literally tho, what else would happen?

They stay up all night talking about their love for aquatic life.

sooooo...where's the salamander that started this all?

I like Kaede but I read this chapter with little spirit, I am not very interested in her story and less that of Koyuki's brother This seemed like a bit of filler to me
I really expected to see more interaction between Koyuki and Konatsu, I even wanted to see some dialogue from Konatsu and Koyuki's mother. There is no choice but to wait another month

Didn't expect the focus to still be all on Kaede but I guess it makes sense since it's still her chapter. Next chapter should be the last one in the volume (be it standalone or divided in two) so it will likely go back to being named after Koyuki or Konatsu and tackle the actual sleepover. Also no break once again, that's nice.

I find it interesting how Kaede seems to be projecting her regrets on both Fuyuki and Konatsu and is acting so that each of them can get more time to spend with Koyuki before she has to leave. Fuyuki is too young to really realize how lonely he will feel once that happens, while Konatsu already lamented before how she wishes they'd talked more and didn't waste precious time with their fight, so in her case Kaede is right on the money. I hope the author has got something good planned for the sleepover.

Also, Fuyuki is a massive scrub at Fortnite.

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I waited a whole month for this?

Am i the only one that genuinely doesnt give a fuck about fuyuki?

Am i the only one that genuinely doesnt give a fuck about fuyuki?

Yes.

I don't really give a fuck about Kaede
But like let her end up with the brother because whatever

Curry is love!

Im dropping this manga too after seeing the earlier comments about what the author said. I wont sit thru another chapter of a het that obviously wont even end up together just for some crumbs of ''''''''''''''yuri'''''''''''''. If koyuki can recognize her brother is in love then why the hell cant she for herself?

If koyuki can recognize her brother is in love then why the hell cant she for herself?

"The hardest thing is knowing yourself."

this chapter seems like a filler for me, but somehow I understand Kaede's feeling. It's hard to loose the tight bond with someone close to you (especially siblings). Kaede's sister didn't care about Kaede's feeling, replying to her message half-heartedly. if my siblings did that to me, I'd be lonely as well.

anyway, the pace is just too slow...

Lol'd at people getting mad because the main pairing isn't the focus. Did you read the title or what ? It was about Kaede,not them. Kaede have equally things on her mind that could be deal with. And ffs, we had already a lot about the 2 MCs to let have side characters chapters no ? Side characters moving faster than MC ? Yeah dude crazy right, it's like the first time it happen. Seriously, it happen all the time,just look at Useless Lesbians Princesses.

It's not even a case of a side character growing faster than the MCs, Kaede is still behind in dealing with her own issues compared to them and said issues are thematically connected to Koyuki and Konatsu's. I understand some people's frustration in having to wait a month each time only to have to wait longer for what they want to see, but they should know by now that Kaede is the third most important character in the series and every time she receives focus, it's always in the context of her not wanting the MCs to make the same mistakes as her.

I wonder how old or young the author is. I feel like I'm reading a novel with a psychological theme from the 90's and and early 2010's. This could have been conceptualized and written by someone in their late 20's or 30's.

For me, the story isn't a coming-of-age romance with characters glorifying their newfound "feelings" for each other, with an obligatory fuck chapter near the end of it. Romance essentially is an idealization of human emotions and subjective experiences and places them above cold-hard logic and reason. I'm amazed at how the story is crafted as an idealization of the feelings of impending isolation and facing sadness and the heroism of people navigating those emotions in any way they can.

If I'm going to stretch my conclusion, the story has some elements of City of Angels, sweetened form. It's a kind of romantic heroism, where people know what's going to happen, that something will remain a cycle in itself, a kind of "impending doom". Yet, despite that they still go on and cherish people around them or the memory of them; or the process with which they come to terms with their lot in life.

Sigh. I got bored and reread the chapters. I can't blame if some "drops" this. Themes like "loneliness" and "separation" aren't easy to sell to the audience and it's hard to wrap them around a conventional romance with bombastic happy endings. However, I believe those who drop this work will miss out. This is one of the best GL works I've seen.

Also, GLORIOUS ART!

It's not even a case of a side character growing faster than the MCs, Kaede is still behind in dealing with her own issues compared to them and said issues are thematically connected to Koyuki and Konatsu's. I understand some people's frustration in having to wait a month each time only to have to wait longer for what they want to see, but they should know by now that Kaede is the third most important character in the series and every time she receives focus, it's always in the context of her not wanting the MCs to make the same mistakes as her.

Good post. To me, this series is really one of the type that reads much better when completed rather than chapter by chapter in serialization (I mean, when I re-read what’s been been done so far—I know it’s not completed).

That’s because it’s such a slow burn, and because (to me, one of the things that makes it so narratively interesting) the plot doesn’t work by having a character realize something that solves their problem—the “epiphany as resolution” model. Here characters work their way towards tough realizations that then reveal they have further work to do.

If this were using a much more standard approach, Konatsu, because she is lonely herself, would be the only one to realize how lonely Koyuki is, she’d break through Koyuki’s shell—boom, yuri ending.

