Whoever said Inori could be the character who brings Matsuri and Harumin closer together might have been right, judging by the preview for the next chapter. Hopefully, it's not just a simple bait from Sabu and... I hope this is the start of progress (which I think is about time), although I fear it's just bait.

. But I bet it's about the mysterious application Harumin was reading back in the October 5th chapter (exactly a month prior in-universe, interesting). Clearly, Harumin is applying to a different college than Yuzu, and she is hesitant about telling her about it.

It makes perfect sense. Ultimately, Harumin's arc from volume 4 onwards revolves around his choice of future which we as readers don't know. It's logical That ,harumin not Dare to tell Yuzu because you know she gets stressed out by everything, and for Yuzu, Harumin is a great support. We'll see if Matsuri has a role in this resolution other than just making jokes.

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I don't think that other letter is going to be for Yuzu, though.

Right—it seems like Harumin is working herself up to say something to Matsuri. Otherwise that opening sequence of Harumin in the bathroom is just a pointless waste of panels.

Which cannot be entirely ruled out, of course.

If it were a letter to Matsuri, that would be a huge surprise. Perhaps Sabu has realized that the story needs a big push, but Given the development that Harumin and Matsuri have undergone in recent volumes, it's complicated.

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I don't think that other letter is going to be for Yuzu, though.

So who is that letter for? A university? If it's for a person, who could it be? Harumin interacts with very few people in this story.

8 Months for this? Reading Citrus+ is like experiencing déjà vu. Speaking of this chapter, I wonder how many times we've seen this scene? Here we have Yuzu Stressed over some silly thing related to Mei, then Harumin and Matsuri with their personal feud(I suppose we'll never have a conversation between the two of them to clear up their differences) , and Nene—what can we say about Nene? Seriously, is communicating by letter the peak of the story now? But let's get to the important part: what's happening to Harumin? Well, since volume 4, something has been brewing that has to do with his future, and as readers, we don't know why Sabu isn't closing any story arcs, or maybe he's going to send her a... A letter to Yuzu proposing a threesome with Mei, hahaha. Disappointing. Where's the yuri and romance in this story? Where's the development of the secondary characters? In my opinion It's time Sabu started wrapping up character arcs and we moved on to the final arc, finally putting an end to this agony. Cheers.

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Is the chapter not uploaded?

June issue will have another episode. But given Sabu's history, don't ever trust the "next issue" announcement picture on the ichijinsha website. It can be yanked anytime, including the last moment.

It makes sense that she'd release one chapter in June because I understand that volume 7 will be released in the summer, and Sabu will want to finish it by then. As for Mei's mother, that would also be a good opportunity.BowBut I don't see Sabu with much intention. Sara and Nina, Shirapon, etc...What about them?

Matsuri is ready for her next practical joke, using Nene.
BTW, "autopen???"

Having reached this point, The History not in the mood for any more jokes. It's time for Sabu to reveal all the mysteries the has about his main supporting characters (Matsuri and Harumin) and move on to the final arc. It feels like I'm experiencing constant déjà vu in this story. I'll elaborate when the chapter comes out.

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As I understood at the beginning of Citrus+ someone commented that Sabu had said that In an interview the end would be in the graduation of the girls and end. The wedding already gave it in original citrus

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yes, seven months which is the 7 volumes we have of citrus+ but they already knew each other for a long time. how many of those 7 volumes has sabu dedicated exclusively to showing us the courtship of those two from a romantic perspective and not just crumbs? that's the problem, without forgetting two very important things, they are living their courtship under the same roof and that they are engaged. for god's sake, in this chapter she asks yuzu to write him a letter, when they are face to face alone in the room. I say, wouldn't it be time to have a conversation? I admire people who read citrus+ and everything seems perfect to them, and I mean it (no sarcasm or irony in my words) because they could be enjoying it and not as is the case.

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. I would say Yuzu deserves way better, but she loves Mei, so alas. They totally lack chemistry though.

if after 17 volumes we're still questioning the chemistry between yuzu and mei it means the story is not going well (and i agree). a couple that is engaged and is unable to communicate except "by letter or smoke signals" is implausible, but sabu wants to convince us that it's plausible. where is that mei who went like a "bitch in heat" when she saw matsuri kiss yuzu in the original citrus? sabu nerfed mei at the beginning of citrus+ and from that moment on yuzu and mei's relationship slowly declined, if we add to this that sabu put the president mei and her obligations far above yuzu's girlfriend mei, then this is what we have today. zero romance. I find the "chemistry" thing funny because I remember very well in the Harumin and Matsuri arc how those who didn't want Sabu to make them a couple (the least) always argued the same thing, "they don't have chemistry", maybe they do, maybe not, but at least the interactions between Harumin and Matsuri are fun, they argue, they throw darts, hints, there's an aura of mystery that makes it interesting, damn even Matsuri has touched Harumin's "balloons" more than Yuzu has Mei or vice versa hahahaha and this is coming from a guy who is not a die-hard fan of Harumatsu, but who I'm convinced would give the reader much more fun today than the main couple, but who unfortunately is "dead and buried". And I would say the same about other completely abandoned characters like Sara and Nina, Shirapon, Harumin's sister and her girlfriend, or Himeko herself, who could still add a lot of play to the story, at least more than just an arata on duty. Regards

