I beleive people are looking at this the wrong way. This manga is a piece of realism, and it expresses that realism beautifully and emotionally. However, that dosen't mean the author supports what they are depicting. When realist artists of the past painted picture of impoverished families, or men coming home from the war with a thousand yard stare, they weren't in support of their subjects condition, they wanted to show people the reality of their situation in hopes of invoking change.

Now, do I think this author planned on making this a realism piece? No. What I think happened is that they tried to make an escapism story, but accidently created a narrative that was too similar to their own. And overtime, the parallel between their real life and the story caused a pessimism which seeped into their work. However, I do think this manga has a lot of value if you view it through the realist lense, and look at this outside of the perspective of just a narrative: this is the overall narrative about how a happy story of escaping an abusive system based upon the authors own situation, was slowly corrupted as the reality set upon the author that the abusive system was inescapable, even in fiction.

last edited at Aug 5, 2023 6:00AM

The vigilantes did nothing wrong. Don't stab people and you won't get beat, simple as

People don't commit crimes because they think it's a fun hobby to get into, they commit crimes because their pushed into a corner and feel they have to. Brutally punishing individual offenders without addressing the material conditions that forced them to commit the crime in the first place dosen't solve anything and only encourages more violence. You think a single mother stealing food for her starving children is going to stop just beside she took a beating? And on top of that, composing the justice force of other refugees creates animosity amongst the people and creates more violence, while also conveniently keeping the people's attention away from the government that is putting them in that situation. Don't be fooled, what is being shown in this chapter is not a sense of justice, but of a governments ability to manipulate its people to hate eachother, ignore the government, and keep working to fuel the factories to produce goods for the more lucrative tax payers.

Jesus fucking christ

Even without yuri a good touhou like this is a lot of fun :)
Wish there was still as much touhou being done as their used to be.

p.s Does Alice count as a yokai? I know she isnt human but the people in makai were devils i think- does that count as a type of yokai? And her mom was the godess so maybe she isnt a devil either - or half devil half god? who knows..

Yes, magicians who perform life extending rituals become youkai. Abandoning part of your humanity is viewed as a negative thing. Thus they are viewed as some form of evil.

Celestials and hermits had to abandon their desires first and live virtous. So they are immortal but they are not youkai.

I think it's funny though that because of this, Alice is considered a youkai while Seiga isnt, even though Alice is much more human than that necrophile.

This story is interesting to me because a happy ending seems unlikely given the tone of manga so far, but I also don't see how Collin's situation could possibly get any worse. So narratively, i can't look away, because I genuinely have no idea where this is headed.

Plus, it's already started with so much shock value that there really isn't anything else that could happen that would invoke that much emotion in me. I mean, you have a child, burying their dead baby, that they conceived by copulating with their biological father. Now where, in the ever loving fuck, do you go from there?

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As much as there is something of a plot these last few chapters, I'm not surprised the formula of intro ch then sex ch is still going on. I mean really, did any of expect that she wouldn't fuck everyone in that picture before we got any answers?

She hasn't fucked anyone yet, she is currently in the running for biggest bottom of the decade

She literally ate a girl out last chapter

Yeah, after getting on her knees in front of her and waiting patiently until she was commanded too. And then not finishing herself until she was given permission.

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She couldn't of just....pushed her a way?

I feel like maybe Tsukasa is the one who gets her girlfriends so dependent on her that they threaten to commit suicide if she leaves, not the other way around.

My prediction? Tsukasa and the main girl get together, Tsukasa continues to isolate the mc and tell her that she needs her, and then it ends up just how it started, with Tsukasa chatting up some other girl on the phone about how clingy the mc is, and leaving her after making her dependent on her.

"You keep wanting me to think about "later on" or whatever, as if you guys can predict the future. But in the end, what you want is standing right here in front of you, and you can't even see it."

"People who think they're being smart...do the stupidest things."

Holy DAMM these lines.

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Jesus fucking christ that was... good lord. That was so hot. Absolutely perfect.

This is the one with the ASMR companion, right? Can anyone enlighten me on how can one get the thing? I think I really fucking want it.

It's on dlsite

last edited at Jun 22, 2023 8:29AM

unpopped popcorn

You mean corn?

We STAN an autism coded queen, who has real emotions but an inability to express them, and isn't just an emotionless cardboard cutout.

last edited at Jun 16, 2023 2:23AM

I'm still incredibly disturbed by the whole skin suit thing. That page walking through the skin gate is horrific, and the fact that the mc got hard underneath the skin is a thought that will stick with me for a long time

They couldn't just...cast a magic spell? Or drink a potion, maybe? Did they have to go the skin suit route? And the fact that the author went out of there way insist that passing through the gate took physical effort, with the veins bulging out of the guys head, and the fact that the skin suit got snipped off at the toes...it's just a but too much.

