At this point I'm assuming the merging of chapters/scenes and the stripping down to more basic story is because so far this version of the manga is rehashing what the pre-existing version already covered. Whether or not they will continue to condense once they surpass the original has yet to be seen. Guess we'll find out for sure once they finish up through volume 3--which will still be a while.

concerned voice: FUCK

Kaoru: I have this all under control.
Narrator: She did not have it all under control.

On the “It didn’t sound like Risako was lying,” I just take that to mean “She sounded totally plausible even though I know she’s lying,” like Risako didn’t miss a beat when coming out with the lie.

That's exactly what it meant, but it was worded a bit awkwardly. She acknowledges that Risako doesn't SOUND like she's lying, but she knows for a fact that she's a VERY good liar, and that she has just caught her in a pretty big lie. That's why I said PERHAPS she's using the baby talk to put her useless lump of fuck of a husband into a corner, since she clearly doesn't have the fortitude right now to straight up ask and face up to her situation.

Also I think she's bi AF too and just hella repressing the gay side. We're repeatedly shown that the only times she seems to be truly happy is when she's with Uta, and this is the first time they've had a huge falling out, so she's having to face a sense of loss that perhaps is just a tad too large for a platonic sort of situation--and she's realizing that.

Well the first rule of Shitty Relationship Club is that having a baby always makes everything better, after all.

Maybe she's just saying that to see how her shit husband will react, since she just confronted the fact that Risako is a suave ass liar but still caught nonetheless. Though it's more likely that shes just being wishywashy as usual because she still hasn't figured out how to be responsible for her own damned happiness.

Wait, is it confirmed sneikkimies will halt the translation due to the licensing? That would suck if the case. Not only because it will take ages until the official version catch up, but because not all of us live in the US or other country with easy access to the official English release (even if I can buy the ebook, it will have ungodly prices thanks to the conversion rate).

AFAIK sneik intends to continue translating. Just keep in mind that chapters that are twice as long as usual are twice as long to release, so don't mistake a longer wait time for a cessation of release.

On a totally different note, I've thought for a long time this series could use its own pairing tags given the variety of couples. On the other hand, this could leave the series page feeling cluttered. Any thoughts?

Frankly I'd be all for it. I have a very very difficult time remembering names and keeping names associated with faces (despite the fact that there is definitely no "same face syndrome" going on in this one).

There was NO WAY I wasn't going to immediately yoink this:

So what does Baiser mean in Magia Baiser’s name?

So far it looks to me like either kiss or Meringue which is a sweet dessert that is beaten stiff. Both seem to work in their own way.

Hmm, its a shame we don't have any sort of tool to look up answers to our questions...

Here I used to worry about not having my first kiss till I was 21... Aria has me beaten by a mile, lol

I am waiting the the moment where Aira climbs Tsugu.

Indeed. Tsugu certainly has a pair of sizable boulders upon which to climb.....

MUST REMIND

"That's so hardboiled!"

That's so hardboiled!

"That's so hardboiled!"

"That's so hardboiled!"

"Sore wa Haado Boirudo desu yo!"

Kore ga Rekuiemu

da

hard boiling intensifies

SO HARD BOILED

But anyway. I dunno, to the average snotty manga OL, having the top of your hair shaved off like that is like a death sentence, so she killed them in a different way. lol

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My heart dropped to my ass

I haven't slept in over 48 hours and I just want to thank you for making me gigglesnort so loudly at this at 830am that my neighbors probably wonder WTF kind of unholy ceremony is going on in here

The manga is now slightly ahead of where the LN is in regard to releases here.

The LN Christmassy Shimamura chapter, where she was thinking back about how she used to be all assertive and gregarious when she was little, is where Tarumi is mentioned, albeit not by name. That flashback included her thoughts about the little girl she met when she first started school, and how they became super friends until classroom changes separated them later, and they drifted apart, due in no small part to her choice to make basically no effort to keep the relationship going.

Which begs the question, can a girl really just rub one out that fast? like a guy could do it half a minute flat but could a girl actually do that?

Yes. The answer is yes...

At least author didn't pull a Happy End because their series was axed.

Given this and several similar comments here I've encountered over the last 11 months, I'm led to believe that I'm lucky that I haven't read "Happy End"...?

Happy End was an incest story between two sisters that had one sister suddenly marry a returning male childhood friend rather than stay with her sister like they'd promised pretty much all their lives. Predictably, people here were pretty bitter and salty...

