fun chapter.
Maybe you should check up on her, Mitsuki? She may be in a familiar place with people she knows but I don't think it's all that healthy to drink enough to pass out just like that.

It is, however, normal for Aya, as we saw back in chapter 144. She gets buzzed, starts crying, starts shouting, then dozes off. That's her regular pattern. The only difference is the clingy bug phase has her leaning on the wrong shoulder because her girlfriend is avoiding her.

I am not even sure if Mitsuki understands what it means when the girlfriend is crying and leaning on someone else's shoulders. Just shoked? Any normal person would stop and go look after the girlfriend immediately.

Mitsuki is behind Aya. She hasn't seen the tears. She just sees the lean, and is terrified of what that could mean.

(Tho revisiting the stages of drunkenness, the tears aren't uncommon when she gets drunk anyway, she might not even recognize that they're out of the ordinary if she had seen them.)

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I really appreciate all the comments explaining the chapter's connection to their respective songs because I hate/don't care about all the bands in this

Why are you even here

;p

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It's a matter of the rules of the school. Especially nowadays, it's a big no-no for instructor date students in any capacity, especially between an undergrad and a professor. It's considered an abuse of power. In real life this has very good reasons, because a good number of women (and the occasional man) have been pressured into unwanted relationships by their instructors. It's much harder to prove that someone sexually assaulted you than to show that they're in a relationship that is explicitly forbidden by the school.

In the manga, I don't care, Maria-sensei endgame. But the mangaka isn't pulling this plot point out of nowhere.

Actaully in real life colleges do have solutions to this situations.

(snip the lengthy explanation)

Well, not all schools have policies that accommodating, for one.

But all of that is completely out the door here in any event. Maria isn't somebody who is unexpectedly developing affection for someone that happens to be a student, and addressing those feelings professionally and openly in accordance with school policy. She approached Mei seductively in their first encounter when Mei was already her student. That's already incredibly inappropriate, and it just kept getting worse as she kept their mutual attraction a secret, invited her to vacation at a private beach house with other girls, before spending several days with her apparently making out and cuddling before then pivoting to "Oh no we mustn't" and then waffling about that. It's all deeply unprofessional, extremely unfair to Mei, who is already an unmitigated disaster of a lesbian.

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The ticket was introduced in this chapter, this is the first time we as readers are seeing it. But she said she was busy on the 10th because she has a club activity. The ticket is for the 10th. Her club is a movie club, so going to a concert doesn't really make sense as a movie club activity. Hence, the lie.

I think it's too early to say Aya lied when we haven't even see her perspective yet. Since it's a film club shes apart of, not a movie club; Film can refer to a movie and can mean to record and because of that, I feel like a "film club" has different implications than a "movie club" hence why I feel like the concert trip could be justified

I mean, even if she's not filming anything, if she's going with the people from her film club then it's still a "film club thing." It's such a vague phrase.

But it's also just possible that she passed it off as a club thing because she doesn't want to upset Mitsuki by inviting her to a music thing. Yeah, that's not the smartest way to go about the situation, but they're young, they still have a lot to learn about being in a relationship.

Honestly the only thing I would worry about is if she's going with that one girl from her club and nobody else. THAT would be playing with fire. Not because I think she's the sort to cheat, but because that is the kind of thing that would look REAL bad, even if it's innocent.

Nice. ^_^

break-up arc is gonna happen at this rate

We must be reading two very different manga...

People get very paranoid about these things.

Mitsuki is definitely not aware of Rinko's feelings, she's just not that observant, and you can see from her innocent expression when she looks back that she has no idea she's dashing the girl's hopes

Which means she sprinted out into the rain because she saw Aya.

She ran through the rain to join her girlfriend under the umbrella slightly sooner.

Like, I get that Aya and Mitsuki need to talk about Mitsuki's music. Mitsuki needs to process her feelings and her upset and she needs to understand that Aya isn't going to judge her. But let's not get this twisted. This isn't a relationship problem. They are as into each other as they have ever been, that was the point of the Narita "cupid" episode.

Mitsuki's problem is a Mitsuki problem, not a MitsuAya problem.

