https://pocket.shonenmagazine.com/article/entry/mayochu_20260411Rikkafags stay mad. Shinobuchizos keep lying to yourselves.Nenefags continue suffering.IkoCHADS remain on top. After a questionable win in the KManga popularity poll last month, Iko has achieved a far less dubious victory with the nips through the MangaPoke app. Feel free to celebrate or seethe at your discretion.
>>287378071My girl Nene did much better than I thought, so I'm happy with this.
Now we can safely say that the fan favorite never wins; Rikka and Shinobu dodged a bullet.
>>287378559I'm pretty sure there are more harem romcoms where the fan favorite wins that there are where they lose. Hell, Bokuben had to have multiple endings so the the the favorite could win. Also, here's an Iko.
>>287378071It makes sense desu. Even though nene is much better iko and buki feels like the most natural pairing.
>>287378846Of course they do. She's Apollo, after all.
remonchun...
>Worry not, Shinobu's popularity will skyrocket in S2 cause I've said so and also fuck Rikka and her fags
My daughter is such a sinful temptress. It's no surprise that all the boys want her.
This did not aged well
>>287379278Poor Shinobu. Her life is suffering since she's known since the sports festival that Iko is Apollo and will inevitably win.
>>287379377It really didn't, lmao.
>>287379377I guess even the nips are tired of the incredibly generic "Yamato Nadeshiko but gap moe because she's clumsy" heroine archetype. I actually like Shinobu, but she's so played out that I can't root for her. Same with Rikka, although she also carries the baggage of having the most boring chapters. I'll be happy with either an Iko or Nene win.
>>287379445I would argue Nobu's issue is just the fact she starts the manga immediately with the 'I'm different from the rest' card. How can you fuck up so badly that you make a voice related, voice job manga and one of the 4 heroines tells the MC that her part of the course starts after highschool? All she is doing is basic shit and hijacking other heroines that are actually busy with their jobs while having pretentous monologues about the distance between her and the MC.
>>287379659And that's unfortunately why she's going to win.
>>287379749Final cope?
>>287379749Apollo reminisces fondly on the two years she spent with Arisu in high school. Because all of the heroines are guaranteed to achieve their respective dream thanks to Arisu, she's likewise guaranteed to go to college with him. It's only the other three who would have only spent two years with him in high school. Shinobu won't win. Probably. Hopefully.
>>287379659Meanwhile Iko's charm is easy to see. She advances on both the job and the romance side without directly relying on Arisu all the time. She is expressive, capable of banter if needed, not just an orbiter. She is fun.
I’m a simple man. I root for the girl that makes my cock the happiest. In this series, it’s Nene.
>>287379852As much as I would like to believe otherwise, absent a main girl, the heroine that's set apart from the rest is usually the one to win it.
>>287379909She really is the most charming. Her affections have always been overt, even though she's the most shy of the bunch. She's also able to easily "pretend" to love Arisu early on, despite being established as a shitty actor. Besides being clingy and possessive in a way that's cute and not overbearing, the fact that she's comfortable with Arisu from the outset and has no issue throwing herself at him is a really strong indicator that she's Apollo.
>IKO on topR I G G E DSurely one autist voting thousand times for a girl that looks like his favorite vtuber.
So I didn't watch the anime. Should I watch it or just stick with the manga?
>>287379852Dunno if Apollo wins cause controversy is always an option + careless flashforwards but Iko as the magazine's well-loved mascot heroine would feel surprising if she is not either Apollo and/or the winner.
>>287380096>Surely one autist voting thousand times for a girl that looks like his favorite vtuber.Vtubers are the biggest trendsetters among otaku in Japan. They're unbelievably fucking popular. It would be weird if the VTuber heroine WASN'T the most liked among the nips. Add onto it that she's a lovable gremlin and the recipe for success is undeniable. She was basically tied with Rikka and Shinobu in the first JP poll. With how proactive she's been throughout the series since then, it's no surprise whatsoever that she's on top.
>>287380120Manga. Anime covered the first 32 chaps IIRC. But if you are curious you could watch and read in tandem and compare, but the anime is really undercooked and half-assed for majority of the run.
>>287380120Anime was garbage even by WSM romcom standards
>>287380120Skip it. It's a shitty adaptation.
>>287380193It had some funny Nene faces at least.
>>287380201Funny in all the wrong ways.
>>287379953We all know that Nene and her thighs are obscenely sexo, anon. But we have to be realistic about her chances given her popularity and lack of evidence toward being Apollo. But if you're asking who's the most plappable, then yes it's probably Nene.
>>287380215And yet I still want to love and cherish her and her ZR.
Reminder that my daughter has glorious ZR as well.
>>287380347The edit on the top panel is kind of shitty but the lower one looks great. Phenomenal tits on that tuna.
>>287380054I'd say him being the only person she calls by a nickname is the best hint ar her being Apollo, just one more thing ripped off from toubun
>>287380427Nino was the one who used a nickname for Fuutaro, though. She called him Fuu-kun. Yotsuba called him Uesugi-san, and she was the winner/"mystery girl".
>>287380468Yots flashback reveals she was going to call him Futarou-kun as she did when they met as children but since she didn't wanted to reveal her identity she went with Uesugi-san instead, that was in itself a hint since the most carefree of the sisters was calling him in the most formal way
>>287380427>>287380468If anything it's the 'boku' thing for concealing herself or her speech pattern just changed with her newer self.
