Chapter 68: I've never liked Kanoko, but I have to admit that she's starting to grow on me. She has been through a lot during this long Arc, and I can't wait to reread it once it's finished, as her character development has been remarkable.

I can't deny I'm biased towards this series, but I genuinely think it's the most underrated Yuri manga ever.

Agreed. I really enjoy the interplay between it's characters. Not an easy direction to pull off.

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Reboot? That's news to me. I didn't hear about that. Used to watch that show a lot.

Love this character! Can't wait to explore their story again, as I connected with the story the most after their introduction. Really happy this series has such a good group working it. It really deserves it.

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I think it's a decent twist that the villainess falls first and instead of being "fixed" by it, a new level of crazy comes out

She will spill blood in Serina's name

Stella basically has to play matchmaker at gunpoint. It's refreshing, having her already understand what's going on between those two. It could be a hilarious dynamic, as she tries to survive lol.

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Format-wise, I think it would work pretty well as a set of super-short minute-long episodes like I'm Kodama Kawashiri, especially if they kept the manga's color scheme and used highly stylized (maybe rotoscoped low framerate?) animation.

That's cool and all, but does anyone actually care for these minute-long episodes series? (I would totally watch it tho)

I care in the moment but they tend to be very forgettable.

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So far, this manga has no yuri bait right? Right? ;-;

Did you delete this comment and resubmit it? Pretty sure I saw this yesterday.

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Seiyuu radio[canon]

ayylmao, it's heavy subtext at best

Dungeon Meshi is a stretch as well. That series doesn't care about romance much at all. Still great though! It does feel like there's more variety now. Hopefully that continues across the board.

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I don't know why but the anime feels extremely rushed, also at this rate and considering shiho's early appearance we're gonna reach the battle of the band's arc rather quickly and that one reeeeally drags

Wdym early appearance ? Shiho first physical appearance is the Vol.2 extras, which take place just after Ch.11, where the the episode ended. It's not like her appearance has been move earlier. And the anime is going for 1.5/2 chapters per episode which is a decent rate.

People forget how early Shiho was introduced in the story and how early she factored into things. I agree. It's not moving quickly--it's moving at the pace, I expected. Anything else and they'd be dragging things out. The only issue is the production values so far. And I'm still interested in how they choose to end the season.

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Shiho has made an early debut in the anime, and I've got to say, my god, her voice is much cuter than I expected! If I didn't know better I would say they picked her VA based entirely on Chapter 47.5.

She's more like a skittish/defensive kitten, so a "cutesy" voice seems to fit the intention.

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What's happening on the last page? For some reason I can't make sense of it.

I think it implies Byleth joined the enemy faction.

Against Edelgard? The comments seem to suggest a happy ending but what I'm seeing seems the opposite, so I'm wondering where I'm getting mixed up.

Depending on whether you pick "I must kill Edelgard" or "I must protect Edelgard" Byleth will either face her or have her back to her respectively. In the last page she has her back to Edelgard and is smiling back at her, which means she chose to side with her.

Thanks! I had forgotten those details. Seeing this makes me want to replay.

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What's happening on the last page? For some reason I can't make sense of it.

They definitely establish these 3 as a found family. Always cute. Of course, Kiwi is the cool mom.

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Xelina posted:

These are officially published stories that built upon the character's and their relationships outside of the main plot. Main series is here.

Is this the main plot now?

It's complicated, because the "side stories" were published in parallel of the volumes. The chapters are numbered from 1 to 41 (up to now) on the web, but numbered differently in the volumes and with 4 pages chapters in-between.

Ie, it's a publishing mess

But it's all canon as mentioned previously.

Yeah, they changed publications and it seems the new publication allowed them to continue the story rather than restart.

Still, they had to number the continuation starting from "1," on this new platform for various likely business-related reasons. Then I imagine they gave these new chapters their "proper" number for the volume releases. I've seen it done before.

So these are all the newest chapters of the main series, at this point. The 4-page chapters aren't always there--I think they had 1 or 2 of them in the first "transition "volume but I don't remember them later. Could be mistaken, though.

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These are officially published stories that built upon the character's and their relationships outside of the main plot. Main series is here.

Is this the main plot now?

It's all part of the main plot. It's basically a continuation. Unless I'm misunderstanding your question?

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So in the end that means we have a gamer living off her sugarmama prostitute earning. Nana cannot stop being an escort otherwise they cannot afford to live in that apartment. Tsukasa probably has never works not even once in her life thanks to various non stop supply of sugar mamas, plus it seems that if all she does is gaming, it is not that huge an expense compare with jewelry or fast cars.
I just wish the story was not axed, it has so much potential. Nana is the trashiest main character I have ever read for the last 4 years. I wonder why the manga was axed.

Money wasn't a factor in her actions; rather, she engaged in promiscuous behavior due to her insecurity. She wanted Tsukasa's attention.

