May I also suggest "Pandora's Devils"? by momozerii
It's on tapas (ongoing) and it's pretty cool

Or more like, it's awesome
Go read it people!

The link

last edited at Oct 22, 2021 4:43PM

The last four chapters have completely taken me out of the story, Hima trying to make Shiho and Aki get along, Shiho’s unsympathetic backstory, and Shiho taking advantage of Hima’s idiocy are all terrible developments to the story.

Shiho's unsympathetic backstory was gold though

And if it actually turns out that Shiho left the band because she was in love with Aki, but was unrequited because Aki was in love with Yori, I will be INCREDIBLY PISSED. That is such a predictable and boring scenario that it completely brings down the story for me. In that scenario, the biggest conflict could literally be resolved if Shiho says “I like you.” That’s just bad storytelling. And if Shiho and Aki somehow get together in the end, then that would just be a slap in the face.

I agree completely with this. It's not like I can't imagine this type of manga to actually reveal that that was basically the reason she quit, but perhaps this is exactly where the problem lies: it is too predictable a development for this story, which makes it rather uninteresting. And, yes, I definitely wouldn't want to see them get together, but for some reason I feel like the author won't go that way in the end...? Or maybe I just hope so lol

Oh, it's so precious like looking a gemstone... if the gemstones were made of little puppies.

Edit: I mean, like the gemtones if you put them in a microscope, you will see millions of little adorable puppies

I like how you thought to clarify lol
I hadn't actually imagined anything else before reading the edit, but when I realized how weirdly the "gemstones made of puppies" could be read as, it was very funny XD

I'll just have to wait for chapter 10 to see if it really continues from where chapter 1 left off, I guess...?

Well, chapter 10 really does seem to be the direct continuation of chapter 1, so I suppose that's that about the timeline thing. I still feel that the author could have done a better job with that, though. The passage of time, the change of the seasons, none of it was properly conveyed to the reader, I think.

I feel like I wanted to talk about something else too, but I'm forgetting what it was.... Oh well

Lol nice one
I can only imagine the struggle of having to maintain the perfect devil look...
Homura, don't give up!

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I love how the translator took the time to give an explanation about the timeline, it's always fun to interact (even if indirectly) with the people who are working on the series!

I can kinda see how the first chapter could fit here perhaps... But doesn't the school year in China start in September?? And the first chapter was set in June, which would mean that that incident happened towards the end of the year. Has almost a whole year passed since chapter 2? Cause I didn't really get that impression....

Whatever, I don't even know why I'm so hung up on this lol
I'll just have to wait for chapter 10 to see if it really continues from where chapter 1 left off, I guess...?

last edited at Oct 17, 2021 4:40PM

This newest chapter seems to be fairly solid evidence against the "none of the girls are serious/they all have ulterior motives" theory, love that. Roommate seems to be fairly possessive and Riri is already head-over-heels for our MC as well. Now that's promising :D

Yeah... Somehow I'm both happy and disappointed about this..

Anyway, I liked Riri,
but I'm still rooting for the roommate, I think

I always find it kind of... weird? funny? when characters in manga/anime say something like this about the high school they're attending, because in my country there aren't any high school entrance exams; so, "because it was close by" is literally everyone's reason for attending a particular high school lol (apart from a few exceptions, of course).

Anyway, really liking this so far. It felt as if it took a bit too long for the protagonist to understand her feelings, but I binge read this, so it doesn't matter that much to me XD

The hairstyles (Nagisa's, especially) remind me of Takeshima Eku's art. Regardless, the art is great and the designs are very cute.

Since I was talking about Nagisa's hair, I should also mention that it's a bit funny how she said in the beginning that she dyed her hair to look like a delinquent. I mean, she's always talking about studying and gets perfect scores on tests... What kind of delinquent is that?!
You ain't fooling nobody, girl

On a side note, this is exactly what I'm like when it comes to horror movies. lol

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In some other, more slapstick comic it would turn out that actually she kind of sucks at basketball.

Lol
I'd like to see that, to be honest. That would also explain why we never saw the ball go through the hoop XD

C: She's shipping people!!!!"

....uh, I feel like I've done that

@RadiosAreObsolete If we are talking when ch1 is set, it seems to be early on but AFTER the other chapters so far-
but tbh I think what that is is a more or less stand alone chapter- it was probably the test chapter that got the ok to become a serial and then the author kinda starts again, and thus they dont really fit great.

