That face squish...

I loled at the part where her mom started to remember Asuka when she was a kid.

"Hey mom, why? why? why? why?..."

She is the only person in class with pink hair.

Main Character sensor reaction detected! Plot armour engaged!

Neko dreams of herself sleeping...

The title page of chapter 7... the dog... it's eyes...

Anime eyes on a dog looks weird.

IRL state borders in the modern sense didn't really even exist until about the 1800s to begin with, and only in exceptional cases do they form an insurmountable barrier to human movements. Practical economic concerns and the like are normally a rather bigger one (hence the earlier about problems of distance and the means to deal with them).
Hell.
Last I heard marrying a native is generally one of the easier ways to get naturalized.

In premodern context a far more relevant worry would be if the couple's respective relevant social units (families, clans, tribes, whatever) have some kinds of hostilities going... and I don't want to even think about what kind of sand this will throw into the gears of upper-class dynastic calculations. Probably just results in a widespread practice of adopting heirs if necessary, many IRL societies have run with that for a long time anyway.

Well, I was thinking more of what happens if eg.

Culture X views the string as Fate and thinks red stringed couples are romantic. It doesn't particularly care about marriage but red stringed couples are (socially) expected to have fluffy romantic times. If you're stringed with someone and aren't having diabetes-inducing sweet times, there must be something wrong with you.

Culture Y views the string as the Blessing of God, red stringed couples are required by law to marry, and you cannot marry anyone except the one you have a string with. It doesn't matter what age, gender or relations you have, if you are stringed to someone, you are getting married. Now. (this means people can get married to babies, their sister, their parent -eg. son to single mother, they don't care. If you have string, you are getting married)

Now, this wasn't a problem when X and Y were on opposite sides of an ocean. But then someone invented the steam ship and now travel between X and Y is possible. Red strings appear pointing to the other side of the ocean...

I am assuming here of course that strings don't appear between people who have no chance of meeting each other.

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@A5PECT
On the bright side, if the system doesn't care about gender, then society is likely not to either. (given it is time loop logic, ALL couples with the red string will eventually marry since it won't display the string if you wouldn't)

Actually, I speculated on what a system like this might look like / operate with some friends.

The one I came up with was, someone made the system (hence why 18), and they set it to use time loop logic (see wikipedia) to find the partner with which marriage will happen in the future if the string is displayed. This obviously leads to more than one possible solution and the system picks the one with the longest marriage.

Certain observations:

1. Longest marriage does not mean happiest marriage.

2. If the system cannot find a solution, you don't get a string. This doesn't mean you can't married, it means that if the system showed you the string to that partner, you wouldn't get married (and same for the other possible partners).

3. This does not necessarily mean that society views the string as "fluffy romance story". Marriages could end up requiring you to have a string.
   
   3b. If society views the presence of the string as "you are expected to marry", then the number of possible strings explodes.
   
   3c. Another possible consequence is that all romance when you're under 18 (unless approached by partner) gets regarded as pointless and liable to result in disappointment; and everyone can't be bothered to go search because the system will do it for them.

4. As technology improves, people can travel further. So a red string system in medieval era might only display strings for 50% of the population as the rest die before they can get married or can't travel far enough or there simply isn't enough options. Villages would have less strings than towns and cities.
   
   4b. But when something like railway gets constructed, the number of strings explodes since most people can go on a "follow the string" quest.
   
   4c. Rich people can travel further than poor people and are more likely to get string quests than poor people.

5. The criteria shown does not prevent one person from having two strings. (although the system might be programmed to avoid it) Perhaps the first pair gets married, then one of them dies or gets divorced.

EDIT: Also, you can imagine the epic cultural clashes that will occur when something like the European trade ships contacting China. When the system is worldwide, and the societies view the significance of the string differently, the resulting problems when strings start appearing across borders will be =/

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Ah. That's true.

I had assumed that was a no-friendly-fire sort of thing. But then I noticed she must have specifically given Aki the Matchstick Staff for that reason.

Also the whole thing about Granite Frost watching her dream, of becoming a fire mage, metaphorically go up in smoke in the previous chapter as she resolves herself to going back to using the ice magic she hates so much.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/goblin_is_very_strong_ch14#10

... You have no idea. Scenery so cold it is very difficult to even keep a fire lit.

We can also speculate on her reasons for wanting fire magic. Given it was strongly implied she was a 'wild child' of the people that rule ice, and those two panels, could imply that she came from a frozen land and probably went through some hardship there.

So fire would have some special significance to her original culture, perhaps as a metaphorical source of life.

Or perhaps even though her background meant she was ridiculously strong in ice magic, her meagre talent in fire allowed her to survive those conditions, so she has an attachment to its value.

Either way, it gives her Little Match Girl staff a much darker tone. (not that little match girl wasn't a depressing enough story)

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Anyone have a source for the credits image on chapter 5.8/6/7?

http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2406166

Thanks!

