What was your reaction when reading through a manga and suddenly came to an abrupt end? Consumed by rage? Filled with confusion? Drown in disbelief and denial? Perhaps, plagued with uncontrollable laughter at the absurdity.

Nevertheless, come. Relive, share with others, or experience for yourself the first time some of these short lived (maybe justifiably so) creations.
Make valuable lessons be learnt. And never forget, the true ending was the friends we read questionably sourced Japanese cartoon drawings on a handicraft forum with along the way.

A great man of culture once said "Know thy enemy de gozaru".

>With her beautiful looks and outgoing personality, Shinozaki Akina used to be the leader of a group of hotties on the top of a class hierarchy. After her high school debut was delayed, however, she finds herself isolated in class.
>Next to Akina sits Sasamura Kaede, an otaku girl who can turn into a bishoujo with her glasses off. Akina decides to get Kaede out of the otaku life and groom her for a perfect high school life, but the only way to get close to Kaede is for Akina to pretend to be a PrePure otaku herself to her chagrin...

Chapter 2 >>280643781

Chapter 3: The Path All Maidens Take

Where did she put it?!

Big lolita desu

Where did they go?

Is that?!

Kani?!

>>280675445 (OP)
Oh, didn't know someone was doing this. This was popular for a bit in the old Precure threads for obvious reasons. Really loved this for a while and Shinozaki is honestly a pretty great mc.

Hmm, what's that smell?

Accursed marketing!

So is he a NEET or not?

Hey OP

I'm starting to doubt that Akina was the queen bee she thought she was when she's too shy to speak to an otaku

Is that?!

And that's all for today. The fragrance of budding flowers can be felt in the most foul places.
Good day/night, everyone.

>>280676011

Funny I remember actually buying the final volumes because they hadn't been translated just to see how it ended.

>>280676068
Otaku's have very high power level

>>280676162
Whoops

Reading this series nowadays is kind of bittersweet since the kind of otaku culture portrayed on it is already dead at worst or on the way of the dodo at best.
I want to go back.

>>280675906
>Why am I watching anime out in public?
It's so embarrassing to do that

>>280676518
That's how I felt when revisiting Akiba's Trip. It's such a time capsule of otaku culture in a very specific period of time that's long faded.

>>280675445 (OP)
This is the only manga where I've met the actual mangaka. I went to SakusakuTei's booth at comiket 91 years back in 2016. Of course by "meet" I mean I asked the guy at the booth if he was Hikawa, he said "No, this guy here is Hikawa." and he gestured at a guy sitting behind him. Told Hikawa I loved is manga and he gave me a thumbs up while nodding his head a few times without saying a word. Then I bought a couple of his circle's older doujinshi while I was there and a copy of the latest Shinozaki at the time. It was awesome.

>>280675571
>>280675597
This is just Kirino

>>280675783
>>280675804

>>280676977
Actually now that I think about it, that might have happened at Comiket 87 in 2014.

>>280676977
Average Japanese interaction

>>280675482
Cute

>>280676162
Thank you for posting.

>>280675571
4u

>>280675622
>she doesn't know
>>280675643
GOD

>>280675684
butts are great

>>280675832
great haiku

>>280675906
imagine watching anime with other people

>>280675930
>Japanese first-name basis autism

>>280676024
>tfw a cute smelly meganekko will never call you by your first name
why live

>>280676139
>next chapter will have more PreCure references
good to know, sponsors
>>280676162
Thanks, OP.

Mandatory edit

Err, slightly improved version

It seems I totally forgot I started reading this back in 2018.
Not that it was bad or anything, I just stopped doing a lot of things I enjoy.

This manga got me to watch Precure a long time ago. Then when I reread it, it got me to watch Smile, which is easily the best Precure. I am forever grateful.

>>280675551
Checkered shirts are getting bad rep.

>>280676068
She's out of her comfort zone.
>>280676162
>>280676139
Not sure who "lord Atobee" was are reference to, but the other one most likely was to "Tiger and Bunny".

This manga really deserved an anime.