Speaking as Himemiya Anthy's certified number one fan, I regretfully must say that I disapprove of this witch's actions.

If she wanted revenge against mankind, she should have kidnapped the prince who rescues all the girls in the world and locked him up in an upside down castle. Then wait for her Utena to come redeem her with love.

This witch bungled almost everything so far... but at least it looks like she still has a chance at romance. I mean, the blonde hasn't run away yet and is talking normally to her -- which suggests that, as long as "Eri" plays her cards right, it should work out.

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Psst, Okiku... don't look now, but... right there... two feet behind you...

Surprise! Surely no one could have seen that coming! :P

At first I thought for sure Tsukushi was going to say: "Well yeah even the fishes know that!"

Then she went: "WHAAAT!?" Oh, so she didn't know. Right, okay, makes sense.

Sexiest cheating ever.

Mom... she sure knows her stuff.

We should send her a "Best Mom Ever" mug. She deserves it.

Thank you, kind scanlating people, for reminding us what's going on with Noele since chapter 4. You saved me the trouble of searching for it myself. You're the best!

Someone print a hundred copies of this picture and paste them all over the school.

It'll be the end of Casanova Kaoru the saucy school vamp.

Such a lewd manga chock full of wholesome fluffiness and hot tension this chapterrrrr damn!

I know right? It's fricking hilarious. Asumi is the polar opposite of an innocent virgin. She works in a lesbian sexy bar. She's a platinum customer at the local lesbian brothel. She's had sex with more women than she can count. And yet here she is, in her date with a potential romantic interest, waiting HOURS for the perfect time to hold the girl's hand.

Yuri has its iron-clad rules -- and by jingo they will be respected!

Momoka is adorable. She needs and deserves some sweet tender lovemaking with Miyako.

Emma-senpai needs and deserves a few hard kicks in the ass.

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I love the butterflies.
Every panel, whatever they're doing, there's butterflies happily fluttering around 'em.
So cute.

That was a funny little chapter but how was it determined that it belongs exacty 29% of the way between ch16 and ch17? :P

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!

Also, I'm curious as well about that mysterious .29 in the chapter's number lol.

Nice!
The two things that stand out in chapter 15.5 are:
First, the Japanese readers were eagerly and impatiently waiting for some serious CHEATING!!! Which finally happens in chapter 11. I'm endlessly amused by how different they are from the readers here, haha.
Second, Fuuko is honestly and sincerely in love with Yuni! Her thoughts while Yuni leaves the hotel room make it plain. The author is right, this is something major! I admit it: all this time, I suspected she had a secret agenda of some kind. I'm sorry I misjudged you, Fuu-chan!

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You fail at yuri forever.

I find it hard to believe that the other employees aren't shipping Jiang and Shen.
If I was a girl working at that company, they would be my otp.

Oh wait! I've just read next chapter in Spanish and it turns out that the other girls really do... oops, ahem, never mind (spoiler).

Wait a moment... "Elisha?" Wtf Ed!? What happened with Eri-chan???

Hinoka has begun to learn her true power. Tsukushi is doomed.

What, you ever thought she had a chance? Come on...

Yo protag so useless, even her sexbots return to their mother's home.

Thanks for this comment. I laughed so much.

It's funny cos it's SO true hah hah hah hoo hoo hee hee.

This series is great on its own, but the Chads have the greatest value-added credits in all of yuri manga.

I'd say. Their oneshots even have continuity now!

¿No les molestó un poco que hicieran tantos cambios a la historia original? Al Kirk lo convirtieron en un gentleman perfecto capaz de sacrificar sus sentimientos para que Sam sea feliz con otro amor. A Mon al final la quieren mandar a Inglaterra -- en vez de simplemente dejarla en su nuevo empleo como secretaria de Tee. El hermano de Tee, que tenía estupendos diálogos con Mon, desapareció del guión. Y la gran escena final de la reconciliación entre Sam y Mon (que incluía a Tee provocando a propósito los celos de Sam para empujarla a actuar) también desapareció; la reemplazaron con una carrera contra el tiempo en que Sam debe alcanzar a Mon antes de que esta se tome un avión.

