I'm super confused about the usage of the word "Straight" in this.

Like, I get it when stories use it for girls who aren't straight when they just haven't realized that they're gay/whatever, but this woman has literally been in a serious relationship with another woman for a full month, is explicitly willing to have sex with said woman, is not in the closet or otherwise trying to hide her interests and there's no implication what so ever that they're just "pretend dating."

And yet both characters somehow consider her a "straight" woman that only men have a chance with?
They're both clearly aware that the "straight" girl is entirely willing to date and sleep with women just from a personal desire to do so, how on earth do you even rationalize thinking of such a woman as "straight?" It doesn't make any sense!

Is this next-level useless lesbians? Is this what it means to go beyond? Useless Lesbian 2? Plus Ultra?

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I was waiting for Yui to drop the -kun thing. Play pretend game kinda hurts my feelings =/

Technically, and contrary to popular belief, -kun is not actually a gender exclusive honorific.

Huh.
I honestly expected Tazune to handle that a whole lot worse than he did.
Not saying he was being a shining beacon of human decency or anything, but my expectations were somewhere around "He'll probably pull a knife on her" so he definitely did better than I expected from him.

Every year, hundreds of people die because of Ave*gers spoilers.
This has been a cautionary tale.

I didn't really see it that way. From my perspective as someone that's really bad at emoting out my feelings when I was a kid it looks more like the father only realized now what he's done wrong and was very surprised she ever felt that strongly. I once had an experience where my feelings of resentment had pooled towards my mom choosing a lot of stuff for me that I had an outburst because of a bad day, she let me more freedom of choice after that and said after a few years that she really didn't know I felt that way until I told her off that one day.

^Ditto.

From what we can infer from Nagisa's situation, she and her ex have been together for a while, and they never even once gone on a date or become physically intimate. Nagisa loved her ex, but can we say the same for her ex?

Also, no decent person would ever cheat on their girlfriend/boyfriend on the day of their supposed first date. A decent person would properly break up with someone before being in bed with someone else. A decent person will break up with someone they don't love anymore (or in this case, not even from the beginning) personally, not with a fucking text message. Sometimes, a spade is just a spade. Some people are just pieces of shit, and I think there's enough information here to conclude that, even if people do fall for them. No excuse is a good enough reason for the ex to do what she did. And those are the facts, not conjecture. I've seen many real people go through this exact situation, and it's always the same story. A cliche, if you will.

Literally everything you just wrote other than "Sometimes, a spade is just a spade." is subjective conjecture.
Anything that is an attempt at judging the quality of something else is inherently a subjective opinion and incapable of being fact. That's literally how objectivity works.

Subjective deductions are not fact no matter how convinced you are that it's accurate.

I'm not saying you're wrong mind you, just that you shouldn't treat opinions as facts when they're not.

We literally know nothing of substance about her other than the fact that she was dating another woman until she cheated on her with a man to then presumably date him. We don't even know if it was intentional or malicious lol.

I dunno, cheating on your girlfriend after not showing up for your first date is pretty malicious in my eyes.

I said that we don't know not that we don't think.
There's plenty of implication that doesn't paint her in a very good light, but we're also seeing things from the perspective of the girl who was stood up. She doesn't actually know what was going on other than "She cheated on me with a man then broke up with me in a text."

Literally anything beyond that is pure assumption based on implications that may or may not be accurate.

For all we know her Ex got caught in a hentai plot and only broke up because of blackmail.
That was not a serious theory, just pointing out that there are enough unknowns here to fill them in with basically any story without making the Ex a piece of shit in the grand scheme of things.

Sometimes a duck is just a duck though. Her ex probably was just a cheating douchebag, but let's not pretend like it's fact and not just speculation.

Ah yes. The "cheating with a man" cliché. Because everybody loves that right?

well what do you expect doesn't really seem like she swung for girls to begin with. sounds like she didn't want to do it with her gf

It's also a "cliche" for a reason. A straight person trying to date a homosexual person as an experiment is unfortunately not rare from what I know. Plus you also have the whole traditional views on marriage that still exist in Japan. So authors through their writing get out their frustrations about subjects like this. Which I think makes sense. Also every work on the planet has cliches, every author gets influences from somewhere or something. Lots of works can be linked back to the likes of Shakespeare, and he wasn't even entirely original himself. I think also a cliche like this exists mainly because it's realistic and relatable for the author and often their target audience.

