baba is a fantastic character to add to this clusterfuck of a plot. i love it

my favorite soulmates being cute once again

okay yeah that song is god-tier. how the hell is this a pachinko original?? i have zero interest in gambling but there are a hell of a lot of pachinko and pachislot machines based off things i like with cool music and exclusive stuff. it's kinda frustrating. but anyway...

i love how individual amazaki's character designs are. you can identify all of them by little traits and quirks. it's super neat

^That already exists NSFW obviously

also don't forget lesmo

I saw the angst tag and watersports tag and got super confused

reminds me of that one touhou(?) doujin that had diapers but in like the most soul-crushingly depressing way possible

yeah this is purely a lack of technical skill. a human made those mistakes! the lighting at least is beautiful though

^ i like sachiko but seiyumi have much better chemistry imo. sei in general is just a fantastic character

she's definitely "serving" alright. great oneshot! i love the chemistry they have going on, it's sexy and fun

tfw you read something with the promise of piss and instead get a story about the school swim team.

in seriousness, this was gorgeous. the pacing felt a little quick though? but i adore this artist's work, it's just so evocative! huge treat

i like how moko-chan is just autistic. and in a really relatable, compelling way too! "i wanted to help but i accidentally said something blunt and clueless that hurt the person i care about"? she basically feels like she has an alexithymia thing going on too. but even with all that aside, i adore the art style. it's sooooo cute

i need this in my life (i am also the short one)

WOOHOO MY MARIMITE OTP!!! YEAH!!!!!! seiyumi ftw

i appreciate this getting bumped because it gave me an excuse to read it yet another time. still a fantastic manga, fun as hell, a true shuninta classic. i'm gonna read the raws next time! maybe i should buy a copy :D

it's funny how all the discussion rn is about niji and remu, which i do get because what's going on with them is crazy fucked up, but i'm here thinking about meguru's response to azuki. like meguru has issues(tm) but i was under the impression that it was mainly azuki obsessing over and fixating on their relationship. but. i think meguru's been just as fixated on it in a different way, and she's taken the avoidance and denial strategy instead. but she's realizing that she does want azuki to want her? which flies in the face of her whole distorted worldview so far. very interested to see how that plays out

Well to me, that equates to essentially victim blaming, and the equating of character growth with becoming more conventional and sociable is something I personally don't like at all. Though, it isn't really my only reason for falling out of love with the series. Just the general vibe doesn't do it for me anymore. Personal tastes or changes or whatever. Its not a big deal.

hey, that's your choice. i hope you spend that time reading things you enjoy more. i disagree with your take but i respect it. have a good one!

this artist is crazy good at setting atmosphere. i got stressed out just reading about umi's family gathering lmao, you could feel the overwhelm! that contrasted against shou's "empty" evening alone is neat. i love this manga so much, it's such a treat to read. thanks as always to knight heron!

also... not to revive an ended argument (i'm just sharing my perspective), but when you grow up autistic etc, there are a lot of things that just don't click for you until years later. like, oh, that's what they meant! that's why that happened! like the distance and experience ties up the logical loose-ends. it's not about blame or "who's wrong" so much as what's healthier for shou right now. what's going to help her grow as a person? it's like a kind of closure. yeah, these people hurt you for reasons beyond your control, and that sucks. but you're a little older now, a little wiser, and you can handle things better than you could as a helpless child, so you take the bad parts and learn what you can from them. it's not redeeming or validating the bullies -- if anything, it's making them even more irrelevant in her life and future.

i don't know shit about kpop (beyond liking some of f(x)'s songs a decade+ ago) but i'm enjoying this so much. it's ridiculously cute. i'm also the type to fixate on an oshi for years and see nobody else. mine are just 2D and not korean! running into the girl you love so much on a dating app is like, the ultimate yume fantasy too. i think i'd die if it were me lmao

Pretty sure there's only 3 chapters left.

from a quick skim of the author's twitter, chapter 14 is the last one. the one just posted here is 12, so we've got 2 more to go. which is a huge shame, this one had a lot of promise :( axed too soon.

(by the way, i'm assuming it's marked as 11 by mistake? is anybody gonna fix that?)

yeah i think i'm dropping this one. have fun guys! i'm out

(So lacking is indeed written with a, huh)

To me she doesn't seem completely uninterested, she seems to be completely in denial. She thinks Soprano is cute and this is totally the face of someone who secretly wants to cross a line.

yup! lol, don't worry. i have words like that too.

i think you're almost certainly right, and it's just taking a slower burn to get there. i did notice the blushes here and there. i guess it's like... we're not rooting for protag exactly, because her desire for normal friendship goes against the point of the story (yuri). we're also not quite rooting for soprano, and right now she's effectively in an antagonist role. we're not rooting for their relationship yet either, because very little of it (before the timeskip) has even been revealed! i think this is a case where most of the substance is in the author's head and they've neglected to put it on the page. it still has time to become interesting, so i'll give it a fair chance.

thanks as always to knight heron and their absurdly detailed credit page notes! i always learn something new. the manga was adorable... i like how the distance was kinda what pushed them together

tachy is so useless in the morning. she's probably whining asking pokke to make her breakfast too, lol

ooh, nice ship! been a while since i last saw these two, i feel like they became kinda niche later on in pripara

so cuuuuute. look at yumi's smile!

nah this isn't AI. it's clearly just a lack of skill, and you can see that consistently throughout the whole manga. that's a human's touch! and i mean that with full admiration. this artist is putting their heart and soul into it.

that said, i'm not sure it's really hooked me. the dynamic is interesting, but i feel like it's lacking something...? maybe it's because, so far, mirei seems clearly uninterested. it'd be more fun if she started to fall, i think