#chapter 76

[cithis-daily]

[manga-meow]

[cafefiorentini]

"I'm...sorry I lied to you."

ch 76 panel redraw yyyeeyyy one of my fav scenes

[cakemadeofbacon]

Kim Soleum grinning after Baek Saheon tried to kill him was so unnecessarily hot

[dailymidford]

[spiderst4rs]

TINY OLRUGIO OH MY FUCKING GOD

[small-wha]

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Skip & Loafer 76: Lemon Pledge

Our focus continues to stay on Yuzu as we head towards Christmas. She feels like the odd one out as her friends break off into couples, and so close to the end of their time together it's sad that new romance might hamper their last chances to be together. And like...look, obviously it's important to try things and make bad choices and some people do meet "the one" as a teenager. But I like to point this reality out to teens when I work with them. You're much more likely to regret missing the best moments with your steady friends in that "victory lap" at the end of childhood than you are to really have a serious romance starting that late.

Like...my friends and I actually did the garage band our senior year. That was fuckin' cool and the kid who bounced out halfway through on what ended up being a brief fling that couldn't make it to Thanksgiving Break first year of college is the one kicking themselves now that we're all happily settled into our mid-30s. So I really like Yuzu having this attitude.

But through that, we get a big miscommunication. Makoto asks for a little help on another shopping trip, the mood gets spoiled when some guys are pushy towards Yuzu, Makoto mindlessly insinuates Yuzu should "just" get a boyfriend too so that type of stuff wouldn't happen. Yuzu takes it as well, what her whole trauma is about. No one takes her struggles seriously because they assume she always gets off easy because she's pretty. And it spirals with her just wanting to leave and Makoto bringing up that Yuzu was hiding going all the way to Hokkaido.

This moment is so tense because it's so raw and real. How quickly that innocuous comment could have been it if Makoto wasn't a good friend who caught and owned up to the mistake.

Thankfully it all ends well. The next day Yuzu's making the most of the time they do have and joking about they should all live together if they're older and single. Or how her and Mitsu can meet up travelling the world as cool career women.

You love to see it. Yuzu doesn't need to find someone to be happy. And as an adult I get the cuddly knowledge that by being okay focusing on herself, Yuzu's actually doing the best thing she could for potentially finding a good partner.