Really love the way they design their characters. It's such a neat, clean look.

A fairly "classic" development. Doubt it'll take long to resolve.

Now that's one 10/10 move ...

Seems to go for the oblivious flirt thing, but can't say it's done too well in ch.1. Oh well, it's just 4koma, quick to read.

Is this like a cultural thing?

Japanese walls are thin ^^;

Affectionate violence just warms my heart at the start of the year.

This random king power thing seems like a bit of a retcon, to be honest. Doesn't really make sense, does it?

What a stupid chapter.

I just found this hilarious, but okay. Brother gets blown up by a mine and buried, girl easily digs out a perfect skull, and the entire townfolk goes "yeah sure, that's a thing now". Topnotch storytelling right there ^^

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"If I left immediately it'd look bad."
"Okay, I guess we can sit around and cha..."
"The ONLY option is to have sex. There is NO other choice."

Not sure this is the type of manga that gets improved by, uh, having a plot ...

I don't think calling Makio nonchalant is accurate. She gives a lot of comfort and advice (often bluntly) to Asa and was rather effective in guiding Emiri during her uncertainty. Her introvertedness leaves her with a limited supply of energy for other people, but she's been kind and loving the whole time (despite her warning when she took Asa in).

None of this says that she doesn't do it in a nonchalant/casual/... way. Nonchalant doesn't mean uncaring, or unwilling to help, or anything of that sort. Emiri is (by my memory anyway) also a good example ... she just hands her that movie and then occasionally casually chats with her. She's not pushing her anywhere, she's not constantly checking whether everything works out fine, she's not persistently hovering around seeing that she does this or that. It's basically the epitome of being nonchalant about something, imo.

Doesn't have time for sex, but has time for a bath. Psssh.

This was a very parallelized chapter, echoing back a ton to chapter 1.

Asa isn't going to get Makio to act like some mom who cares when she's coming and going, or anything of that sort. But her nonchalant attitude probably also means if she really wants to stay around she'll let her - she's gotten used to her, and that was all that was required, I'd suspect.

I personally think this is the setup for Rio and bread worker girl

Two single characters in the vicinity of each other with barely any sort of interaction. Yupp, it's definitely happening.

Finally - we've reached Cancel Culture style of commentary ;)

The tag is pretty much a way to tell people at work "careful, reading this at your workplace might not be a good idea."

But that's a nonsense usage. Any reading of a manga at work is potentially a problem, unless, I don't know, you're working for an anime studio checking out potential material to animate or something ridiculous like that ...

Makes more sense to give it some more specific definition that people can then use as they deem appropriate.

Conceptually it very vaguely reminds me of Happy Sugar Life, but I don't think anything about this one was particularly well done. It just sorta gives me "okay, and ...?" vibes.

So this is actually the Ar Tonelico origin story ...

Those are some way too cheesy over-the-top dramatics ...

Nipple bombs are a thing now, huh.

Yeah, there were several times that gave a feel that whatever brought Aki to where she is was pretty bad, I feel that either her sister or perhaps her entire family might have been victims of something big.

Sheep kingdom brutally genociding wolf tribe just a generation back. Truly dark history ...

Normally I'd say this feels more like a spin-off, with Hinata as the new main character, but why call it Inko-sensei then ...

Eh, it apparently worked fine for a bunch of centuries; that doesn't come across as it was an obvious mistake from the start ...

Cute.

Mildly amusing that it's Kenzaki wearing a choker, out of those two.