The funny part is if next chapter after being super jelly she alters the contract with something like "You can no longer support or love idols that are no longer idols" haha.

Why limit this only to retired idols? :P

Mainly because we know Meguru is petty and it would limit her from at least being like she is with Toki. If she was going through the trouble of not even wanting them to see each other that's some top level pettying going on haha.

Meguru is not so much petty as only concerned with local short-term effects. Rather than dealing with the origins of her emotional pain (read: get therapy and/or coaching), she plays whack-a-mole with the immediate sources of anxiety as they hit her. Which is entirely understandable for a teenager whose primary caretakers apparently leave her to her own devices without sufficient guidance.

@BLAMEY: An excellent analysis, thank you.

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It's funny, with normal characters we'd probably be talking about how it's bad to kiss people while they're asleep. With this lady I think we've all grasped that such ethical issues mean nothing to her--and I mean literally, not that she rejects them but that she has no concept.

Both parties involved are so extremely maladjusted, it's about two years of therapy too early to talk about the importance of consent with them. Rather than thinking about that, I just can't stop watching the trainwreck happening in slow motion.

^ if Komachi's life is entirely normal and half of her depression is an ouroboros of "why am I like this" then I'm going to spam 5 star reviews for this manga literally everywhere possible

That would be an awesome twist, indeed. I am not convinced that it is likely, however, since this manga has so far been much more interested in people doing horrible things to each other, rather than mental health and self-sabotage...

Surely there has to be something she can actually do

She can organize Lapis's files like they've never been organized before!

You may be saying that in jest, but modern paperwork organization techniques are no minor business. Double-entry bookkeeping, while a simple enough idea on the surface to us, was a game-changer in the 14th century -- a single idea that basically funded the Renaissance (okay, I exaggerate, but not too much). Efficient file organization is likewise boring, but it enables organizational coherence on a scale unseen in the pre-modern times the game seems to be emulating. Whatever Lapis is planning, if it involves more than a dozen people, good paperwork (and good codes) is going to make it happen much faster than any magical talent or precognition.

Man, I hate to say this, but President Blockhead has a point for once. :-/ Also, Komachi's trauma is showing its ugly head again. I really, really don't want to learn what her family life and background are like, but since it looks like we are barrelling full-steam towards the ending foreshadowed in chapter 1, it seems like we have no choice but to finally open that can of worms.

Yuu is just '' oh hey, I'm the girl you'Ve been dreaming about your whole life, your hair is nice by the way'' levels of smooth. I wish I could have been one of those highschool prince type when I was that age (^^)

That was a quantum stabilized atom mirror level of smoothness.

That credits page was an oof for Meguru. :D But at least the idol girl was foreshadowed from chapter one, however subtly...

@GrimEater: The fifth one is obviously into fisting.

Maaaann, I need to know what happens to Linda in the future.

Her contract with the Smollets runs out, she marries Thrud (the boy prince's sword instructor) and lives happily ever after.

I'm honestly more interested in the old guy vs the dragon.

I am pretty sure that was the title of a book by Hemingway.

Delinquent + Reversal combo rarely disappoints. :-)

I've forgotten the title of a manga about a woman who hires a younger girl to write her funeral speech in half a year's time, and then effectively pays her to spend time with her until then. Does anyone remember that one?

hi, I'm looking for a ftm manga that I'm pretty sure I read here a few years ago. So the MC and her father are hunters and she streamed the butcherings live online and had a lot of followers. Basic plot is that she and her father come to terms with being her being trans and then she transitions. The MC livestreams for the first time in a while and the comments are confused but he's just happy the way he is. The story ends with the MC and his father once again being happy and hunting.

That's Stripping the Flesh: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/stripping_the_flesh

I love how casually intimate with each other Ji and Jing are at this point.

Best uncle since Iroh. Prove me wrong.

Is it bad that I am more invested in the short-haired girl pursuit of the tall model at this point than in the main characters?

Yes, Natori, the plot proceeds as intended... now that the Heroine has unlocked the Villainess' Familiar route. :D

I wonder if the intended result of this chapter was for the entire readerbase to fall in love with Diana.