>>287380427Nicknaming is a loser flag. Shinobu has a winner flag in that regard, refusing a nickname from Bucky.
>>287380510I'm aware of that. But calling him "Fuutaro-kun" isn't using a nickname. It's just using his first name with a familiar honorific.
>>287380525She's just using the nickname to hide her identity, another hint of this is how she switched to calling him Arisu without being nervous or making any fuzz about it despite being the shy girl since that's how she used to call him
>>287380583It's not about using a nickname, it's about calling him in a way that doesn't make sense for her character, Yots is a carefree genki so calling him in a very formal way is weird, Iko is a shy girl and instantly went with a nickname which she doesn't do for anyone else
>>287380510>>287380653Honestly, her using a nickname for Arisu might still be an indication of her being Apollo for similar reasons to Yotsuba using "Uesugi-san". It's possible that she didn't want to use his given name because she was afraid it would blow her cover and/or because she was too ashamed of herself to address him with that level of familiarity. But because she couldn't bring herself to be so formal that it might put up a bigger wall between herself and the guy she's in love with, she opted to make a nickname out of his surname instead of using it. It's one of the many less overt hints that Iko has going for her in comparison to the incredibly on-the-nose ones given to Shinobu and Rikka.
>>287380525She refused the given name calling from him, not a nickname. But contrary to her wish she had the pleasure of using Arisu's given name over and over again. They are not partners in crime.
>>287380701Shinobu deliberately distinguishing herself from the other heroines to make herself seem special is simultaneously both the biggest winning and losing flag she has going for her. Her characterization is kind of a mess, unfortunately. Rikka may be boring but at least she's relatively consistent. Shinobu is as schizophrenic as her fans.
>>287380266>by far the least likely to win>most unpopular in all regionsWonder how Igarashi feels about this.
>>287380980Mission accomplished Fuck tsunshits
>>287380980>most unpopular in all regionsWhich one? because /a/ is a Rikka board
>>287380980I can only imagine he's pretty sad about it given that she's his favorite. I think he wanted to make all of the heroines equally likely to be Apollo, but just couldn't make it work with Nene. Granted that Apollo winning isn't a certainty, but it's still a huge mark against her. I think one of the reasons the series is just as much about the girls achieving their career goals as it is about romance is because he wants to at least feel like he's giving them all a happy ending, so there's that at least. We know Nene will at least be a very successful seiyuu.
>>287381028Will Nene's nenes every stop growing? Somebody needs to intervene
>>287381019She's been the least popular heroine in every single poll. In the first JP poll, everyone but her was basically tied, and in the Kmanga poll she got fucking destroyed. She was literally less popular than Arisu in that one.
>>287378071Why is Iko getting botted?
>>287381075I like all the girls but what made nene be my least fav was her comment about cheating, thats a insta BIG NOPE from me
>>287381028As long as I don't have to see her cry, I'm going to be okay. Fuck I hate that shit.>>287381064You have to milk her daily to keep her nenes under control.
>>287381075>Arisu right after the heroinessasuga Yamabuki
>>287381261>As long as I don't have to see her cry, I'm going to be okay. Fuck I hate that shit.Nino crying after Fuutaro made his choice and during the wedding in 5toubun was pretty brutal. I didn't think she'd win but I always liked her. Well, I liked her after she stopped being psychotic and improved her haircut.
>>287381294Same as the poll in OP. He performs really well for a romcom protagonist. I imagine Rentaro would probably be top 5 in Hyakkano, but that series will never publish actual popularity poll results.
>>287378071I love Iko so much its unreal
>>287381324Reminder that for some reason Kazuya actually beat Mini in the Kanokari poll. Okay it was years ago and Mini is IMO annoying, but it's still a female that appeared for a longer time in the manga and had fanservice as well.
>>287381300I'm glad I never ended up reading or watching that.>>287381324>that series will never publish actual popularity poll results.Why?
>>287381345Sorry, anon, but my daughter is for Bucky. Unless she loses, in which case she's for me.
>>287381363>Why?Because the series doesn't acknowledge the existence of a fourth wall and the protagonist would never allow a poll the suggests any of his girlfriends is any more or less popular than any other. They actually held a popularity poll and dedicated chapter 100 to publishing the results. Every single heroine, alongside the MC, was tied for first place with 999,999,999 votes. Because the characters cheated the poll. It's a great gag, but I am sad we never got the actual results.
>>287381345Buki...
>>287381361>Kazuya actually beat Mini in the Kanokari pollThey're both fucking losers but yeah that's kind of weird.
>>287378071I AM MADLY IN LOVE WITH IKO....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>287381482Arisu...
>>287381482I've been waiting for you, you glorious motherfucker.
>>287380518I still think the biggest hint is her being the only one that blushed in ch1 when they all said I love you, that and her lying about her eyesight being bad
>>287381521That right there is a man in love. She's fucking got this in the bag, Ikobros.
>>287381482WE*
>>287381566EVERYONE IS MADLY IN LOVE WITH IKO....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>287381401That's pretty cool, although I'm sure the fans know which ones are the most popular.
>>287378071Iko is cute and refreshing so no surprise here.
>>287381626We can hazard a guess based on certain factors, yeah. For anime-onlyfags it's harder to say for sure, but for mangafags it's probably Ahko. And I'm not just saying that because she's my own personal favorite. Her breakout popularity despite being the 18th kanojo was fucking unparalleled.
