@暁のルナ @pm215 How are you guys’ copies of トーマの心臓 laid out? Natively says what I imagine is the bunko version has 461 pages. If I add together all the main story pages of my three volume set, I got 306 pages. If I add in the unrelated other shorts also in my volumes, I get to 570 pages.
Do you guys have extra stuff in your volumes?
I have the 小学館文庫 edition (isbn 9784091910134), which is a single volume of 461 pages. The table of contents lists only トーマの心臓 starting on page 3, and an エッセイ on page 457.
On a quick flick through, I find what I guess to correspond to the starts of volumes 2 and 3 at pages 173 and 343 (they’re not labelled, it’s just that the preceding page is blank except for a little endnote illustration, and p173 on look like the black and white reprinting of an originally colour set of pages, like pages 3+ are).
The 試し読み on Shogakukan’s website matches my paper copy as far as it goes (16 pages), in case you wanted to check for page layout rearrangement.
Mine is Kindle, and almost identical to @pm215 but no essay.
I’ve been reading in sections that correspond to what’s on Mangadex, which also has 3 volumes (with chapters). I assume that’s how it was originally serialized?
What are the names of the shorts listed in your volume? Curious what I’m missing
Everything looks the same as mine from that sample, at least.
With the risk of spoilers, these are the first pages from vols. 2 and 3 for me:
Mine’s not broken down into chapters as far as I’ve seen, for whatever that’s worth. 
Volume 1: 千本めのピン and とってもしあわせモトちゃん
Volume 2: ビアンカ
Volume 3: 小夜の縫うゆかた、秋の旅、白い鳥になった少女、and みつくにの娘 (トーマの心臓 only takes up about half of this volume)
interesting, ビアンカ(1) | L24?? got its own book it seems, but didn’t find the others on here. (The <1> is referring to the collection it’s a part of, it’s not a series itself)
My impression was that it wasn’t quite that clearly defined – they made a bet about getting Yuri’s attention and interest, and to what extent it was just a game and to what extent it was serious (to them, to Yuri, to the various spectators) varies. If it’s only a game you don’t have to decide for yourself or admit to anybody else that this might imply anything about your sexuality. (Oscar says on p23 あれならさいしょはゲームだったんだろうさ, so he thinks that Tom only really fell in love with Yuri part way through, and probably that Ante never did in the first place.)
Mmm, not one but two characters with weird parental backgrounds. You’d think the boarding school would be an isolated environment where the boys interact with each other with no outside influences, but no.
He’s definitely the easiest character to like so far – Tom is very gloomy and tormented, Ante we don’t have enough of his internal motivations yet so he seems rather odd, Erik I sympathise with but he’s very short tempered. Personally Oscar made me think of Oscar Wilde, especially the way he’s first introduced to us, with long floppy hair, sitting on a window ledge in dressing gown and slippers and smoking.
The other thing in the section that I found odd is in the dinner fight that the teaching staff are all in the same dining room, but it’s Oscar who breaks up the fight and sends everybody off to bed without dinner. We learn later that he’s some kind of prefect for the middle school dorm, but half the participants in this fight are high school students, I think.
(I liked the little between-panel Oscar reactions on p67.)
