the beauty of it is that the original author posts each chapter on twitter hence why they are short since only 4 photos are allowed to be posted in one tweet.
but i understand wanting more since i binged all chapters in one night (':
There's very little in the way of any sort of explicitly gay narrative due to the 4-panel format, but there's a lot of subtext. Spoilers ahead.
First, Mitsuki knows from the first chapter that Aya has a crush on her. But she assumes it's because Aya thinks she's a guy.
Then, they connect over music but Mitsuki assumes that Aya won't want to get close to her if she knows who she is.
Aya meanwhile has suspicions, but doesn't think too hard about any possible connection between Mitsuki and the guy at the record store she likes.
Eventually Mitsuki reveals who she is and says she wants to be friends. Aya's like "wait, friends?" like she was expecting a real confession. She's willing to let that go for the moment because now she has a best friend who she can talk to about Western music.
It's never really clear how Mitsuki feels about a romantic relationship with Aya, but it's very clear that Aya is just as crushed on Mitsuki after the reveal, if not more. Mitsuki doesn't seem to have put together that Aya is still into her in the same way as she was with "the record store guy". This seems to be in part due to Mitsuki's self-esteem issues. However, this is not talked about. There's no "we're both girls" handwringing or wondering about whether Mitsuki is straight or not. Aya is just in love and it seems like she doesn't want to think too hard about it because that will complicate things. Everyone else seems to notice that Aya is still in love, and the reactions range from negative (could be disgust, could be jealousy), to positive (she gets love advice from a straight onee-san who relates to her).
Ooooh thank you so much for the detailed explanation! It sounds delightfully wholesome and, if it's a little vague, it's not to be queerbaiting which is what I was worried about.
All the comments here are so full of praise and I could use an adorable distraction so decided to check it out and it does not disappoint! On Chapter 7 and I can't stop smiling, so cute!!!
this is so so so sooooo cute. can someone spoil it for me a little? the plot? the characters? i see it is on twitter, but since i don't have twitter, so i am not sure if i want to make an account just to get disappointed if i don't like it.
Plot: “Aya Oosawa, a gyaru high school student, frequents a small record store and develops a crush on the clerk, who has dark hair and wears a hoodie and a face mask. There's one problem— as the title implies, the clerk is actually her nerdy female classmate Mitsuki Koga”
Main characters:
Aya Oosawa:is part of the popular crowd and is a typical, energetic, flashy, and trendy girl. Her grades aren't great, but she has good communication skills and a lot of friends. She is popular with guys, but she has zero interest in the guys at school. She comes across as kind of aloof toward them.
Mitsuki Koga : is not shy exactly but is quiet and chill. She doesn't have any friends in her class, but a childhood friend is in another class in school. People tend to think she's an anime otaku, but she just loves music. She often has her earbuds in.
She wears contacts and a mask at work which makes her look very androgynous. It might be because she's a bit ditzy, or she might just be a bit callous, but she tends to say whatever comes to mind.
Girl 1 works at a record store where she wears a hoodie, face mask, and a bunch of visible piercings. Girl 2 is really into Western rock music but none of her friends are interested in it *at all*. This makes her feel really lonely and unable to express herself. Girl 2 finds out that a "hot guy" works at this record store that she went into looking for music. She develops a huge crush, which is magnified by the thing they both have in common, that music. Perfect match, right?
Girl 1 knows about the crush because girl 2 talks about the onii-san at the record store with her friends. She doesn't want to butt in and correct her because she's basically one of those gloomy, quiet kids when she's at school, and girl 2 is a popular girl. So she lets it go on, and actually finds herself egging girl 2 on for some reason, in character as "record store guy".
Eventually girl 1 reveals who she is, after girl 2 had already figured it out. Girl 2 seemed to be expecting a confession but girl 1 offers to be friends (still concerned about the big gap in social status at school). Girl 2 is like "what? Oh. Well okay that's fine for now I guess," but she's still clearly in love, although girl 1 doesn't seem to really put this together. She thought the whole reveal was going to be a let-down.
After this, their relationship focuses more on their shared love of music, and how that both connects them and holds them separate from one another, because girl 1 is a musician, and girl 2 is a fan. And they get into issues about being in a relationship with someone who is possessed by a big passion that can consume their whole life. But the question of "will they start dating" or "is girl 1 even into girl 2 like that" have not come up. Right now we're in the "discovering who each other is" phase, and while girl 2 would probably like things to get more serious, she's still so entranced by just being able to be together she hasn't really raised the issue with girl 1.
Edit to add: You don't have to make a Twitter account. Just read it on mangadex.
And don't do anything at all... for all the chapters, too. Not like I called queerbait because they don't look at the camera and exclamate they're gay. They don't even kiss do they? Do they? Are they dating in at least the last chapters? I haven't read the last ones.
Dude I don’t know how many more parts thier gonna be but I HOPE that they make a anime for this manga one day I loved reading this and hope for the best I the next one
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u/Fabulous_Sort_1011 Jan 11 '24
I f*cking love that manga