So, "Mistress and Twin Cat Maids" when?

Gotta say I thought the Kaede spinning like her obi was being pulled was kind of hilarious/adorable. Sad for Aoi, but at the same time it's one of those little things that makes me get why all these girls are falling for this total dork.

I have this feeling that Kishi sensei has been doing all PG-13 in Vigins' Empire, restraining the impulse to get sexy, for so long they just can't hack it any more, and in this it's all spilling out uncontrolled.

I was going to do a post saying stuff but everyone else already said what I was going to say . . . so I'm doing it anyway.
I agree with both the people that think this is a lousy development; really didn't like the tone shift, also didn't find it as sexy or as fun.

And I also even while I was reading it was thinking "Wait, she's doing what in the middle of . . . right after she's noticed that people trying to do secret stuff in public can be seen, she's gonna reach so far down that she's fingering her ass?! Like that's not going to be obvious as hell!" I mean, at least have her be sitting in some kind of little nook made by some equipment by the wall, or something.

Whee! Fun beginning. Gonna be hard for the next chapters to top it, really, but I'm willing to find out.

Other nun was saying "Have fun taming the princess!" and I was thinking "Have fun storming the castle!"

One non-rapey enforcement could be "if you don't want to live by the rules of the royal family, you don't get its privileges. Enjoy earning your living as a commoner." Something like that happened with an English king in the 1900s; he wanted to marry a divorcee, which wasn't allowed, so he abjured the throne for himself and his heirs. And special laws were passed too.

If we're talking about the guy I think we're talking about, the whole thing might have ended up a bit less extreme if he hadn't ALSO been palsy with Hitler and passing him classified information. He may actually have been a key reason France fell so fast.

"I just don't UNDERSTAND what LOVE is" is such a boring cliche in yuri. It's just a way to pad out the will-they-won't-they while still letting the primary couple do couple things together. I guess they got over it pretty quickly here, but it always makes me groan when it rears its ugly head.

yeah i'm tired of these too, and I don't think they got over it, this will probably come back in a second climax where sensei figures herself out

From the sound of things they've already had a second climax . . . at least.

Must say I was quite surprised--I really had this figured for one of those "Nothing much happens forever" kinds of manga, where you get chapter after chapter of mild pining and some suggestive scenes and fanservice mixed with gags about deadlines and so forth. Then suddenly bam! confession and bang! they banged. I prefer it this way though, so that's fine.

I don't actually mind the cliche, but this is definitely on the more obvious end. "I really enjoyed sex with this woman, and she's the only person I've ever felt like I'd be devastated if she wasn't around--it's unlike the way I've felt about anyone else, ever! Oh and by the way, what's this 'love' thing everyone talks about?"

Gee, I wonder.

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I kind of like this but I spend a lot of time thinking "Ah, what just happened?"

This chapter(and the manga to I suppose) really annoyed me. Mariya from everything I've read up to this point does want Koto to improve the same as she does yet the story seems to want us to see her as the one in the wrong, while Koto continues to carelessly go through life even though it's been 1 1/2 years since she promise to get better and instead she just gotten worst. Tomoe and her simp aren't doing her any favors with there devil may care attitude happily heading to there own downfall, Shiki alright.

Honestly my biggest gripe with this chapter in particular is when Mariya feeling like she just been a burden, which she shouldn't in my personal opinion seeing how Koto clearly needs someone to keep tabs on her even if it does come off kind of creepy, asks Koto a straight forward do you or do you don't question her responds is essentially a half-ass "I dunno maybe?" only for Tomoe to bail her with a "That's just how she is" like Jesus christ fuck off with that.

That all being said I know this is a 4-koma so I really shouldn't taking any off this to seriously, but I really need to vent a little with how much this chapter rubbed me the wrong way.

I feel like you should go read "The Iceman Cometh" by Eugene O'Neill. Which is a very abbreviated way of saying life isn't so simple that you can just fix people and they'll be fine.

So Evie is . . . Samurai Jack?!

I ended up putting this on hold on Mangadex cause I wanted to wait for it to finish releasing to see how I felt about the whole thing, but I remember feeling kinda "meh" about what I read cause the Otaku guy kinda feels like a pointless character most of the time.

