I wish they had made it a long chapter! Wah! I wanted to watch the whole quiz show, all the questions, and learn every tidbit of Ririka's info and find who knows what about her secrets! No fair they cut it short!

It was a dream, though, so it wouldn't be true at all, so ... what would be the point?
It may have been cute to see all of the things Watanabe does know about her, but as for secrets or anything she doesn't know, she still doesn't know it, and if it was in there, it would be made up, lol.

I'll be honest, it's been so long I spent the whole chapter going, who? Have I read this manga before?
Guess I gotta go back and re-read, I just have a vague impression of them.

You forget the biggest "problem". Most of the cast are suposs to be middle schoolers.

I'm not sure why problem is in quotes here. It is a problem. Like, I enjoy reading this, but I would never recommend this even to people that I know like manga. It's just a lot, and I don't think it's unreasonable to give this the side-eye. Plus, the Netflix Cuties controversy wasn't that long ago. The BDSM stuff is whatever, the ages of the characters feels like not only a huge barrier to entry, but a huge problem if this gets more widely known.

Agreed. Like, I can say that I enjoy this story, but can't deny that you can't think too hard about it. It's fiction, which smooths over a lot of what is problematic in real life, but the question is, why do they have to be young girls, why couldn't they be adults? I can deal with it, I can enjoy the story, but that doesn't make it not problematic, it just means that it doesn't cross that line into "too problematic to engage with" for me. It will most definitely cross that line for a lot of people when it comes more into the mainstream with an anime.

I wanted to add some actual chapter discussion too:
When I first heard Beserga's story, I was like, ew, you just like her because she's strong and beat you up? Then Leo agreed with her, and I was like, oh yeah, that's happened before and I wasn't squicked because the character doing it wasn't "evil" Lol.

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Series: does a lot of fluff
Ppl: "ugh I wish smth was happening in this plot"
Series: does literally anything that's not fluff
The same fckng ppl: "why's there suddenly stuff happening, where's my fluff"

Sorry, where was this happening? I think you're reading a different comment section than me.
I've seen the "woe is everything, I only see doom in the future of this story because now there's time travel", but haven't seen either 'too much fluff' or 'not enough fluff' comments?

In reading the recent chapters, and being disappointed with them, I've been trying to figure out what, exactly, it is that's bothering me. and I think in this chapter I've worked it out.
In most of this story, things have happened in every chapter. Even if our MC and love interest are just thinking, they're thinking and they're making decisions and make at least one move per chapter. The recent chapters have been ... just talking about things. Talking about how old she is, talking about her engagement, talking about sword training and going on ... some kind of boot camp. It's all set-up in a way that this story hasn't been thus far. We jumped straight into the main story from the first chapter, and then filled in some flashbacks and such, but there's always been something moving. Now where the story is at is, we have to explain everything, and we've really just come to a standstill.

I reckon that would have been sorted if Evie had memories of this time at all, it would have been a shortcut (actually, she should remember things about her maid, her parents, her fiance, and such without having to slow down and explain them to us anyway). It kind of feels like in my own stories when I hit some writer's block, and I'm trying to get to the next plot point, so I painstakingly explain everything, spinning the wheels manually until they catch some friction and it starts to move again. One of the major downsides of episodic writing, really, and I hope something actually happens soon.

"should have added more flirting though"
Absolutely.
The flirting was so stingy in this manga, I kind of didn't feel any chemistry between the leads.
Like, Nanami liked to take care of Kaede, but it didn't seem like much more than just ... looking after your kid sister who you can't leave alone. Until suddenly she was like "am I in love?!?" and then went into crisis mode.

Scummy really needs to rant!
If the status "Friend" has such an uneasy connotation with her then she needs to get that off her chest, in front of Mashiro

True, true.
They could bond over both being socially awkward and bad at friendship.

This chapter certainly felt like it veered off into a tangent.
Defs not how you introduce side characters and their motivations properly, haha.

It's been so long, when I saw the "sisters" chart, I thought for a second they were actual blood relations and I was confused as to what kind of manga this was, lol.

I am not complaining, this is simply my opinion. In any case, I will refrain from being negative since everyone seems to enjoy the story as it is.

Since you're convinced of your viewpoint, if I may give a bit of criticism as to the type of comment you (and others) have been making, and the lack of useful discussion it creates.
No one is against negativity. You can dislike the story, but dislike something real. Critique the actual story chapter in front of you, then people can engage with you on the merits of your criticism and arguments, rather than just on what you think the finished product may or may not be at the conclusion of this plotline.

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It's actually quite simple: at the end of the first time loop (which is the game's original storyline, as exposited by Evie in this chapter), Elsa attained the Rings of Time, went back in time, and created the second loop by manipulating events so that Evie's mom survived. Isekai!Evie has existed in this second loop until now, where her mom doesn't die, Evie doesn't grow evil, and Elsa falls head over heels for her. I suspect that Evie got isekai'd because of this original timeline manipulation in the first place, too.

However, the second loop has had unintended consequence of the infinite spawn glitch in the demon wolf ambush, resulting in Evie's death in Elsa's arms, so this loop's Elsa sought the Rings of Time, realized that she was in the second loop and tried something different by sending Evie back this time around. This way, the events of the second loop will happen as Isekai!Evie remembers them from her own experience, rather than from the game, and whatever she does in this arc to manipulate the timeline will create a third loop what will hopefully get her and Elsa past the demon wolf ambush event.

