I don't enjoy the more episodic volumes as much as I enjoy the ones focused more on the core relationships, and this one was very episodic, with lots of little strips showing what a bunch of background characters were doing during the cultural festival. I get that this is slice-of-life, but sometimes there are way too many lives to keep track of all the little slices from. The ending was a huge cliffhanger and although I hope that there will be some major plot progression in Vol. 19... I'm sure that Tadano will weasel out of confessing anything and we'll be in for yet more yearning and uncertainty. Sigh.