Maki worried about not being cute is probably the cutest Maki there is.

Regarding the licking wounds thing, saliva is a natural analgesic, but since it's generally just a bad idea to ingest other people's blood the trope can be (quite justifiably) off-putting. Hopefully they've gotten their hepatitis shots. :P

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I'm very pleased with how this is going. Things are starting to come full circle (or full triangle). Rin has fallen in love with Mayuki, all the links are in place. Rin to Mayuki, to Akira, back to Rin.

As we all know, this ends up being the recipe for eons of Aaaaaangst. But with Akira taking over the "extracurricular" teaching, she'll inevitably learn that Mayuki is in love with her. After that Akira basically just has to reconcile wanting to be someone's most important person with the fact that she loves Rin, who simply doesn't work that way. Mayuki's affection will undoubtedly play a significant role in that process.

Really though, my favorite part of this chapter was definitely Akira. She was fantastic in this chapter. That intense reaction was so perfect for someone in her situation. The anger boiling just below the surface, the burning jealousy. She was so incredibly, believably human. (and her suffering brings my soul nourishment.)

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Fig. A: Modeus assisting Azazel with her resarch.

Word association.

SAYOTSUGU?

I love these two and all, but I'm trying really hard to imagine what "karrr~" sounds like and coming up blank.

Yea I'm definitely feeling like this won't pan out...

Not only is the miscommunication severe, but Saeko has some heavy shit she desperately needs to sort out. The top/bot dynamic is fine on its own and all, but the way she refused letting Miwa touch her... I dunno man. I understand Miwa being upset about it, and as much as she's been useless throughout the manga, she's at least putting in the effort to understand her gf.

Only being interested in giving isn't always a bad thing. I can't say whether or not this is case for Saeko, but it's entirely possible she just doesn't want to be on the receiving end because it really just doesn't do it for her. Most people expect sexuality to be a yes or a no, but there's plenty of people who are somewhere in the middle, and it can be difficult to explain how you can want to have sex, but not in the same way other people do.

That said, Saeko probably does have some heavy shit she needs to sort to out.

Oh and Rika is wonderful. Confronting Tsuruta so bluntly... maybe his pathetic crush can finally be resolved.

Yeah, she might be able to

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crush his crush.

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Anyone else feel like this has been going downhill pretty quickly? Maybe I'm just feeling fatigued after 61 chapters.

I was expecting something more like this.

I can't explain exactly why, but Dia's frowny face in the last panel is hysterical.

Short-haired Yoshiko looks like Makoto from Persona 5.

This is a very good thing.

Gonna miss this one after it's over. At the same time I'm glad it isn't going to risk overstaying its welcome. This has definitely become one of my all-time favorites.

That was all over the place. Like a drunken rant.

Yeah, those were my thoughts exactly.

edit: I'm not at all surprised some people couldn't follow it. The pages practically felt out of order at times. I know I got some whiplash going from a ramen shop to a flashback, back to the ramen shop, then instantly to a park.

I mean look at how page 18 goes into page 19.

It just doesn't flow smoothly. One moment the flashback is ending and she's crying in the ramen shop, the next moment she's hiding in some playground structure in a park. The only thing we get connecting the scenes is a character telling us she started crying and ran. If we had a panel or two showing her running out of the shop it would have made that transition a lot better.

I liked the art plenty, though. It was very reminiscent of Mira, especially with the main character, and I do love Mira's style.

(And this face had me in stitches.)

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Can I interest you in some kitchen renovation?

The secret to avoiding disappointment with gacha pulls is to never play a gacha game. You've got nothing to lose if you don't spend any time or money gambling for jpegs!

Now that the combo is broken I'd just like to say that Meiling's "nyoro~n" face in the first panel is adorable.

Loveable goofs.

What the fuck am I not reading?

I’m actually feeling a little bit more confused at Kasumi’s hair. When did she dye it back to lighter color?

Same here. I guess she doesn't need to keep it black anymore after having secured a job.

Maybe. Or maybe (and sadly for us) Yukiko just forgot to colour Kasumi's hair correctly, and will be right back at it from the next chapter... sigh

I think this is probably the case. Hasn't it happened before? I feel like there were some time(s) around the point she first dyed it that Yukiko forgot to color it.

The only thought in my head after reading this chapter was "oh no, secondhand smoke"

Same here.

Cheerios??? Really??? Cheerios??? I mean what are you, a1yr old in a highchair?

How dare you besmirch the good name of Cheerios? They're delicious! >:C

If by "delicious" you mean edible with tons of suger then, I agree.

Fortunately that is what I meant. Is there any other way to eat them?

The game mechanic "explanations" seem a bit wonky. Puts on glasses, and voice gets nasally I've never seen a game let someone use a parry to cancel an attack, during a combo/hit confirm.

Like, I don't know about comboing off a parry, but can't you cancel into a parry mid-move, in some games or do you have to be in idle/neutral? I only really know parrying from like Bayonetta or Metal Gear Revengeance which obvs aren't fighting games (I can never pull them off in an actual fighting game)...

I'm not a HUGE fighting game nerd, but I do pay some attention to the FGC, and watch some tournaments. (RIP EVO this year) so I am pretty familiar with some of the jargon.

In my experience "parrying" tends to mean how, in some games, if you block an attack at a precise moment, usually frame perfect or nearly so, it has different properties than if you blocked it normally. Things like reduced or no block stun, no chip damage, not getting pushed back, etc.

You could make parrying a specific, unique input, but that's not something I've seen before.

As for this manga, I enjoyed Hi-Score Girl a lot, so this seems like it could be interesting, but I'm hesitant. I'm a bit wary of the translation, for one thing. "Vidya" seems very out of place, but I don't know what the original word was. Maybe it was some 2chan thing, I don't know.

(Also... this probably isn't the best place to have a discussion on something real world e-sports related, but GrandGrant isn't worth saying "RIP" over. I was actually doing some research earlier today about what he did and I'm glad he's stepping out of the DotA scene. We're far better off without him, and that's coming from someone who genuinely enjoyed his casting before.)

(Any other DotA fans here? :P)

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Cheerios??? Really??? Cheerios??? I mean what are you, a1yr old in a highchair?

How dare you besmirch the good name of Cheerios? They're delicious! >:C

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I like how this artist always draws Karen as some weird gremlin.

I think that's one of my favorite things about Tarano Surimi.

This was pretty dull for Tarano Surimi.

Can't get enough of these three.

^^^^ You don't hear me say