I honestly just want consistency with the villainess system. It's just so conveniently put in place just for the sake of plot. It's such a lazy writing.

To be fair, that is literally its stated purpose for existing: To enforce and enable the plot. The only problem is it didn't get the new script.

I do not think that any relationship that involves regularly harming each other is a healthy one, but I am also of a firm belief that whatever consenting adults do in their private time and space is their own private business. I'd prefer it if the villainess system finally got on with the program and patched itself over into a love interest system, but I still trust the author to stick to their promise of wholesomeness all the way through.

Ah, but Evie doesn't consent to any of this.

Elsa (on seeing Evie's list): ... I'd also like to add "Denser than a neutron star" and "Tits".
Evie: Hmm, so a dense guy with tits. ... I'm not sure if I know anyone like that.
Elsa: ...

With that said, it's a bit concerning that Elsa said she wasn't concerned about Evie cutting her when the wound was bad enough to need a change of bandages, which are still visibly bloody a day later. It's one thing to be willing to forgive that sort of thing, provide they have a very good explanation, and quite another to be completely unconcerned.

I kind-of wish Elsa would confront her over her, apparently, erratic behavior, but a good part of that is also wanting her to find out about the villainess system and, maybe, trying to help Evie work around it. It would also make her position a lot more understandable: I love you and I'm not going to start hating or fearing you because that awful system sometimes makes you hurt me.

I hate it when people speak for others without their knowledge. It’s such a self serving thing to do.

Yeah, the irony is that the sister is doing exactly what she's accusing Saki of doing - using her relationship with her sister to feel better about herself because she's "protecting" her, despite Kanon neither needing nor, likely, wanting that help. Especially when it involves harassing Kanon's closest friend. You get the feeling that the "heart reading" bit is just a self-serving lie, and she'd be like this no matter who Kanon was spending time with.

I always hate this character archetype, because it exists to basically only serve as an obstacle and rarely tells us much about the main characters. Except that Saki feels guilty about her feelings for Kanon, which we pretty much knew already, so meh. Maybe the next chapters will bring it around and provide an opportunity for them to get closer. (I do like Kanon just flat out shutting Saki's attempt to slink away down, since it's obvious Saki didn't really want to do this. Guess that "heart reading" B.S. works both ways, huh Imouto-chan?)

Little Sister was definitely way out of line, but I can also understand why she's acting that way.

We already know that the scenario Rinne was describing has happened before —Kannon's previous best friend really was just using her as a status symbol and dropped her hard once it became too troublesome— and she was right about Saki hiding something, she just came to the wrong conclusion about what that something is.

As for not noticing Kanon's feelings, I'll wager that she did, but that was also part of the problem; Kanon probably felt similarly about the friend who burned her, so Rinne saw her big sister getting attached to another girl with ulterior motives, possibly blinding herself to that, and building up to another disaster. It would be a bit like if you saw someone you cared about getting close to another, obvious, abuser right after they just got out of a different abusive relationship, that they refused to acknowledge until it went way to far.

None of that is to say Rinne was right to go about it the way she did, just that it doesn't make her evil.

Saki is so desperate to hide the gay, unfortunately for her she’s doing a horrible job lol, Poor girl almost collapsed because she thought the sisters gaydar was going off.

It’s gonna be something when we officially get to this though, this girl is deep in the denial/guilt phase of who she is

Man this manga needs to get licensed in English

If I had a nickel for every time I said that I could use said nickels to buy all the series I want to have official English release

Based on her conversations with her mom and her internal monologue, I don't think she's in denial; she's pretty clear on the whole "I'm gay; girls are great" thing. The problem is she views acting like she just wants to be friends with a cute girl that she really wants to do more with as misleading them and, like Rinne, she's conflating that with other ways that someone might use the pretext of friendship for more duplicitous and selfish ends.

I suppose, in a twisted way, that lends some extra credence to Rinne's accusations: She's acting like Kanon couldn't, or wouldn't, speak up for herself if her behavior was unwanted; like she's an innocent flower that needs to be protected
and if their relationship isn't 100% pure, then the whole thing's tainted and it's her fault. I suspect Kanon will be disabusing her of that notion shortly.

so, Kanon's sister gives us an interesting bit of information on lipreading, that at least in her experience paying that much attention to someone while they talk makes you better at realizing what their true intentions may be.

