青い炎 • 遠い夜明け

8. What do you like about the fandom?

I love that everyone gets insanely excited with each chapter release, announcements, events... It's not a huge fandom, but the ones that are active frequently contribute with updates, analysis, jokes, or their shared passion.

Most will buy the physical media in some capacity to support Yoneda-sensei as well.

7. What kind of bird is each character in Saezuru and why?

I don't understand much about birds to be honest... I think there's an old post on Tumblr that explained the symbology of all birds appearing on covers pre time-skip, primarily in association with Yashiro and Doumeki. I couldn't find it again, but it's either here or it was a post from @saezuru-another-tampopo's website (now closed).

The main disclosure from the manga is Yashiro being associated with an owl, while Doumeki is related to a sparrow. I agree with this comparison pre time-skip, but not for the events post time-skip. In fact, there's no symbolic association with birds from that point going forward (the bird in Yashiro's cassino might still represent something, but it doesn't look like it so far).

I read this shift as a reflex to the closure phrase from vol. 6: "flying birds speak no words" in contrast with the title "twittering birds never fly". One phrase excludes the other. One excludes another.

And then, four years after, Yashiro and Doumeki restart from square one, neither "flying or twittering" but deceiving.

6. Favourite non Doumeki/Yashiro pairing?

Ryuuzaki/Yashiro. We don't have variations in the plot apart from Kageyama/Kuga, and since I disagree with this pairing, Ryuuzaki is the character I sympathise the most with Yashiro.