I'm gonna go back to reading Hana ni arashi

Are those two dating? Do their friends know?

The friend's height and weight seems to have fluctuated a fair amount since her initial introduction:

Recent changes were probably in preparation for the latest development. (With Tsucchi in her original form, hugging by Maki and Tsucchi would be presumptively discounted as an expression of romance.) And that, in turn, reinforces the impression that the mangaka have not been plotting very far ahead.

Chapter 17 page 6, for those seeking to identify the shorter girl hugging Maki.

So who was with Maki at the end?

That's a friend who had been trying to get Maki to be proactive in her relationship with Liz.

I think that people who write stuff of this sort are themselves either unfaithful people trying further to normalize infidelity, or victims of infidelity trying to rationalize their continued attachments to their abusers.

In reality, partners or objects of affection who are persistently abusive don't wake up one day, and stories that pretend otherwise are corrosive.

Five chapters with little more than one annoying note.

In one day?!?

It's like the magic cold from sleeping without a blanket or your belly covered, candy causes your teeth to rot at extraordinary rates :P

I guess that Japanese candy-makers use Japanese rainwater.

In one day?!?

Annette from Kyokai no Rinne is much closer to what I expected lol
https://kyokainorinne.fandom.com/wiki/Hitomi_Annette_Anematsuri

Reading the serialized novel, I don't visualize the characters as they would be drawn in manga or in anime. But I think that you and I place the character in the same age-range. However, you imagined her as looking more graceful and beautiful than did I. I didn't imagine her as plain or as homely, but still as comedic.

If we accepted Bettelheim's once popular theory of “refrigerator mothers”, then indeed we'd see Adachi as an autistic who is later largely cured. But the present understanding of autism is quite different (and Bettelheim has been exposed as a cruel charlatan).

Cured? Cured??? Autism spectrum disorder isn't something that can be "cured" in any sense of the word.

I said that Bettelheim was a cruel charlatan. None-the-less, for many years his was the prevailing theory. According to that theory, autism resulted from unsuitable mothers being unable to bond with children who, otherwise, would usually have been quite ordinary, and those children could be restored by a proper, loving environment. (The environment that Bettelheim himself provided was abusive.)

Also, don't make bald spoilers just because you want to rant.

Not all connections with other people have to be deep or lasting, but she too easily writes off those three as not worth her time

She's giving them her time. What she's not doing is forming a sense of attachment to them.

Neither Adachi nor Shimamura form attachments as readily as do other people. Shimamura is much better than Adachi at ordinary social behavior, in part because Shimamura has much better parents.

But neither has a responsibility to attach to those around them. And Shimamura is not so much as hurting the feelings of the three girls who want to be her friends. She's pleasant to them, they see her as a friend, and she's not scheming to subvert their interests. Nor does she think that they ought particularly to care about her.

However, in the novel, to which this manga conforms fairly well, neither girl is on the autism spectrum. Their innate capacities to understand other people are quite superior.

Adachi wasn't moved to exercise her ability until she met Shimamura, so she's in unfamiliar territory, but she builds most of many years worth of a map in just three years.

If we accepted Bettelheim's once popular theory of “refrigerator mothers”, then indeed we'd see Adachi as an autistic who is later largely cured. But the present understanding of autism is quite different (and Bettelheim has been exposed as a cruel charlatan).

That's definitely now how I imagined the fortune teller to look like. For one I expected her to be much older.

I imagined her as older, but not as well into middle age or beyond. I also did not imagine her as cute or as especially beautiful. But I'm assuming that the author is given an opportunity to comment on the visual character designs, and probably has a veto power. So I infer that the author either didn't care, or indeed imagined the woman as young and cute.

She's not a genuine fake fortune-teller; she's a fake con-artist, and one of the better side-characters in the serial.

the artist also works on another isekai manga. its het though. has an mc that isekais to the same world while asleep and a elf girl. I thought their art looked familar.

Welcome to Japan, Ms Elf

You're not wrong, but the way they wrote the comment irked me. There's a difference between offering advice and making demands, and their tone came across to me as closer to the latter.

You impute a tone after-the-fact. I stated a general fact, provided a few illustrative examples, and then noted how to deal with the issue.

The English language has nearly 200 verbs that don't follow the more common pattern. Advising translators just to memorize them all before continuing would be quite something; recommending that they just look-up each and every verb would be worse.

Translators for whom something other than English is a first language should make a chart of all the strong verbs and tape it up near their work areas.

How much did you pay for this translation?

How much did you pay to read my comment? (At least think through the broader implications of an argument before you use it, so that you don't find yourself a hypocrite.)

Djeez! What is this tedium?

The form of the past participle for strong verbs is not that of the simple past tense.

“have run”, not “have ran”
“have rung”, not “have rang”
“have drunk”, not “have drank”
“have sung”, not have “have sang”
&c

Translators for whom something other than English is a first language should make a chart of all the strong verbs and tape it up near their work areas.

The past tense of “pet” is “petted”.

The novae were the stars that discernibly exploded. The rest may still be shining.

A girl loses more than a third of her body mass in two months. That's just terrifically unhealthy, very likely to induce heart failure, and certain to leave her with a considerable amount of excess skin.

Hey, maybe the sketchy politics can be justified since it's an Otome game, not a "historically authentic" fantasy game.

The narration partially acknowledges that the world has culturally unrealistic elements exactly because it corresponds to a game by don't-know-and-don't-care creators; but, unfortunately, it also has a layer of misinformation which is a matter of the author's own thoughtless ignorance. Then, on top of that, this forum has comments by people bringing their own misinformation or disinformation to bear.

Thus we get passing comments on the fictions of the game, criticisms of the author's own confusions, and dust-ups over comments, between people who know the relevant history and economics and those who think that they do but don't.

Wait why does that skeleton have a full fin?
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/i_favor_the_villainess_ch15_1#21

It's a stretch, but one can interpret that apparent fin as a set of vertebral osteoderms, which then would presumably act as a fin or perhaps provide structure for a fin.

Well, the next chapter is the last, so it's not looking good for anyone.

Oat fiber will cause bile to be swept out of the intestine, rather than reabsorbed, thus removing cholesterol. If you don't dislike oats, they are a great dietary choice.

But no one should eat ham for the same reason that no one should eat dog meat.