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This also gave me dress up darling vibes in terms of their looks. Also these two on page 6 are drawn as pre-pubescent kids who are roughly the same age:

It's pointed out numerous times that he's bigger than most folks and always has been. Plus the beard ages him & her clothing reads young. (ETA: and she just generally looks tiny, which always reads younger). It would also be severely weird/off/(generously very on the ASD spectrum) for a high...

Chita's entire character arc has been around "growing up" - fighting against it, being scared of it - so I think Chita accepting that she's growing up (not deciding to) is just part of her story. Mind that doesn't mean I think she abandons who she is, just that she starts accepting who she's...

She basically says in this chapter that she loves him as a person, so much so that she wants to learn more about the person he is now. What she's twisted up about is that she feels she can't love him as a romantic partner, but that seems to be what the author is gonna be untangling. I wonder...

Is pretty common for insecure (ETA: often) self-destructive folks. Validation of winning over the another, but no trust that the somebody so easily won can't be as easily won away again. It's a gloriously toxic mess explored so often in women's media that it's basically the standard sidepiece...

Especially since even now he still hasn't firmly chosen a girl. In the novel, Hikari legit believes she can just give him to Aya - she questions whether that would make either girl happy, but not that she can. Largely cause Aya thought he wasn't really hers. Which, Yuu unequivocally choosing...

I sorta wonder if this is another lost in translation thing where the gist is supposed to be closer to "Yami broke as a consequence of meeting us at the festival", but also like a good chunk of discussion on this manga conflates consequences with fault so shrugs I think Maruto having Hikari...

I think if it really were a romance manga, then this would kinda be the perfect frustrating open ended ending. Reset back to the beginning but w/ everything out in the open. Since I think this is actually Hikari and Aya's story, I think that's where this manga goes next. ETA: also love that...

The kiss already did that. Hikari understands that if Aya was really in a place where Aya could really step aside, then Aya would have. That's why Hikari is so insistent on Aya owning up that Aya isn't in that place.

I think it's on the same spectrum? Aya thinks she may have done it b/c Hikari was there. Which I think is why she'd feel so much like she deserves Hikari's hatred/condemnation, b/c she may have done it to test/blow up the relationship w/ Hikari as much as out of love for Yuu. If it was just...

She reveals that he's the most important thing to her & radiates soft happiness. Aya's absolutely giving Yozuka enough to hurt Aya with - for example by Yozuka voicing concerns about things blowing up - if Yozuka wanted to. I think she did it for many of the same reasons she ghosted Yuu - it...

Dating myself here, but lemons/limes used to be used to denote smutty fanworks (and apparently originated in hentai so full circle)https://duckprintspress.com/2023/11/04/fandom-101-the-origin-of-the-citrus-scale/ And I also think the handwriting is perfect for this manga. ETA: also thanks for...

Which she drops to open up about how Yuu is all she thinks she needs, which is a major admission of vulnerability. This is the same song and dance Aya does w/ Hikari - start off w/ defenses up that she lowers. I think it does in that what Hikari is angry about is that Aya isn't owning her...

Love translator notes that give the translator's POV! Also appreciate the other translator too and hope you all work something out. I wonder if castigate might be a good word b/c it has a somewhat harsh connotation? Also feel like I need to reread this chapter a few times to really get it but...

In the short interaction we see between them, Yozuka gets Aya to open up about something she's keeping close to her chest (Yuu) and flags Aya's self-esteem issues. Hikari does much the same, but Yozuka also has the experience with Aya to know how it'll all end. Aya flags that Hikari is furious...

Aww, this chapter is so real on the "where should we eat?" dance.

I like Chita and Tokio and that they're a different flavor than Anna/Seto or Inuyama/Toyo and I find them possibly the most relatable?

Sure, but what we were talking about was how a theme of the manga is that it's the lies themselves that cause the problems. The person who probably best understands Aya is Yozuka, and she's also the person who probably knows the most about Aya. I think the reason Aya doesn't think Hikari is...

Sure, but it's the lies themselves that lead to the problems. Yuu knowing Aya is lying about all the things doesn't give him a heads up about her ghosting, Hikari knowing that Yuu is lying doesn't make her believe his confession is legit. For choosing to lie about those feelings, not the...

I think a major theme of this manga is that understanding comes through honesty - the light/dark theme, every disaster in the Hikari/Yuu/Aya triangle being the fall out of someone not being honest. Hikari and Yuu not telling each other about their crushes, Yuu not telling Hikari he has an ex at...