1. "Happy birthday, saeko!!"
3. "I guess..."
4. "Hm..."
5. "Besides, you love cake, don't you?"
6. "I wanted to make sure to celebrate both times, anyway."
7. "Oh, it's fine."
8. "Hee hee."
9. "But this is the second cake of the day!"
10. "Huhh?"
11. "..."
12. I actually kinda love it?
13. Getting spoiled just after we made up from a fight is kind of a tickly feeling.
14. "Ahhh..."
15. "Shoo sweeet..."
16. "That's pretty obvious, isn't it?"
Chargement…Chargement…
2. "A- although I guess I am the one who asked for a surprise."
3. "Aw, wow, how much're you gonna give me today?!"
4. "Huh?!"
5. "Ah, actually..."
6. "I got you a present too."
7. "But, I mean..."
8. "Ah..."
9. "...things have been so tough between us lately..."
10. "...and you still did all this stuff for me?"
11. "I... Had faith that we'd make up."
12. "All those things happened... But..."
13. "Besides, it's all right now."
14. "...I promised."
15. "Well, I mean..."
Chargement…Chargement…
1. "Ah... Sure..."
2. "Open it!"
3. "Here, take this!"
4. "Well, it's fine now, right? It's all over."
6. "Mi-waaa!"
7. "Y-you had faith?"
8. "Earrings?"
9. "I noticed that you always wear the same earrings."
10. "I thought you might like a new pair."
11. "Oh..."
12. "...unless those are senti-mental?"
13. "Nope!"
1. "Hey, how 'bout I go to the bathroom and put these on right now?"
2. "Go right ahead!"
3. "Honestly, I just got 'em pierced on a whim."
4. "I'm glad I did, but I realized later that I'm not really into changing my accessories all the time."
5. "I was thinkin' I'd just let 'em grow over already..."
6. "...but I'm glad I didn't."
7. There was this girl I kinda liked...
8. ...and she was like, let's pierce our ears together!
9. Was that the last year of high school?
10. I didn't take them out because she gave me the same earrings so we could match.
11. But then we had exams and graduation...
12. I guess it all just petered out on its own.
1. If I wasn't really serious about this...
2. But doing it like this...
3. ...it'd be no big deal for me to put these on.
4. ...it's like now I totally belong to miwa.
5. "They feel a little heavy."
6. "Hee hee."
7. "Saeko, those look just as I hoped!"
8. "Ah!"
9. "You'll get used to that!"
10. "I think I like 'em, too!"
11. "I'm so glad ..."
1. ...I still haven't really gotten hold of her, body and soul...
2. Hmm... But even so...
3. ...and more miwa belonging to me?!
4. Wait a sec, isn't it less me belonging to miwa...
6. "Hey, miwa, where you goin'?"
7. "The train station's the other way."
8. "...?"
9. "Yep ..."
10. "Ahh... I'm full!"
11. "It feels like a lot happened today."
12. "I..."
13. "...I made a reservation..."
14. "The last train's coming up, right?"
15. "You don't have time to take a detour."
1. "...at a hotel."
2. "By hotel, do you mean..."
3. "...a love hotel?"
4. "Huh?!"
5. "Wait a sec..."
6. "I mean, I got so many jokes I wanna make, but..."
7. "Ohhh! Stop yelling it over and over!!"
8. "And, like, what kind of love hotel is it if you gotta reserve a room?!"
9. "Do love hotels even take reservations?!"
1. "...and having to cancel it would be even worse."
2. "Huh? Oh, uh..."
3. "I mean, it's fine, but..."
4. "U-um... Is it all right for two women...?"
5. "Huh? Reservation?!"
6. "Because I was super embarrassed when I made the reservation..."
7. "Don't rush yourself."
8. "Besides, I told you I'd wait for you."
9. "Oh... Ohhh..."
10. "Uh, well..."
11. "So, should I cancel it?"
12. "I-I get it, all right?!"
13. "Let's just start by going there."
14. "Ahhh... I'm just going nowhere, aren't I?"
15. "This is awful... I want to die..."
16. Say something, you idiot... Say something!
17. "..."
1. Silence
2. "What's with this, miwa?! What happened to your can-do attitude?!"
3. This mood is awful!!
4. "..."
5. "I mean, we're stayin' the night, right? That's normal! I need to shower!"
6. "C'mon, I don't have to have a reason!!"
7. "0- okay, got it ..."
8. "Uh... I'm gonna go take a shower ..."
9. "Huh ...?!"
1. "Well, I'm done..."
2. "Your turn, miwa."
3. "Ah..."
4. "Huh?"
5. "I can see your..."
6. "But... You're in your undies."
7. "Huh? What?"
8. "I'm wearing clothes."
9. "Saeko, really?"
10. "You came out like that?!"
11. "...aren't you embarrassed?"
12. "Come on! Even if we're both girls..."
13. "I mean, no...?"
14. "M-miwa, you're seriously goofy! You were way too flustered!"
