Everyone knows Sprite Cranberry is superior to all the other Sprites

Especially with vodka added

Yeah, and if you leave the Sprite.

For fucks sake, it's just a little alcohol. Get over it. ^^

She has a surprisingly similar taste in movies as I do. Well. For a certain amount of 'similar'.

Also, a surprising amount of 'feminist' commentary in the series. Well. For a certain amount of 'feminist.
Wish they didn't bother with the ecchi crap, but someone probably felt it was necessary for Reasons(tm).

To be fair, that's seem more probable in senpai's case. Mom's suicide and little sister hospitalized.

Yeah, but we also got a chapter where she basically explains what's going on with her. "I was always too perfect, bla bla." In fiction, in 78 out of 79 cases people have exactly one reason to do whatever it is they are doing. So that's almost certainly Miyuki's, exactly as she tells it. ^^

Her hobby wasn't weird.

Guess the rational part of the story is over; now we're getting to the surreal and weird portion ... ^^

Electric torture is still a BDSM thing. You can look it up.

Anything can be BDSM, including fist-beating, cutting, playing with fire, a fake hanging, whatever. Doesn't mean it can't also be just violence. This to me is more outright torture than anything else.

But I'm not saying everyone else has to agree. It's more or a less a meaningless distinction in this manga anyway. ^^

Are you regarding my post saying "i mean, normally in many children scenarios, wouldn't Asuka sound like she's crying for her mom for help? instead of moaning for her mom?"
I mean your theory would definitely explain why Miyuki could tell just from her saying "mom"..would Taiyaki bless us with two incest lesbians

I'm pretty sure it's just the classic trope of blurting out your lover's name during sex. It's usually the least convoluted explanation in 99 out of 100 cases, and I would be surprised if this were the big exception. ^^

Anyway; great chapter, like it. Went a step further than I expected but ultimately ended basically where I thought it would ;)

Ch.5 went a bit too far for me, I think. Maybe it's really no distinction at all, but our anti-heroine being sorta reluctant about it (at least until she got into it),and the heroines usually clearly indicated that they are kinda into it too, plus the actual "action" being reasonably (for a given amount of reason) BDSM-ish was funny to me; but this one is more torture and then following stupid hentai tropes.

Because French is oftenly pair with romantism. Well as far as romantism and BDSM can pair up.

Plus, remember where the word "sadism" comes from ;)

(also, of course BDSM and romanticism can pair up in much the same way as vanilla sex and romanticism can ^^).

No, the poly stuff isn't entirely surprising - there always was the clear suspicious with the old feelings of the love interests still very present and the heroine having no clear 'true love'. But that doesn't mean that forcing a conclusion like this makes any sense, or makes for a good read. ^^

Aria could just decide to transform Ichika, so the future of their relationship wouldn't have to be so weird.

A vampire romance is not a good vampire romance if it doesn't come with the latent inevitability of the mortality of the human partner. Turning them is just boring.

I thought the soap opera was going to be bad, but mowing over it like this and randomly going for that ending wasn't much of an improvement.

Overall crappy manga. Decent art though. Hope they try something else next time.

Expected this to be more "sexually harassing"; nice that it isn't. It's kinda mild and relaxing, I guess.

Also educational.

That was a cute and hilarious and nicely forward-developing chapter all at once.

Although I think giving Aria's supposed age the entire "never kissed anyone" thing makes no sense. She's clearly 13+ or so. In the past that'd have been "old enough" hundreds of times over. ^^ Smells a bit of purity-fetishizing where in romance you gotta have "all the firsts" for it to be really truly the most romantic type. Which stinks. But allows for their relationship to be more wacky comedic. So there's that ...

Truth be told, I have a real soft spot for stories about families of choice, having fallen into a wonderful one myself.

That's fitting, 'cause one of my pet peeves in stories is when protagonists are unable to let go of their families and no matter what must somehow forgive them; ie in LGBT novels heroine that were sexually abused by their father or kicked out of the family after coming out and then somehow reconciling while (for example) one party is one the death bed.

Not saying that can't or shouldn't happen, but I'd like to see more "I got a new family, piss off" moments. cough

Even more like Ikoku Nikki.

That's true. Basically the same story.

Do Japanese families really just divvy up orphans at funerals like giving away the deceased’s cats to whoever is willing to buy a new litter box?

You gotta see the flipside; familial obligation is still seen as important. So although we tend to see the shitty examples here, in the West the kids would have likely ended up in the dreaded "system". While in Japan at least the family in general takes care.

Although I can't say how the process actually works. But adoption laws in Japan seems to be weirdly lax (see that adult adoption stuff, although I guess that doesn't say anything about how this type of adoption here works).

Mhm. It's a bit like Ani no Yome. It could be yuri. It could be yuri with the main protagonists, or either or both of them figuring out they are into secondary characters. Or it could not be. It's all possible and plausible and my ultimate satisfaction will depend on how it's done, not on which option the author picks.

I'll just preemptively reject any "it's open to the readers' interpretation" bullshit. ^^

Ah yes, the kindness of not killing everyone around you, so rare ...

But it's just me speculating.

My speculation as well, except I can't really come up with much of an idea of what it could be either, so I'm not sure how likely it is ...

Dat carefully thought out plot ... like on day 2, when she says she can't do the "massage" again, but she's already naked ... I guess that's just how she walks around at home normally?!

That misunderstanding was so contrived if there had been a panel that just said "RANDOM MISUNDERSTANDING HAPPENS HERE" it'd have roughly the same narrative quality ...

Flat out bashed through the 4th wall completely.

Really rare to see the "how dare you be different theme!" addressed in manga. Well, not that it seems to bother any of them ^^

Someone definitely doesn't mind being defeated.