My rambling aside, I found this to be a very enjoyable prequel.

Implying it would've been less terrible if she'd cheated with another woman?

To this day it still confuses me how the default assumption when a woman in a gay relationship starts dating a man is that she was actually straight all along and not that she's simply bisexual. You know that's a thing, right?

We literally know nothing of substance about her other than the fact that she was dating another woman until she cheated on her with a man to then presumably date him. We don't even know if it was intentional or malicious lol.

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Let's be real, what she really meant is "send nudes."

That was without a doubt the raunchiest, most explicit and graphic sexual content I have ever seen.
I mean there's hardcore and then there's... this!

Since when did such degenerate levels of excessive smut become permissible on a christian children's website like this?

No. Both people should give and receive, and that should have nothing to do with whose dominating or subbing.

Not everyone needs the same thing in the bedroom to be satisfied, what works for some or most people doesn't work for everyone. Whatever you and your partner works out that you're both satisfied with is inherently the "right" way to do it no matter if literally everyone else on the planet would be unhappy in your place.

And here comes the Gilian, Adjuchas and Vasto Lorde classifications only with less creative names.

That being said, I'm enjoying this a bunch so far. Don't mind the boobs at all. Kinda don't feel like there's a status quo tho, the whole story so far seems kinda aimless and unfocused.

Dude if you "relent" to doing something it is by definition not something you want to do in the first place. She's a lesbian for christ's sake I somehow doubt she wanted to suck a dude's dick anymore than a straight dude would. And anything your partner isn't comfortable with you doing to their body is crossing the line.

First off, you're just marking words. Being unwilling to do something does not inherently mean that doing said thing would be torturous nor that being convinced to do it would equal "being forced to do something against your will."
I'm currently unwilling to get up and grab a drink from the kitchen because it's a bother, but I might relent to doing it if my sister asks me to go grab one for her. Does that mean my sister just forced me to perform manual labour on her behalf? What a toxic bitch, I've been victimized!

Secondly, we have been given absolutely no indication that her Ex boyfriend was in any way an awful person, nor that she dated him while knowing she was lesbian. If anything, the implication given is that she realized that she's gay during the relationship and that's why they broke up. Not because of some abuse or drama bullshit, but because they simply weren't compatible. Furthermore, there's likewise no indication given anywhere that her Ex knew that she was gay at the time he asked for a blowjob, and asking one's significant other for a sexual favour is in no way abusive, coercive or dubious behaviour in itself. It can become those things if one is forceful, but we have seen absolutely nothing in the story to indicate that her Ex ever did anything worse than ask nicely. Which is entirely goddamn fine to do.

Odds are her Ex simply operates on the same logic that 99% of real people do. Which is to say, he asked if she'd be willing to do something for him and if she doesn't want to, she'll just say no.
You're just assuming that she firmly rejected the "disgusting god-awful suggestion" and he didn't care, which is ultimately just you demonizing a character because of your own damn prejudices.

*I'm only calling her a lesbian rather than bisexual because the story implies it to be the case rather strongly.

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Guys, Guys.
Nothing she said actually implies that the blowjob(s?) she gave her ex were forced, stop making a mole out of an anthill.
Just because she's reluctant to get sexual doesn't mean whatever she has done in the past was against her will, asking your significant other for oral sex is not even remotely dubious. Nothing we've heard of the ex-boyfriend so far implies he's the kind of douchebag who forces people to do things if they clearly refuse.

Asking your significant other for a "favor" is not forcing anyone to do anything, just because she decided to relent and do it doesn't mean it was inherently non-consensual.

The sister isn't entirely wrong in chapter 2, some people really are just holding back out of fear and just need a push to get going. The difference between a healthy partner and an unhealthy one is being able to recognize what is and isn't crossing a line. (That is not to say that the BJ that the ex got was non-consensual just because oral sex was crossing the line in this chapter with the sister.)

