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Updated most of the volume a couple weeks ago, but dragged my feet getting the last couple ready for no good reason. Anyway, volume 3 should be fully updated now. The note page for 33 has the details. There is one thing I did not do. In the volume, it's clear that once Mimiel comes back as an...

Kuroha’s first series were published in Gangan Online, the same web magazine as Nozaki-kun, so that’s probably the basis of their connection. As for whether Kuroha may have been an inspiration, I’m not sure. I know Nozaki-kun and Kuroha’s Kitakubu/Magical Lollipop started the same month...

We don't know if it was cancelled. The ending was announced seven months in advance, before volume 2 had even gone on sale, and according to Kuroha's most recent twitter post, the series received decent enough survey results. We may never know for sure, but it is entirely possible the author...

It's just a reversal of the idea of yakisoba pan. Instead of bread with yakisoba in it, yakisoba with bread on it. Pan yakisoba. Also only really when puns are involved.

It is definitely post-chapter 50 since Miyako calls Reika Reika instead of Miyakonojou-san. And since they seem to be wearing their summer uniforms, that would probably place it after 51 as well, so post series, sometime during their third year. I was actually planning on posting this whole...

Mmmaybe? This manga is implied to exist in the same universe as Kuroha’s other manga, which would mean magic, including time travelling talking animals and all sorts of shounen manga superpowers, are also canon in this setting. I could really see anything existing in this world, even if...

Man, I really slacked on my proofreading this month. Thanks for pointing this out.

Big thanks for the correction. It's fixed now.

The show makes a small cameo in one chapter of Kuroha's current series, so it seems like it still lives. Granted Kuroha's manga seem to operate on a sort of floating timeline, so, impossible to say what that actually means, chronologically speaking.

Well, since Dedenne is a pikaclone it has a slightly similar silhouette, so I think the idea is that a casual observer may just think that yeah, that's a Pikachu, while Pokemon fans can recognize that something's off there. Plus there's the whole history of silhouette based gags with Pokemon...

切ないからぁ～ (setsunai kara) The nuance of my take on it may be a bit off, ymmv.

Sort of, yes. There is a Japanese golfer called Ishikawa Ryo. Ishikawa is the name of a prefecture, so Kuroha named the three Ryos here after other prefectures/regions of Japan (Fukui, Toyama and Ishikawa are all prefectures in the Hokuriku region). Ishikawa Ryo does apparently also have the...

In the note at the end of chapter 22, I said that at the (then) current pace, it'd take around 6 months for the series to end. However, these last couple months have been shorter (26 and 19 pages respectively, versus the consistent 29-32 of prior months). If that keeps up, it could squeeze an...

It's honestly one of my favorite meta jokes in all of Kuroha's works. It's so layered, and none of those layers really make any sense. Great stuff.

"Baro" (and the bowtie thing) is in reference to Detective Conan.

Ok, so I'm thinking maybe "updating 12 chapters" is a misleading way to phrase it from my part since I guess it could be interpreted as redoing the whole chapters with the new raws. Theoretically I could and maybe even should do that since they are significantly higher quality than the magazine...

The antenna is one of Dedenne's cheek whiskers. (all of Ren's (graphic) t-shirts are Dedenne references in one way or another)

In the comment section for chapter 10, I said some stuff about how I thought the girls were named after the gospels. Clearly barking up the wrong tree entirely there, rip to me. It makes sense that they'd be named after sweets/food though, as most (if not all?) of Kuroha's characters have tended...

"Verses" are what the chapters are called in this manga, so he's making a 4th-wall-breaking reference to chapter 4 (in which the bathing incident took place).

Other people have responded to this, but I want to add that the line is also a callback to chapter 1, when Fumi went to visit the family after Mitsumi's first day at high school. She told them on the phone that everything went perfectly on her first day, and everyone back home figured that was a...