Damn right Ema. You don't have to keep toxic people in your life, even if they're family.

This is my theory, but Akiyama Haru actually recycled her character from "Brides of Iberis", but this time with a twist: she's dead emotionally (which Tsuzuki wasn't).

As we saw, Kaede is an emotional vampire. She literally doesn't feel strong emotions. She doesn't feel "alive", except through the love of other people. When people truly love her, she feels like she exists.

So, I think that if she ever comes across Ai x Kon's couple, she wouldn't mind to share. Or even be shared between her husband and Ai. The more love for her, the better.

She never attempted to divorce from her husband and even keeps sending him texts to keep him hooked.

So, in the end, she doesn't actually "love" her husband or Ai, she only loves to be loved, as it makes her feel alive. So, she's, in fact, bisexual, probably poly and maybe even aro.

That obviously won't fly with Kon, which is obsessed with the "normality" her mother hammered into her, but I can see Kaede trying to seduce Kon too.

In this chapter, we saw fissures starting to appear in Kon and Ai's relationship. Kon doesn't understand why Ai would want to keep in touch with Kaede and Ai is haunted by Kaede and now, may suspect Kon of collusion with the husband.

This is going to be a huge mess. Not that I mind. I hope Akiyama Haru gets to do what she wants and is not axed, like the previous manga.

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Looks like Kon never let go of her obsession about being "normal".

She chose the wrong partner for that.

Aureole posted:

Have you read this one?
https://dynasty-scans.com/series/kitanai_kimi_ga_ichiban_kawaii

They just said they had read "I love your cruddy"...

I guess there's Zenkowa, Fatale Game, Houseki Wo Kau, How I lose bets..., Shuukura, My Blue Garnet, The Desperate March of Love...

But most of them are ongoing.

Nya-chan posted:

Seeing the tag line ("A battle without honor or humanity...") and that "Fatale" is the name of the manga reading app, I guess it's going to evolve into an all-out war between Nanakusa and Gonda (maybe more?) for first place in the rankings of the app, all to "win" Futami or something.

Looks like I was right.

What a sexy honey bee.

There's still the plot thread about Hasegawa's father producing Mitsuki's music too.

SrNevik posted:

If Joe leaves, I doubt he's going to just sell his shop. And Mitsuki would surely want to keep running it (and she knows how to do it). So... Mitsuaya living together and running the shop together while Aya goes to college and Mitsuki pursues music domestic storyline, yes? YES??

Sounds perfect. So all the major hangups have been cleared now. I wonder where we go from here.

Couple life.

SeraphimofYuri posted:

I don't sure if "incest" tag is ok because Suzu and Yuki are cousins

If they are both first cousins, which I believe is what's implied, then it is still incest.

No? It depends on the place really.

As someone who dislikes physical social interactions (not to the point of fainting though), I relate to the MC and I find the concept of forcing a social butterfly on her, for reasons, deeply irritating.

I read ahead and I'd say that Ren's problem is that they just don't fit in any definition acceptable to the Japanese society and it stresses them out immensely. They don't want to be a man, but they don't accept the woman identity either, though they don't hate being a woman in itself, just the signs of being a woman (Cf Chapter 16).

Something like a demigirl maybe? But even that, I'm not sure.

As for the relationship with Matsuri, I think they like each other, but at this point, they're still far away from an actual romance.

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I expect it to be a comedy.

Also, while the MC wishes to be a girl, it's only in relation with his obsession with yuri, which is pretty fetishy.

Imagine a yaoi fangirl who'd want to be reincarnated as a guy in her favorite BL. Does that mean she's trans or does that mean she's obsessed with her fetish?

I think the latter and it's the same here.

Hmm... I'm skeptical it'll lead anywhere meaningful.

The MC obviously doesn't consider himself an actual girl (yet?). And the co-MC seems to be very interested in his man-bits (sheltered girl being curious). So, maybe it's a het crush?

As usual, magic blurs identities and relationships.

Also, it's a comedy, so it'll probably just be funny hi-jinks hiding his crotch while "playing" the game and nothing too deep about gender identity.

Namyks posted:
Also, did they kiss on page 26?

Doubt it, it wouldn't be Class S anymore.

^I think a lot of people here have a fetish for women having sex with each other.

Looking at the source, it's not AI generated.

The love twitched slightly.

Well, I guess the best outcome would be the husband being understanding and knowing he can't keep Ema by his side because she'd be happier with Takara and so set her free.

Actually loving someone means wanting them to be happy, innit?

I've never read so many commenters wishing for a character to cheat on a perfectly good husband.

This had a ton of potential for a longer series, but it got the one-shot doom. I don't know, maybe the relationship could've kept developing, with the gyaru being constantly requested by Small-chan. They hit it off, start catching feelings for each other, and eventually Boyfriend-chan fades out of the picture. ┐(￣ヘ￣)┌ But it's a ONEshot...

I mean, on the last panel, they're buying matching bra, so it looks like they got pretty close already.

If you can't stand dysfunctional characters in a purposefully toxic manga and have an urge to send them to therapy, I think it's more of a YOU problem than one for the characters or the author.

Did Mitsuki leave? I took the panel as Mitsuki putting on her music for Aya, maybe.

There's a door slamming shut on page 3, so it's implied she left.

Seeing the tag line ("A battle without honor or humanity...") and that "Fatale" is the name of the manga reading app, I guess it's going to evolve into an all-out war between Nanakusa and Gonda (maybe more?) for first place in the rankings of the app, all to "win" Futami or something.

LilyBlueCat posted:

Donkey Kong posted:

On an unrelated note, I saw the leash and immediately thought of “Her Pet” it’s been so long since I’ve read it tho, I literally had to look up what the name was

Is Her Pet on Dynasty, because searching it didn't seem to turn anything up.

It's not available on Dynasty, though it was on MangaDex a while ago, or at least when I read it. It looks like there aren't any chapters there now, but you might be able to find alternative ways to read it by searching the manga title on Google. :)
https://mangadex.org/title/65a01086-61a3-44e2-8b9a-328a3b73205d/her-pet

fwiw, it's on bato.

This kind of gender bender is always a bit puzzling. If the "turned-into-a-girl" character falls for a guy, is it het or yaoi? And if they fall for a girl, is it het or yuri?

Since the character retains their initial gender identity, then they're for all intent and purpose, a pre-op trans person, so in this particular case, this story is pure het.

And if you consider it yuri, this runs contrary to the belief that "gender isn't tied to the body".

So, in the end, it's not "yuri", "het" or "yaoi", it's just a love story between two people, regardless of gender or body.

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