It definitely was. Chapter 6 is the opening of volume 2, and if you recall, Diana has been a rather flat and bland character in volume 1 (compared to Lapis), who suddenly started acting inconsistently and violently in chapter 5. I am pretty sure that the author and their editor received feedback from the first volume about it and went back to the drawing board on how they present Diana, effectively removing Lapis for an entire chapter to give Diana enough time to shine and to establish her as a credible rival to Lapis for Natori's heart. And I say they've achieved their goal admirably.

It is astounding to me and almost infuriating that somehow the conclusion Natori came to regarding her nature was that she's selfish and only thinks of herself. That's like Olympic-level mental gymnastics and self-deprecation that I really want her to pull herself from. Hopefully with the help of both Lapis and Diana.

The self-realization Natori had this chapter makes me think that she was either emotionally neglected or even abused as a child. Something like getting repeatedly called a disappointment by her parents and teachers would make a person hypersensitive to expressions of disappointment and disapproval in others, turning it into an emotional driver for the rest of their adult lives. From what I hear such treatment of children who do not immediately excel is common in traditional East Asian cultures.

EDIT: Another point to support my earlier assessment about Diana being a shonen protagonist: on page 13, she says to the prince "I want to become stronger!", which is the universal motto of all shonen protagonists.

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Sooo... development or yet another fakeout? :D

"Pwease won't you kiss me again?"

"Please, miss, can I have some more?"

Oh, she must be secretly another member of the club, then... And here I was, worried for a moment. :-)

You don't remember her lesson? :)

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/i_wont_sleep_with_you_for_free_ch05

She's an OG in the club.

Ah, I've lost track of Kirishima's... liaisons about 30 chapters ago. :D Nakano is the only one I still recognize, if only because she popped up the most so far

if you go to the series page and go through the chapter names, you can more or less track whom she's been with thus far.

That helps, but I'm just not invested enough in this series to backtrack through the archives. -__-

Oh, she must be secretly another member of the club, then... And here I was, worried for a moment. :-)

You don't remember her lesson? :)

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/i_wont_sleep_with_you_for_free_ch05

She's an OG in the club.

Ah, I've lost track of Kirishima's... liaisons about 30 chapters ago. :D Nakano is the only one I still recognize, if only because she popped up the most so far...

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Koveras posted:

So, is she gonna sleep with her childhood friend for free? Wouldn't that kind of break this manga?

Childhood friend forks out the money in next chapter. I don't get Thai, but who needs the dialogues? xD

https://mangadex.org/chapter/214435a5-f008-4ad6-b536-058dbe9a5a04/4

Oh, she must be secretly another member of the club, then... And here I was, worried for a moment. :-)

She should have been decapitated in chapter 1 and tampering with that broke something in the death mechanism.

I really hope the story doesn't go the Final Destination type of "fate is real and actively conspires to kill people" plot device. That just undermines the entire point of stories about predictive superpowers, since what's the point of watching a character struggle to make the world better if there's some kind of omniscient entity ensuring that their successes are just drawn out failures in disguise?

That and I have a distinct distaste for the concepts of fate and destiny. The idea that certain people are just meant to be in certain positions is an excuse for entirely too much apathy in society.

I think you are wrong in anthropomorphizing fate, such as ascribing intention and sentience to it. In my view, what people in the past have called "fate" is actually an emergent self-organizing behavior of the world-system that limits feasible future states to a smaller subset of all possible future sates of said system. It doesn't take a Satsuki to "foresee" when and where the corpse of someone plummeting from 10 stories high will be found. In this sense, her precognition is just a quantitative increase of sensitivity toward a particular kind of future states. Furthermore, each of her rescues had run the risk of inducing a massive regime change in (her local bubble of) the world-system, and Komachi's just happened to be the one that did. Hence, there is nothing sentient or intentional about the "fate" that Satsuki is fighting, merely an irregular (and, hopefully, localized) state of the world-system that may or may not have been reached had Satsuki not been able to save Komachi.

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So, is she gonna sleep with her childhood friend for free? Wouldn't that kind of break this manga?

Basketball-kun was a goddamn hero for giving us these interactions

inb4 the reveal that that high-schooler was actually on Pei Yu's payroll.

Pei-roll? ...I'll see myself out.