TBF Shizuka and Kaoru are both so goddamn weird it's anyone's guess how far they actually got back in the day until Word of God finally deigns to divulge more information about those times.

...but personally I'd be rather surprised if they didn't have lots of dirty monkey sex. >_>

Wait a minute... this isn't a kidnapping! She's just taking her girlfriend home with her...

It's her first time, give the girl a break. Nobody starts out an expert. :P

what unspeakable depravity is this

What.. This woman is a train wreck. How did she get through education with honours..

Not having a Koharu around to flip her Too LoliconGay To Function switch might of had something to do with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just a random little thing, I saw a car today (in the middle of rural Kentucky) with a cute Paimon sticker in the rear window. Kinda made my day.

"Honk if you bully pigeons" :P

I bet the bartender girl is somewhat related to yorimitsu guy, that's why her family know so much about drinks

And the way she made a lemon sour matched the way the ogre girl had it for the first time too, connection perhaps? I think her grandpa served demons

Considering it's been 'bout a thousand years, if Yorimitsu had children at all (and those had children of their own) - he did btw - then given how human genealogies work being able to claim lineal descent from him wouldn't really be anything particularly special because a nontrivial segment of Japan's population could do that... It's kind of like that "related to Genghis Khan" thing you might have heard of.

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amateur lolicon

That sounds like a third-degree burn

[Predictive text wanted that to be Lesbian sidecar, which might apply to Girls' Last Tour.]

Waiting for the day a gacha game about anthropomorphised bikes comes out.

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is this some new version of the "how to talk to short people" meme

What HAIRESY is this

^"Liquid Piss"
"Some kinda BEER" (not sure about the middle word here)

Someone clearly hasn't been impressed by commercial beverage labels :D

It's iike Raiden Mei and Raven actually hooked up, with Raven breaking out in full bartender mode.

This is a false analog.

Naori isn't pointlessly edgy.

^that's not a tall order given Honkai!Yae fucking died - twice, if you count the Previous Era one as the same being.

Those beer tap titles though

Ya, seems about in character for the birdie

...the history and hoplology nerd in me is having to engage in some intense tongue-biting to not nitpick on several parts of the above. >_>

That's a first.

I'm trying to break a bad habit ok .-.

More topically, would you like some jelly filled doughnuts...?

...the history and hoplology nerd in me is having to engage in some intense tongue-biting to not nitpick on several parts of the above. >_>

... and I think that a reason for translating something which amounts to "don't make the reader do any unnecesary research" is a perfectly good reason. It's more or less the point of translating stuff, make the reader understand the story.

"Unnecessary research" is an oxymoron.

why is this tagged yuri?

Eiko. Just Eiko.

Ah Yeah, totally forgot she has a crush lol. Gotta read it then

She also has a yandere stalker, who just got another appearance recently. :P

And then there's the way Kamu and Sensei have basically reached an amiable sharing agreement over her...

Question, what would you call a creature that has horns and red skin, lives in hell where they torture sinners, and is variously portrayed either as flesh-and-blood monsters or ethereal evil spirits?

I dunno why people ever translated Oni as Ogres because they way more obviously correspond to Western depictions of demons in my view.

Because that's neither their original nor their major mythological aspect? Shuten-dōji, a strong runner for the single most famous specimen, for example was certainly always considered a very concretely earthly creature, while the Momotaro tale basically depicts them as a tribe of ersatz Viking raiders on an island. The whole "warden of Hell" business was a cheerful syncretism with Hindu-Buddhist ideas - the Shinto concept of afterlife is rather different and more akin to the ancient Greek realm of Hades, near as I know.

I'd also point out that oni were always depicted as highly variable in coloration (take the well-known "Red Oni and Blue Oni" tale for ex) whereas the whole "red horned dude with pitchfork" image of Christian demons is a very recent dumb stereotypization; you sure as shit don't find it for example in Bosch's famous hellscape (painted sometime between 1490-1510), Dante's Divine Comedy (written 1308-1320) or the numerous grimoires of demonology penned by occultists over the centuries.

(although I've seen demon, but that has problems too)

Rather major ones I should think. Wouldn't be exaggerated to say that's a fair bit less correct than translating tanuki as raccoon...

Not a fan of Oni being translated as Ogre (personal pet peeve, lol), but otherwise this looks great!

Ogre are like onions

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...cutting them makes you cry?

Think of Aria like an old computer, with constant upgrade for its hard drive. The chip is set and cannot be replaced, so do memory card. The end result is an inferior computer wth a large hard drive, which will take quite a bit of time for the computer to process.

I'm really not sure what this metaphor is trying to say given there doesn't seem to be any indication whatsoever the figurative technology has improved either...

Not a fan of Oni being translated as Ogre (personal pet peeve, lol), but otherwise this looks great!

Gotta say I'm with you there. Ogres and Oni are not the same thing. Let me put it this way: If I was reading a Western fantasy book written in English, with a Japanese setting, and it had Oni, they'd call them Oni. I know because I've read several such and that's what they do.
For that matter, I've read at least one manga that did have at least one ogre girl who was in fact a Western ogre (along with an elf girl, an orc girl, a werewolf girl etc) so when I saw "Ogre girl" I was glumly expecting an actual ogre girl.

Ogre is the closest Western mythological analogue, though, and while depictions of either aren't exactly what you'd call rigorously consistent they share a lot of traits and themes.

Another question entirely is why the term should be translated in the first place. Basically anyone who's had any meaningful amount of contact with Japanese popular culture knows what it means after all...