I feel like y'all are ignoring the "pretend family" part. Joe saying to Kanna that she's like Mitsuki's mother now, with the implication that Joe is like Mitsuki's father, is hurtful. Even if they're ok now after their breakup, this is a level of intimacy that touches on that wound. Joe isn't courting Kanna. He has feelings for her still, as evidenced by chapter 83, but he isn't doing anything about it. So him leaving their connection implicitly through Mitsuki is taking advantage of Kanna and is cowardly. And he even acknowledges it himself in the thought bubbles in this chapter, that he had been living without thinking.

The whole situation is too much for Kanna. It's like seeing a vision of the life you wanted to have, but not actually be able to have it. It would probably be simpler if she just asked if he wants this to be something more, but it's likely that she's feeling too fragile to do that. If she gets rejected again it might just break her. I agree with other people that communication would do wonders here, but I kind of feel for Kanna in the situation. It's hard to play the emotional backbone for someone you have feelings for and be reminded that they don't have feelings for you (even if she might be wrong about that).

This also nicely parallels Mitsuki and Aya. Aya isn't communicating her feelings explicitly enough for Mitsuki (although she did communicate them), and Mitsuki, like her uncle, is going with the flow too much and living without thinking.

exactly this, i am expect that if the situation is to be fixed and have a "happy" ending then joe's going to have to show up and be like "let's stop pretending"

jane's eyes are so good in this, ear blush is also peak.

I am fucking sold, give me more.

Why are you doing this to me author.

I still love this two- shot soooooo much one of my favourite of all time, a comfort read I keep coming back too.

I still dearly love this series.

I CAN'T FUCKING TAKE IT ANYMORE!

I feel like this is such a random "ooooh I am actually bad" that it's actually pretty passé and lame.

I think the proceeding chapters are going to really affect my opinion on this because it feels sorta sudden.

I want to see this revealed as a coping mechanism or mask, rather than her suddenly being super okay and super cool in school. I don't think aya defending her should magically make her better, it obviously helps but I don't think most people go from breaking down in tears to swaggering in over the course of a week.

What the hell is going on with this series?

Let's fucking go aya!!!

Ya it feel like nagisa just dropped 50 IQ points all of a sudden, she's not really picking up on anything going on with Masahiro at all, and for some reason is like entirely clueless about the glasses girl situation.

God I love class president x gyaru Yuri.

I knew there was a reason Arai sumikos been my favourite artist for years.

I keep dipping in and out of this series but it seems mostly incredibly frustrating. Am I off base with that?

I feel like everything that's been frustrating about this series has been tolerable up until this point but this chapter has immediately shot this manga into genuinely frustrating and hard to enjoy.

There were some great facial expressions this chapter, but I think Aya's at the end takes the cake. It's super complicated and a bit conflicted; you know she's feeling something, but I'm not sure what it is and I don't think she knows either. I can't wait to see where this goes.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but there are many chapters that directly follow each other like this; there's usually a bit of a time gap between one ending and the next starting, even if they're in the middle of something important, right?

times kind of mercurial in this one. if it's on one story thread or something important is happening the chapters will often string together as long as they need to but then often when a story beat finishes there can be actual time skips of weeks or even months. sometimes chapter to chapter there can be little time gaps but it feels like just the next day or entirely undefined.

I do have to say I am a bigger fan of the I quit smoking because this cute girl wants to be my girlfriend trope

Ya I feel like yuzus point of view coming in as the twist is so late and with zero play around it that my only response to it is " Jesus Christ this is exhausting"

I genuinely feel like if it was established earlier we could be at the exact same spot as we are right now and I'd be significantly less tired of the journey to reach this point.

Man, once the main couple got together, this manga turned into an Ouroboros of lovelessness and unrequited feelings.

It's really hard not to draw comparisons to can't defy the lonely girl since both series have the MCs together before the end but at least that series side couple is an actual side couple and didn't essentially steal 1/3rd of the chapters from the MCs

It's hard to see where this manga is going or when it will end because we don't even really know what's going on with the MCs any more. Some times it feels like the author is trying to superimpose two different manga into one title, one that's turbo fluff and another that's extreme melodrama.

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Based on the description of the character I can get the first 6 months but the following 6 are insane and honestly don't make alot of sense because Ena would probably continue to complain to mizuki about not getting a reply and some one would have to put two and two together.

LET'S

FUCKING

GOOOOOOOOOOOO

Aya you absolute stud look at you go.

I just need them to kiss in rising and then I can genuinely die happy. This is the only thing I've ever asked for in my entire life.

Let's go aya!! Your doing it right.

Well there it is I guess.