Makoto Hagino has been serializing a new manga set at Konatsu's old school in Tokyo, the main characters are a girl with seeming gender dysphoria, her male childhood friend she drifted away from and a former child actress who just transferred to their school. She's self-translating and publishing it for free on globalcomix, give it a read if it sounds interesting: https://globalcomix.com/c/torn-between-star-and-wave

But the real news is that she also drew a bonus crossover chapter with Nettaigyo, it's still free to read on its Japanese reader for a couple weeks though I don't know if she'll translate that too: https://comic-walker.com/detail/KC_008337_S/episodes/KC_0083370000700011_E?episodeType=first

So nice to see adult Koyuki and Konatsu (and Fuyuki!).

Extremely subtle imagery with the lake exploding in episode 3.

Great to see the author is back to full health. I'll be greedy and hope for an anime season 2 trailer soon.

Quick Grace, order some cake while Mari is busy.

Pokémon doesn't even fully confirm straight ships to the point most characters' parents barely ever both exist. Jacinthe/Lebanne and Canari/Gwynn are by far the most blatant they've ever been with portraying yuri relationships, in the latter case Gwynn straight up says she loves Canari multiple times and in the DLC Canari also tells Gwynn she's much more important to her than her fans. Jacinthe and Lebanne have in-universe shippers among the SBC members.

whats with all the space princess stuff

It's got tens of thousands of fanart and an unfathomable amount of doujins. There have already been IIRC four doujin events exclusively for it and there are twelve more scheduled between now and the end of the year. What you see here is a few bubbles floating up from the tip of the iceberg.

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Well damn.

It's not high school, it's just two or three months later towards the end of the first year of middle school. Kao is still tiny, she'd be on the cusp of entering middle school if this was a three-year timeskip. Komichi is still wearing her middle school uniform too, so is everyone around her and she's clearly not older than them. Erika most likely reached some agreement with her dad at the festival such as being allowed to stay at Roubai for high school but having to be as serious as possible about playing piano and thus having to sometimes travel around. It would be very odd if she just failed to convince him and hadn't been around the whole first year of high school when the play apparently went so well.

got confused at the end cos i thought the girl with the coat was akebi, people were calling her akebi/komichi, but then its her in the snow

It's Komichi up until page 15. She enters class, reads the letter, then walks out the window. It's her classmate Neko in page 16 who also enters the class and notices Komichi outside.

I'm betting on Erika is now doing piano performances again and they are requiring her to take leave of absences from Robai since Robai is to remote to just be travel back and forth to in the same day.

If her father accepted her playing piano again then it's even possible she's overseas, she was in Spain with him for a while before middle school IIRC.

which means mom had seen the video and their performance and approves (no tension between mother and daughter)

Mom and Kao love Erika, they must be ecstatic!

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There was also all the hubbub about Komichi wanting to show her family the sides of her they didn't know about at the festival so I want to see how that went too. Mom and Kao must already know about her and Erika in this chapter.

Hiro did it again, skipped right past the festival like with the sports one. I guess we'll see flashbacks for a while. My guess is that Erika couldn't convince her father quite yet and has gone to do so.

I hope this chapter isn't meant to be a massive death flag

Every conversation in every chapter has been a massive death flag for every character involved ever since the scene where Satoko and Konoha agree to go to hell and beyond together. Just strap in.

The year of yuri where your future self tries to steal your wife.

We can only hope lol

It is inevitable, Shu and Rinko will be compelled by Narita's cupid-for-lesbians power.

Don't you see the vision? Shu and Rinko are in the same room, they're going to help Aya and Mitsuki talk by bringing up something music-related and they're going to hit it off with each other in the process.

There's been a lot of nice fanart since the anime started, I'm glad.

Also, about Mitsuki's music career, I would like to see her doing a solo career. That would makes more sense given her character.

I think there's a high chance Mitsuki resets her career by starting with small solo performances at the music bar.

NARITA-SAN I HAVE A JOB FOR YOUU PELASE (shu x rinko, BELIVE DE PROCESS)

When does he start getting paid though?

Yeah, cool your jets about a potential breakup, this is really about the series' usual theme of the connecting power of music.

Triple length chapter? The scene transitions with the cups and the guitar were great.

I'm so happy the delay of gen 10 is giving us more Horizons episodes. I'm not ready to say goodbye to these characters yet.

I'm reminded of Randy Marsh blaming the mess on ectoplasm.

^^ As of the current point in the manga, Agott (right) has a crush on Coco (left). Coco doesn't seem to have noticed yet but their relationship keeps developing.

^ Those people are unreasonable and shouldn't be humored.

I think that's fair if they haven't read the manga and are only basing it off the first few episodes of the anime. Seeing people ship them without knowing the later context would look weird.