Gaaah they're so cute!

With all the D4DJ art here lately it feels like Christmas in July.

Lovely, thanks for the upload!

Yes please Morgan give your wife lots of kisses.

I don't think this Yandere will progress past her current pathetic and petty asshole behavior, but I again would love to be proven wrong. I think this series had a solid start...but it feels like they're going for pure Edge-Porn with how messy the writing currently is, and how much of a power trip the Yandere is on.

This honestly depends on how well things progress from here. It's clear that Akari as she is right now has no yandere tendencies whatsoever, there are specific conditions for those future memories to re-emerge, and that buried yandere is very much intent to keep its existence hidden even from Akari herself. So there is a possibility that if they manage to avoid whatever tragedies gave rise to that part of Akari, it may disappear (or at least calm down enough through merging with the much happier rewound Akari) to be able to live together happily.

I like the way you think, but I'm worried that the author is just going to go for the edgier option of having the Yandere aspect only become even more prominent as the series progresses. I really hope you're right though, and maybe the pacing and world building will actually get smoother as the series progresses as well. Fingers crossed and I guess we'll see haha

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Full color Homura Subaru is a blessing

Amen.

I see the re:Zero comparisons but to me Akaris powers and her personality reminds me more of Homura.

Oh that's an interesting comparison, yeah I can see it.

I personally don't think Mio committed suicide or anything, over that? doubt it, unless she was already depressed. She was probably exhausted of the relationship, decided to go on a walk or something, and was killed by truck-kun, leading Hinata to feel guilty about it.

So you're telling me the Isekai sequel is next?

sal jiang girl r u ok

Yeah I sometimes genuinely wonder. I think Sal Jiang's works almost always revolve around a couple where either one or both of them are shitty, and neither of them can properly communicate with each other. You know there's a very high chance that the relationship is doomed the very moment you see this author's name on a work. So I hope that the author's personal life is doing okay and they just have an angst kink when it comes to writing.

Seems par for the course for a Sal Jiang story.

I just feel like it's kind of silly...there was an attempt at communication, but never really any proper and full on communication. I'm assuming they broke up...but the "drove into a corner" somewhat makes it sound like the other woman killed herself. Which would be extra shitty.

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Yeah I still don't accept the whole "You're better than you think you are, so I hate you for not believing in yourself even though that just makes you feel even worse about yourself in the first place."

I can't help but feel it's one of the dark sides of japanese culture rearing it's ugly head again.
The awful and backwards idea that one must be proactively and unfailingly accommodating of everyone else's circumstances so as to not bother them, regardless of how unique or unreasonable those circumstances are. If you're not, it's "your" fault.

If the angry twin's issue really is just that she thinks her sister is amazing but doesn't appreciate it enough herself, that means the "issue" causing the conflict is entirely hers and the sister isn't really to blame for anything since she's not doing anything wrong at all. It's the angry twin who's reacting badly to her sister being perfectly normal and then somehow reasoning her way to blaming her twin for it rather than face the fact that it's her own personal issue.

It's much more serious than just average teenage emotions being irrational, she need professional help. The extent to which she's mean to her sister is borderline abusive.

Well as I said it doesn't justify her being mean. We were explaining her own reasoning behind being mean, not saying that her reasoning justifies her behavior. I'm not going to excuse shitty behavior, and I can only hope that the twins get things sorted out. I want them to both be happy and not have such painful feelings between each other.

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That's the comment I was responding to.

Was just mostly responding to how you said this isn't handled nearly as well. By this time in re:zero, you get game save reset on death and the rest was just mc being cringe. Could just be me looking unfavorably at re:zero though. By the end of s1 I still found him not all that likeable.

Ah okay, yeah I didn't care much for Subaru at the end of S1 either but I think we have somewhat different perspectives and takes on Re:Zero. Part of what I'm saying is that even the two Isekai protags aside by this point in Re:Zero the general writing and pacing of the story felt better than this one. The world building, villains, other characters, and so fourth. The main thing that needed to improve for me with Re:Zero was Subaru, and he did. I trusted Re:Zero's author because I thought the other elements around him were interesting and enjoyable.

Unfortunately I currently don't have the same confidence in this writer's abilities as I did with Re:Zero. For me this manga has far too many things wrong with it at this point, and I think the current world building, villains, pacing, and so fourth are a complete mess. It's perfectly fine if we disagree here, maybe you see the potential of this series differently than I do. I genuinely hope it improves as we progress forward. I want more fun action Yuri series, especially fantasy ones.

