Awawa, I like Alexandra already. This kind of cool, composed, and thoughtful attitude... Plus she's beautiful and powerful. At this rate she might actually become a favorite of mine over the three mains.

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Goddesses, that look she's giving her at the end. I want them to be together so much...

It's a rather common modern criticism of the Zombie setting that it's merely an excuse to indulge in killing people. This series at least doesn't beat around the bush when it comes to that.

Haa, thanks for pointing it out. I knew there was something that "felt right" with this but I couldn't put my finger on it.

Indeed, it's clear that Eko isn't particularly sane, nor is Risa, actually. The zombie setting seems to let them indulge in that insanity, so I'm really curious of what they'll do. A zombie apocalypse (and apocalypse in general) setting gives a lot more leeway in what directions things could go.

Or to put in more succinctly, the setting makes violence an option, and options are good when thinking about what could happen next !

But... let's just say I'm not here expecting fluff.

Heeeh, I was really glad with the "as wives" part, then I realized that the others each wear only a single ring each. Boo.

Need an edit where everyone wears five rings.

So, OK, but what about this price gouging keeping the whole damn town destitute? Are we ever going to hear about that again? I have this weird feeling like the mangaka introduced a character intending them to be one way and then lost control and let them talk until they were another way.

I feel the same, but it's possible that Violet is also not being judged fairly because her reasons haven't been asked (creating a parallel with Frost), or, unusual and potentially risky as it would be, to have her actually be dishonest / selfish while also wanting to protect people from Frost. Or she could turn out to be an antagonist who simply genuinely thought Frost was dangerous.

I... can honestly understand both sides. Clarisse is "more right", the fact that Violet is missing the full picture is obvious from an external point of view, and Clarice has seen facets of Frost that contradict the idea that she would kill her own father, other citizens, or let destruction happen.

But also, it's a lot of coincidences for things that look bad. It seems far more likely that Frost is as evil as most people picture her to be. That the true story was never shared would also feel like an admission of guilt, like Frost is expecting people to be cowed by her reputation and that confronting her for the truth would, indeed, be a path to an early grave.

To be honest, the fact that such fear is kinda reasonable even contradicts the bad personality that Violet showed with her handling her authority or using Shion to escalate aggression. I wonder how much of it is honest, and how much of it is crafted to look like reasonable fear just to convince Clarice if she were to look a bit more into Violet's motivations.

I can't help but think that this story went from vaguely uncomfortable, to unbelievably silly, to hilariously cute. It's a weird ride but I like it a lot.

Well... I was trying to ignore the most problematic aspects of the story but I've got to say, showing the popular and bubbly life, from when her thoughts and feelings were her own, of the girl who just got brainwashed into being in love with Ruruna is really twisting the knife in the salted wound.

Forgiveness is earned, not owed. Jing Xiu could ask something utterly humiliating from Youyan and would still be in her right. Instead, she asks of her to feel what Jing Xiu herself felt years before ; although, where Jing Xiu had done nothing wrong except to pick a bad partner, Youyan will know exactly what she has done to deserve being treated like that.

If Youyan can't or doesn't want to go through something that is still less painful than what she inflicted upon Jing Xiu to earn her forgiveness, she can just walk away. She has no right to complain.

Mind you, I don't necessarily think it is healthy for Jing Xiu, either. If she trusted Youyan, if she knew why her ex has come back, she wouldn't stoop to such low games, which will only hurt them both. Still, she has both the right and understandable reasons to ask Youyan to bear with this.

At least for Jing Xiu, this isn't in her nature. It's her sister's nature and Jing Xiu just succumbed to it in a weak moment.

Yes. A weak moment she has because she has been emotionally broken by Youyan, who burned away years of their relationship out of selfishness.

Jing Xiu doesn't know about Youyan's time travel. Doesn't know that her life became a mess for three years, before she killed herself, over what she's done. From her perspective, her ex just came back one day and tried to mend their relationship out of nowhere with flowers and love letters. There is nothing concrete, no commitment in what Youyan has offered.

