I can't fucking believe Mochi said no to incest. Where's the real Mochi, and what happened to them?

Anyway, the Hanei route gets more and more likely to be the endgame, and I'm very happy about it!

Rin enjoyers stay winning as usual. Feels good.

We're winning so much, it's like we've forgotten how to fail.

It's not even funny anymore to laugh at Prez supporters, the poor sods.

You don't know the half of it, yandere chick.

God-tier chapter. Everything I wanted from Arare and more. The sisters are waayyy more alike then I thought they'd be too. And the icing on this amazing cake, Rin shippers are winning so hard right now. Like wow! Still rooting for Pres but man, I won't be mad if Rin comes out on top, they're really cute together too. Also, that last page. I can't believe she said that to her little sisters face, omg! Especially with this being a Mochi manga. No to incest?! I'm genuinely shocked

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Also, that last page. I can't believe she said that to her little sisters face, omg! That's the toxic Itsumi I know and love!

Is it toxic? It's definitely blunt, but I think it's actually good that Itsumi cleared the air so there could be no misunderstandings.

Don't be so down-to-earth with this wacky manga! for those who want a development with the nurse, I'm sure tsubasa will go to her again for advice ^^.
And I'm not at all shocked, it's the tone of the series, we drug, use slaves, there's borderline rape in short you have to take this magnificent manga at face value in every respect.

There's slaves???? Oh man, maybe I should pick this series back up

Okay I know we're all joking about how it makes sense that they're family with how scummy they are. But I wonder how much of Itsumi's actions are from her sisters isolation driving her to being desperate. Her sister even said it herself, Itsumi was about to be driven to the deepend.

Itsumi isn't really good at anything and she's kinda dumb, but I think being a scumbag comes from being desperate for someone's attention. Even going so far to drugging her teacher to have someone. She only wants positive attention because she's only ever received negative harsh reactions from everyone around her. That's why she's calmed down since bonding with the other girls. She's gone from a scumbag to a pevert now tbh.

In conclusion, I'm a Itsumi apologist. Rin best girl

I love the way the incest ship is the most unhinged?? Or unlikely?? Least wholesome ship in a work of THE mochi au lait. But damn I really hope there’s a nice happy wholesome ending for toudou and rin cause they’re adorable

I like how the chapter was supposed to be dedicated to the little sister but instead it gave us Hanei Rin food, awesome chapter!

Oh this whole family is FUCKED fucked up, huh?

Okay I know we're all joking about how it makes sense that they're family with how scummy they are. But I wonder how much of Itsumi's actions are from her sisters isolation driving her to being desperate. Her sister even said it herself, Itsumi was about to be driven to the deepend.

Itsumi isn't really good at anything and she's kinda dumb, but I think being a scumbag comes from being desperate for someone's attention. Even going so far to drugging her teacher to have someone. She only wants positive attention because she's only ever received negative harsh reactions from everyone around her. That's why she's calmed down since bonding with the other girls. She's gone from a scumbag to a pevert now tbh.

In conclusion, I'm a Itsumi apologist. Rin best girl

Yeah, that part really stuck out this chapter (as well as the conversation with Rin, of course). It was a lot of info that we didn't really know about before, and it explains a lot about how she got to this point. She wasn't the black sheep of the family for being a scumbag (at least, not initially), she was made the black sheep by her sister's manipulation.

I can't recall if Mochi au Lait has ever had a work quite like this one. It's the kind of comedy we've come to expect from them, but with actual character arcs and real growth alongside it. It's nice to see how they've matured as artists.

Also Itsumi's sister sucks big time. I've never been happier to see a ship sink before even leaving the harbor, and I really hope it stays sunk. I wonder if it was a deliberate choice to do that for the incest pairing.

well it isn't a mochi au lait story without its incest eh?

ok i read the chapter now WOOO Rin fans stay winning

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I am confused. Is it very mochi to have an incest plotline, or is it very unmochi to not follow through with it?

