god forbid women sign a lease >:(

It's interesting that they're bringing up same-sex couples (or at least two women) being discriminated against. In Kindred Spirits on the Roof, Miyu is looking forward to being able to move out and live with her girlfriend Matsuri in an apartment for college, under the pretext of it being safer for two women to live together. Miyu is the type to think things through and is disciplined and cautious to a fault, but she never considers having trouble getting an apartment with a female roommate.

Part of it is probably because of different expectations from everyone involved: getting an apartment at college age you're probably going for landlords who specifically rent out to college students, in which case two women living together is seen as a very safe bet comparatively. When you're out of college, I would guess you run into the same problem with landlords as many women do with employers: they expect you to find a guy and marry, and thus have a harder time, whether it's with getting a promotion (or a full-time position) or a long-term lease.

Good point. That explains a lot.

god forbid women sign a lease >:(

It's interesting that they're bringing up same-sex couples (or at least two women) being discriminated against. In Kindred Spirits on the Roof, Miyu is looking forward to being able to move out and live with her girlfriend Matsuri in an apartment for college, under the pretext of it being safer for two women to live together. Miyu is the type to think things through and is disciplined and cautious to a fault, but she never considers having trouble getting an apartment with a female roommate.

So a fan fav. model starts dating a guy, and her career is over?! What's the hell is wrong with super fans?! Is it that they are so delusional they actually believe the have a shot at dating her, and the appearance of a boyfriend sends reality crashing down on them, making them bitter.

Apparently, it's just like the idol singer industry, in which idols have to be "pure" and not have a boyfriend(among other strict rules), lest their image be ruined and they find themselves out of work. This part of the idol singer industry is rather infamous, and it apparently applies to other entertainers- for example, the climax of Bakuman is about Mashiro and Azuki's relationship coming to light when the former tries to cast the latter(a seiyuu) as the lead in his anime.

I'm personally looking forward to these two getting together, but suspect it will only truly happen after Hime and Mitsuki do, thus forcing Kanoko to come to terms with their relationship.

It was nice to see something cute and lighthearted.

By the way, it would be best not to mention details on recent chapters without spoiler tags, at least for chapters past Chapter 51 (the end of the most recently localized volume). Unlike with series that are still hosted on this site, not all of us have read the more recent chapters.

Fair enough, though hopefully I was vague enough not for it to cause issue

You were. I was making this warning just in case anyone decided to more openly discuss possible spoilers.

It was nice to see something cute and lighthearted.

By the way, it would be best not to mention details on recent chapters without spoiler tags, at least for chapters past Chapter 51 (the end of the most recently localized volume). Unlike with series that are still hosted on this site, not all of us have read the more recent chapters.

I recently bought the Kindle editions of the first and seventh volumes on Amazon for $2 each. I'm not sure if it's a limited time sale, but it's an amazing deal.

I knew it would end soon once they got together :( Still, its been a great ride- and its a lot better than them never getting together or having a proper ending because the author tried to spin it out forever.

I agree, but I always find it a bit disappointing how soon a series ends after the couple gets together. Actually having time to see what they're like as a couple is always nice.

This seems to be one of those series in which not only does the couple not get together until the very end(if at all), but once they do so, the central premise of the series no longer holds up, and there's nowhere left for it to go. Nevertheless, I'd still like to see the last few chapters, if only to see how it ends.

I was personally hoping for a POV switch to Aizawa when I saw the chapter title, "I want to touch Kurotori-san but I'm dead." It would have been interesting to actually see Aizawa's thoughts rather than just seeing her through the eyes of Kurotori and the others who can see her.

Yuri Is My Job is now available on Renta! It's a bit surprising that they're including a few relatively popular series like Whispering You A Love Song and If I Could Reach You, since until recently, their yuri selection was fairly niche.

The gameplay is good, especially the Engage system.

Unfortunately, the story is woefully cliched and underwhelming, and the characters aren't anything to write home about. I personally doubt that this will have as much of a shipping fandom as Awakening, Fates or Three Houses.

I'll concede that the epilogue's an improvement over the original ending, but it's still a bit disappointing. It would have been nice to have a sequel series with Noa as a secretary.

I'm curious about something. How exactly does Yvonne refer to her father in the original language for it to be rendered as "Lord Father" rather than just "Father"?

