I love how exaggerated this is, just taking the "disaster senpai" archetype to its most logical absolute extreme and letting the shenanigans flow

Also love how Ichigo's image of her wasn't just shattered; it was broken at an atomic level, setting off a nuclear explosion and killing millions. The sheer derision in her thoughts is kinda terrifying, yet wholly deserved, lmao. Can't wait to see how ridiculous this can get XD

Also, the backstory with the other senpai is really interesting, I hope she shows up again at some point...

Is it just me, or does anyone else think Mariya looks a lot like Katarina from Hamefura?

Ooooh, now this is an interesting twist... I wonder if this is a Little Red Riding Hood situation where the demon killed/kidnapped the real Dahlia and is impersonating her, or if this is a situation where Dahlia has been a demon all along, in hiding among humans to live peacefully? Hoping it's the latter, honestly, but I'm intrigued no matter how they opt to handle this.

Honestly, as someone who usually doesn't enjoy reading about toxic relationships and characters, I actually weirdly liked this one?

Like obviously it would be good if they both communicated, and the way both are like, trying to control the other in different but equally fucky ways isn't great, but I think the key thing that makes this one work for me over other toxic dynamics is that it's at least mutual; both are on equal grounds even if they themselves don't realize it. If it had been just the one girl forcing the other, I would have said burn it, but that this goes in both directions and both hold equal power here, makes it weirdly compelling to me. I would still hate to actually deal with them IRL, but idunno, this works for me somehow.

Chapter 23's punch also seemed kinda sketchy, but I was able to roll with it with the understanding the author is weird about this stuff, but what the actual fuck is Chapter 32. I don't like to get all persnickety about perfect morality in fiction and stuff, but the presentation here was just, kinda uncomfortable. All the girls saying Minami should break up with someone for beating her up are right, honestly. The fact that Iori didn't even apologize at the end and demanded one from Minami... Kinda making me hope these two are on the path to a breakup, instead of just keeping going with this dynamic.

What's worse is that Minami expressed some valid concerns about her relationships, and Iori's response was to get violent, instead of, idunno, hugging her or something? So much for her being a safe haven in comparison to Shizuku.

At least with Saori and Shizuku, it feels like both are equally capable of dishing out and taking the violence; doesn't make it a perfect dynamic but it feels like, balanced at the very least? With Iori and Minami, the age gap was one thing, but the abuse from the older party suddenly throws that into question too. Eurgh. Think I'm gonna take a break from reading this for a bit.

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Wait... the heroine chick called for familiars and summoned three fire dragons??

They call her "Diana" but it must be short for Daenerys Targaryen.

You just blew my mind.

Rereading this, I think this was a happy ending for Rika, too. She's been unable to move on until the end. She knows she's sending Big Imari to Little Imari, and she's promising not to tell lies again. I doubt she physically abused her Imari, but it's also clear she's the one who got Big Imari fired as an OL, and probably partly by lying.

Yeah. Certainly a bittersweet conclusion for her, but I think certainly the healthiest. It's clear at the end that she realized there was something wrong with her behavior and that she was bad for Big Imari, and did something about it. It doesn't make up for the rest, but it shows she wants to change, at least. I think she made a fantastic villain for this story, but the small bit of humanization at the end was an interesting and also welcome choice.

Iori punched Minami. Minami like, directly says so. Iori actually hits Minami pretty often, people here on the forums complain about it all the time. The author doesn't seem to recognize the disconnect between the "This person is from an abusive household" backstory and the "people punch each other for slapstick" humor.

Ahhhhhh. Oh dear, I guess I should brace myself for the rest of this, then ^^;

There's no mistranslation. Iori punched Minami offscreen for suggesting it wasn't a good idea to go out with her. She has a bruise near the mouth.

What's not clear there?

Ah, so it was offscreen. I guess that would be the occam's razor reading, but between it being offscreen and the context abuse had already been brought up previously, I thought I must have been missing something or the dialogue was off somehow, or any other interpretation that would line up better. What Heavensrun said about the author just being weird about that in general, makes it make a bit more sense now, though.

Caught up on this yesterday, and I still adore it! Love the buildup of the new leader as all menacing and stuff, like she starscreamed her way to the top, only to reveal she is fiercely protective of Miyako and the one most on her side in all of this was incredibly heartwarming. (Maybe even had/has a crush?)

