p5: Ruri dropping those bedroom eyes and Hato being all "Haven't we discussed like twelve times how I'm Aro/Ace and how idols aren't allowed to date?"

Need some fan art of Misa and Hase in a private room at the swinger club along with the caption "... they were both tops".

Akiyama is the author. The character is Tsuzuki.

In my defence, I'm terrible with names even in my native language.

The truth of the matter is that someone who can't bear seeing their loved one with another person can't possibly get involved in a polyamory relationship.

Maybe it's two sides of the same coin, but it wasn't exactly that Kashiwai resented Tsuzuki being with other people, it's more the math of being one in three. I think the key moment is when Kashiwai looked at the calendar and realized that she would be getting face time with Tsuzuki two to three days a week.

I think it's relevant that the one thing we get to see about Kashiwai's life with glasses girl is that they are doing something spontaneous together. That's not something that she would have been able to do with Tsuzuki, not unless it happened to be during their assigned time slot.

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By the way, what does the MC mean when she said
...The feelings those girls had, the ones that had to disappear, or they had to give up on, it doesn't feel like someone else's problems.. ?

MC and shop lady are basically speaking to each other in code.

SL: Here is a book you should read, which coincidentally (wink wink) is on the subject of GL. Allow me to call attention to a particular chapter, which reminds me of you (wink wink).

MC: I notice that this book that that you loaned to me is on the subject of girls having to give up on their true feelings (wink wink we're talking about girls who like girls but ended up in a heteronormative marriage that's what we're talking about here, right), which happens to be a subject relevant to my interests (wink wink).

Keeping the topic general and abstract but with oh so much subtext. That way there's no embarrassment if they're reading the room wrong, but they can say what they want to say if the other person knows how to parse it.

Start the ep with matching earrings, end it with matching rings.

It takes some guts to upend your entire life and move to the country on the assumption that the cute woman from the poster at the supermarket is

• not a model from a stock photo agency
• single
• gay.

The scholarly lecture about the Tsundere archetype legit made me lol.

D-S commenters: Ugh, this whole manga is just blatant advertising for the Tokyo fashion industry.
Yodokawa: May I introduce you to MB, Tokyo fashion blogger and my consultant/editor for this series.

Yeah, the only way this chapter makes ANY sense at all is if the director is her mom.

No, that makes even less sense. When Miyako disappears you'd expect her mom to think to check out the vacant property her family owns on the outskirts of town, that she herself was living in until recently. Or ask Granny, who knew where Miyako was the whole time.

I love this manga with all my heart and soul but this story line is going to give me an aneurysm. The premise seems to be that Miyako is somehow the first top idol ever to quit her group and as a result her management company is all at sea. AKB48 somehow manages to run a conveyor belt with members joining and quitting all the time, but somehow that's all Dark Magicks to ELM's management..

It is established in the story that Miyako negotiated her exit from the group, which means that the management had plenty of time to promote someone from their trainee program or come up with a good story on day 1 of how the group would go forward with just the four members. They could have done some press availability with Miyako where she give a happy story about how she wanted to focus on her new career in real estate management, and then give her a proper graduation concert. This would have avoided all the problems they're trying to deal with now.

I accepted the whole quit-the-band-suddenly premise as a maguffin to set up the story and why she's trying to be anonymous and all. But now that the maguffin has become the "A" plot line it's shown up for how ridiculous it is. No professional idol management company would screw up something this basic so badly.