This panel really drove home to me just how incredibly large this cast of characters has grown. No wonder Kuzuhana doesn’t have a chance to break through.

I haven’t read this one before, but will probably give it a watch as it promises to have lively comment threads based on two other people I can think of. 😄

This series man…I will never not feel things when Ai shows up like that. I feel like having a relationship with Ai must be like living every day like opposite day. She says one thing but means another. It wasn’t until her literal dying breaths that she could properly express her love in a direct way instead of lying.

Her range is kinda crazy to me. She can be Hibiki or Delta on the one hand, then a kuudere like Yumiella on the other and nail both types of characters. She is already very successful, but she is going to have a long and productive career for sure.

Yeah, that checks out. By no means is it the first time that it has happened to a series. Like mentioned above, it isn’t so bad that I won’t be watching, but it just felt off.

Every romcom could use a character like Yoko. Somebody to just blurt out things to move the plot along when everybody else is being too shy.

I was looking forward to these two finding out, so I am glad that it delivered. I think the next big hurdle will be telling the parents.

RIP Ooya

This pretty much echoes my experience as well. I felt that the horniness around the stocking scene is a bit out of place given what we know about the characters so far. I think this show is going to live or die by the writing and chemistry between the main pair. I think this show has potential.

I had a little bit of time today, so I thought I would check this out before a lot of other shows get going for the season. Overall, it was fine. I think Alya is a kind of fresh take on a tsundere in that she verbalizes her tsun in Japanese and then verbalizes her dere in Russian.

I was kind of surprised that we learn so early in the story that the MC also knows Russian. I had figured that might make for a good reveal later. He has to basically act like he doesn’t understand in the same way that Miko has to pretend not to see ghosts in Mieruko-chan. Speaking of Mieruko-chan, this show reminded me of that in the fan service that felt a little out of place. Like, if Alya is too embarrassed to speak to the MC, why is she suddenly teasing him Nagatoro-style with stockings?

In any case, I think there is good potential here, so I am going to try to give it another episode or two. I think a lot of the success or failure of this show is going to depend on the banter and chemistry between the main pair.

@[email protected] I am in this screenshot and I don’t like it.

This episode had a lot of heavy lifting to do. It had to introduce the story of the play they are adapting, a whole lot of new characters, and fill us in on the motivations behind the characters that we already know. Overall, I think it handled all that quite well, though there were times where just too much was happening on screen at any given time with subtitles over subtitles, I had to rewatch certain portions to pick it up. We also didn’t get much Ruby and no Memcho this episode, but I am sure they will be coming soon.

My favorite sequence through all of this episode is how they depicted Kana’s acting limiter being removed. Her and Himekawa had such a fantastic sequence together in rehearsal. @[email protected]

There is a romance in finding a small hidden pocket of the world that only you know about; like this shrine.

These are homophones in Japanese. Same thing as words like their/there/they’re or seas/sees/seize, etc. Words that sound the same but are written differently. The Japanese language has tons of them. Often, the ambiguity around homophones is used as a source of humor, causing misunderstandings between characters in anime/manga or puns that add a layer of humor to an otherwise normal thing to say.

An excellent art book chapter. I would love to see a colored version of that spread. I am looking forward to Komichi meeting up with Erika again. Don’t get me wrong, all this family backstory is great, but I think I enjoy her interactions with the other girls the most.

Man, if I didn’t know the context of this series coming to an early end, then I would be confused as hell. In the end, this fiancee served little purpose other than to tell Taiyou to go confess. At least with Hiiragi, she is being pushed by the friends that we have spent time getting to know and have grown closer to her. It doesn’t feel as out of place on her side of things.

The real question is, do you think they will find the Tsuchinoko before the series ends?

This reminds me of a D&D character I played for a while that would constantly use Thaumaturgy to cause doors to fly open as they walked around even if there was no need to do so.

I had missed that this was a .5 chapter when I started and was really confused. I was expecting some kind of resolution to the big cliffhanger from last chapter. I will never complain about a hot springs chapter though.

That is fantastic. I know some people don’t like when localization goes beyond just translation, but that is a work of art.

Daisuke is just too strong at this point. He has been on a 300+ chapter training arc in the background apparently.

It makes me sad that there are just four chapters left to go, but I will definitely be keeping tabs on this author going forward. Between this series and Shinryaku Ika Musume, their sense of humor for SOL is just so perfectly aligned with mine. Really glad to see that we are getting some time with other characters next chapter.

Wonder how many of these Aster stories we are getting. They are still introducing new characters like this new wizard master.

I do like how she has learned enough about herself through this process to realize she could have been happy without going to such extreme lengths.

Only one more chapter to go…

For the penultimate chapter we get a bit of a speedrun through university entrance exams and graduation prep. My favorite part was how they were literally running to each other for a celebratory hug.

Looks like the final chapter will be graduation speeches by both of them.

A quick search turned up a game for the Sega Saturn. I have heard of the series before, but didn’t know about the game until now.