On the other hand, the more we hear about Ayako's ex, the more genuinely awful she sounds, and the more Hato's own protectiveness makes sense. I don't know if I want this lady to show up again for the sake of catharsis, or for her to stay away so we don't have to deal with her rancid vibes in person.

The corpse is just a corpse (lol), no relation to the overarching plot whatsoever!

Ahhh, alas. XD

The "Emperor", as we know, is actually a woman, so she's got this secluded spot in the palace where she can walk around as a woman without anyone noticing. Obviously, the heroine, through the power of protagonism, stumbles right into her.

The woman in the first two pages of ch2 is indeed the emperor, and also the same person who gave MC the fluffy cloak!

Yep, generally speaking. We put a TL note in ch1 about this already, but in some cases jiejie is used to flirt, just like used the same way as unnie and onee-chan. It's especially popular in Chinese wlw circles.

...I may be stupid. That all makes a lot more sense now, thank you!

Glad to see more of this one! I wonder if the other idols are indeed shady, or if it'll take a route like Maitsuki, Niwatsuki, Ooyatsuki; where they seem initially shady but turn out to have been on her side all along. Albeit, retiring from the idol group is a biiit less extreme than straight-up dying, so...

At any rate, loved seeing more of the antics (and I related way too hard to that ADHD comment) and her becoming a posthumous fan. Also kinda enjoyed how creepy that one panel of her looking over her shoulder was - a nice reminder that for all the silliness, she is still an otherwordly spectre now, with all that implies. I quite like tensions like that.

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So I'm reading through this, and currently on Chapter 16. Kinda confused by the ending; did I miss something, or was there a mistranslation? Like, I can't tell if the last panel is implying Minami got hit by the sister, or by Iori, or neither. Looking back through the chapter, no actual violence has been shown from either of them despite the plentiful threats, but then there's that that like, mark on Minami's cheek that I can't tell if it's a bruise or just her blushing for some reason. Given everything that went down in like, Chapter 8 or 9 or so, it feels like kind of a weird implication, but given no hitting was directly shown, I'm wondering if the translation is off or something.

That was an interesting encounter. Wondering who Jeijei is, and if the person we encountered was indeed her, or our protagonist's poor eyesight getting in the way. I feel like I missed some crucial context to make that interaction make sense, but I enjoyed it all the same.

I’m wondering if she was faking it or if the “debuff” from her soul and body not being integrated fully just has a bad effect on her eyesight

It's the latter! That's why she keeps coughing and can't see at night lol

On another note, MC was transmigrated into this mission world through the body of a suitable corpse, so the higher her fusion levels, the more she'll grow to look like her original body

Don't tell me the corpse she transmigrated into, is the body of the lady the Emperor loved before?

That would cause some... drama, to say the least.

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This was surprisingly wholesome for how lewd it is... I hope we see more of these two!

This is so wholesome. Can't wait for more!

For now I'm shipping mc and the heroine. The Empress is nice too, though.

Seconded

There was one I saw a while back, involved a lady moving into a new apartment, only to find her landlord was living up in the attic? And one of them was like, a former idol who had retired just recently, though I don't remember which one.

Maitsuki, Niwatsuki, Ooyatsuki

Thank you!

Time to play "Is this an uncritical depiction of lovebombing, a critical one, or am I just being grumpy and overthinking what's supposed to be a comedy?"

Ironically, despite the 100 Days manga having a lot more blatantly questionable stuff, I think I like that one a lot better because there is the genuine feeling that both parties are on some level interested in each other, even if one of them is deep in denial due to her internalized stuff. Here, it just feels like Mai's being pushy and creepy and more-or-less completely disregarding Renako's wishes for friendship, and Renako comes across as genuinely stressed and miserable on their "lover's days." Honestly kinda reminds me of something similar that happened between a friend and their ex; just, red flags for days. I think I'll keep an eye on this in case it gets better, but at the moment, I'm just getting a really uncomfortable vibe here.

I will give Mai that like, her whole thing of "why can't lovers and friends be the same thing?" is a good outlook on stuff, Renako clearly has some stuff to work through about that, but that doesn't make Mai's actual behavior any less pushy. One of those cases of a manga portraying the main relationship so weirdly that I sincerely hope Renako ends up with literally anyone else, (maybe Ajisai? She seems like she'd actually respect her boundaries some) even if it's probably never gonna happen given the setup thus far.

