Stand user: Tadokoro Kageko
Stand name: [VALKYRIE]

last edited at Nov 11, 2020 11:14AM

Presenting as female outside of work, and Ritsuko referring to Heidi as 'she' earlier, does raise my estimated chances that she's trans. Not that I know anything about Japanese crossdressing culture.

Referring to them as 'she' is most likely a translation choice, as Japanese generally shies away from gendered pronouns.

Awww. I'm now kinda hoping Heidi becomes a regular.

I'm still not sure their trans, tho...

The name is what makes me so "suspicious". They don't strike me as a foreigner character and I think this would be the first regular Japanese character I've ever seen in any manga that just randomly has such a stereotypical Western name. Crossdressing male or trans characters though ...

Heidi is most likely their "Stage name" that they use while on the clock or when otherwhise interacting with customers. Men (and transwomen) working at Japanese gay bars tend to take on a feminine names exclusively for work, and the stereotype is that many of them pick overtly western-sounding names, the most common of which I've come across being "Catherine".

.....just when you thought the mom had learned her lesson she goes and does something kinda fucked up like this. Poor Neeko's gonna be holed up in her room for a month of non-stop crying after this ;__;
Not to mention her trust in Imoko is gonna be damaged, because she was totally in on this.

Amusing how MahiMahi seem to assume that looking more French will automatically turn you into an refined, glamorous beauty.

You may end up looking like Brigitte Macron, y'know?

MahiMahi are the kind of girls who would end up with Paris Syndrome if they ever went to France x)

Okay, but can we talk about the fact that the date on the ema says 29-10-2019? That's ten days from now! Future manga! Σ(T□T)

That feel when you don't have a kickass punk vampire GF come in and punch your asshole boss in the face. Why even live?! D:

did...did this just steamroll through the whole plot of bloom into you in one chapter?

.....holy shit, I think it did.

Ahhh, genki-girl and kuudere. Oh happy day!

Best wingmom!

These credits pages are killing me! xD

What's the thing that's always in mya-san's mom's mouth?

Assumedly a cigarette holder.

Actually, I think it's a nicotine inhaler. You put little nicotine capsules in them. I used one for a while when I tried to quit smoking and I was basically sucking on the damn thing 24/7, just like Miyako's mom.

Kino, honey, you gay. Just accept it and move on. Please, for the sake of my sanity, accept the fact that you're about as straight as a noodle in hot water!

What IS it with yuri manga and throwing in the shot of the "mysterious" woman in trendy clothes walking through a terminal or a train station to show that she's coming from somewhere far away? And having her say something ambiguous that obviously hints at a history with one of the leading ladies? There's clichés and then there's this!

A video rental store installing a self check-out. Really makes you think...

Right? Don't they keep the actual discs in little paper-cases behind the counter? I guess it might be different in Japan, where they don't really have to worry about theft...

A twist worthy of Shyamalan! D:

I don't know what it is about this one but I love it so much.

So, the story is being written by a popular musician? So Liz is literally just some bratty diva's self-insert?!

Fuck me, as if I didn't already have enough reasons to hate this character. What makes it worse is she was probably intended to come off as sympathetic, but the writer is just completely lacking in the self-awareness department. This whole thing reads like a reverse Fifty Shades of Gray with a lesbian twist.

Hello? Yes, I'd like at least 23 volumes, an anime adaptation and a 3 part OVA, thanks.

I don't think Kou is being insensitive. If anything, she seems conflicted. Having someone as beautiful as Nene confess to you is bound to make anyone feel flattered, and Kou seems too inassertive to turn her down properly. Still, by not giving her a clear "no", she's kinda stringing her along.

That being said, fuck that photography-senpai! She has been nothing but purely manipulative up til now, and while I'm not entirely convinced that she had anything to do with Nene breaking up with Amane (Nene didn't seem to know her at all, and the fact that she's fallen for Kou makes it seem like she really did stop loving Amane, even if the reason is unclear), she is very obviously manipulating events right now to her own advantage and for her own amusement!

Really, at this point, it seems like Amane is the only character who is one hundred percent blameless in all of this and it's killing me how she's being treated!

Suddenly Sadako! D:!

Watch out, Nikaodou-san! Sadako-characters are notoriously yandere!

Fuuuuuuuuck, I feel so bad for Amane! D:
I seriously hope that Nene is legit being blackmailed or manipulated by the senpai, because the alternative that she just dumped Amane for no good reason is just heartbreaking.

Ah, a mother of culture!

Rock n' Yuri! \m/

Wait, could it be? Is senpai the reason those two broke up?