^Based on some of Gura's pervy comments in her streams, like her smelling Ada Wong's jacket, I think she knows exactly what she's in for and she's looking forward to it lol

Seems ok but I don't have that much expectatives about this one, I was kinda expecting more from the blackmail part. I'm going to follow it anyway.

My response to this was already made in a following comment haha

See that's how an alpha Stacy deals with blackmail. I wish that happened more often in manga where the person getting blackmailed says "go ahead, I don't give a fuck", rather than the typical, "oh no, I guess I better do whatever my blackmailer wants, including cucking my lover, just cause."

This is honestly the main reason why I want to continue reading this. In my experience it's very common to have the blackmailer win instantly, especially in hentai/doujins. Often with really stupid blackmail that shouldn't even work in the first place, but OH NO I HAVE TO LISTEN TO EVERY DEMAND! So I'm always happy when a blackmailer gets shut down instead.

Yeah, it's nice that the situation turned and didn't follow the usual, but i think the blackmail part could have been done better without making the black haired girl a perfect person. Normally in a oneshot this is normal since there's so little time and you just rush with the characters, but for a full manga i was kinda expecting more personality from her than just "stfu i don't care and now I make you feel gay panic". I understand that this is going to be builded in the story, but for a first chapter it could be better.

Don't mind me, in the end I'm going to read this fully anyway.

Well fair enough, hopefully the characters are expanded on in interesting ways as the series progresses. I hope it doesn't get too edgy, but well things often escalate so I guess we'll see heh

You know if she had just framed it differently and mentioned that she needed to get first for her scholarship to continue attending school I feel like all this stuff could have been avoided, but now whats gonna happen is she studies really hard, loses, breaks down crying about having to leave school in front of Reiko and then gets told by Reiko "I'll pay for your schooling if you do these requests for me" and then we have a slightly edgier version of Can't Defy the Lonely Girl.

Also Reiko seems like she was written by someone who really likes the "possessive and overbearing ceo" trope. Between this series and "My Girlfriend isn't here Today" it seems like there's gonna be a heaping serving of unhealthy edgy angsty yuri series coming out. I don't know if I'll really stick to either series, we'll see how they turn out...

I wish authors would stop setting their dark and sexual romance series in high school. Would it really kill you to let college students who are 20+ have messy sex lives and romances rather than 16 year olds?

With stylized art media like manga I just file it under the "not real and exists in it's separate reality that has nothing to do with my own reality". It's just fictional characters in their own manga universe doing their own thing, they don't look like real people and their ages aren't real.

Only sharing my perspective here, and I don't want to get into any arguments about it. I know it's a perspective people sometimes disagree with, and that's fine.

So they have this and and My Girlfriend Isn't Here Today debuted in the same issue. Interesting.

Yup the two new controversial series haha

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Hard to call it a spoiler when literally the front page shows them having sex while making excuses for cheating.

I didn't really get that from the front page, personally I'm not worried about spoilers for this series. I was mainly hoping to help anyone that does care. However if people don't really think of it as spoilers then that's fine, carry on haha

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Seems ok but I don't have that much expectatives about this one, I was kinda expecting more from the blackmail part. I'm going to follow it anyway.

My response to this was already made in a following comment haha

See that's how an alpha Stacy deals with blackmail. I wish that happened more often in manga where the person getting blackmailed says "go ahead, I don't give a fuck", rather than the typical, "oh no, I guess I better do whatever my blackmailer wants, including cucking my lover, just cause."

This is honestly the main reason why I want to continue reading this. In my experience it's very common to have the blackmailer win instantly, especially in hentai/doujins. Often with really stupid blackmail that shouldn't even work in the first place, but OH NO I HAVE TO LISTEN TO EVERY DEMAND! So I'm always happy when a blackmailer gets shut down instead.

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So far it's not THAT edgy, and the black mail attempt...failed...successfully? Seems she's now interested in learning something unrelated to her grades heh

Lovely!

