[Kamui4356]

Originally Posted by hikaru2895

I think I found an answer from the scanlator's forums:

http://dynasty.evalpowar.com/forums/...ighlight=#4525

Spoiler for discussion of chapters 14 and 15:

LifeLessDummy
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:52 am

Okay, here is the scene.

In chapter 14, on pages 22 and 23, you see Tomari offically putting her foot down and telling her feelings - indirectly of course - to Hazumu, in frame 1 and 2. The rest of the frame is Janpuu and alien-san watching.

Now, if everyone remembers how Janpuu is about Hazumu, she loves her. As you watch her reaction - first a confused, then a devisation, then a look of sadness and trying to get free from the alien's hold.

This doesn't give much, except on the next page, (24), you see in frame 1 Hazumu and Tomari blushing and later on frame 3 and 4, they are holding hands, but just the fingers.

This gave me the impression that they had in fact kissed. It was suppose to be kinda a don't see it happen scene, and was intended for you to figure it out yourself, i believe.

finally got the spoiler thingie to work right, sheesh, its [/spoiler] at the end instead of [\spoiler]....

Spoiler for for still more discussion of ch.14 and 15:

I think they purposefully didn't show the kissing in ch.14 because they knew they wanted that chapter to be the end of the second volume of the manga published outside of the magazine, so there would be a sort of chiffhanger to build excitement for the next installments in the magazine and then the publication of the third volume in book form.

Hmm... Unexpectedly subtle, considering they showed Yasuna and Hazumu kissing.

Spoiler:

I got the holding hands part as some indication of a deepening of their relationship, but I completely missed that possible hint that they actually kissed.