Howling at Remilia's ominous prophecy being recontextualized from an observation on human mortality to "you're going to fumble your girl big style".

(As far as "M dies of M" in AFiEU goes, I always figured Aya had written it herself, given its preoccupation with Tengu and newspapers on top of the bad writing.)

Not the fucking bag fumble bro

Reimu you fucking idiot

(As far as "M dies of M" in AFiEU goes, I always figured Aya had written it herself, given its preoccupation with Tengu and newspapers on top of the bad writing.)

Given how it presents tengu and specifically weekly magazines (the same kind the story was supposedly written for) in an overwhelmingly negative light, albeit also shadowy and powerful I suppose, I'd kind of reached the theory that Akyuu was messing with her by submitting such a trashy story.

Bonus points if the thinly-veiled references to real people provoked someone into coming after Aya.

Ooohhh that got me... the spice... and there's so many chapters still left in the volume...! I'm loving this.

I thought from the name it was gonna be the final chapter of this doujin, I was so wrong man.

Anyways, I'm really curious on how the next chapters will play out after this. I don't know if they'll end it with Reimu and Marisa still being friends, or Reimu finally realizing that she's in love with Marisa and confesses to her.

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Reimu you utter imbecile.

Given how it presents tengu and specifically weekly magazines (the same kind the story was supposedly written for) in an overwhelmingly negative light, albeit also shadowy and powerful I suppose, I'd kind of reached the theory that Akyuu was messing with her by submitting such a trashy story.

That's also possible. Aya accepting any garbage that had an Agatha Chris Q. byline and portrayed herself as an evil genius would fit her MO, but I also wouldn't put it past her to write terrible fanfiction flattering herself and attach a real authour's name to it for the cachet.

Anyway, thanks for the translation! Was looking forward to seeing this after the raws were published.

I agree that this bag-fumbling is frustrating, but I think we're on the cusp of something great here.

My prediction for the next chapter is that Marisa will get sick, since she's basically flying away in the middle of the rain, no umbrella or nothing. Reimu will have an internal debate on whether to leave her alone or go to her house and take care of her and ultimately will choose the latter option because she's too worried about her. Marisa will act standoffish but eventually Reimu's kindness melts away her bitterness and she thanks her, causing Reimu to realize that she's in love with Marisa

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NOOOOOOOOO

It feels like everyone was putting pressure on Marisa to embrace her feelings, but only Remilla knew that Reimu would have her own hurdles. I also almost hate how much I love Marisa's fumble. Doing her best to make a grand show of her confession is so in-style for her that she was absolutely doomed by Reimu's uncertainty.

This is absolutely my favorite ReiMari story. I hope it continues on after their proper confessions. I want to see the cute incident-solving couple T.T

The reaction to this latest chapter is honestly just embarrassing. Reimu didn’t show “uncertainty” and Marisa didn’t “fumble”. She confessed honestly, knowing rejection was possible. Reimu clearly shut it down. That’s fine. Calling it a “fumble” or framing it as Reimu being unsure just reveals how many people don’t see Reimu as her own agent at all. She’s treated as a prize Marisa has to get to, or some idiot that’s just not aware of her feelings. Not as someone who can simply… not reciprocate? Especially since she never had a clear “I love her” moment like Marisa did? What really pisses me off is that the story itself set all of this up too.

Regardless, kudos to the author. Now comes the interesting part where we wait and see whether they’ll go the standard “Reimu realizes her love” route, or actually have the balls to say that rejection isn’t a failure to be fixed and people aren’t obligated to reciprocate your feelings. ( super radical idea, innit? )

NOO NOOOO NOO NOOO </3 WHYYYY

T - T

The reaction to this latest chapter is honestly just embarrassing. Reimu didn’t show “uncertainty” and Marisa didn’t “fumble”. She confessed honestly, knowing rejection was possible. Reimu clearly shut it down. That’s fine. Calling it a “fumble” or framing it as Reimu being unsure just reveals how many people don’t see Reimu as her own agent at all. She’s treated as a prize Marisa has to get to, or some idiot that’s just not aware of her feelings. Not as someone who can simply… not reciprocate? Especially since she never had a clear “I love her” moment like Marisa did? What really pisses me off is that the story itself set all of this up too.

Don't get it twisted. We're calling Reimu a bag fumbler because we as reader's know her reason for turning Marisa down (in prolly the worst way for Marisa lmao) is because she assumes things will be different between them after. (We are also dogging on Reimu because she literally instantly regretted it, might I add.)

