Can someone summarize all the plot threads going on in this chapter? It was too impressionist for my fried brain to follow. D:

shu waits for aya and narita outside the bar, being grumpy. they go in, narita gets drinks, aya gives one to shu assuring her she will be fine once the gig starts. despite finding it loud, shu enjoys the show and finds she doesn't feel her injured knee as bad. she shares a moment with aya, thinking a world like this might be what she has always wanted to be connected to

at the same time, rinko ends up making extra drinks, so she takes one to mitsuki, who is looking at a guitar. mitsuki admits it scares her, and rinko tells mitsuki how cool and invincible she seems to her, and expresses her own worries about connecting with others. mitsuki shows her a picture of how she used to be at school. they also share a moment, rinko thinking a person like this might be what she has always wanted to be connected to

cut to them sitting across from each other on the same train home, presumably thinking gay thoughts

So Ni Shang has financial management skills AND a 15-year target date gf management skills?

(I think her hand might be on backwards in the title art. Thumb should be on the other side, no?)

huh, you're right!

you will never make me stop hating ruruka

ok i was expecting a dog girl but this is way better

Good. I hope we never see him again for real.

Now kiss your wolf girlfriend.

100%

damn, so in that final page is that like, they encountered each other in the past in a way where the shoe was on the other womans foot at the time?

Pretty sure she's just meeting her after her shift to thank her.

her clothes are different, and the breath indicates cold, that combined with the "someday" leading into it makes me think it's somewhat later, and the wistful look on the shop worker makes me think perhaps the protagonist found her at a bad time and extends a hand in return. obviously it's ambiguous so this is all speculation but that was how i interpreted it

i mean correct me if i'm wrong, but does nina even know how she feels about mao? from what we've seen her overt motivation is she's trying to show what someone treating mao right would look like so she values herself more. and while obviously on some level i think she would like for mao to fall for her, i'm not sure if she herself is aware of that yet in the text

sort of leaves open the possibility of there being no humans left at all, which is an interesting thought. just androids playing human to each other

i hate to tell you tsukino but straight girls don't agree to go out with their friends just because they're "insistent"

you gotta respect the hustle tho that was some quick work

Feels a lot like throw away the suits together, hope these 2 get a happier ending.

my first thought too, that one was just depressing af

be me
read toxic yuri manga
manga centers a toxic lesbian
Wtf?? How dare she. She should be Punished

i've liked ohsawa yayoi's works before but this left me cold. i don't really get much of a sense of interiority from hikaru, and none at all from hana. their motivations seem inscrutable. it ends up being more harutaka's story, and while i liked him well enough it didn't amount to that much

i even noticed the heart earrings and thought "oh that's neat" but still totally failed to see that twist coming

absolutely correct

ok after this one i'm much more confident this is broadly sympathetic to queer identities and is just going with a fairly exaggerated stylisation. still no idea where the plot is going tho

yeah im not really following what is going on right now but im still loving it

i'm guessing it's not gonna end up being mao but ruirui instead

attention students, the trip to theme park will be slightly delayed, as the bus has driven into a dense metaphor

yeeeeeeahh i kinda agree like...there was stuff i liked and i don't think it's badly intentioned but the character designs do feel potentially cruel in places. i'm not writing it off yet though it definitely has my attention

Maybe she topped them, but never 'came' herself?

I'm having deja vu now, did we discuss this before?

in chapter one ruka says they aren't "doing it for real" it's just "sefure" is the easiest way to explain it. so i'm guessing she only did like heavy making out with the other girls before

okay i really feel like they've reached the point. not only in our anticipation but also narratively it makes sense to happen now...surely it can't be a fakeout

ngl i hate it ending like this. honestly i could understand ayano/miyoshi ending like that, it kind of works for them but fuck, no other pair got any closure except eli/honoka and a few others that were basically wrapped up ages ago

still deeply appreciate the series tho, i loved it for years and years. i don't normally go for ecchi because it usually feels very silly, but this more restrained, realist style of it really captured me. and the art was beautiful especially after the big improvement in the first few

"The sunset's so pretty today" must be the friendship version of "the moon is beautiful tonight".

Huh? I thought it was made clear that these two are in fact, dating.

they are

e: i sort of understand the confusion because they never do much more than holding hands, but it has been referenced explicitly several times. also it's published in yuri hime!

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This setting makes no sense, lol.

yeah i agree, this whole 'liason' thing feels very contrived. like...we're starting to accept humans in our vampire school, so shortly in advance we'll transfer in humans posing as vampires to encourage them to get along? i don't really see the logic

still gonna stick with it for the moment because the art is lovely and mmm sexy bloody vampires