My favorite image from this chapter

Director Jiang just sitting there with her tongue out like a dog thinking "what did I do wrong"

'Mom suspects her daughter has a boyfriend' plot :p

"oh you were the one she went out with the other day? i thought for sure it was a boy"

-geez whyd she have to say that, now im all conscious of her >.<

(cue sick takamine shenanigans where she hugs sakura and makes sakuras heart race)

what a cliffhanger

can we go back to simping for hot manhua women instead of debating chinese economics

Loving the newish trend of kirara 4koma that start out as simple moe slice of life manga and then evolve into intense fantasy and mystery plot beats. Its crazy

Based on the shadowy outline of what is presumably the previous bartender, im guessing this is a lovers spat which will be resolved within the next two chapters

I think the transition from fantasy to reality is very subtly conveyed in a way I can get behind. We definitely start parasocial, but when she starts becoming dissatisfied with the fantasty and more interested in and curious about the real person she's delivering to... ionno. That the ex-idol is dressing up for her as an idol and isn't showing up as honestly as she was at the start is honestly coming across as more parasocial to me - because she's recreating the environment that they started in believing that's what the delivery girl really wants from her.

Ionno y'all I thought it was cute. It's a shame it's a oneshot. I kinda feel like you could easily write a whole story about this kind of thing.

I agree with you there, it feels like they were both somewhat conscious about walking the line of parasocial vs seeing the human behind the role. when the delivery girl says "i love the micchu that keeps secrets, but i want to know more about saotome-san" its absolutely intentional that she uses her idol vs real name. And i think it represents a step beyond the parasocial, and sets the stage for them meeting irl as equals. Even if the way they got there was kinda rocky.

So the tables have turned. It was once the "child" pursuing the "adult" but now the adult is taking the initiative here. They're still up against a lot of issues though, but I'm confident that if Shi Xingyuan is willing to reach out to her team that they can figure something out together.

realest panel of all time

the sapphic urge to write characters bleeding out and experiencing immense physical pain and trauma

I wonder what the true deal is with this witch. My guess is that she's a demonic Elsa from a different timeline, who wanted to go back and save her past self in a different timeline, and then found out about Evie and Elsa, and decided to protect/watch over them. Although (assuming this is the same one as we have already seen) her usage of wind magic suggests she was already with Yvonne and maybe she died in her timeline

I highly recommend the webcomic “program me” its a bdsm romcom that actually has (mostly) good consent taking between the two

So I literally just binge read the whole thing in one go after reading ur comment and I gotta say, that was REALLY good. I double recommend

program me has ruined my sense of humor, i think about shit like the personal pit of carnal lust so often

Also i think this character dynamic is fascinating. Yes the older woman did mastrubate over the other girl while they were both drunk, but she seems to realize that was bad and felt genuinely horrible over it. Its an interesting reversal of character type. The younger “innocent” one actually seems like shes dragging the older “veteren” one into a really messy relationship. Kinda a reverse corruption almost

Lol I am here for the train wreck and f up characters but why does every BDSM stuff have to be raped?? That's not even what BDSM is about. I just want a cool BDSM manga where they discuss before hand -,-

I highly recommend the webcomic “program me” its a bdsm romcom that actually has (mostly) good consent taking between the two

this is the ideal isn't it? My favorite part of this newest chapter (besides all the space facts) was the one panel of yu grabbing shizuka's stomach. The way it was drawn felt so intimate and natural, in a way that erotic manga often lacks. And the same can be said of the very nearly realistic trans yu agenda ofc but thats not new.

Our two lasses will get to have a climactic confrontation after trying to save the fair tents perhaps? Wind rippling through their hair and creating plenty of cinematic moments (i hope lol)

Im glad that even for a sex manga we still get the knight heron classic japanese factoids

This chapter feels like an entirely different story

also yeah cool flex to do a tl/redraw of the whole ass title page, ur my favorite up and coming scan group

This magazine is smart to tap into the (mostly ignored) demographic of closeted trans women who read a lot of shounen manga lol

setting aside whether the thing going on between these three was a "true" love triangle or not, I will say grabbing one of the characters and tossing them forward through the space time continuum is definitely a good way to break it

Also can I just say that old woman boob yuri is so bespoke, I hope she has some new yuri manga ideas because I love her wacky romcom style

Thank you Konbu Wakame, it's been an honor.

this is all real, i was the older sister