15. "We're both girls, right? Isn't this kinda thing normal??"
1. "Saeko... Um... Don't tell me..."
2. "This isn't your first time doing this kind of thing?"
3. "..."
4. "You don't have to be so obviously shocked..."
5. "It's a little rude!"
6. Saeko has... Saeko's...
7. Even Saeko ...
8. "Oh, I see ..."
9. "...with another woman ..."
10. "...it's my first time at a hotel ..."
11. "But, yeah, I mean ..."
12. "Ah ..."
13. "Well, you're not..."
14. "What- ever you want!! Miss manners hasn't got a lot to say about this!!"
15. "Hey, in this situa- tion ..."
16. "...is it polite to wash my hair or not?"
17. "..."
18. "Come on, it's fine! It was ages ago."
19. "Look, just hurry up and shower!"
1. "Ahhh..."
2. "I'm tired."
3. She's so innocent.
4. So cute.
5. I'm tired, but...
6. ...hee hee, gosh, miwa...
7. This really is her first time.
8. Was I that pure and innocent when it was my first time?
9. I don't remember.
10. I kinda wish I had thought a little more about it.
11. I kinda wasted it, didn't I?
12. "I'm done."
13. "Saeko..."
14. "Hm?"
1. "Wow, it feels great! Awesome!!"
2. "Um..."
3. "A massage chair! I didn't know they had these!"
4. "Come up here."
5. "O-oh, look!"
6. "Saw that coming."
7. "Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah"
8. "I think there's a good show on right now."
9. "H-hey, let's watch some tv!"
10. "Let's have a chat."
11. "Just come sit by me."
12. "Miwa, c'mon."
13. "I won't go after you, I promise."
1. Them tiddies!!
2. "Sorry, saeko."
3. "I just don't know what to do in this kind of situation."
4. No, don't look, don't look...
5. "Okay."
6. "This can just be a regular old sleepover."
7. "'kay?"
8. "It's so strange."
9. "Yeah!"
10. "What are you afraid of?"
11. "I understand in my head..."
12. "...that there's nothing to be afraid of."
13. "...we just take turns getting off."
14. "Instead of both of us having our desires satisfied at the same time..."
15. "And nothing gross is gonna go inside you."
16. "We're both girls, so it's not like we can get pregnant."
1. "Sometimes I wonder... Can you even call what two girls do together..."
2. "...sex?"
3. "Yes."
4. "There's a more basic issue at hand!"
5. "Actually!"
6. "Ah"
7. "Sex isn't just... You know."
8. "I'm telling you I just don't know!"
9. "Do you or don't you?"
10. "Gee, I... Don't know..."
11. "H-huh?"
12. "Huh?!"
13. "Do you even get horny, miwa?"
14. "Yeah, but if you don't, then I'd really be forcing you, and I just can't do that!"
15. "Hey, come on, I'm being serious here!!"
1. "Now you tell me!!"
2. "All right, so I told you!"
3. "Huhhh?!"
4. "I wanted to have sex with you since basically the minute we started dating, to be honest!!"
5. "Honestly, I get really horny!!"
6. "I get horny, okay?"
7. "Of course I want to do it with you."
8. "Ah... ..."
9. "Um..."
10. "..."
11. "What I'm afraid of is..."
12. "...well, for one, it is my first time..."
13. "...so there's that..."
1. I'm scared...
2. ...but I also get this feeling that the moment the switch is flipped, there's no turning back.
3. "No! I didn't mean it in a sexy way!"
4. "Waahh?"
5. "Waiiit, that's kind of super-hot!!"
6. "Wha?! What's that mean?"
7. "Hey, now, no running allowed!"
8. "Heyyy..."
9. "You're heavy!"
10. "Hey, cut it out!"
11. "Ha ha ha!"
12. "How do I flip it?"
13. "Where's this switch you were talking about?"
1. "Ha ha ha..."
1. "I want to make you mine, body and soul..."
2. "Miwa... I..."
3. "I want to have all of you."
4. "Okay..."
5. "...I promise... I'll be so gentle..."
6. "Saeko..."
7. "...turn off the lights..."
2. I think I've got a bad habit.
3. I'm too quick to give people the old once-over.
4. Too quick to ask if they're my type...
5. ...to see if I can maybe date them.
6. I guess I got sex on the brain.
7. That's no good. I can't just categorize people like that.
8. "Ahhh"
9. "All right, that's it! I'm gonna use college as a chance to build new human relationships!"
10. "Everyone shovin' stuff in your hands..."
11. "... even though you're just gonna toss it in the trash as soon as you turn around!"
12. I'll make friends with no ulterior motives ...
13. ...and then I'll find a pure, true love-
14. "Ah."
15. "You okay?!"
16. "Thank you very much ..."
17. Actually, I take that back!
18. I really wanna bang this chick!!
2. "Hey!"
3. "What's your ideal first kiss?"
4. "First kiss...?"
5. "Huhh?"
6. "I never once thought about it."
7. "Whaaa? We're still in middle school, dummy."
