Isekai Harem Protagonists if anything, funnily enough. "It's ok when BOYS do it but wrong when girls do it!11!!" Anyone who uses Mary Sue seriously I'm immediately skeptical of their character and their capacity for analysis.

Say, is it possible that Elsa is also a transmigrated soul and former player or has that been ruled out at this point? "Yvonne was the player's favourite character" would explain a lot about how... open... she is about being bullied (including those odd times that she implies knowing Evie is compelled to bully her) and even possibly her ability to understand the meta concept of "systems" enough to consider the problem of meddling with them.

(I've been wondering for a while why the system even exists. What's the point?)

I've long been under the suspicion that Elsa has a "heroine system" she can see, which would explain some of her more bold moves.

And yes, I know I questioned bringing her back into the spotlight again earlier, and I am still not sure it did much for the overall story, but as a character and mood piece, her flashback is a reading pleasure... Funny how that works. :-)

Just goes to show you can't doubt my dog Osawa Yayoi, lol. trust the process!

"Is this feeling Natsuki has finally realized, love? Or..." Plenty of series has these drift-off "to be continued" type sentences and for the most part they're tolerable, but this one's just fucking amusingly dumb. No, ma'am, it's probably an ulcer, she should go to the doctor.

I think is more like, poking fun at Natsuki's lack of emotional anything and her like, stoic obliviousness.

I am on board, 100%

27 vs 19 is a pretty big difference. Perfectly fair for Xiaoen to worry about that.

Oh you young people, thinking 8 years is a big age gap...

i think 8 is fair to worry about given one party is under 21-22 in particular, but especially like 19.

yep, thats kinda what i was getting at in my original, that like she'd be like go try and figure it out and get back to me

oh look there was in fact chemistry between nanami's ex and mahiro hehe

Stage Play announced!!!

my longest, exasperate sigh ever.... why can't these ever be about trans women? Not well oops ive magically become a woman and now that my bodies physically like this I guess it'd be wrong to not be a woman! Transition back?? Nonsense!!

god, it always winds up so cisnormative.

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Also big agree on the whole, let the story take its time. Look at how much is panning out here? Like it is very much not an easy or straightforward romance, it's got unique wrinkles that feel more accurate to like a more "lesbian" narrative.

Money is on Shiori having confessed to Maho, Maho going nah its Nanami or Nothing for me, her going oh shit that's my ex... cue all that goss, and shiori was someone that Maho, had told her hey I'd date you but "my heart [won't be] in it."

Nah, Koga san be like "go on you should spend time with your old friends, they're more important." to which oosawa, indignant, will blurt out, "But you're more important than just any friend!", cue Rare Koga Blush.

What cliché has she resorted to thus far? Something as fundamental to romance as the "will they/won't they", and "I'm scared of losing our relationship", aren't fairly described by cliché.

"she gay kissing me stupid style in a manner that has me confronting my demons" -yvonne probably

I definitely like the whole, she only has super vague details of her past life +very large gaps in knowledge of the otome, and her whatever, conscious presence i guess has been folded into the role for the most part.

Idk why i never read this, thought it was a shameless one off of i favor the villainess (which i grew to dislike greatly before dropping), but good god did i need more doggirl lesbian content. What a fantastic build up to that confession!! really curious what our meddler is up to, my pet theory is the knife thing bought them all this time and as such was their doing. Actually seeing one of these S/M stories actually depict the kind of aftercare necessary is pretty neat. Everything (besides knife thing maybe, maybe meddler puppeted Evie) has con so that rules.

spoilers for 14-18 Like, per the Kaede angst, her being burnt on love before makes perfect sense considering we know much the same of Nanami like, out the gate. Her breakup was the first chapter, as well as the confirmation she had been in another (likely) unsuccessful relationship with a woman before. You could conject, "just get married like normal" as a response to that burn, possibly, that remains to be seen, but she's already have some foil to Kaede. And throughout, Kaede's aspirations as a mangaka have always been her priority so it's no surprise she would think herself romantically unavailable, despite relying so heavily on Nanami emotionally. Currently, that is still attached to the aspiration, whereas Nanami has been able to detach it and see it for what it is, love. When that dream is on the cusp of fruition, and Nanami's sorrow is a palpable hurricane at the prospect of moving out, we will see Kaede follow suit. I trust this one to pan out, I really don't think it's that grim.

and besides if you're able to let whispering you a love song's melodrama slide, this is not a big deal, and far less on the "melo-" end.

Yeah actually the following 4 chapters are all operating off the same moving parts that have been ticking throughout save for Koga, who partially aligns with Nanami being attractive to lesbian/bi people and getting detected on gaydar megahard (by everyone but Kaede) already. I wont ever like this manga more than Hello Melancholic, bc that ones a masterpiece (also a later work), but Yayoi has something good here imo.

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I read ahead and am not really seeing the problem? It seems like your usual messy lesbian drama (more accurate compared to usual yuri drama tropes), like just one quarter of it came outta left field sure... but nothing too unforgivable?? There might be a TL/context discrepancy in the later chapters but I was under the impression Nanami was bi as well, so while the Aoi stuff is messy, it isn't the sum total. God forbid someone be messy.

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We need a barista tag...

:(

"Nice cock bro" but for lesbians.

i mean, that's not an excluded expression necessarily for really cool ppl

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go go robot lesbians! ( i say this of course, AS a robot lesbian myself)

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This is excellent