Yeah, that was more or less my conclusion as well, though I guess I didn't make it quite clear with my post. Seeing how the narrative is pretty much linear since chapter 2, I kinda decided to erase chapter 1 from my mind and just see it as an alternate first meeting side story lol

Edit, cause I forgot to talk about the chapter:
I'm still kind of annoyed at Yanxing's request. If you want to go against your parents, you'll need to confront them yourself, not ask others to help you deceive them, so that they won't have a choice but to accept your decision. Is that really brave of her? It'd say it's rather cowardly and immature. I'd don't know if I'm just not a good friend XD, but I don't believe this is a favor you should ask of a friend, nor one a friend should grant you. It really is "a presumptuous request".

On an unrelated note, I feel like we were left hanging with that ball... DID IT EVER GO THROUGH THE HOOP??

last edited at Oct 13, 2021 6:59PM

"...could you help me deceive my parents?"
Girl, no.

Okay, I don't really understand what's going on anymore. In the first chapter they barely knew each other, right? And since the last few chapters all take place right after they enter high school and meet for the first time, the first chapter should be chronologically after this. But then they seem closer now then in chapter 1, I am very confused

Can anyone explain?

I know right? That's what I was talking about when I said that I couldn't follow the timeline!

In the first chapter it seems as though that was their first time talking...? But then in the second chapter they meet at the start of the school year, and in the third she even gets invited out on the very same day. I can only imagine that the first chapter was done before the author had a clear idea of the whole story, but I don't get what's going on.

To the people who said that we might not get the "does she like me back...?" drama
Here came chapter 5 lol

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^ Ooh, that's the one, thanks!
(Or at least that's the one I had been looking for lol, but I'm pretty sure that goes for the original poster as well)

I thought I had checked Momono Moto, but I guess I somehow missed this one... Anyway, thanks for the help!

Someone had posted this a while back:

Sometime ago i've read a oneshot here about a girl and her classmate (i think they are on middleschool), and they got the bus together but never talked. Then the one with the short black hair find out that the one with blonde hair is moving to tokyo, she goes to her house and start crying, they talk and after some years the one who stayed at the city behind receive a letter saying she is going back for a week.

The artstyle look like this one: https://dynasty-scans.com/series/cotton_candy

If someone know the nome of the manga i would be really grateful.

I was wondering if anyone's stumbled upon it since then? Cause it made me want to reread it too, but I have yet to find it.

Haha, she's singing the transformation song
Loose hair Anthy is the way to go :)

The art is a bit stiff. While I feel like they've done a good job with the lighting and backgrounds, their facial expressions are a bit flat.

The script could also use a bit more refining. While I'm all for quick progress that doesn't drag out for a hundred chapters, things were going maybe a bit too quickly? I feel like I had a hard time following the timeline of events. Also, I couldn't help but laugh at grandma's completely incidental and not at all weird description of the protagonist's circumstances lol

"You enrolled in No. 4 middle school just to be with me due to my declining health. Because of that, you've not made many friends in the last few years. But now you're older and you should have your own life. Go make friends and have fun."
"Thanks, grandma, I had completely forgotten that I didn't have friends and that you were sick! Can I count on you to remind me of anything else I might have forgotten about my life? Hihihi~"

I mean, you don't have characters say things just so that the readers can understand the setting. It'd be a lot better if the grandma just said something like,
"Now that you're in your new school, you should try to make some friends, without worrying about me".
You'd still be able to tell that she didn't have any friends and that her grandma probably has some health issues, but at least it wouldn't be this awkward lol

I don't know why, but the translator notes, at the very end, giving the suggestion to resize if you're reading on Dynasty are really funny to me.

Like, I'm just imagining someone absolutely struggling to read it then getting to that at the end and being like

I thought the suggestion was cute, but this really is funny XD

Also, very cute one-shot. It's a bit funny that, not only had she drawn the roommate as a shy, gay-panicking mess, but also herself as confident and assertive... I wonder if the roommate realized this (I bet she did and decided to correct things lol).

Well, I guess it's good to dream, Xiu Yang!

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Third.
Chapter 20 had an... interesting cover. Either Kase has four fingers, or she is making a quite bold, for this manga at least, hand gesture.... Though, I suppose hurling your backpack at someone's face is a bit bolder lol

She's holding the flower with her index and middle fingers, you can see the tip of the former peek out behind the title on the left of it a bit

Ohhhh I never realised the flower wasn't part of the background!

