My personal theory is that this is a "stable time loop." After growing up and learning that Seto fell in love with a man and got divorced, Nanasawa went back in time and took on the identity of Sasaki. Unbeknownst to her, Seto isn't interested in "Sasaki" either, likely due to being heterosexual, and had already met Sasaki before Nanasawa traveled back in time.

While Nanasawa met Sasaki in Chapter 3 and is thinking about her in Chapter 4, it's possible that Nanasawa forgot about Sasaki before going back in time, especially if Seto never gave any indication of being interested in other girls. Under this theory, it's also likely that Sasaki will end up learning things about Seto that Nanasawa never realized, such as why Seto never got together with Nanasawa.

While there's no real way to make the concept of going back to an abusive girlfriend work, it might have been a little more palatable if the story had taken the time to show that Serina did, in fact, miss Kanon (apart from the crying after running away, which could be interpreted any number of ways), such as by showing her talking with "Aoi" about Kanon and actually talking about happier times. As it stands now, Kanon's just the woman who threw the remote control at her girlfriend for no reason, and nothing in the story helps with that extremely negative first impression.

We did get a number of her convos with "Aoi" translated, which are exactly about that - showing that Serina still cared about Kanon.

Most of the social media posts that show that Serina still cared were shown after the reunion.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/to_meet_you_again#9

Before that, there's the slightly vague "I want to meet her" post on this page.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/to_meet_you_again#4

My point is that it might have been nice to put a little more effort into building up how Serina feels about Kanon and perhaps show more redeeming elements to Kanon.

In response to KawaiiSuka, that's a realistic way to look at it, but the ending seems to be framed as a happy ending, with her overriding any concerns she has.
"I can't believe it. What are you, crazy?"- "She went that far because she loves me." Serina's refusing to doubt Kanon.
"I'm scared"- "I'm happy. She's precious." She doesn't care about her worries, only about how she feels in the moment.
"I'll just get screwed again"- "This time I'm sure it'll be okay" It's a bit of unwarranted optimism with regards to an abusive relationship.
"Even my friends told me to ditch her"- "What do the others know about us?" An abuse victim disregarding what others say and only caring about the abuser.

While there's no real way to make the concept of going back to an abusive girlfriend work, it might have been a little more palatable if the story had taken the time to show that Serina did, in fact, miss Kanon (apart from the crying after running away, which could be interpreted any number of ways), such as by showing her talking with "Aoi" about Kanon and actually talking about happier times. As it stands now, Kanon's just the woman who threw the remote control at her girlfriend for no reason, and nothing in the story helps with that extremely negative first impression.

It seems to me wether or not you're a NEET is a straight forward question. Do you have a job? Are you in training to get a job? Are you in school? If the answer is "no" to all three questions, congratulations you're a NEET.

EDIT: Shoot I forgot about housewives. I guess that would count as a job, I might be ticking people off with that though. I'm not totally up to date with PC terminology.

That sort of thing came up in It's Tough Being Neeko, where one of Neeko's old friends claimed to be a NEET, but it turned out she was actually a housewife.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/its_tough_being_neeko_ch02#7

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We're up to thirteen tags, is that a record?

No, unfortunately. Many works with sex scenes have various specific tags for the kinds of sex involved, as well as NSFW. Works with "taboo" pairings like teacher-student, incest and other ones also have tags for those. Otherside Picnic has a lot of different genres, but that doesn't mean it has the most tags of any work on this site.

It's nice to see the scanlations get up to where the anime ended.

Personally, I liked the way the anime ordered the parts it adapted. The series ends with Kaos finally making something worth publishing and coming into her own as a manga artist. I don't know if they'll ever make a second season, but it's a good place to end the anime if they never make another season.

edit: kanoko is the biggest bitch in all 7 continents and 195 countries

I think that's an exaggeration. She's somewhat misanthropic and is jealous of Mitsuki(in the latter case, the feeling's mutual), but for the most part, she doesn't even act on those feelings apart from asking Sumika to abolish the schwester system if she becomes Lady Blume(and even then, she realizes Sumika won't do it). She isn't half as bad as Goeido.

As nice as it is to see the Nishizumi sisters on the same side, I always thought Miho found it a bit awkward to be on the same team with Maho, whether as her commander(she can't bring herself to call Maho "Onee-chan" in front of her teammates), or as her subordinate(in Phase: Erika, Maho insists that Miho think of her as a commander first and a sister second while they're around the team.)

I dont think I can accept them being all wholesome and cutesy without them acknowledging their fucked up situation. Like something is gonna give at some point right? There is no time to be tsun-tsun after the fucking apocalypse.

I agree. I think Girls' Last Tour did a better job of underscoring the bleakness of the post-apocalyptic world despite the levity of Chito and Yuuri's banter, even though the bleak part became more obvious toward the end.

What's this supposed to be a parody of?

Oh shit we ramped up FAST. I was kinda hoping SOMETHING would change, but no. Very sad ending.

Whoofa.

I'm guessing there's one more chapter, since there's one last item on Sara's list.

Ah, so this is the Yagate Kimi ni Naru AU where Touko finds out sooner what her sister really was like?

My thoughts exactly. I wonder how Touko would have reacted to learning the truth if Mio had still been alive.

Which characters are these? It might help if we had character tags for this series.

As Hubert says during tea time, "As a humble servant to Her Majesty, I sometimes envy the status she has given you." Technically, he's talking about Byleth's role as Edelgard's confidant, but it's not hard to read romantic jealousy into it, given that he confesses his love to Edelgard in their A support.

