I agree with all that, except I somehow got the impression before Citrus + started that it was actually intended to be focused on stories about the side characters. Then once it did get going, the main premise appeared to be, as you suggest, that “starting over, properly” project that Mei came up with, pretty much out of nowhere.

, yes, that phrase nerfed mei but not only that, sabu decided Put To the Mei the president of the Aihara Academy And his responsibilities, well above his relationship as Yuzu's girlfriend , and as a clear exponent of this was the embarrassing chapter of yuzu's birthday. yes, we all thought at the beginning of citrus + that it would focus more on the secondary characters, especially the two main characters harumin and matsuri and that seemed to be the case in vol 3 but for some reason that I do not understand, sabu closed that arc falsely to the point that from that arc onwards matsuri began to lose weight in the story and "appeared less and less " and harumin became a soul in pain since vol 4 due to his indecision about his future, which to this day we still do not know. Of the other secondary characters, Himeko is just a support character to Mei, Nene a simple meme of the harayuzu, and Shirapon and Sara and Nina disappeared unfortunately, and yet Sabu insists on bringing out new characters that nobody is interested in instead of developing the ones he already has and are familiar. The future will tell how this ends, because we are "closer" than ever to entering the final arc and seeing "if the trip has been worth it or Citrus + will be forgotten."

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So that everything is not critical. I have to say that this chapter in general I liked. I liked the interaction of Matsuri and Sayaka, I liked to see Himeko and I liked Mei's words But as I always say the words are demonstrated with facts . And if I have to stay with my favorite scene, I stay with Matsuri praising Himeko's talent, even Himeko herself was surprised at Matsuri's words hahahaha. In general a chapter Nice, if there is something to criticize is that I would like to see the conversation Matsuri had with those two girls.

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Literally three chapters ago, less than a month in-universe

Now a Yuzu aggression towards Mei do we consider it a romantic scene? That scene is toxic, it is not consented act

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In Citrus, the love between Yuzu and Mei was always the driving force behind the story, even ahead of Aihara Academy, because if it hadn't been like that, the wedding we would have had would have been Mei and the boy manager's and Mei would already be pregnant hahaha. Citrus+ covers the story of the engaged Yuzu and Mei before the wedding and after 7 volumes the romance between Yuzu and Mei has been scarce and anyone who is not blind can see that. I'm not seeing a relationship of equals. I see a Yuzu going out of her way for Mei, but I don't see it so much on Mei's side. Sometimes I see her so cold towards Yuzu that it's scary, maybe because Sabu nerfed Mei from the beginning of Citrus+. I think Yuzu's great support in Citrus+ has been Harumin and I've seen more chemistry between them than what is supposed to be the main couple. It's my personal opinion and that's what these forums are for, to give opinions, because the other option is to disappear like most of the people who commented on this forum at the beginning of Citrus+

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Actually so real, it feels like sometimes Saburouta forgets that it’s a romance manga and not a slice of life, plus even though they canonically both have issues yuzu’s distrust of mei is so infuriating sometimes like YOU proposed to her and you can’t trust her to just talk business with her childhood friend

real? real like two 40 year old japanese salary women who leave for work at 8 in the morning and get home at 8 at night, say goodnight to their partner and go to sleep. I can't believe that two teenagers who are engaged, who live together and who are living their courtship behave like this. where is the romance, where is the passion? .... I don't agree that the main problem with citrus+ is its periodicity, what it showed in a part of the readers is indifference and boredom. it's curious but looking back, the arc that generated the most gender debate between two sides was not precisely one of yuzu and mei, it was that of harumin and matsuri that ended with that random kiss of matsuri, which came to nothing and as we see today "never happened", it "died". Sara and Nina, Shirapon, the mystery of Mei's mother, Harumin's sister, even Matsuri's brother, Nene, Himeko, Mei's father, Yuzu's mother.... there are already many familiar characters to move the story forward and give development to the characters we already know, to introduce new ones that no one is interested in.