Incidentally, shouldn't she be calling her mother "Lady Mother" rather than "Lord Mother?"

This is an interesting crossover ship- characters from Jugdral, Elibe and Elyos.

There is the one conversation in the Thieves' Den in which Tae compliments Shadow Sae's makeup, much to Sae's chagrin, but that probably doesn't count as canon.

In previous chapters, the president didn't use honorifics on Shiramizu, but now she's using "-san." Did she start doing so in this chapter, or did the translator decide to start including honorifics?

I wish the first chapter had shown the rest of the cancer flashback, particularly whether the cancer is terminal(I assume it is)

They don't give the tumor's full specs in the story, but GI carcinoma is always bad. As in, there's generally mild cancer (basal cell, most thyroid types, GIST), there's the concerning types (most breast types, Hodgkin lymphoma), and then there's the real motherf***ers (lung, stomach adeno, most sarcomas).

Bowel carcinoma sits somewhere between concerning and really bad. But it won't necessarily kill her in six months.

Good point. I hope we'll learn a little more about the cancer in the next few chapters.

I wish the first chapter had shown the rest of the cancer flashback, particularly whether the cancer is terminal(I assume it is) and fully explained why he'd decided to transition. Usually, first chapters do a better job of establishing the premise rather than leaving off on a cliffhanger.

Does the story ever go into detail about how Kikuri and Seika know each other? I know Kikuri calls Seika "Senpai," but I'm not sure how Seika is Kikuri's senpai.

I don't see any realistic chance of Nene and Sumika ending up together after everything that happened, unfortunately. It's to be expected that Kanoko will start to have feelings for her at some point during their fake relationship, although her current self is far from deserving someone like Sumika.

My response:
I've felt it for a bit and especially after this chapter.
It's possible someone is trying to rekindle Sumika and Nene's relationship through Kanoko. Nene is basically being made to go through the same thing she put Sumika through. It's possible this parallel is intentionally meant to force Nene's hand in the same way Nene thought her trist with Youko would force Sumika's hand in the past.

I never thought about that. I’m hoping that’s true though, I dread having Sumika get burned a second time when she’s one of the best characters. It’s only slightly better and will still probably end up messy, since Kanoko doesn’t genuinly seem to care about how Sumika feels and is just doing whatever this mystery person wants, but at least the aim would be to help her this time instead of just making her jealous and forcing her feelings out. I initially thought it’s youko trying to pull the same thing again and it does seem like the stories bringing her back to stir things up again. But it could be the manager since she seemed to want them to talk in the last chapter and the mystery person wanted Kanoko to make Sumika happy somehow

That's certainly possible, but at the same time, Kanoko receiving Yoko's "LIME ID" was presented as a bit of a Chekhov's Gun. Again, it's possible that since Kanoko doesn't think Yoko's as bad as Sumika said she was, she trusts her more than she should and ended up being manipulated. As for Mai, it's possible that Kanoko has her number, but I wonder if the story would conceal her identity for this long if she was the one behind this.

Could someone please explain the relationship between being called a "good girl" and coming? Does it have something to do with the source material?

One interesting thing I noticed in the localized Volume 10 is that unlike the scanlations, in which Nene sounds as though she wants to cut ties with Yoko, in the localization, Nene wants to figure out why Yoko cut ties with her. The localization's version makes more sense and explains why Nene fell prey toko's manipulations

Chapter 52 has been scanlated. For now, the status quo seems to be holding, if barely, but Kanoko still isn't happy with how things are. I'm personally curious what's going to happen next, although I suspect that Kanoko will be forced to come to terms with her unrequited love for Hime and jealousy of Mitsuki before she and Sumika truly become a couple.

It would be a shame if the anime were never continued, since I'm sure the rest of the series could be covered in a 1cour anime season. Still, there are a lot of anime adaptations of manga and light novel series that only adapt a small portion of the work.

I'm a bit surprised to hear that Takahito (Nagisa's father) is Yui(Ai's sister)'s second husband; previously, I thought only Takahito was on his second marriage. Does this perhaps mean that the brother Nagisa mentioned is Yui's son from her first marriage?

The part at the end is a bit surprising, and I wonder if we're entering the final act of the series.

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