At first I thought the bunny had drawn a building for the local nazi group, but then I remembered that a lot of Asian countries don't have that same association with the symbol that the west does. That made a whole lot more sense.

IDK Japanese people should know exactly what it means. They were nazi Germany's allie in the war.
However I know if you draw the design with arms turned one way it's the nazi symbol, if you draw the arms the other way it's just some old religious symbol. I want to say buddhist, but don't quote me on that. The trouble is I don't remember which way is which. And I don't really want googling nazi stuff in my search history. So I'm going to be outraged by the nazi bunnies to be on the safe side.

Yeah lol I came to the comments just for this. The swastika was originally a Buddhist symbol, and in countries where Buddhism is popular its pretty much the symbol of Buddhism, on par with he cross for Christianity. It dosen't quite have the same weight as the cross, but it is still a very popular symbol used throughout history in buddisht art and architecture. So the symbol likely is just to denote the local Buddhist temple.

While the nazi party did appropriate the symbol, it still exists across numerous ancient statues and temples. As a result, in those countries, the swastika's tie to the nazi party is secondary to its religious meaning, since most people growing up there will see the symbol numerous times in Buddhist imagery before they ever learn any sort of WWII history.

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1. I don't like the guy character. I don't really think he need to be there anymore and is sort of just third wheeling the main two

2. I can't beleive we're still in the "totally don't even recognize our relationship as ever being possibly romantic" and "getting overly blushy over an indirect compliment" stage. Plus, the whole "I don't actually have a crush on her, I just admire her because she looks cool and I think she's brave" bs. I thought we were over those sort of stereotypes in yuri, but I guess this author wanted to do a period piece.

This chapter title got me all excited for finally some sort of development away from the usual sterotypes of the last 20-30 chapters, but it ended up just being gross. I don't care that the token straight guy thinks the girls are cute. Who gives a shit.

last edited at Jun 11, 2023 7:47AM

It'd be cute if the new girl was into the club president

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Sorry men haters.

Yeah, I hate men. And?
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Hmmm...as much as I love this series, I feel like it just keeps repeating the same dynamic without actually taking the story any further. I mean, sure a lot of stuff has happened in the last 18 chapters since Oosawa learned Mitsuki was a girl, but has any of it really mattered? I mean, if you read the latest chapter, would you really even be able to tell anything had happened since like, chapter 27? I just feel like the author is diverging in too many side stories to try and avoid developing the main two's relationships, which is a little annoying and also makes me nervous because where we are now, it's not that hard to imagine the author announcing that the story was never meant to be romantic, and was just supposed to portray a friendship. Just how I've felt lately reading the newest updates, idk.

I think this is the fourth or fifth series I've read with this start... looks good tho

would you kindly share the other ones? i love this trope since Flower Flower

"The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady" is the most popular recent example, having recently received an anime adaptation. It's the story of a princess with no magic powers who becomes a magitek engineer and takes her terrible brother's ex-fiance, who he publicly rejected, as her research assistant. The yuri follows from there

Another popular one with an anime adaptation would be "I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss," which is not a yuri but does start with the villainess getting publicly rejected by the prince and then starting a romance with the Demon Lord instead

There's also The Villainess Who Stole the Heroine's Heart though that one is purposefully a parody of the trope/genre

W H A T

"haven't you been with our company for ten years? Surely someone's caught tour eye in that time!"

multiple someone's, in fact. And quite a few she's slept with.

This implies that Hiroko has slept with women she's found attractive in the workplace before...SO THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF THIS MANGA

This one offhand comment single handedly destroys the entire backbone of the story. If Hiroko is such a womanizer and jumps at the chance to sleep with a cute girl, WHY HAS SHE BEEN AVOIDING AYAKA SO DAMN MUCH!?

I'm genuinely in love with this story. It's got so much narrative and world-building. The dynamic of the dad spying on his daughters dates could be a manga in itself, and yet there's also this whole gritty Cia level operation happening in the background that we haven't even fully gotten into yet?

But at the same time, it dosen't feel like the story is too crowded. The family dynamic and hitman operation stuff both give eachother the space they need to breathe, while also being just the right amount of interconnected to compliment eachother delightfully.

Generally one of the best narratives I've read in a while, even outside of yuri manga.

I updated my spoiler comment to label which spoiler is the one where you get to learn about Hiroko's past, just in case people only want to see that one.

LOL

I predict that there will be nothing left of Dynasty Scans but a smoking crater on the server room floor after this thread goes nuclear halfway through volume 2.

Indeed. The characters are such trainrecks that I can just feel all the rabid future commenters nashing at their leashes to tear their stupid decisions apart.

Despite having already read this, I'm incredibly excited for new chapter releases just to see the absolute battle ground it will inevitably cause in the forums.

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Just to give people a little piece of mind

I found the raws, and while I haven't read them because I am poor, from the thumbnails it seems like priest dad surives. Here's the link to see yourself https://comic-days.com/episode/3269632237268449361