absolutely lovely liner notes sophie, can really feel how much love you have for this series and the medium - a quality translation team for a great series, appreciate your work in bringing it to us the readers all these years
cultural significance of the festival at the end? perhaps something relating to life/death? & then contrasted against his feelings towards the approaching death of his father
bit melancholic, which this series does well
new art/artist maybe? which would be the 3rd so far - i think i remember seeing some credit page saying there were various health issues impacting the team/speed they were doing new chapters?
also somewhere in the style guide it must have notes like 'all butts have to be drawn sexy'
i must be a manga pleb, because it looks fine/perfectly readable to me (maybe this reflects the unseen hardwork of the scanlation team tho)
chapter was good as well
i feel like it has to be this one: https://mangadex.org/title/ee3b13ab-00ba-42ef-a544-165ce8879975/to-be-ordinary
it's funny, because I think that's where I read about this condition in the first place! lol manga full circle
we all know this will be resolved and end up with some cute and fluffy outcome - it would be actual fire to read a series where they invoke the trope (whatever the trope is, in this case it's 'misinterpret overheard conversation') and then just stick with it
that's right you dumb kids, your...
the observation with the coffee cups was nice, and it was nice to see it recognised on the credits page (i know it's like super insignificant on one level, but attention to detail in art like this shows they care for the world they're depicting)
i thought it felt super disjointed - like scene transitions didn't really 'flow' into each other, sorta like everything was super compressed
we had - character introduction, set up for x2 main leads, tragic co-worker backstory & resolution, plus hook for future stories with 2% of magic power...
two top notch panels in this one:
staring at the tiger double doors then reflected back in the sunglasses
guy getting head choked with the merch having the pop star face
actually really tight artwork in this series