YES! I made this account just to respond! I want to read it so badly, I'm such a birb person! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 I have 2 cockatiels and a quail, I need this manga!

I'm interested but the lack of it being ongoing or completed at more than 4 volumes doesn't really give me the desire to buy it. JNC has enough stalled/dead series as is.

@Jon-Mitchell I’m thinking “getting someone to fall in love with them,” since there’s no mention of Haruma having a love interest. The only girl we see him hanging out with is the one that likes Yuuji, and all the shallow girls seem to think they have a shot with Haruma still. If he was in a serious relationship, I think there’d be a lot more conniving instead of the overt measures we saw. EDIT: Just checked, and one of the irritating first-years who were pestering Touka explicitly says Haruma is single when asking to be introduced. Chapter 8.

Upvote! It sounds quite interesting and the art is lovely too.

Thanks for this. I know someone was looking forward to this thread (I want to say @Rahul-Balaggan was). Art in this one looks fun. Here is the Bookwalker Page for the curious. https://bookwalker.jp/de05e0b661-f836-42b9-a0ab-a274fa27e68d/?acode=WpfPW3yk

A new volume (8th) came out this month. Would be nice if they used volume numbers. Would make it easier to track down new volumes.

That's the downside of a true slice of life story I suppose, no big hook or novelty factor like ReLife had. The only goal or overarching plot is mentioned right there in the synopsis in the first post - four screw ups trying to prevent having to repeat a year. People will either dig the whole coming of age thing of them working & growing together or find it boring as hell. The MC starts off really weak too, they needed to flesh him out more way earlier than they did. Until we got those extra details of his backstory I didn't find him sympathetic at all & was more interested in all the other characters.

@shionarita Shogakukan does not like any form of Digital Release.

This looks really sweet, I'd love to see a series like this picked up!

@smashman42 sry had a two days business trip. As nichtmalda wrote the german title and the direct english translation. The german publishers generally have problems with title translation. You can't directly write something like "Onii-chan is done for" in german that would be "Bruder ist Geschichte" or "Mit Bruder ist's vorbei" which literally sound like the worst german you could write. You need some more filler words for a correct wording because you wouldn't write a title without context like "Mein großer Bruder ist Geschichte" or "Mit meinem großen Bruder ist's vorbei". It would sound ok if you used Onii-chan instead but most german publishers don't use japanese words for titles. But there are some exceptions like Suki Desu Suzuki-kun!! which got translatet as "Hab dich lieb Suzuki-kun" (literally "I love you Suzuki-kun"). Non the less i would like an english copy too. Also I have to add some info to my previous statement. The german version is the doujinshi version and not the tankoubon from Ichijinsha.

I've heard that the anime followed the manga fairly well, they probably missed some side stories due to time constraints, probably more in the www.working!! as it only had 1 season to cover 6 volumes while working!! got 3 seasons to cover 13.

I keep following the web novel and the manga on this one and just keep hoping and praying that this series gets licensed. It really is a great read. Any info if anyone is looking to pick this title up?

I want this one picked up. Any idea!

Never noticed this one before, but I'd definitely give it a look if licensed.

@jon-mitchell JNC licensed a few non-LNs already and I suggested, at least, 10 non-LN on the forums lol

@the-green-death I agree, but I'm hoping that given the fact that Oregairu should start wrapping up by 2021 or 2022 and imosae in either 2022 or 2023, we may see Chiramune or Shioama try to replace that market. Friend character seems more like a one-size-fits-all license that anyone could pick up.

Volume 8 came out this month in Japan so I figured I'd give this a bump.