Happy mother's day, Kanna.

We need more Suletta athletta art. She's been shown doing running workouts like that silly jog. Like real combat pilots, the girl is definitely a fighter jock.

This gorgeous sequence capped off such dark visuals in the ED, for both of them, that I think it's as foreboding as it is heartwarming. That entire ED is just going to get more bittersweet over the course of the season.

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I expected a lot worse from the chapter tags and first chapters, but Pieta turned out to be a masterpiece. The lack of a romance tag fits, since the relationship of the characters isn't repeatedly proven to the audience, but the leads develop a very deep and dependent bond that includes and surpasses romance. Suicide, self-harm, and the toxic risks of codependency as a defense mechanism was called out as dangerous, without seeming idealistic or like the leads for sure had red flags for their relationship. I do wish we had seen slightly more of why Sahoko was attracted to Rio, beyond the flow of events and magnetism. Overall, this was beautiful and neither overly light nor overly challenging.

Not specifically autism or the like, but this story touched on the idea of being neurologically divergent. Often greatly different thinking or functioning or sensitivities than a person with more average psychology. The (heartwarming) doc couple's talk of neurodivergent people, or some subset, being evolved beings fragile to current society definitely sounds like certain medical professionals I've heard poetically thinking. That's complicated. Realism aside, the idea that there's a supernatural force related to their shared divergence pulling the protagonists together so they protect each other was a actually satisfying at that point, rather than saccharine or patronizing.

Edit: And I submitted just after the above poster also noted the neurodivergent aspect in a different way! I suppose that's the influence of being the featured series on the main page in 2023. And I was so surprised no prior comments noted it! The English term is late-90s but the paradigm seems to be spreading faster recently.

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Okay but how about Mitsuki's rare comfy face.

It shouldn't take much for Mao or Chizuru to connect the dots between Aya's strong feelings about music, Onii-san, and Mitsuki.

Mashiro seems like a scammer and stalker to me, and I get a gross feeling when reading her. It's so sudden (and desperately inserting drama into the story at a lull). This looks exactly like impersonation fraud. Mashiro showed up saying she is connected to Nanami and that she has no better place to go, which forced a decision and leveraged Nanami's kindness and nostalgia. Every single thing about Maho is unverified, it's even called out that she keeps revealing knowledge she shouldn't have any source for.

I don't know Mashiro's angle though. She may be a stalker fan of Kaede who doesn't want relationships to get in the way of the manga, and found out that the roommate Nanami is a lesbian while she was close with the ex in Hakata. She may even be an actual underclassman who didn't know Nanami. Also, Maho has otherwise acted gentle and distant with Kaede, so the one she was glaring at was probably Koyuki (for being close with Kaede).

Meanwhile our girl Koyuki continues to improve as a person yet takes another loss. There wasn't even a day between her realizing real sappic relationships are valid and confessing, which is still relatively relaxing progress compared to the rest of this new arc.

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Kaneike is getting development! I'm looking forward to more of her connections and interactions with Minamo. For now, let's be thankful and ignore the trend that every other teenage girl character has some kind of clearly implied point on a bittersweet love polygon. I feel like average tropes are going to continue to hold little influence, and I'm not sure what is or isn't predictable at this point.

Okay suu’s mother disappearing sounds weirder now. The family called the police when she disappeared?

It's seems pretty common and sometimes reasonable in a run-away situation where the family member left for reasons such as mental illness and/or conflict. We've seen something like an overstressed young mother having an emotional breakdown then leaving in a hurry, with anger and pain and possibly guilt. So conflict and her own distress.

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I hope (now traumatized) Miorine tries to rehabilitate Suletta more than run away, though both are sane options.

Trained psychopath X Medical company CEO

This is precious and would be cuter if both leads weren't desperate for female affection. Not that the emotions are unrealistic, but the girls dwell on it a lot instead of the other's good points. I want to see hurdles couples can face when advancing from a blatantly opportunistic relationship! Adorably! Though I'm not going to hold out too much hope the story will lean into that beyond the standard rapport and luck.

The situation is kind of funny and headed towards an upbeat ending. Rurika self-isolated because her classmates were boy-crazy. Tano is greatly swayed by appearances just like the boys Rurika doesn't care about, and obsessing.

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Raimon flustered by Haruno was adorable as usual. More importantly, she noticed psychic interference that covers up (and distracts from) critically thinking about Yuu. Interesting worldbuilding. It's similar to the force responsible for school staff ignoring Yuu's overnight transfer.

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Those were my favorite moments of the show thus far.

With the system returning soon, I wonder if Yvonne can stay romantically assertive in the relationship. Cheap drama says no, but I hope the story is more creative than that.

I wish we knew how much Elsa has pieced together Evie's predicament so far, and she should have more clues if Yvonne goes back to avoiding certain phrases and doing certain things. Maybe Evie is safer after the kiss unlocking her Route / uncovering the one-and-only destiny for Elsa in this world, and the system is actually powerless to stop Evie in any case where she doesn't blatantly break the letter of its demands. Like not revealing its existence by saying she's under a spell, or ignoring the empty threat of Warning popups.

