tbh I'm more interested in how the author intends to continue from this, and if the narrative pacing is going to get better structured, than anything else in this one atm

The characters being fairly terrible persons isn't a major issue for me, many a good story has been told about quite awful people - my fave opera remains Don Giovanni by Mozart and Da Ponte whose eponymous MC is basically a wholly unrepentant raging sociopath - but it's another question entirely if the author has the chops to make them and their dynamic sufficiently interesting. Jury's still out on that IMO as this was just the rather rushed introductions.

WHATTHEHECK

The black lady makes me feel uncomfortable

oi, das racists >:c

^ I think secondary animal ears on top of the head- that I guess dont actually have openings into the skull - but are magic or whatever - look FAR better and cuter and not creepy.

The type of animal ear girls where they dont have any human ears but huge animal ears sweeping up in place of regular ears look a lot worse and not cute - even if they logically make more sense.

I don't mind kemonomimi high up on the head, I'm willing to handwave the implicit rearrangement of associated cranial internals; but having both those and regular human ears smacks of a bad case of trying to have your cake and eat it too and basically makes no fucking sense either anatomically or aesthetically. Also renders one pair completely superfluous.

And they wouldnt have to be a fad- you could end up with them becoming the norm from then on for 90%+ of people - just like say once we get cyber implants and mods they might for ever after be the new norm eventually.

Yeah, no. These things literally serve no purpose beyond appearances and really just get in the way (I live far up north enough to appreciate the need for warm headwear), they're the very epitome of pointless fashion trifle that's unlikely to stick around for very long in the mainstream. (And that's without accounting for the arbitrary and unpredictable side effects they come with in-story...) Cybernetics would at least have some functionality - extant real-life implants like pacemakers certainly do - be it just a personal communicator you can't lose or somesuch.

At least the removal procedure seems simple enough, which makes sense since they're basically just lumps of skin and cartilage attached to your scalp. (The post-removal bald spots are going to look pretty goofy tho...)
Hell.
Get into a no holds barred fight with those and odds are pretty good they'll just get torn off by grasping hands. Ouch.

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^ lol- I did think the whole inherit traits from said animal idea was a bit silly- I think rather than imagine some retrovirus reprogramming your brain its better to go with the whole Disney like magic - and just except 'ofcourse you will act like a cat if you get cat ears' as common sense lol.

Well I was staying away from obviously magical explanations like the Laws of Contagion and Similarity because in-universe the whole business is explicitly couched in medical-technological language. Regardless of what mechanic you handwave it with, though, it's a patently terrible idea.

Because if you start thinking it through a lot of the side effects take a hard turn into pure horror territory. Ears from basically any actively predatory carnivore species? "We accidentally a whole demographic with a greatly heightened likelihood of becoming serial killers tehepero"... particularly egregious if you're talking about something like the big cats, which are pretty much the record holders in recorded man-eater kill counts (tigers and leopards being particularly distinguished in this field), but goes for basically all felines - hypercarnivores one and all - and a major chunk of canines too. The humble house cat is really only safe for us to be around because compared to it Humans Are Cthulhu and way out of the prey strike zone - but any small rodent or bird in the neighbourhood might have some opinions regarding how pleasant company those are to things around their own size class. And dogs are, basically, wolves and a great many breeds are quite large enough to do real damage to people if so inclined - as it happens "man's best friend" is responsible for the lion's share of yearly animal attacks worldwide...

And then you have stuff like the mustelidae which are rightly famed for being stubbornly pugnacious to a fault - wolverines have been recorded trying to fight bears over carcasses (spoiler: tends to end poorly for them) and even little squirts like polecats and weasels will often fearlessly stand their ground against things far larger than themselves (people included)...

And that's just the tip of the iceberg of general orneriness in the Animal Kingdom in general and the parts thereof whose ears paying customers might want to graft to their heads in particular - a lot of herbivores aren't any better behaved either (Africa's top 3 man-killers are all such, for ex). What could possibly go wrong with introducing an unpredictable chance for such explicitly uncontrollable behavioural patterns into urban human populations...?

I was thinking - if they existed would I want them? And I think maybe yes, if not for getting some random trait lol!

Just sayin' but having both sets of ears is the creepy kind of kemonomimi and bad civilisation in general. Though more practically I'd rather not have my passing fad fashion accessories surgically grafted to my damn skull. -.-;

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Okay. I have a question.

Maybe I shouldn't ask it, for the greater good. But.

Where...do they get the ears?

I did wonder.. and given the quite rare ears they can do - Im gonna go with they genetically engineer them- grow them in a culture type thing in labs somewhere- like we do atm for simpler things.

The alternative would be too creepy for a cute comedy manga lol

I mean they apparently come bundled with some kind of weirdass transformative retrovirus that randomly gives you wholly unrelated traits, heavy-duty behavioural changes included meaning that shit's fucking around with your brain - how this mad-science BS ever got approved for over-the-counter corner-shop sales is anyone's guess.

What I'm getting at here is, the less you try to make sense of it the happier you'll be. >_>

not sure if chief is smooth af or oblivious af...

she's obliviously smooth af

She's smoothly oblivious af

Great. Now we've gone from not knowing whether she's smooth af or oblivious af to not knowing whether she's obliviously smooth af or smoothly oblivious af.

Just as keikaku.

