This one's title is great

The bizarre ways people read Erika based on their hatred of her is fascinating. Aya shows up on her doorstep asking her for help and so Erika begrudgingly tries to help by talking Aya through her feelings, but somehow this is none of her business and her telling Aya what to think lol. Let's just completely ignore the entire arc of the chapter showing that Erika's advice to Aya, which Aya specifically sought out, has led her in a positive looking direction. Nah she's evil somehow lol.

Yeah for months now there's been this insistence that one of them must be evil and have malice behind all of their actions as opposed to the easier explanation that they're conflicted, mentally ill and/or scared. Calling her a "bitch" and "toxic immature shit" for having feelings that conflict with each other, okay... certainly not filled with hatred that is affecting how she (and Koto even) is being interpreted.
"Manipulative"
"Selfish"
"Evil"
Next is homicidal. Pedophiliac if it's sunny outside.

It doesn't feel like we are reading the same manga sometimes.

is it an trope in people that read manga to excuse garbage toxic behaviour and pretend the character did nothing wrong??

Except nobody is doing that, no excuses, only other users discussing why those characters are doing what they're doing.
How's anyone supposed to explore the relationship between them when the moment things aren't all going well those characters are reduced to "malicious" with no chance to be developed, no opportunity to have their behaviour justified (and justified doesn't mean forgiven).
Erika is not perfect, but Aya and Koto, no matter what, are her friends. She's trying to deal with her feelings in her own way, it's not healthy to allow an obsession to control your life this much, but again, if they were healthy this manga wouldn't exist. Characters don't have to be perfect and them having multiple flaws or messing up once doesn't automatically turn them into an evil villain. It's how tension can be created in a story, being hurt or hurting others, forgiving or moving on. Sucks to see this reductive behaviour on a manga that is very refreshing to see in the yuri genre.

By conflicting feelings I mean the fact that she's helping her "love rival" despite it all because she's not the awful person that some posts here want her to be so bad, she's lending a hand to her friend whose growth got stunted out of nowhere during a vulnerable moment in her life.
Again those words she said are only cruel because of the context, and even then them being cruel doesn't change the fact it's something Aya needs to think about, she doesn't have the time to be a kid anymore. She was weaned too soon and now she'll have to grow quickly against her will.

You can dislike a character without distorting the entire text surrounding her.

None of them are evil, they're just mentally ill individuals that can't deal with their emotions now going through a situation that shouldn't have been possible from the start, and that situation directly involves the person that caused all those emotions. For Erika, this is a chance for Koto to get over it, for Koto, this is a chance to get back together with the girl she's been obsessed with for almost a decade, closure.
They'll be harming each other and themselves. It's a tragic situation where none of them can truly "win" because the moment one gets what they want, the other will lose what they want. From how I see it... Aya, freedom, Koto, safety and Erika, love.
The things Erika said, independently of their nature, are true. They are cruel not because of their meaning but because of what it means to accept them in Aya's situation, she herself understands she's got nowhere to go, she's a child in a body the law considers to be that of an adult.
No family left, no other friends that could offer her a place to stay, nobody else other than a boy that understands a facet of her situation. All she's got are two women who were deeply affected by her disappearance and never got over it. The only way she'll get a chance at being independent is with time and even then there's a chance she may just disappear again, if she disappeared once, what guarantees that what brought her back... couldn't just take her away again? I don't think that we'll be finding out so soon what took her away, and I think it's safe to assume things will explode once the cause is made clear. Was it really Erika? Maybe not. If she thinks that she had part in it, does she blame herself? Maybe. Likely Aya didn't sense this (maybe not so faint) animosity Erika has towards her until this chapter.

Erika isn't as mature as she may think she is. She's not above Koto, the difference is that the girl she likes didn't disappear and is instead a different kind of "unattainable", she's there, so close to her reach, but her sight is somewhere else entirely. Instead of moving on, seeking comfort in other things, distancing herself, she kept Koto around while her feelings got more warped over time.
She's throwing a lot of weight on a girl that got weaned off too soon, just like Koto did when her emotions got out of control.

There's no villain, only 3 girls who need to heal before they can hurt each other further beyond repair.
They are being forced now to develop their emotions and figure them out, we can't be assuming one is a "manipulation genius" or "evil" and really, the most tragic of it all is watching a girl having to grow up within months without proper support, crumbs of a safe space or a guarantee she'll be allowed to exist without an expiration date.
Was her return with a goal in mind? What were the terms settled when she disappeared? How will her memories of the day she disappeared affect the current relationship of the three?
And do they really think this will ever work?
Maybe with Koto if she ever learns to be healthier about her emotions and control them because what Aya is doing is the best for her in her current situation as she wants to have a chance at being independent, and she needs to be, most don't want to be in a cage where you have no freedom.

