She put in the work and thought she was about to reap the rewards. Junko is funny. Completely frustrated that Kayo isn't biting anymore. She seems to miss their late-night rendezvous. It really is a story about surviving a crazy ex bullying her crush to get her attention---and office politics.

last edited at Dec 13, 2023 4:06PM

This is amazing

Loved the callbacks to everyone's conflict and changes, it really feels tightly planned. And I believe this is the first time they explicitly talk about romance. The juxtaposition of that with Yuu and Umika's conversation seems very deliberate.

Yes, it was well placed. The narrator was speaking to us then. This really feels like an ending (especially with the quote about their futures) but though I'm assuming it's not?

last edited at Dec 11, 2023 9:03PM

Dude, why is it always Kayo getting beaten on all the covers? #JusticeForKayo

Because it's a story of her struggling to survive her crazy ex lol

Scummy must be living alone now because she is not mention her mother

As of chapter 59, her and Mashiro are living together.

last edited at Dec 11, 2023 3:26PM

Isn't this, like, the biggest "f*ck off" to Makino's mom the two of them could have delivered? She gets Mashiro fired... and Mashiro just doesn't care, and instead gets to work directly with Makino. Sure, a waitress is not nearly as good a job as a tutor, but Mashiro does not seem to have ever cared about work prestige, anyway, has she?

It's the ultimate "fuck you," for sure. For Makino, she just failed upwards, and Mashiro is once again the calmest, most understanding person in this manga.

last edited at Dec 11, 2023 3:22PM

Broadcasting through the butterflies, got it, but the specifics about it confused me. Sister Sara was doing it, but doesn't seem the people heard the part where Sister Sara was acting evil so princess would kill her? And what is the range of this butterfly broadcast, since even the guards heard? Sister Sara could have set up it so the whole kingdom could hear it?

I'm pretty sure Natalia controls the butterflies and the people did hear Sara. They responded to what she said last chapter. It's part of why they wanted to kill her.

last edited at Dec 10, 2023 5:40PM

I wonder if Elsa gets the curse and the Villainess system is part of her punishments/complications? It specifically desires to make her life miserable. Seems it could go either way. Interesting stuff.

last edited at Dec 10, 2023 4:44PM

Seri's relationship insecurity feels a little more melancholy than Sakurako's.

Yeah, Kasumi and Sakurako just haven't put a label on it because they don't feel a need to. They love and cherish each other and that's mostly enough. (though Sakurako has a little bit of buried frustration.)

Seri and Shouko definitely seem more like the traditional definition of "useless lesbians." Just straight up afraid to advance and risk losing what they have.

Yeah I was going to mention this. They're not the same situations at all.

How many chapters does the twitter version have?

34 chapters. We're in the last stretch but far from over.

So there are only 6 chapters left to wrap everything up? It felt like the story had just started and that it has a lot more in store (like 50+ chapters). Sad, but oh well. Looking forward to the next chapters, and the serialized one might get more chapters than this one.

This didn't really end. It just got picked up in the middle of the story and part of the negotiation strategy was to start over from the beginning.

last edited at Dec 9, 2023 4:14PM

Agreed and, more importantly, we haven't seen any kind of indication that Junko actually cares about Kayo (or anyone else for that matter) in any meaningful way. Kayo hates her too but despite both of them being pretty cutthroat about work, Kayo at least has scruples about her methods and interest in other people beyond their usefulness. Junko on the other hand hasn't expressed any kind of fondness for anyone that seemed genuine afaict, she only sees people either as tools or threats and uses them accordingly. Not a single thought spared for anything else.

Very very true. Junko's the only one who is really off the rails lol. Kayo tried keeping up but as time passes, she's clearly not as interested in the rat race as Junko seems to be (nor as calculating). At this point, Kayo just wants to chill and Junko is on her own island shouting at the world and she might get left there by herself. Love Sal's stuff. Always interesting and unique dynamics and characters.

last edited at Dec 9, 2023 3:16PM

This story goes way too fast

Yeah, I'm pretty confident that it's ending after a volume, mayyyybe two. Feels like it's meant to be short.

last edited at Dec 7, 2023 11:51PM

Dunno how it will end but I'm greatly enjoying the closeness Lapis and Diana are showing now. Far cry from the frustrating earlier chapters where they were both obsessing over Natori.

