About d**n time! Months just for that. Was nice to hear Mei tell him that her and Yuzu were in love. After so much one-sidedness, a heartfelt emotion from the ice princess. Gotta love it!

well have to wait but it seems like citus may be back to regular yuri hime as it seems like its in this months as well

Been a hot minute, Since reading this :)

In Citrus, the love between Yuzu and Mei was always the driving force behind the story, even ahead of Aihara Academy, because if it hadn't been like that, the wedding we would have had would have been Mei and the boy manager's and Mei would already be pregnant hahaha. Citrus+ covers the story of the engaged Yuzu and Mei before the wedding and after 7 volumes the romance between Yuzu and Mei has been scarce and anyone who is not blind can see that. I'm not seeing a relationship of equals. I see a Yuzu going out of her way for Mei, but I don't see it so much on Mei's side. Sometimes I see her so cold towards Yuzu that it's scary, maybe because Sabu nerfed Mei from the beginning of Citrus+. I think Yuzu's great support in Citrus+ has been Harumin and I've seen more chemistry between them than what is supposed to be the main couple. It's my personal opinion and that's what these forums are for, to give opinions, because the other option is to disappear like most of the people who commented on this forum at the beginning of Citrus+

That's exactly how I feel. I thought C+ was supposed to lead us to the marriage by showing us the proper development of the relationship between Yuzu and Mei. And hell, we haven't seen any of that. We're still at same issues that were there from the start of the original manga, every time they seem to solve a problem the next arc they're back at square 1. Someone said that peak C+ was Matsuri-Harumi and that's correct, fans have been more involved into that than whaterver is (not) happening between the 2 main characters... They don't look like a couple, or rather they look like a couple that's been married for 80 years: there's no romance whatsoever, they barely talk to each other, and they consistently like to spend less and less time together

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In Citrus, the love between Yuzu and Mei was always the driving force behind the story, even ahead of Aihara Academy, because if it hadn't been like that, the wedding we would have had would have been Mei and the boy manager's and Mei would already be pregnant hahaha. Citrus+ covers the story of the engaged Yuzu and Mei before the wedding and after 7 volumes the romance between Yuzu and Mei has been scarce and anyone who is not blind can see that. I'm not seeing a relationship of equals. I see a Yuzu going out of her way for Mei, but I don't see it so much on Mei's side. Sometimes I see her so cold towards Yuzu that it's scary, maybe because Sabu nerfed Mei from the beginning of Citrus+. I think Yuzu's great support in Citrus+ has been Harumin and I've seen more chemistry between them than what is supposed to be the main couple. It's my personal opinion and that's what these forums are for, to give opinions, because the other option is to disappear like most of the people who commented on this forum at the beginning of Citrus+

That's exactly how I feel. I thought C+ was supposed to lead us to the marriage by showing us the proper development of the relationship between Yuzu and Mei. And hell, we haven't seen any of that. We're still at same issues that were there from the start of the original manga, every time they seem to solve a problem the next arc they're back at square 1. Someone said that peak C+ was Matsuri-Harumi and that's correct, fans have been more involved into that than whaterver is (not) happening between the 2 main characters... They don't look like a couple, or rather they look like a couple that's been married for 80 years: there's no romance whatsoever, they barely talk to each other, and they consistently like to spend less and less time together

I agree with all that, except I somehow got the impression before Citrus + started that it was actually intended to be focused on stories about the side characters. Then once it did get going, the main premise appeared to be, as you suggest, that “starting over, properly” project that Mei came up with, pretty much out of nowhere.

But the story hasn’t really been focused on much of anything—a whole clutch of side characters have either disappeared (Shirapon, the twins), or show up only randomly (Nene), or get what looks like the start of significant development that then stops cold (Harumin and Matsuri). We’ve been given new characters (Homophobe-girl and her Nene-knockoff “girlfriend” and “I’m really not too quick on the uptake” Arata), though.

The problems with the Mei-Yuzu relationship have been documented here exhaustively, and might be measured by calculating the ratio of scenes showing a proactive Mei being romantically affectionate toward Yuzu versus those in which Mei fends Yuzu off, scolds her, tells her to mind her own business, etc. (I’m sure there must be some scenes in which Mei directly initiates affection toward Yuzu, as opposed to her deigning to accept Yuzu’s advances or Mei talking about her feelings for Yuzu with a third party—I just can’t think of any offhand this morning. Maybe other readers can help me out on that.)

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Feels like we're getting pretty close to the end at this point, chapter count wise at least. I've made it very clear that I haven't been a big fan of + as a whole, but I do hope we'll at least get a few chapters of Yuzu and Mei just being a normal couple, before Saburouta-sensei is done with them. It's literally all I wanted out of Citrus+ and we got maybe 2 chapters of that, tops (^^)

Peak romance was the silent special chapter following them through their day

Matsuri is right that a random congress venue is a really weird place for a school festival.

I think I'm also very fed up with this nonsense already and hope we will get a Matsuri-Harumi spin-off out of this.