That is indeed very surprising. Seemed to be in the middle of some character / "plot" development still.

It'd be funny if the scene were basically the same ... maybe even introduce a "glitch" and have Liberta have some Sakurako features halfway through ^^;

... vampires that can handle the sun and eat food. Boo. revokes vampire membership card

To me the chapter just reads like standard anime/manga fare, not in any sort of bad way. "Teen boys are always horny!" - that's why you got all the constant crap like panty stealing and sniffing and peeping and whatnot and the excuse is always "boys will be boys". Heck, there's the entire thing about washing clothes separately for unfathomable reasons (I mean, sharing bath water is fine ...).

So Wanko's just the status quo position (and I'd further say the whole 油断 - that's seems to me to be often used "around men", have your guard/defense up, don't be vulnerable; they are all wolves, and perverts, and rapists, they'll devour you if you are careless for a second ... others will better judge this but I feel it's more likely that it would have been phrased differently if it wasn't meant that way), and Elly goes "doesn't apply here because trans/girls (so not a boy and not dangerous)", only to then have that "oh wait, that's not necessarily meaning anything now that I think about it" moment.

But, eh. Whatever.

Underwhelming end to a largely underwhelming manga. The gimmick was an okay idea but afterwards it waffled about a bit and that was that then. Not exactly memorable or particularly interesting aside from 1 or 2 moments.

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Right, that's how they met. Pretty fun idea actually.

e: Yay, ch.18. One of my favorites.

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Probably a parent cancelling so her effort into finishing whatever it was was for nothing? Maybe? Possibly there'd be an answer in previous chapters ...

RIP your pun. A good effort. Much appreciated.

Ha (:

... even though there's a school festival, there wasn't enough Matsuri in this chapter.

Mistagged as What the fuck am I reading?. Seems all perfectly sane and sensible to me.

"I don't plan to talk about it with you."

Nothing the application of violence cannot solve.

Assuming they count, Takemoto Izumi's Transistor Venus and Sakura's Boundaries. Although both suffer a bit from the whole, uh, "yuri as a gimmick", sorta, thing. But whatever. They are great.

Why even have those sort of wasted pages on the upload ...

When I read your earlier comment I thought "You're gonna see it real soon" lol

tbf, in my mind everyone was talking about this hugely romantic and serious confession, not so much a "hey, just so you know ..." situation ^^; This makes much more sense with how things were going and the overall tone.

Boss looks dissatisfied with the script. Or possibly positively surprised. Or something.

So she did indeed "confess" - or more like "informed her", I guess.

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I don't know why she will give up the music, but she might have very pressing reasons for doing so

I think it's just med school being so tough and time-consuming (or possibly it'd be seen as inappropriate in Japan? I mean, it IS Japan ... but probably just time). Sucks indeed, but on the plus, no reasons she can't take it up alter again, I guess.

Mh? Hm? Back in time again ... ?

That was a surprisingly low-key and mundane interruption ...

• Not enough works depicting the potential and actual consequences of being gay.

Sorry, but what do you mean by it exactly? I think we got plenty of stories depicting homophobia and characters being bullied/dealing with prejudice over it?

imo this is an issue that partially arises from the typical setting (highschool, so consequences necessarily must be somewhat limited) and the author's usage of the (usually male) antagonist/villain-style of homophobia; effectively, you got someone in the story (perhaps a tyrannical father, or an asshole ex-/would-be boyfriend) and they must overcome/"defeat" them and then once that happens it's at least implied everything's fine now.

But that's not the same as a portrayal of pervasive homophobia; that's not "over" once you've "got your girl", you can't just "defeat" some homophobe and then you're good for the rest of your life. And I would say that manga ... I'd almost say never go into the nitty-gritty of what that truly means - especially in Japanese society, especially if we also talk about sexism and whatnot on top. For example, in work, and socializing around work, and career. Or in renting or buying property, or sharing medical costs, or having say in medical decisions of your partner. Or the political atmosphere within the country, perhaps things like small town communities vs big cities; different generations of Japanese, who knows. Anything of that sort.

It's really only "this guy is in the way and now they aren't so great! Yay!" Maybe there's some joke about getting married abroad. And that's fine of course and it can also be fine to have stories where everything's always great but I would agree that some more real nitty-gritty manga would be interesting. Something like Ikoku Nikki but (more) gay, and at least as my memory goes there's nothing (and also, because that might be suspected, Ikoku Nikki isn't bleak. This wouldn't have to be a bleak story either. Just a different one).

Mind break is a tag I expect from different contexts, but ...

Describe any character with somewhat light hair and maybe a little bit of an accessory as "gyaru" is a real misleading trend ^^;

Predatory behavior excused (explicitly or implicitly) because "it's fine, we're both girls".

For most others it's more general tropes than anything specific to yuri. Like stupid misunderstandings, endless highschool manga, the same types of characters over and over again, alcohol amnesia ...

... also, as a "meta-trope", the entire handholding stuff. Sheer cringe at this point.

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I'm just following the author for the inevitable twist 27 abandoned attempts later on when suddenly there's a reversal between the two archetypical roles.

Less SFX than expected ... for now.

So who is going to interrupt?
a) Mom (probably then telling them to continue)
b) a maid
c) mom & maids listening to the door and the door falling in
d) a rival attacking
e) something else
F) Nobody

Good times, good times.

That's what everyone's saying. I don't see it.