Mhmmm ... the fact that Chinatsu ended up resigning along with "all the old guard" and then refusing any further contact kiiiiiinda makes me vaguely suspicious that the "rumors" might not have been entirely unfounded, but obviously that's neither here nor there.

"No," she said, and rushed to tell Mom.

Those information gathering skills are just something else. I mean, coming right out asking insistent questions, whoa, that's some serious spy skills there ...
... if this were more serious I'd expect her to get murdered by the next chapter. ^^

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This opinion makes me think you've never seen an action movie.
Or a comedy movie, for that matter.

That entire thing is more Loaded Weapon than Die Hard; I don't think they are too wrong ... ^^

Trust me, I've been around this block hundreds, maybe thousands of times, in yuri and het, and she has no chance.

There's always that one story that bucks narrative convention. Is this one going to be it ... ?

... no way in hell.

But it could be.

Really not.

But just maybe.

Never really got the "appeal" of that mechanism, so to speak. It obviously can't work so might as well just do ... literally anything else. But somehow it's a thing ... oh well.

The theme park map was very funny, I actually had to go back and take in all the detail lol

"Maids can borrow brooms, mops, katanas and machine guns."

Obviously, when you suspect a huge conspiracy about kidnapping and disappearing boys, you waltz into the place, and announce loudly that you are going to reveal said conspiracy. Never could anything go wrong with such a well-planned approach.

???

Shopping in that city must be the most dangerous activity. Maybe the casuals murders weren't such a big deal since people die all the time in shopping malls?

Come on, you can't end this arc without the antagonists even realizing they were on the same team here ... aarrgh. What a wasted opportunity.

Better make good on that later or I'll never forgive the manga ^^;

These latest few chapters kinda gave me "developing towards a conclusion" vibe.

Godfuckingdammit.

No real complaints, except that there isn't more of it. I mean, can I pretend there might one day be a sequel about Asa going to college ... ? Okay, that's a joke; but I really want to see what Yamashita Tomoko does next. There's never any guarantees but if you create something as outstanding as this series it's kinda hard to see how your next work isn't going to be at least good too ...

My point is that Ayaka is chasing a false idol without seeing the shitty person behind it with whom she can actually fall in love.

That's a very odd take on this chapter and not at all what I'm reading. It seems obvious to me that what she really wants is specifically figure out Hiroko - heck, she basically is saying as much - so saying she's falling for some false idol or that she's confusing wanting to be somebody with wanting to be with somebody is just plain odd to me ... she isn't, and she doesn't.

Also. 98% of romance writing is actually pretty shit when it comes to delivering any sort of rationale for the supposed romantic attraction. "A meets B, there's a spark"; maybe there's some sort of "she looks hot" and that's that then. This chapter actually goes into why Ayako is attracted to Hiroko and delivers a plausible scenario that's beyond some surface nebulous fated meeting with zero substance - gives the manga a step up on almost all it's romantic-comedy-peers ...

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That can only be absolutely awful.

The series was kinda painful at times, but that pay off now is soooo worth it ...

Mh, let's have some highschooler mommy kink ...

I feared something more questionable than this, mhm.

... but calling her a "social parasite" is really going too far.

She's going along with happily murdering people and that is going too far for you? ^^;

But it should be criticised, along with any other media that deals with questionable content.

Your post contains questionable content and should be criticized. Why? Because I say so and I'm the absolute morale authority.

Second chapter felt kinda rough? Some of those panels ... like p.27, the 3rd one ... dunno ^^;

Just realized this is the first time we've seen Randa in casual clothes, does she have those threads sewn into her skin?

Corset piercings. It's a real thing. The threads aren't sewn into the skin; it's just a bunch of piercings you put thread through.

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I really expected both "cop teams" to turn up together and be really confused ...

It could be that she wasn't aware of how she's being perceived and that the prince getup is merely that--a costume for her to wear sometimes because she has the title of 'prince'. This showed when she didn't even hesitate in trying to tell Ev that she was the 'prince' while not in her prince costume.

That was badly put by me; I didn't mean the "prince's" motivation but the artist's portrayal of how "genuine" this "disguise" is. Clearly from the artist's/writer's perspective, judging by in-universe reactions to it, it's "meant" to be taken as people (again, in-universe) potentially getting confused.

Similar to Clark Kent's glasses being "meant" as a disguise that somehow works in-universe. Obviously the reader will know.

Huh, that was the worst cross dressing ever. I mean, anyway, I love this villainess stuff, when it's yuri, so yay!!!

Lol- i agree. How is she fooling anyone like that? Especially with the long hair. She looks exactly like a woman dressed up in a prince's outfit.

tbf the Japanese says "Dansou Ouji"; which literally means "prince who wears male clothes". And as far as the word is used it can be in any nuance; I'd say it's reasonably common that there's no pretense that they are anything but female, simply wearing male clothing, and that's it. So that take would certainly be within the "range" of the meaning.

But given that in-universe the heroine seems to be surprised I guess it was meant to be fooling people, if not deliberately then at least accidentally.

The data McGuffin is kinda stupid, let's be honest. There's roughly 7 billion ways to handle something digital better than "give it to some guy we don't know we can trust entirely".

This isn't love triangle, it's love trumpet.