Not entirely sure where all this is going, if the band theory I echoed before is right or not, but at the very least, I don't see anything hinting at a breakup arc.

My prediction for if we ever see Airi's actual birthday is that Nagi will overthink herself into a near-death state trying to come up with the perfect gift, only for Airi to show up and say something very Friendly like "spending every day with you is already the best gift I could ask for Nagi-chan" and then they'll become roommates forever

I dunno, Nagi's vibe strikes me as she always knows exactly what Airi needs and wants in a given situation and is ready for it.

Where did that guy go wrong? Now he's got everyone against him and he still doesn't get it...

The short version is that he was taught to be like this, going by the previous chapters probably mostly by his mom, who is a serious piece of shit.

Conservative Confucian values put a lot of importance on gender roles and having male heirs. It's real bad. People who don't have male heirs are devalued and looked down on. This has historically led to systemic misogyny and an obsession with having at least one male child and a tendency to devalue female children, sometimes to the point of abandoning or murdering them. The story referenced this earlier on, I think with Xiaoen's Grandmother, (dickhead's mom, which tells you where he learned this bullshit) who wanted to throw her out when she was a baby.

It didn't used to be this bad, having a girl used to just mean you kept trying and tried to find someone to marry them off to, (which still isn't great but it's better than murder,) but this devaluing of female children is compounded by China's "one child" policy, which, in a desperate attempt to curb overpopulation, limits families to having one child each.

If the one kid you're allowed to have is a girl, the only way you get to try again is if you get rid of the girl somehow. Pawn her off on another family that doesn't have a child, or, y'know, accidents happen.

series has felt super unfocused since the time skip to the point I genuinely don't know what the point of anything is.

Yeah like Chizuru, who aside from being one of Aya's besties, was a major supporting character has just vanished. And Hasegawa's disappeared too.

Bit biased as Chizuru was my fave tho but still

They're in college. Hasegawa's still in high school. They're not gonna be around each other that often.

Chizuru, also, probably went to a school somewhere else. It's what happens when you hit that point in your life. Everybody goes off to do their own thing. Sometimes you keep in touch, sometimes not.

I expect both of them will make a reappearance at some point.

I agree the series feels all over the place. Can we just get them doing cute shit together again like before the timeskip

Why add a bunch of super angst and drama in a series that never really had a bunch of it before.

I feel like you either haven't read the previous chapters in awhile, or weren't paying attention week by week. There was plenty of angst and drama when they were in high school. Starting with the mistaken identity thing, then there was the "she lied to me" period, and the drama over the concert, struggling with balancing friendships and the new crush, Mitsuki getting bullied, the leg injury and the guilt that came from that, the new underclassman wanting Mitsuki to help her impress her dad, the Prom drama, the thing with Aya doing self-harm while studying...

It's been one thing after another the whole time. The only difference now is that they're actually a couple. And they seem to be doing fine in that sense! Mitsuki's just working through some stuff with her music.

Anyway, This isn't my idea, I can't recall if somebody said it here or if it was on a twitter post, but after thinking on it I feel pretty confident that this is a "band formation" arc. Remember, one of the core themes of the story is "people aren't what they seem on the surface. Obviously there's Mitsuki at the beginning, but then there's Aya, who despite being a gal, it turns out is studious to the point of self-harm. Then there's Narita, who seems like a playboy, but is actually a shipper, and the underclassman who seemed like a romantic rival but turned out to just be a not-yet friend who wanted her Dad's respect. The girl in Aya's class seems like an enemy, but I bet now that the earworm of rock music has been shoved in her ear, it's gonna burrow and we're gonna see her getting into playing it, and this new girl? I'm getting drummer vibes. She's already coming to the rock cafe, she's probably been playing awhile.

This whole arc is how Mitsuki assembles a band that actually suits her vibe.

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I'm not going to make excuses for the dad he's a piece of shit, however I do think this is a great example of generational, or at least cultural, trauma. Like that's how much the one child policy fucked them up. Mu Xiaoen's grandparents would have rather she died, they threatened to kill themselves if her dad didn't divorce her mom just for having a girl. As shitty as the dad is, this is not just him. This is a general societal issue of valuing women and femininity so much less than men. It's the kind of shit that traumatizes people down the line of their descendants for generations to come.

