Well, I do sympathize with Yurim.

I think she held back a long time, tried to be a grown up and so didn't fight back. When you do martial arts at a certain level, you're not supposed to use it against a layperson and she stuck to that. Given the amount of pride she has, it was a huge effort.

But there's only so much shit you can take when you know you have the capacity to make it stop.

She almost got killed, or crippled by those seniors, who did all this sneakily, by proxy. And then there's this ex-"friend", who comes and says "it was hard for me too, even though it's my fault you went through hell while I was laughing merrily".

Her only error is probably to not have destroyed that senior in the toilets. When you bow to the bullies once, they never let their prey go.

I take it you haven't read the most recent chapter because this has gone from "lashing out in retaliation for abuse" to "abusing people for the sake of sadistic pleasure."

Well there goes that last shred of sympathy.

Yurim feels like an anti hero or something to me rn. Regarding solely her arc, you can tell that she's trying to hold herself to certain standards, but you also see that it's hard for her and that she's really wearing down, until she finally snaps. Considering the series as a whole, you can't forget that she was a complete sadistic douche and behaves rather mercilessly. Idr if there was a name or title for a character like that, one that starts off alright, but kinda degrades as time and events pass. Anyways, considering everything, I just don't really hate her rn. Like yeah I get that it's the point of a "tragic backstory" and considering that it's the point, it feels dumb to sympathize cus it's like the author's leading you by the nose but I guess it's just really not it's that important to me tbh. Currently she isn't fucking around with Gayoon and that's fine by me. I think I accept her as a flawed and angry character, someone that's more deeply involved with the story, and as long as she doesn't start shit with Gayoon again, I'm okay with her.

There is a like less than 0% chance she is not gonna start shit with Gayoon again. She's a pathological abuser who revels in exerting power over her victim in order to compensate for her own abuse and feelings of powerlessness and it's very clear that she's picked Gayoon as that victim.

This chapter still fueled my salt tbh, and admittedly I dont really resent Yurim or anything anymore and now I'm just filled with salt for everything that's going on/happening to her
And no offence meant to Soha but now I see that she's gonna swoop in like a knight in shining armour and "take down" the "bully" and wow I'm just super tilted that no one was there for her and now that she snapped, she's super fucked because unlike her assailants she made a big show of it and now looks incredibly bad to the eyes of everyone. Fuck bullying and tbh I kinda feel Yurim and it's really pissing me off cus you know that legit everything's still going downhill.
Like from Soha's pov, with what she knows and sees, it makes sense, but damn I'm just really, really annoyed. Like Yurim's behaviour and actions towards Gayoon was fucking bull too, she really let herself go but idgaf, rn, I'm really empathizing and mad at just everything.
On the other hand I do feel for the bad friend as well, I just feel. I feel her regrets but wow girl you really went and fucked up. She's a shit friend, for what she did (and gdi Yurim lashing out at her was pretty shit too) but I do have like, some form of respect for her trying to stop Yurim.

Like yeah, Yurim deserved none of this shit and I do have some sympathy for her but her treatment of Gayoon means it's not really a lot of sympathy because Jesus Christ her behaviour is beyond the pale and no amount of tragic backstory will make me not despise her for it.

How in the hell is she not in some kind of juvenile detention facility jesus.

Welcome to japan where, unfortunately, a school's reputation is critically important.

Preeeeety sure this is Korea.

Yeah, if my admittedly rather vague understanding of various East Asian naming conventions holds true these are most definitely Korean names not Japanese.

How in the hell is she not in some kind of juvenile detention facility jesus.

I still cannot understand why some feel it is okay to pick up a gun and take out their frustration or hate on others and take their lives. I always thought I understood the world, but I don't know......

Killer was confirmed to be a muslim, and muslims are still stuck in the middle ages. Mainstream medias of course are trying to use the propaganda of islam being an "religion of peace", despite their holy book teach them the jihad and taquiyya (lying to non-believers). It also tells you something about the religion itself when Ahmadiyyahs (muslims that reject the jihad taught in the book) are considered as "non-muslims" and slaughtered by the rest of muslims.

It's really a pity that people continue to die (in the attacks of Paris twice, Brussels, and now this) and too many folks are still deceived or simply refuse to see the truth of whats going on.

The bar was also a gun-free zone (like the schools and supermarkets), which is synonymous for 'free target practice' as nobody is allowed to have a mean of defense. That wouldnt be maybe such an issue if this messy and ugly multiculturalism socitey wasnt a thing. Gun control isnt also the answer as it means less people being able to defend themselves again the potential incoming threats.

Did you really create an account specifically to co-opt this tragedy as a justification to spew your disgustingly bigoted worldview at us?

Am I missing a reference? >.>

They're just joking about this series' apparent complete inability to focus on its nominal main pairing for any length of time without diverting to something else.

Man, I really hate what's going on. This kinda bullshit kinda makes me nervous and angry and ugh, it just feels terrible.

Yeah, I'm really not digging this storyline it's stressing me out big time.

As nice as this was, did anyone else find it a bit creepy that a 25 year age gap story has a title that talks about ripening fruit?

I guess it's about popping her cherry? Or something.

I don't find it creepy, after all there are some beautiful 40 yo women that anyone could be attracted to. I just think it'll be quite hard to make it work in the long run. Though not impossible.

Well they seem to have managed to make it work for three years so they're probably doing something right.

Ah I'm so glad there was a sequel.

