Why are we tackling another issue when we still haven't wrapped up the other issue that's been dragging on for months at this point smh

Because that's the way the author wants to handle it? It's a very normal thing in writing. Just because an issue is brought up doesn't mean it needs to be addressed immediately. And as someone else said, maybe on a different site?, sometimes life comes at you fast and lots of issues pop up at once. It's a normal thing in real life too.

Doggo to the rescue! Also yes pick the hot dog lady over the creepy cult

The hot dog lady? She's selling hot dogs? (I did know what you mean, but I couldn't help read this as the food)

I love this. Aya and Mitsuki have kind of established a haven of positivity around them but this is still modern Japan and people are pretty casually homophobic. I'm curious if Aki will be influenced by the kids at school, if he'll pretend to agree with them to have an easier time, or if he'll get ostracized for standing up for his sister. No matter which way it goes, the girls will find out since they spend a fair amount of time together. I'm also curious how his brother will react.

Igarashi's comments:

When we have our meetings, the password will be: "The good times ended with Yamabe..."

The original plan for the Lily arc was a bittersweet ending where Yurika always had feelings for Aoyama and still does to this day. But around the time I was drafting it, there was a grooming scandal in the manga industry. I had to reflect on if it was wrong of me to glamorize this sort of relationship in a modern manga. I've never viewed age-gap relationships very positively to begin with, and wasn't sure I could proceed. By the time I'd written chapter 17 I couldn't stand making Yurika come across as a decent person. After a lot of thought I consulted my editor, who understood my perspective and helped change to the current ending. That's what happened behind the scenes.

Stories in the S genre often depict beautiful age-gap relationships and I was inspired to try my hand at it too. But as the times change so does culture. After weighing my respect for S against my moral values, I decided I lacked the capability to beautify such a relationship and gave up on the idea. It's nothing more than me being stubborn about not wanting to portray it sweetly, even bittersweetly. I still very much enjoy reading age-gap relationships from other authors. I simply didn't want to feel so conflicted toward my own writing.

I'm known for being stubborn, and as someone who works in the entertainment industry I'm always cursing my stubbornness for working against myself. But after hearing about that scandal it brought to mind students I used to teach in cram school, and hurt to think of it that way. I couldn't separate my personal feelings from the issue and couldn't bring myself to profit off glorifying that sort of relationship... So the story took a 180 turn to its ending. I deeply apologize to Aoyama and Yurika... With all that said, don't you think the writing was crazy good!? Wasn't the artwork on another level!?

The authors explanation fits with how I thought of chapter 17 which was that Yurika did have some kind of real feelings for Aoyama, so that's an interesting in the moment reversal. I also agree with the author that times have changed and we shouldn't be beautifying this type of relationship. That said, if this is all we see of Yurika and she just ends up as a narcissist I think I'll be disappointed because I feel like the character has a lot more potential in the story.

Kind of light on the explanation. Like yes we got some miasma lore, but the specifics of what happened and why she thinks these two have a better chance than most, we were kind of told very little. Where the miasma came from seems not that important right now.

Top with bottom vibes and bottom with top vibes is so nice.

I'm amazed Aya sleeps with earbuds in her ears. That would seem hella uncomfortable to me. Plus, don't most people roll around in their sleep? How do they stay in? Mystifying.

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Is this the first time this moronic vampire has blushed? Wakana best girl is getting all her firsts huh. I kinda expected it to be a bit more explicit than it was tbh but nonetheless was still great it also cleared up some of the questions people had about pain when they get bit etc.

Also poor teacher. But Wakana continues to be best girl for Ruruna

No, Ruruna blushes all the time, from chapter 1 when she was embarrassed. But if you're looking for specifically something romantic, she was blushing a lot in chapter 19 when they had their first kiss.

we're cancelling an for outing a trans woman without her permission

No no, we're supporting An for gendering Akane correctly. She's in her own home, after all.

Aww I thought she'd go for a hug.

Is the watermark from the translators or is that there in the raw?

The real lesson here is don't do breath play. That shit is dangerous.

It's also pretty hard to tell if this was supposed to be a flashback or not.

Black page background color: Flashback
White page background color: Present times

It's kind of a general manga code :-) so it's useful o have them in mind.

Or... hear me out... it's, I dunno, nighttime?

Not sure if this will work since I've never tried putting images in comments before but here are some examples from a different manga. EDIT: Didn't work, here are just links then. EDIT2: Figured it out!

Nighttime without a flashback

Flashback

The flashback has black borders in between panels.

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I was all in on the president in the beginning of this manga, but Rin has really become my GOAT. This was such an excellent chapter. The writing in this manga is amazing for where it started.

Also, they kinda didn't really finish addressing the Yanagi of it all. Shenanigans are still bound to happen, but either way, we officially poly now, baby!

Art is beautiful, but I'm connecting less and less with Sumiko's storytelling. The 4 page format is dofficult and fit pre time skip so well, but now it's just frustrating to me with the whole "serious drama chapter" that makes you abxious on how they're going to fox or tackle the issue to the "slice of life with fluff and hope and shows they still care for each other" I know they do, I just want to see them communicate or more development.

