Talking about rape when there was 0 intention of sexual assault in this chapter, when they were discussing about touching boobs between friends is fine and when Hishikawa was totally happy (saying happy to keep the forum family friendly) with it... Geeez, is always rape unless if there is a written contract these days and even with that, with the right lawyer is still rape.

When people say this series feels "rapey" they don't mean rape is actually occurring they're more talking about Hishikawa's relentless propositioning of Komaki despite being rejected pretty unequivocally which IRL is literally just sexual harassment and shows a complete lack of respect for her boundaries. Like in the real world her behaviour would be wildly inappropriate and some readers can't suspend their disbelief enough for it to work as comedy as it's intended to here. Also, ew don't be gross respecting someone's blatant refusal of your advances is not some ridiculous draconian standard of conduct it's basic respect.

When you're rich and horny and gay. Go go Hishikawa-chan!

I don't think she's actually rich. Near as I can tell, she works a part-time job and saves every penny in the forlorn, not to say moronic, hope that she can actually use this to get sex with the other girl. The dedication, if nothing else, is impressive. Hence the "You're saving all your money for this, don't you have anything else you might want to spend it on instead?" stuff.

I guess there's something almost sweet about that in like a super weird and sleazy way.

If this is one of those comedy series that just drags the main gag out indefinitely I'm definitely not interested because this one's premise is already tiresome after chapter one.

So where is the line between good characters that are beloved, and good Merry Sues that are despised?

The thing is all Ena is really doing is being a reasonable person with a fairly solid level of emotional intelligence. There's nothing unbelievable or unrealistic about her ability to handle the conflicts presented to her because she just behaves like a sane human being with functional social skills unlike a lot of other yuri heroines which is what a lot of readers find so endearing about her.

Sorry for my vocabulary, but I have one phrase for Satoko.

Attention whore.

Here's another less shitty and judgemental one: isolating and neglectful childhood.

You know seeing it was one part I though it was going to be rushed or unsatisfying but it was nice.

It didn't feel rushed but I do think it could have benefited from some more fleshing out. It's still a lovely story but I would have liked to see a bit more of the development of their relationship.

Plots with parents splitting up and like divvying up the children like they're assets are always so bizarre like that's not how custody works it's basically child abuse.

What the fuck is this garbage.

Well, we don't know the details, we don't know what happened and society tends to put love over friendship, but that still sucks ass in big time. Her enmity is largely understandable and justified, she could be a bit more forgiving, since this is a teenage girl in that case, and at the very least shouldn't put salt on these wounds, but emotions and stuff.

I mean it's not really justified at all her friend was a grown ass woman who entered into a relationship with a child any consequences that spring from that decision are wholly her own responsibility. Holding Mishio responsible for how things turned out is ridiculously unreasonable and petty.

Ahhhh I love Onada's character development she's come a long way.

Oh this is cute they're both dorks just different kinds.

Mochi au lait is just going into the kinky territory... I like it.

It's not kink unless it's actually been discussed and agreed upon by all involved parties. Otherwise it's just plain old abuse.

Well that was super mired in heteronormativity.

Thing with Citrus is that it was aggressively marketed and the author pushed to get a anime made instead of waiting to get chosen. Its successs isn't so much based on the quality of its story but more because the people behind it.

If that's all it takes to get an anime then almost every manga would be fighting for a spot. We would have had a Girl Friends anime years ago.

The fact that Girl Friends doesn't have an anime is all the proof you need that quality is not a major consideration when they decide what to adapt. It's all about that marketability which is why 90% of anime is otaku wish fulfillment.

After reading Tonari no Robot, I keep expecting manga AIs to feel more alien, and I'm always disappointed that they act no different from human beings.

I mean it makes sense that she was a far more alien example of an android because she's an experimental AI that is meant to develop her own personality based on her inhuman perception of the world and not a robot programmed to behave as close to human as possible.

I trusted you Tamamusi and you betrayed me

Woa, talk about drastic development.

If there's alcohol-amnesia the next day I'm going to murder the author. Just saying.

Pretty much my first thought. It's such a lazy plot device.

Yeah shape-shifting is like an old old school classic vampire trick that sort of went out of vogue in more modern depictions along with things like obsessive counting.

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I don't know how to feel about this. Like every time there's supposedly going to be drama, it turns out the situation is easily fixed and I've only just been blowing it out of proportion in my head. This is much more stressful for me than real drama. Lol.

I really like this brand of like comedic drama where every potentially dramatic situation is defused either by absurdity or people just acting like reasonable human beings instead of making a huge thing out of everything.

That note about the love ban makes me feel bad for idols, I mean how horrible is it when you can't have a love life of your own because of a contract? I thought fans only wanted the best for those they admire.

"Fan" is really the wrong word for these kind of people because really they're more like creepily possessive pseudo-suitors who want to pretend they have some actual claim upon whichever woman they're obsessed with, an attitude the industry is all too happy to encourage and capitalize on regardless of how unhealthy or absurdly unfair it is to the women in question.

Conrats author you made age gap no fun.

Does anyone know, or can remember if it’s been revealed, why she can’t simply drink blood from a bloodbag?

Yeah, I don't remember any explanation for why this isn't possible like even if it had to be "fresh" blood there's no rational reason biting ever needs to be involved at all she could literally just drip blood from a wound into her mouth. It's another instance of the issues with trying to mix a light comedic tone with a super-dramatic one: comedy requires a great deal less explanation because being ridiculous is often the entire point whereas with drama you immediately start picking it apart because you expect it to make sense if you're supposed to take it seriously.

When I was reading the latest chap, I was quite irked mildly with the fluidity of the story and the "deception" of the teacher. But it was explained, the "before reaching 18 years old or die of starvation." So, sucking her first blood is an urgent issue.
It is like a story of a kind man who saved a scorpion from drowning. When the kind man was about to put the scorpion to the ground, the scorpion bit him.
The reflection is simply this: You can't stop the kind man to help the dangerous scorpion because it is his nature to be kind. In the same way, the scorpion can't stop biting the kind man because that is its nature to bite.

Thus, in analogy, you can't totally blame the teacher of deceiving both for the sake of saving Iris' life. Yes, it is unfair for Sara but that is "survival of the fittest", kill or be killed. And it was even through Sara's eyes that we can see the sadness in the teacher's eyes forcibly hiding through acquiesced flirting and joke.

A: "Survival of the fittest" is not the same as "kill or be killed," it refers to the fact that the species best adapted to their environment are the most likely to survive in it.

B: It's not a valid excuse regardless as soon as you're talking about beings with the capacity for moral reasoning. The fact that you biologically need to kill people indefinitely to survive does not suddenly make it any less morally wrong to do so especially without even giving both parties the option of informed consent. The reason this is so monumentally fucked is much less the "brides all die within a year" part and much more the part where the protagonists were allowed to enter into this fatal arrangement without knowing that.

Omg i always knew the sensei was putting up a front! I bet she cried deeply over for every bride that passed away... :c but takano will do something right xD i don't see a tragedy tag so :>

Apparently she didn't care enough to stop murdering them though.

Talk about ridiculous tonal whiplash. It's so jarring to go from this "serious melodramatic tragedy" to "lighthearted ecchi" mood in the span of literally a single page I don't even know what this author is thinking at this point it just doesn't work it totally undermines both moods and makes everything feel like a badly thought out mess.

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