Arata's goal in the story is to show the change Mei has gone through thanks to Yuzu and to cement her role as the new chairwoman of Aihara

And what you say is true, but what many readers (including me) want to see is not "the she president of the academy, what we want to see is Yuzu's girlfriend."

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Well, I went and read it on Facebook, and I think "meh". Didn't really care about anything that happened in the chapter.

I dunno— that one panel of Yuzu smiling at Mei, and Mei not slapping her or anything was kind of cute.

Hahaha. After 7 volumes, we're settling for less, huh? That said, for me, the prettiest panel in this chapter was another one. If they ever upload it here, I'll comment.

nor do we know that harumin has chosen for his future (even confirming saboruota in the afterword of vol5 that he had already chosen his path), nor do we know what he thinks about yuzu, nor is it understood Her "relationship" with Matsuri, who without being friends (confirmed by Harumin herself) spend a lot of time together. Come on, we really don't know what's on Harumin's mind. Harumin is One of my favorite characters, but I still don't understand her, and I think it's time that harumin (just like Matsuri, who has less and less relevance in the story) is given a little bit of attention.

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by the way and speaking of harumin, it is curious that after 16 volumes, no one can categorically affirm (and there are still conflicting debates) whether harumin liked it, or likes yuzu in a way Romantic or not. And that just shows that we haven't had any real character development in harumin

Story is focusing on nothing... and lead to nowhere... sad.
Harumin as character should deserve better in every way. Would be a better main char also.
Next ep should be about Harumin tells Yuzu, that she loves her. Just to stir up the boring years! ;] After this Harumin move abroad and start a new serie with Her as main . Thnx

I agree, as a reader I would also like more prominence of Harumin (and in my particular case) of Matsuri who plays a lot in the story, of Shirapon, of Sara and Nina, of Himeko but for To be fair, here the protagonists are Yuzu and Mei, but at this point it would still be wise to leave them "in the background" for a few chapters and give more prominence to the two secondary ones Main ones (harumin and matsuri) and bring back shirapon, Sara and Nina and change the focus of the story a little. Greetings

I kinda don't really care about arata

Same. He's alright but I don't care for him more than what could have been in his place.

Even if (in an extreme hypothetical case) we did care about Arata, the stakes of Yuzu’s angst aren’t even clear—so she doesn’t know if she should tell him about the potential merger of the two schools, which Mei thinks he already knows about but Yuzu knows he doesn’t (I think).

And . . . so what? What are the stakes for anybody of Yuzu telling him or not?

(Meanwhile, Yuzu’s bizarre talking-popsicle analogy doesn’t help one little bit.)

yes yuzu knows and mei doesn't. Wouldn't it have been logical for Yuzu to tell Mei about it, instead of going to Harumin to tell her? Yuzu: "MEI I think Arata doesn't know." It's as simple as that. I don't understand Because saboruota is giving so much prominence to a character like arata, when it has main characters without closing their arcs and others missing.

I kinda don't really care about arata

Same. He's alright but I don't care for him more than what could have been in his place.

Even if (in an extreme hypothetical case) we did care about Arata, the stakes of Yuzu’s angst aren’t even clear—so she doesn’t know if she should tell him about the potential merger of the two schools, which Mei thinks he already knows about but Yuzu knows he doesn’t (I think).

And . . . so what? What are the stakes for anybody of Yuzu telling him or not?

(Meanwhile, Yuzu’s bizarre talking-popsicle analogy doesn’t help one little bit.)

yes yuzu knows and mei doesn't. Wouldn't it have been logical for Yuzu to tell Mei about it, instead of going to Harumin to tell her? Yuzu: "MEI I think Arata doesn't know." It's as simple as that. I don't understand Because saboruota is giving so much prominence to a character like arata, when it has main characters without closing their arcs and others missing.

