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May 24, 2009 5:20 AM
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The turn in the last chapter was just too good, to not have a catch.
Now Mari is thinking it was just a thing between friends. :<
May 24, 2009 7:12 AM
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Yeah, I thought for sure they were a couple now -o-, but Akko is the one who thinks they are together. Well, I hope that next chapter Akko explains to Mari that it was not a friendly kind of kiss.

I don't know how Mari didn't notice Akko acting funny at school. Hell, she even almost told their friends that they were together, and Mari didn't see it owo
May 24, 2009 8:13 AM
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Mari should stop being stupid. I know that this is a manga and all but... C'mon! I've waited 21 chapters for something to happen and now she started to doubt the relationship!
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Feka said:
Mari should stop being stupid. I know that this is a manga and all but... C'mon! I waited 21 chapters for something to happen and now she started to doubt the relationship!

Ditto~

Also I wonder if that text msg Akko sent would complicate matters, since people would be wondering who she seeing... if the guy tells anyone. ^_^
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May 24, 2009 8:33 AM
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Feka said:
Mari should stop being stupid. I know that this is a manga and all but... C'mon! I waited 21 chapters for something to happen and now she started to doubt the relationship!

More like she doen't know yet that they already have a relationship. She thinks the kiss was a thing between friends (I really wonder how the f**k could she get that idea), as if Akko was accepting her as friend despite everything, and now tries hard not to mess things up...

Master_M2K said:
Also I wonder if that text msg Akko sent would complicate matters, since people would be wondering who she seeing... if the guy tells anyone. ^_^

The only link Akko and the boy share is Sugi, and she's like more aware of the relationship than Mari. The thing to wonder is what will Sugi do if he tells her.
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Nice way to avoid the issue for about 18 pages... and then BAM! Awesome closing pages. That last couple of scenes totally made up for the skirting around the issue.

Morinaga Milk sure knows how to catch people off-guard with awesomeness.
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[She thinks the kiss was a thing between friends (I really wonder how the f**k could she get that idea)


You need more girl friends, then :\ That happens more than you think.

And it makes sense. Akko's kissed other girls without it meaning anything. She ran away from the issue of properly admitting her feelings back when she kissed Akko consciously in her room.

Mari's position is all too understandable. Frustrating for the reader, yes, but the pacing is realistic. People rarely ever take issues such as that head on. And you think she's psyche herself up to Akko reciprocating those feelings while she's spent so much time thinking that Akko sees her as nothing other than a good friend.

All in all, hair-pulling but realistic pacing.
May 25, 2009 7:08 PM
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how the hell did feelings shift from mari to akko.
oh well at least their relationship is closer than at the beginning.
May 25, 2009 7:30 PM
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how the hell did feelings shift from mari to akko.
oh well at least their relationship is closer than at the beginning.


They didn't shift. Akko is realising her feelings. Mari is now trying to avoid them.
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tehnominator said:
enkil said:
how the hell did feelings shift from mari to akko.
oh well at least their relationship is closer than at the beginning.


They didn't shift. Akko is realising her feelings. Mari is now trying to avoid them.

now why would mari do something like that?
she seems to be insecure about akko for some reason. (even though they have known each other for about.. what almost a year now?)
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enkil said:
tehnominator said:
enkil said:
how the hell did feelings shift from mari to akko.
oh well at least their relationship is closer than at the beginning.


They didn't shift. Akko is realising her feelings. Mari is now trying to avoid them.

now why would mari do something like that?
she seems to be insecure about akko for some reason. (even though they have known each other for about.. what almost a year now?)


if you spend to much time cooped up in your own thoughts of doubt and self loathing you eventually will only see the worst case scenario pretty much constantly. also assuming the best case scenario and being let down is more painful that assuming the statuesque and being surprised later.

my objection in this chapter was that Mari was pretty set on confessing in the last chapter, so it doesn't seem to add up that she would let Akko leave without knowing what that kiss at that kind of time meant. I also would have thought that it would be a hint when Akko was very obvious about wanting to sneak off to some love shrine with her on the school trip.

my only concern is that we'll end up playing the "ring around the misunderstanding " kind of game, witch can get really annoying.

something my friend e-mailed me. I'm hopeful I want it work out like this but I dont know.

