Yanagi is a baddie, I'm so intrigued! Honestly, this is awesome. Already this went from a love triangle, to a love quadrangle, to now a love-who-the-fuck-knows-how-many-sides. The drama! The heartache! It all tastes so sweet!

Also wow our main girl Suzu is the most oblivious so far. She has two people desperately in love with her, both the people she spends the most time with, and she is none the wiser. Suzu gonna get wrecked when she finds out about all the messiness in her life, I can't wait.

This started so pure, but now it's rocketing up my faves list with all the messiness.

Huh, I thought they were dating already. Reading all the chapters back there were some where they were just friends, but others where there was an implication of dating, but I guess it was ambiguous.

Yeah, Junna refers to them planning to go to the cafe together as a date but it seems like they haven't actually confessed yet which I guess is why the title refers to crushes even if I agree with the person a while back that Hane is the one who crushes harder even if I think it's more about Junna slowly coming to terms with her feeling for Hane while Hane is already all-in but held back by her guilt.

Also, Junna as the top moment~

Last chapter too with her friends saying "try to hold back in public spaces" felt very dating coded.

Huh, I thought they were dating already. Reading all the chapters back there were some where they were just friends, but others where there was an implication of dating, but I guess it was ambiguous.

holy crap a kid is missing and she's STILL making it all about her
Mitsuki is failing the girlfriend test harder than a teenager at the DMV

She has an immediate guilty reaction. That's not unreasonable. Many people don't move immediately from shock in these types of situations.

I really like the self-reflection from Aki that he couldn't fight back against the conformity from his school friends. I wonder his twin thinks of all this or if he's aware of the issues Aki has been having at school.

What this chapter makes me wonder is if Takara is Ema's only love (in her past, not currently). Obviously she's struggling because she's in love with Takara, but have there been other women, have any of them put it to Ema as "me or your husband" and she's chosen her husband? Or have the women all been casual and understood there was no future there?

I've read a lot of harem stories where different members are popular which usually means the author has done a good job of showing why their attractive, or a bad job at distinguishing them. Maybe the Sophia fans aren't commenting, but damn it feels overwhelmingly Olivia favored. That kinda makes it seem like the author hasn't done their job well.

olivia has seen much more impactful development than sofia, and possibly even screen time but i cant say that for sure.

Tbh I'm not too mad at a Sofia end because she was super cute and sweet in the first few chapters. I enjoyed their dynamic and I enjoyed Sofia as a character. But when they started introducing the other characters, she started getting shafted and we as the readers kinda forgot what was great about Sofia since Olivia had the more engaging storyline. I do feel characters like Sofia are harder to write engaging storylines for compared to "villainous" characters like Olivia though.

Well yeah characters that change and grow in a story are more dynamic and interesting than characters that stay the same. It's not that Sofia is nice compared to Olivia starting out misunderstood. There are plenty of nice characters that develop and change over the course of a story. Sofia just hasn't.

I've read a lot of harem stories where different members are popular which usually means the author has done a good job of showing why their attractive, or a bad job at distinguishing them. Maybe the Sophia fans aren't commenting, but damn it feels overwhelmingly Olivia favored. That kinda makes it seem like the author hasn't done their job well.

As an adult Olivia looks even better for saying she found other things that mattered to her besides Machino. Like, that's ideal in a partner! You don't want to be codependent at the expense of everything else.

If next chapter is the last there is no way this has a satisfying conclusion. What a disappointment.

I feel like the term high maintenance is now used in some cases to tone down some toxic behavior, as if it was just character trait, like being an extravert for example. Receiving 13 texts in a few minutes, with that kind of questions is not being high maintenance. This is borderline manipulative and shows some serious attachment issues/jealousy from the girlfriend...

High maintenance, attachment issues, and toxicity are all parts of the same spectrum IMO. There is a healthy way to deal with attachment issues (key: consistency), and there are healthy ways to ask for and provide a lot of attention to your partner (key: boundaries). But of course, there are also very unhealthy ways, and where one becomes the other is a very subjective perception.

You are not wrong, but I've seen too many people justifying their shitty behavior under the umbrella of high maintenance, as if it was a "neutral" trait of character. To be fair, you can be high maintenance without being toxic or having attachement issues. But in many cases, this is just used to hide toxic behaviors behind a less negatively associated term.

Edit: sorry, I got a bit too worked up, I just don't like this term and how it is used lol

I think you have a point, but I'd also say the opposite can be true too, where people are very willing to call something toxic when they're really just not compatible.

I think texting that much and expecting answers especially when someone is working is toxic, but some people don't mind. If Mizuki is a university student, since I think we still don't know her age, then she has loads of free time and this might be a normal way she texts with friends. Sometimes it can just be ignorance, in which case high maintenance would work better than toxic. Or rather, I'd prefer to say I know she is high maintenance, she might also be toxic, let's see how the relationship moves forward.

But also I'd say high maintenance isn't usually used as a neutral trait. It's neutral to bad, I've never seen anyone use it as a positive.

