Regarding the mini-chapter and how fast we're moving, here's an even more mind-blowing addition: the earth is also moving ~107K km/h around the sun.

More you ask? The sun is orbiting in the galaxy ~200 km per second.

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Page 123 second-to-last balloon, suggestion for rewording: If you fell, you wouldn't have gotten away with just a few scrapes

Pg 131 typo: "out" instead of "our"

Otherwise, this is some fast paced action and I'm here for it! Lets go!

Interesting. Confirmation of the colored pages being canon and not just stylistic regarding the hair layering.

Now the question is: Is it dyed or anime/manga reality rules?

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What are the chances Umika had a revelation regarding the coordinates as finding not a contact point but a piece or pieces of something?

LOL at the credits page "turned into a bronze statue"

Okinawa beach arc, if we don't get some hint at mermaid mom - it's still hinted at! - I'mma be angy!

That plot twist was pretty cheap in my opinion tbh.

I just want to know about Komachi's intentions n leave this manga for good.

Personally I’ve been suspicious of Komacchi for most of the manga, so I don’t think that’s out of nowhere.

Nah, not Komachi. Seo being the mass murderer and prez n vice prez being the good guys by killing the greater evil. I mean, why? Prez was a good antagonist with an opposite purpose for the same ability of seeing death. even their backstory gave us a good point to sympathize with them and their way of doing things. It feels forced to have Seo be the reason to give the antagonists a reason to justify them.

Let me add that it would make so much sense if Komachi was the mass murder or the real target n get to the point of saving the wrong people and u know anime girl speach.

The prez was in no way being the good guy. Killing "bad" people (not all of them were) is still bad without making an effort to use the systems that exist. Villains rarely think they are doing wrong and by extension it's the rest of the people who are the evil ones.

The Seo reveal was a bit out there, but also a case of "become the monster you made me" situation. She wasn't a saint by any means, but bullying isn't worthy of death. The constant attempts degraded her mental health to this outcome.

Chapter 6 was weird and disjointed. Then there's the time difference of the travel time to reach New York from ... idk if it was ever said where in China they are usually but still, it's a long time, and the outfit didn't change from talking about not seeing it to seeing it, and the run time is 2.5 hours, which is most definitely not long enough for any plane to reach.

Well, this sure was something, although I doubt she can just seduce her like that...

Yeah that's probably not where it's going. She did it right when she noticed Kawase approaching. This is right after we learned how Kawase would break down if she felt her sister was taking someone was being taken from her. Big sis is either trying to provoke a reaction in her sister for some reason, or genuinely tries to take her sisters crushes for some other reason. Their relationship is intriguing and Kawase's reaction will be interesting to put it mildly.

Naw, it's certainly the first option you gave. Like, look at the tropes, the writing conventions. Big Sis is being written as a villain, but none of the tells are there to say she actually is in this last chapter(s). In fact, the opposite is shown with the same conventions and shortcuts. Her seeing Sono and immediately going for a kiss within eyesight is a classic ploy in these "will they, won't they?" type stories.

Also the distinct possibility that, maybe, just wore shorts for outfit? Long stretch for that, but maybe there are some schools in UK (assuming based on "English lady ") that don't have a strictly gendered uniform code or at least in this universe's UK.

Would like the trans bit to be true, but Occam's Razor blah blah. Seems easier for a publication to ignore trans stuff and not rock the boat.

Her being trans actually seems like the most obvious and Occam's Razor explanation to me.

Anyway, I kind of hate this kind of story. It always takes away my suspension of disbelief. What high school students fawn over and borderline worship another student like this? She's not a freaking celebrity.

I was just being cynical about how certain publishers and the like to cater and keep a certain theme and demographic would disallow such a thing. That was what I meant by the Razor.

Also the distinct possibility that, maybe, just wore shorts for outfit? Long stretch for that, but maybe there are some schools in UK (assuming based on "English lady ") that don't have a strictly gendered uniform code or at least in this universe's UK.

Would like the trans bit to be true, but Occam's Razor blah blah. Seems easier for a publication to ignore trans stuff and not rock the boat.

Very intriguing, why the double cross against Aria from the bandage girl? Who's actually working with whom and to what goals???

Chapters 3 and 4 are out of order

Post reading edit: interesting plotnhook there. Definitely want to know how all 4 are tangled in this web. Obviously MC with memory loss is number 1, but dad and lover teeming up with the posssible supect to instigate something from the MC feels slightly villainous.

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A Zanka product that actually ends? Not just left in perpetual limbo?!

Good bit of fluff but still a bit short in format to be satisfying.

Okay. Okay. Look. I've been fine with the subtle, low key subtext approach this series has been taking. If they never took things in an explicitly romantic direction, I would've been disappointed, but I'm used to those kinds of stories and it's pretty obvious that you can read between the lines and see the nature of it. I've been reading ambiguously gay fiction for decades, I'm used to that.

