It makes me think of those weird relationships in 6th grade where breaking up meant no more walks home, eating at a different lunch table, and maybe having friends mad at you and picking sides for a weekend before the next drama. She forgot about the guy because it wasn’t real to her and they had done the minimal dating theater for their friends. Fortunately she was spared being forced to kiss him which would have complicated things more.

She needs to break up with him, but dang. If he’s crushed like she’s cheating while they shared rent and a dog and not the basic middle school level thing that was depicted that’d wild.

I saw this on was nominated for Next Manga Award 2025 in the comic category.
https://tsugimanga.jp/nominate/comics

There's several GL that made the cut and you can vote/rank up to three. Mangaka get really excited for this one even when they just end up in the top ten. Nice to see several GL there.

This is apparently up for a Next Manga Award 2025 under the comics category.
https://tsugimanga.jp/nominate/comics

It's not hard to vote and you can pick and rank three titles. There looks to be 4-5 GL works available for the category and this was my #1. July 7 is the voting cutoff date. Most past winners have ended up with an anime down the road and winning or even ranking high seems to get some level of clout in Japan.

I think you're giving way too much weight to the word "gross" in the context of what was going on. Mitsuki is just not used to getting overwhelmed with these kinds of feelings and caught it spilling out visibly. It's likely a face she's not used to seeing on herself often. She's not actually grossed out at anything she's done with Aya or looking at those photos. She's actually getting creatively wound up by thinking about it all.

Aya has shown being insecure about fitting in with Mitsuki's family who all are fluent in English so she's throwing herself into English studies. She's also not creative in the way Mitsuki is and Hime and Narita have their own things too. She's self-imposed goals for herself that she's not meeting and is missing out on having fun in her senior year which is making her feel an artificial distance growing. It's all self inflicted, but not that unusual when you're at an age where everyone is deciding what to do with their lives and some of them are more outwardly talented in something you rank highly. In this case English and music.

This is going about as well as the first time I played Sims as a tween. At least she's becoming more aware of the limitations. Maybe do more of an interview before turning anyone else.

I don’t read that much of theirs, but they also don’t have that much and still make you scroll through a landslide of BL. Most recently I’ve gotten Boys Gilding the Lily Shall Die?! which I like and they seem to have done an ok job with including speed of volumes.

Just now I clicked into their Pride section and the GL they list look like het to me by the cover and the fact I’ve never seen them around these parts. Hmmm.
https://tokyopop.com/pages/pride-manga-sale

Tokyopop has licensed the series for a Feb release. I totally missed any announcement somehow but it’s up for preorder at the usual places already.

Big couple of months for Sal. S2 coming out, Black and White omnibus coming out. This news.

I’m not sure what people are wanting anymore. My reading list lately is cursed.

Maybe im reading too much into it, but that " but even then, i couldnt rest and sleep at night" is insanely ominous. I really hope im wrong tho

She might simply be taking onto herself someone’s curse when in physical contact. And insomnia is at least not immediately fatal. We’ll see if she can co-sleep or not but so far she’s been awake for it.

So are we to take it she simply never came back to school and made a clean break…or that she took a more extreme ending?

It did seem like she was might have been finishing up business in a morbid sense with the post-manic compliments, honorifics dropping, and promises to explain everything at a later date.

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She’s a diminished prince returning so perhaps they are going to deal with that side of it more since the MC’s prince duty has been a main part of the plot. This isn’t a childhood friend or ex appearing situation so it can go in a different direction.

So these new witches need to be rounded up because they have made themselves too visible to humans as influencers or is something else going on with the humans they gathered? It's notable that they immediately separated the MCs and focused in on Hanako's ties to the situation.

Sadako immediately assuming Yoshi must be a child based on how he was described made me laugh.

I was thinking they’d run into each other again, but in professional circles because she had gotten her career going. But as someone who has ran into people from the past in a city several times a street passing encounter isn’t that outlandish to me. It does bookend things in this case too.

