Okay, first, this volume has a cascade of love confessions that could very well be treated as the concluding volume of the series.

And I will be using that fact as a good jumping off point, especially since the creator decided to double down and revisit the homophobic situation from Vol. 8 that really bugged me.

I was hopeful that this panel seemed to promise an apology of sort for the previous scene:


But then, pages later we have the same character reacting in a horrified manner when this occurs:




Again, there are extenuating circumstances as these are all ostensibly straight characters involved in a comic mix-up (though there are some vague hints that this could be heading toward a Some Like It Hot "Well, nobody's perfect" ending).


So, with the two panels seeming to be in conflict with each other, I now have to wonder if the first panel is an accurate representation of what was said in the original Japanese, or if the American edition's translators, adapter and/or editor fudged things a bit to undercut some of the offensiveness of what is obviously going to be a running gag through the rest of the series.

Well, I have one more volume on hand from the library, and I'm going to read it just because I'm compulsive that way, but I will not be checking out any more entries in this series in the future. ( )