Even the extras are pure happiness.

I remember reading this sometime ago. I thought it was dropped. Glad to see it being picked up here. :)

It's been on Dex since 2023, in fact I'm pretty sure these are the same translations as the ones there. Not sure this is picked up as much as just uploaded here.

Good read, would yuri again.

I do agree that a marriage proposal is not going to fix their issues and a lot of work needs to be done, however, I also think this is an important step in fixing some of those things.

What the marriage proposal (hopefully) says is that Mitsuki isn't going anywhere. She's not going to retreat or runaway like her Uncle did with Kanna. She's saying to Aya that she wants to be there for her for the long haul. Mitsuki is saying that she wants to work on these issues together. I am hoping that this is a step in that process.

And to be fair to Mitsuki, she often works on her issues by herself and it takes her a while to get to the same place as Aya. So ch 168 was her buying new music and in ch 169 she's listening to music with Aki. She's was making steps towards getting over some of her issues, and Aki going missing kinda pushed her forward several steps in the process. I don't think that solves everything, not at all, but the marriage proposal could also be seen as Mitsuki saying to Aya even if it takes me some time to get back to myself I'll still always be there for you.

Of course, this could just be my wishful thinking. It will depend on the follow up. I'll be kind of annoyed if this is the solution to everything.

What would a sapphic but not yuri manga be?

The example has already been given. "The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All". The author in an interview talks about it not being yuri in her mind because it's not following typical yuri conventions. That's pretty much all that's necessary. Of course, colloquially we all call it yuri, which is fine. Genres are kind of nebulous terms, but that's the point. The author wouldn't put it in yuri because she sees the genre in a specific way, similarly to how most of us readers would put it in yuri because we see the genre differently.

A lot of these comments feel like they don't understand how Venn Diagrams work. Yuri and wlw/sapphic/lesbian works have a lot of overlap, maybe even more than 75% overlap, but they're not the same. That's it. A work can easily be sapphic and yuri, it can also just be sapphic, or just be yuri. And genres evolve and their conventions change, they're not static so it's also likely that the definition of yuri is changing to be more exclusively sapphic content as more explicit works become more mainstream. All of these things can be true.

Yeah if Erika has been here the whole time, then who is Akebi waiting for in chapter 89?

To be fair, Akebi had already turned most of the girls gay for her, now they're gay for other girls as well.

What. The. Fuck. Is. Going. On?!?!?!
So Erika is there? She didn't move away? Why would Akebi ask her if she's serious about the other girl?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!

Maybe the author used intentional misdirection and it's not Erika but someone else whom Komichi is waiting for. And her line to Erika is just teasing her a little, she confirms they're dating right afterwards with her plan to play a breakup.

It might just be that it's English, but the line is ambiguous. "Maybe the only thing is to show people we broke up." This could mean the way I think most of us are interpreting it as "we'll act like we've broken up but we obviously haven't", but it could equally be read as, "we've already broken up but we're not public about it". I don't think it's the second, but I don't like the ambiguous wording here.

What. The. Fuck. Is. Going. On?!?!?!
So Erika is there? She didn't move away? Why would Akebi ask her if she's serious about the other girl?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!

The art style kinda reminds me of Anata Mitai Ni.

Same author/artist

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.