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After Yuzu and Mei, the two main characters are Harumin and Matsuri. We have been talking about everything about Harumin's future since vol 4 and in vol5 it was already confirmed that he had chosen his future. it We know how readers? No, because instead of continuing with Harumin's arc in vol 6, he disappears from the scene and introduces us to the whole topic of Arata and his academy. Will close the harumin arc in This volume? Who knows, I think it wouldn't be so serious if Harumin didn't go to university or if she didn't go to the same university as Yuzu. Funny enough, Yuzu has never asked Harumin about his plans Of the future. And as far as matsuri is concerned, he is a character who appears less and less every day. The future will say

Why are u referring to Harumin and Matsuri as ''he''

spelling error. my language is not english and i didn't check it . corrected

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After Yuzu and Mei, the two main characters are Harumin and Matsuri. We have been talking about everything about Harumin's future since vol 4 and in vol5 it was already confirmed that she had chosen his future. it We know how readers? No, because instead of continuing with Harumin's arc in vol 6, she disappears from the scene and introduces us to the whole topic of Arata and his academy. Will close the harumin arc in This volume? Who knows, I think it wouldn't be so serious if Harumin didn't go to university or if she didn't go to the same university as Yuzu. Funny enough, Yuzu has never asked Harumin about his plans Of the future. And as far as matsuri is concerned, she is a character who appears less and less every day. The future will say

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Buff. These are my adjectives of how the saboruota story is going. Soporific, repetitive, slow, without romance, not funny, not spicy at all, it's like living a deja vu. I know my comment is not going to be liked but it's my personal opinion. Little to comment on this chapter, +25 pages of our beloved yuzu (the queen of drama and stress) to put her head in order, thanks to harumin's grandmother (oscar for the grandmother) and on the other hand to our beloved harumin (the queen of mystery and few words) who for some reason we don't know, when yuzu asks her if she has something in mind, she answers no. I've read a theory somewhere that says it may be that harumin has decided to go study abroad and doesn't want to tell yuzu so that "she doesn't have a heart attack" hahaha. As I said, personal opinion. Little matsuri, missing characters, mei in Olaf version etc...

The raw ones came out about two weeks ago, right? is it going to be published?

It's already been done. I'm sure it'll be uploaded here in a bit.

thank you so much

The raw ones came out about two weeks ago, right? is it going to be published?

Once more looks like there'll be no new Citrus+ chapter in October, either https://www.ichijinsha.co.jp/yurihime/next/

I'm sorry I haven't been keeping up, what is going on with Citrus' publication?

That seems to be the big question. Some people have speculated about the author’s health, but as far as anyone can tell that is indeed completely speculation. Saburouta does seem to be doing some Citrus-related work, like for the collected volumes. But new chapters of Citrus+ have been very few and far between and with (at least in my opinion) not a great deal of focus in the plot or characterization, and sometimes with the art obviously not completely finished.

If anyone knows more I would certainly be interested to hear it.

It has already been confirmed by several sites that in November there will be a chapter of citrus + (we will see if it has been worth the wait). And as far as it refers to everything is speculation (that if she is sick, that if she has taken a vacation, that if she is working on another project, that if she does not know how to continue the story and has taken some time to reflect, that if she has gotten bored ... who knows what we know for sure is that from October 2023 to October 2024 she has only published one chapter to close vol 6 and put it up for sale and apart from that three tweets, one on New Years, to tell us that she wanted to try "new things" (no idea) another to talk about merch, and another to tell us that the citrus anime would be free on YT for a certain time. We will see if after she publishes in November she maintains a more stable periodicity or if she announces something that we do not know. Greetings

As of June 2024 Citrus has sold 4 million copies in 16 volumes (1.9 million just from Japan alone) and according to the most recent numbers we have, is the second best selling yuri manga. Only behind Saki and above Yuru Yuri

