I've never seen a bus with 3 adjacent seats across like that, though I won't say they can't exist. OTOH it's the common economy seating for airlines.

Two to a side does seem to be the more common configuration, so you might be right.

Are we sure that's supposed to be a plane? I thought they were on a bus and stuff got thrown into the air by people scrambling to deal with, or get away from, Narita.

You'd think there'd be at least a few people trying to suck up to the reincarnated demon lord, or at least not actively antagonize her.

That's right. The three people in front all need drums, and get a larger hi-hat for the guitarist.

What the fuck is Ren cooking?

That line caused me pain.

Wait has Aya always been that short

Yeap, Koga is mostly bend down, more in her school mode, but in some parts we can see Aya is shorter. If we compare Narita, Koga and Aya, Narita is like a head taller than Aya; Koga is in the middle of that

While Aya is shorter, I'm pretty sure the page 6 image is exaggerating it, since she's at least a full head shorter while wearing pretty sizable wedges. They're much closer in height on page 4, despite Aya wearing slippers, and I don't think Koga's bad posture is enough to explain the difference, especially because she's not standing fully upright on page 6 either.

Ah, I hope this is/will be canon. Both sisters got rich girlfriend

Unfortunately, I don't think they interact much in the main continuity and I haven't seen much to suggest there's anything substantial between them in other continuities either.

The Chess was so fucking dubious lmao
When i first saw the board i was like "how tf did the white queen got there wtf"
And when I saw the maid lost I was like

"HOW DID SHE LOSE?!!! HOW DID SHE LOOSE!??? Oh my Fucking got how?? how??"

This is the position btw:
https://imgur.com/a/MVyJNS0

Oh, wow. I wasn't paying attention the first time I read it, but yeah. Elsa supposedly won by moving her king into check. I don't need the artist to depict some genius level chess strategy, I'd even be fine with a board state that doesn't 100% make sense in hindsight, just don't have her holding her king when she makes her "winning" move.

Is that Lillian at the end?
Wasn't she going to marry a prince (Eve's ex) and live happily ever after? What the hell is she doing, running after Eve?

Houston, we have a yandere.

There's a manga by Kodama Naoko called Uminekosou Days. Have you read it? Me, I read it in Spanish, long ago. I know a group started translating it to English at some time, but I'm not sure if it was completed.

Anyway, in this manga, at the beginning, the mc Mayumi is dating a guy and they're planning to get married; but Mayumi's bestie Touko seduces him and pushes him to cancel the wedding and break up with Mayumi. Mayumi is very hurt and leaves the city. She goes to a seaside resort where she meets Rin, a young woman who runs a boarding house, and they fall in love. After a couple of months, a frantic Touko arrives to the resort. Turns out that Touko dumped Mayumi's ex-fiancé as soon as Mayumi left the city, and has spent all this time looking for her... and now that she has found that Mayumi has a new lover, she's determined to ruin this relationship as well!

It's never explicitely stated, but it's obvious to the readers that Touko is 1) more than a little unhinged, and 2) obsessed with Mayumi. She feels jealousy when Mayumi gets close to other people and always tries to sabotage her relationships, wishing to forever remain her one and only. All of this is eerily similar to the thing between Eve and Lillian! Eve says that Lillian has always been her only friend... but isn't that because Lillian chased away everyone else? And when Eve got engaged, Lillian stole her man; and now she has left him to come again after Eve! And she's even attacking guards, she must have totally lost her marbles!

This is what I'm getting from the story so far: I get from Lillian the same vibe as Touko.

You seem to have ... sextouple posted? You may want to delete 5 of those.

As for the similarities to Touko. That's possible, but there does seem to be a large prejudice against dark magic, in this setting and especially in her home city, and her previous fiance was certainly a horrible person on his own, so it's possible no sabotage was necessary.

The girl at the end of the chapter is definitely Lillian, Evris's former friend, but her characterization is...pretty different from how it was in chapter 1. In chapter 1 the author seemed to be setting up a "she's actually a good person who's being blackmailed or something" twist, but the last two pages of this chapter seem to be setting her up as like a yandere villain who's obsessed with Evris. Personally I'm hoping she'll end up being more complex than either of those possibilities.