What if this is also true of Kanon, what if she has an inkling on Saki feelings about her, because she too can use lipreading to get to the heart of the matter (in this case Saki's). I don't know if this chapter is setting up foreshadowing or if I'm reading too much into it but I don't think Kanon is entirely clueless about the fact that Saki is in love with her.

After that kabedon and that line? Yeah, I'm pretty sure she knows and has some inkling of what her sister did.

Also, I think the whole point of Rinne's scene isn't so much that she was being controlling and doesn't actually have any ability to "read the heart." Rather, she and Kanon do have that ability, but she lacks the context to correctly interpret what she's seeing, so her insight just ended up causing more confusion. Conversely, Kanon does have the context, so she's able to use her insight to quickly solve the issue before it can gather any steam.

This actually relates to a broader theme that the manga has repeatedly brought up: It's not enough to just look at the surface level, regardless of whether you're talking about things like making accommodations for disabilities or judging a the character of another person, it's important to make sure you have the full context and a deeper understanding of what's going on, otherwise you're likely to cause more harm than good.

If that's actually what's happening, then this author has done an amazing job of believably weaving a theme through their work and presenting in a multitude of different disparate scenarios.

Every chapter, the character design and facial expressions knock it straight out of the park. I love it!

Don't worry, uncle, you're absolutely correct.

Except, of course, that it wasn't, as you can clearly see from the Recently Added page showing them all together uploaded yesterday.

I usually look up the recently added on the prior pages on the main site. this is what I meant.

Main page shows chapters based on release dates, the recently added page lists them based on the dates they've been added to the site here, with release dates listed as well. In this case they all were added on the same day, but have three different release dates.

That's tripped me up before too. I wish it was the other way around, because I use the front page to see what's new on dynasty, so when it was actually released is much less important.

would have been infinitely better had the person been either trans man or trans woman tbh

Everything is always better with more queer rep thrown in the mix tbh

(not even remotely true, what with bad representation, but it's the thought that matters)

That woulda been a great story though, transmasc who's not out at school. But this still works, and is very cute and good.

Eh. Stories about trans characters are definitely nice, and there need to be more of them, but it's also good to have stories about androgenous characters or just characters who prefer to dress more like the opposite sex for comfort and aesthetic reasons, without actually being trans.

What about her VOICE? Does her voice changes as well when she changes her look?
I mean cos otherwise it should be easy to recognize her, after talking to her both at the store and at school.

Given that she was unintentionally speaking differently in general I wouldn't call it too far fetched to say she's probably speaking in a different tone of voice as well.

I mean hell, as someone that works in in a restaurant I absolutely speak to customers in a totally different way than I do when I'm just normally speaking to someone. I've also had coworkers tell me that I speak in a lower voice when I answer the phone.

It's also a confidence thing! People speak different when they're appearing the way they want to and in a space they're comfortable in.

She also wears a mask at the store, but not at school, which will muffle her voice a bit, and that might be enough to throw off someone who's doesn't hear her speak very often.

I know that DragonForce is quite big in Japan

Amusingly, to my knowledge, metal is pretty big in Japan in general and the scene is very lively, and power metal specifically is relatively mainstream, I think. In a way, I think I wouldn't be surprised if DragonForce would be considered more widespread than Foo Fighters or Nirvana.

In any case, I'm a big fan of everything this story has shown so far, and hopefully, it keeps with it. Loving the uncle/niece designs in particular.

Apologies in advance for going off at a tangent...

There are a lot of heavy rock / metal groups in Japan which also get quite a bit of attention internationally - ones that I like include:

Band Maid
Nemophila
Lovebites
Mary's Blood (though going on hiatus)
Mutant Monster

Honourable mention to:
Kari Band (BOH and friends - more jazz/funk/fusion)
Esprit D'Air (UK based but definitely J-rock)

Anyway back on track... The uncle does have a little bit of a Dave Grohl look about him.
Really hoping that the story will continue after they get past the reveal.