Despite now living comfortably and having no problems with money (something she says herself), she still feels unfulfilled because her desired relationship isn't progressing as expected. If anything she seems to be wasting money providing gifts to Mayu. She should have the ability to stop whenever, especially since she reaches her limit before Tsukasa seemingly reciprocates her feelings.

Nana always intended to spoil Tsukasa and Tsukasa didn't ask for the apartment, so I wouldn't call her high maintenance--it was all Nana's idea. Nana still has her cam girl stuff, which she turns to in the last chapter for more attention. She gets some negative comments but I don't remember her losing all her fanbase at all. She still seemed fine there.

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Oh god no she got into the hellhole that is Pokemon Unite. We got Zacian we got Mewtwo X we got Mewtwo Y we got flimsy balance decisions aww yeahhh

Edit: Also Mashiro made this wager so she can go to college with Makino, she knows she needs to keep the dumbass on a tight leash

Her twitter is nothing but games and discussing funny events about her kids. She seems like she has a lot of fun.

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They shouldn't even do this for the mother. Mashiro has been anything but a bad influence. She's the most sane out of everyone in this manga. Riding everything on Makino passing a test is not a good measure, either.

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Nana and Tsukasa seemed to be well after Tsukasa's (Ex)gf showed up and left in anger (so that means Nana wins). They started to live together in a luxury apartment. But later Nana read Tsukasa's phone messages and discovered something that upsets her. She started to sleep with various people. But eventually they were back together and all is well.

But then again, everything I wrote here could be wrong. So check your raw to see how close I get. I don't quite understand chapter 7 as to exactly how they reconcile and be happily ever after.

This is a really odd manga that I wished were not axed. Nana is pure trash, and Tsukasa is a loser that relies on sugar mamas.

There's an Indonesian translation on Mangadex.

If I got it right, Tsukasa is very high-maintenance and Nana needs tons of cash to keep her happy and exclusive. The money she makes posting naughty pics on Internet is not enough. She keeps hiking up the prices, so she ends up losing all her fanbase. She's forced to turn to good old-fashioned prostitution, and we see her going to hotels with her johns and sleeping with them.

And then the manga ends. It's kind of an awkward ending, that makes me think it really was axed. There was still an enormous potential of delicious toxicity to explore here... sigh, too bad. Anyway, the last pages are just as you said: Nana and Tsukasa are living together in their new luxury apartment, and it seems everything will go well between them as long as the money keeps flowing. So, happy end (or something).

I'm pretty sure she meets with other people because Tuskasa is unable to fully commit (because she has her own issues with feeling love) and Nana becomes insecure. Tsukasa is spending a lot of time alone in her room, playing video games with someone Nana doesn't know. The phone scene is Nana seeing Tuskasa still messaging others to meet up (what that means is vague, could just be in the game).

So Nana starts sleeping around to show to herself and Tuskasa that she is also a desired person. I don't remember it being about money or high maintenance. She wants to get Tsukasa's attention but seeing as Tsukasa was still not paying her enough attention (still stuck in her room playing games rather than being concerned with where Nana is going), Nana doesn't actually enjoy it.

She really just wants Tsukasa, even "seeing her" in one of these other women. Eventually, she breaks down crying, wondering how long she can keep this up if nothing has changed when all she really wants is Tsukasa and not these others. In the end Tuskasa reciprocates (wanting to stay together) and Nana is happy. With that, I imagine she'd have no reason to meet with anyone else again.

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OK .I have just finished watching EP3. So EP3 covers up to which chapter?

6, 7, and half way through 8. It's going as expected. About 2 chapters and change per episode. I figured we'd have the main four by about the midway-ish point, maybe episode 7. I just don't know when/how they'll end things.

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Final chapter (22) is out. A different scanslator did it so I guess it won't be here.

A really good ending too, with an extra in it.

Ngl, I’m bracing myself for some sort of tragedy, a lot of good things happen all in one chapter

I fear bad times may or may not be approaching (I hope not pls)

Ends too soon for that. Should be able to breathe freely.

"He's got plenty of money so stick your butthole out for him and live a happy life!"

I'm dead. She's so entertainingly scummy XD

And then his next worry was about being a bottom. They'll get along fine and maybe come to the rescue when scum mom inevitably fucks things up.

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mannn, what's this... dunno man it's all good art but, maybe i should find something else to read
sometimes i hate that my standard are like this, why can't i just enjoy the cute like normal...

enjoy the "cute"? I'm just gonna assume you haven't reached last chapter yet

I guess they think this situation is meant to be "cute." Seems clear the author doesn't intend it to be cute though.

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This is cute, but I feel like I’ve read this exact plotline like five times already. And there’s a big jump in Mary and Snow’s relationship between the tea incident and the ball that feels really jarring.

Because there are a few time skips.

Claire and Rei version 2 I suppose

Yeah, but with some differences. Still sweet though.

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Does anyone recommend me about a "she fall first but she fall harder"???

Maybe Shoujo Manga Protagonist x Rival-san

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