I must compliment this series! Every chapter feels super substantial with great content for most of the characters and numerous plot threads moving at once. To start with, Hongou! I laughed and loved everything regarding her here. The wonderfully cute outfit. The first glance at her family being her sister and the great line “Sis take off your panties”! I’ve been curious about her family because she’s been shown typing through the night numerous times now. Also note that despite her skirt being one of the longest at school, here she wore something short and cared about looking good for this encounter, that’s a cute detail. Anyways, we started with Hongou being nervous as she walked to meet with Milo trying to get that experience she needs to be a proper erotic writer. It was already nice but when she saw him with her tiny stature and hand binoculars it became perfection. All her fears over being trafficked or hurt or grossed out, gone. She had a moment of determination, a sparkle in her eye and the amazing initial chase panel. It was definitely the hardest I’ve laughed at this so far. Later at the school we had her hunting him down and harassing him “in and out, in and out”. You gotta love Hongou’s bold and determined attitude because, well, it worked! She got a deal and I have to presume it’s that she will keep quiet and not bother him if he joins as club advisor but also “does it” with her. I mean, she was expecting someone far worse, she knows him, and it was her important plan to “do it” to begin with. That’d be killing two birds with one stone!
I must admit, I did hear rumors of a student-teacher relationship so seeing they needed an advisor and that we only really knew Yamagishi, and we had those interactions with him and Hongou I presumed he would be the one at the meeting and he would become the club advisor. It was nicely foreshadowed but since I had external information I felt it would be unfair to connect the dots. Regardless, I do find both of them charming. Hongou’s at times dominating personality and a teacher with no backbone like Yamagishi will make for some interesting moments, I’m sure. It ending with everyone celebrating him but getting his name wrong was hysterical. Yamamoto! Yamada! But the best part was Hongou making them call him Milo-sensei. You cruel, cruel girl Hongou. Oh man. You love poking at people don’t you~!
But as I started with, this is substantial stuff, and by adding numerous other plotlines to this it made it feel real in a sense. We started the chapter itself with more Kazusa/Izumi/Asada stuff. Kazusa rejected going over to Izumi’s setting up her avoidant behavior when it comes to dealing with her emotions and facing Izumi. It also had the brilliantly sad moment of flipping through all of their photos and seeing Izumi and Kazusa taking a school picture together up until she was alone in highschool. This ended with thinking of them dating and her fear over Asada. Later we had Izumi come to her wanting to help and talk but both don’t know how to approach and Kazusa continued her hesitant behavior. When perhaps something would have happened however, Kazusa’s fears came true. Asada came in and ruined everything! Cutting them off and pulling Izumi away, but only after threatening Kazusa and being jealous over Sugawara. Speaking of Sugawara, she both comforted and warned Kazusa saying that he doesn’t have feelings for Asada and may even be with her because he wants Kazusa to act but to be careful because how his body feels is not how he feels. Also I think he may not want to hurt Asada, she does seem to actually like him. And, I don’t want to hate Asada too much. She can be a serious bully, and her and her friend are antagonistic forces in this manga. But, she is pursuing a boy that she may have feelings for too and she can actually act on it where Kazusa can’t. Her friend? Well she’s also looking out for her in this like Sugawara does for Kazusa. Asada’s side may not be so black and white.
To top it off, it was amazing when Amagi came to help get signatures. He showed more of his genuine approaches to help out a girl he thinks is cute and totally broke Sonezaki down. She is so bad at handling her feelings. But in her outburst she referred to his “cute smile” and let out the fact that those compliments never left her head. I love these two. I want more focus on them!
P.S. This chapter reminded me of the beef bowl arc in Shin Kurosawa! A group giving their all in unity for one end goal, through embarrassment and struggle, it’s a great activity to bring everyone together. :) |