Probably mark this one as NSFW if you would be so kind. Some of those angles are crazy. The “have fun at the beach” chapter takes on a much more risque tone when you move it from a shonen magazine to a seinen one.
On a side note, happy to see they aren’t trying to set up a love triangle with the librarian girl. She is fully on board the titular ship.
Marked - sorry it took me so long to get back here.
And yes - no love triangle, which is good.
And in fact, it struck me with this chapter that a lot of what I appreciate about this is that their budding romance is a lot of the point, but it’s not an obsessive focus, either in the story or in-universe. It’s not this endless fretting and drama and rollercoastering of so many romances - instead, it’s just a thing that’s sort of naturally and quietly unfolding, and almost in the background. It’s just pleasant and sweet.
That’s a good point. There really isn’t a ton of will they/won’t they with Renge and Naruto. Pretty much everybody knows how this ends, so we just get to enjoy the ride.
I missed the last chapter, so it was nice to read the whole mini arc back to back. Now I want to go to the beach though. 🥲