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1. The last part has black around it, I know this usually means flashback, but what about this context?

This story often uses black space outside panels for nighttime. It's nice when you get used to it and I'd like to see this visual cue more. Though it can be confusing if a work also uses flashback-to-black.

1. I'm not asexual or ACE, but I'm always looking for something to refer to friends who are (they're thirsty!). Peeps out there who read this, am I missing something, it's pretty much a straight solid asexual type relationship, yeah?

A queer solid asexual relationship, yeah lol. It was presented really well. Maybe we need an asexual couple tag for when the ace representation is intentional or at least strongly demonstrated. (I suggested it the tag) The two main characters conveyed how they experience love, and they're compatible.

By the halfway point there were very strong implications, at least by contrast with others expectations, that the two main characters are ace or demi-sexual, their way of being won't change, and their romance won't be conveyed by swapping mucus. Hinako was presented as sex-averse, and worried about it. It may not have felt obvious it was something more than "pure" fluffy (or sanitized and indeterminate) romance, because I sure couldn't shake worry I was too optimistic until the ending. This was great and I'll probably recommend it in the future.

The one thing I didn't like is the little sister saying she'll pursue the older friend at the end. I know it's foreshadowed and brought up a lot, it was a sweet final career aspiration, but their chemistry undercut the romance too many times earlier.

As GreenTeaWytch wrote: read the story. Little Suletta has trauma of emergency lights and hides in Aerial, and Prospera ("mom") didn't start off maniacal. Both theories have contradicting evidence, it's not clear what is 21 years ago, and the darker theories assume there is technology we haven't seen yet to freeze Eri or clone children (soldiers).

Wingman detected! She's presented positively + open to change and new things + saw affectionate lesbians and approved (kinda). I'm betting that the gal trying willow is eventually going to be much-needed support in Aya's corner. This isn't a fresh theory, but I'm only onboard after this chapter. Though I'm still wary of the blond's reaction when Aya's crush on "Onii-san" outs her.

Coping Mechanism slaps btw. Someday I'll set hours aside to go through the 121+ pages of song recs, plus the playlist, because I'm getting more interesting music recommendations in this thread than from my other circles.

Beautiful art, but it's fan-theories so don't read into it too much

I won't be surprised if Lilique captures the heart of that space idol.

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Oh no. Panic can make you a useless lesbian even with a girl inches away.

So there's a conflict between two goddesses who, considering the genre, are probably estranged lovers.

Did not see the sudden bit of dark past coming...

Yvonne isn't running short on reasons to dislike herself anytime soon. She's under coercion but hasn't betrayed nor been fickle, and the penance can't be too bad if she met Elsa.

And we're at or near a milestone! The novel translation is now about caught up to the manhua, because both are at this flower scene but the timelines are different. Thank you and congrats Golden Orchid, riverFlower, and 狐 (fox).

Even if the twins have mixed feelings on their father coming home, to Tsubame it was a depressing reminder of what bio-families are. But we also saw Tsukie act more affectionate towards Tsubame than we've seen so far!

The mix of appreciation and apathy towards the father was rendered really well. The twins had such low expectations of him that even knowing he would probably be home soon, they thought of a criminal at the door but not the unreliable dad arriving without warning. He's safe, not a stranger, and brings some financial cushion, but only Suu was outright happy to see him. I actually dislike him less now.

We've been told and shown in multiple ways that the father isn't a great communicator and avoids it, and he needs more logical explanations because subtler interactions seem more difficult for him. So far he hasn't seemed selfish, but he's inconsiderate and ill-equipped for people. Suu's young mom left in tears, and there are issues similar to Reika in a story full of repetition, so no matter the extenuating circumstances it's a reasonable assumption that the father deserves a lot of blame for Suu's mom's unhappiness.

That stung so much that Gujou cried. It's probably wrong to say she has to give up soon, as she has been holding on for so long. At least we got a good range of expressions from Jin-ran.

The previous chapter was sweet and wonderful as well. Sometimes I wonder why there's no subtext tag just for how much subtext this manga uses in its storytelling, but the yuri itself isn't just subtext so it would give the wrong idea to have both tags.

Tsukushi probably hasn't noticed her friends Sara and Yuu are a couple.

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That was a great chapter. The most soothing part of this manga is when Akira's affection leads her to shout at Satsuki.

And 4 foreshadowing panels for Shiina and Seo. It looked like Shiina's lie detector pinged on Seo deflecting from manipulating Michinaga. Does Seo still have the gentler personality if she recalls participating in attempted murder, or is something else up with her? (She did take too long inflating the floaty before Shiina nearly drowned... not so adorable now is it?) How low will Shiina go? More death flags are always nice.

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Usually Umika's hairties seem like a mystical phenomena so it's weird to see them with outlines on the table.