"Learning to love someone isn't a gradual process. It's a sudden realization".

Does that mean that you're with someone and then, one day, bam, you think "I love them"? But in the time you spent with them, that's when your love grew, so it's still a buildup.

It's a weird sentence I can't process right.

Since she lives in a mill by the river, I guess her power comes from the water wheel. If it's for a single house, she pretty much has unlimited electricity at her disposal.

Though I hope for her that she can get replacement parts if anything breaks.

How can they run out of digital copies?

shanejayell posted:

So the song is "Me to Her" huh.... interesting

No, it's the name of the "band" if I understand correctly.

DrJamesFox posted:

Cute chapter. On this page was she saying that for the cake or in response to the look of contempt? https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/fuzoroi_no_renri_side_stories_ch47#11

Why not both?

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Cogito posted:

Any ideas what happened with Aya's parents? We went from happy family -> "your mom is dirty" -> mom ditching her and disappearing -> also dad seems to have vanished.

I'm guessing adultery and divorce? But also wondering if mom's still alive out there. Or dad, for that matter.

My guess is her father died and her mother was engaging in sex work to make ends meet. She probably felt unable or unworthy to raise Aya and so left her with her grandparents.

It's probably less lovely than that. A mother leaving their offspring to relatives and disappearing is a recurrent plot device in manga for a reason.

In Japan's society, a single mother has it really hard and since the mother is still young and pretty, her best bet is to find a new man. But with a kid in tow, it's really difficult.

My bet is that she started to work as a hostess (hence the "dirty" comment), but couldn't find a man to support her, because everyone in town knew she had a kid. So, she decided to raise her chances by abandoning Aya and start from a clean slate elsewhere.

Harsh, but the reality of many unwanted kids in Japan.

She's faceless, as was the father, so I doubt she'll show up ever again.

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Tbh, that was underwhelming.

Nothing of note happened in those seven chapters, except Hinohara blushing half the time because of Nagai's rizz. She came accross as really immature. And it petered out into a time skip of course, with a 19 years old Nagai coming back to woe her again.

I think Reliance has more potential for toxicity and plot development, which is probably why it's continuing.

DylanOgg posted:

Bugger me, Chapter 100 is right around the corner. Also, does Kei's getup meet school regulations? Given how strict Japanese Schools can be, I reckon Mitsuki's attire is pushing it. Even though she looks so boss.

Not all schools are strict.

Since Aya and her gang are wearing tons of accessories and make up, I think this school has relaxed rules. Maybe just "you have to wear an uniform".

Also, the school looks run down in some chapters, so I think it's not a high class school.

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BlueStallion44 posted:

The great great granny was the one without the arm right? https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/kaijuu_iro_no_shima_ch20_2#7

So that means the housemaid cut off her arm when the house made became a monster?

No?

The stories goes as "the great-great-granny (which is now in a wheelchair) was running away with her lover (Mito) when the people of the mansion caught up to them and cut Mito's arm to separate them. Somehow, the cut arm turned into some rainbow-colored, scaled monsterified limb?"

The mystery deepens.

Blastaar posted:

My guess: the play must go on.

(So the immediate project becomes either to convince the authorities to rescind the cancellation or to put on the show themselves somewhere anyway. FFS, the whole school wants to see Erika and Komichi kiss.)

Wdym? People here want it too.

After the nearly 2 years hiatus, it was predictable it would be axed.

At least, the scanlator didn't drop it. It's been the same one for 4 years. They sure are dedicated.

Some manga get directly cancelled and don't even get an ending (Prism anyone?). At least, we got a conclusion here.

It probably means the sales of volume 1 were really bad and the author lost motivation and found something else to do. Maybe they got married, maybe they got a kid, but I think their mangaka career is over.

If Nanase wasn't such a doormat, she would have princess carried Yuni (or at least supported her) immediately to the infirmary, justifying it by the fact she's the one who crashed into her.

It's just practice. Her teammates can live without her for the few minutes it takes to drop Yuni at the infirmary.

But no, Nanase lets herself be dragged around by the girls around her, effectively abandoning her girlfriend to the girl she knows had sex with her.

Not to say she deserves to be cucked (no one does), but she never really tried to understand Yuni needs and has her priorities all wrong. She clearly chose the wrong girlfriend. She needs someone less needy.

Yuni is just a pushover and Fuuko, the Caterpillar Fungus, is progressively taking control of her life.

Lithevampy posted:

Is the Manga on Hiatus? There wasn't an update last week.

https://x.com/agu_knzm/status/1825003278377296261

Gash posted:

Oh my, we're popping the L word now, are we?

Now I wonder what word was used for love in the original.

"Suki" as usual.

luinthoron posted:

Well, Mitsuki will need a new shirt now.

And Aya new panties.

While we know that Aya has a big crush on Mitsuki (mostly rizz version), the reverse is unclear.

Her seduction moves are mostly unconscious and she got close to Aya because she wanted a friend to share music, something she hadn't ever had.

So, I'd think that for now, Mitsuki's feelings aren't romantic in nature, but more like she found a soulmate and a pillar of support for her fragile ego.

