I don't want to jump to conclusions yet about the mother sabotaging their relationship... but it really looks like that T.T
Hopefully they make the best out of it

BRUH

Thank you Miharu!

Chapter 20 developments reaction: Noooo! No no no no no no no! What the heck.

I audibly said BITCH FUCK OFF when auntie did that. It really seems she still has an attachment to Indou's mom. To go after the daughter tho... DAMN.

Thank you Miharu

Damn, really acquiescing good yuri with this.

BRUH

B R U H

The fact that this series is set within an alternative version of Japan that instituted an all-woman wing of the armed forces way back in the early 20th century still feels kinda surreal to me. Like, I get that your average yuri series won't get anywhere near long enough in serialization to both explore the main relationship in depth and flesh out the details of the world, but it's honestly just such a fascinating setting that we'll never learn more about because this series seems to be approaching a climactic arc. It's a shame, because the premise seems ripe for a 500-chapter, alternate-history period war drama about WLW romance in the backdrop of battle, with soldiers striving to hold on to hope and maintain their relationships even in the face of wartime nihilism and despair, but there's never going to be anywhere near enough demand for it.

I'm not one of those people who argues that if something isn't popular, then it won't be good, but I honestly wish yuri as a genre was more popular, because works like this and Roid just make me wonder about all the wonderful stories we could get if yuri manga had enough demand and security in serialization to approach the depth and scope of works like Kingdom or One Piece instead of being super-niche and primarily oriented with wrapping up the main romance in, like, forty chapters at best.

Then again, even Hirohiko freaking Araki wasn't allowed to put a lesbian romance into Stone Ocean back when it was running in Shonen Jump back in 2002, so I guess mainstream Japanese magazines are just way too focused on pandering to straight male or female demographics to give queer stories the platforms they need. The most popular example of lesbian rep in a recent mainstream series I can think of was Christa and Ymir in AOT, and we all know how terribly Isayama handled that. At least we still get anime-original stuff from people like Ikuhara, so all hope isn't lost, and Urasekai Picnic, which'll be airing next season, is a legitimately great horror/mystery series that also happens to be yuri, so maybe things are taking a turn for the better.

To get back to my original point, I'm guessing this series will probably be ending in around three chapters with a love confession, shortly before Indou and Kagami prepare for deployment. The prospect of them possibly being blown to bits by artillery or dying in trenches in the various terrible wars that punctuated the 20th century kinda puts a damper on the fluffiness of the yuri, but that's military romance for you. It would've been nice to see the author exploring a relationship between soldiers on the battlefield, but I guess a full-blown war drama would be simultaneously too dark and too long for this series to segue into. I hope they at least give us, like, one panel in the last chapter showing that Indo and Kagami survived all the wars and retired safely in some cozy corner of the countryside, though.

Dammit, mom...

I hope they at least give us, like, one panel in the last chapter showing that Indou and Kagami survived all the wars and retired safely in some cozy corner of the countryside, though.

I read this and immediately the end of Izetta came to mind.

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I hope she just slaps her mother but oh well she will probably accept it without complain.

Please tell me that Kagami's mother is not sabotaging their relationship because she is jealous and is actually planning for Indou to be the replacement for her mother. That would be a bit much.

I mean, it's a possibility, but I suspect it's rather that she thinks it's better to separate them now than to have them go through the same that she did with Indou's mom. Not the brightest idea anyone has ever had, but understandable to an extent.

Thank you Miharu!

To get back to my original point, I'm guessing this series will probably be ending in around three chapters with a love confession

Almost right, manga is already ended with 26 chapters.

Urasekai Picnic, which'll be airing next season, is a legitimately great horror/mystery series that also happens to be yuri, so maybe things are taking a turn for the better.

If Urasekai Picnic flops I'm kidnapping the CEO of anime

Oof, spicy

Please tell me that Kagami's mother is not sabotaging their relationship because she is jealous and is actually planning for Indou to be the replacement for her mother. That would be a bit much.

I mean, it's a possibility, but I suspect it's rather that she thinks it's better to separate them now than to have them go through the same that she did with Indou's mom. Not the brightest idea anyone has ever had, but understandable to an extent.

Yeah, that's what I think too.

Oh and thank you Miharu!

So any general idea of when the last 6 chapter's are going to be translated?

This is so cute. It makes me want:

—A series set on an all-girl Devils Island, where the worst punishment is that malefactors don’t get their choice of flavors for their milkshakes.

—A series about the French Foreign Legion, only all teenage girls, with comely Bedouin maidens that need to be kept in line by means of pillow fights.

New chapter up on Mangadex, btw.

—A series set on an all-girl Devils Island, where the worst punishment is that malefactors don’t get their choice of flavors for their milkshakes.

I imagine the characters fulfilling the punishments are basically the Spanish inquisition inquisitors

—A series set on an all-girl Devils Island, where the worst punishment is that malefactors don’t get their choice of flavors for their milkshakes.

I imagine the characters fulfilling the punishments are basically the Spanish inquisition inquisitors

Yeah, but the Monty Python variety.

"It is your job to figure out what lies behind an order..."

Ah so that is why Japan lost the war.

Lmao that credits page is too much.

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"It is your job to figure out what lies behind an order..."

Ah so that is why Japan lost the war.

I think it basically translates as “Shut up and obey the order. If you can’t figure out the reason for it, that’s your problem.”

Shoutouts to Hina for the emotional support. Nothing gets done without it, even if you have a translator and editor. I hope White Garden can find someone for those roles soon! Fingers crossed.

Handbook said once an order is executed, the legitimacy of it can be brought into question later. So they executed the order of removing Kagami, so actually they can ask about the legitimacy of it seems like to me.

Also I am confused. Aoba's name changed to Ooba this chapter? How come?

I bought a volume of this manga from Japan to support the author. Doubt it would make it to official English, which is why I'm grateful for scanlators!

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"It is your job to figure out what lies behind an order..."

Ah so that is why Japan lost the war.

They won WWI