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Now tagged with Petplay /jk

That was indeed very cute tho for a moment I thought Noa petzoned Ms. CEO.

Maybe we'll see some Petplay in the future when they have sex heh

Yeah it's a bit long the lines of RE:Zero but in my opinion this is not handled nearly as well. Also Subaru at one point in the first season is a pathetic asshole, but he also progresses past that. He manages to mature as a character as the series progresses, though I don't want to go into spoilers so I'll leave it there. I'd love for the Yandere in this to progress as a character, but as I've said already I have some serious doubts about that happening. Her character feels like an edgy power trip that reminds me of so many other Isekai where the Isekai'd character is awful for the sake of being awful.

Personally don't think they're even in the same ballpark as characters. There's not much to even compare and quite unfair to considering lengthwise, this is about as long as one light novel worth of content and re:zero season 1 was, what, nine volumes worth of content?

Believe me I know this is much shorter and needs more time to build so it's not a fair comparison. I'm saying I'd love to be proven wrong, but I don't think this is going to have as much character progression as Re:Zero. The comparison was because Subaru goes through a lot of suffering trying to save people, and at one point he was an unlikable asshole, but he progressed passed that. I don't think this Yandere will progress past her current pathetic and petty asshole behavior, but I again would love to be proven wrong. I think this series had a solid start...but it feels like they're going for pure Edge-Porn with how messy the writing currently is, and how much of a power trip the Yandere is on. I was also saying it reminds me less of Re:Zero and more of other Isekai that focus on a hyper edgy MC that runs around terrorizing people.

Edit: Also you didn't include the context of the person I was responding to, I was sharing my thoughts on someone else's comparison to Re:Zero.

From JGChaves:

So, everyone here is discussing Akari's Yandere Split-Personality, but did you notice that curious sentence that came out of her mouth? "Unlike that time in the train, I don't need to go back in time here".

Yeah, this girl is basically what Natsuki Subaru would be if he actually was OP. Except we are following Emilia's point-of-view.

That's the comment I was responding to.

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At this point I'm thinking the series is going to end with every character getting together and having a giant orgy.

I honestly don't think there can be any better ending to the series. Its not like there's some sort of emotional climax to build up to.

Yup only a sexual one :P

At this point, the additional texts about everyone's statuses are more entertaining than the actual chapters. And they confirmed the threesome with the mother, daughter and ex I predicted came true! Now, let's predict what the chain will have!

At this point I'm thinking the series is going to end with every character getting together and having a giant orgy.

One the other hand, though, we've seen enough of the fluffy versions, so it would be interesting to see a story starting out like this as well.

I do hope they manage to talk things properly through once things have calmed down, though. Haruka clearly was pretty desperate to find a place to live, so while the methods she used were rather underhanded, they should get along better once she actually explains her side properly.

Yeah that's entirely fair. As you said I hope there's proper communication as things progress, and their relationship isn't built purely off blackmail.

Oh my God I could've sworn Utsugi and Kaname were the same character.

Jesus, literally everything about the twins is so difficult to keep track of. Suddenly I can't recall which sister is living which life with which people @_@

And I still have no idea why one of them hates the other so much! She's been waaay too mean for it to be something as dumb and simple as "You're better than me so I hate you" when the nicer twin is so openly friendly all the time, being so mean over just that would go beyond just pettiness.

From what I remember it's not just "you're better than me", it's you're better than me and you have no confidence in yourself. It doesn't justify her being mean of course, but the her twin's skills and lack of confidence in those skills are a hugely undermining factor for her and her own efforts that she needs to overcome.

Edit:

Teenagers are nothing if not illogical emotional messes.

But to explain it's not just that Tsubaki is often seen as the more capable and better twin when compared to HIiragi, it's that Tsubaki doesn't see herself as worth anything and that feedbacks as unintentionally insulting to Hiiragi. To paraphrase Hiiragi it's "If you're useless what does that make me?"

Is it dumb and doesn't make sense? Absolutely. Does that describe teenagers? Abso-fucking-lutely.

Thanks, I think you described it much better than I did. Also thanks for reminding me of that line, "If you're useless what does that make me?", that line stings like hell.

