I would enjoy this more if it were overtly a comedy and took itself less seriously. It would basically be a different manga, but I would love it if they made the competition over small things extra ridiculous, and made them clearly into each other while still mutually failing to realize that their competition is increasingly just an excuse to be gay. You could make Komaki deadpan and Wakaba tsukkomi.

Is that not what's going on anyways, more or less? When Komaki kissed Wakaba in this chapter, it wasn't even part of the "punishment" (that will be Wakaba's first date), she just felt like it. She is clearly into Wakaba, she just expresses it in strange ways. And Komaki mixing her own soda out of pure spite is plain absurd on its face. The fact that Wakaba tries to make sense of it, instead of laughing at her, just goes to show that Wakaba is also a weirdo who puts Komaki on a pedestal.

I think a comic can be funny without constant lampshading of how wacky and goofy everything is. What limits the humor here is things like the somewhat stiff facial expressions, not that there is nobody pointing out what we're supposed to laugh at.

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I understand the attitude, but there's only so much hell you can raise exclusively by kissing people to turn them into girls...

I don't know about that. To you it might not seem like a big deal, but conservatives could whip up a pretty crazy moral panic about this. Mashiro might just get lots of volunteers, but she might also be targeted by a harassment and stalking campaign. The actual limitation is that the effect expires pretty quickly, the impacted individuals can't pass on the curse through kissing (as far as we know...), and that Mashiro is a person, not a kissing machine. She would most likely get burned out before the impact of this phenomenon could become national/global.

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Suuna just gazing at Ruka with a gentle smile on her face...

"And she's so distrusting that she doesn't trust anyone" Next you're gonna tell me people die when they're killed

IMO lots of people do lots of impressive things for crappy motivations. Half of the best music in the world was created by guys who wanted to impress girls. Well, and a few guys who wanted to impress guys. But I mean, not even any specific person, just "I'll look cool and attractive people will come flocking". And that includes classical.

If that factoid has any truth in it, it's because women have been marginalized in the music industry, and the creative work of women in music has been looked down upon (who gets to decide what "the best music in world" is?). And a lot (if not most) of these men who supposedly wanted to "impress girls" really just wanted to gain other men's respect with how good they were at getting women.

Either way, it's kind of wild to compare a high school girl being motivated by her crush on an older woman to any of that, because she's the only person who got hurt in the process. Meanwhile there is a direct line between the creators of "the best music in the world" doing it to get women, and the same men preying on their female peers in the industry and fans at live shows. (The line is misogyny.) These motivations are "crappy" in completely different ways.

Yes, sometimes people accomplish great things for superficial reasons, but there are ways to make that point without regurgitating this "boys will be boys" shit.

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There's nothing funny about Takamine seeing phantom images of Sakura. That is a symptom of wife withdrawal, and it's very serious

I guess this is not that different from the old school "sisters" dynamic (i.e. a very close bond between senpai and kouhai); the younger girl is just even um... younger here. I wonder if there will be any time skips, or if it will lean into the "onee-loli" thing instead.

The crumbs of worldbuilding so far are a good sign, although it's hard to have faith in any series with SFF ambitions surviving long in Yuri Hime. (Some combination of interests from the artists, editors and readers seems to discourage building a supporting cast, and a plot beyond romance and drama. The ones that attempt this don't do very well.) Well, maybe this one will do okay, since it's an adaptation.

Normally I would say the childhood friend is doomed but it is quite unusual to get a chapter from her perspective that early on. So it is hard to guess where it will go.

It's not just that, but the emphasis on "normal", both in the dialogue and the title, makes me think the "love at first sight" moment is just an inciting incident

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https://dynasty-scans.com/authors/yuki_1 is a duplicate of https://dynasty-scans.com/authors/yurisuki00/

It's kind of fun to wonder if this is rock bottom, or we haven't hit it yet

Revisiting this after a few years, I think the question mark in the title might not be there to dispute the idea that this is yuri. Instead, it might be an honest question, from the POV of the trans girl. She seems to be unsure if her childhood friend, who likes women, would like her too, since she is trans (she points to herself saying "♂"). To which her friend gently affirms her gender with a smile, even saying her heart is that of a girl, and then initiates a kiss. So the story answers the question posed by the title with a resounding yes, which I find quite sweet.

Does the strange lady want to have Bai Yuetao's body in the sexual sense, or does she have something else in mind (as well)?

She introduces herself as Butterfly Dream, which is the title of a Classical Chinese story in Zhuangzi. In this story the author, after dreaming about flying around as a butterfly, wakes up wondering if he just dreamed about being a butterfly, or if he's actually a butterfly dreaming about being a human.