Draznar;

Mari's situation has improved, she just doesn't know it yet.

Actually what I think may happen is that soon, their relationship is going to become "public knowledge". I'm assuming the boy will tell Sugi and she will then try to figure out who Akkao is with. This will probbly be some really dramatic scence on the School trip. In fact, having the relationship exposed as public knowlege may be what it takes for Mari to realize it.
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May 27, 2009 9:44 PM

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Mari should just get out of denial. She got the girl, but she doesn't know it! What the hell! Anyways, I just hope this misunderstanding gets cleared up soon.
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hahahahahahahahahaha!! hahahahaha! ..hahaha ...haahh.. stupid... =,=|||

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i think if their relationship gone public then it be mary to deny it and if it be so girls friends will lose all it charm and became common love drama - boring.
and such mary reaction is strange to me, it was she who was going to tell that she loves ako for real, and ako get it... and then we see that she just think it was a forgiveness. saying simple she makes ako confess to her and then push her back because cannot accept such relationship
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That said:
i think if their relationship gone public then it be mary to deny it and if it be so girls friends will lose all it charm and became common love drama - boring.


What...? They're teenage girls getting into a relationship in a society that doesn't actively accept lesbianism. How will that turn into a "common love drama"?
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maybe "common love drama" wan't a good term here, but it looks very much... for me... or mary is VERY VERY shy
i give such tag only when personages idiosity steps over deadline and became "hard to believe it is real" and it is not depend on something else.
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;_;

Akko <33
Jan 30, 2012 5:19 PM

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Sometimes I want to punch Mari in the head. I'm sorry, but I don't think that kiss was a flight of fancy. Akko wants to make their situation clear. I hope Mari can handle it. The news about the school trip means that we can possibly expect some interesting drama on the trip. I can't wait!

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Now Akko's the lovestruck one lol.
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GRAH, COME ON MARI. Have some self confidence, woman. @_@.
I couldn't have worded better.
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God they are kind of epic failing here ... I mean let's hope they don't F this up.
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Goddamnit. I thought we were done with all the misunderstandings in the previous chapter. Hope this gets resolved sooner and not after like another 10 chapters.
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All these misunderstandings are just too much. They should have had a heart-to-heart talk after the kiss at the karaoke. The mood was there. Now it's just dragging the story with drama and all, keeping the status quo till the very end.
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Uhh so they ddn't talk after the kiss at all? >_> Sigh!
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It's more frustrating to me that we didn't get to see the rest of the karaoke night. Like yes, it's frustrating that they didn't talk after it, so Mari now assumes that Akko simply forgave her for lying, and the kiss was just a gesture. But I would have at least liked to see how that actually happened. Darn. Well, things aren't too bad. At least Akko seems to be completely in the loop now, she's just still too oblivious.
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It's more frustrating to me that we didn't get to see the rest of the karaoke night. Like yes, it's frustrating that they didn't talk after it, so Mari now assumes that Akko simply forgave her for lying, and the kiss was just a gesture. But I would have at least liked to see how that actually happened. Darn. Well, things aren't too bad. At least Akko seems to be completely in the loop now, she's just still too oblivious.


^ this, like totally wtf how can you just time skip after that kiss ? to create more drama of course .....

So Akko now thinks they're together (which i mean thank god so she has decided to go the yuri route that's pretty nice) but Mari thinks she did it out of pity or something and that they're just friends ..... ah i truly hope this misunderstanding gets resolved soon without Akko getting hurt.


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...Mari thinks they are friends, right?...F*ck.

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