
Well... as a vegetarian who lived in Japan for one year I kinda feel bad for Thomas. He is chomping it up and has no idea that the dashi used in those eggplants is most probably fish based. Oh well, ignorance is bliss, I guess

Yep, I know. I generally make my own dashi actually. But presuming that most restaurants in Japan are going to use vegetarian dashi is in my own experience very optimistic, since fish based dashi is faster to make and there is instant fish dashi powder sold in the market. Especially because this is a country were vegetarianism is not that common and is generally not understood by a LOT of people. I had a part time job in a school where they asked me if I had any diet restriction and I replied I was a vegetarian and did not eat animal meat. Next day a bento full of fish was waiting for me during lunch time. See what I mean?

I really love this MC and how she questions all the pre-conceived facts about sexuality, love and how women are perceived. Please, please, I hope this doesn't become another story where she learns the importance of love and denies all her previous beliefs.

Preach, sis! haha Since this is a psychological josei, I'm actually hoping the evolution of the character will take her beliefs into consideration. I wouldn't mind if she came to find herself a person she likes romantically, but since she's been questioning all this time, I hope she figures romance from the perspective that she has now. It went from cute josei with unexperienced leads from a little shade on the shounen/shoujo industry. I just fell in love with Kiryu (=・ω・=)

Oh, i really hope so. Sometimes while I read manga I feel that the expected roles for female and male are so much stricter. It feels like such a breath of fresh air to have this medium, which is generally so conventional in its representation of gender, in shoujo principally, question how society assign and judges genders.
Chapter 23 was the second one where Arth talks about the time he opened up to the FL. Did the manga just not show this or something? Will this be shown in the future or it just happened offpage and that's it?
PS: Not reading the novel, but I kinda want to see this scene
Some webcomics do that where they recap the last page before moving on to the actual chapter
Nope, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about this scene about Arth opening up to the FL for the first time being mentioned, but never shown fully.
Ahh. Then I do not know