The Flatshare of Domestic Violence and Delinquency. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

If Awai hadn't gotten Sudden Ginormous Melons Syndrome it'd be all normal girls for the captain's match ...

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The comic has a serious and somewhat tragic premise, but it does not take it seriously.

It's something I seem be observing with Chinese and Korean stories oddly frequently. Like, "My Food is Very Cute" has this vampire lead and they tell her she doesn't need to be scared of witches anymore because the witches genocided all the vampires and thus that's done, it's in the past (even though the vampire just woke up so didn't have any sense of time progression) ...

... or a het manhwa, where the female lead was the incarnation of a previous queen who again, had all her people genocided by the "empire", was betrayed by the king, abused, whatever, now it's reincarnation time and it's all just some vague tragic backstory but with no relevance on how she acts now or how she feels about the male lead...

?!?!?!?!?!?

I don't get it. Is it cultural? Is it a question of writing skill? Is it a distorted observation because these moments stick out so much? Eh, who knows, but it certainly feels weird and I'd like to hear what the authors themselves say about it xD

Well, the plot development was “predictable” because the purpose of the previous chapter was to set it up.

Would be kinda hard for any plot development to be predictable without any signposting. In fact one might call such a thing "unpredictable" xD

Yeah, it's the sorta plot development that honestly just feels too convenient, contrived and frankly predictable.

I'm willing to compromise on the poly thing if there's a chapter where the girls use their time travelling technology to go back and kill Hitler.

The chapter didn't say that, though. Xiao Pei is shown being in a shitty position, but it wasn't framed as a "what to do". If anything, if we want to overinterpret it as a message, it would be a critique of how people in showbiz (or other jobs) acts toward help. The people overworking her weren't treated as being in the right.

She's in a shit job, perseveres, then gets rewarded for her perseverance by a lucky break. Insofar as this has any message it is definitely "stick with it" instead of "fuck this shit, go somewhere where people will treat you with respect before a mental breakdown will make that decision for you".

Remember kids, when you are in a shitty workplace just keep working hard and one day you too will be rewarded! ^^#

I just want Saori to kick that woman in the face...

Careful. In this series, that'd be a sign of affection.

Boooo.

e: very random, but I've recently re-reading Firekeeper Saga. Amusingly, it also features "sensory sharing" twins. Not maids though. Also one of them gets their head chopped off. But you know, otherwise, basically the same.

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What's the score right now anyway ... ?

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Okay then, I guess.

Props for not doing the "her cooking is actually awful" thing.

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Negativity about big butts is one of the leading problems in modern society; it's good that this philosophical work addresses the - excuse the pun - backwardness of such attitudes.

#justiceforbigbutts

What a creepy event.

How fortunate to have done this in Lesbos Village :)

I'm surprised people here are saying "wow who cares if everyone finds out about the curse!"

For me, it's not really about that. Obviously it'd be a big deal (enjoy becoming some sort of science experiment ^^), but I'm willing to bet that wider social/political/... implications will just be ignored anyway. The motivation, means, and goal are just "manga edgyness". It's manufactured character drama, not actually about anything of substance.

And even if it's not, when reading such a quirky romance manga I want to explore those quirky themes through the main characters and their issues. We are just a few chapters in; we barely even know the main couple yet. If the mangaka feels they already got so little to offer that it needs that sort of tone shift, well, that doesn't bode well, does it?

Obviously in the end anything's possible and maybe the first few chapters were a bit misleading and this all turns into a wide-ranging socio-political works or, I don't know, aliens invade or whatever.

But more likely it'll just be MC's calm understanding will sooner or later convince antagonist-girl how wrong she is, and for no reason she'll end up with bully-dude, because that's how these plots go, and it's all sorta meh ^^

Yeah, stupid plot direction; stupid random edgy-ness. Maybe it was always planned that way all along, but it kinda gives "out of ideas by chapter 4" vibes ^^

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Yeah, I'm pretty casual about my phone too. But obviously, if somebody did it without permission and my knowledge that'd still be an inacceptable betrayal of trust. Which ultimately is what that is about; not some embarrassing stuff ^^;

Great song in any case.

Age gap, but which way?

Both ways.

Not going to happen. There's no one other than Baiser who could possibly make this happen, there's pretty much no chance of her losing control like that again, and she's certainly not going to do it willingly, considering how much she's against even the existence of Magenta's dark La Verita.

I agree that Baiser wouldn't willingly do that, but what if it spreads like a virus? Like what if Dark Magenta ends up accidentally infecting Azure and Sulfur somehow?

Exactly. Especially since she has a big syringe to inject "things" into people.

... plus, who knows what the mascots are scheming.

If she never went to any school, I don't think she could become a transfer student. How is she supposed to follow the lessions?

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You don't even have to be human to be a transfer student in manga. You can be too old, too young, the wrong gender (in all-girls/boys schools), an android, an alien, a monster girl, a ghost, literally anything or anyone.

I don't think "hasn't gone to school before and has zero public records" has any sort of implications here ^^

Also, I get the idea that this might lead to the "Dark La Verita" issue being resolved, somehow, buuuut ... how about it first "infecting" the other two too? Come on, we should get to see that as well ;)

I'm infinitely surprised there wasn't the "suddenly a transfer student" plot point.
... maybe next chapter.

Mh, for me, "handsome girl"'s design isn't as convincing as I've seen in similar manga plotlines.