It’s been a storyline since Kanna showed up way back. Not a new plot line. And Kanna has been projecting onto Aya this whole time. Joe and Kanna have been running parallel with Aya and Mitsuki like a cautionary tale of sorts for the MCs. It’s been blatant the whole time.

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Joe's "mother" reference in his text to Kanna makes me wonder if we will ever get some explanation of what's the story about Mitsuki's parents.

Mitsuki making it big might draw her bio parents out if they are live. That happens sometimes. Either they want something from you or the press tracks them down.

While for us her missing parents has been something to wonder about for Mitsuki it hasn’t been a spoken part of her conflict outside of that time she was sick and nobody was home for her. She has had enough other drama in the meanwhile and looks to be fine with Joe as her parent. To me she has taken more emotional damage from being aware of why he and Kanna broke up from an early age. Perhaps contributing to how she feels that some things are beyond talking out. She hasn’t seen a happy ending for them.

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Kanna left for the US to follow the dream she and Joe had together… without him. He chose Mitsuki who he wasn’t going to take to the US with him at that age. Then she waited until Mitsuki was about to come of age to see how he felt and perhaps convince Mitsuki to come to the US too. So he’d not have that last reason to stay. But she came right when Aya was becoming a big person in Mitsuki’s life. So she helped Aya and regularly reassured Joe that Mitsuki wasn’t alone because Aya was right beside her. Mitsuki would be fine if Joe left with her.

Only now Aya isn’t quite Mitsuki’s person, just a younger version of herself, and Joe is joking about Kanna being like a mom, a role she turned down before, and not what she came back for. She has in her heart what she wants with him, but can’t ask him for it.

Is Hanako really a witch or something??? I'm very curious.

Half blooded, perhaps?

Maybe! There's a possibility she doesn't have powers (until now) but she sees other witches' powers

She is super strong and apparently doesn’t have charm that works on people. Or she’d have it easier in life than she has. She might either be half or simply the variety witches is broader than the one we know for sure seen.

I am no longer ranked so high on the her “starlight” and fan list which hopefully means her domestic audience has woke up a bit.

For anyone wondering it’s not hard to set up an account or very expensive in USD to buy coins there. You can use coins to buy the raws. And if you buy the raws for a whole volume you get access to illustrations and the spicy extra scenes as well. You can also use coins to give tips/starlight that helps her in the rankings. And of course leave comments which she suggested would be helpful.

She did a follow up comment on IG correcting the chapters/volumes oops. Reading it all together it sounds more like she needs active support on the app to help make the last two volumes more of a sure thing. Her editor’s warning was enough to get her to ask for support so still probably a serious worry.

I was reading the latest chapter on bilibili and at the end Tracy announced that vol 9 will be the last and that the story is shifting to wrap up mode.

Quoting myself from back in Feb. Since we are just starting Vol 8 now that would mean 2 volumes remaining is simply it being exactly on track. So I’m not sure what she really meant with her announcement if it is indeed volumes. As that was the same info going back to her Feb announcement. Maybe even more was lost in translation.

Hopefully it was just a mistake in her English post then. A call to support the last two volumes makes more sense than chapters too. Maybe she’ll correct that on IG once she sees the comments reacting to chapters.

Any idea one what the data part was about? I wonder if that will affect other series.

I'm not seeing more info elsewhere yet. Ugh. And she was just working on the physical release of vol 1 too I think.

Anyone know what this "paid data" thing is? Did a big carrier switch away from unlimited which means people are less willing to both pay for comics on their app and the data to read the comics on their phone. Higher readership ones might survive that, but maybe the app is trimming off all the others?

I'm going to go onto the app to see if more is said there, but looks like this has been killed off early after she had already been green lit to work towards a conclusion in a few volumes. Can't imagine pivoting to a two chapter ending will work out well. Sigh.

"The editor told me that due to the impact of paid data, this story is likely to be unable to conclude smoothly, I hope that everyone can support the last two chapters of "My Dear Lass" to help the story end well ❤"
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCEP9sepB8x/

I’m happy sniper garbage doesn’t end up over here and there was a lot of complaints when it was going on and drama when it started. Eventually what happens is people who do care just block the snipers instead of complaining on every chapter, giving them attention, and getting half baked spoilers in the process.

I’m looking forward to more chapters when they come. Snipers do often take the energy out of a scanlation team trying to do it properly so I’m not that surprised if it takes a while now. And yes, there are those of us who do pay attention to who is scanlating it and care. It’s a small community of scanlators who focus on GL so if you’ve been around a minute you know who most are and want to support them.