Thank you for the translation of this series. I'm so curious to see how much of it will be adapted, the college arc is cute and a bit angsty, whereas the adult arc, for me at least, takes the cake with Kanta's narration, Yui as a whole is a bit more personable and we get some new side characters. I really hope at least some of it gets adapted since it would be a bit disappointing to focus only on the college arc.

Nothing gets resolved in the college arc so I don't see why they would end it there. Unless they wholesale change the ending.

I thought from this chapter Mashiro seems to want things she can't have. I doubt it's from Yoshino alone, but her response to the situation is so fucked up it suggests some kind of trauma, which is not an excuse for her being incredibly shitty. As they say, hurt people hurt people.

What is high maintenance woman?

High maintenance doesn't have to apply to women only to be clear, but high maintenance in general means needing a lot of attention. This could be emotionally needy, could be financially needy, etc., but the general gist is that the person is needy and demanding. It's not a bad thing per se, although it's often used pejoratively, it's really just about balance, boundaries, and making sure needs of both partners are being met. Some people here and on Dex still like Mizuki so they vibe with her type of high maintenance. Some don't. But we can all agree she is high maintenance.

I still really like Mizuki haha but I'm OK with high maintenance girlfriends because I am one lol

That being said, I do think healing is not linear and it's completely fine to remain attached in feelings for someone even after you want to "put the feelings down".

I'm a high maintenance woman that has been with high maintenance women. There are very different types of high maintenance. Mizuki is not it for me. I do think dating her would be good Ren.

I think Ren landed a high maintenance landmine girlfriend.

Yeah pretty much, though I thought that was obvious from the previous chapter. Like the chances it ends well between her and Mizuki would be close to 0 even without Sui.

Oh, it's already over? Well, at least it didn't end right after they started dating.

Damn. But what about her evil ex? I wanted more of her evil ex. Feels like this came out of nowhere.

She died off-screen and was thrown into a dumpster. Nobody will miss her :-)

I wanted to see more of the senpai, honestly. Give her a hot girlfriend too!

I just said I wanted more of her! I will miss her!

Damn. But what about her evil ex? I wanted more of her evil ex. Feels like this came out of nowhere.

I was surprised that Mai confessed to wanting sex with Asumi and not something more emotional. I mean, the sexual things she was describe were intimate in a potentially emotional way, but she didn't make it explicit. This might really be going for a potential harem/brothel/sex worker job ending if they don't end up dating. Though Asumi considering how to set up the mood and then just being honest, her work into topping, her work into having a good date with Mai, it feels like she's put in way more effort with her than anyone else, so it'll also be a little weird if they don't end up dating.

Anyway, next chapter will be fun no matter what happens.

Shouldn't this have like a fantasy tag or something? Girl is literally magic.

I'll read a few chapters of this to check it out, but my expectations are low coming from the previous manga of this author.

(TBH Mei doesn’t seem like a great partner XD )

Upvoting this lol. At first, it was all "super positive college student getting her first girlfriend!"
But now it's more like: "Hmmm, whoever is her girlfriend would have a lot to be nervous about."

I mean, she's a first year in college, I wouldn't expect any college freshman to be a good partner, let alone a great partner. That said, she definitely needs to learn the difference between love, a crush, and lust.

I feel like I've read this before...Anyway, no real resolution. It was aight.

Alright I gave it to chapter 4 and though I've rarely done this with yuri works, I'm dropping this. Reading "that bitch" over and over again is annoying, and the plot makes no sense.

Even if this follows the normal manga romance trajectory of them not officially dating until the end, I always like stories like these where they get somewhat intimate before officially dating. Feels a little more real.

Also, omg, Emma in a realistic scenario this is similar to what I would do as well but it always leads to pain

There are personal opinions and there is the narrative that the author is crafting. These are two different things.

Aya craving physical intimacy when she is drunk has been established by the author as a typical and accepted part of the relationship. If anyone feels uncomfortable with that, it’s okay. But the author has gone out of their way to establish this pattern as a norm in their relationship.

That entire scene we are all remembering seemed dark because what we were witnessing was Mitsuki self-abandoning and giving Aya what she thought Aya wanted out of fear of losing her. She felt that giving Aya sex was necessary because if she couldn’t even do that Aya would leave her for the friend from the party.

Sometimes I really do wonder if we are all reading the same manga.

Death of the Author and all that, no one is ever reading the same work as anyone else. Each person brings their own morals, experiences, and expectations into works. Sometimes this is great because it means some people will catch something others will miss. Other times it's just a mess.

Weirdly this makes me think Riku might be in the closet. It doesn't seem like any of the other friends had that thought, but Riku seems to think that because Aki's sister is gay that Aki could be too, and he subtly pushed him off. Some internalized homophobia perhaps? It's a possibility anyway.

Funnily enough, this arc reminds me of someone complaining about this manga not being realistic enough because it never addressed homophobia explicitly and directly. I don't think this makes the manga more realistic or better, but I do like this plotline. Middle school is rough no matter the culture, and I assume Aki is in middle school. It just sucks there.