But this better not be a fakeout, or I'm gonna be so mad.

It's so weird, I can handle a series that never runs for the finish line, but I can't stand narrative edging. If the future strips continue with this, great, if they pivot to "I love her as a fan! She's my Oshi!" or "Man, she loves Rock & Roll so much!" I'm gonna riot.

It would definitely start to feel a bit suspect but I wouldn't be too mad about it yet. The thought has crossed my mind though, especially after this chapter. This instance could be a fake out but if they eventually make their romantic feelings clear than it's a non issue. But it would be weird to do all this teasing and then end it with them as just "straight" friends. Does the series specifically market itself as Yuri? I haven't ever checked actually.

I'm not scouring the comments, but I'm confident it's been mentioned the author has explicitly stated it's not to be labeled yuri as they have issues with that term, but it is sapphic from what we've seen of the author's other pieces.

.... Why "Anemone in Heat"?! I've seriously been avoiding this because I assumed it was going to be some sea-tentacle-monster girl tomfoolery. XD

"Hur dur I've seen enough anime to know where this is going." Were it not for the excessive "lots of hugging" tags I might never have had a peek. But again... just figured... the sea-anemone monster girl probably had lots of arms to hug with... golly how have we gone so long without the NSFW tag if she's in heat all the dang time?

Anyway. This is cute. Right. Carry on.

Each of the characters has an associated flower. Anemones are a type of flower that was the origin of the name for sea anemones. https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/anemone_is_in_heat_ch24_5#11

Love and strong emotions are called "heat" sometimes. "Tempers are getting hot" etc etc.

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If fainting in the bath from overheating is such a common thing (i know it's a trope, idk if actually a thing that happens often in reality), then why don't these people set their bath water temperature lower?? You'd think such a dangerous place to faint would be strictly controlled for safety.

I have a feeling the build up with Kaede might be an end-game, but we'll have to wait and see if this is a red herring or not. At the least it's pushing towards moving on, finding life and happiness beyond.

I love how they've been in Okinawa for all of maybe 30 minutes and both Aya and Narita have decked themselves out in beach fashion

I'm a bit torn on this. On one hand, there definitely seems to be an issue where some of the ideas and design choices in the manga are ... not great. You brought up the use of indigenous aesthetics for "savage, bad giants", but there was also the line in chapter 11 where she says "Those who hold no beliefs, have no dogma or creed to follow, are in capable of treating other people as human beings!" which is incredibly similar to lines used by some religious groups to demonize atheists and agnostics in the real world.

Japanese media is generally not very into the idea of religion, as evidenced by fighting god a lot. I think there's supposed to be nuance in this statement, since Hinako herself more or less describes herself as agnostic, although she might not realize it. A belief is a value, and I think she fails to understand that the other chick prioritizing herself counts as one. Also like, it doesn't look like the other chick is gonna die/be defeated unless the manga's ending within six chapters, so an ideological battleground could be in the works.

On the topic of fighting god, there's a video essay about why Japanese media has that theme so often. Big beefy 1.5 hours but it pulls a lot of the history of Japan around the topic. https://youtu.be/IEUqLL8J4gI

In regards to the manga, I can't figure out where I've seen this artist's work before. The eye and face style is triggering some memory in me that I can't manifest.

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@RandomFanZ Just so you know, her codename is Sanguinaria, Sang with an A, not a U. It's a flower also commonly called Bloodroot, blood in Latin being "sanguis" from looking to make sure what the exact actual root word is.

I, too, am onboard for possible Mayu ship.

Sensei end-goal is the conventional set-up, but maybe we're gonna get the wrench that is Mayu properly stuck in the gears.

We're just gonna have to see how the dynamics play out and how long they last.

Man. Always right in the feels.

I more or less get what direction that conversation between Jin-Ran and the senpai went but I'm still so confused. How did it jump around so much like that and still stay on the same few pages?

Because drunk, but also because, until the end, senpai was trying to avoid the topic of Jin-Ran liking her. It's a scary situation, as she explained.

seeing the direction this is going, I just know I'm gonna cry like a baby at the end

Either she's being a sly ghost despite being in a not so physical state that would simply make being sly a mean move on her part or she is in fact just all in her lovers' head.

at this point I'm pretty sure it's all in Haruki's head, since she's slowly wrapping up everything about Sakura in her life (visiting her parents after so long, tidying up her work corner, finishing the diary), or that's how I see it at least

That's the most logical conclusion, but I can't shake the feeling that now that TWO people have seen Sakura out of the corner of their eye there's something more going on. Yes, it could just be the moment of reminiscence bringing up memories, especially since both were locations they all were together with Sakura. I'm still feeling that something being off. I can't tell what, but it's more than just ghost vs delusion.