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Adding Twincest to the mix, i'm not even surprised anymore with Kurogane

Yeah this is basically a Hentai Soap Opera at this point. It's so absurdly ridiculous that it's impressive in a way lmao

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There were at least a dozen other ways to arrange a "student lives with teacher" setting without the student first knowingly getting the teacher drunk and, when that didn't work out, just forcefully taking a picture to potentially implicate her in a way that could cause her massive problems.

I like age gap stuff, but this just feels shitty and convoluted. The end does not justify the means, etc etc.

Yeah I was really hoping that her actions wouldn't be so shitty, and that the end of the first chapter would just be a misunderstanding. This comment section is going to get...interesting to say the least heh

Those were some creepy vibes at the end...

please dont kill off tiny gremlin child...

they better fucking not, I wanna see some strong Momo x Princess side couple shenanigans and I'm really tired of the way that edgy "against the grain" isekai with female protagonists and yuri pandering just kill off all the side characters just for the tragedy-porn aspect of it.

If I could high-five you I would. There's so many Tragedy-Porn Isekai out there and I was really hoping this wouldn't be one of those.

Considering the facts that she's still here messing around with time, it means she already failed in saving Menou and probably many times at that. So it's understandable that her future self turns into such a twisted person.

She could just be a twisted person from the start. I'm also not a fan of when people try to justify a character's shitty behavior because of the hardships they've endured. You can endure hell and still not be a complete dumpster fire of a person, and right now she comes across as very petty and pathetic to me.

I think this series could still improve moving forward, but I'm unfortunately having some serious doubts about the Yandere getting solid character progression. Hopefully I'm wrong though.

So, everyone here is discussing Akari's Yandere Split-Personality, but did you notice that curious sentence that came out of her mouth? "Unlike that time in the train, I don't need to go back in time here".

Yeah, this girl is basically what Natsuki Subaru would be if he actually was OP. Except we are following Emilia's point-of-view.

Yeah it's a bit long the lines of RE:Zero but in my opinion this is not handled nearly as well. Also Subaru at one point in the first season is a pathetic asshole, but he also progresses past that. He manages to mature as a character as the series progresses, though I don't want to go into spoilers so I'll leave it there. I'd love for the Yandere in this to progress as a character, but as I've said already I have some serious doubts about that happening. Her character feels like an edgy power trip that reminds me of so many other Isekai where the Isekai'd character is awful for the sake of being awful.

see, this is why this should have been a plot point throughout the series, not rushed through in a few chapters at the end with seriously overly dramatic drama... it's just not a satisfying arc as a result

also the crying faces, constant shouting and just crazy drama faces really just comes off as too much and forced :/

It's interesting to me that there seems to be such a split divide on here. People that feel nothing from this chapter and aren't satisfied, along with thinking the faces and crying are too over the top. Then we get people like me who are very happy with this chapter and satisfied, I don't mind exaggerated faces in art because it's a unique way of expressing emotion for the medium. Sometimes they can be a bit much in media, but they didn't feel like too much here for me.

Unfortunate that some people dislike this so much, but alas it is what it is and you can't please everyone.

Y'all zip it and enjoy the yuri for fuck's sake

You can't tell me what to do, mom. ;-)

Right? How dare we discuss a series on the forum for it! The audacity!

can now pull an "I win" card out of her ass whenever the author needs a deus ex machina, with no limit or consequence that we know of so far

I'm extremely tired and probably not articulating my points well in this whole forum discussion unfortunately, but this is exactly what I mean. The author can just pull a "welp god level power" card out of their ass whenever at this point.

a cool idea that has not yet been well-integrated into the narrative.

Yeah even me disliking the idea aside it just feels so incredibly haphazardly slapped into the series.

Anyways, sorry if I'm rambling and I sound out of my mind currently everyone. I'm going to get some much needed sleep now, I was hoping for something fun before bed...but this chapter was honestly the breaking point for my sanity tonight haha

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I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fact that Nanaki only called Kurokawa beautiful and cute after she gave Kurokawa a makeover

This was actually brought up, and it was a conversation about how we've moved past this because Kurokawa is being told she's beautiful in this scene without the makeup and makeover look. Kurokawa is just herself here and she's for the first time being told that she's beautiful for how she is. Which I think is what's nice about this chapter.