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During my first reading, I was honestly slightly confused by the chronological relation between these various scenes. Specifically, I didn't immediately understand when the final scene was supposed to have taken place (or for that matter, why the final scene was included at all...). After rereading it, I noticed that there were some grocery bags off to the side of one panel and that Kamiura was seemingly putting something away in the fridge. Those small details made it much more obvious that the manga was using a bookends technique, where the meat of the story was a flashback placed between two shorter, present-time snippets. Thinking about it a bit more though, I feel like this narrative would've been better served with different structural choices on how it was presented. This doesn't nearly do things justice and the developments also feel quite rushed (though a large part of that is the simple fact that it's a oneshot). Also, for how secretive Kamiura looks in the cover art and how the title is translated as "The Mysterious Kamiura-san," I don't think the content of the story played up that mysteriousness nearly enough. When the faces are drawn in profile, the eyes are mispositioned. The backgrounds sometimes include detail and sometimes are nothing more than a gray arc. The characters have long, thin necks. Machi has droopy eyes. The panel of Machi depantsing is super sexy.
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