One of the greatest series I've ever read, mayhaps. To think it took me years to finally read it, and now I'm dying waiting for every new novel and chapter.

The novel hasn't released a new volume for a year and a half. Did the author run out of ideas after Sorawa and Toriko finally had sex?

The novel hasn't released a new volume for a year and a half. Did the author run out of ideas after Sorawa and Toriko finally had sex?

Volume 9 released last year, the full english translation is coming in May (though the prepub version has been releasing parts every week for more than a month now).

Since it’s not in the same place in the manga, here’s the specific short, self contained except from the LNs where the red person first really appears. This is the first text in LN3 case file 9 Yamanoke Presence - so seven case files before where we are now.

Thanks for sharing! I guess the story works without having this mentioned as well, though it's too bad we missed the bit about her thinking it was her mom.

And you make a good point in that it might not only be this babble. I'll reread the army rescue chapter next and share my thoughts, Toriko and Sorawo do make a call from the Otherside in there.

Is volume 14 currently over or did we miss a month?

The novel hasn't released a new volume for a year and a half. Did the author run out of ideas after Sorawa and Toriko finally had sex?

Volume 9 released last year, the full english translation is coming in May (though the prepub version has been releasing parts every week for more than a month now).

Volume 10 of the novel was also announced and a preview of the cover was released.

vomit flavored kiss in a love hotel on christmas eve <3

The novel hasn't released a new volume for a year and a half. Did the author run out of ideas after Sorawa and Toriko finally had sex?

Volume 9 released last year, the full english translation is coming in May (though the prepub version has been releasing parts every week for more than a month now).

Volume 10 of the novel was also announced and a preview of the cover was released.

And it's a great cover, as always.

Kiiiiiiissssssss yes. Now fuck.

we finally made it... tbh i didnt think the manga would run long enough to get to this point. the next milestone is light novel 8 lol

I mean it depends on how you track things, next couple of cases have very important emotional progress. My joke post aside.

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I love how the artist showed Toriko's body language in this chapter during and after the kiss, the way she keeps a hand on Sorawo's hip, her tender clinginess, you know if she could she'd always be touching Sorawo

Hell yeah this was really well done. Worth the wait

If I had a nickel for every yuri couple that had a puke-flavored first kiss, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

The other ones are the idol girls from Samurai Flamenco

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If I had a nickel for every yuri couple that had a puke-flavored first kiss, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Sigh Okay, I'll bite. What's the other one

If I had a nickel for every yuri couple that had a puke-flavored first kiss, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Sigh Okay, I'll bite. What's the other one

Bright and Cheery Amnesia?

If I had a nickel for every yuri couple that had a puke-flavored first kiss, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Sigh Okay, I'll bite. What's the other one

Edited original comment with spoiler tag.

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IT'S PEAK

Okay, that's a lot gayer than the gory resolution I had in mind

...not that it makes me unhappy at all, mind you!

I remember seeing some spoilers of people talking about their kiss from the LN and it made me think it would be a bit disturbing, but honestly this was really good and definitely better than how I had imagined it. I like Sorawo's expressions too, and she's doesn't even give me a character who's cold and detached like I've seen before.

Also another thing I found really interesting in this chapter was when Sorawo's dad and grandma had Toriko's doll on the table. It's honestly hard to try and interpret the symbolism in this manga, and I think that's also intentional to keep the logic away and make it a genuine mystery. But also I have a few theories.

-Sorawo's family did something when they were in a cult and they created this connection between Sorawo and Toriko. I mean the fact that they met in the beginning on the story, not their relationship. This is why we see them "trying to take her away", as in they could reverse what they did to connect them. Maybe Toriko's family was involved in some short of a cult too.

-Sorawo's dad and grandma have turned into beings on the otherside (like possibly Satsuki or what was her name) and they have their own consciousness now.

-Sorawo's family did something when they were in a cult and they created this connection between Sorawo and Toriko. I mean the fact that they met in the beginning on the story, not their relationship. This is why we see them "trying to take her away", as in they could reverse what they did to connect them. Maybe Toriko's family was involved in some short of a cult too.

-Sorawo's dad and grandma have turned into beings on the otherside (like possibly Satsuki or what was her name) and they have their own consciousness now.

Or it could just be the red person trying to put the at the moment now present Toriko into a passive unassuming object in the area that it was showing Sorawo. Since Sorawo was directly in front of Toriko and of course knew her she was aware of her presence so the Red Person had to change the way she perceived that presence. Kinda what happened with the flowers in an earlier chapter where the other girl followed them into the other side.

Or it could just be the red person trying to put the at the moment now present Toriko into a passive unassuming object in the area that it was showing Sorawo. Since Sorawo was directly in front of Toriko and of course knew her she was aware of her presence so the Red Person had to change the way she perceived that presence. Kinda what happened with the flowers in an earlier chapter where the other girl followed them into the other side.

Yeah that's probably the most possible scenario, but these theories seemed interesting to me if they could be the case. Especially since we don't know almost anything about Sorawo's family (I haven only read the manga) and it would be cool if they are involved with the Otherside somehow, or be behind some of the stuff that happened there.
Like for example them trying to become immortal through their cult and ending up becoming creatures on that side.

I think the doll makes sense when you consider Sorawo's most recent major life event was a cult kidnapping, near execution, and then seeing Toriko almost leave her for someone else. The kidnapping forcibly dragged up a ton of unpleasant memories from her life on the run, especially her family relationships. We don't knlw much about her mom, other than that Sorawo mentally confuses it for her mom. The Otherside has also been connecting through her fear of her dad, grandma, and the cult they were a part of, to the point she has to corner Kozakura to complain about it. Meanwhile, Toriko is also trying her hardest to make Sorawo into her girlfriend, which is sort of the first rung on the ladder to becoming family.

There's a lot of traumatic imagery being laid out in front of her in this scene! The textual reading of it is the Otherside is going to take Toriko (or Sorawo) away, and that takes the form of Sorawo's dad and grandma discussing whether to give the doll to her, and with the reader's explicit understanding that Sorawo is projecting the Red Person/her mom's actions onto her dad and grandma. It speaks to one level of her fears - reexperiencing family abuse after their death, and Toriko being taken away by the Otherside. Toriko saves the day, has her first kiss with Sorawo, and does an engagement by knife on Christmas morning. Everything's coming up Toriko!

EXCEPT Sorawo's narration while she's going crazy hints at a symbolic reading of that scene. There's a fundamental incompatibility between how Sorawo conceptualizes family and how she conceptualizes a happy life with Toriko. Family and accomplice are mutually exclusive to her. She prefers the latter (even telling Toriko as much), and treats the former as a hostile presence. So Toriko being very up front about wanting to Sorawo's girlfriend is her choosing "family" over "accomplice". Sorawo watching this scene play out while through a window of a home, the very symbol of family, is expressing a more abstract fear that Toriko will be "taken away" from her because of Toriko's desire to start a family.

She has A LOT to process, except she's actively trying not to because that gives her the brain willies.

One thing that’s really well shown is Toriko’ hurt expression after she says she loves Sorawo and Sorawo isn’t able to say it back. Sorawo talks instead about having “the closest sort of relationship in the world” in a way that ignores Toriko’s feelings and is pretty rough. We tend to see things through Sorawo’s eyes and this is one time we get to see Toriko a lot more clearly than Sorawo does.