People are of course free to cheer on snipers, and read whatever they can think they can tolerate to get their fix, but that’s MD culture that can stay over there. Not every place needs to have low standards and while MD will let anything be posted… Dynasty publishing sniper chapters and undercutting a regular contributor doesn’t make much sense.

Is that Hiroko sleeping on the train p24? She's snuck in some cross-over appearances in the past at least.

ngl, I forgot that they’re underage

(I think this is mostly cuz I dont reread the story, but Elsa getting pushy(?) felt out of nowhere to me)

She got supported more in her early life in this timeline than before, right? Maybe she's just a more assertive person from that. Along with naturally getting bolder now that there's confirmation her feelings are reciprocated.

Oh this is really sad. Xiaoen biological parents gave her away because they didn't want a daughter.

I didn't even think about that but yeah, there is probably some one child policy shit going on here, at least partially?

No that’s not a thing anymore, Chinese society just values the birth of a son /heir significantly more than a daughter which can result in these types of situations

It ended around 2015 right? Well after these births when it would have still been a thing. I mean she’s in her late 20s and her brother is around 18.

You'll often see Chinese authors get around this issue by using "camera tricks" or visual metaphors for the kisses (or sex), like dripping flowers and such. "Addicted to Her," is full of that and does it really tastefully. I think "My Dear Lass," does the same but I don't remember.

My Dear Lass keeps the naughty stuff as a supporter benefit you get when you unlock the whole volume. It is accessible along side normal bonus illustrations that get unlocked, not put back inline with the chapters. In the chapters it gets the dreamy camera angle treatment which at least comes from her personal cinematic art style and not just out of the all-purpose bag of censoring tricks.

As long you can tell something happened. Nothing worse than thinking some metaphor meant they kissed and a dozen chapters later it becomes clear they didn’t.

I've had my suspicions that Sumiko-sensei might be American, and this puts a lot of credibility to that lol (if there's any interviews about it, I don't know but I'd be interested to read) I mean, what western teen show DOESN'T have a prom arc; I can imagine her lamenting the idea that she couldn't write one for her characters, then going "Wait, this is my story! Of course they can!!"

love Narita so much, he is absolutely best boy and is just living for this love story just like all of us 10/10

She's Japanese, but spent at least part of her childhood in the west due to her parent's work and is fluent in English. Years back on twitter she said she'd tweet in Japanese and English because that's what's comfortable to her. There's an interview where she talked about feeling lonely at first when they moved so spent a lot of time listening to her dad's music and specifically Beck and Nirvana (https://yoi.shueisha.co.jp/body/culture/6900/3/). She was also a Glee stan which would narrow her down as a millennial. If I had to guess it would be the UK though because of some obscure local bands references, vocabulary, and UK orgs she's had merch for like WWF.

There is that manga where the girl goes back in time to when her teacher was a student. That was an original take.

With this series it doesn't seem like there will be a time jump since this is running along with the other characters, so perhaps it will stay a slow burn.

Stories like this don't come around very often. I'm not sure where this is run of the mill when, for GL especially, it's school kids or office ladies with the occasional gems but certainly not a bumper crop of unique period dramas. To exist somewhere that this is an average story would be great. Sign me up.

The official release just came out and vol 1 finishes with chapter 13. There’s a nice color front and back page and about 30 pages of extra content at the end. I’ve not read through it yet.

It's the Kinokuniya USA store exclusive cover for vol 1. They teamed up with Yen Press for it. The other booksellers will just get the regular cover for vol 1.

She released an official album under a band name clearly about her and Aya filled with songs written to Aya. For a manga where music is the love language they use, advancing in tandem, that seems like very significant progress for them.

For what it's worth this is the only translation I read and I do a little skippity skip when I see it appear. It's one of my favorites.

There is now one gay braincell being shared by three people. It's going about as well as you'd expect.

Hope some of y'all purchase at least one volume of this work if you enjoyed it so much. I have, though I wish it could've been better paced. Like we needed one more volume, but I know that's a big ask for companies to gamble on a Yuri story. Sigh...

Author's gotta be a Danganronpa fan.*Junko* Shirakawa and black and white is too much of a coincidence.

Funny enough...I'm pretty sure I saw it just got picked up as a single omnibus. After vol 1 had been left dangling in the wind alone for years. Instead of reprinting vol 1 and releasing the rest you have to repurchase it all together to get the other volumes.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2024-08-25/seven-seas-licenses-fourteen-new-releases-at-anime-nyc-2024/.214724

Do I need a plugin or something to see the show? I made an account and logged in but the player is all black with no images just the sound

There isn't a plugin. Try turning off ad block for the site. It might be conflicting. Or try to use a different browser.

I watched it using the phone app version cast over to my big tv. So if all else fails that should work.