Nothing new, but I really liked how much black there was in each page, it helped with the atmosphere!

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I like how the ghosts are cleansed by watching yuri.

I like how the ghosts are cleansed by watching yuri.

Tbf so am I.

Mieruko but gayer.

This oneshot marks Kuzushiro's return to Yuri Hime after 9 years.
What are the chances that those creepy things are summoned by Kagari hersel so she can play the protector? They became worse the day after Ageha told Kagari she was scary. The kissing is probably not required either.

Mieruko but gayer.

Hopefully Mieruko will get there someday

I don't know why this feels so sad. . .
Maybe because they're so nakedly using each other? Picking each other for convenience / because there are no other options?
This has to be the most foreshadowing bad-ending couples of all time T-T

Kuzushiro blessing us with evil Nozomi. ^.^

I like how the ghosts are cleansed by watching yuri.

Tbf so am I.

In case you haven't seen it already, you might enjoy https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/ouija_board

I don't know why this feels so sad. . .
Maybe because they're so nakedly using each other? Picking each other for convenience / because there are no other options?
This has to be the most foreshadowing bad-ending couples of all time T-T

Or, they serve each other so beautifully, they will never be part and learn the joy of a convenient relationship!

Not gonna lie I kinda expected a suicide ebding. I mean clearly she has nothing in her life worth living (no friends, family hates her, can’t distinguishes between real and spiritual anymore) for so I thought she’d just off herself to be with her ghost gf forever lol

Okay, be honest, how long did it everybody take to figure out that Kagari was a ghost? I caught on before the big reveal, but I feel like I should have known right from the start.

I don't know why this feels so sad. . .
Maybe because they're so nakedly using each other? Picking each other for convenience / because there are no other options?
This has to be the most foreshadowing bad-ending couples of all time T-T

That seems a little cynical. Don't you think it's possible a for relationship of convenience, to evolve into something deeper over time.

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Horror really suits Kuzushiro's art style

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So this is the first manga I've translated myself, so hoping I did right by the story in my translation.

Okay, be honest, how long did it everybody take to figure out that Kagari was a ghost? I caught on before the big reveal, but I feel like I should have known right from the start.

I think the paneling sets up something being off about her from the very beginning (the pure black eyes, the menacing hands reaching out on the third page), but there's sort of a build-up to what exactly she is.

Probably the biggest thing before the "you're not human" reveal is the "people kiss their favorites, don't they?". Kagari uses 人間 when she says that, so it could also be translated as "human", but I thought going that way would end up spoiling the twist.

I don't know why this feels so sad. . .
Maybe because they're so nakedly using each other? Picking each other for convenience / because there are no other options?
This has to be the most foreshadowing bad-ending couples of all time T-T

It didn't read that way to me... Horror yuri usually relates back to some aspect of lesbian/queer experiences in some way, and I think one way to read this story is an allegory for Ageha refusing to abandon a gay friend who is being ostracized (an invisible monster) while denying her own sexuality so people will think she's "normal". Reading it this way, the heterochromatic eyes she has at the end would symbolizes her acceptance and reciprocation or Kagari's sexuality, but on her own terms. One eye is black because she's accepted the worldview Kagari works inside of, but she still has an independent eye of her own.

The reason I don't think this is a bad end couple is that Kagari's whole thing is "run away and be in lesbians with me regardless of the consequences". Ageha refusing to do that even after she accepts her relationship with Kagari makes it clear that she's actively rejecting a codependent relationship dynamic. Yes, they might have picked each other because of fate/convenience/lack of options, but she's focused on building a constructive relationship from that.

I loved this. It needs a part two.

I like how the ghosts are cleansed by watching yuri.

I don't know? It feels like Kagari just cleansed the ghosts while kissing Ageha at the same time. She might even be leveraging her ability of cleansing to exchange for kisses from Ageha, I think?

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So it was all just a metaphor for internal homophobia, huh.

So this is the first manga I've translated myself, so hoping I did right by the story in my translation.

Thank you for your hard work!

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So this is the first manga I've translated myself, so hoping I did right by the story in my translation.

You done good.
It was a fun read.

the ghosts being brought in / exacerbated by kagari was just the text, no? The ending... that was pretty unnerving. I like the subtext that's been read into it here, though. trying to read it from a queer lens in this case is interesting because ageha is clearly not interested in kagari as anything more than a friend. a deeply useful one, at that.

I like me a transactional relationship. especially one where everyone gets hurt. If reading this story through a queer lens, with kagari as the "Invisible girl" then ageha's line "Thinking of her as something human was wrong the whole time" becomes a lot bleaker, don't you think?

oh so it was the love/death author. that explains it.

the ghosts being brought in / exacerbated by kagari was just the text, no? The ending... that was pretty unnerving. I like the subtext that's been read into it here, though. trying to read it from a queer lens in this case is interesting because ageha is clearly not interested in kagari as anything more than a friend. a deeply useful one, at that.

