All that said Eli is so gay for Honoka it isn't even funny.

I swear, most of the girls in this manga don't seem to have a working libido.

Adolescence is a time of bursting sexuality and raging hormones. The brains of these girls should be going overdrive with sensual urges. And yet, most of them show zero sexual reaction to physical stimuli: even when they are alone in the house with their love interest and have just shared a kiss on the mouth, they don't seem to be aware of what comes next.

Some are exceptions. There's Nao, the pervy one, and then Mio and Shizuka; they're the biggest exceptions. Kaoru, big vamp that she is, must have a sexual interest in all those girls she seduces. And Mari actually has had onscreen orgasms, helped by Yuu... who strangely never seems to be turned on by the sadistic things she does (she does enjoy herself, yes, but it appears to be purely cerebral).

And what about the others?

Everyone else's hormones seem to be out of commission. [¬_¬]

I think I'm probably going to piss some people off with this, and sorry if I come off as kind of wet-blanket-y, but...They aren't love interests? I mean, not officially, for the most part. Ai and Chie clearly think of themselves as a couple, and there's MIo and Shizuka, and maaaaybe Mari and Yuu? Although they've never really put it in words, so they might still be skating on plausible deniability. Most of the others are, officially, just friends who are skirting the line.

There's a thing that allegedly happens in girl's schools where girls "play at love" with other girls, which is to say they entertain homoromantic relationships but internally many of them expect it to end when high school does. Most yuri manga treats this as an obstacle to the "main couple", (see "Run Away with Me, Girl" for a prime example) but for a series like this, that doesn't focus on a single pairing that much, It kinda ends up feeling like a sword of Damocles over the entire series.

Not saying many of these pairings don't "mean it", but a lot of them seem to be holding back on committing to something they don't expect to last. Generally, high school relationships don't last past college anyway, but I expect gay relationships coming out of a girl's school have a particularly bad batting average. That doesn't mean things are gonna go bad here for any or all of the pairings, it just depends on the kind of story the author wants to tell. (I expect the series will just end with everybody still in high school so the readers can imagine whatever ending they want for their favorite ships) But it does kind of inform the expectations the characters themselves might have.

Nope. Noooope. Fuck him. He's a sperm donor. He doesn't deserve to have a role in the life of his child, and at no point should he ever so much as speak to Midori or Maki again. He threw all that away the moment he took a swing at his wife.

Midori shouldn't have to interact with her abuser to sate his desire for a relationship with the baby he never acted like he even wanted.

That kid will get on just fine with two loving moms, a sweet gramma, and a wacky aunt.

To clarify my earlier comment about being wrong about Doumyou, I remain in the “Burn Tazune with Fire” faction.

And I am also amazed at the impulse to rehabilitate him displayed by some readers.

I respect the capacity for forgiveness.

(passes out torches and pitchforks)

I do not, however, share it.

In a manga with fewer chapters, I would definitely agree that nothing much more can happen, but I'd like to reserve my final verdict until the final six and a quarter percent of the story is over. So many questions left unanswered, and I hope most of them will be addressed. Maybe Tazune will realize how damaged he is and seek help. It'd be great if he could have a role in the life of his child instead of having a restraining order against him if he refuses to take responsibility for his actions.

Nope. Noooope. Fuck him. He's a sperm donor. He doesn't deserve to have a role in the life of his child, and at no point should he ever so much as speak to Midori or Maki again. He threw all that away the moment he took a swing at his wife.

Midori shouldn't have to interact with her abuser to sate his desire for a relationship with the baby he never acted like he even wanted.

That kid will get on just fine with two loving moms, a sweet gramma, and a wacky aunt.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/run_away_with_me_girl_ch15#12

I'M NOT CRYING YOUR CRYING

Now we know why Yuki is so shy and insecure, her mother overprotective behavior.

Uh, no, we've had ample enough flashbacks of the kind of unwelcome attention from strangers it's mainly rooted in. But her mother's intense and formidable personality is unlikely to have much helped - it's only too easy to picture how a kid as timid as Yuki would have been unintentionally overwhelmed by such a parent.

Rather, I get the sense that her mother's overprotectiveness is because Yuki has been so traumatized by her condition.

Imagine someone actually ordering a hired help to do that and have it actually be obeyed

Like I dunno just quit

I mean, that's probably why she called herself insane?

I disagree with Trancendent Egg. Adora's never had trouble "allowing herself to have emotional attachments". She has always had healthy friendships. Even her relationship with Catra was pretty healthy before they had their falling out over Adora leaving the Horde.. New She-Ra represents Adora drawing She-Ra from herself rather than from the First Ones sword. She looks more like Adora because she comes from Adora rather than coming from Mara's sword. She -does- generally come out when Catra is in danger, that's because She-Ra is literally powered by love, so Adora can only get her when she is motivated by her love.

so she decided to come back to Lily or is this the "other" Marika?

She came back, obviously. Even had a letter from the other Marika to the little sister.