Oh no, I’m rooting for the original girlfriend since it looks like she really love the MC but she is just not out yet.

I checked the mangaka’s twitter and the stalker girl and the MC are already having s*x secretly.

So, why not just break up with the original girlfriend and then start dating the stalker girl, if you just want to fool around and show your relationship openly on social media.

The original girlfriend deserve someone better.

Please add spoiler tags to your original post, use == on each side of the parts you want to be hidden.

That aside, seems to be about what I expected unfortunately.

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Surprise, we're not dead. The volume's out and I'll get to posting the cleaner versions of ch3~5 soon, I promise. They shifted all the text boxes slightly, so I gotta recentre it all by hand...

also, read the credits page before asking questions. I'm just gonna start swinging if I have to read stuff already answered there.

Thanks for all the hard work!

"Your girl" eh? Remember sharing your ghost girlfriend is caring or something :P

Well that was a unique chapter lmao

Also yeah I hope the two "mascot" characters die off quickly or something, then we can focus on the two groups interacting with each other.

On that note--does anyone feel like the pacing is going quick as well? It's not bad, per se, but I do feel like we're skipping a lot and cutting to the quick. Again, understandable, but I wanted to know if that was just me and my worries, or if this is actually something multiple people are seeing.

Oh yeah we're very likely speeding up to the end, so it's not just you. The author I think has been ramping up the speed for some time probably due to increasing difficulties continuing the work with his health.

So I feel like they're complaining that this author keeps making Yuri, which makes me wonder why they're even here haha

I don't want to fan a flame war, so I won't comment further, but for the record it seems pretty clear what the implication here was.

Replace Yuri with Romance, Yaoi, or whatever. I tried explaining that I literally only meant "romance between two characters", and said Yuri in this instance because that's the particular type of romance this author is writing. Plus again I previously stated that I meant Safe-Within-Their-Comfort-Zone-Yuri/Romance, which I probably should have said in the first place but still you ARE starting something by repeatedly falsely accusing me of nonsense. Please stop trying to define what I said and meant for me.

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There are different reasons to read fiction. For me, for this kind of thing, I don't worry too much about predictability or, up to a point at least, stuff being kind of the same. I don't read romance for ingenuity or innovation. Rather, the point is more about basic emotional payoff, and that requires certain patterns that fundamentally satisfy, and there aren't that many of them. So for instance, the (person) has to get the (person), and you have to feel like that's a good thing because they are good for each other in some way. Originality is nice, but if it changes the formula in a way that loses that fundamental payoff, it's worse than pointless. Which is not to say nobody is allowed to read romance with different objectives. And for that matter I don't have the same lens for everything I read; if I read a cyberpunk novel I'm looking for some very different stuff. Or if I see under author, "Dowman Sayman" I'll put on a rather different readership hat before going in . . .
Still, I think it's very common for people to read this sort of thing with the basic idea being that it will make us happier, tickle our warm fuzzies, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that--it's about basic human condition stuff.

Yeah I think I pretty much entirely agree with you. This author is commonly one where you know what you're getting each time, and if people aren't into that it's fine but they shouldn't set themselves up for disappointment by expecting something different either.

Imagine accusing someone of homophobia because they thought an author's style has hitherto been pleasant, but now is a little repetitive.

Imagine putting words in my mouth. I never once called anyone homophobic, to expand on what I said this author makes often pretty safe Yuri and you know what to expect each time generally. You're likely going to get a fairly simple story with two female characters falling in love, and each story has a pretty simple set up but with a different theme/set up each time. Princess and Ninja here, Author and Reader in another, Snake woman and Sacrifice, so on and so fourth. A lot of Yuri stories have pretty simple romance set ups, and romance regardless of sexuality often does, and it's fine to get bored of it and to find it stale. Never said the that person can't think this. I simply think that if you're on a Yuri focused or even any Romance focused site, and are reading an author known for fairly safe romance set ups "17" times then you should fully expect what you're getting into with their works at this point, and if it's not to your liking that's perfectly fine but maybe you should look for a different author that's known for bigger twists on Romance set ups.

