Miki was excited for/about her sister from chapter 1, but I don't think there was any hint of it being more than sisterly love and supportiveness. (Yes, some siblings actually get along and like each other.)

We know that Aya's first reaction to hearing about the prom was "awesome, I'm going!" So her later "I'm not going, family thing" is probably a blatant lie.

yeah, what beeaggro said. I don't think the dad is really concerned about getting an heir (and even if he was, there is the alternative of the Gareth (did I remember Evie's brother's name right?) having children too someday), and is merely using it as one of several excuses to remain an overprotective father. However long it might last. And I suspect "not that long" to be the answer, if the events of this chapter are any indication.

For my part, I found this to be a great chapter.

I believe Yvonne is an only child. Garth Leinster is a cousin on her mother's side, according to the novel translation.

15 chapters up on MD,

The TL for both versions are the same lmao, im just redoing old chapters and i realized i missed a few references and yeahhh. (mainly because the ts & clrd is absolutely shit)

Oh, so there is some art or T/N difference? I'd assumed it was just the MDex chapter finally migrated here.

Yeah, it's a lot easier to show side familiar antics in a visual medium. Novel, Relaire mentioned when useful. And much later left behind, IIRC.

Just don't read it then :)

Not really a fair response when the maybe-incest surprised us after like 40+ chapters. It's different when the incest is an obvious premise from the beginning.

Yuni is JUST as bland, she’s JUST as inactive as Nanase,

but Yuni's cuter

Like, do something? Stop being a side piece, confront Nanase and come clean, tell her that y’all fucked.

Fuuko did exactly that.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/my_girlfriends_not_here_today_ch16#32

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/my_girlfriends_not_here_today_ch17#3

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/my_girlfriends_not_here_today_ch17#14

...did some people criticizing the series miss the infill chapters?

It's not insane to point out that Nanase has been a feckless, forgetful, and inconsiderate girlfriend; that's right there in the text.

I only really care for Fuuko (guilty pleasure support) and Yuki.

Fuuko/Yuki yussss

Sorawo's game of Extreme Gay Chicken is catching up to her.

I was being heavily reminded of Miyagi and Sendai in 5000 Yen... and "gay chicken" is a perfect term there too.

Run, Yuki, run. Get out of there.

You shoot 16 loves, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Tell Cupid don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe karma to the armaments store.

I understood that reference!

Yeah, I'm not sure I ever really bought the main couple.

Heh, I just read this story the other day myself. Not top tier for me, but nice.

I think the time travel arc might be best forgotten...

I thought it worked quite well, when read all at once.

There's a second chapter on Mangadex.

Yeah, I think this is a title best to re-read. Especially with the time travel arc.

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I know that in the Middle East people used plant oils as soap since ancient times, but no idea what it was like in Europe.

"oil as soap", you mean like the Greco-Roman thing of rubbing oil on your body and scraping it off? Medieval Europe knew about real soap, oils+lye/ashes. Really nice soap was from Castile, with an olive oil base. More local soaps used animal fat, and were likely used more for laundry.

Or at least that was my understanding; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap#History is a bit more complex and different. But medieval Europe definitely had soaps.

Rye bread is so good. I've been stocking up on proper german rye breads whenever I can because they're hard to find in the usa. It's crazy how nutritious a single slice is compared to white bread.

Whole wheat bread is pretty nutritionally superior to white, too.

Cute.

Also familiar. I feel I've read, if not this, then something else like it ("cat turns human") before.

Ah, I see.

They might rinse their hands to remove obvious dirt but using soap is far off as far as I know.

I think you're putting too much weight on the vocabulary choice, especially given that it's a translation of a Japanese take on medieval European practices. They did in fact rinse their hands with water, and lots of people would probably call that washing, without getting caught up in details of soap use.

E.g. https://www.worldhistory.org/Medieval_Hygiene/ talks about "it was also a common convention to wash hands before and after eating"

"Monks had their own special areas for washing, including at Cluny Abbey in France which had a lavabo or large basin where hands were washed before meals."

"The Great Hall of a castle or manor typically had a similar large basin for visitors to wash their hands"

And before we get carried away with how clean this was: "We know from records that they had towels, which were changed twice a week while the water was changed only once a week."

Wait, where was the hand washing?

As for the bread competition, I thought that was sufficiently explained. At the time, whole grain bread was ordinary, fluffy white bread was an expensive delicacy. Plausible that even modern factory bread would still impres someone who associates white bread with wealth, plus she was getting plied with "extras" too (red bean past, melon, curry...)

Matsuri had to eat dirt again because she was too stubborn to resist Matsuri's needling

I think you got at least one name confused.

Just imagine how Aya feels.

Method reading.

although germ theory wasn't solidified yet

Germ theory wasn't even considered for centuries more. We're in the time of "four humours" and miasma. And apparently some idea of boiling water before drinking it, I'm not sure why.