>>287381520Don't forget that the first thing she did when she visited Arisu's house was ask whether or not his bed was the same one that he'd slept on in middle school. Paired with panels like >>287378898 and I really think she's the front-runner. Shinobu and Rikka are just too obvious .
nene will win by eating the other girls as is her right as the biggest tuna
>>287381846Nene eating Iko...
>>287382146She really fucking destroyed him here in a way that no other tuna had accomplished. Incredibly dominant performance from the pinktsun.
>>287382185Her teasing game is top-tier, better than Rikka's.
>>287382295That's because Rikka is a fake tease. Which is also why she probably isn't Apollo, considering her teasing game collapsed once she actually fell in love with Arisu, whereas if she'd loved him from the start it would have remained consistent.
>>287381620Bukiheimer who is me as well...
>>287382375Good observation! I'm too retarded to notice that stuff.
>>287382524It's just a singular mark against her. All of the heroines have some things going for them and against them, but Iko has the strongest chances of not being a red herring at this point. Nene has the weakest shot in general, but it's not totally impossible. Just incredibly fucking unlikely.
Will Rikka join them?
>>287382613Probably. Iko and Shinobu are the strongest contenders.
la creatura
>>287382611While I can't say Iko caters to my tastes, out of the three, I do prefer her to win by a wide margin.>Just incredibly fucking unlikely.Believe me: I know. She's just there for Igarashi to be happy, one presumes.
>>287382680As an anime only pleb I thought it was clear Shinobu was Apollo, what else in the manga points in her favor?
>>287382801Fuck I'd have to reread to compile an actual list. But there are several really overt parallels, although not as on the nose as Rikka. It's also all just my personal opinion, and I lean toward Iko being Apollo. Just read the manga and determine how you feel for yourself. The anime sucked.
>>287382834God I want her to sit on my face so fucking bad you have no idea...
>>287382936Iko carelessly assaulting a pregnant woman...
>>287381294Lemon is the only other actually notable character in the series, it’s not that impressive. I don’t remember the name of Rikka’s rival, or the idol that wanted to make the MC her fan.
>>287382935Licking every inch of her delicious Zettai ryouiki.
>>287382982Yes. Also rimjobs. Nene is for anal. And she fucking knows it.
>>287382680>>287382801>>287382911Addendum to this: Shinobu isn't JUST a strong contender because she might be Apollo. It's also because of how Igarashi distinguishes her from the other heroines. I think she and Rikka are a pair of red herrings, but Apollo may not necessarily be the girl who actually wins.
>>287383007But also rapacious impregnation.
>>287383101Indescribably breedable.
>>287383124Nene looks so big here
>>287383137Nene is, in fact, the largest tuna. Also Nee-san a smol.
>>287382911I don't wanna read the manga beacuse Nene is too erotic and I would keep jerking off while reading
>>287383293Nene is the main fan service vehicle in the manga so I can understand where you're coming from. She's the mangaka's favorite and it comes through with how much he draws her looking sexo.
Did someone say erotic?
>>287383330Procreation.
1/2
>>2873833902/2
Fuuuuuuuuck. The author should give us a spinoff manga focused on Nene's eroticism
>>287383458She may be a losing heroine, but she's definitely /a/'s sex goddess tuna.
Fuck it, 3/2 just to let the other tunas share the spotlight.
>>287378898Imagine...
This isn't from an early chapter, but I forgot how enjoyable the manga was in the beginning. At some point, things stagnated, and it lost its sashay.
>>287383629It's definitely stumbling a bit right now. Igarashi seems to be struggling with the individual mini-arcs for the heroines that take place between major arcs following the school trip. I think the upcoming winter break arc should be good as the series is usually at it's best during the major arcs, but he really needs to figure out what he wants to do with the mini-arcs.
>>287383629The cast here is really weak, the comedy comes mostly from them bouncing off of each other but when they're alone with MC none of them is strong enough to carry the story, MC also was better at first as a caricature of the hypercompetent MC we usually get from WSM harems but now that's hurting him since he can't properly develop without losing what made him fun in the first place
>>287383629All harem slop manga stagnate at some point. Igarashi also sucks at pacing and balancing screen time for his characters. Did Rikka really need to have that many chapters to herself? It also feels like he has no idea what to do with his characters, so he just recycles their character arcs over and over again. At this point, people are only reading it because of sunk cost, not because it's good.
>>287384157I think it's good, it's just been a bit aimless in the last handful of chapters. It's not as though this is the only time there's been a lull in the quality of the manga, either. Igarashi notably struggles with what you do better the big arcs. Sometimes he does really well, sometimes we get shit like the Nene/Shinobu VA class chapters.
One surefire method to recapture attention is including more naked Nene. There's been a severe lack of this!
>>287384640Igarashi-sensei...
>>287378071>best girl is least popularJapan proving once again that they have shit taste.
nenibros...
>>287384790It matters not. I will love her regardless!
>>287379377Shinobubros...They're laughing at us again...
>>287384790She did WAY worse than that in the English Kmanga poll, anon... The sad reality is that Nene isn't very popular anywhere.
