Just saw that Marimite was reranked to level 30 
First time I am experiencing this on Natively → e.g. マリア様がみてる 1 | L30
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Response thoughts to ルナ finishing volume 28
I was also wondering about that 
What to do with so much time available 
Would be nice to get some hint at that in the following short story collections, though I think this probably won’t happen :-/
I’m still stuck at volume 30. Not because I feel stuck but because my focus wandered to another book which I’m dedicating my reading time to currently
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Story of my life 
Forgot to mention here, but I watched and was mostly dissatisfied with the live action movie.
Also finished vol 34, which was enjoyable enough. I liked the frame story a lot. Since the next 3 volumes are all side stories that don’t directly focus on the main cast, I put them off for whenever I’m in the mood.
Do hope to read Friends | L28?? soon, but I’ve been reading 吉屋信子 instead lately. Also started reading the interview with Konno sensei in ユリイカ 2014年12月号 特集=百合文化の現在 | L39 - which so far has given some background on how she conceived the story and characters
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Just finished マリア様がみてる 1 | L27 (manga). It’s pretty good, and covers all of book 1, without dropping or consolidating too much. Very lively and jam packed, and you can tell the mangaka really loves the series. Definitely turned the romance and emotions up to 11 visually. And at least for me it, it felt dense, but easy to read - and contrary to the original and anime adaptation, it never dragged for me.
I don’t recommend the physicals, bc there’s no inner margin, so you have to reaaaaally open the pages to catch the text a lot of the time - which I hate doing
I have to wonder how it would be for first time readers. But also it’s a good stepping stone towards the novels, if someone’s not quite at the level for them yet
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