demonic chickens!

It’s a very understandable reaction or ‘crash out,’ I guess you could say. The fact that your current girlfriend refuses to delete her ex’s number just shows she isn’t over her.

No, it just shows that she doesn't want to cut her ex entirely out of her life. You can be over someone and still care about them.

I just re-read this. Still fun! If a frustrating ending... kind of want to see Mitsuki become Ayaka's rich (well, secure) lover, but it's left to our imagination.

Probably the biggest tragic element is that if Mitsuki had been honest during the sleepover, things might have taken a rather different tack. Ayaka was being pretty physically pushy there, and yeah highlighting "you're rich! (or rich enough)"

Though there's "that's the kind of girl you are" here https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/pretender#41
hard to tell if Ayaka was earlier suspecting Mitsuki of liking her or not. I bet Kodama loves "you can't tell what the other girl is thinking" ambiguity.

The gold digger turns out to be a poor girl desperate to get out of her situation

I mean, what do you think the typical gold digger is?

I don't think Ayaka call wrong person. Look at how she smile when Mitsuki shows up, all according to plan :)))

Good point!

She was so drunk she called the wrong person and couldn't even walk properly without support.

Based on https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/pretender#38 and not having "decent parents" I don't think Ayaka meant to call her father. But based on https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/pretender#33 I think she wanted to sound like she was calling her father, to drive off a pushy guy.

As for not walking properly, sometimes people fake that. In college, I had a good friend, whom I'd see at big parties almost falling-down drunk, draped on/clinging to her boy. I was very worried for her, mostly for simply being that drunk. Except, one time, I saw her detach from the boy, and walk in a straight line across the courtyard. So apparently not so drunk after all. And my friend was not a full-time manipulator like Ayaka.

In short, you can't always tell. Though the fact that Ayaka didn't notice Mitsuki rifling her purse does suggest being fairly out of it.

I don't see how "Mitsuki isn't interested in guys because she doesn't have to be."

Well, that was Ayaka's take. "You don't have to hook a rich husband or a decent life."

Did you read the comment before yours?

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Pattern just filled into fabric, ignoring draping.

Writing felt off to me, honestly.

It may be a cultural thing but work obligation (that was not an obligation at all since she was not supposed to work that day) is a very non valid excuse if you had weeks to prepare beforehand at least here where I live.
I'm guessing it's that American mindset talking? Idk.

American? Everyone involved is Japanese.

And from my understanding of Japanese culture (both work culture, and general deference to anyone older than you), it is very plausible that Yamada would give in here.

a) job

b) elderly boss and co-workers

Expecting a barely adult junior employee to hold her ground against Elder Boss and Extremely Senpai doesn't seem realistic, especially when Yamada is basically a pushover to begin with.

Who's the other woman, last seen in the car? His lover? Sister?

I don't get the "I want a cookie" kid at the end.

Sadly, most of them felt too mean or too silly for me. The first one (Rein's boobs) actually felt the most natural, surprisingly, then Vita/tsun/Nanoha. Others had nice touches, like Signum in the bath, or Fate's seaweed/mom reactions, but didn't land well as whole chapters.

not a fan of Japan worshiping women that are in prostitution, skip

I'm not a fan of people being anti sex work, can we skip you? lol

Consider their past gems such as shaming a minor: https://dynasty-scans.com/forum/posts/934214

I'll keep reading to see where it's going, but my expectations have been set low. Is she supposed to live on snacks all school year? And keep scurrying around to eat them? It's like Yukiko put in just enough effort to draw attention to how little effort she put in making this make sense.

And ngl, it's kinda funny that yuri fans were the ones who saved this series from cancellation… only to get “rewarded” with the spotlight shifting to a het romance lol. But hey, each to their own I guess. I just don’t get why some people can’t understand that some yuri fans only want (and only care about ) yuri romances in a... yuri story.

I bought a copy as urged, and I have no complaints with the subsequent story.

Bullying in Japan might also include things we're not used to.

Nobody peed themselves or received piercings, so it's pretty mild as these things go. Either that or there's a bias in the type of comics I read.

Pres is showing a chest scar at the end.

"Let's have undercover humans but not arrange to feed them."

You assume the curse 'wants' anything other than pain and destruction.

Interesting, but I'm questioning the logistics of the premise. Liaison sharing a room while depending on fake fangs, and no reasonable provision for her feeding herself. (Also, what about bathrooms? Do these vampires poop?)

Anyone else think that girl deliberately tripped so as to get a wound?

I dunno, almost every incest story either a) magically works out, or b) ends in tragedy, it'd be kind of nice to see "person struggles with difficult feelings and finds a way to move on" for once.

My Unrequited Love was mostly struggle, with a magic work-out at the very very end, IIRC. Though, oh right, that wasn't actually incest, just age gap and incest-adjacent (falling for her sister-in-law.)

Anyway, good point. Even if Miki being that into Aki isn't particularly likely... given the earlier "feelings, what are they" themes of Whispering, I was expecting something like "Miki didn't actually know what romantic feelings felt like, and thought her attachment to her sister was romantic".

Instead of Sayori moving into Mizuki's 2BR, Mizuki should plan to move into Sayori's 1BR. Sayori can go to a good college and work on her career, Mizuki can be the housewife. I'm sure that will fix all their problems!!1!

People have noted dark elements in previous chapters, like a frequent motif suggesting hanging. Plus the suicide of Kasumi's friend, of course

So the box cutter is still a flashback, from before Sayori saying "we're great, hey we should double date"? Interesting.

"Ooh, hot"

"Wait, kind of toxic."

"...now I'm just confused... Gimme more?"

first cousins incest is perfectly legal so that's not a problem here.

A lot of people, e.g. many modern Americans, are squicked out by first cousin relationships even though it's legal.

OTOH for many societies, including 1800s England, it wasn't considered incest at all, just normal or even desirable. It's not like sibling or parent-child incest which are almost universal taboos, especially outside royal families with pretensions of divinity (and maybe a habit of not raising siblings in the same household.)

Arguably the tag should be used for relationships the characters consider incestuous and taboo. Or we should have multiple incest tags, one for the story perspective and one for viewers who want to avoid some definition or another of incest.

This author sure really loves gay witches

Nah, the author really loves edging the reader.

This seems more extreme than most, though.