Cute.

Cute.

And those potions were listed as a separate item, -100k.

Actually, no, those were the potions she made later for the grizzly hunt. (And after checking this I need to correct myself - it wasn't the 20M that left her in need to get the ingredients from the grizzlies, she pointed the need for make up for the loss out when discussion merely these potions. Presumably because the 20M treatment will eventually be paid for.)

And let's also address this:

When all she did was use the herbs growing around the house to make potions.

There's a reason she goes through the grizzlies for ingredients. The herbs around her house are certainly a nice part of her new house's beneficial location, but by no means the only ingredients she needs. It's made very clear that the gatherers are main source of ingredients for any alchemist. Similarly to how they need to pay her for her work, she needs to be able to pay them for theirs.

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Nice. :D

Lovely. ^_^

clicked on this coz they look cute in the poc now im loving the progress of the story my goshhh new fave!!!! can’t wait for the next chapterrr. anyone knows other manga like this pls tell meeee

Another choice close to this would be How Do I Get Together With My Childhood Friend?. A few of us actually keep having trouble keeping these two apart. :D

Okay, I remembered it while reading something else the other day, but I think it was called I dont want to be a fairy godmother? Or something like that? Had the two gals as childhood friends then they grew apart but one was still sewing the other her dress???
I can imagine like every page, I just can't remember who wrote it, and my searches are getting me nowhere

Cast a Spell

As we learn later, she very much needed the ingredients from the grizzlies to avoid bankruptcy herself after the treatment.

[X] Doubt

She lost at most one day's labour, plus some grass growing around her shop. She hasn't bought anything and has no debts, so the prospect of bankruptcy doesn't even make sense.

The price of the treatment is literally listed at the end of the episode as bringing her 20 million into the red.

I don't hate her anymore (maybe because I'm tired of doing it lol) but this chapter was kinda... unnecessary, like, things went exactly as aaaaaaaaaanyone could've expected, beside we pretty much knew that things played out more or less like this since like a year ago or two? and now we see it and is like, oh alright.

I wouldn't really say "unnecessary". Her feelings are not the new information here, we got that the last time. What we have here is an absolutely beautiful view of her getting all giddy over her feelings, which can never be a bad thing, and the truly heartbreaking moment of her finding out about Aki's. Sure, we had the general idea of what had happened, but actually seeing all this was still something entirely different - I certainly would never have expected to see Shiho behave quite like she was during her time with Aki, and while we knew Aki loving Yori was the reason she broke her ties with the band, until now we had no idea how devastating the moment she found out about it was.

So, last panel: is Miss Sunflower present in the Kazamatsuri family home for Fuuko’s birthday?

Or is she out drinking with the adults and just telepathically sees the mutual siscons embrace?

She just knows her Matsuri.

You think you've seen it all when it comes to problematic anime, and they still find new ways to surprise you. The third episode of this season's alchemist anime was gross. They bring not!Ryza a patient with a severed arm and she really has the gall to say "I can save her life... if you're loaded". Not only that, but when they protest the vulgarity of her actions, she literally stops what she's doing and instead of treating the patient (WHO IS MISSING AN ARM) goes into a freaking lecture justifying putting a monetary value on life.

How does an author arrive at such a fundamentally vile worldview, to the point of feeling they have something insightful to contribute to society by soapboxing about it in their story? Even the US, which is notorious for pushing hundreds of thousands of citizens into medical bankruptcy every year, still provides emergency treatment no questions asked. That's the absolute minimum, the lowest of lows to be able to say you live in a society, yet here we are with an author confidently asserting that people deserve to die if they don't have money. Watching this left an absolutely sickening taste in my mouth. This is Mushoku Tensei-tier "anime was a mistake" material. Although I guess it's really "WNs were a mistake".

That is literally not the case, though? She offers the choice between only lifesaving emergency treatment or also restoring her arm, etc. With the latter being the much more expensive option. Yes, it's a bit harsh and didn't quite sit well with me either, but it's also not something she can afford to do for free. As we learn later, she very much needed the ingredients from the grizzlies to avoid bankruptcy herself after the treatment. And while it does certainly remind one of the insanity of the American health system, being aware of the options and making the choice first certainly beats being presented the bankrupting bill after the fact.

One should also not forget that we are not dealing with a modern society that has health insurance and easily accessible hospitals. People would normally die of such injuries in this world. She's incredibly lucky that the village even got a new alchemist now, otherwise she would have had not much of a chance to survive.

So yeah, all things considered, while this did leave a bit of a bad taste in my mouth, it's far more realistic for the given setting than your usual OP healers performing miracles left and right with no cost to themselves.

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I'm super interested in what would make a pleasure-centric robot jealous.

As we just saw, it's being left out of the fun.

What if it was some kind of neglect play though? Would she just short circuit?

Would probably be fine as long as Akane doesn't go to any other girls at the same time. Of course, we'll never know, with Akane being the bottom that she is. We've already seen Akane try to avoid any sexual activity with Nadeshiko at the start of the series, and look how well that went. Even less likely to succeed now that she's already used to their current lifestyle.

I'm super interested in what would make a pleasure-centric robot jealous.

As we just saw, it's being left out of the fun.

Ah, so this is what she meant... Not that she's really wrong, but there's a very obvious much bigger reason for Matsuri not to move that far.

I'm starting to suspect Shiho may win the battle after all - since this time it will be her turn to sing her love song. If Hima an convince her to, at least.

I mean yeah sure it sucks that the person you like doesn’t like you back but why does the author have her make it seem like she was cheated on like it was this super dramatic trauma and hates the other person for no particular reason at all. Doesn’t really make me like her character at all and I never liked her character that much either because it was obvious she hated yori because she liked the other girl

Eh, I mean, it's easy to sit here and judge, but the timing could not have been worse for Shiho to find out about Aki's feelings for Yori right at the time she was at the absolute highest point with her own, having finally written that love letter after so many tries and happily coming over to see her to hand it over. The despair feels so much deeper the higher the fall. Not saying Shiho has been right to behave the way she has, but it's certainly understandable why she would feel the way she does.

At this point my biggest worry is that they wont have Shiho apologize or feel bad at the end of her arc. Like if she gets to reconcile with every1 without rectifying or at least adressing how much of an ass shes been to every1, thatll be severly disappointing (but im afraid thats what we might get).

There's no way Aki would let her get away with that.

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Nadeshiko logic. And apparently she's not even wrong in some cases this time... :D

Cute.

Wait, what do you mean, "again"?

Peach metaphors. She really wants to sink her claws in Xiaoen. And now a piece of Xiaoen is stuck in her. :D

I see Masina has regained their unshakeable belief in their right to post spoilers without spoiler tags.

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Technically Newtypes are only present in the UC timeline.

Technically, that is not entirely true. They're also an important part of the AW timeline, and do exist in the CE timeline, although overshadowed by the existence of Coordinators.

No idea what that "T" is, though.

And yeah, no Newtypes in this series. At least so far. I don't really expect any to show up, though, as the prologue makes a point of declaring GUND the way for humanity to live in space.

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Huh, didn’t realize there was a webnovel. Odd, but okay.

Well, calling it a web novel may be a bit too much. Bonus story seems a more accurate term.

That was a fun view of her internal battle, but I can only think about one thing - why would you sleep with your earrings like that...?

Nice. :D

Nika's yuri senses are tingling.

Beautiful. ^_^