Man, this girl just does not put up with any of miss delinquent's shit!

Let's take a moment to appreciate that she didn't just say if she had a daughter like her, she'd throw her out.
She said she'd throw her out the window.

So Minami is not of drinking age, but is of sex age?

Age of consent in most of Europe and Asia is never more than 18 while legal drinking age is 21.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

Literally from that link:
"-it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead."

¯_( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )_/¯

Jesus I didn't notice how abnormally MIDGET the totally-just-normal girl actually is until now.
I mean her head literally aligns with her crush's boobs! And the latter is a japanese school girl!
She has to be like 1.30 or something. Like, legitimately approaching actual dwarf height.

irregardless

This is not a word. ┻━┻ ︵ ¯_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯ ︵ ┻━┻

Mari is perhaps the bigger idiot in this chapter, making a promise like that to her sister and then forgetting it...

It's not like they actively made any plans or arrangements and that talk must've been at least 3+ years ago. Mari just suggested that if Imouto was gonna live on her own anyways then she may as well live with Mari instead. Given that they don't even seem to have actually talked about it ever again, if anything the Imouto comes out looking kinda dumb to have taken it at face value without even checking up on it in literal years.

not to mention introducing her wife as a roommate, to family.

Please see my previous post. <:3

Mari introducing her wife as her roommate to her own sister made me feel strangely sad. Don't be ashamed of your marriage, Mari! I thought you were past that now, at least with your family.

Pretty sure it wasn't so much a matter of being ashamed this time tbf, we know Mari prefers planning things out rather than just letting them tumble out at the first decent opportunity. It seems like she didn't expect her little sister to know she was even seeing someone, much less that she'd already gotten full-on married. It's understandable that she wouldn't want to drop such a bombshell right away on a surprise visit outta nowhere, in particular since it's implied the little sister probably hasn't even been back in the country for too long and wasn't invited to the wedding.

(Which I would chalk up to being because Mari thought she was still abroad in-universe, while realistically the character probably just wasn't created when the wedding started.)

Arisa living the dream right now though, you go girl.
Once Imouto figures out you're a top tier waifu she probably won't "test" you like that anymore so enjoy it while it lasts!

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Chapter 53 is what I need to face the day

I like to imagine your profile pic is you while reading. Not this chapter in particular, just in general.
And it is hilarious.

That... went surprisingly wholesome at the end.
ANOTHER!

To be completely fair though, if you're living with someone but you've caught the disease then you'll almost definitely have infected them too just by virtue of proximity long before the first symptoms show up and alert you that you're sick, so there's really not much point in socially distancing at home.
It's an entirely different thing in public and at work, where most interactions are few- or brief enough that you're unlikely to infect someone unless you actively do something dumb like sneeze or don't wash your hands, therefor social distancing saves lives by minimizing even those risks.

In other words: Mission Success, full yuri authorized.
CARRY ON. (͡o‿O͡)

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Seeing as we know nothing about the other side other than the fact that it was at one point identical to our world but then ambiguously "diverged" into something else, it's entirely possible (even likely) that the invading Kaijuus are only one faction in it, or the soldiers of a leading class minority or some such.

Heck, they may very well be uncontrollable beasts even on the other side, and their invasion attempts are just instinctive directives that take over when they become Kaijuus. (Maybe they're trying to find their other-world counterparts to merge with or consume them?)

They're probably like hollows from Bleach, would be my guess. Spiritually empty "animals" who seek to find their earth counterpart to merge with and become "whole" again since the worlds were originally one and logically, they should have originally been one person. Whether or not they're made intentionally or are deployed/exploited to further an agenda is another matter for the plot to reveal later, but right now there's nothing really to go on to guess.

Also, calling it now; "Pure Blood" means someone without an other-world counterpart who is therefor free of any of the connotations that having one entails. Having no other world counterpart also implies that they (unlike everyone else) were uniquely not split up when the worlds split, meaning they would spiritually have both their own and the other world's "counterpart" portions of their spiritual body. Assuming the other world versions are like the Yin to earth's Yang that's why her energy is different from others'. Also she's what the Kaijuus are trying to become.