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Worldbuilding was created so gay people could engineer their own universes with physics and cultures that allow for otherwise-unimaginable exercises of homosexuality, and so this is the grandest application of the fantasy genre. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

I concur!

I hope the small lettering on the "fin" and all the open-endedness means this will get a sequel. "A Story About A Not-So-Lonely CEO And Her New Secretary" or something like that. Even if not, this is an imperfect but still pretty decent ending, even if I desperately want more.

There was one I saw a while back, involved a lady moving into a new apartment, only to find her landlord was living up in the attic? And one of them was like, a former idol who had retired just recently, though I don't remember which one.

This was great, but way too short! I hope there's more on the way...

Imagine being a parent and finding out your daughters are in a romantic relationship. That'd be weird as hell. Like, they're in a relationship, they're gay, and their partner is their sibling. Triple whammy.

I would read a manga with that premise tbh. Nicely blended drama comedy about a mom finding out about her daughters and trying to adjust to that, played lightly overall but also getting into serious issues about how that would impact things and societal views on incest (justified or otherwise) and the like.

May I ask to a direct link to the post? Navigating twitter is a pain when I don't have an account ^^;

Sure, I don't know why I didn't do that in the first place.

Thank you!

I love this premise so far! Hoping it has a good blend of hijinks and serious stuff to balance out. And as others have said, I definitely think it's possible to have a functional ghost/live romance, so hoping that's the route this takes overall.

Thanks for hosting this.

For those wondering what direction it'll take, there is an earlier version up on the author's twitter, before it was picked up for serialization. It's mostly cute and a little melancholic. Though it also wasn't very long (this first chapter already adapted a quarter of it while adding quite a bit extra) so we're all in for surprises.

May I ask to a direct link to the post? Navigating twitter is a pain when I don't have an account ^^;

I like ghost yuri, but I don't want to be honey crush'd again. It's too sad.

Honey Crush'd?

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I quite like this so far, but to be honest I do think the time limit does hurt it. I know we all joke and moan and complain endlessly (and with good reason) about manga that take forever to get to their plot/relationship developments and drag things out too much, but on the flipside, this definitely feels too rushed to me. One moment we're processing a confession and worrying about stringing her along, the next we're dating and dealing with jealousy, then we're worrying about sex and consent and deadlines, and then we have the whole hospital thing and the bad ex showing up. It's all a whirlwind, and I feel like it's ultimately to the detriment of the relationship. Still looking forward to seeing how this concludes, but I really wish it had been given more time and space to grow.

I'm a woman and if someone that I'm dating do something like that, if she is a woman, obviously I have enough strength to stop her in the act (not in the case if senpai is a man), what we can see is that Takagai is worried about what is happened with Shiina, it doesn't look like Takagai is scared about what Shiina will do next, it's obvious that she knows she can stop her if she wants

I think the issue isn't about whether or not she could stop her if she needed to - it's that she shouldn't need to worry about that in the first place, and that kind of thing is inherently going to put some level of strain on the relationship.

Unlike some, I'm not going to comdemn the manga for depicting this kind of messiness, and honestly real life relationships aren't always gonna be perfect either. I do get the impression this is being taken seriously, even if the manga's rushedness works against exploring the implications as thoroughly as I would like.

Warning: Manga character manifesting non-optimal behavior; do not attempt at home.

Bahaha, so much this. Do we need warnings that everything we read is fiction and only a bare-bones representation of reality, not actual messy reality in all of its complexity?
I thought just by engaging in a story in the first place, we'd already agreed to this "it's not real, take everything with a grain of salt" contract.

Don't get me wrong, it's good - great, even - to discuss morality as it relates to real life - we should absolutely talk about how fiction isn't an excuse for acting a certain way.
But we should also be clear that a story isn't going to show the nuance of everything, it's just going to show what it's telling the story about. Is this story about an abusive relationship? No. We can talk and be thoughtful about these things, though, without hating on the story.

If it was hardcore on questionable things and pretending that they aren't wrong, then I'd understand the outrage, but being so angry about things that are just basically hyperbole is something I just don't get.

Seconding all of this,

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