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I'm glad that Minami and Harumi found out that Azusa is Azurite within a few chapters of the meeting at the mall, rather than drawing this plot point out too long. I'm looking forward to seeing how things develop from here.

The more problematic aspects of the setting aside, I'm not a fan of two-parter series, especially for a setting like this. They should have taken the time to build up the main characters relationship and do worldbuilding, which would have taken several chapters, at minimum.

I watched the dub of the anime, and found I enjoyed it a bit more than the first time around, when I watched it subbed. I was more able to appreciate the "slow burn" progression of Adachi and Shimamura's relationship, although the somewhat more dysfunctional aspect of their relationship, particularly Adachi's insistence on not making any friends besides Shimamura and Shimamura not really being aware of the depth of Adachi's feelings for her, still became evident around the double-digit episodes.

Oddly enough, the dubbed version of Episode 12 doesn't seem to be available on Funimation. Is it not out yet, is it missing due to an error(the dub's missing for a couple episodes of Jojo's- one for Battle Tendency and two for Battle in Egypt), or did the producers of the dub take Nagafuji's advice and decide not to air the last episode so it seems like the anime would never end?

EDIT: I just saw Episode 12 become available. Maybe it was an error, after all.

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This reminds me a bit of Asteroid in Love, mainly in how Mira thought Ao was a boy until they met again in high school.

is the manga just gonna follow how the anime went?

I think it's gonna follow the LN more.

That seems to be true from what I've noticed, since the order of the cases matches the order shown on the TV Tropes recap page. For example, the ninja cats case is after the case in which Toriko and Sorawo rescue the US forces, but the latter was at the end of the anime, after the ninja cats case.

I got into the series through the anime, but while I enjoyed it, I personally find that the manga/light novel's order of events makes significantly more sense. I'm considering purchasing the light novels, but I might start with Volume 3 or 4 and go back to the first two later.

Lol with the over the top asshole men in this universe but YAY for the yuri fantasy battle! I've been waiting for this since I've heard of the novel, in fact I think we discussed the title when it was announced right here.... did I make that post? can't remember, but yeah sexiled is like ... not bad but ... ughhh xD

I'll call it Exiled Team from now on for convenience ...and yeah what up with those MMO clothes she's wearing? let me guess...+20 int or something but designed by some guy lol

Yeah "Sexiled" sounds like the name of a strip club in some edgy early 2000s M for mature game heh

I personally thought "sexiled" refers to people's roommates kicking them out of the room so they can have a significant other over and have sex with that person.

I also found the sexist party leader to be a bit too cartoonishly over-the-top, which was one reason why the light novel never really appealed to me, either. It also doesn't help that the exposition about how long they've been together is delivered in a bit of an "as you know" style, in which two or more characters talk about things they both know.

This was a fun series. I might have liked to have seen it go on a bit longer after the main characters became a coupl, but it's still a fairly good ending.

One thing I enjoyed was that the unemployed protagonist is portrayed sympathetically, as someone who has to struggle against depression and work to get her life back on track, rather than simply being dismissed as a loser.

Out of curiosity, where are the Volume 2 extras? I noticed the uploader skipped from Volume 1's extras to Volume 3's.

The dude should have known from the start, they are sleeping in different beds. Hahaha.

I've actually heard that this is relatively common for (happily) married Japanese couples to do, with only 29.2% of couples polled in the survey in the link below sleeping in the same bed.

https://tokyofamilies.net/2017/11/japanese-couples-sleep-in-separate-beds-seldom-kiss-each-other-but-many-are-happy-in-their-marriages-says-new-survey/

Then again, the article does have some things that strike me as rather surprising, such as how many couples never kiss; I'm aware that the Japanese refrain from public displays of affection, but I find it a bit odd that so many couples don't kiss at all.

Honestly I feel like a lot of people sleep on different beds just because it can be uncomfortable to sleep with someone, especially if they roll around a lot or something

Incidentally, my parents sleep in separate rooms, despite still being happily married, because my dad snores.

By the way, there's a typo on Page 7; Nana's mom says "I can still remmeber the two of you playing together when you were kids"- "remember" is misspelled. Also, it's a bit strange that "Mom" is capitalized when talking about one's Mom ("Sorry about that, Yukako-chan. My Mom's just being weird.")

The dude should have known from the start, they are sleeping in different beds. Hahaha.

I've actually heard that this is relatively common for (happily) married Japanese couples to do, with only 29.2% of couples polled in the survey in the link below sleeping in the same bed.

https://tokyofamilies.net/2017/11/japanese-couples-sleep-in-separate-beds-seldom-kiss-each-other-but-many-are-happy-in-their-marriages-says-new-survey/

Then again, the article does have some things that strike me as rather surprising, such as how many couples never kiss; I'm aware that the Japanese refrain from public displays of affection, but I find it a bit odd that so many couples don't kiss at all.

I wish they upload the next chapters and volumes, i have found them in russian but i don't underestand a word xDDD

You can always buy the official english translation by Kodansha on Amazon or on their website. I think its up to Volume 8 now.

Volume 7 comes out on May 18. I don't know if the Japanese release is up to Volume 8, although I personally suspect the series may be getting close to the end given how Volume 6 ended.

Was Sakura the one Rin called a "looker" in the first book? Been too long. Also (puts on anorak) it's a scooter, not a moped.

Yes, even though it was actually Volume 2, Rin described Sakura as "a beauty," but Nadeshiko as "a soft blob."