Simple but nice.

What was the plot again?

"world harsh and cold, tiddy soft and warm" owo

That's the plot of real life.

Warning

Oh, it's that "I don't want a happy ending." series again. Not reading it.

There's actually a happy ending in this one, though.

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This oneshot is pretty baffling. It's like somebody took five pages from a fully fleshed out manga story, replaced the last panel on the last page with an explosion, and called it a new story.

I'm not sure what the point of doing things like that was.

This was a fantastic way to subvert the standard blackmail trope. I loved it!

Can't wait for the last chapter.

Is psychosomatic muteness due to overstressing oneself from anxiety really a thing?

I've heard of people who are so anxious they can't get words out at times, people who lose their voice from stress for a bit, and people who choose not to speak (for many reasons), but her case seems like none of those situations. Even when she's by herself in her own room she can't speak. That seems odd.

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By The Way, did you know? this author has a previous yuri work called Takane no Hana wa Usotsuki desu, it's similar, even the adult looks a lot like Sei (I think I've mentioned this before in early chapters)... So I have that as reference of how this story might end, but I doubt Flowerchild would pull a copy and paste so I'm also expecting a bad ending.

She has an even earlier work that isn't listed on either Mangadex or Dynasty Scans and exists nowhere in digital form called "Hungry for You: Endo Yasuko Stalks the Night".

It's a pretty weird vampire yuri with comedy elements; very dissimilar to this manga except in art style. Leads look fairly similar to Aya and Haruki (though substantially different personalities).

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Yesssss. I love this manga so much that I ended up buying the series in Japanese just to look at the images before it was translated beyond chapter 2.

Very happy it is back.

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I like this series a lot for some reason. Most stories don't resonate strongly with me emotionally, but this one does, which is really weird because it's not remotely relatable for me.

I was very happy with how this chapter played out. Hinako has some love-esque feels here and only slightly denies them to herself.

Hang on a minute, if they're mock-battling each other, doesn't that mean our heroine loses either way? If she loses, she loses the bet and has to leave. If she wins, Lady Claire doesn't make the cut, whereas Rei DOES have to make the cut in order to win the bet. . . . wouldn't that mean they'd be separated?
Unless it's a round robin of some sort . . . I'm kind of assuming two rounds of fights, each eliminating half so that from 20 you go down to 5.

It's been a bit since I last read the LN, but if I remember right there's basically 'style points' in the voting. Flair and skill as well as winning is important, and the points are what matter rather than fundamental duel outcomes, otherwise it would be vastly unfair based on people's elemental skill types.

Yeah, based on the WN and LN, honestly it doesn't seem like winning is strongly considered at all - it's about the skill shown in the battle.

This is probably because it would be unfair if, for example, the two most powerful people got matched up and one eliminated another even though they both would be top 5 normally.

This oneshot had some serious April Fools' energy to it, had to double-check my calendar... but nope, seems official to me. :D

Yeah I was thinking that too.

So the secret to weight loss is being depressed and obsessed with something while neglecting everything else
Good to know.

I mean, I can personally vouch for this. Turns out if you eat nothing, you do lose weight (and not all of it is water, just most of it).

I wouldn't recommend it though.

Dear god, this chapter was fucking great. The feels and the whole confrontation just feeled so liberating.

True catharsis.

Strongly agreed. I got a nice cry from it and a blanket of sadness to wrap myself in.

moving schools is so dramatic at that age, huh?

Depends. I hated school and had few friendships, none more than superficial until maybe last year of high school. And even those friends I eventually left without a word (though, I was surprised that two of them did track me down and attempt to reach out).

I am sure several others in the community here have had similar experiences.

Fantastic, this is the ending I needed.

Volume 2 (chapters 8-14) are available now officially translated in English.

They are better quality than the fan translations of those chapters (which are also up to 14 right now on other sites) and clarified some questions I had.

Late June is the official Volume 3 release in English with all 11 remaining chapters.

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I know the gag humor abuse of Tei isn't great morally, but a lot of it still manages to be really funny to me. Maybe because I was also really socially awkward but not THAT socially awkward and treated badly but not THAT badly. This makes it like an absurdist parody of myself in high school, which somehow makes me laugh.

Did they have to put a whole panel dedicated to the chest of an 11 year old?

You mean the lack of chest? I don't know, I actually really thought this was a step up from most manga (moderately depressing). They actually tell the underage character a relationship is inappropriate, and don't continuously sexualize her (with the exception of that panel, which is supposed to be a kind of reveal of her age).

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Spoilers for Chapters 1 through 12ish with a hint of 15.

My guess based on context clues and Ruri and Pure's conversation is that:

In the original timeline, Pure and Akira met at a later time (college most likely). After dating for a time, they fell in love and got engaged to be married overseas. However, tragedy strikes (sounds like cancer but could be something else).

As she dies, Akira says that she wishes she could have known Pure in high school, so that they could have had more time together. Pure takes this idea and runs with it, somehow acquiring access to Ruri/Sumire's time machine, and leaping back half a dozen years into Akira's past. She then attempts to find her and rekindle their relationship. This is where Chapter 1 starts.

Worth noting that in this timeline, Ruri seems to act more decisively, perhaps spurred by his conversation with Pure. His actions and goals seem borderline insane, going so far to ask Akira "Don't you wish we had never been born?" He seems determined to ruin his parents' relationship before they fall in love, thus saving his mother from the heartbreak that leads to her death.

Some of this is guesswork. It is worth noting that Pure's memories get lost the further she alters things, so the most accurate things she says about the original timeline are right at the beginning when they meet. After that, she slowly starts thinking she was delusional and loses certainty in everything she's said (though she can remember saying it).

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I've read four dog collar Yuri stories now. Two of them were pretty decent and relatively wholesome.

The other two were Her Pet and Bondage Play. I feel like reading those two scarred me.

Time skip ending incoming after they reunite 5 years later after the move or something. Why does half the yuri end this way?

Maybe I'm a jerk, but I think the author does a good job showing that while Honami likes the MC, she also keeps herself very busy and often doesn't have time for her. The MC's thoughts and memories are all of being alone for a good reason.

Hajime and Kei are both loners who like films. They've got more in common.

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To be honest, we all come here for the fiction that half the women or more in these works are lesbians.

Whereas the reality is that when you flirt with or crush on a hot girl or a girl with a great personality (or both) is that this happens 80%+ of the time.

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Credits page suggests this is about a different couple each chapter, which is kind of disappointing, NGL. This first couple is great.

Fuck yeah, I love the “slightly evil cold lady gets her heart filled by the bright innocence of sunny, positive girl” trope. Put that shit into my veins.

Could not agree more. Take a box full of this and put my heart in it, so it can be continually fed those feels.