I enjoyed this story a lot more than I expected. At first I thought Shuukura belonged to one of those industrial generic LN because of its long ass title (then again, guess they gotta do what they can to gain attention in this world full of words for titles). After reading like 2 chapters of the manga, it piqued my interest then I speed ran through 90~ish chapters in 2 days lmao. Thank you Angela so much for translating. It's very fortune that I got to read your translation before seeing MTL one.
The strongest point of Shuukura is that its storytelling can be strongly captivating. Shuukura, even with Miyagi and Sendai tiptoeing for god knows how long, is rather straight forward with its story. All the existed events has been fulfilling their purposes well enough, which was pushing the plot to keep going or building personalities/creating development within characters. Its course of events happened like a train going on its journey with a fixed destionation in mind, created a weird satisfied feeling for readers. It does feel nice to read a story that has author who clearly know what they want to write and achieve with the world they built up. The way Haneda Usa swapping Miyagi and Sendai's perspectives played an important part into keeping the story fresh. I kept wondering what the heck was going in Miyagi's head in Sendai pov and vice versa. The more I read, the more I got to learn about them, the more it stirred my curiosity toward them and their progress. Haneda's style actually reminded me of Minato Kanae's works but gayer so sometimes Shuukura pacing makes me feel like reading a mystery novel in romance form lol

I think it's funny to imagine a meeting between the four girls. I can just see Miyagi and Adachi sitting there glaring daggers at each other thinking don't touch my woman, while Sendai and Shimamura sit there having a pleasant chat. Not that Shima is very social but she could at least hold a conversation.

AdaShima and MiyaSendai (?) meeting can be very interesting in a meaning that they probably won't hold much interest toward the other pair. You have girls in cute SoL go kya kya everytime they make friends while these 4 would just pratice minimum socializing needed to not get in troubles. Well at least Miyagi is capable of holding conversation and making friends like a normal person in society. Adachi would probably... think of where she and Shimamura could go for a date instead of like, considering befriending them.

Kafka is done with waiting. Now she's aiming at the real game

Is Bai Yan really straight
There’s a lot of mix signal here

I recently reached 20, did a reread on this manga and oh god, it hurted so much, compared to the first time I started reading it 2 years ago. Still not normal today portrays extremly well the crisis which young people, or specifically people who has anime-manga as a hobby have. Even though I fairly content with my own hobby most of the time, sometimes looking at my peers who have more "acceptable" hobby to the society or weeb friends who dropped their interests long ago makes me wonder if what I chose is right and if my life direction has gone the wrong way. The sense of being lost and the doubt I have for my own life decision, I can see them very clearly throughout Yamashita and Takahashi. They might be considered as outcast to this normal society but the fact they found each other is so amazing that it can be very difficult to find such trusting relationship in normal life. The core of the relaionship which Yamashita and Takahasa has was built on mutual trust and gentle caress they give to each other's feeling. They can be very straight forward, yet when the other felt loss or hurted, they were always there to soothe the pain, to reassure their dear partner that while life can be suck sometimes, at least it less sucks when they have each other's back, all through small actions that can be viewed as trivial and insignificant from outsider's perspective. This relationship wouldn't be achieved if they didn't have deep-seated respect to each other to begin with.
Still not normal today is a hit or miss type of manga. If you can relate to either one of the main characters then it will be so relatable that it hurts. Otherwise, it might be a bit incomprehensive and confusing to readers who can't find its appeal.

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Erika the biggest natural flirt ever. You can’t just tease a girl who is having sad puppy eyes by saying “We can’t” half the sentence like that T.T

Jesus.

tfw latest Shinoasa's KeineMokou stuff was from 9 years ago

Haru is not a trans boy. It's a girl.

Why does it sound like Haru is a pokemon

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what the fuck

I love whatever tension going on between Hebimori and Togano
Gotta be my favourite chemistry and pairing in this manga

Need more stories with sidekick like Hinori. Very chill person in general, always thinks with normal sense, doesn't think of MC's romance like some sort of obsession, be there to help as long as it's within her ability. Such a relaxed friend to be with.

While it sucks, being pressured to marry has been a normal occurrence for lots of young men and young women, especially when they have a partner for long time. People don't care about their relationship's status, all they know and say is that "Oh you guys have been dating for so long. When will you get marry?" and follow by "when will you have kids, you should have kids soon", et cetera...
I assume the guy and the girl followed that normal tradition for straight couple as well. It was not occurred to them that they could just break up and find someone new despite their relationship having going dire because, well, what else to do when you are in such a long relationship? They were unknowingly pressured by the norms, and unknowingly chose to follow that norms which everyone expected them to do. It's honestly sad.

Mikaze was such a saint to be able to reconcile with Asuna. Her break up was messy as hell, it’s unbelievable how she kept her calm and smiling through her ex’s confession. If I were in her shoes I don’t think I could just forget everything then come back to my ex like that. That kind of breaking up is the worst. It could leave any person in devastating pain for months.

That's it???
So their story ended, just like this???

Straight to the favorite list. I'm not ashamed to say I love this hot mess of wannabe sci-fi.

Shimamura probably wouldn’t date anyone if it weren’t Adachi. The thing is that Shimamura is very… unassertive (in normal standard for what one is expected to do in normal romantic relationship). Even if she somehow landed her way on a relationship, most likely she would be dumped anw, with how chill she could be. She needs someone who is willing to take the first step, more assertive than her and push her to take action.
Back in middle school she did raise a yuri flag with a kid in the same club. However, both of them is so similar to each other that they kinda just cut the connection when they entered high school.

They're both made for each other but I feel like Adachi benefits the most simply because I don't know how anyone else but Shima would have handled her. On the other hand, I could imagine Shima living her life with her other friend just fine (though not as happily as she'd be with Adachi!).

I do agree with this point. Shimamura is able to form relationships with other people, even if we assume she isn’t willing to make friends and actually trust someone to let them pass her guard, she still has her family. While Adachi only has Shimamura as life saver. Things seem to get a little bit better when she grows up though.

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How is Riko still so fond of Colin? Colin almost buried her alive lol

Poor Riko and Colin. In her situation, telling an adult was a right decision. There's nothing a kid can do when they know a friend of them was getting abused by their own dad. I'm glad she knew enough to not take any action independently, things could have went so wrong for both of them. Sadly the other adults in the story don't seem to be able to help them. I guess Colin's dad escalated his abusive harassment toward Colin because he was informed that somebody knew about his bad deed, which meant Colin snitched out their secret (in his perspective)

There has been so many translated touhou doujin in here lately. Seeing old names that led me to manga years ago healed my heart.

Chap 115 made me fall in love with Ayano x Chitose. Oh God, I don't care if Ayano likes Kyouko, Chitose ship them or not, I just want some best friend to lover bonding moment. Gib me plz T.T

One year after and there were some actual AyaChito crumbs. Life is great and I will never leave this ship.

damn this is brutal

So…why are they arguing in the first place?

I love how both of them casually brushed off the fact that Marisa went to SDM so she could steal some books (Reimu even helped her)

Goddamn I'm so curious about Shouko's love life. What's with her hs girlfriend ghosting her, what's with her current girlfriend fooling around with people??? Seems like she got herself into situationship for quite a long time.

The two become lovers

:D

But can Tsukushi stop messing things up?

D:

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