Watanabe is a girl with strong principles that keep her anchored to her bottom line. How refreshing. I like that. ♡

Soooooo...... blondie is a tsundere?

XiaoLu will complain to TongTong about her stupid mom. TongTong will react the way she always does when facing a tough problem: ask her mom for help! TongTong's mom will react the way she always does when her cute daughter asks for help: boast that she will fix everything, they can just leave it to her!

And so TongTong's mom will go deal with XiaoLu's mom... and the result... will be less than optimal, lol. But that just fires her up! Because there are still a few more chapters! This fight ain't over yet! Go, TongTong's mom! Fight, fight, fight! For great justice!!!

Just want to say I get your reference. :) Go Tongtong mom!

I do agree that it remains to be seen what the sister’s attitude toward all this will be; we just haven’t seen a great deal of her so far

So far we know she's independent (she has her own house), she's single (but like girls and seems to be dating Sena), she gets along well with her imouto (she's happy when she gets a call from her), and of course we know that her family is CRAZY RICH (they own a nationwide chain of elite cram schools). We don't know about her job or personal sources of income, but it's a given that she makes a lot—because her parents wouldn't be satisfied otherwise, and also because without a doubt Sena is very expensive. ≺evil laugh≻

I want to get into JWQS, but man, it does seems really long huh. How are you liking it?

I'm a sucker for stories where the avenger of his/her family falls for the daughter of the enemy family so of course I'm loving it! ♡

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And no, these creators are never at risk for creating gay content.

The most they risk is becoming millionaires if their work is a huge success. XD

A series I really love is Mo Dao Zu Shi, it's xianxia and it's very gay, with extremely explicit descriptions of gay sex. The original novel was published on an online platform in 2015 and then printed as paper books in 2016 and reprinted in 2018. The ongoing manhua adaptation (started in 2017) is so popular it was awarded the Best Manhua award at the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Festival. The audio drama based on the novel aired in three seasons from 2018 to 2020 and has such massive popularity (hundreds of millions of playbacks) it's still today in the top 3 most listened to series in the overall ranking for audio streaming websites. The anime adaptation also has three seasons (plus a Q spinoff); the third and final season aired a few months ago, from August to October, and of course the two mcs are just as gay as in the novel and get their happy gay ending in the last episode! (Squee!) And there's a live action series as well, 50 episodes of 40 minutes each, which was filmed in 2019-2020. I've found it on Youtube and just started watching it, it seems very well made and I'm liking it a lot! (Tho I'd say... Wangji's actor is too much of a pretty boy, he should look more strong and manly!!!)

This, I think, is a good example of how gay stories are not only quite common in Chinese media but also hugely popular—and widely acclaimed!

I also love Mo Dao Zu Shi. ♡ It's a rather short webnovel (about 100 chapters) so it doesn't take too long to read, I recommend it! And if you liked it then you can move to the manga, anime, etc.

Keep in mind if you look for it that for some reason the translators can't make up their minds on the English title, I've seen it as "The founder of diabolism" and "The grandmaster of demonic cultivation" and even "The untamed" which is like wtf but oh well.

If you aren't into yaoi and would rather read something yuri, then there's Jing Wei Qing Shang or "Clear and muddy loss of love" (about 300 chapters) which everyone's been raving about lately. The plot mixes yuri romance and court politics in a Chinese-like empire, and the author herself provides these descriptors: revenge tale, mutual first and only love, slow burn, palace intrigue, emotional and physical angst, fabricated history (please don’t test for accuracy), happy ending. Oops I think the author just spoiled the ending to her readers, lol.

Mask has her nails painted black?

Well, I guess it's fitting. Her being her, if she lived in the West she'd totally be goth.

Uh what. As someone who grew up on Card Captor Sakura, I think Sakura x Syaoran is a perfectly good couple, and while yes Sakura x Tomoyo could have been beautiful, I think they're fine as is. Tomoyo herself was fine and content with her one-sided love, why are you being bitter about it?