I can get debating quality but Citrus is clearly very popular to this day. The other stuff is more interesting to me. For example, I love seeing 2DK and Fuzoroi no Renri up there. For some reason I forget how popular Murcielago is every now and then.
Nobody doubts that citrus is popular, I'm the first to "criticize" but I'm still here. Those data that you have provided are wonderful, but they also continue to talk about the past (in my humble opinion) because Treats citrus and citrus+ as a whole, when here we are talking about citrus+, not the original series. It would be interesting to see sales data separating the original series, and citrus+, as two series Independent (even if they are not). The reality is that one year we have only had one episode of citrus+ and history (in my opinion) has taken a bassoon. The future will.If you don't publish and months and months go by without information, and if you don't give something "attractive" to the reader, in the end people will end up getting tired. Greetings

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Another month with a big fat NOTHING!!!!! End it. Kill it. Over and done with. Author is too busy living off the past to care about the future.

i mean can you really live of the past with the moderate success that citrus had

good question. According to some comments that I have read out there, it is an asset of the Yurihime magazine, and that is why this periodicity is allowed and and the lack of information , which would not be allowed in another manga. Someone would have to explain to me how citrus+ can be an asset for the magazine, if in a magazine that comes out every month, in a year it has only had one chapter in publication in the magazine itself ....

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Another month with a big fat NOTHING!!!!! End it. Kill it. Over and done with. Author is too busy living off the past to care about the future.

Lol not only that, but it looks like there'll also be no new chapter next month, according to a preview from YH (https://www.ichijinsha.co.jp/yurihime/next/)

well it doesn't surprise me. the periodicity of citrus+ has plummeted. After going 6 months without releasing a chapter, I released one to close volume 6 and put it on sale and after that one would think that I would return a little to a more stable periodicity, but we are back to our old ways. But hey, if yurihime magazine is happy with this, then good for them. Citrus finished and this is a simple extra. Hello

I see that we continue with the same debates and the ones we have left hahahaha. the reality to know what people's expectations were when citrus+ started and what the current reality is, you just have to go to the first comments in this forum when citrus+ started. comments like, "I want to see them fuck" "I want to see more physical intimacy" "I don't want to see more dramas, just fun" "I don't want new random characters to appear to create unnecessary dramas" "I want to see harumatsu canon" "I want a more stable periodicity" etc... the reality today is that physical contact between mei and yuzu is scarce, we have had more dramas than fun, random characters have appeared to create dramas, the harumatsu today is dead and buried and the periodicity of the play has not improved at all. ........ . On the other hand, there are people who have a contrary opinion and it is very respectable, that they are loving the story as it goes and there are also many comments. Lastly, I understand that there are people who are very big fans of haruyuzu, honestly they would be a very good couple, but it is curious how after of the 6 vol of citrus+ plus the 10 of the original series for many people meiyuzu has not caught on, and in part it is because MEI's character development is inconsistent and many times It generates more rejection than empathy with her. greetings

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In a tweet from Savoruota she has just announced that he has a special project for Mei and Yuzu for the arrival of their birthdays. be careful that perhaps the so famous hard between the two can arrive (I say it Joke) just because I have read people who believe that it could be that, although the reality can be anything. Yuzu's birthday is next week, so we'll know soon

the Periodicity of this story is certainly an unfathomable mystery

Oh, a lot of us would want to see them fuck! It's just not the root of the complaints and criticism of Citrus+. Or put another way, we'd like to see it but it's not a "demand". The demand is "some sign of affection? Any? Please?" Which the wordless special delivered better than the entire rest of the series.

That's why I put nobody in quotes. It can be made explicit, it can be made lighter, and it can even be implied without showing anything, but at this point what I want to see (at least) there are more scenes like this special. In my opinion the possible hard between yuzu and mei and the harumatsu are simple saboruota games to keep the reader with hype about the series . I hope I'm wrong, but at this point, If Sabu gives me a romantic dinner, some passionate kisses, more of his life as a couple, I'll settle for it...

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