I’m speed reading this right now for fun and all the girls feel equally likeable to me really. Nothing really special in any of them, but not bad eitherApollo seems likely to be either Shinobu or Rikka, can’t see it being the other twoAs for who’s the most sex I can’t decide between Rikka and Nene
>>287384840You bring it upon yourselves. >>287384859>Apollo seems likely to be either Shinobu or Rikka, can’t see it being the other two>actually falling for it
>>287384859>Speedreader>Thinks Shinobu or Riika are ApolloLike pottery
>>287384845more for me then
>>287384885>>287384913I’m only on chapter 60 or so also
>>287384934Nene belongs to all of /a/.
>>287384845The west is really fed up with tsunshits and pinksluts
>>287384966If you're speed reading you're liable to miss out on pretty much every Iko hint because they're a lot less overt than Rikka and Shinobu. Nene has a free as well, but pretty much everyone agrees are not in contention for being Apollo at this point. People thinking that means she has no chance to win is probably part of why she performs so poorly in polls.
>>287384984nuh uh she's mine
>>287384993The west NEVER liked tsundere characters outside of a handful of extremely popular exceptions.
The mere idea of embracing Nene's moist, smooth body is driving me wild.
>>287385019I blame the early 2000 tsun tyrants, tsuns were way too violent during that time.
>>287385007I mean, just because a girl ends up being Apollo, doesn’t necessarily mean she’s going to end up with Bukki me thinks, unless I’m missing somethingI actually like Nene the most so far, probably
>>287385104Slapstick was all the rage back then.
Nene will avenge Kana and Nino
>>287385104Except a lot of those tsundere (Asuka, Taiga, Kagome, Naru) are the ones that ARE popular in the west. So I really never bought that that's the reason.
Tsunlove~
>>287385105Absolutely true that Apollo might not win. But people who read these series like to hitch their wagons to whoever they think may be the winning horse, so characters who might be likable but are less likely to win do poorly in polls. I also think that Nene would probably do a lot better if the polls were ranked choice rather than just people voting for one favorite. I bet most people who favor the other 3 still like Nene more than one or two of the others.
Would you, anon?
>>287385264That's just what she looks like when I'm finished with her anus. She'll be fine.
>>287385178Those were the popular ones mostly for being the first ones, after that we had a wave of copycats, it was fun the first or second time, not soo much after that
>>287380166>Vtubers are the biggest trendsettersSpeaking of Vtubers, I remember watching Hololive for a few weeks during the big COOF time, and then I stopped. Now apparently, the pirate girl is the most popular? She used to be pretty normal compared to her colleagues, right? How did she become so popular?
>>287385218>Nene is no one's favorite but at least she's always 2nd or 3rd favoriteGrim
>>287385218This is why I speed read these series, when I have time, I just don’t care for the waifu wars, but find them enjoyable enough when I don’t have to think too much, since the characters are really simple
>>287385298Fuck if I know. I don't have the seething hatred that a lot of /a/nons hold toward VTubers, but I don't really keep up with them either. I used to watch a couple of the VShoujo (lolded) girls like 5 years ago before I stopped using Twitch, but I don't know much about Hololive outside of what I've learned through osmosis. I like some of the music I've heard and have seen some enjoyable content on YouTube, but I'm not really big on the whole scene. Too idol-adjacent for my tastes. Still an Ikofag, though.
>>287378071Is iko the girl that turn into a cat whenever she's in the background?
>>287385338Grim, but I'm pretty confident it's true. She's just barely not my favorite (and WAS my favorite for a long time) but I could never in good conscience vote for her instead of my daughter.
>>287385382>Is Iko literally god?Yes. Someone post the Xitter screencap.
I'm sorry, Nenebros. I was going to vote for her, but seeing how you guys were dunking on Rikka chapters a few weeks ago, and being the contrarian that I am, I voted for Rikka instead.
>>287385408Do postI.just started reading so I have zero clue
If Igarashi's favorite is Nene, and she's only loved by one person, then I must Igarashi!
>>287385416>I voted for an already-popular stacy to spite people who are sick of her chapters being boring I know you're trolling, but what a fucking faggot.
>>287385416The dunking was very much warranted, since her chapters felt more like padding than anything substantial. In a manga that's already full of padding, that's really saying something.
>my prediction of Nene being popular with anime fags was wrong>my prediction that Nene would be at least 2 was wrongI hate it.
>>287385473It doesn't help that the supporting character in her chapters is fucking insufferable to boot. At least it was fun seeing Nene and Lemon dress her up like a slut last chapter, but it's likewise saying a lot that she needs to be literally whored out to the readers to make her entertaining. She just hasn't been able to carry an arc since the live show at the park. And that was fucking try years ago.
>>287385535Two years*
nene chapters are always a surprise for me, and they're all good, kino even
>midget big sister didn't even make the top 10Lol
>>287385520I tried to tell you: this isn't 2006 anymore. Nene-esque tsundere haven't been popular for a long time, and this being a romcom only makes it worse since the genre pretty much requires stalling their development.
>>287385575yeah, the modern audience like zoomers and gen alpha just don't vibe with tsundere because they find their behavior "toxic."
Nenebros, it will be all the more sweet when we pull off a stealth win.
>>287385648It is what it is. I grew to love them as I aged.
>>287385648I introduced my zoomer nephew to 5toubun and he likes Nino a lot. Nowhere near as much a he loves Yotsuba though. You can't imagine how much it warmed my oldfag heart getting to see him watch his best girl win. He was holding back tears. It was precious. He's also an Ikochad. I'm proud of him.
