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Opening twitter when you first wake up is absolutely not the thing I recommend doing, especially when waking up with tightness in your chest because of stress, but today I had a stroke of luck and the first thing I saw was something amazing!

Tanamai-sensei posted a sample preview of Volume 17's shikishi, and it's so beautiful, seriously I love how this looks. The original post had a while border around the shikishi sample image, so I removed the white border using krita. I know it's not a perfect edit, but this is just the sample for now (I'll add the non-sample version to this journal entry once possible.) Ibara and Kai both look so good in this: Ibara is elegant but still cute with that sort of nervous look on her face, and I want to pinch Kai's cheeks, he's just too adorable all embarrassed and flustered like that. It's purely my fantasy, but I'm imagining that the red string doesn't actually directly connect them but runs to Izuna first♡.

On a related noted: I really want to finish reading the Meiji Romance arc to learn more about the two of them. I'm currently doing a reread again with the intention of catching up to the latest chapter! As of current, I've finished the first 2 volumes, my hope is to be caught up with the magazine release before the anime starts releasing in about 3 weeks!!

I have more to say about Meiji Romance arc (well, it's not completely about the plot... you'll get what I mean by this if you read the post) but I'll give That it's own post.
Edit: I decided to put the semi-related post behind my access list.