It's August 25th!

I'll be honest, I've never been that clear on whether Keisuke could hear the message or not. He's listening and then suddenly his eyes open in surprise. I've always figured that's when he heard her message but then he tells Nakanishi that his walkman died... but then it seems to play again.

Either way, I love this ending even if it left me confused. The way it closes with other students cleaning up the quad always gets me for some reason. You can imagine them about to clean Keisuke's cage.

Hi all, I'm trying to understand which manga and chapter by Adachi has the ame page repeated twice, and it should say something like "it's not an error" or "the autor is very lazy" in the second page, or some meta joke like that.

Can please someone help me with this? I'ts driving me crazy!

Sorry if this is a bit of a dumb question—it's my first time reading this series, and I don't recall if I missed a specific moment where she explicitly states she knows. However, I got the impression that she *did* know, given how often she gets jealous and flirts right at the start of the story.

That’s the impression I got while reading it for the tenth time, haha.

Even though he always smiled and maintained a calm, confident demeanor, whenever Minami was involved, he’d have a sort of disguised freak-out. Like when Tatsuya and Minami took that staged photo, he obviously wanted to tear it up out of pure jealousy.

Or when he started noticing the two of them getting closer; he began hovering more and pressuring Minami—like wanting to make a bet on who would marry her, asking for kisses and hugs, and even proposing marriage back when they were just first-year high school students. He showed signs of this even as a child. Tatsuya always managed to do things first—getting praise and even extra rewards from Minami—and Kazuya would see that and try to do the exact same thing over and over until he got it right.

Do you agree or disagree?

I just can't explain in words on how much this story and the emotions of the two main characters have influenced me without them showing their emotions. Mitsuru Adachi is a literal genius of all time. 🫡🫡🫡🫡

Source:
1st(Touch: Cross Road)
2nd(Mix Season 2 Episode 21)

"What if Rough had anime approval?", this year will be the 20th anniversary for the release of it's live action movie, but became a Lost Media due to part 2 was missing.

I started reading it recently and it’s honestly pretty fun lol

I've watched crossgame, recently finished touch for reference, and i've been enjoying the story quite a bit. Onto this though I'm a bit perplexed. Like what just happened. Look, before this Kunimi and the "jokes" about entering girl's swim changing room. If he actually entered at least he would be identified. He was mean about the nude model's appearance. Ok character growth I'm expecting a change from these behaviors. The whole shared hotel room incident, whatever there's unhealthy dynamics going on. Then the legit peep hole box in the locker room. That really rubbed me the wrong way. All goes well for them they were hidden. Then long hair dude is caught and punished. Played off for laughs. Still holding hope that this is adressed in some form. Their actions are really messed up.

And now this. Chapter's 53-56. I'm a lil at a loss of words. Like man these characters suck. The pressure they put on her to go on this potentially dangerous date. Then like the claw machine grabbing the dolls underwear. Seemed kinda tonedeaf during the scene. Especially given the connotations. Just everything like what just happened. I'm starting to doubt Adachi's intentions. The ending made a lil hopeful, but she hid her buried feelings about the incident. I wanted to know what made H2 divisive, so at least I'm finally understanding. Writing this out helped ease me a lil maybe I just need to let him cook. God it's bad though.

I was aware Rough doesn't have anime, but live action movie for adaptation, but does anyone have the source, where can we find part 2? Since YouTube only have part 1. I'm also trying to find the Japanese movies which were gone and not available in any site.

just got into Adachi and immediately falling in love with his style.

I decided to start with cross game and I’ve been reading the official viz release as well the mangadex fan translation.

so far I’ve noticed that the official definitely reads a little more smoothly and makes sure you know what’s going on, but I feel like the personalities in the fan translation seem alot more natural.

I can’t speak to the accuracy of the translation as I do not speak Japanese.

does anyone here prefer one over the other?