Ayaka is being very inconsiderate and pushy. Public confessions are kind of awful because they put societal pressure onto the receiver and involve bystanders in drama.
She could come out by herself to prove her point but now rumours are going to affect Hiroko, so she went and landed her in the hot water.
Besides, does she think that Ayaka would immediately get together with her if her baggage was gotten rid of? We know that yes, that is probably the case, but for her it is not certain.

yeah I agree to be honest... I'm not sure I like this development, it's so over the top... I hope it backfires lol...

People should not like or dislike developments, for most part, as long as it is contextually correct. If it fits the character, no matter how crazy or gross, it's good. If it doesn't fit the character, then there has to be a really good in-story reason for it.

I think this is just really fitting for Ayaka's personality. Ayaka is exactly that impulsive, brash go-getter girl who goes for what she wants deep inside, damn the personal consequences. If you really wanted to analyze her a bit like she was a "real person", she'd be one of those numerous people with mild undiagnosed ADHD. She has tons of character cues like that, starting from the way her apartment looks like, how she's either detached or in manic or panic mode all the time, or how she's hyper-focused on Hiroko, even beyond a typical crush.

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Ayaka was even more sassy that I though. Shots fired across the office...

I get in line here, too. I really love flawed characters. It just means they have to work through their shit as the story goes. In the real world, there are so many people out there who are not ready for a relationship (in fact, I think most of us aren't) and it is always a lot of work, so fictional characters figuring their stuff out is just so interesting and rewarding for me to see.

Lot of romantic fiction makes the greatest break from reality in that in fiction, it is often hard to start a relationship but seemingly easy to keep it going (happy ever after babying), while in reality it's usually easy to get into a relationship (at least if you're hot or cute) and very hard to keep it going for more than 2 years.

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Haruka: I know Confufufu.

Can I make a "Toki wa kita!" joke now? No? Ok... I show myself out of the airplane midflight.

To be honest, that scene should just have ended with Yuria carrying Okabe to bedroom.

Oh how the turns have tabled

She was a complete train wreck,with everyone seeing right through her.

Her heart hasn't failed quite yet,but its' getting there.

Bet last chapter is just her ending up in ICU

IF ONLY.

She should've keeled over as soon as that ring slipped on.

Oh well.

Ah, the classic dieworse ending.

A more charitable interpretation is that Chinatsu was indeed a genuinely talented, important asset to the company, and when she resigned suddenly the leadership investigated. And when they discovered that it was caused by a baseless rumor from jealous colleagues, they were "encouraged" to follow her out the door. But because this is Japanese office culture, nobody just flat out said "stop spreading stupid rumors you ding-dongs."

Yeah they said she was still in contact with the boss while she was away. She must have spilled the beans and reported him. Everyone in the office seemed to know it was him afterwards.

Yes, it's pretty rare to get directly sacked, unless there is a crime and police get involved. Company image is ridiculously important.

But your bosses can make workplace feel like hell anyway. Either they stuff your desk permanently with menial work in such amounts you never want to see a piece of paper ever again, or they throw you into a broom closet and tell you it is your new "office", now stay there and shut up for the rest of your "career".

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I can't stand nosy people like that classmate. Just shut up.

Well, at least the stalker crew helped these slowpokes to exchange contacts.

It's just odd to have same discussion that is one pages of the manga openly between people here. Everything was laid out bare, how it works in context of this particular story, what might become a problem for Ayaka and Hiroko in long term. Side characters even gave their analysis for it. It's super rare for things to be this clear-cut.

Hiroko is that hot'n'cool onee-san. Hiroko is on Ayaka's strike zone. Risa is a regular girl with regular height. Not Ayaka's type. Risa had about same amount of chance with Ayaka as some random nice person, and she was also bad at wooing someone who has a heartbreak.

That hot person might be a trash long term spouse, of course. But that is usually outside of purview of the story itself.

DomeKano is kind of just regular, bit raunchy soap opera, with an extra-stupid ending.

Problem with Japan are things like less than less than pointless censorship (it's even ran private business, and that business will butter up politicians to keep it that way), and attempts to always pretend relationships aren't often based on sexual intimacy first and other factors coming in play later. Leading to some weird stuff like "pure yuri", almost-but-not-quite homosexual "girlships" or Class S.

