Watanabe is basically a META AS FUCK case study in defunct reality/fiction filter.

Remember kids - never go full otaku.

Yay final CC stuff done, first time I delazified enough in one of these to get the full medal set actually. (Not that I can be arsed to fiddle with the display for those but eh...) Also got all the Summoner modules done except for Local Eldritch Tentacle RapistDeepcolor's which is merely because she still needs to be leveled up and I... probably should try to hoard some resources for if/when Saileach and Mulberry drop in a few days? Been upgrading Ops a lot recently and that's put a real dent in my LMD and Exp vidya stocks...
Gave Hot Hors Aunt her module too because she's the Cheerleader Guard who actually gets some useful mileage and while the boost isn't exactly earthshattering it's decent enough value for the money.

Also yay idol skin series coming soon, Cheetos and Aste are so going to eat up my OPs - verily a worthy sacrifice.

I'd say she doesn't even like yuri in general, just the very specific marimite corner of the genre. Which is pretty much the least grounded in reality and the least attainable of the bunch . Her ideal is 90% esthetics and 10% actual human emotions and desires.

I call her "genre fundamentalist" for a reason :P

Watanabe has been overstepping her supposed limitations as a mob from day one, really.

Self-awareness really isn't her strong suit.

^By the guy who first translated the corpus in the early 1700s actually - he got Aladdin and Ali Baba from a Syrian Christian storyteller who visted Paris. The history of the whole compilation is... kind of a story in itself and it's not like it was particularly internally consistent anyway - witness for example the framing story of King Shahryar and Schererazade being explicitly set during the pre-Islamic Sassanian dynasty yet figures like the 5th Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid (from over a century after the Muslim conquest thereof) merrily make repeat appearances anyway...

In other words people who made a living spinning yarns didn't sweat the small stuff too much. No surprises there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Troll Retainer tbh

I don't mind a good slow burn, I really don't,

Looking at your posting history - I knew the nick looked familiar - I'm going to call [ dubious - discuss ] on this claim.

^smart money's on Twitter or similar

oh god this entire page i cant even

I'm probably rather repeating myself here but Usui's approach to character comedy tickles me silly XD

But the real question is, why weren't they fighting in weirdly wide open spaces with just sand and some rocks before?

On an unrelated note the single funniest scene in this chapter for me is when Prez Midori takes one long look at Yoshioka and just plain gives up :D

Interesting that Tong Tong's mom proposed waiting a year. Probably is the best solution since they are still minors and at least in College they will have more freedom.

Probably has more to do with the fact that the CN National College Entrance Exam, aka "gaokao", is Kind Of A Big Deal and by all accounts fucking nuts in the fine tradition of the old Imperial Examinations where it wasn't unheard-of for failed hopefuls to commit suicide under the pressure.

...or get disillusioned and go on to found popular religious movements that then proceeded to start massive milleniarian rebellions that might or might not wreck the dynasty du jour, take your pick. (There might have been some structural issues with the whole system.)

Lessee if I can find it... ah, here. The "#relatable" comments from players of Chinese extraction should be illustrative of the context.

Yeah, the MC doesn't really look good in comparison with Yoshioka.

I'm reasonably sure that's entirely intentional tho. It seems to be something of a running theme in the narrative that her blinkered genre fundamentalism is thoroughly contrafinal and completely misses the point.

^must be the Shogun at the wheel kek

Well this is something: quite the whopper of a charity sale on itch to support humanitarian work in Ukraine. Popped up on my MSN newsfeed courtesy of a local gaming news site.

...people really need to make more of a difference between God and a god - all the more so in the highly shamanistic Japanese context where there's a kami just about under every rock.

>be me
>roll for The Amazing Urchin-Man
>get Tiddyfons instead

...whom I neither wanted (her visual design gives me a skin condition) nor needed (got Rosa, will siege).
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
RNG being RNG.

Actually wasn't lazy and did everything for this CC week except yesterday because 2tired, but no big thang that.

Figured I'd try to get the Summoner modules unlocked, those ought to be real handy when you need them.

Oh shit Nana-sempai's jumping onto the Screwing With Kyouko For Fun & Profit bandwagon too, girl's done for

Damn, I don't like the sound of that at all. I can feel my vanilla and wholesome hopes breaking into pieces.

Thus hath the Magic H8 B4ll shown, so shall it be.

Flee while you still can.

FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
- Ms. Tong, p much

2much Pyro
am melting
send help pls
- Eula, probably

I thought the "Yuri Must Always Be Too Pure And Beautiful For This World" club had disbanded around 2010.

Comes back up more often than bad broccoli, it seems.

Oh shit Nana-sempai's jumping onto the Screwing With Kyouko For Fun & Profit bandwagon too, girl's done for

Drop this guys, I didn't even see this new chapter that premiered. I don't want to see infidelity or lack of love in something as beautiful as Yuri. So if you have something to tell me about the series, now is the time. I know that the author used to do this kind of heartbreak plots and that in the end he somehow forces the main couple to be together in some way, I really dislike him when he does it, but I love his Wholesome works.

Fascinating.

oh no Chiaki's been infected with Touka's No Thought-Mouth Barrier virus :(

Tong Tong calling in the calvary

Tongtong confirmed more powerful than we could have imagined :o

But her reaction to the pedophilic boyfriend was pretty nuanced--not the beating-up part, but the fact that she didn't change who she was by giving up dating but was just more careful about how she did it.

Probably worth noting that the incident seems to have lowkey traumatized her, though - by all accounts ever since then she's studiously avoided any and all long-term relationships and kept exclusively to brief dalliances.

No biggie as such as she appears to find such string of transient liaisons emotionally fulfilling enough.