Momo can make this quick if she bares her abs and puts Shamiko's hands on them.

^ Shamiko is incapable of not feeling up Momo's abs.

^^^

Shamiko's huge accomplishment was, before and after Sakura's core, simply staying alive for so many years in the jaws of multiple curses and illness and becoming a more than decent human being rather than a warped, shattered wreck. The more we learn of Shamiko's and Momo's pasts, the more amazing it is that they are such wonderful, vibrant people.

That's why I actually began to weep when the cat Sakura made her little speech and decision to support Shamiko. Heartrending, inspiring, beautiful.

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Her name is Shadow Mistress.

^ I'm actually falling in love with Foxey (so Riko is the current name?). She reminds me of my third girlfriend, who was a riot.

This series sometimes brings tears to my eyes in the ways it shows how people in tiny, mundane interactions try to stop the ancient war. It's a long damned time since Babylon.

It would be nice if Momo would take more chances and Shamiko would stop this "mortal enemy" crap. They strike me as a couple who won't get together until they're in imminent danger of losing each other.

Momo becoming a magical girl at 5 was a tragedy. Poor thing.

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^ I have a different threshold of judgment for cowardice, I guess. Seems to me that if Momo really was a coward, she'd find reasons not to keep in contact with Shamiko at all, all things taken into consideration. Cowardice is more of an umbrella term. Momo is just counter-productively timid and defensive, but maybe that's a definition for tsundere. She has few resources for courage and uses the ones she has badly, but I don't think that's the same as cowardice. I used to think it was.

As for Foxey, Momo doesn't know that she's at all worthy of trust. Foxey (Liko/Riko/Reeko/Leeko/Leekoh) trolls in a way that's inscrutable for Momo. I do think she's one of the best things that's happened to Momo, in terms of expanding understanding of the world outside of her sad little world.

As for Momo's age, Holy Crap. She was in early childhood when she became a magical girl. What misery.

Truth be told, I'm not equipped to argue these things in an absolute sense. I'm just going from my reading. The love and lore goes deeper than I dig.

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^^^^ I don't think it's fair to call Momo a cowardly tsundere. She's just a teenager experiencing first love. A 17 year-old (?) orphaned war veteran, socially out of joint in the first place, who finds first love with (1) a girl and (2) a demon. She's afraid to show her cards romantically and, like almost everyone else, gets caught up in others succeeding where she chose to fail, as with Mikan and Shamiko chatting and the rose incident.

With Foxey, it's a real predicament, because only loyalty to Sakura and Shamiko and a precarious living situation keeps Foxey merely pranking Momo rather than moving toward killing her. Trusting Foxey about anything would be stupid, on Momo's part.

Plus, her real overtures to Shamiko (like the pitiful first date) have fallen into the Oblivion Ocean.

All in all, though, Momo is exactly like most other people when it comes to love. Inept, defensive, vulnerable, confused. And she's in love with an adorable moron who insists on calling her an "enemy" whenever intimacy is too close.

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^ It's hard for Momo to trust Riko, and that's wise, but Foxey has Shamiko's interests at heart. Momo needs to know when to listen carefully to her.

Whatever happened to Lilith, she deserved it.

Communique from the Good World

CRRRAAAAAAACK

They're switches.

I like this little series about tsundere Madoka, though I like the first, Rebellion one best.

Sooner or later

^ I read somewhere that the Japanese phrase translated as "come to like you" is actually romantic in implication, like "become attracted to you". Don't know, though.

This is one of my favorite artists. All of her stuff is great, especially the Madoka.

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If you think about it, if Madoka had been tsundere rather than a dere dere pink plushie, the story would not have happened.

This series and manga saved me from political nausea, this week. That's no small thing.

Beautiful.

Momo really loves Shamiko, from the beginning.

I actually like the fact that with the obvious exception of Uchi, Tomoko's friends accept Shizuku. They seem to know that both Tomoko and Shizuku benefit from this junior/senior relationship.

^ Oh, so that's what Sayaka was doing! I kind of assumed there was a missing page. But it's so cute that I didn't care.

In that movie, the credits were rolling when Madoka and Homura were being cuties rubbing the cheeks together and the word "Luminous" popped up in the credits.

^^ ThatAroAce: The agony of the really jerky and socially distraught Tomoko is a classic of horrific cringe, but nothing that comes afterward makes sense without it. Just grit your teeth and read up to the turning point at ch. 69. The anime is wonderful, and watch it, but read the manga.

The subject of this particular piece - Tomoko's relationship with her kouhai Shizuku - is absolutely dependent on her relationship with her angelic upperclassman Imae Megumi, who she gets to know in the chapters going up to ch. 69.

The yuri content all consists of the erotic currents running between teenaged girls, lesbian or not. It radiates in all directions, most of which probably won't turn into something real, but it's very natural and the mangakas are great about not baiting or yanking chains. Just read it.

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^ It's impossible to understand and appreciate what comes before ch. 69 if someone doesn't read the earlier chapters. The formative subplot involving Imae Megumi has a lot of primary development in those earlier chapters, as one serious example. Also, a lot of the characters who become really important later on are introduced throughout the first part, first as background noise for Tomoko's inner socially anxious hell, then as real characters who actually developed from the start. There's no way to know what the school trip means if you don't know what she went through.

Do NOT skip the first part of the series. Just don't. In other words, don't.

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Oh man, that's so sweet I'm gonna die