Anyone have a source for the credits image on chapter 5.8/6/7?

Science trivia:
If they were straight, this is a gene drive known as a sex chromosome drive.

Assuming the women are straight and only have female children who all inherit the female only gene drive, this results in ridding the world of men.

Normally that would cause a population crash, but clearly what is happening here is actually that the cursed "women" are actually hermaphrodites, so it's all good. The decline of men would be less quick than a straight female only gene drive (because the hermaphrodites can pick each other and thus compete less with females for reproductive pairings with the remaining males), but it'll still eventually happen.

(Or less excitingly, if they can't get pregnant, they'll be more accurately classified as male)

In any case, I think the goddess originating the curse might actually be a secretly yuri goddess, assuming she knew the consequences of the curse. After all, if you're looking for a handsome guy, you don't unleash a gene drive that will turn the world into yuritopia.

/epileptic trees

Hi, I've seen the series, yes, this does parody a major spoiler scene in the series.

She sure got used to kissing really quickly. Now they're even considering how to use body swap. It's scary just how fast new things become normal...

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"You both look like children."

You mean "you THREE" right? There's another child-like one standing right there...

c7 pg6: ""And then keeping it warm with both hands, Sharo drank the cup.""

And it need not be said what happened after that...

As they say on Twitter, they had lots of sex afterwards.

Lol, I was thinking more of the ultra-hyper drunk-on-coffee Sharo.

c7 pg6: ""And then keeping it warm with both hands, Sharo drank the cup.""

And it need not be said what happened after that...

I got this Maple Love in featured chapter AND random chapter at the same time...

Clearly it's a sign that I need to re-read it.

EDIT: Lol, back button preserves random chapter...
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10120644/Maple%20Love%20Feature%2BRandom.png

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That was unexpectedly depressing for such a fun series... =/

What is this I don't even...

My theory for what happened, someone please check:
1) MC's mother dies
2) MC meets MC-old in graveyard
3) MC-old sends MC back in time to when her mother is the same age as her
4) MC and her mother hook up in the past
5) 24 years later, MC has learnt time travel magic and is now MC-old
6) MC-old meeting her younger self at the graveyard
7) wherefore comes her mother at the graveyard 24 years later????

Drama~

I also don't think Tomoe was being selfish. Having a "normal" family life is considered the default. "Friends" has a publicly accepted meaning. Fathers shouldn't be doing disturbing things to their daughters (referring to painting nudes; I don't think he's done anything more), two sisters aren't romantically involved, friends do not stab each other in the back like that.

Relationships are two-way agreements. Mikage could stop being a little sister all on her own by breaking off their default family relationship if she wanted, the way Kujou destroyed their friendship, because Mikage's end of the family relationship is hers to deal with.

But if Mikage wanted to be more than a little sister to Tomoe, then she'd need Tomoe's agreement. Mikage has no right to demand that Tomoe give her anything other than a default family relationship just because she wants it. She can only try to convince Tomoe to change their relationship, but doing so could involve destroying their original "sisters" relationship.

So does that count as a confession? lol.
Also, am I the only one who gets a little annoyed at the perfect score characters? I just don't like it when a character gets 100 points on every test and never even studies. Always kind of hated that in stories, but since it's in like every manga I just get over it.

Nope, you aren't the only one. Never studying and getting perfect scores on every test makes you pretty unpopular with the normal students. I got a lot of disgusted looks in school. So ya, it's a real thing, and you're having the typical real reaction to it. :P

<Sleeping in class and doing weird things like score inversions on math-science type subjects gave me a weird reputation too. (By score inversion, I meant that my absolute score is higher on harder questions/tests than easier ones; I blame this on my baseline mistake rate, which is too high to give me perfect scores, coupled with that harder questions in school tended to be those that were long and multi-part which gave me more chances to catch errors)

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Just in case someone would like to know, it is completely possible to create a baby using 2 egg cells. Its impossible with the current technology though. But someday....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1769356.stm

This need to be done quick or at least in our lifetime.

Well then, now this gives lesbian couples a bit more of an advantage than gay couples, huh?

There is a reverse procedure that allows eggs to be created from male cells
They say it's just a lab experiment (both procedures) and probably won't be safe for reproduction just yet. Still, give it time.

In the future, we might just end up a genderless society? (or more likely a society where changing sex is roughly on par with plastic surgery and anyone can have a kid with anybody else; which is... close enough to genderless for me)

Doesn't seem so. MC's "suu-chan" is actually Subaru. Their relation is similar to Nanoha and Teana. Isis (the random OP shopkeeper) seems to have her own backstory.

Pairing is probably Touma / Lily, but it could end up like Agito and Signum. Touma / Isis is still possible, but I don't think its likely.

EDIT: Alright, fine, I admit the Grendel family has alot of that harem thing going on. What with the "summon three naked girls" ability of his... =/

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