Plus, Matsuri did everything on her power to get Sayaka pissed enough to get punched by her. She just never expected Yuzu to throw herself in the middle.

This. Sayaka wasn't even trying to punch Yuzu in the first place, and while her violently losing her shit at Matsuri is hardly commendable behaviour it can't exactly be claimed to have been unprovoked as the latter was going out of her way way to push her buttons.

Not seeing how snapping under deliberate provocation is somehow grounds for declaring Sayaka an irredeemably abusive person. Anger management issues perhaps, but Yuzu's whole goal is to try fixing her obvious stress problems anyway.

Romanticizing abusive relationships again. Poor Sayaka, it's not like she just punched someone on the face because of her immense insecurities and internalized homophobia, let's try to help her now too.
Because abusers have reasons for their actions, so let's try to understand them, help and fix them while suffering and while they don't even want the help.

...how the heck is it an "abusive relationship" when the violence was directed at an outside party. (That said third party decided to not take offense is their business.) The tensions within the relationship are of a completely different character.

Aaaaaaand my ship sank....

"There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today."
- Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, 31 May 1916, off Jutland

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Bears tag where o3o

I like that little loliloli already

ART.

I was paying attention. You're just not understanding where I'm getting at, I'm not even going to bother explaining it.

You talked like her suffering due repercussions for that assault & battery was some kind of automatic given, which obviously isn't the case.

I don't expect Sayaka to get off scot-free of what she was doing she going to have to face the consequences of her actions. She going to get some kind of punishments for the actions that she took, like I don't know like suspension or kicked off the student council.
(I'm not familiar with punishments in Japanese schools)

Were you not paying attention or something. She isn't going to face squat unless someone actually reports her, and for now none of the people aware of what went down have a reason to do so.

The school cannot magically detect the incident unless someone present reports it. Which for various reasons they're declining to.

I thought magic could sense any form of violence in the school. Faulty magic sensors, I say.

Hey, lowest bidder.

Everything's going the way I planned!

whoa calm down Yagami

If the intention is to express otherworldly beauty in English, then "angel" is a much better simile/metaphor than "elf" or "fairy."

The point being that "fairy" is the established and readily recognizable translation for a relevant Chinese expression. Whether Nan Xiao uses that specific term or a different one (possibly some niche geek version, idk) I couldn't tell you of course.

Are they just gonna let Sayaka hitting another student get swept under the rug? I mean, if she gets more out of hand, they could just keep her quiet with that. I'd assume the school is still strict enough to suspend / expel violent students.

The school cannot magically detect the incident unless someone present reports it. Which for various reasons they're declining to.

Reminder that this is China we're talking about. Not only is it the prototypical East Asian "Shame Culture" preoccupied with appearances but also a deeply corrupt totalitarian police state

You should take this to the café, pal. Most Japanese people who travel to China, or who live and work and go to school in China, say life is pretty much the same than in any part of Japan. Where there are differences, they speak favorably of China ― like the enormous amount of resources they poured into protecting their people from Corona-chan and the extraordinary results they have already achieved: while capitalist countries are being gutted and ravaged by the disease (only in Italy, there have been more deaths than in all of China since the virus first emerged) and seem unable to react to it with anything but feeble token efforts, in China the epidemic is under control and deaths of patients have stopped. Ryo Takeuchi released a video last week explaining how the Chinese achieved this; it's in Youtube, you might want to take a look at it.

I'm sure my words inspire you dozens of things to say and scores of arguments to adduce. That's fine. The café awaits you with open arms: go tell the people there.

Just sayin' but nothing you wrote even had anything to do with what I wrote. :|

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and it sucks that Nanaki just wants to be Kanade's number 1 gal pal. Disappointing.

why do people keep taking this blatantly unconvincing claim at a face value seriously

my main gal just shooting down every and all ships in one fell swoop, just a god damn carpet bombing, efficient as fuck, there were no survivors

I was at Kure, in '45...

Is going to be so satisfying when Sayaka finally accepts and embraces her lesbianism.

And after only thirty chapters!

God! This has got to be one of the most idiotic manga series I've ever read
Just everything about it is soooo fucking stupid

Thank you for this deeply analytical :contribution:

Wait... This isn't the same mediocre manga I expected to read judging by the title... WTF is this?!

It's MACHINE CODE. The Meibot revolt is nigh.

...you know now I sort of want to see Onibi and Kaoru have a bizarro conversation along these lines. Should be pretty interesting, what with the former's inimitable ability to suddenly take the topic way out into the Twilight Zone and the latter's nigh-imperturbable "ufufu" shield - unstoppable force and immovable object sort of thing. :v

What a dramatic friendzoning

Nanaki doesn't do things by halves. o3o

Wait, are they at a boarding school where having your own computer, in a four person dorm, is forbidden? That seems ... Rediculous? Insane and likely to breed contempt for the rules, in general, more than anything else?

Reminder that this is China we're talking about. Not only is it the prototypical East Asian "Shame Culture" preoccupied with appearances but also a deeply corrupt totalitarian police state - a mode of governance that strongly encourages a facade of adherence to both the Party line and the various rules and regulations as an outright survival trait, and very little real internalised respect for any of the above because most people full well know them to be a sham (also a survival trait).

Why do you think the country has major corruption scandals with alarming frequency and the regime has to semi-regularly shoot egregiously corrupt middle-rank bosses who were caught with their hand in the cookie jar pour encourager les autres and to give the impression they're at least trying to do something about it?

Meaning in this context chances are the school authorities don't actually give a flying fuck about enforcing those silly prohibitions (unless given some extraordinary reason to put on the pretense of a crackdown) and the students know this perfectly well.

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A Chapter Where Matsuri And Mei Facepalm Both Internally And Concretely Because Yuzu Dumb
:v

Not like Nanaki having... strong emotional outbursts was new. At least this time nobody got hit with a school bag.

Also p sure Izumi was this close to calling bullshit on that whole painfully transparent "very best friend" thing but knew better than to agitate Nana further under the present circumstances.

Onibi stop accidentally into Diet Kaoru

...on second thought don't, Weird Otaku Diet Kaoru sounds fun.

i feel like this manga was trying to be deep, and say something profound, but never really said anything at all

#TooRelatable :c