Middle school students Nishikata and Takagi sit next to each other in class. Takagi, who is in love with Nishikata, enjoys teasing him with embarrassing pranks and jokes. In response, Nishikata creates plans to get his revenge, but they always fail when she identifies his weaknesses and capitalizes on them.
Schedule
Week
Start Date
Chapter
Page Numbers
Page Count
Week 1
January 6th
Chapter 1 (136) - 調理実習
3 - 18
16
Week 2
January 13th
Chapter 2 (137) - ウソとホント
19 - 34
16
Week 3
January 20th
Chapter 3 (138) - 移動教室
35 - 50
16
Week 4
January 27th
Chapter 4 (139) - 視力勝負
51 - 66
16
Week 5
February 3rd
Chapter 5 (140) - 校舎裏
69 - 84
16
Week 6
February 10th
Chapter 6 (141) - 交換日記
85 - 100
16
Week 7
February 17th
Chapter 7 (142) - チョコ
101 - 116
16
Week 8
February 24th
Chapter 8 (143) - 微熱
117 - 132
16
Week 9
March 2nd
Chapter 9 (144) - 卒業式 + おまけ
133 - 153
20
The おまけ is once again at the end!
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As a side-note, I won’t have the vocabulary sheet up tonight. I don’t have the capacity to futz around in Google Sheets right this moment, but I wanted to at least get the thread up because I was behind!
TY for the combo breaker - I’ll keep adding the vocab to the vol15 for now
Not sure where Gen is but at least we can keep going.
Hopefully he will be back soon.
In the meantime someone can come up with a clever pun for
ウソとホント
It was not an intentional abandonment. WK saying I have been online is because it’s been open in the background when I’ve opened my phone for other things.
I’m really sorry for going MIA for a few days. It’s honestly probably going to continue for a few days longer. If somebody can take over for at least a couple of weeks, I would appreciate it.
How are we 16 volumes in and this is the first dialogue mention of 移動教室? Isn’t there a law that requires school-based manga to involve mention of 移動教室 in the first few volumes?
how on earth is this (as far as I know) the is first time I’ve come across or even seen this kanji before!!
reading something else and just popped up can’t recall ever seeing it before