Again I didn't say and don't think what they said is homophobic in any regard, the notion is silly to me.

Gotta say that after the 17th variation on the same theme from this author, it's getting a little stale.

There isn't much similar beyond '2 females of different station' the story/setting and characters differ quite a lot each time.

Yeah the main common theme with this author is height difference and maybe age difference, which isn't even that present here. So I feel like they're complaining that this author keeps making Yuri, which makes me wonder why they're even here haha

Plus you'd think with how annoyed they sound they would have stopped reading this author's works after like 3rd or maybe 5th time, but here they are complaining about the "17th" time like they're being forced to read it.

Gotta read it to know if it's any good.

Haha well I definitely won't disagree there. I'll usually check out almost all new works even if I'm not a fan of an author, but I also fully acknowledge that's my choice and I'm not going to get annoyed with an author for writing something that's not my cup of tea, or for writing reoccurring themes, simple stories, so fourth. Critique can also be good discussion of course, but ultimately I'm mostly trying to say that people shouldn't feel forced or obligated to read/consume media that isn't to their liking. Life is shorter than we think and we should enjoy it while it lasts as they say.

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Gotta say that after the 17th variation on the same theme from this author, it's getting a little stale.

There isn't much similar beyond '2 females of different station' the story/setting and characters differ quite a lot each time.

Yeah the main common theme with this author is height difference and maybe age difference, which isn't even that present here. So I feel like they're complaining that this author keeps making Yuri/Romance that's safe and within the author's comfort zone, which makes me wonder why they're even here haha

Plus you'd think with how annoyed they sound they would have stopped reading this author's works after like 3rd or maybe 5th time, but here they are complaining about the "17th" time like they're being forced to read it.

Edit: Expanded on what I originally said to clarify for anyone else reading that I'm not accusing anyone of homophobia. I added on "/Romance that's safe and within the author's comfort zone" from Yuri, and to me the primary thing a lot of romance authors are known for is pretty standard and still enjoyable romance. Which I originally didn't think I had to clarify, but apologies if my thinking was more unclear than I originally thought.

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Ahh I like the dynamic between Maria and Dorothy so much, feels sweet yet sour at times, feel like this story is flying under the radar for a lot of people, very much underappreciated, may not like the hyper-convoluted fight scenes or how Helen and Miranda were treated/disposed, but overall I'm enjoying all the aspects of this story. Unfortunatelly it feels like is heading to a rushed conclusion.

Yeah the deaths of Helen and Miranda felt like a waste. Also in fairness given the author's health condition a quick conclusion might be for the best. I rather the author wrap up the story instead of pushing himself, or go on numerous indefinite hiatuses and struggle to finish it. It's had a good run, we got a great sex scene, and we're going to likely get a cool final battle, so overall I'm happy and I hope the author eventually makes a full recovery. On a hopeful note, once he's in the best of health again I'd love to see more works from him in the future.

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So we're full on Megaman? Or I suppose as Spica said, Maverick Hunter? Interesting indeed.

Was that their first kiss? I can’t remember. But lol I saw the moderate amount of sex tag but I thought there’d be just a little bit more build up. The lack of build up and Maria saying she needed the consolation just as much made me think that it was just comfort-sex, but if that was actually to signify that they’re now on equal footing then that’s cool too.

In fairness I think the entire series was the build up to them having sex. Throughout the series they've gotten hot and heavy, fought with each other, fought against powerful enemies together, all numerous times and now after a build up of emotions from a big series of reveals they just let it all out through intense sex. So personally I'm perfectly fine with the explosive sexual encounter in this chapter, and these reasons are also why I think it's way more than just comfort sex.