Lo más enojante es que todos los cambios parecen destinados a eliminar los momentos de humor y gracia. En la novela el humor es omnipresente, los detalles cómicos están en todas las escenas (sean románticas o dramáticas o lo que sea) y le da un realismo muy grande. El guionista de la teleserie obviamente no gusta de ese tipo de situaciones así que cambió las cosas para que todos los grandes momentos de la historia sean de una seriedad dramática absoluta. En mi opinión se pierde mucho.

This is Donguri KoroKoro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HyqUM8gagY

This is Omocha no Cha Cha Cha:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sms_4643H-w

This is Furusato:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1q9xMANXuE

Thank goodness it wasn't me who was asked to sing in that karaoke box. The only Japanese children song I can sing is Torero Kamomiro (the Japanese version of the Italian children song Torero Camomillo) -- and that's because they featured it in an episode of Kuragehime and I thought it was so funny that I went and learned it.

i have never particularly been a fan of the manga trend toward overly-long, overly-descriptive, on-the-nose manga titles (“A Story About These Characters, What’s Going to Happen to Them and How It’s Going to Turn Out!!”), and this series is a good example of why not.

That mixer was always a bit of a fakeout anyway, and at this point it’s so far in the thematic rearview mirror that we had to be reminded that it ever even happened by a side-character callback. My point being that any title for this one that doesn’t communicate “lovey-dovey domestic bliss” is so outdated as to constitute false advertising.

i think at least half of it comes from how most of these stories start out as oneshots. And for those the title makes perfect sense, it says right on the tin what you're getting into. But then when a story like that gets picked up for a serialization they keep the name bc it's the same work/to make sure it's recognized as related thus creating said issue

You're quite right about that. I recall reading the first chapters and thinking it would be at most a one-to-maybe-three chapter series. I wouldn't say that this has been notably inventive in its storytelling, but the characters are so charming I don't mind if they keep fluffing it up indefinitely.

Haha, the mcs were retconned quite extensively, weren't they? Especially Natsuko! Looking at them before and now, it's kind of like comparing the beginnings of Virgins' Empire and the present state of things.

I laughed a lot at the chapter where Rika recalls their first meeting and she... well, she basically tells Natsuko: "Hey, rereading the first chapters, you were a total Casanova, huh? A master womanizer! It didn't even take you an hour to throw me on a bed and bang me! Gee, I wonder how many hundreds of girls you have seduced before me?"

Then a panicky Natsuko, after denying that she ever was a player, explains the terms of the retcon to both Rika and the readers. According to this new version of the story, she just looked cool in the first chapters because she was desperately trying to hide her nervousness and incompetence -- and it was pure dumb luck that she did a great job of it! The new canon is that she was a goofball from day one!

Personally I don't mind at all the retcon -- as I like how the manga is slowly turning into something like a second A Room for Two -- but I nevertheless find it worth a chuckle that the author felt the need to write a whole chapter just to justify herself. Hee.

"gather love with you"
"moon is beautiful"

subtle this is not

Keeping in mind that the author of this is the mangaka of Kimi wa Shoujo, I think we should praise the admirable restraint she has showed by not having Tsukiko bang Hinata silly in the first chapter...

luinthoron posted:

...wait, how did I manage to miss chapter 4?

Wait, what was that about the moon? ^_^

Tsukiko means "moon child" ^_^

Also, one Natsume Sōseki had a thing or two to say about the beauty of the Moon and what you could convey by alluding to it.

Just thought I'd mention it. ^_~

Sex is easy. Sex is simple. Sex is fun.

Love is complicated.

I guess Miyako and Nakano still have a way to go before they can deal with the fact that they're completely in love with each other.

In the meanwhile, Nakano will keep pimping Miyako. Just to help her with her bills, of course, out of the goodness of her heart.