Status Updates From The Guy She Was Interested ...

and i am once again fighting back tears!!!! their relationship is so gorgeous and built on a foundation of pure, unbridled understanding and acceptance and it feels so revolutionary to see between two complex female characters. i keep feeling like eventually something will have to be compromised but the other shoe never drops!!! it's just that good and that important and that unabashedly and lovingly queer

no she's so real for that, i too am fighting to stay calm when mitsuki is looking THAT good

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO SHE LOOKS SO GOOD OH MY GOD i almost completely forgot about this reveal so this is as close as i can get to reliving the raw emotions from my first read and WOW. i'm fucking buzzing. she really just snapped and said fuck it i'm way hotter and cooler than any of you losers. here's my song. oh and my almost-sorta-gf is hot too and her courage brought this boldness out of me. choke <3

AYA YOU ARE A BAD BITCH I LOVE YOU SO MUCH
i think she should've gotten to punch nakajima. as a treat. i'd take it even just as a non-canon omake.
i couldn't really tell if the lyrics were outing her but even just the POTENTIAL makes my blood boil. what kind of a person publicizes someone's private art like that???????

i love how mitsuki and aya constantly take turns being protective of the other and how they have totally different styles of doing it. aya is more loud and aggressive about it while mitsuki is more gentle and subtle. they're exactly what each other needs

GOD i love this manga and everything it has to say about music and queerness and the intersection of those communities. queer art saves fucking lives!!!!!!! i can't wait to see how mitsuki eventually becomes one of those artists and inspires other people with her music

WAIT I LITERALLY JUST NOTICED NARITA'S CUPID HOODIE
is that a hint or just a coincidence......i feel like the band and song references have always been pretty pointed so i'm inclined to take it more seriously than random costume design. maybe he really is aroace and was about to tell joe that he prefers matchmaking. or he's just insecure and that's why he focuses more on other people's love lives. i still vote queer

i keep going back and forth on this cause i know that mao canonically has a crush on narita so that could be a potential endgame, but i'm personally hoping that he's gay or aroace. he's one of those characters who could be the token straight friend but idk i've always gotten more queer vibes from him. mao seems more like the token straight to me. time will tell but there's clearly SOMETHING being seeded here

the way that this manga connects music culture and queer culture is so beautiful. aya feels out of place at the music store bc of how she looks, but she understands the references other customers make, and she's just as passionate about rock music as they are. that struggle perfectly mirrors that of a femme lesbian in queer culture. but she is embraced and welcomed and never questioned. she belongs in this space

narita peeling up the panel to make sure we remember that he also knows about mitsuki's piercings and tattoo is so fucking adorable kahskdhada i love when this manga gets all meta like that, and i feel like it usually happens with narita. as the number 1 mitsuaya shipper, he is the audience's insert at times so of course he's gonna take opportunities to address us directly

it's taking me a second to readjust to the style cause it's SO unlike anything else i've read and it really has been a year since i've been with these characters but even with that adjustment period, i'm so immediately charmed and comforted by the humor and attention to detail and the expertly balanced absurdity and realism. i missed my disaster sapphics!!!!!!!

obligatory disclaimer for future sof who may or may not care about these date semantics: i read fan translations of the chapters in this volume sometime last year. not sure about the exact date bc i don't think bri and i were reading chapters weekly when the last one in this volume was initially released and fan translated (feb 23). so maybe march?

"If you were a 24 hour radio, I'd listen to you all the time okay1?" awww they're too cute!

zrobilam sobie szybki reread poprzednich tomow i jestem so hyped about this one!!!

15%, maybe? xD reading online, am on chapter 87 (vol 3 is chapters 73-112) 🩷