am I the only one who didn't like this chapter? Don't get me wrong,it's not that I wanted ...

I don't like it either but I should I accept it. If you read some comments below it explains why ch 9 is so forced and unnatural after ch 8. There is someone who read interview with sensei about ch 9. Sensei been criticized by her readers and they hate ch 8. So sensei got some pressure if she doesn't want to lose her job and finally we have somewhat 'happy ending' for kuze and atsumu. This happen a lot in jp, when fans don't like it, mangaka, author, celebrity they are all forced to follow 'demand'. So yeah it's like that. It happens to my fav manga before.
Yeah I understand you. I want it happy ending but it seems to be rushed. We want more deeper story about 'WHY?' Behind everything. I certainly thought that atsumu may end up be best friend with azusa （/TДT)/
And some karma for kuze and karino but... yeah

It seemed a little rushed to get back to normal to me. I did like the explanation about how group mentality and diffusion of responsibility made everyone more cruel. You know I think Astumu forgive too easily, but at least it means their story is over and hopefully we'll see more Asuza. :)

I thought they went crazy after chap8+9,not only 8. But that's ok,I understand,though it could have been handled a little better(fans always complain,I believe that if she continued with the sad atmosphere and drama,jp fans might have liked it,the thing is she said "happy ending" after that,and clearly after chap8 you can have a bittersweet ending,not a happy one cause it's highly unrealistic. Anyway,chap8 in itself was nice and to me it seemed like it said clearly that there was no love or at least they were away from finding it,and it was cool because it created drama etc. Ch1-Ch4 were awesome! and it created some high expectations,then we had 4 other chapters which clearly weren't on the same level and too long(8months!),then ch8 which was ok but hard to handle. JP fans were rude,overreacted(no one should be put under that kind of pressure),but they were right about something,sensei didn't handle the manga well,after chap4 it was on a roller coaster. Sad to say it but that's the truth. Anyway,I'll wait for chap10.

yep I want azusa and karino back! But we'll have to wait until next year,and hopefully we'll have more than a chapter ╥﹏╥

Whole manga I only like Azusa. I developed some respect to Atsumu because of ch8, how he genuinely wants to be friend with Azusa and how he wants to save his friend. Because ch 5-7 Atsumu character bit, well, he doesn't has strong character. So I like him on ch 8 even the story is dark. But I agree, it was to create drama on the manga. But what you said sensei didn't handle it quite well also true because we knew that sensei changed Atsumu Jack card to prep card on ch 1 & ch 4.
Well now we are fans of Azusa need to wait patiently until next year. I hope I get a lot of azusa ╥﹏╥ miss him baaddd

I hope they won't have a fluffy chap like this one,because it wouldn't make any sense at all. But I believe Azusa isn't as forgiving as Kusakabe,so that's already better. Can't believe we've been waiting for so long only to see the main couple back! they gave such powerful feelings *-*

I hope the ch for our azusa is really really worth time to wait for months! It's next year
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I mean I even ready to spend bucks on it when it licensed so I really really hope it be great