This is why you don't play games with your S.O.; why open your relationship up to yet another avenue for problems? Why add another thing to fight over?

...games are supposed to be fun and you play them with people you like because you want to have fun together. If you view sharing passtimes with your partner as nothing but an avenue for problems I kind of question why you're even dating.

Hiroko is lucky Ayaka doesn't have a single iota of self respect because if she did she'd stop wasting her energy on someone so self-involved they can't comprehend even her most obvious intentions and wishes. Like at this point her pursuit of Hiroko is kind of just pathetic.

So there are two outcomes I see coming from how Natori's presence is shifting the existing character dynamics: 1) things between Lapis and Diana get even worse than canon because jealousy, or 2) Natori acts as a common cause that actually brings them closer together potentially resulting in either Lapis turning away from villainy or Diana turning to it as her tunnel vision when it comes to protecting the people important to her just gets more pronounced.

I wonder if the intended result of this chapter was for the entire readerbase to fall in love with Diana.

Holy shit.

This chapter was a real testament to how little of an impression every character that isn't one of the leads has made on me because I can't remember anything about any of these people beyond what they look like.

Wouldn't be an Isekai without a love triangle where one girl is inevitably going to get hurt. Especially since most of these writers never have the balls to go with the polyamory ending

Right... It takes balls to fizzle drama and tension...

I mean I can't remember the last love triangle I read that actually had either of those things. It's almost always transparently obvious what the endgame will be or it all amounts to vague status-quo-is-god waffling in the end.

Honestly, the Villainess doesn't get my heart racing or anything, she's a little too... porcelain perfect? She has very little texture to me. Diana is a much better choice at the moment.

Lapis is a pretty shallow character at the moment but I feel like that's an intentional result of the fact that she's wearing a metaphorical porcelain mask 99% of the time to conceal her true intentions and feelings.

Finally a 4-koma comedy manga that is actually funny.

If you can't find a GF be the GF.

So far Lapis doesn’t seem so bad. She’s smart in a way that includes other people, highly capable and fairly mature, authoritative yet willing to listen, and apparently a little bit possessive. Which is to say she’s very hot. We rarely get to see romance manga where one of the characters has such a developed and nuanced approach to the world. I think she’s pretty cool.

I dunno, vitriolic hatred for poor people is a pretty unsexy personality trait.

Great, now I'm shipping DianaxNatalie more than I ship LapisxNatori...

Plot twist: this manga was actually about Diana rescuing Natori from Lapis's evil clutches all along

I would not be opposed to this swerving into a critique of villain simping and focusing on the fact that villainy is a lot less hot when you're on the same side of the fourth wall as the villain.

Pandacorya's art swings wildly between sexy and borderline nightmare fuel dependant on how much clothes the characters are wearing and while it doesn't make for very good smut it's at least interesting enough I always end up reading their stuff.

Not criticising the comic, I love me some Hachiko, but I am curious: has anyone actually forgotten a childhood friend? Is this something that happens, ever? I mean, I've forgotten random classmates, but I'm pretty sure I remember all of my close friends from when I was 5, and I didn't even promise to marry them. This trope is strangely common for how unbelievable it is to me, but maybe other people have different experiences?

I have practically no memories from before I was 10, so yeah I think it's different for different people.

I mean I have no concrete memories before like high school but I still remember every important person from like grade school forward in at least a "this person matters even if I have no recollection of any interaction I've ever had with them" way.

Drawing genre of stepsister yuri? I thought manga most of the times just ignores the "step" and goes straight to incest without any dilemmas

Eh one of the most big name yuri series is stepsister yuri.

Oda has bad taste in female character design and I'll die on this hill.

Thank Christ and also the translator for this bounty.

Love me an isekai protagonist who has to deal with their situation with nothing but setting knoweldge and an incredibly niche set of mundane skills.

There's definitely A LOT of characters in this intro but they're all very distinct from each other so I think it should work out fine.

This is definitely the weirdest form of propaganda defending Japan's devastation of the tuna population I've ever seen. What's next whale gijinka telling us actually it's totally fated and cool to butcher whales?

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Are we calling a girl petting a female cat yuri these days?

This series is pro-gyaru propaganda and I approve.

Glad we get some progress in that chapter!
That aside, that vocabulary felt so forced it made the whole chapter annoying to read to be honest... a change of translator maybe?

Seriously it felt like someone just discovered a thesaurus. Nobody casually says "abscond" this much. Loved the chapter but oof was the word choice clunky.

I feel like an entire manga plot just got crammed into a dozen or so pages and it wasn't even an especially interesting one. Wish this series focussed more on the parts of it that aren't just rote adherence to incredibly outdated yuri tropes. The amount of time dedicated to boring souer bullshit would be a lot more forgiveable if it WAS parody even if parodying that has also been an outdated cliche for ages.

I love that this premise is just an entire genre now.