I fricking ship Sayaka and Touko now.

So do I. Any chance of a poly ending? ;p

You never get polyamory outside of porn. Monogamous society prefers to portray it as a fetish rather than a viable relationship model.

Mugino

Wow, this last two chapter add nice things, a canon couple and other girl who already had a relationship with another girl
Howewer, let's be honest, a character who do nothing, well, don't deserve win nothing. Since Sayaka wanna keep this Status quo, she don't deserve to win, like happend in Strawberry Panic with Tamao, she do little to coquer Nagisa compared to Shizuma who were trying since they first meet.

Pretty much this, i just cant feel too sorry for her, cause in the end she choose to settle down just cause she was afraid of the possible consequence of loosing her relations all together. Its understandable yet she chose her demise.
Now did she get to see that many people being expressionlessly turn down by Touko? I guess that couldve burned her courage, but she had the space to grow closer together, but i feels she dint want to invade Toukos space.

Sayaka isn't keeping her feelings to herself because she's afraid she's doing it because she values Touka's comfort over her desire to express her feelings. She's holding back because she doesn't want to put her in that position and put those expectations on her because she knows how much pressure she's already under from all quarters. It's actually really, really thoughtful and respectful of her. The idea that confessing your feelings is ALWAYS the best thing to do is just naive sometimes all it does is hurt people.

Every new piece of adult life yuri is like a breath of air as I drown in a sea of high school girls in S-class relationships.

I just do not do well with love triangles because they're just so depressing. Someone almost always ends up getting hurt and I hate it. Fewer love triangles, more triads please.

It might be more trouble than its worth but what do y'all think of pairing tags for the chs...

I would love that but I understand if it would be too much of a hassle to implement. Though, generally each volume has a table of contents in the first chapter that breaks the chapters down by pairing (although a couple are missing).

Concerning Mahiro x Mahiru, it's been canon that they aren't twins since the very first chapter they were introduced (ch14). They don't even have the same family name (Ogi Mahiru & Ooshita Mahiro), and this is also spotlighted in a later chapter about them.

Yeah, the explanations people have come up with for how they're totally actually twins guys have all been pretty big reaches. They're just weirdly identical friends who have intentionally maximized their similarity.

P.s Does anyone know if this manga is a lot ahead in releases in japan? Just wondering how long it will go on for - and If we will ever get any actual couples in it? It would be really nice to have a bit of real romance and kissing etc in it!

It's well past 100 chapters in the Japanese release and still going.

Good God do I love Yuu/Mari chapters.

at first, i thought it's going to be an NTR manga about a mom who's cheating with her son's girlfriend.
wait...that's sounds like a porn plot.

Mira did a oneshot like that except instead of her son's girlfriend it's her daughter's.

Also, mom yuri is definitely one of my favourite subgenres but it's so dang rare.

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probs got annoyed by kotori rubbing in the loss.

So yes, she's just bad-tempered. She's consistently shown to have a tenuous hold on her temper at best.

Wow, the coach was an ass. First, he shouldn't have let her fight without headgear. This is HIS responsibility.

Second, throwing the towel just to "punish" her because of her pride isn't going to go down well.

Yurim struck me as someone really proud. The coach just lost her trust and if I'm guessing right, she's going to quit boxing. Way to ruin the potential of one of your students.

If one of your students is so prideful they can't even deal with minor censure they are too prideful to bend enough to be taught.

Maiko is a cuck confirmed, lol
I have a hard time calling the NTR flag on this one. Look at how Risa reacts. Comaku wouldn't have panels of just Risa's eyes after Maiko's response if she weren't trying to say something with them. Maiko likes to watch, but Risa likes Maiko.
Maiko and Risa should spend a night together to clear their feelings for each other up. I'm glad butts got an update, butt this update makes me want more. Preferably more of the cutesy, diabetes-inducing pure vanilla extract stuff.

Cuckold and NTR have a central aspect of humiliation to them but this dynamic seems to be purely about voyeurism and exhibitionism without any actual degradation of the watching partner.

Faust posted:

And this chapter meant she totally coped a feel once

And possibly confirm her as lesbian, since she wanted to touch Tooru's boobs.

Did her giant maid fetish not already do that?

Faust posted:

Maiko and Risa are closer with each other than with auditory kink girl, so it seems more likely that they'd date each other and involve the third in a threesome or something, sometimes.. Well idk how it's gonna progress from here, but they're probably chill for now. This chapter changed the dynamics between the 3 of them but it didn't degrade or fuck shit up or anything. We'll have to see if they have any deeper thoughts or feelings about it next chapter

Not really. Risa was clearly displeased that Maiko was ok with whole kissing thing and suggested kissing voyeur girl instead hoping Maiko would get jealous and realize her feelings. At first she is hesitating but when Risa points it out she agrees to it as if to deny it. You could say it was typical covering true feelings things, but then we get actual kiss/sex and Maiko get excited and enjoyed watching Risa making out with someone else. Risa's plan backfired and her face and respond clearly suggest she didn't expect it and is shocked by it. So this chapter actually showed that Maiko might not have any real feelings for Risa and indeed is only for kicks when Risa actually started to fall for Maiko.

Well Maiko is a major voyeur so it's entirely possible that she enjoyed watching Risa so much BECAUSE she has feelings for her. Just because jealousy is the "normal" response to someone you love engaging in sex acts with someone other than you doesn't mean it's the only possible or valid one.