Super cute and Okamoto is a totally me staying home from going out to watch her favorite anime.

Like many oneshots, it ended right at the best part.

Well it sure looked like Colin got hit by a truck there but Mary couldn't find a trace of her.

Only conclusion you can come to is Colin got isekai'd by truck-kun. No idea what world she got sent to but chances are it's better than this one where she's being raped, beaten, and impregnated by her father.

Here's a post from Mangadex user Manko-sensei (Lol surely trustworthy with that name) that gives a bit more insight https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/whisper-me-a-love-song-ch-51-bewilderment-lies-and-hesitation.1865907/page-3

In the anime she's using "aitsu" (koibito is completely neutral, so the translation is dependent of this term), that term is normally used for male partners, which is the counterpart of "yatsu", that's why it's translated as boyfriend. The thing is, nowadays "aitsu" is not only used to refer men, just someone you know well and in informal situations (or just in a derogatory sense), and nowhere in the manga or the anime that ex-partner is given a name, sex or even referred again. Considering yuri is completely normal in this series, a female partner is completely plausible, both language-wise and story-wise. If it wasn't specified is because this was not deemed important, and considering men are almost non-existent in most yuri series you can assume it was a girl, so unless the author decides to determine who was this ex-partner it should be assumed it was a she.

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IIRC Miki has had a boyfriend before, but I forget if we know how into him she was. But I'm not betting on it.

At this point I'm tempted to wonder if "boyfriend" was a mistranslation considering the lack of orientation talk (nobody even thought to warn Ayaka her crush might not be into girls, odd omission if she was dating a guy) and the anime seems to have gone very gender neutral when Miki mentioned her past.

Just checked the raws for ch6 and they do say 彼氏さん (the term is also used in one of the upcoming anthology chapters). But it goes without saying this isn't one of those yuri series that gets hung up on the topic of sexuality. It's very much a "this person falls in love with this person" kinda thing.

So the manga used "kareshi"(boyfriend) and the anime used used "koibito"(lover)? Wonder if @Mayjaplaya is on to something and Takeshima wanted to retcon it?
I've read plenty of yuri where they don't touch on sexuality and all the characters that fall in love are all assumed to like girls by default despite men existing (as opposed to the 404: Men Not Found yuri).
But I can't recall one where a character previously dated a guy and then fell in love with a girl where they don't touch on sexuality at all. Like...why go out of your way to write a character as bi but then just ignore the elephant in the room of sexual orientation after you've drawn attention to it?
If you don't want to touch on sexual orientation then just keep everyone as assumed to be lesbian the same way other authors do.

What makes it even worse for me is how the initial conflict of the manga is Himari trying to understand what love is and talking to Miki in an attempt to figure it out. Why would you write your characters having a discussion about love, make one of them bi, and then not touch on sexual orientation?

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IIRC Miki has had a boyfriend before, but I forget if we know how into him she was. But I'm not betting on it.

At this point I'm tempted to wonder if "boyfriend" was a mistranslation considering the lack of orientation talk (nobody even thought to warn Ayaka her crush might not be into girls, odd omission if she was dating a guy) and the anime seems to have gone very gender neutral when Miki mentioned her past.

I posted a similar comment in the Mangadex discussion. It would be odd if Miki previously had a boyfriend and neither Himari or Aki thought they should inform Aya about it when she was consulting them about confessing to Miki: "Not saying you shouldn't confess, but just giving you a heads up that based on Miki's dating history she might not be into girls".

I had also previously posted a comment after checking the anime where Himari and Miki talk about her ex to see if I could get any more info about the gender of Miki's ex.

That comment:
"It's at 6:50 of episode 3 if anyone wants to check. Himari uses the term "koibito", which to my knowledge is gender neutral and often translated as "lover". Miki talking about it also sounds gender neutral...but somebody who actually understands Japanese should verify my amateur understanding."

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Yeah anybody who still thought there was a chance it wasn't romantic love was in denial, but at least we've removed all doubt.

I'm really hoping we can segue into development for Momoka. Her being able to move on from her past love is what I've most been wanting to see from the side characters. Having your lover die must be horribly heartbreaking, so I wish she could learn to love again to show she won't always be carrying that grief with her.

SSC is very common in Western BDSM: "safe, sane, and consensual".

RACK is "risk-aware consensual kink". E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-aware_consensual_kink

Thanks for the info! Now to see if I remember this if/when they come up again.

What I was trying to point out is that there is an understanding between Marika and Aya about Marika "Selling herself" to Aya and a contract being drawn up between the two that they both agree to, it doesn't justify that Aya went over the line but it is one of many factors that make the "infamous" scene not cut and dry.