Then there's MAN WITH A MISSION, a Japanese rock band that wears wolf masks when they perform and I'm just going to quote Wikipedia on their backstory:

"created as the "Ultimate Life Form" by Jimi Hendrix, who is described by the band as being the doctor of the guitar and master wolf biologist. They were then frozen in Antarctica for years. While they were frozen, they had been listening to all kinds of music from all around the world, before later escaping and emerging onto the Japanese music scene."

There website also mentions the Principality of Zeon, because of course Gundam is involved.

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What word os being translated as "Familiar" in this manga exactly? If the witch created her, wouldn't she be more of a homunculus? Doesn't "familiar" usually mean an already-extant creature that a magic user formed a bond with?

I think a familiar refers more to the relationship between the mage and familiar, rather than just its nature.

The coloring in this reminds me of Lilium Terrarium, even if that series did a bit more with it's monotone (and a few accent colors). I wish more manga used this style, because it can be really striking and allows for some flexibility that the typical black and white lacks. (I still remember reading Samaria Deeper and thinking it was really silly to have his eyes changing color act as an important character trait in a black and white medium.)

I can't believe Nirvana is on a Japanese highschool girls play list. Kurt Cobain passed away at least 10 years before she was even born. I could maybe buy Foo Fighters, but I'm not sure how big they are in the overseas market.

The entire point here is that she doesn’t listen to what others do, she says that. The other girls in her group don’t recognize the bands at all.

You think there can’t be one japanese schoolgirl in all the country with western music taste to make a doujin around?

I also had something else here but I deleted it, wooo

There was that manga about a teacher(iirc) making a deal with Jimi Hendrix's ghost, so who knows? Also, I suspect modern streaming services make it a lot easier to discover foreign music and there are segments of Japan that have a fascination with American culture in much the same way that America has segments that are fascinated with Japanese culture.

So, I'm going to need an entire spin-off series with this art.

I feel like she's going to finally get around to confessing and her friends going to be like "Haven't we been dating for years? Why do you think I keep stealing your shirts?"

Each chapter comes with an extra, in this occasion would be https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/after_school_re_reincarnation_ch4_1

Ahh. I guess interpreted your sentence more literally than I should have.

Is it only me who thinks this gacha stuff is a horrible scam that should probably be illegal? Charging a flat fee for an image would be one thing. Game-ified gambling using artificial scarcity and various carefully calibrated psychological tricks to create addiction is just vile. Tell me someone pirates this stuff.

I agree that gachas are horrible, but I'm not sure if anyone can, or really could, pirate them. It's not like the gameplay is a major selling point for almost any of them, so if you don't want the gambling, you can get similar results from fan works, wikis, and the occasional youtube video.

That said, it does always bother me a bit when I see a cool character design or story attached to a gacha, because it means I'm never going to be able to really engage with it and it's probably not going to go anywhere.

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You can feel how powerful the hero really is in that colored page.... wow

Uh ... Did I somehow miss a colored page in the most recent chapter?

Wait, those black stars on her thigh and that rotten personality ... Could Utaho secretly be a member of Enormeeta‽

It does, but I'd rather read a series where it's polyamory from early on, not where someone gets shoehorned into a great relationship between two people who are gonna get married and never gave any hint of being polyamorous. On that note, does anyone have links to some poly yuri?

I don't know. They were pretty flirty with her in earlier chapters too and she seems to blush quite a bit around them.

Also, is it just me or does she have psycho/shocked eyes? I think it's the combination of the much smaller irises and the raised eyebrows.

Hmm. People are talking about how showing up on social media might be bad for Mari, but I don't think that will be too much of an issue, since there isn't much that could let people connect the post to her and it's not like she's a very online person. The biggest things she probably has to worry about are Momo getting overly pushy with pictures and posing or Kyouko finding out and getting worried or annoyed about the lies.

However, I am curious about whether one fairy getting her picture taken and posted might start to effect other fairies. In particular, I'm wondering if seeing one fairies true form might weaken the glamours of any other fairies; it's not like we have much information about why most people can't see them and why some people can.

If she turns into mini-Sei Shōnagon or (wholesome)Hunter S. Tomson I will be very entertained.

If she ended up being a regular Hunter S. Thompson, then I will be entertained

That would require an impressive knowledge of drugs, vulgarity, and generalized misanthropy for someone her age. It would definitely make an interesting juxtaposition to the rest of the story though.