Yeah, it's not just the one child policy, that wouldn't be nearly as bad if it wasn't also paired with stupid Confucian gender values. Sons are heirs, girls are worthless. It's so fucked up.

God April fools is the worst.

My prediction is that Shu thinks poorly of Aya because she knows she has a girlfriend, but she was making out with that mysterious rocker dude with the bolo tie and black nail polish who picked her up when she was drunk.

Pride and Prejudice and Rock and Roll.

I dunno, people in Japan aren't likely to advertise their orientation since there's still a lot of prejudice to contend with if you're out. If she doesn't know Aya's significant other is Mitsuki, she's probably not going to be aware that it's a woman, and she'd have no basis to assume, even if she mistook Mitsuki for a guy, that "he" isn't her "boyfriend."

The most likely causes in my estimation are either latent homophobia, or a crush that she doesn't know how to resolve so it's pissing her off.

I suppose it could also be that she's also gay, but not interested in Aya that way, but jealous that Aya got her girl and Shu hasn't got anybody.

I really don't like this plot development in chapter 62. The letter feels like a forced way to clear the path for Hajime and Momoka to get together, it also makes Kyou feel like a bad person like was she really gonna break up with a letter?
Also even with this forced letter if Hajime and Momoka get together it will still have that lingering feeling that Momoka see's Hajime as a Kyou's replacement.. Dating ur dead girlfriends sister just feels bad idk...

I think we're jumping ahead a little too quickly and focusing on the ship more than the drama this letter causes. There's a lot that this letter can be used for and it's finding doesn't feel forced yet to me, it's been one chapter. I'm sure what would make it forced anyway?

More to the point we haven't read the letter. One line at the end doesn't tell us all that much about it's content, so any speculation about what should happen with it, what effects it might have, etc, etc, is pretty baseless at this point. At least wait until we have the full text of the thing before coming to conclusions.

if green yuri is THIS popular and big with just 4 pages, imagine the power of 20

Sometimes less is more, and too much would lose the charm. That being said, i think this could safely add 50-100% of the current pages to flesh it out. As it is, it sometimes feels like the chapters don't have enough narrative keyframes, figuratively.

I think it works pretty well as a twitter comic, honestly, the scene-vignette style of it is interesting and it's easy to fill in the gaps as you read through it. But it does kind of hinge on the reader being aware that it's being released in 4 page stints.

When I read the published book form, I often find myself wondering if readers that discover it that way don't find it oddly disjointed, since there's nothing that indicates when one chapter ends and the next begins. If you're not aware that it's being published in 4 page groupings, the way the story seems to lurch forward every couple pages must feel kind of awkward.

If I were involved in publishing it, I probably would have suggested putting the publication dates on the first page of each chapter, to help communicate the format to new readers.

It's ridiculous how much I'm invested in this character.

My little blorbo is growing up and I'm crying.

i wouldn't get too excited pal i think the dad is about to upgrade from domestic violence to state violence

What are they arresting him for? Being too cute?

Favorite character of the series for me. Really loved these chapters. The father is trash and the mother is garbage but maybe recyclable.

The mom is as much a victim as XiaoYang, honestly. The hints are all there. She loves her kids and regrets everything that has hurt them, and is shown to have been kind to others and generally leaves positive impressions on them. She's just married to a belligerent bigoted abuser who threatens her family with violence if they don't conform, and lives in a culture that gives no institutional power to the abused. She's been beaten down, figuratively if not possibly literally, and she thinks the only answer is compliance.

Oh, she finally scape of the accident that start the story?

What are you referring to? There's no accident that started the story.

In the original timeline, Youyan drank herself to death because Jing Xiu was getting married to someone else. That event is a couple years away in the current timeline, but has already been more or less derailed by changes to the timeline. There's no accident to escape, just a relationship to mend.

Thematically, this is a story about addressing regrets, not overcoming fate.

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I thought Qingyan doesn't like her sister all that much, but they seem just fine during the photoshoot.

