^^ ngl the only poly ending I liked was Mona/Rose/Gwyneth because Mona and Gwyneth kinda gay lowkey
The kinda triangle where it's a ray and not a proper triangle sucks

It's not even September yet!!!

Anyway the world is well and truly unfair. This manga deserves a better publication than Comic Valkyrie, what the hell

What's wrong with Comic Valkyrie? I know it's not a high class magazine but afaik they're a common avenue for yuri mangaka who otherwise wouldn't get published to get paid. Odoro Dorothy was just posting comics on Pixiv and twitter before this.

If it was published in Yuri Hime I'd have a reason to subscribe again, more or less. lol

Wait how is Mr. Kaichou manipulating the deaths? He'd have to know the cause of death to change the target, and there's no way he's as much of a meganerd as Satsuki.

Anyway the world is well and truly unfair. This manga deserves a better publication than Comic Valkyrie, what the hell

oh my god the ribbon being tied around her leg is such a cool-ass detail

She does visit a classroom, but there aren't any corpses in it in the panel.
There is dialogue that implies she went to the classroom the next day, though.
I forgot about that detail LOL but what I said was mostly a rebuttal to the idea that Seo and Komachi are gonna cause the explosion, which sounds honestly ridiculous, unless they're trying to kill themselves dramatically.

This is why they tell you to diversify your portfolio. Don't minmax with your interests, homegirls. You need to have something to take up your time even if your #1 disappears forever.

@fauce: Japanese school year starts in early Spring so your analysis/facts sheet has holes :/
As an explanation of what I mean, you tie the festival event to why Michi lost her friends between middle and high school, but by the time the festival occurred, she had been in high school for at least a few months.

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an actual superhero...

Edit: I'm also pretty sure Seo contacted Komachi to ask her to sacrifice herself to stop the explosion or something, given Komachi's absolute lack of attachment to living. Idk, I just don't think Komachi would go along with a request to blow up the classroom if there were any conflicting requests whatsoever. And Seo definitely doesn't want to literally kill everyone in the classroom. A bad person? Maybe, but not "I will literally blow up my classroom" levels. She's probably caught on to Komachi's behavior again by now and figures that this is the best solution.

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It's been a while since I've read a manga. Can you recommend something? Besides the iconic

Cirque Arachne. NOW!!

If you've already read it or are looking for something longer, the other 90s/early 2000s stuff is also good as hell. Pieta, Hatsukoi Shimai, Voiceful, Stray Little Devil, whichever one had the chick eating her dead gf's ashes, etc.

they are literally just standing there

^ Wouldn't Bronya be in whatever region the fuckboy came from? That would make Keqing closer to a Fu Hua analogue

why does fu hua look kinda like keqing here

ライン and ロイン are quite close so I'd assume so. It's awesome when people phrase things suspiciously.

(higurashi opening starts blaring)

^ i retract this statement on account of my goddamn cursed irl friend connections supplying me info i did not want to know

Is this like... a yuri version of two otokonoko meeting in the women-only car of the train?

I'm a bit torn on this. On one hand, there definitely seems to be an issue where some of the ideas and design choices in the manga are ... not great. You brought up the use of indigenous aesthetics for "savage, bad giants", but there was also the line in chapter 11 where she says "Those who hold no beliefs, have no dogma or creed to follow, are in capable of treating other people as human beings!" which is incredibly similar to lines used by some religious groups to demonize atheists and agnostics in the real world.

Japanese media is generally not very into the idea of religion, as evidenced by fighting god a lot. I think there's supposed to be nuance in this statement, since Hinako herself more or less describes herself as agnostic, although she might not realize it. A belief is a value, and I think she fails to understand that the other chick prioritizing herself counts as one. Also like, it doesn't look like the other chick is gonna die/be defeated unless the manga's ending within six chapters, so an ideological battleground could be in the works.

I seriously thought those “Apostles’ cleaners” or whatever would be giving trouble to our cast but dang they are just there to showcase the actual damage the characters could do without their armor and defence. Elis seems hella op but there also seems to be another one from her clan? This manga is unexpectedly bomb. I’m loving it so far.

I think the other one is the/a previous giant god, or perhaps one of the gods the ancient giants warred with. Which would explain the cave mural depicting the white giant god and the fact that Elis's clan rejected her in spite of the demon girl (name evades me rn) seeming to believe that the "whitest giant" should be a respected name

Why are all these fantasy isekai always so fucking violent these days? Like no shade against anyone enjoying this particular story, it seems fairly interesting from the chapters I checked out, but I know people who equate the level of brutality in a story to its level of quality and I just don't get it.

It's cool here but it sucks absolute ass in Roll Over and Die. The difference is how gratuitous it is - this manga is actually fairly tame and most of the "brutality" comes from the art depicting characters' mental/emotional states. ROAD (I forgot the JP title, sorry) decides "yeah people have pulsating spiral gore and the climax of the first part inexplicably involves sky womb gore" for no real reason other than to be gross and traumatize the characters. Not to mention that ROAD isn't even an isekai LOL

Also from what I can tell, none of the other Big Yuri Isekai do this? Like, Menou's story has a fair deal of gore at first, but it actually lightens up as you continue. MagiRevo is completely bereft because Piero Karasu is a massive nerd and unconcerned with edge despite the pen name. The VRMMO types are firmly planted in the realm of moe, and so on.

I am a bit peeved about how indigenous American aesthetics have been copped for the "savage, bad giants," but it seems that the author mostly just didn't even slightly think about optics. People who don't live in proximity to certain issues will fail to understand how subversion of the concept is an issue.

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I think Asumi just wants to apologize for her cringe moment of going "Ok??" after being asked how the kiss was LOL

roll over and die if it was good

Edit: And yes, I do mean that this manga shares more with that LN than with shokei shojo, despite the latter having the whole "otherworlders eat shit" thing too.

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girl did you forget this encounter was two chapters long lol

Also like I feel like if it goes fwb the manga will explore why sex work is valid - most people who deny sex work as a valid form of labor believe that sex should be done for free as a display of affection or intimacy (and thus any sex work is coercive rape by default), but sometimes people just need something that is less personal with less strings attached

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