8. "I'd like it to be with someone grown-up and awesome..."
9. "And then we'd kiss and say "I love you"..."
10. "...just like in a tv show or something."
11. "...and not in this dumpy suburban wasteland. Somewhere with a pretty view."
12. "..."
13. "No wayyy!! You really want something like that, miwa?!"
14. "Whoaaa, you're a total romantic!"
15. "There's nothing wrong with being a romantic!"
16. "You know what, miwa? I want that too!"
2. "Uhhh? Well..."
3. "Yeah, you never talk about that kind of stuff, saeko."
4. "Hey, saeko, do you have a crush on anybody right now?"
5. Ahh, there, I said it.
6. What'll they do?
7. Lately I've been getting kinda full of myself...
8. "...I'm dating miwa."
9. "Uhh... Actually..."
10. "..."
11. Damn it, I'm just totally lucky, aren't I?!
12. "No way! Ask Miwa for the deets!!"
13. "I totally want to know more!!"
14. "What?! Miwa?! You mean that super beautiful girl?!"
15. "No way, how'd you get her?!"
1. Thanks for picking up volume 1 of my comic!
2. "...kinda screwy artist portrait."
3. "Sorry about my, uh..."
4. Hello! I'm the creator, tamifull.
5. And that seemed like a good topic for some extras in the book!
6. "Why did you decide on how do we relationship? For the title?"
7. I was trying to figure out what to draw for the end of the book...
8. ...and I was at a comic meeting...
9. ...it'd probably be the usual pattern, girl meets girl, they fall in love, they decide to go out. The end...
10. If I was going to draw something that ended after a single issue...
11. "Love between girls! So that was my plan."
12. "I want to write something about lesbians..."
13. "What should I draw for comitia*...?"
14. I'd already started making comics for this series as an indie artist...
15. "Hm...? But wait...!"
16. "Okay!"
17. "I love you!"
19. *Comitia is an indie-comics event.
1. "Why do romances always end..."
2. "...when they decide to start dating?!"
3. "You can hear about anniversaries, fights, worries about the future..."
4. "And all the different feelings that come after the dating starts. I wanna read about that!"
5. "But, like, what if you just stick 'em right together?"
6. At least that's what people think.
7. "I mean, it's probably because that's the most dramatic part, really."
8. I love you, but do you love me? I know not... The mystery of the heart...
9. "Don't you think stories that talk about these kinds of relationships are few and far between?"
10. "I wonder why? Are they just not sweet enough...?"
11. I guess I can go with them for now.
12. "I'm getting to that age."
13. "I want to lose my virginity already!"
14. "I wanna brag to everyone that I've got a partner."
15. "Gotta keep up appearances."
16. Plus, fictional relationships leave out all the compromise and self-interested calculations that real relationships have.
1. It's not a so-called pure romance, but it's just fine! So I thought about that for a while...
2. ...is so interesting and dramatic to me that I can hardly stand it!
3. "I kinda hate him, but he told me he liked me, so we're going out."
4. "But the idea of a relationship where you're trying to love someone you're not quite sure you even like..."
5. "...who cares?"
6. "If they're happy..."
7. "Huh?! Tell me exactly how that feels, please..."
8. So those are the kinds of feelings I want you to take away from the story.
9. "My relationship isn't pretty? No way! Okay!"
10. ...and I came up with the title how do we relationship? It's like...
11. "Not sure what I'm doing, but for now, let's date, okay?"
12. There's nothing wrong with a silly comic like this once in a while, is there?
13. It's too simple? Well...
3. "Yeah."
4. "It was just that the timing matched up, is all."
5. "It really feels like we started dating super quick."
6. "You know, reading it again like this..."
7. "Huh? No way!"
8. "How come?!"
9. "I was actually a little shocked..."
10. "..."
11. "Our first kiss happened pretty fast, too!"
12. "Oh, c'mon! I said I was sorry!!"
13. "Now that I think about it, the whole thing was ridiculous."
14. "Oh, plus you had just been eating a sandwich, so you tasted like mayonnaise."
15. "And someone saw us."
16. "And we were in that mildewy old club room."
17. "It was my first kiss, after all."
18. "I just wish it had been a little more romantic, I guess."
1. "It's youth, it's just youth!"
2. "I couldn't help it!"
3. "I just got carried away, that's all!"
5. "You're just greedy, saeko."
6. "You invited me to a hotel pretty fast too."
7. "Ugh..."
8. "Stop calling me a pain!"
9. "You'll make me mad!"
10. "But you know, I forgive all the pain-in-the-ass things you do..."
11. "...so you should forgive me when I get carried away!"
12. "Miwa, you're sooo sexy!"
13. "Look, here near the end."
14. "Ah."
15. "Aw, don't get mad, c'mon!"
16. Continued in volume 2!
2. I feel as though the characters I drew in the margins of my notebook have come to life. Most of the story has been thought out already. It's as if Miwa and Saeko are creating their stories on their own, so I don't even know what'll happen in the next development.