>>287385723It's a matter of whether or not Igarashi is willing to piss off most of his reader base, or even more of them than that. People will be mad no matter who wins, but Nene would undeniably convoke the biggest shitstorm. Personally I would love to see it. Either her or Iko is fine by me.
you now remember when the first episode's thread was taken over by two slavs arguing with each other
>>287385408This one?>>287385432Before the anime came out Arisu's VA climbed Mt. Fuji while carrying a golden statue of Iko so they could watch the sunrise together at the summit, later on the anime staff built a shrine for her at the studio
>>287385908That's one of them. The other is of the anime staff member saying he prayed to the Golden Iko while he was in break.
>>287385874Why would I remember that? I didn't bother with the anime threads.
>>287385817Please God I want to see the crash outs.
>>287385951She's his favorite so it's literally impossible to rule her victory out until the winner is declared. Also WSM has shown time and again that they don't stand in the way of authors writing the endings they want to write in recent years, so editorial would absolutely let it happen.
>>287385966It's precisely why that she's his favorite that I don't see him going down the route. I could see her being the most successful at her career though.
>>287386000I don't think it's very likely either. Granted I doing think there's going to be a "most successful" among them. They're all going to be huge because they'll have Bucky as a producer.
>>287386051My dream of a pregnant Nene illustration... gone.
>>287385924
>>287386161My nigga. I knew someone would have it. I thought I did but couldn't find it.
>>287386161>>287385908LolI may be retarded, in the start I was having difficulty figuring out which girl was turning into the cat creature
As always the teacher is best girl
>>287387336>alcoholic>degenerate>probably (definitely) used goods >enjoys dressing her student in slutty cosplayYeah she's pretty fucking great. Would.
>>287387430>wouldn't give a shiy if a guy saw her in her underwear Truly best girl
Imagine seeing this on the wall when you know Iko is Apollo.
If Runako can win, so can Iko.
>>287388064Iko winning isn't exactly an outside possibility. It's downright likely.
>>287388086>It's downright likelycome on man, I love her as much as you do but let's not get ahead of ourselves
>>287388122I unironically think she's Apollo. And not because I like her, but because I think the myriad of hints pointing towards it are way stronger than the in-your-face evidence for Rikka and Shinobu. Also, she's the most popular heroine and beloved by the animation staff. She's a very strong contender. I loved Miku. Never once thought she was the girl from Kyoto nor the eventual winner.
Full color tuna sexo
>>287388157I unironically think she's an even bigger red herring than Rikka. Just the fact that she uses a different first-person pronoun than the others makes her look more suspicious than them, thus drawing our attention to her. (Obviously, this is easier to see in the Japanese version.)
>>287378071I didn't like the show but I would choose her too.
>>287388929Even nips think Shinobu and Rikka are the most likely Apollo candidates, an the average reader isn't exactly looking for me red herrings. So that obviously didn't work if that was Igarashi's intent. It's also pretty much the only hint Iko has going for her that could be called overt compared to everything else.
>>287384790She would've been more popular if she was a redhead instead of pinkshit.
>>287388977The anime is shit. Consoom mangos instead.
>>287387430>Used goodsSo you telling me she scored so.e guy and left him go? She must be regreting that
>>287388994Manga isn't much better, to be honest, especially with the more recent arcs.
>>287389086You're always free to stop reading it.
>>287389231It's a guilty pleasure for me, and doesn't take up much of my time anyway. I just don't want new people to come in with the wrong (and delusional) expectation that it's some kind of Shakespearean masterpiece compared to the anime, when it's in fact, a junk food romcom from WSM just like RaG and Medaka.
>>287389976This manga is an order of magnitude better than Kanokari and Medaka, but I won't argue that it isn't junk food.
>>287388994 >Consoom mangos instead. Yeah because the manga totally fixes the pacing, right? lmao It’s the same junk food romcom either way, anon. You’re not reading it for some galaxy-brain narrative payoff, you’re reading it to see which girl gets a blush panel this week. At least the anime gives you color, voices, and OST to numb the mid writing. Mango elitism on /a/ in 2026, we truly live in dark times.
>>287390166There's no shortage of anime that elevate their source material and are absolutely worth watching. The MayoTuna anime is not one of them.
>>287383124Oh boy, the anime will totally fuck this up as well.
>>287390780They've ruined every other kino Nene panel so of course it's going to be shit.
>>287390863I always imagined this scene like the Hyouka scene where Chitanda's hair wrapped Oreki. But they don't have budget or passion.
>>287390891They didn't even let her twintails flutter during the kiss scene in her first arc. Igarashi puts so much emphasis on her hair when he illustrates her big moments and they just don't give a fuck.
>Nene is least popularWhy do we fix this broken world?
>>287391044*How
>>287391044>>287391050
>>287390166I'm reading because the protagonist is funny. Also manga is almost always better than anime.
Igarashi has taken note of Iko's absolute superiority. He is currently changing the ending so she wins instead of Shinobu.
>>287392545But that's the intended ending. No wonder the Nobu spinoff was the April Fool's joke.
>>287392545Quite the opposite, he'll just use her as a mascot and then betray her in the end
>>287393161He won't. She is the mascot from the beginning. >Finding the girl behind the voiceIf you want to associate the work with her face, then she won't be just a random heroine
Cute and soft sex with Ikute
>>287392545She already has her golden statue.>>287391044Showing more of her in that succubus cosplay. And doing more teasing but not the tsun shit.
