Considering they've established our Empress has been living up to the role lately this uh. Skit? These handmaidens are doing feels pretty damn risky, especially purple there shoving the princess in clear view. I can't imagine Yu Dingdang's gonna feel cowed by this or let someone hurting her friend go free.

I think there’s a reason for that self loathing still. I’m still suspicious that Erika was somehow responsible for Aya disappearing in the first place. Not in like an active way, but I strongly suspect she made a tanbata wish for Aya to disappear…and it worked. She then, possibly, wished her back when she saw Koto couldn’t move on.

Same here, and if that were true, it'd say quite a lot about Erika. I mean, I'd expect she'd wish Aya back right when she realized these Tanabata work, not only when it's convenient for her.

I get why people love Erika so much, but it's such an ick for me looking at how she thinks of Aya. A lot of horrible things happened to Aya, but all she can think of is Koto. Aya is her rival, but they're still friends, it's not like they're enemy, but Erika has very little concern for her. It's sad Aya thinks of Erika as such a good friend, but for Erika, not that much.

You're giving Erika's negative self talk way too much credit wrt her feelings about Aya. She's very good friends with her, absolutely a better friend to her than Koto, she just also feels guilty about being in 'competition' with her because she's a "winning feels bad if it means someone else had to lose :(" kind of person.

I think gyaru MC deserves Idiot Couple status.

Let's wait for them to get together before we give them that one. For now, let Aya have and hold her Useless Lesbian card.

She was explicitly told to her face "let's be friends" by Mitsuki, who she knew was fully aware of her romantic feelings. She's been dropping hints and being suggestive, signaling possibility, but the ball is fully in Mitsuki's court when it comes to making the first move thanks to that semi-rejection.
That term is generally one I really don't like and part of that is people use it to describe characters who aren't in any way actually failing themselves like Aya. Who is that "useless lesbian" useless to? Is she useless at pursuing her own interests, or is she just useless to satisfy your expectations and impatience as the audience.

You can't just translate it that way, since Satsuki was Onee-samaly :P. Clearly extremely different from Kazakura.

And also the word "hip" or ヒップ transliterated from English is used to mean the buttocks sometimes, so that whole area of the body is very difficult (for me anyway) to understand when translating from English to Japanese and vice versa. I'm actually still unsure from the context if the salacious senpai meant that Ruka's butt was her weak spot, or her hips or her waist....?

It's admittedly tricky to get across in English in a way that gets across Suuna's misunderstanding, since "weak lower back" doesn't sound sexy and "hip pain" sounds a bit stilted.

Several medical sites do have a separate article for "hip pain", so they could've gone with that.

Given the back message it's safe to assume Suuna interpreted it as back pain.

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Erika when she does something good while harboring a small feeble thread of self interest in her heart: god im such a monster, literally irredeemable

So true lol.

I'm so impressed by Aya just walking out. Girlfriend pulls some shit that invalidates everything you've been striving for and caring about? Hit da bricks! Fuck yeah sis, don't put up with that shit from nobody.

Oooh that looks really good! I guess "She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat" really took off? Or some of the lesbian k-dramas? I'm seeing what I'm hoping is a growing trend of life action lesbian tv and I couldn't be happier :D

Thinking back on this series, I do feel like it got worse after a certain point, or at least less appealing to me, and that's around when the student council was introduced as villains. The story shifted from Satsuki vs fate or nature or happenstance, a human fighting ephemeral and unknowledgeable forces, to a human fighting her student council president and his wack self-justifying ideas. He's just far less interesting than Satsuki trying to combat Final Destination. Far lower stakes and far less potential in him. Even other human antagonists would have been better, he's not just a worse antagonist than Death he's a worse antagonist than Miho's yandere kohai. And I kinda got the impression the author also regretted making him the principle antagonist given how things shook out, but they couldn't take it back and having to deal with him painted the last quarter or so of this manga with a feeling of frustration and disconnection. I'd imagine much of what happened had to be figured out with the editor, going back and forth to try to find some path to some satisfying ending, rather than this being the natural artistic conclusion. The final notes are actually decently satisfying, I like Komachi just as much as I like Akira, but our path to it felt like a rough draft forced to stand in as the final draft due to the nature of the medium and serialization.

Best guess as to what this is is Shimiji dealing with the fallout of something happening to her girlfriend, and either accepting it and moving on (relies on egg girl not being the friend in the colored strips) or mending her relationship and both of them being able to reconcile and heal one another.

I might be reading into it too literally, but I felt that the prologue strip happened before the "simulation" and affected Shimeji so much that it took years of simulated time to come out of her isolation.

It's definitely a prologue set a couple years before the series, she's in middle school there and high school here. After Yocchan's death Shimeji stopped going to school for the rest of middle school and only started attending again in high school. Yocchan wasn't any Shimeji Simulation character and she wasn't around for any of its events.

Every time a scene like the one in this chapter happens, I'm immediately reminded of that commenter that said once that Sorawo x Kozakura must be the author's guilty pleasure.

I think they really intend Kozakura to be pining a little bit. Clearly she's got the same type as Toriko, since she also liked Satsuki.

I was wondering how the red man would look in the manga and I guess this is about as good as you can do. To me it always seemed like an entity that was so alien that the human mind couldn't comprehend it so it just sort of auto corrected it into a red man shaped thing.

