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Ah... that was worth waiting for.

Just ran across this one and thought it was pretty good.

And it's especially notable for being just light and fluffy and amusing, since the mangaka's other works are... not. At all. Even the tiniest bit.

And this surprisingly awesome manga continues to defy expectations.

I was expecting more about the other members, and specifically Rei, since she's gotten enough focus to be recognizable. I was not expecting fujoshi though - not even for a second.

And another person with expectations for Ri-chan to defy...

I agree, mostly.

My parents owned a kennel and bred and boarded and trained dogs, so we had at least a dozen or so full-time residents and generally another dozen or so being boarded and/or trained. I literally grew up surrounded by dogs and I've always loved them.

BUT, dog owners, at this point, are fucking awful, and that's led to a whole lot of awful dogs, exactly as you so colorfully and accurately say.

Yeah - look at the face she's making at the top left.

There's a lot of dere under her tsun.

I think we can safely assume that we're going to be seeing a lot more of those two women at the community center - they're too detailed to be throwaway characters. And I'm looking forward to it - Ri-chan with an ara-ara onee-chan and a little, sharp-eyed tsundere should be good.

Those last two panels were subtle but nicely done. It took me a minute, and a bit of zooming, to figure them out.

I'm pretty sure they're meant to illustrate Ri-chan's perception of the world changing - going from dark and simple and vague to light and complex and detailed, as she figuratively comes out of the dark and into the light.

I suspect a lot of us can relate. I know I can.

That was quite the info-dump.

I was sort of curious what was going to happen to this. Early on, it looked like the overarching plot line was going to be the search for Aki's dad and the question of whether or not she'd be able to kill him if they found him and he was a kairi. But then they did and he was and she did and that was that.

So then... what next?

And I guess we just found out. Sort of. Though I have no idea where it's headed next, other than, apparently, winter.

Yep - glasses guy did it, and that's a lot of what this has all been about. I was pretty sure of that.

So has Chiaki manipulated Kouhei into this road trip for her purposes? Or is it something that Kouhei unconsciously did for her benefit? He does apparently have suppressed memories of her, so it's possible he's effectively tricked himself into helping her.

Odd twist that it's even the same car. I'm not sure what to make of that.