Nobody is treating Reimu as a prize i don't get how you come to that conclusion. Everyone is calling her a fumbler because she literally fumbled. This isn't a negative on her character, stories exist to allow characters to make flawed decisions. But when everyone knows what the correct path is as viewer's you can't be surprised when people call her a fumbler for doing the possible worst response to Marisa's feelings lmao

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The reaction to this latest chapter is honestly just embarrassing. Reimu didn’t show “uncertainty” and Marisa didn’t “fumble”. She confessed honestly, knowing rejection was possible. Reimu clearly shut it down. That’s fine. Calling it a “fumble” or framing it as Reimu being unsure just reveals how many people don’t see Reimu as her own agent at all. She’s treated as a prize Marisa has to get to, or some idiot that’s just not aware of her feelings. Not as someone who can simply… not reciprocate? Especially since she never had a clear “I love her” moment like Marisa did? What really pisses me off is that the story itself set all of this up too.

This feels like a somewhat bad-faith reading of the reaction. Sure, in a realistic situation, you can read Reimu's response as a normal rejection of the confession. From a narrative standpoint, though, we know this is a ReiMari series and have seen Reimu struggling with her own feelings and wanting to keep the status quo despite them. That is, in my opinion, why she won't even let Marisa finish her confession: Reimu is unsure if she can reject her properly.

And, to that front, Reimu's response is a fumble. Denying Marisa's desire to get her feelings out already makes things difficult, but then she tries to stop Marisa from leaving, really trying to drive home the idea of just burying it and remaining friends, but without giving Marisa the space she would need to sort out that outcome. (Honestly, I think Marisa was even prepared for Reimu to just reject her feelings. The response she got was the worst possible outcome for where her mind has been these last several chapters.)

Marisa also fumbled by trying to make a big show of her confession. She did all that work to make it a special moment and left herself all the more vulnerable to the heartbreak. All these factors combining is why the ending is such a knife to the gut emotionally.

There's rejection and then there's "I don't even want to fucking hear about it" lmao, I think calling it a fumble is justified even if she doesn't want a relationship for real.

They are gonna have to rename Reimu to Fumbler of Paradise in the title cards. All-time fumble.

The reaction to this latest chapter is honestly just embarrassing. Reimu didn’t show “uncertainty” and Marisa didn’t “fumble”. She confessed honestly, knowing rejection was possible. Reimu clearly shut it down. That’s fine. Calling it a “fumble” or framing it as Reimu being unsure just reveals how many people don’t see Reimu as her own agent at all. She’s treated as a prize Marisa has to get to, or some idiot that’s just not aware of her feelings. Not as someone who can simply… not reciprocate? Especially since she never had a clear “I love her” moment like Marisa did? What really pisses me off is that the story itself set all of this up too.

Regardless, kudos to the author. Now comes the interesting part where we wait and see whether they’ll go the standard “Reimu realizes her love” route, or actually have the balls to say that rejection isn’t a failure to be fixed and people aren’t obligated to reciprocate your feelings. ( super radical idea, innit? )

I think you're missing the obvious implications from earlier chapters that Reimu also harbors romantic feelings for Marisa. Chapter 11 really drives that point forward as she gets to the point of actively daydreaming of Marisa smiling at her, as well as becoming more conscious of how some of their behaviors around each other can be read as romantic. Even this chapter during the date has her blushing as she contemplates how important Marisa is for her (she is blushing pretty hard and has her heart skip at the bottom of page 21 when Marisa leans on her). She doesn't understand her feelings, and the work makes her confusion of her relationship with Marisa clear at points.

Also, this wasn't a traditional rejection but Reimu just telling her to stop in an attempt to keep things the way they are when it isn't possible anymore. The scene ends with her realizing what Remilia warned her about as she wishes for Marisa to stay with her, as she's actively trying to have Marisa ignore her own feelings and not even get the chance to confess.

A plotline of realizing rejection isn't a failure to be fixed could work if this was a work that demonstrated that the love is one-sided, but it's been clear for a while that Reimu holds romantic feelings too.

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Forget Chapter 11, Mero practically spells out the premise in Chapter 2 via Remilia. Reimu doesn't know how to deal with her feelings and is much less willing to seek out or listen to relationship advice from her friends than Marisa is (and Marisa is pretty reluctant in that regard herself!).

And like, look at page 39 of this chapter! Reimu is realizing that she was completely mistaken in Chapter 2 - she can't, in fact, just let go of Marisa. Reimu is not afraid of confrontation or speaking her mind; this is partly leaning on Reimu's established personality from the canon works, but I think it's established well enough in this manga too. It's precisely because she cares so deeply about Marisa that she can't give a clear rejection, clumsily tries to avoid acknowledging what's happening, and ultimately (and uncharacteristically!) breaks down in tears when Marisa refuses to play along.

These two are SO good at communicating, girls. Maybe the best to ever do it

So excited to see an update...agh back to waiting...
Can't wait for Reimu development - I think it'll look pretty similar to Marisa's or at least parallel it

what if i cry

YURI DENIED ?!?!?? ❌❌❌❌❌

Istg these two are haunting me in my DREAMSS

I was not expecting Yukari to be the one to speak with Reimu. I guess she has to step up and be a mom eventually.

Also, I really do appreciate when doujins give me an outlet for my Okina hate.