Ashima and Sakura are like reincarnations of Hotaru and Yuma of NTR, with Ashima not being, at least so far, as manipulative. But now they are sisters so I don't know what's worse LOL Kodama knows how to create that uneasy feeling

I like to imagine their scenario got started when Kodama and Mochi met by chance in a bar and had an impromptu brainstorming session over drinks; and when they were done they gazed upon what they had wrought and lo, they saw it was metal as fuck.

Then Kodama managed to call first dibs on the concept by virtue of being somewhat less smashed. o3o

not sure if chief is smooth af or oblivious af...

MC is a coward and can't even bring to get respected by middleschooler.

TBF to her she's a rather timid person to begin with, entirely new to this teaching business and empathically not over all the bad shit that led to her current life changes in the first place ergo extra fragile emotionally. And hazing the new teacher on introduction is something of a hallowed animango tradition.

And last, we have the 3rd girl, the grow up one, Kodama in her extreme generosity decide to give her the twisted family, she is the daughter of her dad and his mistress but the mom is kind enough to let her live with them and the other daughter, who is one of her classmate. Said mistress is suposs to bea prostitute btw because why not and when Ashima get back in the end of the chapter, she kiss her "sister" because of the bad mouthing her "sister and her friends have done to her. Oh and she get bullied too but she doesn't seem to care one bit.

Oh Ashima cares all right, she's just trying to tough it out and put up a strong aloof front. Case in point her obvious anger and pain when she finds her indoor(?) shoes in the trash bin and the naked bitterness in that caustic barb she throws at her half-sister (incidentally apparently named Sakura, going by the nickname her friends use) at the end of the chapter. Note also that the bit about her mother being a prostitute is probably just a typically exaggerated rumour as neither of the sisters has so far indicated it to have any substance. Indeed Sakura actually has a tendency to go visibly quiet and carefully expressionless when her friends trash-talk her sibling which combined with her apparently genuine and personal worry over the latter's late homecoming hints she may personally not be on board with the shitty treatment Ashima gets at all, just unwilling to openly take a stand against it (and thus risk being subjected to the same ostracization). If so that'd make her something of a reprise of Shiina from Cocytus and Ashima certainly has some parallels with Kurosaki from the same... plus vague incestuous tension that'd probably make Mochi nod approvingly ofc.

Dynasty forums: now with more black bars than dubiously censored Japanese pornos!

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[yandere intensifies]

^word. It's true anyway. o3o

It's all fun and games until someone starts playing at The Human Centipede D:

Yes! Act out more yuri scenes! Then drop the acting part and just do more yuri!

"goggles on"

Vacation Maou to Pet had such an awful, rushed ending. i'm bailin' on this one y'all. gl

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Emi seemed to be quite aware of Nene's crush on Mahoro ... But it didn't seem to matter to her in the slightest ... Does it mean that Emi is not interested in Mahoro in a romantic way?

She just doesn't mind sharing; especially with qt kets
It's practically a two-in-one deal!
o3o

Another one would be -- how come all those girls she has seduced and dumped (are they dozens? hundreds??) never come back to her, either to demand more sweet lovin' from her or to exact a hell-fury-scorned-woman-like revenge on her.

TBF the impression I've gotten is it's usually Kaoru who gets dumped rather than the other way around, unsurprisingly because the other girls get peeved at her womanizing. Or at least that was the case in the grand total of two cases - Hibiki and middleschool!Shizuka - we have any actual details on, and even one of those leaves the whole breakup implicit...

Can't really see her turning down an ex who wants to reconnect under ordinary circumstances; and I guess between her formidable personal presence and the fact she's quite public about her haremtastic ways the sour ones are disinclined to start picking fights?

^And as tends to happen with Biblical proverbs (and names for that matter) there's a suitably localised rendition in probably pretty much every European language - can confirm Finnish, personally.

Probably doesn't hurt that the inspiration wasn't too hard for any random peasant to witness firsthand...

(Because, let's face it, there's no way all she does with all those cute girls she seduces is kissing... amirite?)

I mean - Hell if we know. She's such a balls-to-walls eccentric anything's possible really, but the impression I've been getting is she's more interested in the act of flirting itself than any potential carnal follow-ups. The jury's out until the narrative sheds more light on the matter though. (I'd be quite surprised if her and Shizuka didn't fuck like rabbits back when they were dating mind.)

Fairly sure from the context "gata" is Spanish for cat, I know the Italian word is "gatto".
Well.
"Gata" also means street in Swedish but I reckon that ain't it here, chief... >_>

Every now and then I begin to suspect Miki is running some kind of extended private deadpan joke on everybody.

I shall learn from this.

"Don't!"

Every now and then I begin to suspect Miki is running some kind of extended private deadpan joke on everybody.

I rather think that is because i don't like this ship

Yeah well digging foxholes like that doesn't make for fertile grounds for a discussion ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well she sure as shit ain't treating her as just another student nevermind now a pest at that.

Methinks you're too caught up in her baseline curt and blunt manner to notice how many exceptions she's making regarding Eiko and her advances.

^classic Long Runner turn-based tactical wargame series about to turn thirty soon

Hasn't she be always strict regardless of who ?

Your point?

That she is always that strict and don't try to do more than she is.

Yeah well the thing is she's a lot less strict with Eiko than she probably should be and certainly far less so than she could. If anything she's letting the girl get away with a fair amount of stuff that could potentially land herself in quite some hot water were it to become more public knowledge without raising more than decidedly half-hearted objections...

It would be downright trivial for her to simply stonewall her young admirer if she only found her a bother - but that's not what she does at all.

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