Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka? - Ch. 191
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Cocoa: "I already have two cute flowers, one for each arm!"
A spoiler for those who might have been worried about how the Rize/Syaro storyline would play out, you can probably take Fuyu's word for it: "It looks like they managed to find each other!" Kind of hard to miss the blushing faces!
A little more subtly, the frame where Fuyu says that, poses her on one side of Rize and Syaro, and Yura on the other side, wearing a satisfied smile in her mischievous cat costume - I don't think it would be reading too much into it to say that this was a "stealth" Syaro/Rize chapter, and one of the final parts of the pay off after all these chapters for the Wonderland/Cultural Festival arc (Volume 14, Chapters 151-154), where it's very subtly implied that Fuyu, Yura, and Chiya scripted the festival to help bring Rize and Syaro together. I think this was very tastefully done, a master class in "show, don'ttell" visual storytelling - bravo, Koi!
Speaking of Chiya, sadly, I think the cultural reference for the Karuta club sequence was lost on me - would anyone know enough about it to be able to say if there might be anything more to that bit beneath the surface layer? ("I went out into the spring fields for you..." "...while snow continues to fall on my sleeves....") Obviously, Syaro was distracted by a return of her usual insecurity at that point, until Chiya took the card trick and restored Syaro's focus, but I get the feeling I missed a double-meaning for something there, probably representig Chiya's inner commentary on her friend's luck in missing the prom date with Rize! Whatever it was, Chiya seemed to be unusually animated about it ("Just a little something every Japanese sweets-shop girl learns!"), until Megu noticed somthing wrong with Chiya's hem (I expect the translation for Syaro's manzai comeback at the end of that sequence is probably a play on words, a little closer to "She managed to expose herself" or "She managed to tip her hand"? Apparently, a little more than you realize, Syaro! But, it all works out in the end!) If I'm right about that, then again, I have to admire Koi's storytelling here even in what seems on the surface like a throw-away manzai gag - quite nicely done!