Also, what is going on? They followed Qingyan's first suggestion, so why was Qingyan unhappy about it? And what does her hand gesture mean?

Also, does Qingyan wear a glove or something? It's all a bit odd.

As pointed out, Qingyan suggested "put your head on her shoulder." and Ren did that, at which point Qingyan said "NO, NO, other way around!" and since Youji is the taller of the two, it involved picking Ren up in an embrace, to Youzi's absolute glee.

As for the line on her wrist, nah, I think the artist just carelessly inked some of the structural guidelines they used to construct the hand while sketching.

Oh Mei, see that ring on Satou’s left hand? To think you weren’t above lusting after married women! xP

You think Mei has moral boundaries? Have you even been reading? ;p

Poor Mion...Despite her being the client, she's imagining someone else...

Mion might be a pseudonym or a "pen name" if she's planning to publish this kind of suggestive audio play and doesn't want her real name on it.

No one else gonna say how funny it is that Yuuri gonna become yuri? XD

I am willing to bet cash money that this is literally how the concept came into being.

So if they both stop in showbiz and are still single then they should be together.

Sorry, but that's just nonsense. If you feel so much for each other, then why not just get together now? Their fans obviously wouldn't mind, but even if they would, so what?

I think this was just her timid way of confessing. I don't think this was supposed to be taken literally.

Awesome chapter! So much was unpack, but in a very natural way. I kind of want to re-read everything now.

Yeah, while there are fans who ship them, there are obviously also tons of homophobic folks in China who would give them a hard time and undermine their careers if they were openly a couple. So this is her way of saying "Hey, let's be functionally married, okay?" without suggesting that they do anything that could harm their careers.

Holy shit, Merry Christmas to me, this is so goddamned cute and sweet.

Guys, it doesn't have to be a fight. Femboys and trans girls are both things, the whole point of acknowledging the gender spectrum is that there are lots of possibilities and the lines between them aren't always clear cut. And in real life, people don't always know right away how they feel about themselves!

Yes, Xiaoyang uses male gendered pronouns/descriptors. But it is also true that people who are actually trans often use masculine pronouns and terms for themselves, either because abandoning those words is another stage of coming out that they aren't ready for, or because they are trying to mask/socially conform, or because they just haven't thought about that issue in that way yet. And yes, the haircut scene very strongly implies that they are experiencing gender euphoria at seeing themselves with a gendered haircut. But it could also be that they're just pleased to be able to express themselves the way they want without being judged. The whole point of gender identity is that it's their choice. Until that choice is made explicit, we don't actually know what's in the character's head.

I see this all the time in media: People get really hung up on THIS THING MEANS THIS AND NOT THAT and they end up getting mad when the story goes the other way. It comes up a LOT when the prospect of a character being bi comes up, and it also comes up when a character is trans-coded. People seem to really just rankle against ambiguity. But ambiguity is common in life, you should get used to it.

The fact that Xiaoyang's gender identity isn't explicitly laid out isn't a flaw or a shortcoming of the story. At the very least it's jumping the gun to say so. We don't know the whole story yet. They are a gender-nonconforming person where the simple fact that they are gender-nonconforming in any sense is incredibly frowned upon. Hell, not too long ago, Gramma was talking about chucking babies into the river because they weren't boys, how do you think that is going to influence the coming out of girls who have "boy-parts"? I suspect it wouldn't have made Xiaoyang feel confident about expressing a feminine gender identity, at least. Maybe that's part of the journey, and there's a scene coming where they change the pronouns they use, or start calling themselves grant-aunt or whatever. We won't know until it happens. But it is also possible that they fall somewhere else on the gender spectrum, and those people also exist.

I get it, transphobes love to scream from the rooftops "Bridget is a femboy, not a trans girl!" but the difference between that situation and this one is that Bridget DID explicitly identify as a girl, so the backlash is transphobic. That hasn't happened here, and calling the story "transmisogynistic" when we don't even know yet what the story is? That isn't helpful, either for literary analysis or proselytizing trans issues.

Gramma: Dey fukin

Mom: Yes, Mom, I am aware.