"No, we actually had over 300 chapters of unresolved will-they-or-won't-they 'romantic tension', with at least five other romantic interests introduced and summarily dismissed, each treated as though they had any chance of winning the Naoto Bowl, for some reason."
Is Hosoda's line in page 20 about "I love him" and "convey[ing] these feelings to him" one of those things where the subject of a sentence is ambiguous, so she could have just as easily been saying "you" (referring to Kei) instead of "him" (referring to somebody else), so the comedic...
I'm sure this arc is going to end in at least a semi-tragedy. I suspect Chrono is going to "die" in order to save everyone else, but it will be a sort of conditional death, in that he'll be in a state of reduced power and consciousness, and locked inside Ichi's Magic Circle (having been acquired...
Pretty good, a bit different from this author's usual work, but they've got pretty good range! I will say, I wish it were a little easier for the reader to tell at a glance which one of them was in control, but I may just be dense and overlooking an obvious tell.
It kinda bugs me when isekai-type manga start with some kind of injustice or unresolved conflict in "our world". It's like, in our world, the proper response for victims of bullying is just to lay there and take it (and even die, if it so happens), and any kind of retribution, resolution, or...