You've big-brained this more than me, lol. I hadn't considered that this return is why her mother survived in the first place.

I do love that you prefaced this complex plot with "it's actually quite simple" though, lol.

I think this mangaka is good at writing cliffhangers, but bad at resolutions, haha. This was cute, but resolved nothing.

Wowzers, that was an exposition-heavy chapter. I liked it, though. It’s interesting that Evie seems to have wound up in the “good” timeline, what with her mother not dying and father not going power-mad. I wonder what changed for her mother. Maybe it’s related to the villainess system?

Wasn't the previous timeline manipulated by the future Elsa? Not sure this timeline is the "good" one anymore, Evie's mother might not be safe this time around... I feel like that's the implication in this chapter.

Same, I get the feeling Evie is in for a very bad time in this new route... maybe not her mother's actual death since that might be a tad too dark, but definitely a bad, bad time.

My question would be, what was the purpose of the change in timeline in the first place? Evie wasn't evil, not because her mother didn't die, but because she was isekai'd, so why did her mother not die in the first place (I don't mean in-story plot, I mean in the meta that I can't see the point of it story-wise)

Saying "I'll take the 30,000 yen off your bill" really makes it sound a lot more like she's extorting the poor girl for sex.

And the shot of all the new girls at the end actually made me laugh out loud.

Japan must have the shortest summers ever that they were only able to make one plan to go to the beach the entire year, haha.
Just pick a different day?

Shipping Kosuzume-sensei and her editor is wrong. :-(

hahahaha I will try not to.....

I was also oddly confused by my feelings in that afterward.
I'm sure she must have done that on purpose because she knows her readers so well.

Dynasty comments being Dynasty comments again, I see. Telling us all how they think the story should be written, by way of paragraphs of complaining.

Maybe just ... let the story unfold, for once? If it doesn't resolve well, that's when you can say it was a poorly executed plot point, not before.

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and then somehow be thoughtless enough to choose Koyuki of all people to whine about it to.

To be a little bit fair to her, she didn't choose Koyuki, Koyuki asked her and she answered. Maybe gave too much detail, but Kaede isn't exactly mature about how much info she discloses. What came after that initial explanation was definitely too far though. She could have cut it off way before it got hurtful.

I'm amused (and a little disappointed, actually), at the space taken up for unnatural expository dialogue in this chapter. The maid introduces herself just because Yvonne said her name as a question? And then a couple of other things that would more naturally have just been ignored to move the scene on.

Since the cringe factor has gone up slightly and people are talking about it again,here's your reminder that the whole premise in which the Alpha,Beta,Omega nonsense stems from,the so called hierarchy of wolves,is completely unnatural.

The man who did the research,and later in life regretted it,took a bunch of random wolves from the wild and locked them in capativity before studying them.

Actual wolf hierarchy is two parents and their offspring,of which the offspring will split off,find their opposite,and start their own pack.

I just realised that you've written this same dumb comment on multiple omegaverse stories over the span of years, and that makes you more cringey than any story ever could be, I hope you know. Get a new hobby. Write your own story instead of the same trite comment over and over again.

Here's some other things that may have escaped your attention:

Firstly, using the term alpha - which is a real term regardless of how you feel about its origins - does not mean that it is has anything at all to do with wolves. The mechanics of this world are nothing like the much-hated wolf pack social hierarchy because there is no pack, it's based on human society and coupling.

Secondly, you're ignoring the blatant fact that it did actually happen. Someone can't base stories off of a concept because it only happened to wolves once in captivity? This is a reason not to use the "alpha" mechanic on your wolf stories, because it makes you look uneducated, but that is no reason to not take the idea of something that really actually happened and make a completely unrelated fictional idea from it.

And the fact that you go on and on and on about it, even bringing it up multiple times in the same comment section, makes you more than a little obsessed with nonsense about what inspiration people should be allowed to use to create a story.

Lol. What a weird omake. I kind of liked how dissatisfying it was.

and whatever weird shit happened to her irises

Also her hair? I spent forever staring at those diamonds in it trying to work out what kind of effect it was.

Aoi actually seems to have had a reason to fall in love with Kaede though. This whole saga makes me kind of disappointed at the lack of chemistry between our actual MC and Kaede.

Also, Kaede was so harsh. Ouch. May as well have slapped her in the face and said "how could you ever have said something like that seriously."

Little sis, you're cute but a bit dumb. Pick up the cookie bag so she can't absentmindedly eat them, lol

Well that's quite a bombshell to drop at the end of an extra lol

Unsurprising, given the seriousness of the development lately. To quote myself:

You can't do it before the end of the story though since the resolution is of course to reveal the secret princess background and make them have an official engagement or even wedding or whatever instead. And as we all know that's when the manga absolutely has to end, or The Heavens will fall from the sky and erase all of humanity.

Nobody ever can write a story that's about getting to together and then just continuing afterwards. It's either or. It's a law of the universe.

Because everyone complains incessantly on how the story "changed" and there's no more drama after they get together. There's examples on this site.