Yes I could be wrong about all of this if later on the author decides that there is conscious malice and manipulation behind their actions, but so far that doesn't make any sense and it's not what is being shown and is closer to a bad faith interpretation of their actions. You can harm others without intending to and it's your responsibility to accept that and make up for it.
Their actions aren't good but that doesn't mean the person behind them is evil by nature

Ideally they'd be mature and give Aya space to process what is happening, but then we wouldn't have most of this work

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I wonder where the idea of milk making breasts bigger came from other than the connection between... milk and breasts of course.

Cute how you can tell how old this drawing is just from the art style alone.

Looks very comfy, cute

Ah.

I never considered height gap MikuTeto until now, this is very good

I liked it, need more that is tragic like this

Finally stopped to read this and it was awesome

In this one I'd say that she's just top heavy and gynoid bodies tend to have a bit of fat around the hip area with a pronounced pouch and the artist tried to portray that (Some of the rolls do not make sense to me, though. There are also some other anatomical oddities). Her tummy in this illustration however is still quite sucked in and, rather than overweight, for me she's more muscular and that makes her upper half look wider which is very likely the result of somebody still learning to draw this kind of body.
However even in the original work she is still a bit on the bigger side (not necessarily overweight but by default more "mature" looking) when it comes to her structure as a whole so I don't see the issue as a bit more fat in the body is normal as the result of estrogen.

No firing your gun in the street, okay...

? She's not even fat in this what are you on

^ I've been browsing this site since I was 9~10 and I'm in my 20s now... So there certainly are a few kids here and there among us, quietly observing.

Fellow SubaNinaMomo polycule truthers... we are getting crumbs! Thank you for the upload

A bit rough here and there, but still a nice read. Very cute art!

Slenderman chameleon

Somehow I completely missed this, so cute

Adorable

They should preen each other in my opinion,

So cute, love the size difference

The expressions in this chapter were great, Takahashi's eyes going from the cutesy bright ^__^ style to lifeless and filled with disdain... So good. I really like that eye shot on page 7 in special and how tired of it all she looked on page 3.
I wonder what kind of monster is inside the teacher, or rather camouflaging as considering how it somehow assumed the form of someone that was, supposedly, digested. If it isn't a vessel then it's a being that can change its shape or capable of mentally influencing others freely, be it through more "supernatural" ways or some really weird mental trickery that works best on humans similar to eye patterns, and perhaps more adept at hunting it than Takahasi, assuming that it is capable of freely distorting itself.
I really wish I could get the raws because I have been enjoying it a lot, still haven't found them anywhere though, sad.
(I'm unemployed...>_<)

I am not sure what the topic of CisHet or Gay/Lesbian/Queer/etc differences. has to do with the romance relationship in this story...But I think its depends on the people involved and their life experience...Though yes I guess non-standard straight/non-CisHet relationship might have some more complexities/different unique experiences compared to standard romance relationships...

I don't disagree with this and from the start it was in response to a post saying this was not yuri for not following the average romance structure that you often see in the portrayal of a straight relationship in media or an allosexual gay one. You wouldn't see that sort of questioning if they were straight because certainly you could still notice the tension, positive or negative, between them.
It is not my intention to reduce things and it never was.

Even if Worm girl monster (Takahashi) lived dozens to 100+ years I consider her to be naive and quite inexperienced...Good at social interaction and human interaction + likely Smart is a yes but it obvious she/It does not know her/It true feelings due to all her/it relationships being mostly fake/artificial for survival...Honestly She/It hit the jackpot in meeting and being discovered by our awkward and Cute MC lol...If your friend being happy to help you try to get rid of dead body evidence together while meeting her family is not the start of 'true love' then I wonder what is...Our MC is not even disgusted or gross out from Worm giant girl real form killing the teacher...MC very gay for her new 'friend' lol

Agreed, she doesn't even know anymore the reason why she hides among humans and I doubt that it is because she has a mainly human-based diet. Maybe at some point she craved something more. Was she ever a hatchling?
...And that makes me wonder how old she actually is and where did she even come from, that empty space made me think a bit of outer space, a wasteland and the deep ocean but she's probably not a strictly deep aquatic creature or else she'd be dead by now from the ambience difference... maybe.
By the way, don't apologize for the 'rant', I love reading and writing lots of text on this site and I'm sure there are others who are the same. It's not like there is a strict text limit here anyway.

Also the art improved considerably in just 8 chapters, kind of cool to see that.
Still another win for the autism girls they should be kissing and/or killing other girls more

Good girl

They look so cute in this chapter it's like they're all cute animals, them sleeping was cuter than what I was expecting and the begging faces... yup I really like that.
And Kozakura pants.

(Also a moment of appreciation for Stevie257's edits on Tumblr, thank you!)

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