I always imagined it as a big mascot costume or muppet tbh. A big adult person sized Elmo outside Sorawo's door.

It's really interesting to me how they've got a kind of "pretending to be human" senpai/kohai relationship going on.

What an absolutely incredible and unique story. And utterly beautiful.

For the MC's GF [Lily job] and the few people who think MC is fine with her GF sleeping with other women (She not fine with it)...MC has no choice in her GF's job choice (They need to pay the bills somehow so unless you want MC to ask her parents to pay for the apartment rent money + Money to pay for future university course or create a pointless argument with Mashiro then RIP, I don't get why people are misunderstanding and think MC is fine with it, MC is jealous and annoyed but knows Mashiro does it to survive (Life is tough...)...Even though MC is a bit dumb at least she can be proud of being smarter than a few dumb people in here [Sorry~] XD). If Mashiro quit [Lily Job] then she just probably be barely breaking even with her part-time lecturer job + the maid job MC got with her assuming she saved up a few months of emergency rent money for the future + money for Courses fees to train for future job.

Except uhhhh obviously Makino fine with it because as you can see this chapter she's fine. It's not something she's bothered by or feeling any sort of significant negative mental effect over because she's fine. That's what being "fine with it" means lol. Is Mashiro's lesbian sex work her ideal job for her spouse? Probably not but the only evidence I have for that is that Mashiro's dream job is working in psychology and Makino probably wants her wife to have the dream job she wants. Other than that there's her feeling jealous that Mashiro's doing something fun/other people are doing something fun with Mashiro while Makino had to study, which is not any obviously anti-sex work feeling, and whatever biases and assumptions you bring to the table.

That was super funny, right from the fakeout about Meiling reading the newspaper.

It's like a comedic version of Gunjo

That's what I was thinking as well. "What if Gunjo was written with the deadpan black comedy tone of The Death of Stalin?" And I think that tone makes this potentially far better than Gunjo, that manga just made me anxious to read.
Also uh yeah Atsuko is gay as hell. Can't keep her eyes off Yuri, huh? I know what you are lol

Haro just seems to be bulldozing Gao this whole arc and it's weird. There's this macho bullshit that seems to be going on where Gao's father instantly reduced her to a helpless damsel and she can do nothing but stand there and shake so Haro has to do everything for her. Even at the end of the chapter where SHE should be getting an Idea for how to deal with her dad, it's Haro who gets an idea instead? That's especially weird imo.

I legit forgot there were male characters in this manga :-D

I absolutely cannot imagine this manga in particular giving its main character a single wholesome monogamous happily ever after. That would violate the whole ethos of it.

That's why I'm hoping for her to get in an open, polyamorous relationship with Hanei and Kurohime.

My primary hope for this series is that anything Blackprincess Whitecastle wants, she gets.

That person with the sandals on the last page sure sat down way too close to Mitsuki lol. I imagine she as soon as she finished playing and turned around that hippie gave her a jumpscare

there goes my favorite couple T-T

I'm really hoping it's a temporary fakeout. Like she's gotta return for the summer but comes back when school starts again.
.... Actually I've never thought about it before, how does an American foreign exchange student to Japan deal with how the US and Japan have different starting times for the year? Do they only come over in June and miss the first semester of the Japanese school year?

Given that she kept control of the series instead of letting the publisher access the copyright, and how she's thoroughly planning out a future for the series, I kind of get the impression she was prepared for this outcome from experimenting with traditional publication. Given that she moving it to fanbox instead of back to twitter or giving up, and even making ambitious plans like releasing in another language, maybe she's still walking away with a bigger audience than she had before, one that can support such efforts. Maybe there's reason to be optimistic. Those English version plans certainly sound optimistic to me.

"Komaki do you love me?"
"What if I told you I do?"
"I don't believe it?"

Why even ask then, Wakaba? Wonder how spicy this sleepover will get...

Toxic yuri fans been eating good these past couple days. This manga, Destroy It All and Love Me In Hell, and My Girlfriend's Not Here Today have all released new chapters.

Because Wakaba knows Komaki thinks she's in love with Wakaba, but Wakaba doesn't think Komaki's love is real love. She asked that question so she could denounce those toxic feelings out loud. I thought it was pretty straightforward tbh? Like, Wakaba knows what Komaki wants, but thinks that the form of relationship she wants would be bad and unpleasant and self destructive. And she's probably right. Wakaba wants fluffy romance between equals, not toxic yuri. That's why she wants to pull Komaki down from above her so much.

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They better not break up Honoka and Eli >:(

I definitely want to read more by Amano Shuninta just from this and Philosophia and how much they suited me.

I think this and especially Philosophia are the darkest entries in Shuninta's portfolio. The rest of her stories are much less cynical and light-hearted, especially the more recent ones. :-)

Lol thinking about this just reminded me of the retelling of Little Red Riding Hood that's in her book "Bombshells".
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/le_petit_chaperon_rouge

Little Honoka wishing for a school friend breaks my heart.

Probably due in part to her liking anime and then who her parents are I bet does not help in a place like Alabama.

You're mixing up Honoka and Eli. And making strange assumptions about her parents and the Alabama anime fandom lmao. Eli by all accounts had a good time in Alabama, she had a lot of personal freedom and a group of friends, and a lot of photos of happy memories she's shown Honoka like when she dressed as a "witch" lol.