I know that no one other than me cares, but most of these so-called villainesses are really just sympathetic characters who happen to be tsunderes. Smh... if no one is going to write some really messed up villainesses for me, I'll just have to write them myself!

I honestly really enjoy discussions about translations! But I feel like it's so easy to step on people's toes. Everyone has their own interpretations of words, especially if we include the sometimes wide array of interpretations among native speakers...

恋人？愛人？How do you translate those!?

(As a side note, my friend has been getting on my case for using the word "lover" in English as a gender-neutral term. I wish we had a good word for 恋人 that didn't imply anything heavy, like "partner" often does)

Wait is your friend saying "lover" is not gender neutral? I'm confused.

I think the objection that my friend has to the word "lover" in place of boyfriend or girlfriend is that it sounds like some kind of illicit affair. Which would be accurate for Yuni and Fuuko, as you point out, but not for most of the average situations where you would use the word 恋人 in Japanese. Just another failing of the English language...

I honestly can't tell if she knows if he's a woman or not. Her naive act is so good I can't tell where it starts and where it ends. But I'm glad that her "emperor" really knows how to please his empress ;)

Moral of the story: Don't go around kissing high school girls in the library unless you plan to date them. But like even then. Maybe just don't go around kissing high school girls.

I'm pretty sure she wasn't kissing her on this page; she just squished her cheeks.

Ahhh, okay. If so, then I forgive her.

Aaah!

clutching my heart!

Moral of the story: Don't go around kissing high school girls in the library unless you plan to date them. But like even then. Maybe just don't go around kissing high school girls.

Finally we get the backstory!

............. Yeah. That would screw you up. I might develop a major sister complex with that kind of history.

So beautiful....! Ema-chan is adorable. I'm in love.

I honestly really enjoy discussions about translations! But I feel like it's so easy to step on people's toes. Everyone has their own interpretations of words, especially if we include the sometimes wide array of interpretations among native speakers...

恋人？愛人？How do you translate those!?

(As a side note, my friend has been getting on my case for using the word "lover" in English as a gender-neutral term. I wish we had a good word for 恋人 that didn't imply anything heavy, like "partner" often does)

This feels like a tragedy, but like in the classical sense. Romeo and Juliet except they hate each other's guts

Oh no the characters are becoming slightly sympathetic

Needy lesbian and needy gay man solidarity!!

last edited at Feb 19, 2024 10:35AM

Yeah, that was a LOOK

Why you gotta do that to your girlfriend and wife of seventeen years Tsukushi? I mean come on

Oh no if I ever become a sadist hostess and get stalked by a masochist actress, I might be influenced by an erotic comic to cross ethical lines! Thank God you're here to warn me otherwise!

I've just read chapter 6 in the Spanish translation, and I can tell you something:

Io is not the fucking stalker in this story.

Omg I don't think I've ever wanted to waste a character in a yuri manga as much as I want to waste Io's bitch of a manager. I hope Misa kicks her ass. Grr.

Huh, the bitch is already pretty nasty in just a few pages in this chapter. So I guess it's gonna get worse? I'm not really surprised.

I'm kind of expecting the manager to have put a tracking device on Io. Haven't read ahead, but we'll see if I'm right....

I wish Shakespeare had written a play with this premise.

The hollyhocks in the final image!!!!

1. I really like it when they do those subtle sparkles near the eyes.
2. The character designs are really appealing in this one, and the art is just gorgeous.
3. They all seem like nice enough people to me? I hope they can all be close and friendly with each other. Polyamory route (though undoubtedly rare) would work really well here, I think
4. Dang this makes me want to be a high schooler again... but not in the U.S. or in reality. In Japan... in a manga...

Awwwww yeahhhhh that's the angst I'm here for mmmmm delicious

Those bras were tiny...! But this was very cute. It somehow struck a chord with me; it was like the perfect level of wholesomeness and romance. Going on my favorites list I think.

you know just when I think this manga can't top itself anymore Mizuki straight up eats her older sisters old panties and I once again realize how high this story ranks on the pervert lesbian scale. lmao

I like how it's simultaneously playing off of the "ojousan bites handkerchief" trope from 1970s shoujo manga.

Your childhood friend is a cute babyfaced blonde with huge boobs and a dynamite body? And she was waiting for you on her bed, wearing only lingerie?

Forget the dumb videogame and jump her already.

Smash Bros. is foreplay.

I hope she's better in bed than she is at Smash Bros.

Ahhhhh gotta love supportive mothers

lol hinoka seeing tsukushi fumbling the confession and so being all "Fine, I'll do it myself"

Alternatively afterwards she's like "wait, you weren't trying to kiss me?" In true idiot couple fashion--just blundering into dating.

Oh I hope that happens; that would be amazing. I am predicting, in any case, epic and unprecedented levels of blushing next chapter.

Tsukushi's gonna blow up after this, isn't she? She already was overloaded just thinking about saying the words, a kiss might just send her to the afterlife lol

I 100% think this is going to happen. She mentioned earlier she was getting sleepy, and we know she didn't sleep the night before this trip. I'm fully expecting her brain to overload from the kiss, she passes out, and when she wakes up she'll assume the kiss was a dream.

Okay but consider: girlfriend lap pillow