I actually wouldn't mind if Akina admitted her addiction, apologised for being such a dick, and bonded with Makoto over their (now) shared hobby. The realisation that he's been helping her in the MMO the whole time might be pretty fantastic.

The fact is, aside from being a bit obsessed with his hobbies Makoto comes off as a really nice guy.

I'm glad they didn't go for a The Village ending, at least.

That's some killer foreplay they go through. Funny how they seem to agree that brutally assaulting your girlfriend with improvised murder weapons is somehow less likely to break her than giving her a freaking kiss.

You obviously don't understand the gentle heart of a maiden.

I wonder if any development is going to happen between Akina and Kaede?

At this point I'd like to see her either admit she's gay as hell (and then agonize over liking Kaede, who she thinks wouldn't be interested) or at least admit she's becoming an otaku.

Heck, even admitting that all otaku aren't like her brother and his friends would be a start.

Although I gotta admit, the series is a really good guided tour of Japanese otaku culture, if taken a bit to extremes.

idk op doesn't like to share me so ot3 is crack ship status right now :D

Nez never wins the girl in canon. (╯︵╰,)

Is very tragic. Like Your Fault but with staff.

Of course from the look of it it's mostly cartoon violence and the injuries doesn't seem to carry over to subsequent chapters.

Soon they would be covered in bandages and casts laying on a hospital bed... right next to each other... which would not stop them from getting violent again, haha

Or from banging each other. .....wat someone had to say it

In both senses of the term.

Well, a fellow Canadian! Well met. Apparently there's been a stage play done--for some reason I get Peter S. Beagle's email newsletter thing.

Yup, I'm as Canadian as introspective movies with bad sound!

Say, i asked this a while ago in another thread but you likely didn't see it. Are you the same PLG that used to frequent the POGGE blog a while back? It's such a distinctive name.

I suppose the real mystery is whether the younger sisters ever realized that the older pair (thought) they were into them, or if they just assumed all along the older girls were a couple.

Nez is always the love rival :<

Whenever you don't expect me, I am there. Mackin' on your waifu.

^ Is it Nez-chan? O.o 3D waifus are powerful in general.

I admit nothing!

Have to agree with the "aimless" part especially. It doesn't even try to live up to its own premise of teaching the app girls to function in society, because either they can function just fine without the human's help (the cooking girl, for instance) or doesn't learn a damn thing from her (pretty much all of them). They're just a collection of over the top archetypes that don't change or grow at all, so there's no progression.

Like AI YO, I'll finish reading since one chapter's no effort, and at least I'm not feeling vicarious embarrassment for the characters like in some series.

Hello, just dropping by to say I've ... err, dropped my translation of this manga. If no one picks it up within, like, a year, (although honestly, no-one is likely to) I might, maybe, come back to it, but otherwise - sayonara~

That is a shame, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Or not do, I suppose.

Good work on what was done so far. Are you working on anything else in the meantime that we can look forward to?

Adulterous love. Luminous Butterfly.

Do you even know what "Adulterous" means?

I'm not sure I understand what they're selling. They hold seminars about... something?

sure they aren't selleng themself...
from what i understand, it's like a school's infirmary, but outside of the school, for girls who are bullied, or have other problem (that can lead to a suicide),
the misunderstanding come from the word corporation, i think business is better, but they give assistence, hold meetings, programs like alcoholics anonymous

They do mention that it's a nonprofit organization in this chapter, and that would probably be a much better descriptor than corporation for sure.

just re-read, it's great, even better than the first time,
i live in the countryside and i really like manga like this, and witchcraft + growing and cooking is surprisingly good

Kind of interesting that I just happened across this webcomic today (not Japanese, sorry) that's, well, all about cooking and witchcraft. Including recipes which is pretty nifty. http://www.balderdashcomic.com/index.php

Just reread it for several times, just realized what actually happens, with the rope in pg. 16...
#sit in the corner, scream internally

It's an interesting touch that although it's clear the purpose of that rope, it also resembles a sealing rope as well. In the case of that particular tree, both readings apply.

Alisa-chan mashter sparked. She's very strong. What a beautiful things, these science babies!

Science babies are all about power, da ze!

The organization they created sounds a bit reminiscent of the free school in series like Cat Street, which operates as a kind of drop-in centre.

I also noted that long hair actually suits her better. God, they're really perfect, both of them, cannot pick a best girl because each is the best in her way. Now going to check out that 1953 'Ame' as a real art nerd is supposed to

That would be this piece. I can see why she says that unless you understand Japanese architecture, you wouldn't know what is depicted. Interesting way to make a piece both representative and abstract at once.

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I can kinda sympathize with Suzu-chan, what with her trouble finding the right timing to say or do things. I've always been pretty bad at that.

I don't get the whole rape being attractive thing. A woman struggling and saying no is pretty gross/scary.

:D :D In that case I have raped few girls by now (and I am a girl too). :D :D

Girls can rape, you know. It's hardly unheard of.

And given how many people don't seem to understand the concept of consent, and the popular myth that rape involves a scary stranger dragging women into an alley, it's actually possible for people to rape but believe they didn't do anything wrong. So yeah, if you've had sex with someone saying "no" to you, or only saying "yes" because they're really drunk, then you might have.

Now this particular story could be different though, since as has already been mentioned it's customary in Japan, or at least Japanese fiction/porn, to have some token resistance before going ahead with sex. Hell, look at all the stuff that uses "I'm so embarrassed" as a stock phrase to indicate that sex is happening. And of course, the story is already set up as something that doesn't really happen in real life so at least you've got a little separation there.

Will we have more different animals in the future? maybe bears??

Yes. But so far, no bears. She sticks largely (entirely?) to the Chinese zodiac.

Not entirely since there's a cat.

There's a cat in the zodiac backstory, so I guess it's sort of the 13th animal? Okay I heard about that from Fruits Basket, but it checks out on Wikipedia, which is good enough for me.

Actually, there are several legends in China and Japan for why the cat wasn't included in the 12-animal zodiac, although Wikipedia also mentions that cats were likely not yet domesticated in the area when the zodiac came into use.

Oh my glob, these dorks are gonna kill me for sure. Can't wait for them to get together.

Will we have more different animals in the future? maybe bears??

Yes. But so far, no bears. She sticks largely (entirely?) to the Chinese zodiac.

Not entirely since there's a cat.

Maybe Kureha will go with bob hair bear-san and I can read this manga ;_;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; lol jk read the raws

This post would have benefited from reading the previous post.

I think it was too subtle.

Maybe a bigger font?

Blink tags might work.