The fact that she physically teleported to the other world annoys me. I definitely had the impression that she was mind-swapping, otherwise how did this Marika wake up suddenly in the Yuri world? Did Marika-B take an extra dose with her and just send her there to take her place? If so...Man, isn't that pretty villianous? Merits at least a confrontation, I'd think. She could've just claimed to be a lost twin or something, but nope, let's randomly force my other self to go to another world while she's sleeping haha.

Oh, but she wrote a letter to the sister that loves her who she's abandoning forever, so that's nice I guess.

Marika-B is trash.

I guarantee you, without the slightest sliver of hesitation in my heart, that there is nary a lesbian in the entire world who would not at least -entertain- the idea of having sex with their girlfriend in her 8 foot tall amazon goddess form.

There are all kinds of reasons for her to accept the fact that the girl is a vampire. The fact that she's waking up and feeling anemic. The fact that the girl has really, really pale skin, ORANGE EYES, and extremely light-colored hair. Perhaps she has a vague memory of the neck bite before she passed out? The real question is why is she so alright with it?

One explanation is given in the story: She's totally into the chick and wants to do unspeakable things to her, from her perspective, that most girls wouldn't allow her to do... this girl just said she'd do ANYTHING... so... let's face it... Kara actually comes across as a bit of a freak in the first chapter...

There is another one heavily implied in the extra material at the end of chapter 1: "But maybe Kara has a secret of her own too...?" and the 4-koma at the end with Vivi reading Attack on Titan and joking that she wouldn't mind being eaten by a beautiful titan like Kara and Kara getting all serious and asking if she's sure about that. This highly suggests that either Kara is NOT a normal human or she's just really, really wanting to devour the girl... not in a Hannibal Lecter sense of the term...

Pretty sure that was just a joke about how tall she is.

insane girl tells nonsense to the interviewer , gets accepted

have between 18 and 25 years
5+ years of experience
a bunch of academic titles
Get rejected for reasons.

i wonder if someone will try to do this in an interview maybe going cray cray gets you hired

It does not, in reality. There are always outliers, tho.

It's not really about if the character believes her or not, but if she would freak about the information she just got, since it's not just any other information, it's a "Wait Could She Kill Me Right Now?"(of course she wouldn't because of that "specific blood" thing, but the second she woke up she didn't know that)
When i posted that comment, only the chapter 1 was available so it didn't make sense to me and it made me uncomfortable as i read.
But i agree with you, if i met a vampire, i'd be really interesested to see how they actually work(and what they think about how humans sees vampires, tha'd be fun XD), but believe me, i'd be scared to death before that lol

I get that, although I can also see how it would kind of undercut that fear when you wake up and the vampire is absolutely blubbering with apologies for knocking you out.

The suggestion of "two steps back" as the next chapter title seems like a possibility, but keep in mind idioms like that don't necessarily exist in other countries, so I wouldn't take it as a guarantee. If that is the title, I'd expect them to find Ookuma's parents at her apartment and the joke transitions from Kanda hiding her gender from Ookuma to Ookuma and Kanda both having to hide her gender from the parents.

In fact even if that isn't the title, that feels like a pretty likely plot twist at this point.

It's still possible that she's still in denial but the mention of naked times shortcircuited her brain. And technically we don't know with certainty how she'll react once Kanda's gender has been confirmed. This has generally been a pretty comedic series so far, but we could end up with some drama, or a comic overreaction, (like she passes out or panics and Kanda is left twisting in the wind) so we're not exactly out of the woods yet.

I expect her to be drooling over Kanda's body and realize why she never had any interest in guys before.

Possible. Maybe even likely.

Well, with the reveal, it means it's nearing its end.

I thought this line of thought was faulty as a defense of perpetuating the single joke the series started on, and I still think it's silly now that the joke is over.

There are numerous comical romance stories out on the market that do not live or die on any one single joke built into their premise. Why do you think this one HAS to rely entirely on this one gag to continue?

It could continue on and be about them blundering through relationship challenges as a manzai comedy duo. Or Kanda could have to keep perpetuating the gender lie on Ookuma's parents in order to marry her, (or out of fear of reprisal) Or they could just be a cute lovey-dovey couple who gets into funny situations. Or a rival could show up that turns their world upside down, or any of a billion different comically oriented plotlines.

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insert Ookuma's "I've been waiting for this" reaction here

An absolute win. Finally telling her the truth and even some surprise bath time together out of it.

It's still possible that she's still in denial but the mention of naked times shortcircuited her brain. And technically we don't know with certainty how she'll react once Kanda's gender has been confirmed. This has generally been a pretty comedic series so far, but we could end up with some drama, or a comic overreaction, (like she passes out or panics and Kanda is left twisting in the wind) so we're not exactly out of the woods yet.

But Kanda at least is being honest, both about her gender and feelings. that's a huge improvement.

No, no, no, no, no. It need to last at least 50 more chapters. What are you going to do when you can't comedically misunderstood each other anymore!?

I have a feeling that Ookuma will continue to misunderstand various things in perpetuity even if this particular matter gets cleared up.

"I really want to see you naked"

Weeeell

She's willing to become a bad girl.

(snrk)

Something I don't get: they're acting like it's the first time they make love, and Maki even says it's the first time someone who's not family sees her naked -- implying she's a virgin or something.

