chisato wakes up 'what are you doing???!!'

takina (kneeling beside her seriously): ma'am I was trying to strangle you with this green onion

ok there's no way they can fuck up past this point

Manager-san should get in on it

Hinoka is a brave girl. Heck, I didn't kiss my childhood friend until I was 21 (after crushing on her for over 10 years), and she had a boyfriend at the time who was a total abusive tool. But it still didn't make it right to kiss her cause she was in a relationship. And she's still the only girl I've kissed. Cause I'm working on myself. I'm a little too possessive. (2020)

We like the girls who are bad for us, don't we? I admit, I'm the same.

Oh no, she likes her!! How could we ever have guessed?

All in all, while the art is quite nice, and there's a conveyance of emotion, I don't like this much. There's no point in this ambiguity--it's fairly clear that there is some actual state of affairs that all the characters come to be aware of, so why should the audience be the only ones in the dark?

I agree...Karuha isn't at her best when she writes about envy, which seems to have been the theme of this anthology. Her KanaMari doujin is one of my favorites, however.

I suspect she's not a person who lives with enough envy to be intimately familiar with the dynamic of it. Every mangaka has their strengths and weaknesses.

It makes me really happy that multiple people read Yuhki Kamatani's manga because I recommended it here :D That series is one of the rare ones I've sought out physical copies of to have displayed on my bookshelf because it means so much to me.

Here's hoping this manga can be half as good? The second chapter only establishing "this wasn't a one time quirk" is a little disappointing though, of course it wasn't a one time quirk or we wouldn't have a story, we just learned something we'd assume to be true already. Aren't there more interesting questions you could focus on with this story author-san?

what in hell is that even supposed to mean?
like did you learn up until now in life that what you find interesting ain’t the same for others?

Yes, I am aware that there's plenty of people out there with minimal to no standards for fiction who would be happy with a chapter that's just spinning the plot's wheels, congratulations on being one of them if that's you. However, I am entitled to have my own more complex preferences that are different from (and superior to) yours, such as not wanting a story's pacing to stall out as early as chapter two.

This newest chapter was better. There's something that feels very off about the pacing but I suspect that's intentional, as they're deliberately attempting to speedrun finding closure to lifelong hangups. The talk of "lingering attachments" feels like they're thinking of themselves as ghosts even, which is fascinating.

Here to speak as someone who preferred the atmosphere and pacing in the first chapter to the one in the latest. Nah, I think suicide is an interesting enough topic in itself. Conversely, I think the third chapter got a bit too grounded in real-life dramas and resolutions for my tastes, if that makes any sense. But that is my own preference and we always need diversity in readership. I'm most happy when characters mull over existence without necessarily resolving their real-life issues. Because everything we do originates from a long succession of causes extending way back into the past, and fixing things quickly (i.e. identifiable plot developments in a scripted manga) ain't how it works. I like it when the authors linger on that complexity without necessarily making the characters work past it. Rings a bit false to me.

Autistic protagonist + yuri + doomsday references = automatic fave.

I figured out my own formula a long time ago.

And yes I have read Qualia the Purple.

The Qualia of Purple is super good. I love how they use the quantum mechanics concepts in an intelligent way, even if it's super extrapolated. Other sci-fi series should learn from that (marvel, take notes).

Also, we need more sci-fi yuri.

I think lots of sci-fi does extrapolate well from the existing science, but they're never the popular ones.

And they're almost never yuri.

I like the detail that the humans all look like rabbit bear things while the "monsters" look like humans. I wonder how the monster actually look

Saya no Uta, but yuri? Sign me up.

I'M NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO THOUGHT OF SAYA NO UTA AYEEEE

Autistic protagonist + yuri + doomsday references = automatic fave.

I figured out my own formula a long time ago.

And yes I have read Qualia the Purple.

It remains to be seen what the crux of this manga is because I haven’t managed to pinpoint it so far. What inspired the author to write this? Was it to delve into a purely hypothetical scenario that sounded intriguing? Was it an exploration of how someone who once seemed so far ahead of you...was just a product of her age after all? Was it to evoke a feeling of transience, as is common among Japanese works? Stories tend to head different directions depending on what the main starting point of the author was. I still don't know and it's keeping me hooked.

Another win for our favorite theory

What a fine pile of toxic waste for a Sunday morning! 10/10, A++

Ooooh. Idols invade the school festival. Can't wait.

a School Idol Festival, in a very different sense.

The british English was really thick on this chapter. I wish they'd use normal standard English.

It's funny that English came from the Brits yet theirs is not 'standard'.

I can...fix her? ?

Couldn't even nut to this with how hard I was laughing.

the popsicle on the carpet on page 11 is very infuriating to me

As Chisato would say (pg 5):

'[NyxVoid], this is a work of fiction. What matters most is passion! And unpredictability! So don't sweat the small stuff!'

...nah, I was just as mad as you.

I love how they warned us of 1 (one) nipple in the first chapter then just gave up afterwards.

WHEN IS THIS GOING TO CONTINUE.

...oh well, next life I suppose.

And for saying that, I've earned myself a spot in their society.

Thanks for the New Year's gift! But why this manga in particular?

These 2 MCs are like Nokia phones. truly indestructible.

2 main theories:
1) infertility (either gotou or husband) -> nuclear family dream shattered -> fight -> need to freeload coz ain't got no money -> hey this lesbian who crushed on me should be safe right
2) infertility made Gotou realise tradwife is not the path she wants anymore -> yolo -> gae

i do wonder why does the author loves to write garbage humans and NTR so much

Oh, she was DEFINITELY burned by some garbage women in the past. Hates herself for liking them too. Of course liking fucked-up women so much, you start wondering if you're the problem

I have no idea where this present tense self loathing is supposed to be. Especially in this current manga, which is pretty explicitly political. If she's loathing anything here it's her government, not herself lol.

Political is the personal, Gabi. I suspect we may be talking about the same thing.

2 main theories:
1) infertility (either gotou or husband) -> nuclear family dream shattered -> fight -> need to freeload coz ain't got no money -> hey this lesbian who crushed on me should be safe right
2) infertility made Gotou realise tradwife is not the path she wants anymore -> yolo -> gae

i do wonder why does the author loves to write garbage humans and NTR so much

Oh, she was DEFINITELY burned by some garbage women in the past. Hates herself for liking them too. Of course liking fucked-up women so much, you start wondering if you're the problem

She's created characters that are naughty and villainous to the point you ask 'does this happen in real life', 'do they really exist?'

yes.

yes, they really exist.