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I hope they can translate the extras as well. There's a bunch of them and they're all so cute!!!!ヾ(☆▽☆)

To be honest, I think this story is pretty good (second time around I read it), but considering the amount of close contact the two leads have, them living in the same house, and Ryuji using every single opportunity to express to Tsukasa that he loves her and tries to touch her and kiss her at every chance, the fact that there are only 3 kisses in the entire story really leaves me with poor hope for Skip Beat. If this two only kissed 3 times in the entire thing, even though they actually confessed to each other pretty early on the story, then for Skip Beat in which nothing has happened between the two leads after 200+ chapters, I'm thinking the end will probably make me want to tear my hair off. I shouldn't have re-read this. Now I'm depressed ┗( T﹏T )┛

Whenever I re-read this I always start from when she goes back to him to ask for help with her family's trouble. I think that's where the actual relationship part of all of this starts. All the events before that (except the actual meeting and the part at the beginning), just feel like very dramatic filler shoved in to create unnecessary conflict. Durign the entirety of their relationship before this point there is such a marked difference between the two of them, with him having all the experience and worldliness and she being so painfully naive and victim-like all the time. I think it takes her leaving and actually building a life for herself and growing up before they can actually have an equal relationship instead of something that always feels vaguely paternalistic. Even though they still hurt each other a lot after she comes back and their relationship is very rocky, it feels like the conflict is real this time, and completely inherent to their relationship vs instigated by the actions of 3rd parties.

Man I thought they had released the last of the extras but it's still not here ┗( T﹏T )┛
Every time I re-read it I'm left wanting because I know it's out there but I don't have it. It's so cute too with Miyauchi and Kudou and their babyyyyy ╥﹏╥ ╥﹏╥

I think the problem is not so much Ren's past as the meaning behind each action. If we think about it from an objective point of view, being kissed by and waiting on someone who you used to love (a lot!) and making sure your current crush/interest/whatever-Ren-is-to-Kyoko doesn't know about it does appear suspicious. There is no reason not to speculate that that person might still harbor feelings for their ex. In fact, if Moko were the one who had seen the picture and heard that Kyoko had waited for Sho that day, she would've probably asked the same thing.
The main reason why this particular instance hurts is because we the audience know how Kyoko feels about Ren, but he doesn't.
I find it interesting that this scene is a reverse mirror of the one we got a couple of chapters ago, when Kyoko called Ren despicable after he gave her the flower ring and she thinks he was flirting with her while in love with someone else. That scene could have developed into a really pivotal moment if Kyoko had delved on the issue that was bothering her (Ren's supposed love for the other whats-her-name actress). However, Kyoko's nature is not like that. She would never question Ren's actions on anything because she doesn't feel she has the right to do it. Shotaro destroyed Kyoko's confidence in herself as a woman (reason why I'll never ever ship them, no matter what happens in the manga), so she'll never strive for anything with Ren, whom she has put in a pedestal taller than the sky.
Now the situation is reversed and I think that's great, because Ren doesn't have qualms when it comes to saying what's on his mind, and we know he has manipulated Kyoko several times before (the time he got her to act as his lover for the Katsuki part, the time he kissed her in the cheek to make her forget about Shotarou's kiss, and then later when he talked her into kissing him while in Corn/Kuon's getup). Maybe with this very cruel thing he's done he'll be lowered down in Kyoko's eyes and become more approachable, more someone who has the same defects and character flaws as she does and as such, someone she can consider an equal and not a saint or some unreachable figure.
I'm not holding my breath though (〜￣△￣)〜

Re-reading this to catch up is when you actually realize the difference between Hak and Soo-Won when it comes to their feelings towards Yona. Man, I see some people that actually ship Soo-Won and Yona, and really, I don't know how they can after reading this page: http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/akatsuki_no_yona/an/4584fd7319e5c926/Vol22_Ch125/pg-24/
Hak's feelings here are so incredibly beautiful, selfless and heartbreaking, even in the re-read they make me cry. And they also explain so much about why he can't let go of his hatred towards Soo-Won and are so incredibly relatable. For Hak, Soo-Won betraying him only causes him grief and pain, but the hatred stems instead from the fact that Soo-Won hurt and threatened Yona; that Soo-Won, in order to achieve his own purposes, destroyed the life of the person Hak cares the most in the world for. God, his character is so incredibly amazing and his devotion towards Yona is so selfless and unshaking... he has to be my top 3 manga hero of all that I've read. （/TДT)/ （/TДT)/

I understand that Kyoko is his first love and everything and I can see the place of insecurity and uncertainty his attitude is coming from, but that was so cruel of him! She's come so far in finally accepting that she loves him and now he comes and drops this on her. It's like a slap in the face. Honestly I wish she would tell him off, but if she does I have the feeling their relationship will backtrack completely, with him thinking that she must love Sho after all, and she thinking that she's better off alone after all. I think what's going to happen is she's probably going to break down at last and he's gonna get to feel like sh*t for being an insecure as*hole. I hope she makes him grovel! (づ￣ ³￣)づ

Somebody please kill this bastard-bi*ch-whatever already!!!!!!!!!!!

This two are the ultimate baka-couple. Even their problems have to do with wanting to be more lovey-dovey than they already are. (⌒▽⌒)

Honesty, I like the fact that Tsukasa and Souma are working in the same team this time but this is getting more and more ridiculous. First of all, isn't Blue supposed to be under 30? What's with those oldass-looking Noirs. And juggling? A chainsaw? This author just keeps coming up with ridiculous and outlandish ways of cooking that couldn't possibly be real. I liked this manga because it was a different kind of shonen about a different kind of battlefield that could still offer the same fun and tension. But in trying to push the story beyond what it should've been it's dwindling point (Souma becoming first seat), the authors is destroying this. It wouldn't make sense for Souma to win BLUE. He still can't even win against Tsukasa, and yet if he doesn't win he can't inherit Yukihira? He's put such high stakes on this that we all pretty much already know how it's gonna end, even if it's absolutely unrealistic. I wished the author had just concentrated in the Souma vs Erina point (which we've all been waiting for) and ditched all this overblown nonsense (づ￣ ³￣)づ