Yeah, I know.

I just like to hope for the impossible.

Well, I mean, you do you, I reckon. lol

people are not ready for the next chapter

Oh?

https://i.imgur.com/gUkeFyx.gif

IS YOUR GAY HEART READY?

YOU DOUBT MY GAY HEART?!

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people are not ready for the next chapter

Oh?

It would be unlikely that the original manga adaptation would be picked up since it was canceled early and the newest release will likely go on to cover everything through the current LN volumes (up to volume 8).

" seem to have forgotten their first homosexual awakening feelings, or are not gay themselves to call her that and not understand. or are too young and are in homo safe environments. i was raised mormon and in middle school had a teacher that had horrible slander go around about her because it was RUMORED that she was gay. is it any surprise i reacted the way i did?"

The term "useless lesbian" is meant more tongue-in-cheek from a yuri trope standpoint. Very often a character will behave in ways that seem counterintuitive or beyond blatantly dense, purely for the sake of creating drama or extending the story. It's not meant as an insult.

I am one of the people that help release this LN and both manga. I very frequently use the term "useless lesbian", sometimes even with regard to my own self-- and most certainly with regard to Adachi, who is so caught up in awkward flailing as she comes to terms. I am a lesbian who grew up in the Bible Belt in Kentucky in the 80s and 90s. I had my sexuality literally beaten out of me; I even had a knife put to my throat as I was put to the question about if I was "like one of THEM people". As a result I suppressed hard, and didnt come out to myself or anyone else till my early 30s--despite being so obviously gay that I often found myself furious and uncomfortable because so many people around me assumed I was from my behavior... even after I'd "settled down" with a man for 13 years.

So please don't assume that those that make jokes or quip are being hateful because they don't understand personally, or wouldn't say certain things if they'd been on your shoes, etc. Everyone copes and behaves differently. :)

Ugh, harem/triad ending. This series deserved better.

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I wonder if Shimamura broke what's-her-face's heart, or if it was the other way around...

I got the impression the other girl was never that invested in their friendship, at least compared to shimamura. Guess we'll see though.

What's-her-face = Tarumi. I'm not gonna put spoiler bars on that because meeting her again just happened in the last manga release, since it finally got ahead of us in the LN. And I assume we will be following the standard "Adachi then Shimamura" chapter pattern, so we'll be meeting Tarumi next chapter since now it's Shimamura's turn.

Shimamura wasn't super into Tarumi in any special way, according to her flashback chapter. She was the little girl she met in kindergarten who liked shiny things, and they just "grew apart" by virtue of progressing in grade and getting stuck in different classrooms.

I have a feeling, though, that that casual indifference was not mutual, lol. Can't have a proper yuri story without a foil to create drama. Which to me is kinda disappointing, because I think Adachi already has a lot of socially awkward feelings on her plate, so much so that she's a constant flailing lesbian mess. Having someone show up she can legit be jealous over is gonna be a bit much for our little cinnamon roll... I forsee many, many more "WHADASHAA"s in her future....

the secret word was "dancouga"? I didn't botther to check back to be sure, may be it was just a to that anime or perhaps a different character will win whatever the prize for that.

Dancouga is a mecha anime. The author seems to thoroughly enjoy putting in mech and other pop culture references.

Actually, no. It was the sentence about Adachi wanting to reach in with her finger and scoop out Shimamura's "scum" lol.

Thought as much the moment I saw it. Truly, you can try take the mind out of the dirt, but you can't take the dirt out of the mind.

Oh, same. I asked, "... so, am I the only one who gave a major side-eye to the phrase about scum scooping?".

Spoiler: I was not the only one. Lol.

It wasn't meant the way it could be taken, just happened to be a comparison that didn't exactly translate as innocently as it was meant, but I knew people would read it and go "..... did she just...?".

I wonder who would honestly read this with those tags (I didn't by the way). Just contemplating what it takes to enjoy something like that.

Depression helps. Not being sarcastic. Reading depressing shit when I'm depressed is akin to listening to sad songs for me. Gotta be like that for others too.

Somehow I doubt that reading depressing things helps depressed people.

Considering that I am a depressed person--I've lived with chronic depression/bipolar II for over 30 years--and seeing/listening to sad things can often help, I would say that this is inaccurate. Consuming things that are sad seem to help by virtue of giving me something to "actually be sad about", rather than just the never-ending blah of depression that is my life.