Thanks for this, Daphie. The story is nothing really remarkable, but you always do good work, and it’s solid enough for adding a little variety to the Dynasty offerings.

But in the afterword, shouldn’t it be “Kamio-sensei blowing everyone else away with her,” etc.?

We’re not quite at the “Kamio-sensei blowing everyone” part of the festivities, I suspect, if indeed we ever get there.

LOLL, I didn't realize I made that mistake. It's a funny one to leave in though, hahaha! I'm happy you think this manga fits in a little cozy corner here :)

@princess_daphie, I love this work and hope you continue to translate it but would love to see more of Destruction Lover. Yes, DL is bizarre and difficult to follow at times but that's why it's cool. It also has a mysterious 'witch' character, similar to WtS, which is why I love them both.

Oh yeah, I'm not dropping that one either, I love them both, and yeah it's hard to follow, but I'm doing my best to make sense of it, haha

I'm happy you think this manga fits in a little cozy corner here :)

Absolutely. This makes a nice companion piece to Season of Alabaster—some of the same character types, but very different protagonists and an overall different feel.

By all means, please keep your eyes peeled for more manga series with smoking hot onee-chan nude models.

Okay doctor, give it to me straight
Am I dumb, or the art explanation and motives that everyone was talking about during the competition were kinda too vague and senseless. Or am I the only one who just doesn't get art.

Amane has some good Ara Ara energy going on, I approve. And Rei has been a queen since her student days, noted.

Okay doctor, give it to me straight
Am I dumb, or the art explanation and motives that everyone was talking about during the competition were kinda too vague and senseless. Or am I the only one who just doesn't get art.

Having spent a couple of semesters at an art school, from what I gathered, inventing good-sounding BS about your artwork is part of the process needed to stand out from among the rest. I never actually understood it myself, but when I (a computer science major) simply mimicked other art students, my grades immediately went up, so there was that.

Having spent a couple of semesters at an art school, from what I gathered, inventing good-sounding BS about your artwork is part of the process needed to stand out from among the rest. I never actually understood it myself, but when I (a computer science major) simply mimicked other art students, my grades immediately went up, so there was that.

Thank-you for validating my existence, kind stranger

Amane has some good Ara Ara energy going on, I approve. And Rei has been a queen since her student days, noted.

Okay doctor, give it to me straight
Am I dumb, or the art explanation and motives that everyone was talking about during the competition were kinda too vague and senseless. Or am I the only one who just doesn't get art.

Having spent a couple of semesters at an art school, from what I gathered, inventing good-sounding BS about your artwork is part of the process needed to stand out from among the rest. I never actually understood it myself, but when I (a computer science major) simply mimicked other art students, my grades immediately went up, so there was that.

A little more seriously, and at the risk of being boring about it, I’ve been around a lot of art students, including when they’re writing artist’s statements, and it’s just true that different people have various modes of communicating. A handful of exceptional people are both highly expressive through their art as well as verbally articulate, but a lot of people who gravitate towards visual art often express themselves best that way rather than with words.

That said, there’s definitely a whole line of art-crit buzzwords and verbal smoke-blowing that does little more than signal to others that the speaker is a member of the academic art-world tribe.