almost melted into one, I'm sure it's a nice metaphor for something

relatable

When your surreal drug trip has more relationship progression than 3907 chapters of A Room for Two ...

Oh no, they don't have sex. Must be subtext.

The way Shimeji is drawn in the bottom panel of page 5 and the next page made me do a double take - more delicate and expressive than Tsukumizu's usual lumpy potato head style. For a moment there I had the feeling of a sudden shift towards some previously unseen reality in the narrative.

Woah, that’s not what I expected. In many aspects. Very much looking forward to how this is resolved though, it feels like a lot was set up in the chapter (lack of things to do, implication of her disappearing, and of course her getting lost).

That magical girl bit was quite a laugh. Fried egg power, activate!

They did it!........ oh no

Has Majime always been just a headpat away from pouncing on Shimeji? I guess she must have felt pretty vulnerable, missing her parents and all? (Not that I mind a surprise surrealist sex scene.) I wonder if this will have an effect on their relationship

Has Majime always been just a headpat away from pouncing on Shimeji?

"sometimes she looks like she's seriously trying to touch me"
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/shimeji_simulation_ch26#5

... also, last time she tried it the simulation choked, I'm sensing a worrying pattern :P

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Have you ever had a dream that, that, um, that you had, uh, that you had to, you could, you do, you wit, you wa, you could do so, you do you could, you want, you wanted her to do you so much you could do anything? - this manga

WHAT

I really enjoyed that but also just WHAT

Shijima ;-;

WHAT

I really enjoyed that but also just WHAT

Same. Just, same.

When your manga has such a deep existential crisis it temporarily turns into a novel ...

I have such a cynical view of the manga industry that I'm continually surprised by how something this unpredictable and unclassifiable hasn't been axed.

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I only recently understood girls last tour is book about an nihilistic yet somewhat hopeful view of human history.

I don't think I'll ever be able to understand what this is about. My best guess is a post modern manga about how we structure stories and myths? Either way every time there's a new chapter to read I feel like I should just lie down for a bit and kinda stay that way after finishing it

In short

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS MEAN AND WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON ANYMORE (in a good way)

Boy, remind me not to let chapters of this thing pile up. That's bad for the brain.
And as I said before, every ten chapters some weird major event happens and causes a paradigm shift in both the simulation's reality and the manga's narrative.
Majime and Shimeji's literally melty sex caught me off guard, which gives me all the more suspicions about the "prequel" long strip.
Yomikawa revealing that she, as well the Gardener and Shimeji's sister are, let's say, angels or administrators of some sort is... fascinating, and it gives room for speculation. And the way reality devolved to raw text because Yomikawa's perception is so text-based was a nice touch. Still fucked me up, though.

last edited at May 9, 2023 11:38PM

Not necessarily a good direction for this...

Nooo don't you do my girl like this she's grown so much.

Majime Simulation

Hrmm.

Praying for these two. There's already enough loneliness.

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I don't know what I expected from this series, but I certainly did not foresee Majime becoming god. Yet here we are.

We could make a religion out of this...

That might have been the most coherent chapter so far

We could make a religion out of this...

No, don't