I like me a transactional relationship. especially one where everyone gets hurt. If reading this story through a queer lens, with kagari as the "Invisible girl" then ageha's line "Thinking of her as something human was wrong the whole time" becomes a lot bleaker, don't you think?

I saw it more as Ageha denying her own gayness and fearing Kagari because she's making Ageha confront her feelings. Notice how Ageha is focused on things being "normal" and "weird".

This has to be the most foreshadowing bad-ending couples of all time T-T

It didn't read that way to me... Horror yuri usually relates back to some aspect of lesbian/queer experiences in some way, and I think one way to read this story is an allegory for Ageha refusing to abandon a gay friend who is being ostracized (an invisible monster) while denying her own sexuality so people will think she's "normal". Reading it this way, the heterochromatic eyes she has at the end would symbolizes her acceptance and reciprocation or Kagari's sexuality, but on her own terms. One eye is black because she's accepted the worldview Kagari works inside of, but she still has an independent eye of her own.

The reason I don't think this is a bad end couple is that Kagari's whole thing is "run away and be in lesbians with me regardless of the consequences". Ageha refusing to do that even after she accepts her relationship with Kagari makes it clear that she's actively rejecting a codependent relationship dynamic. Yes, they might have picked each other because of fate/convenience/lack of options, but she's focused on building a constructive relationship from that.

I'm often too focused on the surface to see these things so thank you for this lovely analysis

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the ghosts being brought in / exacerbated by kagari was just the text, no?

Indirectly, yes, though I don't think Kagari is doing it intentionally. The running theme in J-horror is that repeatedly making contact with the supernatural draws you deeper into its world and makes the next contact easier. (Both Monogatari and Otherside Picnic explicitly state this concept, and it definitely shows up in a lot of the online horror that Otherside Picnic draws from). So I think someone cued into that context would have the takeaway that Ageha's reliance on Kagari to handle her fears is the reason she sees more ghosts. She doesn't want to be rid of Kagari, so she blurs the veil more and more.

I like me a transactional relationship. especially one where everyone gets hurt. If reading this story through a queer lens, with kagari as the "Invisible girl" then ageha's line "Thinking of her as something human was wrong the whole time" becomes a lot bleaker, don't you think?

The line's closer to "I shouldn't think about her 'like' in the context of human logic". In a ghost story that makes a lot of sense, because after all, the paranormal operates on its own set of logic. And within the context of a queer reading, it's like her trying to figure out a rational explanation for why Kagari is a lesbian that likes her. Attraction is just kind of a fact of life that inherently defies explanation.

I enjoyed this one a lot!! And I think you did really well for your first time translating manga

The reason I don't think this is a bad end couple is that Kagari's whole thing is "run away and be in lesbians with me regardless of the consequences". Ageha refusing to do that even after she accepts her relationship with Kagari makes it clear that she's actively rejecting a codependent relationship dynamic. Yes, they might have picked each other because of fate/convenience/lack of options, but she's focused on building a constructive relationship from that.

Yeah, things only actively got worse for her when she sort of distanced herself from Kagari by reaffirming herself of that what she wants is to be Normal when she's not 'fit' for normalcy :P She may get benefits, sure, but to get that benefit there's a choice to be made, and it was up to Ageha to choose if she wanted to be unhappy but Normal or happy but Weird

I love this page ALSO

What a merry bad ending~ Thank you for the scanlation and your thoughts!
Kuzushiro's horror and yanderes have to be my one my favorite things

I initially read Kagari more like a manifestation of Ageha's queerness. When Ageha was young, Kagari wasn't something that Ageha could see (though Kagari was probably still there, one could say like a moon on a rainy night). Nor is Kagari something others can explicitly see. However, when Ageha grew older she could acknowledge her queerness to some extent (by kissing, if only we could all be so lucky~). This made the scaries and the fear go away for a time, but also made the scaries even more frequent.
With this reading of the story, the central conflict is about inner acceptance. Kagari wants Ageha to completely accept her, even though she knows that she also causes Ageha to be ostracized to some extent. Kagari knows that is what will get rid of the scaries. But Ageha doesn't think that's realistic, because by accepting her queerness she becomes, well, queer. The idea of being queer is almost the scariest thing to her yet. However, page 35 is Ageha reaching that acceptance to some degree. It is the only page where Ageha and Kagari share the same eye color, seeming to be equals for a brief moment. In this case, the heterochromia is more like Ageha's quasi-acceptance, perhaps acceptance in some spaces and denial in others? Or denial till graduation? It's not mutual for now lol

So it was all just a metaphor for internal homophobia, huh.

I love works that can be both taken at face value or interpreted in many different ways, including ways that weren't originally intended by the author.

At example my first impression was that the ghosts were a metaphor for intrusive thoughts (the more attention you give them, the more they appear) and Kagari was a manifestation of the protagonist's OCD.

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