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Aya.exe has stopped working.

To the defenders of Erika: can you give a reasonable explanation as to why she didn't say anything to Aya about Koto's state of mind evolution during the past seven years? Aside from "she has no obligation to".

She saw first hand Koto sinking into obsession, but when Aya comes back, not only does she let a 14yo live with someone she knows is unstable in relation to Aya, but she withholds this information (and others) and let Aya deal with Koto on her own, while waiting for their relationship to crumble. Granted, she feels guilty, but she still does it.

So, it's really easy to make Erika the villain here, because of what she possibly did on the Tanabata day and because she's passive aggressive towards Aya. Koto has her faults, but Erika is literally playing on these faults to break them up.

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Blastaar posted:

Man, you people sure must be all up in your friends’ business in a way I simply don’t recognize. I’ve had very close friends that were no less close than family, but when it came to their romantic relationships, I tried to be a listener and to supply what support and advice I was able, but that could include hard truths or criticism, too. In the end, their business was theirs.

There’s attributing responsibility here that makes little sense to me.

Yeah, but you were not in love with these friends, were you? Or in rivalry with them.

Koto's and Aya's business are Erika's business and have been from the beginning.

The only real friend here was the drama club's president.

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Blastaar posted:

Why does a third party, Erika, have any responsibility for proactively making the Aya/Koto relationship work, and how would she even go about attempting to do it? Koto’s destructive wish for Aya to have no outside life and Aya’s rejection of it has nothing to do with Erika or her feelings.

If she really loved Koto, she'd do anything to make her happy, no? If she doesn't, it's just selfish love. It's just "I want to win against Aya.", "I want Koto to love me and forget about Aya" (which is why she refused to go out with Koto).

Everything points to Erika having a MASSIVE inferiority complex towards Aya and wanting to win at all costs. I'm not even sure if she loves Koto or if she loves the idea of one-upping Aya by "stealing" Koto. The seven years of absence Aya only have exacerbated this, since you can't win against someone who's not here.

What she could have done is tell the truth of what actually happened between her and Aya seven years ago, that she saw them kissing (she said it in the end, but out of spite: "did you think you could hide it for me?") and so knew that they were dating seven years ago, and finally, last but not least, she could have told Aya how Koto had been these last seven years, so Aya would better handle the abandonment issues of Koto.

Granted, she doesn't have any obligation to do so. But then, I'm really not convinced her actions, or lack thereof, are out of love for Koto.

We dived into Aya's psyche, we dived into Koto's psyche, but we have yet to have a clear view of what's going on in Erika's head, besides that she wishes for Koto and Aya to break up and so have Koto for herself and win against Aya.

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If one thing is for sure, it's that Erika is still hiding some things and her actions are shrouded in suspicion since her avowed goal is to break the relationship between Aya and Koto.

Even if she doesn't actively try to break it, she passively allows it to deteriorate.

She's been by Koto's side for these 7 years of Aya absence and so she knows better than anyone what her state of mind is and what would eventually happen when Aya returns.

The fact she's been hiding all of this from Aya, not mentioning the fact that they did meet on Tanabata seven years ago, but she won't say it, even to Koto, shows she's not "anyone's great friend" and is ultimately driven by selfishness.

She's been pining for Koto for years, maybe she's the one who needs to move on.

Still unclear how the triangle will be broken though.

Arachne posted:

I think the proceeding chapters are going to really affect my opinion on this because it feels sorta sudden.

I want to see this revealed as a coping mechanism or mask, rather than her suddenly being super okay and super cool in school. I don't think aya defending her should magically make her better, it obviously helps but I don't think most people go from breaking down in tears to swaggering in over the course of a week.

I just think in that week, she wanted to prove that Aya was right, so she recorded her song for people to hear.

She almost broke, BUT Aya distinctly saved her from breaking by getting angry on her behalf and supporting her all the way. What she didn't have in middle school, where her friend dropped her when things got tough.

So, the bullying followed by Aya's speech made her understand she didn't need to be afraid of not belonging or hide anymore, because she now has actual friends who'll stand up for her all the way.

SrNevik posted:

Sorry to be blunt, but Windyfall is easily the worst quality translation that's consistently posted to Dynasty - normally I get the impression that there's some quality control with regards to what is allowed on here, but it's like they're an obvious exception to this. Every time I'm about to read something that was translated by them I brace myself for unreadable mess.

They have a long history and have been mostly good. Just check all their other releases throughout the years. I haven't seen much issue with them until recently.

idk if i'd call over a year 'recent', just look at this one from April last year. And that's just the first one i consciously remember rn

There's plenty from this year and beyond that are more than fine. They've had some inconsistent releases but they're more often fine to me at least. I don't remember having issues with them.

Main reason is because they don't have proofreaders anymore (they had before I think?) and their translator isn't a native English speaker. Neither is their typesetter.

So, I think the rough translation is typesetted as is and they stopped giving af.

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Should have implemented Asimov's 3 laws of robotics.

Oh? Vague progress?