But here, Koyuki’s realization of her own loneliness opens up a whole new set of things she needs to learn and to change about herself, and the same is true of Konatsu and Kaede as well.

Poor Fuyuki—he’ll never replace Glasses-chan in Kaede’s heart. . .

I'm afraid that it's like a lot of manga and that the author takes a lot of time and an "auxiliary" chapter and that in the end it's a kind of rush with a hurried end or with a lot of questions or opportunities to go deeper wasted.
I don't dislike kaede and fuyuki but it makes a whole chapter about something quite banal, the author wants to make too much melancholy at the slightest opportunity, you have to balance the situations, otherwise you get the impression that all these people are depressive and their lives are miserable.
I hope that in the next chapter we will finally have real interactions especially between konatsu and koyuki, because otherwise I'll start to think that the author is trying to save time for X reasons... and please don't take the easy shortcut where kaede wants to prevent konatsu and koyuki from making the same mistake. And it would also be frustrating if the story ends with an obvious melancholic good bye between konatsu and koyuki as just good friends, it would be a waste personally.

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Good post. To me, this series is really one of the type that reads much better when completed rather than chapter by chapter in serialization (I mean, when I re-read what’s been been done so far—I know it’s not completed).

I think right now, we are all experiencing the pain that readers of long-running shoujo (and Shonen) romance manga feel, I can't imagine reading something like Fruits Basket or Maid-sama as it was being published lol.

And yeah, I always go back to re-read this manga in particular because there are so many things that happened in previous chapters that make more sense due to information coming out in later chapters.

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Needs more actual fish. This is aquarium tease!

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i kind of don't get the latest chapter

I liked how this chapter (29 in its entirety) served as a direct sequel to Kaede's first chapter. The one thing that made me the most happy was that this chapter allowed this manga to give depth to a character with an otherwise tropey, plot-device like personality. Regarding her older sister leaving, if she's only two years older than Kaede, she ha to have left as soon as she graduated or even before that. Kaede's response to that was pretty reasonable in my eyes, granted that she hadn't mentioned it at all beforehand, and the fact that her sister didn't even seem bother by the fact that she wouldn't see her anymore must have really hurt for her. Its like someone that you love so much only loving you a fraction of it back, if they can leave you and not bother to stay in touch or anything.

Besides all that, This page was by far the most interesting page of the chapter:

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/nettaigyo_wa_yuki_ni_kogareru_ch29_5#31

If Honami was a normal teen, I would assume she's hiding her vape or something lol. But I think whatever it is that she put in there is going to be important, since I don't even think her desk has a drawer in chapter 24, which is the last time I recall seeing it. The fact that she can't even show it to her brother must mean that it's ultra-embarrassing or secretive.

Overall, I enjoyed this chapter, it really served as a break between the previous arc and what ever the next one will be, and I'm looking forward to the obligatory maybe hand holding with a side of semi-gay next chapter.

Am I the only one worried about Honami-san coming home with a tan? I thought the whole point of the sleepover was that she was going to cram school and didn't have time for stuff. Why would she be outside all day?

You misunderstood the page, even though Fuyuki and Koyuki were the ones on panel when that line was said, it was Kaede saying it to Konatsu, and Konatsu got a little tan because she had been at Aoshima (the cat island) all day with her kouhais of the aquarium club as seen in the previous half of the chapter.

Am I the only one worried about Honami-san coming home with a tan? I thought the whole point of the sleepover was that she was going to cram school and didn't have time for stuff. Why would she be outside all day?

You misunderstood the page, even though Fuyuki and Koyuki were the ones on panel when that line was said, it was Kaede saying it to Konatsu, and Konatsu got a little tan because she had been at Aoshima (the cat island) all day with her kouhais of the aquarium club as seen in the previous half of the chapter.

Gah, another one! I feel like I had a lot of trouble telling who was speaking this chapter. Two others I caught, had to go back and reread when I realized the speaker wasn't who I thought it was. Some visual clue when off-panel characters are speaking would have helped, but that's the artist's choice.

Am I the only one worried about Honami-san coming home with a tan? I thought the whole point of the sleepover was that she was going to cram school and didn't have time for stuff. Why would she be outside all day?

You misunderstood the page, even though Fuyuki and Koyuki were the ones on panel when that line was said, it was Kaede saying it to Konatsu, and Konatsu got a little tan because she had been at Aoshima (the cat island) all day with her kouhais of the aquarium club as seen in the previous half of the chapter.

Gah, another one! I feel like I had a lot of trouble telling who was speaking this chapter. Two others I caught, had to go back and reread when I realized the speaker wasn't who I thought it was. Some visual clue when off-panel characters are speaking would have helped, but that's the artist's choice.

When then speech bubbles are circular without the little v-hook thing at the end, it usually indicates the speaker is not in the panel. That being said, I had to reread the page and use context clues to figure out what was going on, too :/

If Honami was a normal teen, I would assume she's hiding her vape or something lol. But I think whatever it is that she put in there is going to be important, since I don't even think her desk has a drawer in chapter 24, which is the last time I recall seeing it. The fact that she can't even show it to her brother must mean that it's ultra-embarrassing or secretive.

It's her secret stash of aquatic themed yuri manga