I feel like people are referring to "yamato nadeshiko", but I'm not enough of a deep thinker to be interested in trying to determine if that actually applies to yuri tropes (or any porn tropes for that matter) or is just off on it's own someplace.

I wondered the same thing, all that stuff happened to Asuka in middle school, then her senpai graduated and went to a different high school than she did.

Off on a tangent, but Miyuki was already in the final year of high school when she was involved with Asuka (she's 4 years older).

Oh, well, whatever. Lol I don't like Miyuki so I couldn't be arsed to look up her arc again.

Could it be there's a small mistranslation here?

They say "winter of the second year of high school" but everything they talk about actually happened to Asuka in her second year of middle school.

I wondered the same thing, all that stuff happened to Asuka in middle school, then her senpai graduated and went to a different high school than she did.

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That's true, sadly. I'd love to see that at least for the most sexual pairs (Yuu/Mari, Shizuka/Mio, Onibi/Nao). We only had Nao randomly masturbating.

I do not remember that at all, must have blocked it out for some reason lol

Found! Ch123!

Hahahahaha, that was some dedication! I remember it now, lol, it was so low-key and goofy it's no wonder I forgot about it. XD

That's true, sadly. I'd love to see that at least for the most sexual pairs (Yuu/Mari, Shizuka/Mio, Onibi/Nao). We only had Nao randomly masturbating.

I do not remember that at all, must have blocked it out for some reason lol

God, I miss Adashima

We're workin' on it :P

He's not gonna throw anyone in front of a train. But I bet he WILL slap her again or something like that. And when it happens I hope Maki opens up a giant can of whoopass on him.

this, doesn't look very promising. hope the fucker doesn't dare hurt her again

I think he is gonna hurt her again. She's wounded his pride as the "woman-getting-alpha-male" he sees himself as, and in the worst way possible: she plans to leave him for another WOMAN. That steel grip on her arm is pretty tell-tale. I hope Maki beats his ass though. I doubt the guy would know what to do in the face of a woman who is openly defying him in a menacing way. He'd revert back to the simpering little boy that he really is.

Ugh what pride? If he had “pride” to begin with he would’ve never hit her just because he had some ptsds about girls bullying him, he never acted like a man of pride so why should he now? Tazune has been so full of himself lately most likely because he only hurt women and never really actually faced someone to put him back in his place, Surprisingly.

Never said the pride was justified. But he clearly thinks of women as inferior to himself so the fact that his fiancee is planning to leave him for not even another man, but a woman, that's gonna super piss him off.

this, doesn't look very promising. hope the fucker doesn't dare hurt her again

I think he is gonna hurt her again. She's wounded his pride as the "woman-getting-alpha-male" he sees himself as, and in the worst way possible: she plans to leave him for another WOMAN. That steel grip on her arm is pretty tell-tale. I hope Maki beats his ass though. I doubt the guy would know what to do in the face of a woman who is openly defying him in a menacing way. He'd revert back to the simpering little boy that he really is.

How the frick-frack would he even find her though?!

I think the Prison Town one had to be cut short because Neji was working on something else, IIRC, not sure if Vacation Maou was victim of that too. Possibly this project, or the publication of Beauty and the Beast.

I mean we all kinda saw the "twist" coming, since she could see spirits but never saw her sister, blur de blar. But it's still a painful reveal to the character, that her sister has not only been denied entry to heaven but remains on the mortal plain as a twisted predator through no fault or ill-doing of her own. I think the real twist may end up being who it was that killed her to begin with, maybe somehow Bazu was involved before she became "emploiyed".

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it just jumped into full smut with yukkiko fucking fuwa and basically just forgetting she has a girlfriend I guess, lame.

Butt == right up against the very first and last words of your spoilers to use a spoiler bar, just FYI :)

Not sure why anyone would be surprised with smut here, she's a friggin' succubus AND it's her BFF for years who just confessed. This was never a story about deep thinking or heavy plot lines...

Meanwhile Sakura may have an eating disorder.

Yeah, the wanting to eat "bad" food, then only eating a little, then excusing herself to go to the restroom, then asking the family member on the phone if they'd had food yet.... all heavy-handed signs point to being bulimic or some other eating disorder.

Dang, remember when I groused about hating the domestic violence and even went back and linked/cited every instance when questioned and people still jumped on my case because it was all fun and games and haha slapstick and not actually screwed up domestic violence? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

I can only imagine thats not even the bottom of the barrel

Well, you're not wrong...

I got scoffed at for saying that Adachi is like a dog and Shimamura is like a cat. How can you not see Shima as a cat?? She's all aloof and indifferent at first, and then sort of vaguely starts closing the distance until one day she's there acting all tsuntsun while asking for head pats lol

Man I wish my own mother was that kind of supportive!

^ the series got licensed and is set to start releasing sometime this year

Shades, first, thank you for all of your work on this translation as well! You are a scholar and gentlewoman and you help to feed my Adashima addiction and for that I thank you! Second, I seriously doubt an official version can exceed what you've all done so I'm so grateful it's continuing here!

I forgot to say thank you! :) But really I don't do much. :)

^ NERD ALERT ;)

^ the series got licensed and is set to start releasing sometime this year

I am without luck regarding Homura this time, keep instead constantly pulling that one red haired chef chick with the frying pan.. seriously I think she's already 4 slotted and level 1... sigh

5 STAR IROHA WHEN ARGH

...seriously the only meanings I've ever seen "spook" used are A) spies and suchlike (eg. "CIA spooks") B) something frightening or unnerving, eg. "something spooked the horses".

@shadesofgreymoon already explained what the racial slur is about and where it's used. I think it's pretty uncommon these days, because 99% of people don't know it, me included until yesterday.

It originated back in the 1940s so yeah, not used much. But it pops up here and there enough to get the word banned...

^Well, I mean, I WAS born in 1979 so TECHNICALLY....

More what I meant was that I wasted the first 3/4 of my life not being who I was in part due to being raised when and where I was raised. But nothing I can do about it now but life my best life now! And continue to have the crush on Gabrielle that I've had since 1995 :D

You do what's comfortable for you.

As for me, I don't see what's uncomfortable about it. I also think that banning words never has any use. There are endless alternatives that racists can use. Ultimately it all depends on what the term really aims at

Well it's uncomfortable because I'm white and I grew up in the south around about every kind of racist hatred you could think of; homophobia too. (So imagine my family's delight learning I'd come out of the closet, heh.)

But the term "spook", I THINK, stems from the racist notion that in the dark the only parts of a black person you can see are their white teeth and eyes. Thus, they are like a ghost. It's hard to find the etymology on it online, but I believe that that is how it was explained to me like, 25 years ago.

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Really? When I think of ghosts and ghouls I think white as a sheet

I'm pretty sure I know the origin of the term but I'm rather uncomfortable discussing racist slurs, so ^^;; But if I'm correct in my thinking it kinda does come from the same place as a ghost.

And yes I agree about outdated thoughts being given more power. But it has to be done because people discover words like that and use them. Stupid, really.