I think Aya just wants to fit in with Mitsuki's family and future and she's decided all on her own that she MUST learn English to do that. She wants to understand the lyrics. She picked English as her focus for university. The three people she really likes all can do it. This might be the first time she was trying for something she wants that much. It doesn't seem like they know exactly how bad she's feeling about it because she is having fun with Mitsuki otherwise.

It looks like Mitsuki is currently happy in the moment and thinking everything is great while Aya wants to be happy, but is mentally stuck in plans/scenarios as she's done in past chapters. Before she was focused on ways Mitsuki could stay with her and now that Mitsuki seems to be in a good place, cooler than ever even, she's decided she has to do this to stay with her because that's how she's wired to be.

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She accidentally made a drink that turned 1 out of 2 customers human? Somewhere in her family line could be that skill then.

Good news. At the end of volume 8 she said her editor informed her things are going well enough to end the series as originally planned with volume 9.

In the latest raws she says she’s overflowing the end of the story into a 4 chapter volume 10 now. Instead of ending at volume 9. All due to current support levels and how the ending is working out.

Once again she gives an order and somewhere in the hearing process things go sideways and she ends up doing it the way they want. At this point I'm not sure if having more social skills would have helped. The two people she picked have some "preferences" once their inhibitions are down.

She’s watched The Wilds, Euphoria, Arcane, Bottoms, Shiva Baby, Glee… all the traumas then.

English interview with ANN

At the very bottom it says:
"Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. Yen Press, BookWalker Global, and J-Novel Club are subsidiaries of KWE."

I knew some of this but not all of this. A little empire they got going there.

Hopefully Dynasty is just niche enough to be passed over. Either way this is huge blow to the scanlation scene. Many yuri I follow are only on MD and not here. What infuriating is that they apparently don't care if a series is licensed or not before included it in the takedown notice.

On the one hand i'm sad that I have to go to aggregate sites for series like MOARN but on the other hand I want to just say "told you so" to any scan teams who only upload their works to one specific site.
This goes for dynastyscans too even if we get less takedown requests here.

Those sites littered with ads and stds probably already scraped chapters so the “backups” are out there. Scanlators not helping them out over the years by uploading there officially changes little to the situation now.

Sumi specifically picked a romance inexperienced girl who had childish tendencies that needed tutoring...which seems right on the nose as far as a potential fill in for her earlier self in the dynamic she must have experienced with her tutor.

Naturally Manatsu reacts differently to things because they are not interchangeable outside of the surface. Sumi was a little put off and suspicious when Manatsu was not that nervous about taking the initiative by saying she watched videos as research for example. Sumi corrects her going off script by claiming the high ground (hehe) in that instance. Which makes it seem like she's looking to experience the tutor pov. Not sure where it's going to end up on the short term, but they had fun for a week and Manatsu did a lot to show her younger self should have been treated kinder than she seems to have been first go around.

I wonder if Sumi’s original reason to get relationship experience was to “grow up” because her tutor had poked fun at her “childish” tendencies earlier and probably used that to end things. Meanwhile Manatsu never treated her inexperience and caution as anything bad. Being around Manatsu who isn't afraid of being herself and liking things like the bubbles (that she last used just a month ago) hopefully has her rethinking any tutor related plans.

It’s interesting that she said the zombies tend to get doomed into acting out in their last desires. Which at first seems sweet in the case of Risa who strongly wanted to be the MC’s friend and apparently find another person. Only the human she fixated on is the one acting like a monster by choice and just as dangerous as the other horrors out there.

That’s certainly an Afterwards I can’t unsee.

Ugh... Knowing that Majima only sees her as live bait makes me feel bad for Suzu.

I can only hope that it doesn't end up with Suzu getting hurt to force Majima to care.

She's a parasitic monster, but I think there's some hints at more emotional depth there. She seemed relieved her true form was not seen beyond just a practical level for example. Being driven but hunger might overpower her other needs, but she probably still has them.