>>287391801Bucky truly is the mvp
Wait so Iko is actually going to win?
nene will avenge nini
I prefer nana
>>287394900Iko is Apollo but Shinobu will win
>>287396335Shinobu is Apollo but Iko will win, true love and all that shit.
>>287396405Buki will reject Apollo(Iko) and then he'll confess to Iko(Apollo)
The biggest problem with this manga is that there's no proper flattythey're all cowsvery lame
>>287396732This is a complaint I can actually get behind. It would be nice if there were more variety in the heroines' body types.
>>287396475That would quite the scene>Apollo tries to be mysterious and confess to Bucky once again behind a door/wall/phone>Something distort her voice just enough that Bucky cant recognize them>Bucky claims he cant return her feelings because he loves someone already>That girl is Apollo true identity and it shows Bucky never really discovered her identity but was too full of himself, again
>>287396732We have the nee-san
>>287396732You might be gay, anon
>>287397996Barely in the manga, not even hot. I think the harem should have had at least one cutting board. I honestly think any of them would have looked great with small tits given that they're all pretty bottom heavy.
>>287381261Of course you’d worried about some stupid shit like crying over her actually getting with the guy she loves and deserves
>>287398272Crying is the direct consequence of that though?
>>287398272Seems to me like that anon just doesn't want to see the heroines he likes cry from heartbreak. What's so stupid about that? Are you emotionally stunted, or what?
>>287398044>Barely in the manga,Yeah thats a shame> not even hot. Now listen here you mouth breather piece of shit.
From joke mascot to winner, Iko will be remembered as a conqueror
>>287398443I love petite, flat bitches. I really do. But she's not cute. Except when she's crying. Imōto mogs.
>>287390166>Mango elitism on /a/ in 2026, we truly live in dark times.Nigga, people still fight over Asuka and Rei, somethings are just eternal.
>>287398483Asahi was basically the mascot of Amagami Sisters and her dominance was unreal. Both Yuna and Yae were EXTREMELY popular and she fucking blew them out of the water. That brat was a powerhouse. Iko is cute, proactive, a gremlin, AND a VTuber. Her popularity isn't the least but surprising. It would be weirder if she wasn't on top.
>>287398518As the anon who made this post >>287388994 I feel obligated to clarify that I wasn't saying you should only read manga. Just that in this specific circumstance, mangos are better for you because the anime adaptation isn't very good. While I'm decidedly a mangafag, there are plenty of anime I think are better than their manga counterpart.
>>287398483That's just the Yotsuba route
>>287398721Negi could make so much money if he let a studio make a 5toubun VN that's just a carbon copy of the manga with additional scenes added, and 5 new endings for the player to choose from (Ichika, Nino, Miku, Itsuki, and harem routes). The series is still popular and people would scoop it the fuck up just to see endings for their favorites written by Negi himself.
>>287399003https://vndb.org/v?sq=gotoubun
>>287399326I know there are VN's, but none of them tell the full story of the manga along with multiple routes.
>>287398591Shut the fuck up with that pedophile author. Asahi got an undeserved amount of screentime that mostly wasted on loli fanservice just to tell a story where she couldn't secure the ultimate win and had to share awin with the others. Oh did you know Amagami final volume bombed super hard? She was no powerhouse but an artificially inflated heroine from the rigged WSM heroine poll that provided zero results. Because of fucking course I believe the entire magazine readerbase likes her the most but buys 'her manga' only with 8.5k copies. Get real.
>>287399418Is it true there is an LN that tells some stories of their 3rd year? Any TL;DR about that?
>>287399712Nta but the final volume had a special edition that split the numbers and sold out instantly
>>287399766Just the usual after story stuff not written by the author, might as well just read the VNs
>>287399766I dunno but I just looked into the VN's and a couple of them sound fucking kino. My nephew is a huge 5toubunfag so I told him we should play one together, and the little bastard tells me he just bought both a few weeks ago. God I'm a good influence.
>>287399712Are you not aware that the Valentine's Day poll was a global thing? It wasn't just nips who read the manga in the magazine/buy volumes who were voting for Asahi. Also,>pedophile authorSir, this is a lolicon board.
>>287400069>Vol. #01 - No data>Vol. #02 - 24,296 (3 days)>Vol. #03 - 30,332 (5 days)>Vol. #04 - 28,996 (4 days)>Vol. #05 - 33,765 (6 days)>Vol. #06 - 37,290 (10 days)>Vol. #07 - 36,044 (10 days)>Vol. #08 - 18,358 (3 days) >Vol. #09 - 23,777 (4 days) >Vol. #10 - 24,148 (5 days) >Vol. #11 - 15,778 (3 days) >Vol. #12 - 21,813 (6 days)>Vol. #13 - 14,485 (3 days)>Vol. #14 - 12,203 (3 days)>Vol. #15 - 18,209 (7 days)>Vol. #16 - 18,316 (10 days)SEASON 1 STARTS AIRING>Vol. #17 - 15,045 (4 days)>Vol. #18 - 19,875 (10 days)>Vol. #19 - 16,960 (7 days)>Vol. #20 - 15,734 (6 days)>Vol. #21 - 14,247 (6 days)>Vol. #22 - 8,257 (3 days)This is your powerhouse that barely had sales or illustrations.
>>287400201Man, you really fucking hate that manga huh?