My money is on her Actually being Leo, how else would she know. Unless she is an Alphardian nobel

That's my guess too.

I haven't seen or played Yu-Gi-Oh in a while, so maybe I'm just out of the loop, but why is there suddenly a bunch of yuri about these two monsters specifically?

I can safely say this is the first time I've seen a character in a yuri manga named after a nu metal band.

glad someone else has mentioned it, was driving me insane. cannot take the character remotely seriously

Wait, is she named after the band or the Warhammer 40K chaos god?

So . . . back when they were little, they consumed so many juju violets that, since their "resonance" would be close anyway as twins, the effects became permanent for them. Like Obelix falling in the magic potion cauldron.

Alternatively, since they still smell of the flowers, she might still have a source of them and is actively maintaining the effect.

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This continues to be unbearably cute.

The only shocking things in this chapter are that the Kanazaki of Negativity is so large and that the Kanazaki of Desire isn't WAY larger.

Edit: On page 4. Atsuko says "that damn council prez," but the person who told them to clean the classroom looked like a teacher and I'd normally associate the title "council prez" with "student council president," who would normally be another student. Am I missing a piece of context here?

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Imagine being those guys. You get your entire gang together and make a huge ruckus at another school, all for the purpose of beating up a single girl, only to have her sandbag the first half of the fight and then destroy you while flirting with her girlfriend. Now imagine looking at that and thinking "Alright. Now it's my turn!" Because you know there's going to be another group who decides to take a shot at her.

Also, I'm really curious about what they mean by "it all began" with the health exam. Thank you for picking this up; I can't wait for more.

It looks like there's a panel that got cutoff on the bottom?

Why are there two copies of chapter 3?

If I'm not mistaken, a "ken-couple" is a couple who fights all the time. I mean, violent fights. With their fists and stuff.

It's another one of those Japanese portmanteau words like ba-(ka/cou)ple or ota-couple. They sure love categorizing couples, don't they?

This whole anthology should be about fighting couples.

It is.

Are you sure? The other chapter that's on here seemed more fluffy than fighty.

Hi, I would like a full series starting like this but it's a nice, long romance story. Do you take souls as payment?

Lily Love 2 by Ratana Satis? Its not THAT level of hate, but still

Sal Jiang called. Said something about OLs and then hung up.

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Cute but I don't appreciate the usage of the word "doggo", it was very painful, please no more. Very cute, thanks for the translation.

Agreed. Memes tend to not age well.

Is dogo really all that different from Kitty or any other cutesy name for an animal?

I feel like I missed something with that.

Hold on a tic, why did Bocchi turn into a kaiju?

I might be misremembering things, but when Korisu was first getting introduced, wasn't it implied that there were some problems with her home life, like she was on her own FAR too often or her parents were different? Something about her mother, this chapter, feels off. Not in the sense that she's poorly written, but more in the "there's something going on there," way.

Especially with the crossdressing, a trope you see a lot in het or bl but not with yuri so much.

Is it actually crossdressing? The sounds coming from the room (and the bitching about a problem "always with her pelvis") make me think it's some kind of genderbending magic. Transforming a woman's pelvis into a man's pelvis and back would be undeniably one of the most tricky parts.

Psh, you clearly haven't bumped your ass into random furniture while changing your clothes before and it shows

I don't think I'd describe bumping my rear on something as hitting my pelvis

while it's true that it feels like this villainess setup is now even more of a cliche than the thing it's parodying, at least her identity was revealed straight away as i was a bit worried there would be a long and equally cliche misunderstanding plot. overall it was quite well done and the cross-dressing is a new wrinkle, so i'll definitely see where this goes!

I think the reason she's crossdressing and how she feels about it will determine how much of a twist it is. If she's just doing it because everyone expects the next head of state to be male, and it's essentially a uniform she has to wear, then I don't think it'll change all that much.

I guess her refusal to believe that Ayaka is gay makes a bit more sense if every woman in her department is also blushing after her. Well, that or everyone who works there is gay, and no one's realized it yet.

Miss company boss, with the huge ribbon in her hair? She's my new hero.

Make a new manga series for her.

She's way too interesting to just be a one-shot punchline character. I too demand more of her.

Is that banding intentional or did this go through some fairly heavy compression?

That is quite the age gap there.