the day sabu gives me a chapter even if it's just 12 pages showing a conversation between yuzu and mei as a couple, I'll come to this forum and just write one word "perfect". What will these two talk about when they're alone? The stock market? The rice shortage in Japan? The elections?... I've realized that citrus+ has achieved something and it's that my top of favorite characters has been reversed. Honestly, today it would be much more interesting for sabu to develop the harumatsu for the story, today if Sara and Nina, shirapon, reappeared, giving himeko more prominence would be more interesting for the story. Honestly, and I say this with sadness, the story currently tells me nothing. Just a personal opinion.

Crazy that whenever Saburouta tweets announcing a new citrus chapter, over 90% of the replies come from overseas fans. It's one of those manga that owns its popularity to their international audience more than the domestic audience. In Japan there are other yuri that sell more but internationally it's still the best selling yuri (I wonder if the green yuri manga will take its place eventually though, especially with the upcoming anime).

Green yuri is so winning, the anime is going to do numbers for the manga.

I've yet to see it and I doubt it , I think it's near impossible to have a story as well written as the original 10 volumes

Neither Citrus or Green Yuri are in my top 5 Yuri series personally, and regardless I think if Green Yuri's adaption hits it out of the park the series is going to be the most popular Yuri by a huge mile. There's a lot of elements working well in Green Yuri's favor if they can pull off the anime, including a flavor mix that's both Western and Japanese that appeals to a wide audience, which interests people that don't normally like anime and manga. There's more I could talk about here but I don't want to go further off topic.

The Green Yuri today is a mass phenomenon, and is having impressive sales in some countries and surely if they make a good adaptation to the anime will sell even more. But Citrus will always be citrus

what an intense debate and how clarifying of the current situation of citrus+. if as readers we had received our dose of romance between yuzu and mei in citrus+ today we would not be talking about sex or sex no, we would be enjoying "that passionate kiss, that romantic dinner, that trip of lovers to an onsen" etc... an explicit sex scene between yuzu and mei was never a priority for the majority of citrus readers.Back to past debates that were already overcome only shows the interest today in history. In my personal opinion I think that when we discover Harumin's future (I think it will be in This volume) I think the story will enter its final arch very quickly. I have the feeling that Sabu It will close Citrus+ at the Vol 10, not one more or one less, just like the series Original, Vol 8/9 to close arches and characters and as a climax in Vol 10 with graduation and perhaps with a special Skip Time chapter. Although well it is only a feeling

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That Yuzu felt a jealousy jealousy only shows her insecurity and that she has not matured, but the most important thing is the lack of communication with her partner." are no silent masses in Citrus+," you just have to enter several pages and yuri theme forums, Citrus+ is not in your prime. That does not mean that I have no sales, sells internationally Because it is citrus , but that does not mean that there are other Yuris much more commented in certain parts. The problem of Citrus+ is not its periodicity, it is its irregularity and lack of communication and The clear example we have this month where it was reported that there would be chapter and in the end it has not come out

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I find that the relationship between Yuzu and Mei is not really a backward development, but rather a forward, maturing development. When Mei told Matsuri about starting over to respect Yuzu, she did exactly that. For us who used to see the lovey dovey scenes in Citrus, the interaction between Mei and Yuzu feels cold or odd or "business like". But it is a book separation between personal and non personal (business) lives.

What maturity ? If the last physical contact we saw recently went to Yuzu "assault" Mei and immobilize her in bed in the purest style of the original citrus. Is that a more mature relationship? Maturity would have been for Mei to tell Yuzu his plans or at least reassure her. Maturity is that on Yuzu's birthday she behaved so cold Mei? . This is an institute girl manga, And it is normal for readers to see the most romance and not just a business course of how to carry an academy. .

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Citrus+ "Synopsis: This is the story of Yuzu and Mei Dos Salary Women, 40, in which they show us their day -to -day . They get up at eight in the morning, they are going to work, and return at 6, dinner and sleep "! WTF! .

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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