I think the point of him was to assist their relationship at this point basically

Yeah, he's meant to be a wingman, but the way it's all handled he feels like he's just a plot device to move the story forward instead of an actual character that is helping move the story forward.

I know that sounds like the same thing, but I'm just terrible at explaining my thoughts. It just doesn't feel good to me. Like, Mio in I'll Cheer on my Yuri Onee-chan fulfills the same kind of role that Otaku does in this one, but I actually like him. He feels like an actual character rather than something that exists solely to move the plot forward, even though that is functionally what he does.

Nah, I get what you mean. It's true that the otaku here has basically no personality. That is part of the parody, since your average male romcom self-insert MC is similarly cardboard, but it's still a valid criticism.

To be fair, even though we're looking at 35 chapters, since they're only 4 pages each it's actually only like 4 chapters of a full length manga, and effectively maybe less because of the sort of repetitive re-establishing stuff that short-form things like this often have. Plus it's almost a gag format thing, so any character (or plot) develoment has to fit in around the edges of that. It's rare for much personality of anyone except the leads to be fleshed out in such a limited time/space.

He isn't the yuri knight...he is the epitome of a yuri guardian angel.

Somehow that goes incredibly well with your avatar.

In other news, how did I never notice this series before today?

But I'm still waiting for the canon version with baited breath.

I would never tell you not to fish with your breath, but I'll bet you mean "bated." Bate is an old word for "restrain. "

There was the story of the cat who ate some cheese and waited by the mousehole with baited breath.

1. Is she a loli, or is this a case of older than she looks?

I normally consider loli to be in the end a physical description, so she's a loli whether or not she's older than she looks.
If I had to guess, I would suspect she is somewhat older than she looks, young adult at any rate, but not old. Old enough to be trusted to do research, alone in a foreign land, to help save witch town's magic. But not an old, experienced witch--the "much much older than they look" types normally have a certain self-confidence and blase disregard for the opinions of lesser mortals that she doesn't have.

YURI WERE?

Yuri were. Yuri are. Yuri will be.
But not here, and that's fine.

Boom!

Just a quick note--it's spelled "monologue".

She SMILED.

Well, um . . . that was a thing. Now I feel better about skipping a bunch of the middle chapters.

but ok wait what's with the end. Are they together now or was that a platonic "I love you" moment?

No.

It's nice to see a 27 year old being realistic about someone 8 years their junior (even if she's a bit immature for her age in other ways). 8 years isn't a big deal for like people in their 30s and older, but between an older teenager and someone in their mid-to-late 20s, it isn't a small thing.

Bah. Like people in their mid-to-late 20s are so mature. Still kids really.

I mean, there are very obviously potential power dynamic issues here, but that was true before they found out the age gap. Business owner v Part Time worker is obviously a big difference in wealth, and Mu Xiaoen is one of the most influential people in that whole town. So the power dynamics problems present in an age gap story are already here. And that wasn't enough to make people worried before. I think it really comes down to how the two interact in this case, and Mu Xiaoen doesn't seem to be the person who will abuse her power, especially when she's already so conscious of the age issue.

Yeah I second. I sometimes get the feeling people learned what a "power dynamic" is and turned it polemical when the reality is every relationship is going to have, to varying degrees, A Power Dynamic. That doesn't make it unreasonable for someone like mu xiaoen to have some discomfort about it, but it's also meant to be, yknow, a comedic overblowing of a situation because by any metric shi xingyuan is an adult who has autonomy over her own actions and her desires. you don't just avoid every potential encounter out of a fear of power dynamics, you gotta take it case by case and just, yknow, learn how to be good to each other.

Hear, hear.

Also, 8 years, 2 generations...? How young do people get married over there?

Ehhh, obviously one of those cheating things where she has extended family, like second cousins or something, where one branch had the generations go kind of quicker than the other branch so she's got grand-nieces even though she's 27. She's just the kind of quibbler who would use that.

I do have a vague memory of hearing that rule of thumb. But I don't know if I heard it when I was a kid or just saw it mentioned on the internet much more recently.

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Definitely chortled at "Well, that too."