Especially with the equal footing angle you mentioned. Maria's transformation power level is largely based on her closeness to Dorothy. Now that they've fully accepted that they're "two peas in a pod" after passionate sex it stands to reason that Maria's powers from Dorothy's blood have also leveled up significantly.

That's also part of the problem, yeah communication problems exist irl, but it's frustrating when authors exaggerate a lack of communication to absurd degrees and all because the series continuing entirely hinges on that concept. I know some people love it, but for me while a series with many communication issues can still be fun...it often doesn't feel like good writing when communication issues are repeatedly used to drag out issues and stretch the story. The characters could communicate, still have character flaws and personality problems, and then drama comes from that. I think it would at least be better than an absurd lack of communication.

I totally get whatcha mean. Sometimes it can just be too much, it breaks the suspension of disbelief... though I DO think people can really be THAT bad with communication sometimes lol

I also wanna note, the art in this is really nice. I like this artist's style.

Haha yeah sometimes people are bafflingly bad at just saying what's on their mind to the people that they love. Still I just hope the author doesn't entirely rely on a lack of communication for the whole story.

Wholesome, that's all I have to say.

Well as others said the sex scene was unexpected, but definitely appreciated. In my experience series will often find ways to avoid sex, constant interruptions is one of the most common and annoying methods, so having them go wild was nice.

Let me guess, she's never even gonna consider telling her girlfriend she feels lonely but is still going to feel completely justified because of it.

Most stories like this would end after chapter 1 if people actually communicated. But hey, that's how relationships go irl for so many people.

Not entirely sure if I'll like this. I prefer my stuff a bit more fluffy than this. We'll see. Hopefully it doesn't turn into a cheating story!

That's also part of the problem, yeah communication problems exist irl, but it's frustrating when authors exaggerate a lack of communication to absurd degrees and all because the series continuing entirely hinges on that concept. I know some people love it, but for me while a series with many communication issues can still be fun...it often doesn't feel like good writing when communication issues are repeatedly used to drag out issues and stretch the story. The characters could communicate, still have character flaws and personality problems, and then drama comes from that. I think it would at least be better than an absurd lack of communication.

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Let me guess, she's never even gonna consider telling her girlfriend she feels lonely but is still going to feel completely justified because of it.

I think you perfectly summed up what's going to be one of my biggest problems. I've seen it a couple times recently where authors try to make things like cheating and so fourth as "justified", all because the characters can't just communicate and talk to each other. The MC's problems would be solved so much quicker if she communicated how she felt to her girlfriend, and didn't stream her thoughts on Twitter. Instead we're probably going to have a story where the author writes the MC as an easily preyed upon helpless girl that can't communicate and gets taken over by the antagonist stalker.

The other thing that I find weird and scary about the Twitter aspect is how much teenagers put on social media in general, in real life I mean. There are so many creepy horrible people that will take advantage of it if they can, and it's a serious problem from what I know.

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The author knew what they were doing by having a likely toxic and vile character bring up her enjoyment of a book based off a parasitic fungus.

I like stories with lots of flawed, selfish characters. Makes for great drama. And it really feels like they're acting their age which is kinda refreshing.

I don't agree personally. Teenagers (and adults of course) can be selfish and flawed, but most aren't cunning sociopaths that destroy people's relationships and lives for entertainment. Which seems to be the direction we're going in. For me the first chapter felt very detached from reality, and rather than realistic it felt highly exaggerated for the sake building up spiraling misery and drama.
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After Luminous = Blue, I have high expectations from this artist. And I'm already liking it so far! However, this blonde chick does give off some...odd vibes.

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I hope it is better than the absolute piece of garbage that Luminous: Blue was. Pretty art and every other subject taking points from the overall score.

I think though I'm somewhere in the middle, the author has really nice art, some interesting ideas, but their characters often feel...wrong? So it's hard to believe their characters and writing due to it.