I am confused. Is it very mochi to have an incest plotline, or is it very unmochi to not follow through with it?

both

Rin and President fans arguing over who's gonna win. Meanwhile me, a Ruruka backer, dying on the floor because the one chapter with them on a date went to someone else.

That was such a good chapter that I'm worried it'll be subverted in the future. This series really can be sweet when it wants to be.

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that was a surprisingly sweet and heartfelt moment in the midst of madness

I was squeeing at the phone call. Who knew that asking the girl you like if you can use them as fap material after your crazy sister drugged you can be so cute?

Yeah rereading it a few times, I was surprised by how real it felt. I cannot quantify it, but it had that right pitch of awkwardness, that combination of nothing to say and everything that young people have said to each other before, that levelled like a conversation I might have had as a youth.

Alright, I'm sold. I was hoping for the harem ending, but I am officially in the Hanei camp. That was too cute

Guys I think she might be into yuri

Alright, I'm sold. I was hoping for the harem ending, but I am officially in the Hanei camp. That was too cute

Welcome

It's genetic!

Edit: Also MaL betraying expectations about the incest by being correct - it's not that weird but you really shouldn't act like someone is entitled to someone's affection just because they're family. I despise how so much otaku media will just shove in the creepy possessive brocon/siscon and pretend it's an option or not dead and tired as a shitty self aware joke by now

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We may need a Scumbag tag for our "クズ" (kuzu) ladies.

Guys I think she might be into yuri

She explicitly said she wasn't!

Every girl she makes out with thinks that, it's annoying.

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Itsumi rejecting Arare's offer to take a bath together is hilarious, because Itsumi either got fucked by Hanei in the bath before or after the rejecting Arare.

Who knew that asking the girl you like if you can use them as fap material can be so cute?

Nitpick: it's "schlick" material! :)

Oh god that phone call with Rin is everything…
Somehow I missed their previous chapter together and just caught it going back through things, and it’s like peak romance?? Somehow, some of the best yuri I’ve ever read?? It’s just so… sweet and honest and intimate. The emotional history together they were working through was really touching and kind of painful. It’s a peak bully/bullied relationship dynamic, and the way that Itsumi was so honest about being unsure in her feelings was so genuine. I love the way they navigated through that. And the fact that she has a thing about being wanted bc of her emotional neglect, and a thing about being bullied during sex that most likely tracks back to their history together, and the trauma that she experienced… to be able to re-frame that with Rin making her feel wanted, Rin as the traumatizer rewiring the bullying, physically, into something loving and sexual and explicitly consensual…

It’s genuinely beautiful.

I’ve been noticing more and more that this story delivers some really strong, resonant emotional beats. I think part of that comes from the characteristic rawness of Mochi’s work, but I also can’t help but think of a video essay I watched once called Art, Furries, God, about how silliness, baseness, can serve as a sort of self-disarming on the part of the author, removing any sense of pretentiousness or the idea that a work should be received distantly as Art, and thereby allow people to drop their guard and engage with it more closely, and feel its message more strongly, more honestly.

There’s a certain quality in this work and in Watamote, which it reminds me of, where the comedic framing makes the emotional moments more emotional, more real, more impactful. The gay hindbrain food trash setup disarms the story so that when it delivers an emotional moment and comes back to being gay, it feels so sweet and earnest.

There’s something to be said as well about the way this started as a gimmick gag manga and has expanded from there: it evokes the shape of a genre, a shell and a scaffolding and a set of expectations, and then slowly chips away until it shatters it and repurposes the pieces into something new. It created this sense of something new, something unconstrained editorially where anything can happen if it works for the story, for the fiction, and that it won’t run up against the glass wall of genre.

It feels like leaving your comfort zone, like stepping into something new—eager and earnest and daunted by possibility. It feels vulnerable—it feels, in fact, much like you do when you’re just figuring out your way in your first relationship, and you don’t know what’s going to happen.

I think this story is incredible. And I think it has the potential to be even more. Much like the characters, I’m both nervous and excited to see what happens next.