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Still Sick

Chapter 24

1. "Good morning, Makoto-san~!" 2. "Ohoho~" 3. Tired... 4. "Oh, darling, do you want me to spoil you~" 5. Want cuddles... 6. "Mmmh..." 7. "Come at me!" 8. "You can have cuddles if you get up!"

1. "Aaaah!!!" 2. "Aaaaaahhh!!" 3. "Ahh, okay. No cuddles for me." 4. "Your lunch!" 5. "Thank youuu~" 6. "Alright, off to work for me~"

1. "Makoto-san, did you forget so--" 2. "Oh?" 3. "Alright, time to finish up this month's chapter, so I can start drawing next month's storyboards!" 4. "Give me the chapter." 5. "Has domestic bliss made you weak, Maekawa-sensei? Has happiness dulled your wits--" 6. "No!!!"

2. What a read... want some tissues? With this, not only have we finished a series, but our longest yet by far! (Run Away With Me, Girl miight be longer pagecount wise but. I'm not enough of a nerd to check.) 3. So, to get sappy for a bit - my first exposure to Still Sick was seeing an artist I follow on Twitter mentioning it, recommending it after Chapter 7 dropped (the first, shocking kiss!) as an exciting must-read that was paying off - and those first seven chapters were a rollercoaster to read over an evening! I got immediately drawn into both Shimizu's neuroses, and to quote fellow TLer Belvera, Maekawa's magical role as 'the world's first ever s(addy)z(addy)puppy(?) koakuma ikewibble thot'. 8. While this aspect of the series became less key as it went on,, what really drew me in were the seriously interesting meta elements. Not only was this a manga about making manga, it was a yuri manga about a yuri manga fan, and you can see how Shimizu's perception of sexuality and romance is skewed very much towards an idealised yet distant concept in the opening arc - and stuff like Toudou's pointed remarks about how stories that come from experience are strongest and you can't just write about the same few beats of adolescent love forever, and Maekawa's simultaneous criticism of Shimizu's innocence and yet her willingness to play around with such 'yuri manga' themes as a way to explore her feelings (like her 'be my first' bit, or how the fact they are A Vers Couple Who Vers gets emphasised a lot). 10. Too many thoughts for this space... look right! 12. When Shimizu realises what she wants to do and that she can love someone, genuinely, without wrapping herself in the safety of fiction or distancing herself from reality, and the story switches to Maekawa's growth - the meta recedes, but instead we get just SUCH a well told story of a developing couple who learn to trust each other and fall into step naturally rather than having some sudden huge about-face; not to mention the incredible Maekawa manga adventures. (I love Toudou and Stinky Girl and could have done with another chapter or two of them.) Shimizu gains confidence, Maekawa gains humanity, but they're still recognisable as the people at the start of the series; I really look forward to reading the whole series front to back in the coming days! I would have loved a little more domesticness, but what we got is great, and, actually, about that... 14. First, though, huge thanks to Martin for incredible work on this series, as well as tapping me on the shoulder when I forgot to release a chapter for like a week. Multiple times. ahaha. I shouldn't be a group leader, but their editing was incredible! Also shoutout to french group Les Grums for some clutch cleaning for a few chapters, EmeliaK's ever-reliable TSing work that helped get this series out in the first place, and rainsofmay's always-helpful QC! 15. So, about the domesticness thing - if you're interested, PLEASE go and throw Akashi some money on Fanbox (linked to the left!). It's one of the the Japanese patreon equivalents for artists, and for just 100 yen you get access to a ton of amazing post-series fluff comics and a little bit of p Strong nsfw content! I'm not sure if we'll TL these - Akashi explicitly asks to not have the comics shared - but we might put some TL scripts for them out in the discord, so keep your eyes peeled!