But I'm sure Maki, in chapter 1, seemed way more competent when it came to these matters. She met Midori again, and Midori kissed her on the mouth as a goodbye... and so, for their next date, Maki had her nails cut short -- which I read as a hint that she was expecting some good old second date sex.

Yeah, but in chapter 1 she didn't know about the fiancee yet. She didn't get the wedding invitation until that "second date". Going into that, she was hoping to rekindle the relationship and turn it into something serious. Doesn't mean she's had sex before, it just means she's aware of how it works and was hoping for it. Their relationship when they were kids was pretty innocent, and she never got over her heartbreak. She's also deep in the closet and is strictly platonic friends with the only other lesbian we've seen her interact with. I'm pretty sure she never had another girlfriend after Midori. There's definitely not anything that implies she had a sexual relationship with anybody.

And, in chapter 3, didn't they have sex that night? I mean, when they slept together at Maki's place? Or did I completely misunderstand everything about that scene???

She was saying it was the first time anyone has seen her that naked, as in completely naked in both the most emotionally and physically sense of vulnerability.

Well, also, I'm fairly sure they did -not- have sex in chapter 3. They kissed, but that's it. I don't even think they had sex during their trip. Midori didn't really commit to the relationship until the previous chapter and Maki isn't the sort that would put herself out there if she thought she was gonna get hurt.

Claiming that you know those people and that they are cheating on someone else and that you took the pic because of this reason (to use it as evidence when/if you rat on them) actually makes it even worse.

I...don't see how?

Nobody likes a snitch.
(Broad generalization, I know; but traditionally it's been always like that. Ymmv.)

But the argument being made was that snitching because a friend is being hurt by the behavior you're snitching on is worse than snitching for literally no reason.

I can't see any rational, ethical justification for that.

I don't think Reiichi is a bad guy after all. Kinda feel bad for him.

Reiichi isn't a bad guy, but he made a serious mistake when he tried to fix Kaoru's problems by marrying her, and it's been hurting both of them ever since.

Also, Kaoru is gay. I sense her entire bout of insecurity and now investigation into Reiichi's feelings for her is triggered by her subconscious feelings for Uta in the first place...If she didn't have a thing for Uta, she wouldn't question the marriage.

No, sorry, but very much definitely absolutely no.

I think Kaoru could plausibly find romantic feelings for Uta, once she's stepped out of her current entanglement with Reiichi, but Kaoru's infatuation with Rei isn't trivial, and even if Uta didn't exist in the story at all, Kaoru would still have to deal with the fact that Rei seems to still have feelings for Risako, was meeting her in secret while lying to Kaoru about being out of town, and she would still be dealing with the fact that he is neglectful and distant with her.

Kaoru's insecurity and investigation into Reiichi's feelings for her is triggered by the fact that there is a lot of evidence that he's cheating on her or at least lying to her. THAT is why she's questioning the marriage. Uta just gave her the emotional strength to confront him about it.

I mean, you're assuming that this isn't a fantasy world where cute lesbian monster-girls are real and everybody knows about them, even though that's been the case for every other series Neji has written.

Also, the very first thing she did was sink her fangs into the other girl's neck and drink blood until she passed out, so yeah, I think I'd probably also go with "rare vampire" over "emo kid" as a conclusion.

Yes, exactly.
On a story, explaining how your world works BEFORE telling your story is extremely important because ppl wouldn't be confused like i did, at least in my opinion of course.
I mean, there's a difference between explaining how your world works and exposing how they work little little(so ppl could create theories). Some rules needs to be said first, so what comes next could be cohevise, working as a base.
(It's kinda what Centaur no Nayami did at the beggining, they explained the whole prehistory, then the whole history, how all their races are together and how it impacts their social experience as a diverse community... in 7 minutes)

I feel like you're overly focusing on the first sentence and ignoring the second. I said we don't -know- if it's a fantasy world, but even if it isn't, the first thing she did was SUCK HER BLOOD.

I think there is plenty of empirical evidence within the context of the story for our protagonist to reasonably conclude that vampires are real, so really the only thing she's being asked to accept is that some of them need specific kinds of blood to survive, which...I mean, if I met an actual vampire, I'd be pretty interested in hearing their descriptions about how they work.

Well, that bit at the end was clever.

Actually, I think this is the second time I've seen this sort of scavenger hunt in a recent manga. Is it related to some larger trend that I've missed? It seems a little bit too specific and unusual to be a complete coincidence.

It's a thing people do sometimes? I wouldn't call it a trend, but people in my family have set up scavenger hunts when gifting loved ones now and then.

I mean if Adachi was 21 or something her jealousy could be a real issue

But they're both just kids and just started dating for the first time, they don't know wtf they're doing, they're learning.

Shimamura's learning to be more pro-active and open about her feelings, to hold up her end of the relationship.
And Adachi's gonna learn to trust Shimamura and not feel so jealous all the time.

16-17 just kids ? I don't know about that bro.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha They're babies, and if you think they're not, so are you.

I'm 23

Confirmed smol baby child.