Yeah, I'd call it a poorly negotiated CNC situation. No safe word and no explicit refusal of safe word. Closer to RACK than SSC, but not very Risk Aware. Aya had one expectation ("I can do whatever I want for the duration") and Marika was just winging it and responding to things, can't even call it a clear expectation.

Could have ended very badly, but they got lucky.

These acronyms - am I having gay sex or being deployed to Iraq?

Lmao. I understand Consensual Non-Consent but both RACK and SSC are lost on me. I can't ever recall seeing them before but would google them if they started popping up more in discussions I was reading.

Been more than 3 months since the last update. Has the translator dropped this? Anyone know the status of the raws?

This one popped into my mind after seeing this Reddit thread on another upcoming manga about a cheating wife: https://reddit.com/r/yuri_manga/comments/1exr7p3/how_we_feeling_about_the_premise_for_irumas/

Are you Honkai players ready for the crossover event which adds both Keqing and Fischl to that game? I don't play that game but I'd thought that people would like to know.

I am a Honkai player and hell yea I am ready

What is this collab y'all are talking about? I only know about the Star Rail collab with Fate Stay Night UBW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huTDtxqzKgE

Archer might be the first male character I spend money on...assuming he'll be available to pull for. Wonder what other characters we might get.

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^You're right. It was rude of me to mention how Firefly and Robin don't speak to each other in-game. Sorry about that.

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^Thanks for the info but this image is "up for interpretation" ;)
I'll interpret the artwork is for the pair that actually has many cute in-game moments together over the pair that never even speaks to each other.

Looks like Stelle was a bit rough with Firefly. She's still tied up but probably needs a break.

The Final Battle to crown the Cockatoo Queen

Whoa now...what's Kita bout to do with that cig?! Don't you dare abuse that precious Bocchi!

Asta's the same height as many of the other younger female characters but I always think of her as more petite for some reason.

Ch 348 is out: https://kakuyomu.jp/works/1177354054894027232/episodes/16818093083045251930

Well pretty much as expected of her...Miyagi continues to act like Miyagi. Sendai even thinks about how Miyagi always gets her hopes up only to dash them away, but she still loves Miyagi anyway.
Another one to throw on the rather large pile labeled "Thank God Miyagi found Sendai, because ain't nobody else putting up with her shit."

I do wonder what Miyagi thought about Sendai crying.

I kinda wanna see this getting worse, then a bit worse...then ending with a blast!!

Frankly I don't want to read "worse" than a child being raped by her dad and then burying the stillborn fetus.

Just typing that made me feel gross.

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Wait minute.... is her older sister Meguru????

Most of us are working under that assumption. The alternative is she just so happens to look exactly like Meguru.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is it's now clear that Sendai's student has a crush on her. And it seems that Sendai has picked up on this crush.

I wonder how this will come into play in future chapters. Will Miyagi somehow find out about this? Will the student(Kikyo?) continue to try to find ways to spend time with Sendai? Will Sendai have to let Kikyo know that she's more than just "roommates" with Miyagi so Kikyo knows she has no shot at romance with her.

I wouldn't call it a crush. She is just someone she is looking up to and admire. Not denying her potential feelings, but that's not how I read it.

Interesting, I thought there was little room for doubt since right after declining Kikyo's request to hang out sometime, Sendai then made an observation about how Kikyo treasures her pencil case the same way she treasures her own and then considers what the two have in common (we can infer she means they were both gifted to them by someone she loves).

What a cute subby tomboy. And she found her perfect match in a beautiful dommy femme.

Bit over the top at the end there.
I'm still hoping Bear-kun shows up to solve the diddler dad problem

Thinking about the inevitable reunion between Azuki and Meguru:
The sadist in me wants Meguru to not recognize Azuki and not even remember who she is at first as a contrast to the obsession Azuki has developed for her HS crush from 6 years ago.

"I'm very sorry about my spotty memory, but aren't you a bit too upset by me not immediately remembering you, Azuki? Yeah we shared some meaningful time 6 years ago, but we've experienced a lot more of life and grown up since then. Well...I guess I have at least. What have you been doing?"
-Meguru, confused by by a hysterical Azuki, who has let life pass her by while she focused on nurturing her ever-growing obsession for Meguru.

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^"I thought y'all might start seeing me as some religious figure with the way I kept making all you scream 'OH GOD! OH GOD!' when we were together."

^Ya Stelle is versatile in how she looks great in both a suit and a dress. Though she looks best in a suit when she's with a petite kinda "girly girl" like Asta.