Thanks for this, it just seemed so weird and out-of-place with the image I had of Kase (and the manga) XD
It may sound a bit funny, but her throwing a bag at another person seemed a lot more normal than her doing that lol

I just reread and caught up with this today and there are four things I'd like to say:

First.
Isn't Kase clearly a lesbian? Or, at the very least, she is obviously attracted to women in general. (This is an answer to an equally funny and baffling discussion that had taken place after chapter 19? I think)

Second.
Is it bad that I liked jealous Kase...?
Or, rather, I liked her face when she was jealous XD
I mean, look at this, isn't she pretty hot??
Actually, the author's artstyle has improved a lot over time. College Yamada is prettier and college Kase is hotter.

In all seriousness, though, it's good that we're finally moving on from that jealousy arc, Kase was getting way too possessive...

Third.
Chapter 20 had an... interesting cover. Either Kase has four fingers, or she is making a quite bold, for this manga at least, hand gesture.... Though, I suppose hurling your backpack at someone's face is a bit bolder lol

Fourth.
Of course we ship the roommate with the rival! I've been shipping them since chapter 11 XD
I really like the roommate by the way, she's cute. I feel like she reminds me of a character in another manga, but I can't quite put my finger on it...

Since I read the raw, I want to point out something that is not spoilers but my thoughts about the November issue.
1. How hard is it for Nanase to invite Yuni to sit in the gym in order to be around her during practice? Yuni attends no club and participates no sports.
2. How hard is it for Nanase to tell everyone that Yuni is a fan and friend of hers.
3. How hard is it for Nanase POSSIBLY POKE AROUND to create a volleyball team manager job for Yuni, which makes her legit to hang around all the time.

Yuni wouldn't really be satisfied with any of that though, would she...? She doesn't want to watch Nanase practice, she wants to spend time with her, right? At least that's what I would think.
The question is, why is Nanase in a relationship if she wants to focus on her club and she's not ready to even spend time with Yuni in public?

This series treats its tropes like it’s the horror genre. I mean, “Please don’t tell—I’ll do anything”? Seriously? Has this person never watched TV, gone to the movies, or read a book?

Well, to be fair, she was shocked and scared about being her secrets being discovered, making rational decisions is rather hard for her at that time.

I mean, it does sound cliché, but the "fight, flight or freeze" response is very much real.

Oh please, I seriously haven't heard of anyone saying something like that ever in any circumstance in real life.
Then again, I haven't really talked to people who had creepy stalkers blackmailing them, so there's that....

This series really is kind of frustrating to read, simply because everyone acts freaking stupid?! (or are a creepo lol). And why does Yuni buy any of Fuuko's sh*t?

I was joking about dropping it last time, but now I'm seriously thinking about it.

This sounds bad but most of us agree that even if it doesn't end as yuri, it's an enjoyable series with really good moments... BUT if it turns out that any of the two or both get boyfriends after all, I would probably drop it hahaha, it would feel out of place to me after all this time and teasing.

I don't think I would mind Nozomi getting a boyfriend much... but Shino is, like, hella gay, it would just be weird lol

Even if it was Nozomi though, I would only be fine with it if it was at the ending, or if it wasn't a main point of focus in the story (which seems unlikely, given how awkward it would be to introduce someone like that to her former husband's sister...). This is a story about these two and their relationship; even if it doesn't go yuri, I wouldn't want to see it shift from that.

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I just knew she would leave the aisle and it would make Kanon anxious when she came back! I mean, of course it would!

Do people really separate to pay for things like this? Usually if I’m with a friend and they go to buy something I’ll stand with them to chat, even if I’m not buying anything. If it was a family member maybe but not a friend

Even though I understand what you mean, there have definitely been times when I was just looking around, while my friend was at the counter (or the other way around), so it's not really such an outlandish or manga-only incident XD

But Saki could have been paying a bit more attention to whether Kanon had finished her purchase (and definitely not leaving), since Kanon would have a hard time spotting her in the midst of a crowd.

Okay, I've been pondering this for a while, and I have to ask: why is the dark skin tag an exception to the normal tagging rules?
If you look at any other tag related to appearance, like animal ears or glasses, it says that these tags shouldn't be added to every single picture of a character that normally has those attributes. Makes sense.
So why is every post with a character with dark skin tagged that?

Because dark skin is precious and needs to be accessible for everyone to see!

...Please ignore this.

To be honest, I'd rather have all pictures (even those with animal ears/glasses) tagged with the corresponding tags, because there are a lot of shows/games with characters that have such characteristics and I can't really look them up because I'm not familiar with them. But I also understand why they wouldn't be tagged, so idk

is chapter 101 a reupload? i’ve read it before but i almost exclusively use dynasty for all my manga reads…

I don't think it had been uploaded here before, but perhaps you read it when Serenata posted the link to mangadex?