ルリドラゴン ・ Ruri Dragon 🐲 Volume 2 Offshoot Thread

Chapter 8

I feel like in this chapter we get another glimpse of the side of her mom that led to her having a dragon-baby …

Took me a while to get into this chapter, but the sports hall scene was really fun. Made me want to do sports. :joy:

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I also like that it’s more mother-daughter bonding going on there. At least in the mangas I read that’s not usually a focus.

And the mother still has a lot of mysterious parts, but we’re slowly learning more about her too!

With emphasis on slowly. Mother likes drip-feeding info :stuck_out_tongue:

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Yeah, very ‘Hero of some other story’ lol.

Rurimama cool

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Week 4 October 19 2024
Pages 67-86
Chapter 10
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Another anticlimax. :stuck_out_tongue:

Since when was Ruri the I-wanna-make-friends type? Yuka did say last volume that she puts up a scary front but is perfectly sociable when you get to know her, but “invite me next time” feels like it comes out of nowhere, especially considering she was just making an 嫌そうな顔 two pages ago.

Is the ability to bowl strikes on cue also one of her dragon powers?

Also, why is Kurosawa so excited to meet Ruri’s mother again?

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Yeah, I also would’ve pegged her a bit more introverted by what we’ve seen from her so far. It also surprised me a bit. Maybe she’s getting more comfortable? Or making an extra effort to be more sociable?

If you mean the one two double-pages ago, I think that was because:

Ruri: あっあの...いうてもわたしもう遊び疲れちゃって

She just wasn’t feeling like doing more strenuous things after tiring herself out.

Where did she meet Ruri’s mother in the first place? It seems I skipped or have forgotten something, and I did a bit of browsing but couldn’t find anything.

Also... what? :D

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Summary

At school. She came in to explain the whole dragon thing. Though I was under the impression she only spoke to Ruri’s class, and Kurosawa is in a different one.

It’s called a “keyboard”. Though I notice there’s no kana on the keys.

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I think she’s making more of an effort yeah

I also scanned the previous volume quickly to see if Kurosawa had popped up before or was in Ruri’s class, but I don’t think so. Funny thing, the artstyle in vol 1 is noticeably different from v2 (thanks to the one or two year gap) such that a lot of the bg characters kinda look a bit different.

It might just be that RuriMama talked to everyone in her grade…? Or Kurosawa is just supposed to be implied to be in her class (Though I don’t think so, because Tazaki explicitly tells Ruri she sits behind and diagonal to her, and the other dude is definitely in her class, so it’d be a bit weird to not shout her out in the class scenes…)

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Week 5 October 26 2024
Pages 87-106
Chapter 11
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There’s that 嫌そうな顔 we all love.

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Chapter 9

One dragon trait for each volume? 9 seems like a lot though. Maybe Ruri will grow dragon wings.

I also liked the mother-daughter bonding. I think the relationship with her mom gives the slice of life some nice flavor, so it’s not just about highschool relationships.

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Week 6 November 2 2024
Pages 107-126
Chapter 12
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Somehow I just knew, as I started this chapter, that… uh… Shimoda-san was gonna be in the committee as well.

Though is it just me, or are all the between-chapter character profiles in the wrong order? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Week 7 November 9 2024
Pages 127-146
Chapter 13
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Such a twist ending.

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