I fucking knew it( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

HOT DAMN

Oh that's sweet (hehehehe). I do wish we got to see more of the others, I really like Micchan.

Two girls slurping on a peach.

I gotta move into the country....

Edit: Plum, not peach.

last edited at Jan 15, 2020 8:22PM

Innuendo

Well dang, with all of the Philia and Eros chapters going up I was wondering if this would get some new chapters and look at that. It's a good day!

Okay, that was real hot

RIP juicy plum, it died for our ship.

WOOO THAT’S A SPICY BOI

Yes, Miyuki-sensei, you have become quite the depraved one, I think we learned something more lewd than handholding in this chapter.

Okay, that was real hot

I thought it would end with the first shared bite of the peach... I was pleasantly surprised it kept going, and it was kinda funny too. Almost like an Adam Sandler skit while he was still funny/original.

I'm lowkey sad her friend still hasn't find someone

I'm lowkey sad her friend still hasn't find someone

She has to realize she's gay first

last edited at Jan 14, 2020 12:55AM

lmao, i thought this ch is gonna be wholesome.. that last few pages at the end were a shocker. not complaining tgo

Yes, Miyuki-sensei, you have become quite the depraved one, I think we learned something more lewd than handholding in this chapter.

Philia and Eros is a bit of an exception, but this mangaka does explore sexual desire in her stories a lot more than your average yuri author (without resorting to outright nsfw material, that is). I like it. Real life people are horny idiots, why should it be different in fiction?

But I personally didn't like this extra as much as the rest of the story, though.

It really struck me when the author says in the afterword: “I love girls who can’t be honest about their feelings,” because it really brings out the difference between how authors think and how a lot of readers think.

On the one hand, readers also do respond positively to characters who can’t be honest about their feelings—that’s the tsundere trope in a nutshell, and those are often very popular characters.

But for the “in denial” characters like Micchan, lots of readers are like, “OMG! She needs to get a clue!,” or they spend a lot of energy shipping Denial-chan with everybody in sight, including the MC, etc.

It’s pretty clear that for authors, such characters are an interesting technical challenge, in a way more compelling to create than a lovey-dovey lead (although here Sana is nicely conflicted herself—swept away by Ayane while struggling to come to terms with all her new feelings).

I guess the readers hoping for a change in characters like Micchan are responding the way the authors want them to, but I can see that keeping the characters in denial would be more fun to write.

It really struck me when the author says in the afterword: “I love girls who can’t be honest about their feelings,” because it really brings out the difference between how authors think and how a lot of readers think.

On the one hand, readers also do respond positively to characters who can’t be honest about their feelings—that’s the tsundere trope in a nutshell, and those are often very popular characters.

But for the “in denial” characters like Micchan, lots of readers are like, “OMG! She needs to get a clue!,” or they spend a lot of energy shipping Denial-chan with everybody in sight, including the MC, etc.

It’s pretty clear that for authors, such characters are an interesting technical challenge, in a way more compelling to create than a lovey-dovey lead (although here Sana is nicely conflicted herself—swept away by Ayane while struggling to come to terms with all her new feelings).

I guess the readers hoping for a change in characters like Micchan are responding the way the authors want them to, but I can see that keeping the characters in denial would be more fun to write.

I think it's just an issue of how long a character can believably stay in denial. Not to say that people don't stay closeted for huge chunks of their lives, but it feels like set up without payoff if they don't come out eventually. At this point, I'd believe Micchan's figured her shit out and is just sad because she got rejected before she realize.

I think most readers here have experienced unrequited love at some point and the sympathy pushes them to want the spurned character to have a proper shot at happiness. Also, in my experience, the third wheel always ends up being more my type lol

I think it's just an issue of how long a character can believably stay in denial. Not to say that people don't stay closeted for huge chunks of their lives, but it feels like set up without payoff if they don't come out eventually. At this point, I'd believe Micchan's figured her shit out and is just sad because she got rejected before she realize.

I think most readers here have experienced unrequited love at some point and the sympathy pushes them to want the spurned character to have a proper shot at happiness. Also, in my experience, the third wheel always ends up being more my type lol

You could well be right. But (again speculating from a hypothetical authorial POV) those characters might function not so much as elements in the plot as contrasting foils for the main character.

In other words, the author gets to write the same character two different ways. That scene where Ayane faux-“seduces” Micchan invites us to see Sana and Micchan as a pair—Micchan determined to stay in the closet (literally—lol) and Sana forced out of it by Ayane.

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Real life people are horny idiots, why should it be different in fiction?

well said hahaahahaha
can't believe it's been 3 years, time does fly.

pg 144, "they are the forbidden fruit" -> "they ate the forbidden fruit"

pg 144, "they are the forbidden fruit" -> "they ate the forbidden fruit"

Oops, thanks

Ayane's interactions with Micchan strike me as angling for a triad. Ayane-Sana-Micchan, and maybe Ayane-Micchan as well.

Yes, Miyuki-sensei, you have become quite the depraved one, I think we learned something more lewd than handholding in this chapter.

Philia and Eros is a bit of an exception, but this mangaka does explore sexual desire in her stories a lot more than your average yuri author (without resorting to outright nsfw material, that is). I like it. Real life people are horny idiots, why should it be different in fiction?

But I personally didn't like this extra as much as the rest of the story, though.

Idk I'm just glad I got to see the two of then again. The extra didn't really add anything, but I still liked it nonetheless.

Also TIL to squish fruit between my face and someone else's and then lick to juices off of them to establish top-ness (Ayane's totally a top don't even try to argue with that)

last edited at Jan 14, 2020 8:03PM

oh my yes it's back

That was sweet~