Diana has always been a Lapis simp/admirer though, and Lapis has always been nice to her. It's just that Lapis' niceness towards Diana seemed fake and calculated before, while now it's slowly becoming more genuine (or at least seems that way)

last edited at Dec 7, 2023 2:00PM

This is a huuuuuuuuuuuge gambit, because even if that 30% of people who were effected are alright praying to Sara, the other 70% of people are gonna be losing faith when they hear the princess has died. There's gotta be a better way but im not so sure if theyll find it in time

They really couldn't have Natalia and Sara splitting votes though. They probably expect or hope that word of Sara's good works spread from that 3rd--the news of Natalia's "death" should spread at the same time as the news of Sara's deeds. They're making the best of the situation. But we'll see. The larger issue is whether faith from that subset of the population is enough for right now.

last edited at Dec 6, 2023 7:11PM

Soooo Sena’s feelings for her sister are now just… ignored?

They haven't been ignored at all. What do you mean?

Love this coming string of chapters. She handles everything so well.

last edited at Dec 4, 2023 7:38AM

Ah got picked up, at least we're going to see the ending of it, since i recall it ended with 18?

Yeah

So they just introduced a quirky new character with a single chapter left... damn, what a shame.

She's not new but first time they met. Her and her GF were mentioned before.

This is literally impossible to conclude well with just one more chapter left.

I think so. Just need the main two to have their heart to heart. Both of them are mostly already set when it comes to their cosplay journey and that was the focus of the story. Maybe in misremembering but what else do they have to do narratively?

last edited at Dec 3, 2023 7:35AM

I appreciate this version, but I'm glad we're taking a much slower pace in the serialized version

Yeah. Some details have certainly changed but mostly it's that she's had the chance at a second pass, to flesh out the qualities she wants to focus on and develop things that the twitter version only mentioned or could only speed past.

The major events aren't changing that much but the relationships, motivations and characterizations are given more space to breathe and become clearer. The romance, for example, was there in the twitter draft but with the space limits, she had less real estate to focus on that while also balancing the plot. Now she can flesh out both. Twitter manga just had to go at a relatively breakneck pace because of the medium.

last edited at Dec 3, 2023 7:31AM

I knew she was her idol from the past.

I was wondering how long of a run this one would have, considering they normally do shorter series. This is basically as long as their stuff goes for and she already got the mom's blessing and found her love for the cosplay community again. Should be a heartfelt final chapter, the only thing left is for the two of them to be more upfront with their feelings for the other. Should be fun, ending at this major cosplay event with all this "love" around them.

last edited at Dec 2, 2023 11:54AM

More awesome characters to add, worlds to build and wholesome moments between Hinata and Naori. Really cosy chapter. In a way Hinata should be glad she's sick since she can play-off her obvious blushes for a little while longer. Also can't forget her saying she plans for their cohabitation to last for a very long time. Out of the two, she's long understood her feelings and is just waiting for Naori to maintain some self confidence and settle in (and for all the oni shenanigans to be dealt with).

last edited at Dec 1, 2023 7:56PM

Yes. Very happy.

I'm not sure if it's better or worse that she wasn't chosen by a True Fae with an alien viewpoint but actually the brother on a weird whim...

tbf its more like she accidentally got in the way of the seed as it was supposed to be implanted in Natalia. But the brother was a bit of a dick about it lol. All in all a pretty crazy situation to be in, but he did a good thing at least saving her life.

Yeah he's concerned for his sisters well being and sees the opportunity to keep close to her, someone who will love her enough to change her depressive and suicidal tendencies. The sword would likely be nothing without a competent handler anyway, and the princess was not in the mental state to survive long without Sara. He ends up being right about the effect she'd have but what's really great is how the two women have ended up affecting each other in positive ways. They both have issues and flaws that the other helps account for. Now the girls have a lot of troubles to get through together.

last edited at Dec 1, 2023 7:48AM

It's good that Yuna let Rena in a bit and Rena unknowingly did a good job of reinforcing how much she trusts Yuna and values her. Now Rena is aware of Yuna's insecurities and struggles at least somewhat. Rena's blaming herself, but it's a better place to be in then when Yuna was hiding all of it, to the point of implosion. Interested in how they navigate things from here but a step in the right direction.

Yundao realizes that nothing she could have done would have changed anything. It's unfortunate. Xingyuan made the perfect point in that her and Yundao are the same. Xingyuan is basically going through the same thing Yundao did and teetering on making the same mistakes too. They really do mirror each other but by talking in the way she did, Xingyuan unknowingly highlighted some differences in how they view Xiaoen that seperate her from Yundao and I think Yundao could feel that.

Things didn't go the way Yundao wanted with Xiaoen because Yundao was/is a different person than Xingyuan and she realizes that there's nothing that would have changed that reality. Its really unfortunate since she's clearly retracing her steps in search of where the errors were in her life and she can't seem to firmly grasp anything that isn't tied to her own choices or lack thereof. Seems like she feels trapped by it. Maybe she'll get something out of this though, some closure.

last edited at Nov 28, 2023 6:42AM