Ugetsu

Because he does editing on the pages, Sayo likes an ENORMOUS format.

Here is what I did

oops got to look it up...

http://www.mediafire.com/?mmydnfmt5yt

Kikiskeeter

Sayo is a professional with his work, and does get paid to do this so the better quality of the scans definitively the better quality of finished product. I read comments about him wanting to work on some items but turning them down due to poor quality of the raw scans.

Anyway back to the topic of KNJ, I see Kuro real problem with her mother is that she totally ignored Kuro's feelings. I think you need to communicate with children her age that you might be seeing someone.Once more we see the adults doing what they think is best without concern for the feeling of the children involved.

Nakajitos

That depends again on how long she has been seeing this man. If she really is close to marrying the guy, then yes... she overstepped bounds by keeping secrets from her daughter. If my theory holds true and she has only dated him a couple times, perhaps, then I don't see her in the wrong at all. Most people don't tell others about relationships until they have gotten serious, and I'd imagine that Kuro's mom was doing the same.

Kikiskeeter

If she was seeing him for a while then I also feeds into Kuro's worst fear: Her Mother was not spending time with her cause she just didn't want to.

Newnonimous

I agree with both of your ideas. For one Nakajitos is right on Kuros mother not betraying Kuro's trust because if they indeed became really close with each other than the mom would have told Kuro that she is planning on marrying someone and as far as I'm concerned I think that the mom just dated not too long ago.

However I also see Kiksters point of view like Kuro might not be accustomed to see her mother with another man even if she still loves her daughter Kuro still wants All of her mothers love. So it's a draw from this point

Nakajitos

Possibly, but it seems like they have been spending a lot of time together lately... certainly far more than they did last year and prior. If anything, Kuro would probably be reacting far less if she still didn't have a closer relationship with her mother. Before she saw her rarely and mostly spent money to fill the void. Now that her mother has a more prominent role in her life, she is more afraid that something will take that away.

Newnonimous

Well we don't really know that for sure. There's still more to speculate on how close Kuro has become with her mother overtime, it just doesn't seem to fill in the plot hole of the last few pages of the chapter.We've only seen so little of Kuro's little dilemma so it's not easy to assume what will happen next. K.W. is pretty sly about these things like the one chapter when there was a rumor about a threat from a teacher(or student?) and we all thought that one of the characters was the girls old teacher, Nakamura. Later it turns out it was a prank from another school and we got all worked up for nothing.....kinda sucks though. Anyway the point is just because we learn one small info doesn't mean we know what the whole story is . I think if we were to hear more from Kuro about her and her mother or perhaps show us some flashbacks of the two bonding.......well i'm still unsure of their relationship. I mean, it mat point straight to one thing, but if you shift your point of view a little, it may point to something different.

However, the question that stirs up my attention is that why does Kuro need Rin to help her with her major problem? like what can Rin do? It not like she has excellent social skills or at least give good advices. I don't know i have so many questions and only less than half are answered so the only suitable reason would be to just wait until the next one comes.

Shinobu

Ah, who knows. It was that Kuro was on the bus to Yuri-town, but lately that has been toned down. I can see that she's having a heart attack from getting that text message by mistake. I see a hilarious scene, where Aoki is doing a school visit when Kuro comes home, and sees him talking to his mom, revisiting the nightmare she had thinking her mom was marrying Aoki. I wonder if KW would develop a Kuro x Aoki arc, there had been a couple of scenes where you'd think she could start to like the guy. Like when he walked in as their new fourth grade teacher, and she was actually happy to see him.

Newnonimous

I think deep down she likes Aoki, it's just that you know Kuro is still unsure about Aoki, seeing as how Rin is in love with him and she jealous of that. Then again, Kuro's father did cheated on her mother which lead to divorce so it's another possible reason why Kuro was hurt when she read that e-mail; for fear that her and her mother may go through that again. That's just how i see it as well.

Kikiskeeter

I have to say all three of the girls have a level of feelings toward Aoki in more than just teacher /student way.