That's why DomeKano may seem out place, but it really is the contextual reality that is so twisted around it that it makes it stand out. Lot of that weirdness is also foreign import from a more puritan era, that Japan hasn't shaken off.

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Oh boy another yuri manga jam-packed with drama where all the characters are pos. Can't wait for the inevitable anime adaption lol

Shall I be so lucky!! I'd love to watch this shitshow in anime version.

Amen!
But I kinda doubt that they will take to tv something so sexual and erotic as this manga.

Where to start? There are already some really fucked up manga that were adapted as anime. Honestly, this story would look pretty regular next to Redo Healer or something gross like that.

There's even a very explicit yuri-service anime out there, Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid. I guess the upcoming Looking Up to Magical Girls will go somewhat in that group.

Only difference is that if this was to be adapted, it would at least treat sex and same-sex attraction with some respect (which is why I found ch. 17 off-putting), and not be just focused on revenge rape and torture, or just having boring, badly set up fanservice scene after another.

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Everything until chapter 17 was... Not sure if it was good, but kind of bold and very nice visuals in all the right ways.

But 17 was like a scene from a cuckolding porn movie. I'm not sure what to make of Nanase's personality at this point. Of course, as a team athlete being out publicly is actually much harder than it is for a more regular person. But still, what a mess.

I have no idea what ch. 18 might be about, but glad to hear we will soon find out.

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Haha that's totally because it's not so out of place for two female friends to do that even. I mean sure, she's crossing the line a little bit in this specific context but there's no context in which a girl pressing herself like that on a guy could be read as not provocative. With another girl it's just a mild sweet thing, it's not provocative like that haha.

Lot of hetero stories don't do good job at setting the stage. You'll just have a crazy woman or women throwing themselves at shy MC who doesn't even know who he likes, and it gets unpleasant. It's such a popular trope these days, with many many stupid examples of this same thing.

But if there are two people who have mutual attraction, then some skinship or cute seduction isn't anything terrible, it's just normal. Something like Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san is more sensible than most of the trash I mentioned earlier, but that's not exactly the way those things usually go.

We've known from the start here that Tsukushi and Hinoka are not only super duper childhood friends, but also in love with each other. So if anything, reader will think it is high time they start going out. There is no way any other person could get between them anyway, Hinoka's mom and her memories contextualized that. So you can enjoy the ride of Hinoka being good at seduction almost naturally without any big game plan, at least so far.

Fighting couple anthology? I hope it doesn't get much worse than that, these girls already have a one active volcano of a relationship, or maybe it should be called a ship with screw propulsion.

So even the fact they’re full time hires at a company still make them a financial liability, simply bc they’re both women???

It's also not just that.

Some just outright don't rent to same-sex couples, unofficially. They'll give those excuses like finances to cover it up, but they may already have old tenants who are homophobic and would raise a ruckus if their neighbors are suddenly just gay.

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Hinoka is killing it, literally.

She turned into quite a femme fatale once she stopped holding back. Parental influence...

Seems to be on character. I could see Kita doing exactly that, and then sending Hitori into a spiraling madness once she finds out.

Isn't Gay Marriage Legalized In Japan Now?

What happened just recently was a court ruling that said the same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional. Just year before, other court said the ban is constitutional.

That opens the door to discuss the matter in political sphere seriously. But you still need to modify the Constitution to remove the bit "one man and one woman" from it, or find some kind of workaround.

Which is hard, because main party is quite conservative and tries to do all the same delays that were done in many western countries as well. Right now Japan is in the phase where it teeters between allowing "civil partnerships" across the country or not. Many locations have their own rules of that kind already, but there's no countrywide ruling.

Nice 80's retro colors and shading.

Whoa, Hoko-chan really went for it.

There are two different girls in cover of next volume, so this story might not be just what lot of people are assuming right now.

I was getting so into it that I couldn't believe I reached the end of the chapters available

Author of this series has some kind of health complications, so this serialization has ended to chapter 20, according to Yuri Hime's announcement.

I call this product development over the old "I like this girl but I can't admit it, so I just suggestively and sexually tease her for 1000 chapters".

Why wait, when you can have both that and romance at the same time instead? Genius.

Everyone is now falling into pit of lesbair.