True con-tent-ment.

This was a cute short manga. I don't mind the length, but it certainly ended pretty abruptly... I think if she had just confessed after seeing her mom out the door it would have been better paced.

Or, if instead of saying "I'm thinking maybe marriage isn't really a bad thing after all..." she said "I'm thinking maybe THIS marriage isn't really a bad thing after all...", that would have shown Hana her changing feelings about her.

I think that's my problem with this story, which makes me enjoy it a bit less than I'd like to (although I still like it). The characters are described pretty sketchily, relying on the reader to interpret some vague cues to understand them. One's bad at communicating and doesn't understand her desires well, but it looks more like she's sleepwalking through her scenes. The other's more forthright and is holding herself back from hoping for more, but even that isn't very clear until she explicitly says it in the last chapter. The writing leaves too much out, and doesn't show enough to give the reader much to grab hold of.

But the art's good and the situation is fun and the resolution makes sense and the fact that they actually tried to communicate with each other is refreshing, so it's not like it's all bad or anything. It's just...it feels like I'm trying to make a meal out of cotton candy. It's sweet and fun but there's no substance and then it's gone.

https://dynasty-scans.com/series/cotton_candy Did you make a reference to this with the last sentence?

No.

This was a cute short manga. I don't mind the length, but it certainly ended pretty abruptly... I think if she had just confessed after seeing her mom out the door it would have been better paced.

Or, if instead of saying "I'm thinking maybe marriage isn't really a bad thing after all..." she said "I'm thinking maybe THIS marriage isn't really a bad thing after all...", that would have shown Hana her changing feelings about her.

I think that's my problem with this story, which makes me enjoy it a bit less than I'd like to (although I still like it). The characters are described pretty sketchily, relying on the reader to interpret some vague cues to understand them. One's bad at communicating and doesn't understand her desires well, but it looks more like she's sleepwalking through her scenes. The other's more forthright and is holding herself back from hoping for more, but even that isn't very clear until she explicitly says it in the last chapter. The writing leaves too much out, and doesn't show enough to give the reader much to grab hold of.

But the art's good and the situation is fun and the resolution makes sense and the fact that they actually tried to communicate with each other is refreshing, so it's not like it's all bad or anything. It's just...it feels like I'm trying to make a meal out of cotton candy. It's sweet and fun but there's no substance and then it's gone.

Again, it's a miracle that Kase managed to hold out for years until she got to do it with Yamada. Not sure how she did that without spontaneously combusting from thirst.

I thought the time between going out together and having sex was less than a year? They didn't start dating until at least a couple of months into their final year of high school (whenever the marathon takes place).

I once tried to figure out a complete timeline for this one, but was undone by the Japanese school year and some vague seasonal indicators (hard for me to get my head around early February counting as “Spring”). I had it as either slightly under or slightly over a full year from first kiss to the falling cherry blossoms of paradise.

Well, keep in mind that the two of them trained for a while prior to the marathon. So long enough for Yamada to manage that kind of distance, in the usual accellerated manga terms, still means the best part of a month. And they were hanging out for a while as friends prior to that so I'd be inclined to call it something in the 9-10 month range.

Again, it's a miracle that Kase managed to hold out for years until she got to do it with Yamada. Not sure how she did that without spontaneously combusting from thirst.

I thought the time between going out together and having sex was less than a year? They didn't start dating until at least a couple of months into their final year of high school (whenever the marathon takes place).

Probably the ratings were not stellar so the editor told her to wrap it in one chapter. Just guessing, but mangakas rarely cut their manga short willingly.

Huh. Interesting that you thought the exact same thing about NTR (just happened to notice your post near the top of the page there). And yet, as someone pointed out here, it was meant to be a short series to start with and marketed as such.

Maybe it's nothing to do with the editor, and you just don't like how she does endings?

This was kind of weird and jarring to read because I've always felt that RPF is fucking creepy as hell.

I'm with you on that. The concept of actual idol (or actors, rather than their characters) fanfic makes my skin crawl.

Page 11 - that's how you should drink alcohol - mouth-to-mouth (been there, done that)!

"Oh my God, there is a naked woman in front of me, what do I do?"
* starts couting PI *

A good idea but I personally prefer the value of e.

I prefer to take the integral from an arbitrary formula. Even something simple will do the job, like: 4*x^5 + x^3 + (x^2)/5 + x
And it's important to not forget the constant (... + c) when you finish calculations.

Ooh, I got one. How about the fibonacci series.

There's also the Copeland–Erdős constant, which is basically all of the prime numbers.

Or you could go over every single muscle, artery, vein, neuron, bone, organ and ligament in your body. And if you run out of those you can always go through every single metabolic pathway. Suppose you run out of those you can start with your genome sequence.I mean it's not infinite like e or pi, but damn it feels like it is.

That doesn't work, because the moment you get to breast or thigh or something, then you're back to thinking about her body instead.

Pow-dere? Pow-dere? It's "powdah." Say it right!

i like how she makes it painfully clear that she follows her own standards as a businesswoman, sink or swim. It's totally in character with how she did the same thing in the series and threatened to waste huge amounts of potential talent because she's so inflexible about it.

^^^ Not any more.

^ Mario's just their beard (well, moustache) and everyone knows it. But he's a bro and doesn't mind.

Oh, they will. Give her time.

I remember Marina Sirtis talking about how the original uniforms on Star Trek: The Next Generation feeling like wearing "tight jeans up to your neck" and what a relief it was when they finally started altering them a bit. This looks like the same concept turned up to 12.

Other example is that I'm always being surprised with the Urethral Insertion thing here, and I don't really like it, so i would like to be warned of that too.

o_o Does that ever come up? o_o

There's that Oshikko Sensei stuff with the Toddlercon. But I guess if you're reading that, you've got more issues to worry about.

Oh, I think that's very good handholding. Oh dear.

That's why Honks is good for Maks. She just doesn't notice the tsun and blows past all Maki's barriers.

I'm pretty sure Alice could make a baby.

She'd just need to write to her mom for the plans.

psst..."scraped" only has one "p". Pass it on.

That can't possibly be Nozomi.

Her hands aren't on boobs.

Some good happy faces in this batch.

Hi Vanko!

Do you like the pretty girls in love, Vanko?

It needs Age gap and Older than she looks tags.

We now know that Miyoko is 150 year old.

I was just thinking the same thing :)

I don't think it actually needs them, a Vampire being over 100 years old is a common trope.

Honestly it's the exact same trope as Twilight. "I'm a 100+ year old vampire, but I look and act like a teenager so it's okay if I'm chasing after a young girl."

@Gabeerohas
It does. Basically, nae = not.
Dinnae <> Don't
Didnae <> Didn't
Couldnae <> Couldn't
etc.

Thank you! So, is that supposed to be some kind of accent?

It is the accent of men who.... do things with sheep.

Herding! I meant herding sheep!

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Y'all must have HATED the father in Flying Witch.