>>287400408Brats make hagfags feel very insecure
>>287400518I'm a dyed-in-the-wool waifufag. Brats, hags, and everything in between. Variety is the spice of life, after all. Can't understand people to only like one type.
>>287400664same
>>287400408I don't hate it, though the ending sucks monkey balls. What I hate is lying. Please, define what is a powerhouse to you? How do you measure it exactly? Your powerhouse has 272 pixiv illustrations. For your well being, don't search the quintuplets individually if you want to see what is a proper powerhouse. The supposedly strongest WSJ heroine, Kirisu Mafuyu has 964 from fucking Bokuben. Bro, Amagami is only remembered fondly by the lolifags. There is no powerhouse, no sales, nothing. WSM artifically tried to inflate it with that fake ass poll as if it's some hidden gem, but no. If Asahi is your best heroine then no wonder S2 will never happen and any discussion or retrospective is dead.
>>287398319That’s like caring about a girl being angry when she just tried to stab you. Crying girls should be the least of your worries >>287398385No one should be this illiterate
>>287400730I'm not even that big of a fan of the manga, but now I'm kind of tempted to buy every volume just to spite you for being such an angry faggot.
Who cares, Rikka is gonna win anyway.
>>287400730That shitstain Mizuhara from Kanokari has 2,700 illustrations and Asahi and Yuna supposedly beat her on that 'totally fair poll' when Amagami was barely on the radar.
Crap, I missed second Mayonaka thread this week? Sad.
Anyone has 5toubun polls? Are they comparable?
>>287400887This is just the Iko wins thread
>>287400954If I had a nickel for every time Iko was the reason for second Mayonaka thread in one week, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice
>>287400907Yes and not. First came with vol. 5 of the manga, so it's probably the most fair thought the readerbase was not that big, but still miles bigger than Mayonaka. (Pic related)
>>287401035Second was a chapter popularity poll. No exact votes were revealed, only the results. It happened IIRC after ch. 90.
>>287378071>>287401035>>287401087So the quiet one won every time. Noice. Also lol and Nino and Nene being dead last.
>>287401087Then the best chapter proxy poll, which was the most unfair and the intermediate results (Miku dominance) altered the reality just for the tsundere winning the best chapter internationally.>https://alu.jp/series/%E4%BA%94%E7%AD%89%E5%88%86%E3%81%AE%E8%8A%B1%E5%AB%81/BestEpisodes/2020/
>Every poll I don't like is fake!!!Loserfags are pathetic as usual
>>287401344Unofficial, international polls always showed Miku's dominance.>https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2019/1/26/overseas-quintessential-quintuplets-fans-have-chosen-their-best-girl
>>287401189Nino got a massive push afterwards. Basically when the results came in, she confessed in the same chapter which in hindsight became one of the most loved chapters from the franchise. And next chapter she went back and confessed again cause the MC didn't hear it for real but she was not having any of that.
>>287401521Lot of anons and commenters praised that development and arguably it made Nino the unofficial 2nd most popular afterwards.
>>287401521Her confidence was magnetic.
>>287400991Did you not see the end of the school trip arc? The Iko chapters were getting three threads a piece. Though by the time of the third thread it was a fucking wasteland.
>>287401521If the series had run long enough for a second popularity poll I'm absolutely certain Nino would have been at least third place. Her come up was massive. Completely changed the way people felt about her character the whole world over. She didn't just confess: she strived to be better and prove that and was sincere while being proactive as fuck, and she succeeded. She was never going to win, but no one went did swinging as hard as she did.
>>287401859>She was never going to win,Tell that to all the ninifags spamming their hints and parallels and calling Yots a joke character
>>287401895Anyone who thought Yotsuba wasn't winning after Kyoto was a delusional retard. And I'm a Ninifag.
>>287401933Hunterbros...
Thread is still up, eh?
>>287402136My daughter is powerful. I was surprised it was still here when I woke up. Unironically it's been better than most chapter threads.
>>287402136
Shinobu was winning from the start, but you guys are not ready for that conversation.
>>287402157I want to use her butt as my pillow
>>287402193I like to believe Igarashi isn't so much of a hack the the heroine who looks almost identical to the one in his previous series is the one he's going to let win.
>>287402256He could instead just give her an almost identical background instead of her looks
>>287402295She's absolutely going to have the most "tragic" background when Igarashi finally gets to it. Her mother was obviously a shitty person, and we still have no idea why.
It's a weird feeling when you're a fan of an obvious loser heroine. You don't care about developments anymore, and just want to see your girl be cute and sexy.
>>287402295He really has a thing for girls who got bullied, doesn't he?
>>287402393I know the feeling.
>>287402434Asahi is usually not my type of girl, but god damn is she the best in that snoozefest that I long since dropped.
>>287402550I knew that was a manga I would never bother reading the moment I heard the premise.
>>287402295>Bright and cheerful as a child>Gets bullied >Becomes sad and depressed >Only begins to heal after meeting MC>Manages to confront her bullies as a high schooler>Confesses during the school trip Yeah, I'm thinking Iko wonIko won
>>287402584Smart man. I was bored and gave it a go and then threw in the towel after two volumes.
Pet your kots.
>>287399712>pedophile author>wasted on loli fanserviceHow did this fag survive the constant bakemonogatari threads back in the day?Oh wait, it's obvious he's a 2016 "Oldfag" lmao
Porky!