Umpteenth iteration of the old tired homophobic pattern: girl A loves girl B, never asks her out, girl B finds bf, girl A decides that as long as girl B is happy she is happy too and sublimates her romantic love into platonic sisterhood.
Even the useless lesbians of today are better than these antigay caricatures.

Also this is not "80s shoujo style". This, this and this are what called 80s shoujo style, and this manga art is not it.

This and this.
There were many styles in the 80s and 90s, unlike today when, as somebody said before, moeblob style has swallowed everything.

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The Chinese language prolly has some sort of onomatopoeia of its own for hearbeats...

Her mom doesn't condone the act of that, just that some people are forced into such roles. socioeconomics and so on

Tongtong: "Mommy! Is there any chance that Lin Xiao Lu would start liking me even if I'm a girly girl?"

(snip image)

That isn't condoning it, that's just stating it would work on her.

I'm almost 100% certain that the 3-page pilot for the series confirms that Tong's mommy is ok with buying & selling romantic and sexual favors with money.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/a_scummy_gap_student_with_a_hard_life_calls_upon_a_lady_of_the_night_ch12#2

What's more, the principal is SATAN NO ASHI !!!

Now I want her to flunk the tests, just to see Maron go rescue her in Kekko Kamen guise. XP

Onibi and Mask should make love already. :)

RIP Shohei, you'll be forgotten

We have another mini to release and then 30 pages of Mio and Shizuka. Get ready.

I don't know if to be happy or sad about that

Be afraid, be very afraid.

I downloaded the chapter to read it at ease and the folder was named:

Gyaru_and_Ghost_7_final

I sure hope it's not the final chapter of the series... ><;;

Ye they really will go oneshot direction

I feel so naive for thinking they weren't all these years

IKR? I'm so disappointed. I wished so hard for them to stay together...

Well. Chapter 10 went with full old fashioned, no-irony corn.

Oh I dunno about no-irony, GuGu's entry was hilarious. The team was losing badly and they were heatedly discussing how to revert the situation and then suddeny the gym door was slammed open with a BAM that made everybody jump... and anyone who is genre savvy would expect such a scene to announce the appearance of the hero of the story who has arrived late but is now going to win the game for the main characters... but it was just some random fangirl who then started jumping and cheering for her favorite player. It made me lmao so hard. XD

Author-san: "A pure love between a slightly unhealthy couple, what do you think?"

Me: Please proceed, full speed ahead.

The covers, especially the one in the first issue, fooled me so bad.

I thought I had it figured out: the red haired gyaru was the dangerous one, the "forbidden girl" who does non licet things and is a perfect delinquent, and she would snare the other girl into a taboo relationship.

I am realizing only now that the dangerous one is the other one, lmao.

@botmj I couldn't help but notice your Hitsugi Katsugi no Kuro avatar. I'd read that manga, but it was never licensed where I live (and buying the US version is too expensive for me) and I don't think it was ever scanlated.

Whoa I didn’t think anyone ever knew about this series. You can read it here https://mangakakalot.com/chapter/hitsugi_katsugi_no_kuro_kaichu_tabi_no_wa/chapter_1

I’d hyperlink it but I’m on mobile rn. Sorry for off topic, mods.

I actually created the Wikipedia article for it lol

You're Juandmarco in the English wiki? I sometimes notice your contributions, often in the pages of Japanese voice actresses.

How old is Sakura again?

From what I can judge from her appearance and behavior, I'd say 8-10 years old... watching these couple is like watching the interaction of Minori and Koko.

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No yuri tag, I see. Guess it's better this way.
If there was a yuri tag, this would likely go the way of Bondage Fairies... :/

So if she wasn't going for a kiss, what was Nononon trying to do? Hide her face?

They definitely need to put these warning signs on all the roads leading to town.

Innocent defenseless adults need to know what's waiting for them. XDDDDDDDDD

I read it in Spanish weeks ago, I was eagerly waiting for the English version!

Reaaally? Which site? Or just mangadex? I will check it out to see if I can get to read new chapters faster

The link to the site in another thread.

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I'm horribly worried.
One day, they will send her the bill.
A perfect sexaroid? I dread to think about the number on the price tag.
Poor mc-chan will need to get two more jobs to pay her debt.