Wow. Flashbacks of Shoujo Kakumei Utena. Everything was here -- even the memories of the past, dressed in fancy uniforms, coming back to inspire you. Tsukiko chose the dream, no matter how childish or naive, instead of her rotten daily reality. Good for her. It was like watching Anthy choose Utena over Akio, all over again.

Great book!

Aaand just like that Liaoliao is forgotten and all the readers want to focus on Ren Xing and Hua Fang.

Why is everyone in chinese manga so damn hot. Whew

Maybe because most stories are about idol singers, actresses and supermodels?

Also, what is it about the phrase "this time, it's for real" that just screams "nope, this time ain't it, either"? :'D

The implication is that she tends to fall in "love" with pretty girls at first sight but it usually turns out to be just a passing crush -- but this time she's convinced it's true love for real.

And I'm certain that yes, this time it's going to be true love. Because that's how manhua work.

Nooooo it's over say it ain't so!

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So the sword is rooted in you, but you have no clue how to summon it out of your body?

Try this incantation:

"O Roses of the noble castle,
Power of Dios that sleeps within me,
Heed your master and come forth,
Grant me the power TO BRING THE WORLD REVOLUTION!"

It'll work like a charm.

(Not sure what the royal court will think when they hear you call for revolution, tho...)

I can't believe Wamura didn't kiss her as soon as they got into the purikura box. I know I would have.

(Especially after that "take off your shoes" shit Rutou pulled out.)

And then all the pics would have been of them passionately smooching!

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the TL;DR for this is; Fox and Deer used both of the main characters for Xian Jun's work "Green Tea Bitch" as a spin-off.

Hehehe, I'd say, yeah. It's impossible to mistake those two!

I wonder if I'm the only one getting Maka-Maka vibes from this?

I love to bits Kishi Torajirou's style, cute and sexy and realist at the same time, and Maka-Maka is my favorite work of his (such a pity it was removed from the site, sniff). This series pushes all my right buttons. I hope Kishi-sama will continue drawing it! I'm totally looking forward to more chapters!

I think it's simple process of elimination. Ai x Junko are popular, Sakura x Saki is popular, so the leftover Yuugiri x Lily get paired up together, since Tae doesn't have as much shippability as the rest.

This is 100% fine with me as I want Tae for myself.

Mitsuishi Kotono's voice could make me fall in love with a hamster. (Not an exaggeration. It has happened.)

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what a title

I kinda was expecting the Depressing as fuck tag.

But it's not there, so I guess the story will be lighter than a first impression would suggest.

....No Mc, it too soon for that!!! (Also WRONG DIALOG OPTION!!!) See here MC, first you got to endure the first few (3-5) hangout as friends while making subtle flirting moves on your waifu target to attempt to make them feel some doki doki moments before then bring up the topic of flirting (Trying to bribe your waifu with money to flirt is big no no on first friend date, very risky move XD).

Eventually after some scummy planning and manipulation you can change your friend status to friends with benefits or potential waifu/girlfriend/future wife status after a few dozen date and lewd hand holding~~~ XD

Hopefully the MC didn't step on a landmine(99% she did) but if she did hopefully it won't be too horrible of a emotional outcome. I want MC to become a better person and be happy with Satou/Maron (The scummy emotional manipulator option is too hard for her since she is not smart, smooth or skilled enough to go that route lol).

Excellent review of the current situation. Great job!

Also, 1000th comment. Go forum go.

Nice!

Yay, another chapter! But it's a flashback...

Aw, who cares, I'm happy to see more of little Youzi and more Mom x Ren.

This chapter is great and awesome and amazing to such an extent that I'm not going to review it; for, if I did, I would have to analyze every panel and wax lyrical about every single little detail and I'd end up writing a 20-page essay.

I'll just highlight one scene:

In America, romantic mood brings about little hearts.
In Soviet Russia, little hearts bring about romantic mood!
In Maoist China, blue-leaved climbing plant turns into little hearts to match romantic mood and nobody has to bring about anything!!!

Go go China!

Nanase... look at the two melonpan girls. They're prolly just friends but I swear to Gawd they act way more like girlfriends than you and Yuni!

They even can accurately pinpoint the reasons why you're a horrible gf who is totally gonna lose Yuni in the future.

Btw I can't remember whether we've met teammate Yuki before or she's a brand new character. Either way, I can already tell she's gonna be the one who comforts Nanase after Yuni dumps her sorry ass.

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This:

And this:

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Makino-chan, you're MY oshi!!! I'll be your white knight forever!!!!!!!!!

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There is quite literally zero heterosexual explanation for this, in case Ayano hasnt noticed :⁠-⁠P

I thought the same thing. Miyoshi has pulverized deniability.

I kinda want to see a scene of Xiaoen and Tae drinking at a bar and bonding over their problems:
– "Yeah, so I fell in love with a girl, but then I found she's way younger than she looks!"
– "Me too, me too!!!"

Redemption! Redemption!!!

Hetero women read novels about dewy-eyed peasant girls who are kidnapped and made into sex slaves by macho viking beefcakes; it doesn't mean they want to be kidnapped and raped irl.
You need to be able to tell fantasy from reality. And accept that you enjoy things in fantasy that you wouldn't enjoy in reality. Peepz in Japan are very good at doing this; peepz in the West... not so much.

I'll add my two cents. The Yaoi/Slash ML was founded by a lesbian, Jeanne Johnson, and roughly half of its members were lesbians. We're talking about the olden time when there weren't forums like this one and mailing lists were the only way to keep yourself informed and keep in touch with other fans. So yeah, it's not a new thing for non-heterosexual women to have a keen interest in Japanese manga telling stories of love between boys.

Since some find this surprising, I guess I should clarify a few points. First, at the time yuri was not a thing. Second, the authors of yaoi were all women. Third, a helluva lot of yaoi works are considered to be explorations of lesbian feelings and lesbian relationships genderbended as gay boy stories -- yuri in disguise, we would say today. Take at look at this recent manga by Yatosaki Haru to see a good example of the notion.

And then one day we found that Sakurako is a close relative of Yamada Yui.

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Thanks, Yatosaki Haru-sensei, for your notes on yuri in page 9. You're speaking my heart.

My cute angel Makino-chan keeps bringing miracles to the world.

This time she brought redemption to a poor soul who was depressed and full of dark thoughts. She healed her with the power of love!

Or was it with the power of scumminess?

Ah whatever everything is cute and lovely as long as it comes from Makino.

Don't feel bad, Kyouko. You put up a good fight. Miku was just too much for you.

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