"Calumny is to defame by telling what is known to be true with the intention of sullying someone's good name."

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He went splat, just like that.

About that other chapter, I've noticed that on some Yuri manga one of them always resorts to slapping during argues and I just wanted to know why, like, is it common to slap someone's face on Japan like that? is it just a Yuri thing or an general thing?, because idk they always resorting to slapping their partners' face just makes this feels so abusive

In this case, it wasn't abusive, this was just Hii needing a serious reality check

Also, welcome to being in a relationship, they ain't always fluffy and being with another person is never easy. And sometimes rough shit like this is a reality that even the happiest of relationships have faced and overcame.

Uh, no. It's abusive. Getting heated and yelling? Sure. Hitting? Unacceptable. Don't hit your partner unless it's during consensual sexy fun times.

I'd like to delete my account please.

I do wish Kyoko would call her out just once on trying to force a choice. Confessing and then saying you'd like an answer is fine. Playing sexual mind games with the help of two unrelated people is kinda messed up. Kyoko's a useless idiot sure, but it's still not nice. I'd like a little more back and forth with the main girls, but the other troll couple keeps stealing the spotlight instead.

The main problem with the explanation of the curse...is that it's not unusual at all. Babies and just people in general survive unexpectedly all the time and the expertise of a random nurse 17 years out of date is not proof of "medically impossible, must be a corpse". And if it's true that someone wanting a person to live and them surviving means they're cursed, then there should be many, many thousands of cursed people at any given time and their backstories should all match up to this hypothesis. We as readers know this is not true, so the explanation falls flat (unless you just take it as a fictional universe rule unrelated to our world) and thus unsatisfying. I did enjoy Tokiko's antics, but I do wish it had leaned harder into being a character study instead of a weak mystery. Thanks for the translation.

None of those notes about Seo really sounded bad enough to kill someone over? The two that were covered might be, but you can't really read them. I would have put "Seo killed my cat and laughed" front and center if I was trying to convince people Seo was a bad enough bully to deserve to die.

Tokiko's problem isn't that she lacks empathy, it's that she's an idiot and an asshole. It's not that difficult to intellectually understand people are upset and act accordingly without feeling real empathy or even sympathy. Not that she should respond perfectly like a trained therapist, but the things she has said at each death have been practically calculated to anger people the maximum amount. Her insight when she's talking to her friend is nice, but she acts like a completely different and much worse person with everyone else. It's too bad big sis is suddenly gone because I was interested to see if she would open up to her the same way as with her friend.

Is that a scar or a freaking undead curse!?

That... Sounds like BF to me... Call me stubborn or something along the lines but im putting my brain to work to find the place where that qpr could exist while being different and a more than a BF relationship and less than a romantic relationship and i cant find it, else the deciding factor could be the sexual aspect but... I still dont understand how that works and im reaaaallly trying

(TL;DR for the below, it's a term that exists because it can be used to describe relationships that don't usually get given much of society's brain-space.)

This is basically the way I expect most people to react to the idea so don't worry about it too much if it just doesn't ever make sense. It might just be something that's impossible to grasp if it's not something you intuitively understand....

This is just my rambling I guess, but I don't understand the need for the term queer platonic relationships.

Rather than think "that sounds like a regular ol' BF to me", my thought was "that sounds like marriage to me". If it's a committed relationship (especially if monogamous or closed polyamorous) where you enjoy each other's company, live together, maybe cuddle, but don't have actual sex... That's clearly a romantic relationship. It's still romantic even if it's not sexual. If it's not romantic or sexual, it's friendship. It might be deep, close, and important, but it's still BFFs. This might be where I'd tell someone "we're family" to indicate an extremely important non-romantic tie.

If you're aro and ace, you'll have friendships and neither QPQ or romantic relationships. If you're ace but not aro and find yourself in a mutual, reciprocal QPQ, then you're dating. What you do or don't do in the bedroom doesn't matter.

So I guess my confusion is: why use QPQ instead of telling people you're dating/partners/married? It feels like an just extension of conflating romantic and sexual. A relationship can be platonic or romantic. It can be sexual or non-sexual. But even if it's non-sexual, that doesn't make it platonic automatically; it might still be romantic, right?

... okay so is Matoi remixing voices and stuff the whole reason this has "voice" in the title? Lilies are obvious, now to decipher what the hell is "wear wind"

I think it makes more sense to combine all the nouns. "Wearing Wind, Voices, and Lilies". Or maybe "Clad in Wind, Voices, and Lilies" for the old fashioned coolness points.

An I the only one who hopes she does go back to university? She's making her life a lot harder in the long run by dropping out now.

Yeah, I was somewhat surprised she's dropping out. Just because I thought the thing they hated was the job search and working a terrible office job (which fair, the rat race sucks). I didn't realize she hated college too. She doesn't have to finish her degree if she doesn't want to, but she's probably better off changing majors to something she enjoys and wants to do instead.

If they discuss it and decide a college degree isn't possible right now (can't pay tuition) or isn't what she needs in the future, that's fine. She might be able to take a leave of absence to think about it which would be great. She clearly needs time to relax and de-stress in order to think clearly about what they want and need. But dropping out on a whim when she's almost to graduation is kinda silly. It should be a considered decision.