That story is about the Dream Argument (the unreliability of human senses), so maybe I'm trying to make a connection that is too literal. But if magic is already on the table, then maybe a body swap is or possession is possible. It could be something like in Your Name, each of them piloting the other's body while asleep.

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I'm glad that at least the worst case of ironic tragedy was avoided (Your Lie in April), but the way Shizuku's confession is dragged out, like a can being kicked down the road, again and again, even though Shizuku knows Kaori is dying, still feels manufactured to me. An arbitrary twist of the knife on top of a tragedy that would be plenty sad on its own even if the leads had been allowed to at least see each other face to face during the confession.

After thinking about it a little, rather than pointlessly cruel, Shizuku dragging her feet with the confession feels like a shortcut; the creator pulling the reins back before the situation could get too complicated.

Imagine Kaori and Shizuku in the same room together, on the same page about their mutual feelings, yet Kaori's death still hanging over them. Having to figure out what to do now. Is that not worth a few chapters to explore? Would Kaori's death be less sad if the relationship progressed beyond pining before she died?

I still like the story overall, but I guess some people love painting any criticism here as "I didn't realize this was going to be a tragedy so now I'm mad", and I guess I can't do anything about that.

Delicious. Finally, some good food

Glowing mirror and talking reflection makes me think Fantasy or Supernatural more than Historical

Historical is because it's set in the 1920s

I'm glad that at least the worst case of ironic tragedy was avoided (Your Lie in April), but the way Shizuku's confession is dragged out, like a can being kicked down the road, again and again, even though Shizuku knows Kaori is dying, still feels manufactured to me. An arbitrary twist of the knife on top of a tragedy that would be plenty sad on its own even if the leads had been allowed to at least see each other face to face during the confession.

Head full of lewd images of Jun and Nadeshiko, gets angry at the women for having a "poisoned" mind

Call Me by Your Name... Raw!

I'm starting to hate Hirose, a lot, she thinks she is supposed to be better because she liked volleyball fist but then when someone is better without much effort she resent that person, she didn't like the sport, she like the sense of superiority it gives to her and the audacity to like Takamine, what the hell is wrong with her? the self-importance is huge.

It's like some people can't read anything without having to pick a girl to hate... I mean, Hirose, of all characters? lol

Ah, this is the scene from the volume 3 cover!

As funny as the surprise switch to De:Lphinus was, I didn't expect the chapter to be satisfying, but now I want to see more of them too. Odoro Dorothy just does not miss, each chapter is such a treat.

is having that big an age gap in an idol group a thing? I don't really pay attention to them much but I would expect a 16yo and a 22yo to be in different groups based on starting so far apart if nothing else.

The typical gap between the senior and the youngest member (in Korean idol groups at least) is usually 4 years or less. But 6 years is not unheard of, that's the gap in e.g. LOONA.

I assume that the larger the management company, the more trainees, which means more trainees in the same age cohort, and a smaller gap between members in the same group. Blockberry Creative, which managed LOONA before their departure, is a subsidiary of a larger conglomerate, but they are a small operation, as their only managed group was LOONA between 2016 and 2022.

So are we in agreement that Joe and Kanna were a bi4bi type relationship? cuz that's not a heterosexual couple I don't care what anyone says

On one hand, I don't recall any instance of those two being attracted to their own gender. On the other hand, I find the idea that anyone with alt fashion style must be LGBT because cishet people allegedly have no taste in fashion pretty funny, so what the heck, why not.

I'm confused.... Is her father permanently stuck as a woman? Or are her parents just making out all the time so it's always the case? Because they said there's no precedent for someone becoming stuck but the story seems to imply her father is unable to become a man again.

It was weird that he didn't want to go to parents day at Chihaya's school because he was a woman at the time... Like... If the curse lasts 24hours max can't you just NOT kiss your wife for a day?

Maybe he wants to stay permanently as a woman now, so a kiss a day keeps the dick away¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I suggest reading the speech bubble again:

"To change forever from just a kiss? Currently there's been no precedent for that."

Meaning "just a kiss" is not enough for a permanent change. The permanent change happened, it's just not yet explained how.

Another clue is on pg 28:

"I knew what the risks were. With the Shishizaki curse. Being with Chisaki. And I married her anyway. But when it actually happened, I didn't really understand what I was getting into. I was really concerned with what my children might think."

The "but when it actually happened" bit refers to the permanent change.

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At the age of 20, Suu-chan has a lower risk of developing a nicotine dependence than if she was a teenager, so I'm only slightly worried about her.

I was 21 when I smoked cigarettes for the first time, and for a few months I smoked about once a day, but I never got hooked. I was involved with a certain crowd at the time, and I saw it as a bonding activity with the girls I hung out with.

Bad bitch fumbled :(