Ok first I also want to say I don’t have any problem with the pacing, as I said before I read this like a newspaper comic, to the point I forgot it existence until new chapter drops.
But what you said can be another of the reasons why so many people feel ??? with this new arc, the first one (as I remember, so take it with a spoon of salt) didn’t have these “Happy, Sad, Happy, Sad” jumps, it was more ¿lineal? with the mood, I think

Either way, is a crime Arai didn’t show Mitsuki full outfit, it looks so cool, I wanted her to drop Aya just to see her in it

You're right that the beginning definitely didn't start out this way, but around when Kanna shows up and joins the cast we start getting longer dramatic arcs that don't resolve immediately. Aya's insecurity around Kanna and thinking Mitsuki might disappear really doesn't resolve until she passes her exams and gets into college, for example.

Yeah, I think the storytelling is having a lot of issues here, partially because of the four page limitation. It's also pretty hard to tell if this was supposed to be a flashback or not.

I'm genuinely confused what about this made you think it was a flashback. Last chapter they talked about going to festival. This chapter they're at a festival. Couldn't be more linear time-wise.

I really like these family moments with Aya. Seeing how she takes care of her siblings, and how much they care about her in return.

This chapter also does a good job of showing that Aya and Mitsuki not only still obviously care about each other a lot, but their relationship still works really well. Their fight doesn't have to be a relationship ending one.

Every word out of her mouth is a red flag.

Kosugi not being able to take no for an answer really irritates me.

We Nirvana now, girls. Teaser released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL-IGyJGf-w

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Saint Lore means we'll learn about extra cherries maybe?

And omg, your magic activates by kissing, just put your face on her face, problem solved.

Thanks for the responses!

“Joy/anger/sorrow/bliss” is an extremely effective motif – original, punchy, weird but entirely plausible in the story. The first time it appears, the girls do it together, but it quickly switches to Machi doing it alone; very evocative of the distance she feels between her and Miyuri. The use of facial expressions specifically is in keeping with the theme of Machi’s emotional denial in the story. And since “joy/anger/sorrow” reflects the emotional arc of Machi in the oneshot, it can also be seen as implying a happy end to the story, where she learns to accept her disinterest in drama and rebalances her relationship with Miyuri.

The progression of Machi discovering her feelings is well-executed. Because we live in Machi’s head, we too experience her denial: we only notice things are off in fleeting thoughts and through the opinions of others. Each time it returns, we learn a little more about what’s really going on, but also learn more about how much she’s suppressing – quite literally depicted by Machi covering her mouth on page 9. Her idea of them being rivals being spun from an off-hand comment really effectively emphasizes its flimsy nature; the rapid and jarring switching between convincing herself of it at knowing it’s not true is an effective depiction of a deteriorating mental state.

The visual symbolism is effectively done, reminding me a lot of A Curtain Call for You; the spotlights and confetti progress from two people in the spotlight, to one person, to her younger self, to the end of light entirely, with obvious implications for the story. Page 13, the last panel on page 21, page 22 and page 32 are especially striking, just working very well composition-wise.

Overall, I had no idea Aizaki Utau had in in her. This is one of the best oneshots I’ve read in a while, and proves she can write can write excellent stories with emotional weight as well as the comedies she’s known for. This reads as very personal and cathartic for her, but I hope she can continue writing more in this vein.

This definitely helped me figure out most of it but there are still parts I'm not quite understanding.

The way I'm interpreting this is that she's feeling pretty hollow because she no longer cares about her one (former) dream. She's not unmotivated about acting because Miyuri is better than her, she's just lost interest in it. She wishes she were frustrated by Miyuri being better, that she could see her as a rival, but she doesn't because she doesn't care about it anymore. And not caring about it frightens her because she has nothing else.

Which takes me up to page 26, but 27 to the end I'm still confused about. Was Machi going to use Miyuri wanting to be an actress as an excuse to pretend for longer? And since Miyuri is clearly saying she wants something else, Machi has nothing left, no excuses left to hide from feeling completely empty? But then page 29 implies there is an element of copying Miyuri and Miyuri not caring here as well which I don't see how it ties in with everything.

I wish this had a few more pages so I could see how Miyuri reacts to Machi quitting the club.

There's something kind of off about the translation. It feels stiff somehow. Or maybe the original text is unusually stiff, I wouldn't be able to say.

I don't know, they really seem incompatible.
Which is the point, I guess??
But I feel like for a couple to work, their values at least have to align, and they seem super not aligning.
Hmmm. I may just be biased. Mashiro fooling around during work, when Chiaki clearly has said she doesn't like "taking risks" makes me like Mashiro less as a character lol.

It depends on what kind of fooling around they do because Chiaki did like the hand holding. It's also way too early to be looking at their values.

she's evil and sadly i can't look past that

Which one? Girl who chose to cheat on her boyfriend (tbh, she doesn't even seem to care about him), or girl who seduced her old flame after breaking up? :)

Honestly, this seems kind of inevitable setup because it's just about two people who are deeply obsessed about each other. That's what takes some points away from my evaluation, because it's largely stakeless and coded in result.

Best cheating stories are ones with pressure, doubt, clouded motives, uncertainty of timing and so forth. Where you genuinely can't tell where they story will land even at midpoint in chapter 69.

Older girl is definitely more of a bitch. It'd be one thing to say, "since you still like me break up with your boyfriend and be with me instead" but she says "let's keep this our little secret" which means she doesn't take this seriously at all. She's gonna dump her again when she gets a new boyfriend.