Yo I love the Ureistation2

Also that girls hair is breaking my brain, is it cat ears? Is she like marge simpson and she secretly has cat ears under there?

I assumed she was wearing something like a cat-ear or chobits headband, which would also play into the other girls calling her chuuni.

Vilainess System, the greatest yuri wingman

really good news if it doesn't... it really is the greatest yuri wingman for this story

Now I'm wondering whether the villainess system got fed up and decided to pick a new girl to order around that would actually pick the nasty choices

If the system is actually based on game routes and Elsa forced herself onto an Evie route, then it might make sense for the system to be quite, since she's no longer the villainess. Now the question is: does the system upgrade into a heroine/love-interest system?

I am sure the sixth girl will show up with the focus of all 5 senses. Maybe that glasses girl !

Nah, the sixth girl will be a sense of balance who will introduce our hapless protagonist to polyamory. ... Just choosing all of them is "balanced" right?

Hmm. Now I'm wondering if Kiu might be a yokai as well, just one that hides it better.

It's so freaking obvious that Utaho is the original Mao and she lost her memories along with the Hero that fought her.

It could also be the other way around, with Melua being the Mao and Utaho being the hero.

God i love the elf girl design, she is so cute lol. This is quite an interesting way to do an isekai, gonna keep reading it!

While I do generally like her design, I'm a bit disappointed we didn't get to see her in an older form, at least initially, in the other world.

For bonus points, I'm pretty sure Eulula's delinquent getup is a Sukeban Deka reference,

So, apparently other fairies have befriended dress makers in the past. ... I wonder if the current queen used to be friends with a human, or knew another fairy who was, and it ended poorly, hence her current antipathy.

Frankly speaking she's childish and I dislike her attitude.

She is a child. They both are.

That said, trapping her like that was pretty awful.

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Ok, now

Cute kids, but wish to be a influencer? oof oof
Sorry Momo, i dont think anyone wants to see you play minecraft o dancing on tiktok.

I could be reading too much into it, but I think she meant in a more literal sense of "someone who influences trends and changes how people think." She's contextualizing it in terms of modern social media "influencers", because that's what she'd be familiar with, but she seems more focused on the actual influence than accruing fame or followers. She certainly doesn't seem to care about popularity, which is what you'd typically expect a modern "influencer" to focus on.

If she turns into mini-Sei Shōnagon or (wholesome)Hunter S. Tomson I will be very entertained.

they really clasped and shook hands while a fairy was in their grasp, that's brutal.

I somehow glossed right over that the first time I read the chapter.

The poor girl already looked absolutely terrified on page 18 and I'm sure Kyouko's story isn't helping.

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Is Mumei supposed to be a female version of Horus or something here? Both Mumei and Horus are associated with the sun and Horus can take the form of a bird.

I thought Mumei was more associated with civilization, which would make Athena a closer analog.

Kinda likes tsundere, but not quite...

ik,r? But why not? I can't quite put my finger on it.

I feel like the sausage thing ("I'm doing this nice thing for you, but only as a way to put you down") comes closest to the "in denial" aspect of the tsundere.

I wouldn't object to the Tsundere tag here, but it still feels, as you say, "not quite" . . .

I think she's a bit too willing to actually act on her feelings, even while trying to frame them as bullying, to come off as tsun. Or, perhaps more accurately, a being a tsundere generally implies some degree of self denial, while she seems to fully acknowledge her own feelings, but still wants to present herself as tough and aloof.

It's the difference between "It's not like I love you ... Baka!" and "I love you, baka."

The teacher so far seems like a solid guy, but why did the creator have to make him look so incredibly shady looking? haha

I think that's part of the point: He was introduced in the same chapter as another teacher, who takes the effort to look kind and go through the motions of caring about Kanon's condition, but who isn't actually interested in her as a person. By contrast, Miura doesn't put effort into [i]appearing[/i] sociable, but he does care about his students and pays attention to their needs.

While that would be an interesting character detail in its own right, it also plays into broader themes about appearances being misleading and honest effort being, that focuses on people, being necessary. It's a less extreme parallel to Kanon's hearing loss being invisible and how treating her as a generic "deaf person" isn't the same as giving her accommodation or actually helping.

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