>>287402837The infestation of /pol/scum and purityfags has really fucking hit romcom threads hard especially.
what could even possibly bring Nene back into the race?As it is right now she needs nothing short of a miracle to pull it off
>>287403511It'll be extremely controversial, but she needs to rape Arisu.
>>287403511First one needs to imagine a scenario in which Igarashi considers her to be a real heroine instead of his fascination.
>>287403511Shonobu unleashes her inner snek and kills Iko and Rikka
>>287403511Nothing needs to be done, because she always was, is and will be the best Tuna.
Nene will win out of nowhere, just like Yotsuba won without any build up.
>>287403511Given the track records of recent WSM romcom endings, it doesn't really matter who wins. The ending will be shit regardless.
>>287378898
>>287378071Last one for QueenIko
>>287378071Why did the West and Japan have separate polls and why did the West have it 1 month earlier? Would expect it to be the opposite or just have a combined poll.
>>287404369Don't be too hard on them. They're all having a contest to see who can piss people off worse than Kasuga did with the ending of Domekano. The pool is in the tens of millions of yen at this point and they're all seriously gunning for it. Well, except Reiji. He's abstained because he's already set for life and doesn't actually want his manga to end.
>>287404184She needs to go full tsuntease on Bucky again.
>>287404348>without any build upt. anime-onlyfag
>>287404535My daughter is notoriously clingy. Always has been.
Nene's adult form appearing twice doesn't bode well for her, and I'm wondering if mister smartypants author is just having a laugh at this point.
>>287405257There are a lot of things that don't bode well for Nene. Just gotta maintain hope. And also probably delusion.
>>287405603I've abandoned hope long ago, and copium is too expensive these days.
>>287405874I didn't say you need to cope, anon. I said you need to delude yourself like the Shinobuschizos.
>>287405257Iko's future vtuber form appearing once already doesn't bode well for her, either.
>>287406779Rikka's going to be an amazing and confident singer, and Shinobu's going to be a super hot and charming announcer. Truly saved the best for last.
>>287406779I really don't know why people treat the flash forwards as an indictment against the heroines' chances of winning. It seems like a big reach to me.
>>287406636That sounds even less healthy!
>>287378071thanks
>>287407809No problem, anon. Goddess be with you.
>>287378071>IKO numba wanTo no one's surprise, she's best girl
>>287385648It is tiring.Unless the zoomers start watching anime in the 2000s, they will most likely hate tsundere.Can't even talk about tsundere with other zoomers because of muh toxic.
What if Shinobu cut her hair?
>>287409976>IfAnon, I...
>>287409976If anyone's gonna do it, it'll be the one who's destined to bow out first. So yeah. Shinobu.
>>287384790You lost neneslav
>>287411029Nenebros are friends to Ikochads. Only together can we overcome to twosome of boring ass stacies.
I only read Iko and Nene chapters.
last for nene
>>287406779You see I'm not sure about that. The anime changed the order and Iko literally described it as a dream. The manga however used it as a flashforward or I think that's the implication. But whatever is the case, adult Iko was not shown, only how Iko presumably imagined her avatar in her dream that supposedly becomes a reality.
>>287413092She describes it as a dream in the manga as well, actually. People only call it a flash forward because there was an editor's note on the Japanese release of the chapter that said something to the effect of it being "a glimpse of the future". It's more up in the air than Nene's flash forward, at the very least.
>>287413186It's called a prophetic dream, anon. It's meant to show us she'll also be successful like Nene. She's doomed. Even without it, she also stacked up more than enough losing flags already.
>>287413229All four of them are guaranteed to be successful. Thinking the flash forwards even qualify as losing flags is downright bizarre.
>>287413239Weird how we're yet to see Rikka and Shinobu in the future.
>>287413286So is your assumption that the last heroine to receive a flash forward is guaranteed to be the winner? If either Shinobu or Rikka gets one next, that means the other is locked in and no one else can win?
>>287413286Unless one of them was Apollo and/or hat girl. But realistically Shinobu is nowhere close to achieving her dream that warrants a flashforward. For Rikka I'm not sold on the band member aspect so there is also that.
>>287413297Not really, I just want to see their adult selfs, doing their career.
>>287413309Iko was nowhere close to achieving her dream when she got a flash forward, nor was Nene. I don't think that's really a relevant metric for when Igarashi does one.
Honestly, I think Shinobus career should be easiest to achieve. She has a nice voice everyone likes to listen to, she has experience already, and her fumbling of words sometimes? Sell is as a cute little quirk of hers, and boom. Millions in audience just for that alone.
>>287413402Except she's not trying to become an entertainer in a career field that's routinely pursued by high school girls. She wants to be a live broadcaster in a highly-limited, hyper-competetive space that demands not just a college degree, but an outstanding educational pedigree. It's the "easiest" in the sense that becoming a successful entertainer is insanely rare, difficult, and contingent on luck: but it also requires the most time sunk with comparable competition in her chosen career path.
>>287413359It's a dream, anon. Nene is coached by a famous VA that has a good opinion on her and Nene barely struggles so that's different.
>>287413286>Iko doing a blackface...dude...
I finished catching up.Decent 6/10 manga. Drags too much, but the characters are cute, so it's fine.Shinobu and Nene the best. Rikka is the closest thing to a real female and Iko is a very cute cat
>>287415273>Rikka is the closest thing to a real femaleHow so?
>>287415642Probably the constant tease + backtrack action
