Love me some manga/anime set in the Taisho era. Staying for this, even though it's probably going to stay subtextual.

For a series that has gender-bending yuri baked right into its DNA, I'm mildly surprised at how little (explicit) yuri material there is for Ranma.

Parody source: https://twitter.com/FeoUltima/status/1531402504847622144

At this point, Tongtong's mom needs to take a verbal sledgehammer and bring it down on Lin Luxi's mom's thick skull.

Like, just tell her their daughters are going out, you support them no matter what and if she doesn't want to alienate literally everyone in her life (seeing how things are going with her husband) she'd better cut it out with the goddamn homophobia.

A cat, as a wise man once said, is fine too.

is Melua's suit a Kamen Rider reference?

I don't know how to send images but it looks very much like Brave's Level 1 suit

Sometime's other series (Hero-san and Former General-san) references Kamen Rider quite heavily, so it's no surprise that there's a KR-esque suit in this too and the eyes are drawn similarly, so it seems the general appearance here and in the other series is inspired by KR Ex-Aid.

I don't think Melua's suit specifically references KR Brave, though. It's more a result of them sharing a similar motif, in this case, a knight's armour.

Which brings me to Chiru calling Senri-sama her husband. I know it was just suppose to be cute in all, but after the baby talk, I couldn't help wonder if there wasn't something going on under the hood that made Senri-sama "the husband". It's silly, I know. It's probably because Senri-sama is older and of higher social standing, that Chiru sees her that way. But minds do wonder.

Except Senri is the one that "married up". Kayo is a servant from Chiru's household with the Kasugas (Chiru's family) being moneyed since her father is the head of his own company and it's been shown at the start of the series that Senri runs the family business alone after her father's passing three years prior.

Also the age gap isn't that big IIRC, in Chapter 2 it's mentioned that Senri was 11 when the marriage was arranged, making her 18 at the start of the series whereas it's hinted at that Chiru is 16 in chapter 1. She's just spoiled rotten and extremely childish because she's a pampered ojou-sama who probably got locked up in some fancy all-girls school whereas Senri had to become an independent adult at 15 and her profession is an apothecary, I wouldn't be shocked if she knew a thing or two about baby-making.

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also wow there's still people being new to manga terms huh, I really didn't think that's possible.

I mean, you could... just translate it as "delinquent"? Everyone has a manga they read first and transliterating wasei eigo is just a confusing practice. Same thing goes for "ビッチ" (often just retranslated as "bitch", but the connotation in Japanese is "a loose woman/slut") and "フェミニスト" (also retranslated as "feminist", but it means "a man who is chivalrous" and has nothing to do with women's rights).

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"A former yankee?"

Like...an American? Or is that some other slang I haven't come across yet? For some reason, it's just not registering for me.

"Yankee" (ヤンキー) means " (juvenile) delinquent". It's what's referred to as "wasei eigo", i.e. loanwords from other languages that have a very specific meaning in Japanese but make little sense to someone who doesn't know how the word is used in Japan.

Oh great a wild jackass that can't take a hint and is miserable to work with has appeared.

Welcome to the countryside, where tons of jobs are handed out due to nepotism. :/

and kicked the dude to the curb right away rather than not believing her daughter or being in denial about it.

I feel like that's putting it lightly. Didn't she immediately go and outright beat the shit out of him upon finding out about it?

She did, and did so in front of his colleagues at his workplace. Which he promptly got fired from as well as a result.

Yeah, Lin Luxi's mom doesn't seem like a "responsible mother" to me either. She probably thinks she is, but that sort of overprotective, grade-focussed mother can fuck up a child hard. Adding to that there's also the fact that her husband is often out of the home and Luxi apparently gets along with him, I think she's more of stubborn my-way-or-the-highway type of household head.

And I'm sorry, the whole comment on how Tongtong's mom "almost had her daughter abused by a degenerate" inches close to victim blaming for me. She caught on immediately - and Tongtong told her, showing there's a level of trust she has in her mom Luxi most certainly doesn't have in her's - and kicked the dude to the curb right away rather than not believing her daughter or being in denial about it.

Damn, from royalty to royally cucked in one page. Must be a new record.

Location: Széchenyi Chain Bridge, Budapest, Hungary.

Oh nice, it's Edie's new look from Three Hopes.

Make Legends 3, Capcom goddammit.

(and this canon)

Seriously, who are they?

They appeared in 2002 on the first official Touhou music album, "Dolls in Pseudo Paradise", one year before Maribel and Renko debuted and made the Sealing Club the main characters of all further albums.

Yes, I also just looked them up.

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Sorry, but the pages for this chapter are out of order. Would someone mind fixing it?

On the plus side, we got to see a bit of dere in our tsundere princess. Nice.

We can't really expect the kindergartener to intervene and clarify the situation, as formidable as she is.

I mean, adults listening to a kindergartener who is articulate enough to be able to clarify the situation? Pah, what madness! Kids are to stay quiet and speak only when spoken to! /boomer

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https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/rough_live#12

The hidden best LL ship has returned! \o/

I feel like the last new pages were mixed up? When they met up, she said “Kasumi! What are you doing here?” And then when Kasumi confessed, she said “K-kasumi? I almost didn’t recognize you” which kind of confuses me.

I think the intention is to show that Suzu is taken aback by how Kasumi has become more aggressive and straightforward in her pursuit of Suzu as opposed to the rather roundabout way she was trying to get her to see her as a partner in the beginning.

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This reminds me of the NTR stories where one person has communication issues with their significant other (or prospective partner, if they're not an item) and the other person ends up getting with someone else instead.

Except Yuni seems to be getting close to being both in one.

^ the director of some of the recent Zelda games (Fujibayashi) is a die-hard Zelink shipper. also fish girl is ded

^^Oh, THAT is why the next episode is over two weeks later.

Gruh. Fuck the Olympics, nobody wanted them anyway. (Like, 80% of the Japanese public are opposed to them being held)

Wow, Princess Momo surely got bolder as she grew up.