Well idk if anyone still thought there was ambiguity to the situation but I imagine this chapter should shoot down any remaining doubts

Yeah, probably.

Could still be room for "Miki is confused about her feelings, confusing sisterly possessiveness with romantic longing"; could even fit a story theme of not understanding your own feelings (like Himari). IIRC Miki has had a boyfriend before, but I forget if we know how into him she was. But I'm not betting on it.

Start a "weird acronyms" list somewhere that you can check.

SSC is very common in Western BDSM: "safe, sane, and consensual".

RACK is "risk-aware consensual kink". E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-aware_consensual_kink

sometimes i wish haruyuzu were canon. well, time to hop on ao3 and catch up on citrus+

Here's the ship link! 14 works. https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Aihara%20Yuzu*s*Taniguchi%20Harumi/works

Physical minimalism got a lot easier with ebooks. I can fit my library in my pocket.

Cute manga, thanks for the translation!

Cute chapters.

...with one year delay, wow.

My take was that Kazumi (tomboy) started working at the civil engineering business of Nachi's family (thus her hauling boxes around in front of trucks, like the trucks we see on page 2.) Meanwhile Nachi might have taken the hostess job for some income until the theater starts doing better. Which it hasn't ("skin of my teeth") but isn't dead yet either.

Basically they were forced to work, but swapped the jobs pressed onto them, which is a more appropriate configuration (tomboy Kazumi works with trucks, dress-up Nachi works with men.)

Also they became closer... somehow? Weak link, there.

Also, the math confuses me. They're 4 years apart, but Nachi has graduated from college, while Kazumi is considering dropping out of high school. Isn't college in Japan 4 years? Or did Nachi do the equivalent of an associates (2 year)? But the sign said "womens university", sounds like the full deal.

Feel free to shift to the actual Blue Star thread...

AIUI, Blue Star is dribbled out on fanbox, then released as a volume, and knight heron waits for the volume. So we end up getting three chapters over the course of winter. Bookmark my notes!

A spontaneous kiss! More progress than many entire Usui series!

Poor Wakaba. Really being exploited and abused, there.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/lily_fairy_tales_ch02#14

"I couldn't ask her name"

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/lily_fairy_tales_ch02#9

...but you could write her notes? So you could write her "what is your name?"

smh blatant plot holes...

Tag has been removed, I see.

Also, I don't have a habit of paying attention to the chapter titles, so just noticed various patterns there.

So the "gay chicken" continues?

Yeah, sometimes you're just desperate for the story. I plowed through the 5 available Arioto translations, despite 4 and 5 probably being modern MTL (not that bad superficially but a lot of pronoun/speaker confusion) and the first 3 being just bad (I'm guessing a human with poor grasp of English or a total lack of quality control).

But I'm not that desperate for ShuuKara, so I can avoid the MTLs for now.

^Miyagi from Shuukura LN 4 cover. On Amawashi's ToC page: https://amawashigroup.wordpress.com/story-about-buying-my-classmate-once-a-week/

Ah, thanks. Looks a lot cuter than I visualize Miyagi.

Hey Seira, who's your PFP and why is she staring into my soul?

Then there's Rae Taylor, nuking that trope from orbit.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to re-read at some point to refresh what's going and who the characters are... are Rei and Sono the same person??

I know the whole point of the manga is to spend money to find a certain girl (or at least it was lol) but the Senpai's financial advice/mentality irks me slightly. (*꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ) Not like seriously or anything but idk- it's just such an outlandish way of thinking lmao

Most cringe chapter of the whole series.

Grimm collected older tales though, maybe with some rewriting, but not inventing from scratch. Little Mermaid was all HCA though, I think.

Welcome!

We have two other threads too: one for the manga, and one comparing Shuukara and Arioto.

"Don't commit murder" should be an easy promise though. :eek:

Mintarou got into the weird drugs.

Oh, that, I thought you meant the whole overworked club thing. Sorry, didn't keep a clear memory of what's going on.