Ah! I dismissed that one at first, but you're right. It's too similar to be an accident:

https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1071

I saw this and thought the asterisk in the same place was funny, but then that first kanji was clearly different, so it couldn't be right. If I'd compared the second kanji too, I would've realized it couldn't be a coincidence. So what about that first kanji? It has a whole extra bottom piece in this doujin (easier to see on p.24), but does it read the same?

(And what about the plot Marisa talks about? Doesn't sound anything like this series... wonder if it's based on some other one, or just a random parody?)

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I don't think it's real. The title reads O-[something] Company. Of the series listed on Baka-Updates that fit that pattern, none have kanji that match the [something] part, or plots that match Marisa's summary.

Good thing it wasn't a bad apple.

Right now, Akuma no Riddle fans are constantly checking the front page, awaiting the final chapter... and what should appear there but a doujin called "The Long Wait is Over".

Reality is a troll.

Instead of a spoiler, looks like a tweet saying there's no chapter this month. Damn.

This is a well-thought-out manga.

"My classmate is blackmailing me. If only I also had something on her! Oh well, time to go watch her in her super secret idol identity that I alone know."

Has it ever been officially stated whether Haru really does have Queen Bee powers, and if so, whether she ever used them? I think the anime left that a mystery; it'll be interesting to see if the manga does too.

EVERY VN PLAYER EVER. You're not done till you've seen all the endings.

Well, I'm not really typical of the fandom. I took the series at its word, as a serious battle-royale scenario. I've felt like a sucker since I found out the actual creators don't take it that seriously at all.

I mean, they make doujins of their own series. They ship all the roommate pairs, but not in the actual story, just in covers and such -- I mean, what even is the reasoning for that? I had no idea those ships existed just from reading the manga itself, so when I checked out the fandom my first thought was industrial-strength yuri goggles... but no, apparently these characters actually are meant to be shipped, just without any actual effort on the writer's part short of rooming them together. (Suzu and Kouko barely talk!)

Probably the biggest thing I've felt like a sucker over is Chitaru and Hitsugi. In the series, their story is compelling (if cliched), with a really good coda in the anime that shows how it won't be easy from here. But then they're glued to each other in the OVA and doujins! Hell, forget consistency or taking things seriously, how is that version of them even interesting?

Don't get me wrong. I've been sold on this series since I saw the volume 1 cover. But what a godforsaken unholy mess it is. It's trying to be four or five things at once (at a rate of four or five pages a month) and no two of those things work right at the same time.

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Speak for yourself. I definitely wanted more suffering. I'm fine with the main two surviving, but everybody else too? Pfft. That was pretty weak even in a certain Sunrise series, and those characters were likable (as opposed to being, y'know, assassins).

If it goes wincest, VNDB is missing a lot of tags.

Speaking of which, most of the articles don't mention that this game takes place in the same world as a previous one called Nurse Love Syndrome:

https://vndb.org/v7301

(I say "nurse" by analogy with this English release; the actual word used in both titles means "white robe".)

"Where does she get that iron-like strength of hers from?"

It's actually titanium-like. Common mistake.

Fuwanovel has a suggested route order and full walkthrough:

http://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/14783-nurse-love-addiction-walkthrough/

Weirdly, it seems to be possible to reach a no-girl bad end that spoils things from the main routes before you beat them, so maybe check what choices to avoid for that. Also strange: on the main routes, good/bad end seems to depend exclusively on the very last choice.

"I feel like I've heard one weird story..." You and us both, Sugi-san.

The absence of the Aaaaaangst tag baffles me. These characters mope at each other instead of yelling, but it's still wall-to-wall angst.

but the Full and Ma, I have no idea

Full Metal?

So Kurt is gay is what I gathered from this chapter.

Nonsense. Who ever heard of a gay guy named Kurt?

Anyone know the approximate timeline of this series? I've been assuming it roughly follows the Japanese school year (sakura in bloom for graduation and all), but it just occurred to me that Suzu's July birthday doesn't fit.

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The title's a typo, right?

That's not a mistake, just a translation choice. "Hebirote" is one of those wasei-eigo phrases that don't mean quite what the English words themselves do. "Everyday" gets the point across better here.

I was just looking up a manga called "Gakkou no Sensei" and discovered that there were two by that name. Bit unusual, one title being shared by two different authors.

Then I noticed that one of them was named Shinya, and it all made sense.

Well they say idiots do not catch colds .. :p

Yeah, there should really be a TN for that. It's strictly a Japanese thing, and the joke depends on it.

For the record, the couples ranked 1 and 2 in Hitsugi's pixiv search are Tokaku/Haru and Isuke/Haruki respectively.

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