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If not projecting onto the uke is an ironclad rule, then some of the doujinshi I've been reading were clearly made by hardened criminals.

The infinite loop of reading doujinshi then watching the original and then reading more doujinshi and endlessly ranting to a friend was a little too relatable.

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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I know that no one other than me cares, but most of these so-called villainesses are really just sympathetic characters who happen to be tsunderes. Smh... if no one is going to write some really messed up villainesses for me, I'll just have to write them myself!

Real villainess that way.

Oho, you don't say....? In that case, I will have to give this manga a second chance. Thank you.

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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Pushes glasses up nose and stirs my coffee with a delicate teaspoon

"Exquisite."

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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Yes... little did Tsukushi know that all of it HAD been a dream... The kiss... the confession... even the long days spent with her childhood friend.

Every moment... every pristine memory... had been nothing more than a figment of the imagination...

None of it had taken place. In fact, Tsukushi herself was nothing more than a character in a story... lines on a page... a two-dimensional figure invented by an artist.

Yes........... it had all been a dream...

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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That was the fastest speed run from love at first sight to date. Blonde girl is SPEEDY

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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The bathing together was domestic and lovely! I don't need them to fall in love; this is fine. But I would like Mirai-chan or whatever her name is to show a bit more depth....

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
joined Nov 13, 2022

I know that no one other than me cares, but most of these so-called villainesses are really just sympathetic characters who happen to be tsunderes. Smh... if no one is going to write some really messed up villainesses for me, I'll just have to write them myself!

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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I honestly really enjoy discussions about translations! But I feel like it's so easy to step on people's toes. Everyone has their own interpretations of words, especially if we include the sometimes wide array of interpretations among native speakers...

恋人?愛人?How do you translate those!?

(As a side note, my friend has been getting on my case for using the word "lover" in English as a gender-neutral term. I wish we had a good word for 恋人 that didn't imply anything heavy, like "partner" often does)

Wait is your friend saying "lover" is not gender neutral? I'm confused.

I think the objection that my friend has to the word "lover" in place of boyfriend or girlfriend is that it sounds like some kind of illicit affair. Which would be accurate for Yuni and Fuuko, as you point out, but not for most of the average situations where you would use the word 恋人 in Japanese. Just another failing of the English language...

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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I honestly can't tell if she knows if he's a woman or not. Her naive act is so good I can't tell where it starts and where it ends. But I'm glad that her "emperor" really knows how to please his empress ;)

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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Moral of the story: Don't go around kissing high school girls in the library unless you plan to date them. But like even then. Maybe just don't go around kissing high school girls.

I'm pretty sure she wasn't kissing her on this page; she just squished her cheeks.

Ahhh, okay. If so, then I forgive her.

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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Aaah!

clutching my heart!

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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Moral of the story: Don't go around kissing high school girls in the library unless you plan to date them. But like even then. Maybe just don't go around kissing high school girls.

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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Finally we get the backstory!

............. Yeah. That would screw you up. I might develop a major sister complex with that kind of history.

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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So beautiful....! Ema-chan is adorable. I'm in love.

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
joined Nov 13, 2022

I honestly really enjoy discussions about translations! But I feel like it's so easy to step on people's toes. Everyone has their own interpretations of words, especially if we include the sometimes wide array of interpretations among native speakers...

恋人?愛人?How do you translate those!?

(As a side note, my friend has been getting on my case for using the word "lover" in English as a gender-neutral term. I wish we had a good word for 恋人 that didn't imply anything heavy, like "partner" often does)

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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This feels like a tragedy, but like in the classical sense. Romeo and Juliet except they hate each other's guts

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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Oh no the characters are becoming slightly sympathetic

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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Needy lesbian and needy gay man solidarity!!

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D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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Yeah, that was a LOOK

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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Why you gotta do that to your girlfriend and wife of seventeen years Tsukushi? I mean come on

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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Oh no if I ever become a sadist hostess and get stalked by a masochist actress, I might be influenced by an erotic comic to cross ethical lines! Thank God you're here to warn me otherwise!

I've just read chapter 6 in the Spanish translation, and I can tell you something:

Io is not the fucking stalker in this story.

Omg I don't think I've ever wanted to waste a character in a yuri manga as much as I want to waste Io's bitch of a manager. I hope Misa kicks her ass. Grr.

Huh, the bitch is already pretty nasty in just a few pages in this chapter. So I guess it's gonna get worse? I'm not really surprised.

I'm kind of expecting the manager to have put a tracking device on Io. Haven't read ahead, but we'll see if I'm right....

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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I wish Shakespeare had written a play with this premise.

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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The hollyhocks in the final image!!!!

D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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  1. I really like it when they do those subtle sparkles near the eyes.
  2. The character designs are really appealing in this one, and the art is just gorgeous.
  3. They all seem like nice enough people to me? I hope they can all be close and friendly with each other. Polyamory route (though undoubtedly rare) would work really well here, I think
  4. Dang this makes me want to be a high schooler again... but not in the U.S. or in reality. In Japan... in a manga...
D5aad09a-7f7c-4c16-aad1-2b0b94587149
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Awwwww yeahhhhh that's the angst I'm here for mmmmm delicious