It's also not about "sucking it up and being miserable while waiting for a happiness to happen"; it's about finding out what you enjoy and want to do and working towards that goal. Even if school isn't "fun", it's satisfying to work hard to achieve something you want. Her prior job search was clearly something she felt she had to do to be "normal" and "successful" and not what she actually wanted. If college doesn't help, she can go to a trade school or start practicing on her own or open an Etsy shop or whatever. She can also find a job she'll willing to do to have enough money and free time to be happy outside of work. She can be a housewife. It's all about individual goals and priorities.

That said, fuck grades. Having grades decide so much sucks. C's get degrees.

Actually, someone mentioned earlier in the comments that in that scene, Lene appeared with two other men who were controlling her in case her brother wanted to stop the operation or something, and they were also the ones who pressed the knife against Claire's neck.

Honestly wish they left it like that in the manga too, it makes people dislike Lene more which is kind of sad.

Went back and read that comment. This change seems like a bad call on the manga's part. The way it's framed in this makes it seem like both of them agreed willingly for their own selfish reasons and buckled down when they were caught. Very unsympathetic without the threats and blackmail element.

I think the main reason I dislike the incest thing is because it's being compared to being gay and the thing is...I don't believe in one true love. Even if they're adults who are madly in love, so what? They aren't allowed to marry one specific person. They might even break up and marry other people for completely normal compatibility reasons! But if you're gay, you can't be with anyone, ever. No matter who you date, it'll be gay so you're expected to die alone. That's a completely different scale than not being able to marry your brother so you'll have to date literally any other guy.

Additionally, the maid was willing to murder people and support her brother murdering people. Even if I was desperate, I wouldn't support my girlfriend murdering people not to legalize gay marriage, but to get us out of the country to get married somewhere else. She should have broken up with his ass and dated other people. Which she can do. Because she's not gay, just in a bad relationship. Or even just skipped the country without the murder. I can't believe leaving the country is that impossible. They were just afraid to do it without help because they had comfortable lives. The brother at least deserves the death penalty honestly (in-universe, I don't generally support it irl) and the maid should at least go to jail if not get the same. So yeah, waste of a reward to plead for them.

We're back baby. Thanks for the new chapter!

The art is nice. Too early to tell how the story will go, but the DIY dwarves are fun.

This story is proof that adding lesbians to anything, including tokusatsu, makes everything better.

Cute, but I couldn't stop thinking who gifts prescription glasses to someone, especially if they wear contacts for an actual reason? Her caring, but clueless salaryman father who hasn't been home in four years?

I don't think anyone (except maybe Fuuko depending on how master manipulator she's being) has done anything wrong from a moral stand point yet. It's really unfair to say a couple closeted high school girls are all not decent people are abusive or whatever yet based on this.

In my opinion, realizing your current relationship isn't working even if it's because of "cheating" by making out once isn't a bad thing. Especially because Yuni wasn't even tempted to cheat until she realized she how unhappy she is. The bad thing is not acting on that unhappiness by continuing to date the first person while cheating on them. If Yuni uses this as a springboard to communicate with her girlfriend or to break up with her, then all of this is just normal growing pains for teenagers in their first relationship. I doubt the manga will go that way because drama, but everyone is still good in my book as of this chapter.

Nanase is clearly more in love with volleyball than her girlfriend and there's a cultural reason she thinks that's okay because Japan's model of success is the "man" works 24/7 to support the family and the "woman" waits patiently at home cooking and cleaning. If she ultimately can't make time for her girlfriend such that they're both happy, they should break up and that's okay.

Yuni just wants to be with her girlfriend. She wants to feel valued and for her girlfriend to be considerate of her feelings by showing her gestures of love and appreciation. Because they have terrible communication, it's possible Nanase honestly doesn't realize how bad it's gotten in which case Yuni needs to learn to communicate her needs honestly. If she can't do that or if Nanase doesn't compromise after being told, they should break up and that's okay.

Fuuko is definitely the creepy one with her stalker tendencies, but if we give her the benefit of the doubt and all she's doing is following Yuni around because she's a lonely baby gay who finally found another LGBT friend, then she really just needs to learn some boundaries which is not unusual for a teenager. If she's been intentionally putting a wedge in by targeting Yuni when she's desperate and planning to interrupt their anniversary then she's more of a scumbag. And she needs to learn not to mess with people. Possibly with therapy if this is about her family problems and less about Fuuko herself just wanting a girlfriend. Even then, while she needs behavior correction, she's just a kid and can hopefully grow from here.

I'm looking forward to the train wreck after this where all of my careful considered character analysis goes right out the window for the draaaama. :D

Just get in the robot Shinji.

Aww, glad this pair of getting some fresh love.

Oh boy, crab facts! This chapter was so sweet and bitter and then sweet again. Perfectly done.

I'm confused. Have they done this before but Yuka just goes out looking for men again? Why isn't she overjoyed that she has a chance/they're dating now?

"Cigarettes, piercings, and even tattoos!"
Uh, are tattoos worse than cigarettes? I'm pretty sure my list goes in the reverse order if anything. It's one standard earring and a tasteful, easy to hide shoulder tat. Is that all it takes to be an irredeemable delinquent these days?

Just wait until the Chapter 3 couple hits their late 20s. They'll realize how much harder it is to find good platonic female friends than girlfriends :'(