You don't do this to a person you want to reconcile with, you do this if you want to burn bridges.

If this does anything to their reconciliation, puts even a dent in the bridge between them, then Youyan doesn't deserve the chance she's being given. Because she should know exactly that she herself, that her doing this exact kind of thing, are the reasons why Jing Xiu is emotionally weak, constantly worried, and so lacking in self-love that she'd marry someone she doesn't love in another timeline.

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I don't think there's really anything wrong with what she's doing. It might be a bit mean, but so what ? Jing Xiu isn't aware that Ji Youyan got a chance to remake her life from the future. From her point of view the same woman who previously hurt and betrayed her just had a change of her from one day to the next and decided to act as if what had happened before wasn't.

And while Youyan has shown she's trying to be better, she also gives no promise or guarantees, shows no understanding of what Jing Xiu went through. She only knows she has fucked up, which she did. But this is not a bad test - because it expects of Youyan humility, understanding. To accept and get over a pointless bit of meanness just like Jing Xiu must if their relationship is to move forward.

If Youyan resents her for that, then she doesn't understand what she did wrong. On the other hand, if she truly feels sorry, she will accept it and commit herself.

Interestingly her sister isn't telling her not to date Youyan. She's telling her to test her, to keep some distance until Youyan's loyalty is proven. To not give her love easily because it would be taken for granted, which is exactly what the old Youyan, before her time travel, would have done and actually did.

Wait I just realized— Haru had (has?) a family. What happened to them for her to get sent here? Where are her siblings?

I suppose it's up to interpretation... but I don't find a plot in which they weren't accepted by their family and sent to become a child soldier unlikely, unfortunately.

She's a good learner.

I'm almost wondering if telling Elsa was a good idea. She managed to keep her curse in check for years by not overusing her magic, and it wouldn't be outlandish to think that once she leaves the village, she will no longer feel the need to expand everything to prove herself.

Now that she's aware of it, though, and obstinately refusing to be careful, it's almost certain she will use it all at some point. Like the idea it's "safer not to use magic" seem to have encouraged her to use as much magic as she can.

That's cu-- Opens last page. Huh.

Well, as long as it makes them happy.

"I tooootally forgot the failed product, please throw it away and don't drink it, alright ?"

100% subtle, no one could have guessed any hidden intention, 10/10 bluff.

Good on Korn's antics, in the end everyone is happy, and I am too.

Not sure if harem or not... There's no tag so far, maybe I'll put this off to see what comes later ?

Tsk tsk tsk. Way to be pushy, Lloyd. What's even the point ? I love that Ada hates the idea, here's hoping she doesn't find some excuse to agree to it.

Looks like my interpretation is far less dark than many's here... I was just thinking that this snake goddess is really good at abstinence if having one night of sex is enough to let her be satisfied for a thousand year.

Edit : although I'm pretty sure the girl might come back next time she can.

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Took me a while because I'm too old for "find the seven differences" games, but the difference seem to be straighter ears, making them feel more fox-like, and the curve of the fox's horn matching Olivia more closely. Both of which make sense, if people were questioning those.

"I made some huge progress with xiao-Lu's mom!"

Spit take.

"Just treat me to dinner at some point."
Sends explanatory videos on gay love.

Stunned but satisfied facepalm.

Well, I guess side couple is on now.

^ Thanks, good to know. It's weird that when looking it online, you get results like this or this which are certainly contradicting the idea that there are official, textual (not subtext) couples.

^^ What do you mean "sometimes" ?

Still looking for some gacha with lesbians couples... not subtext, not harem, not flirting or "obviously gay", just (not-)straight up "being girlfriends" (and/or wives, obviously).

Almost picked up D4DJ when they did, but as much as I was happy to hear the news, the years of content catch-up I'd have to do kinda killed my drive to pick up the game. Would HBR be the one ? Opinions online seem kinda mixed.

I didn't expect the brainwashing by physical trauma... Good thing that Mark is an asshole anyway, so whatever. But Lillian is terrifying in her ruthlessness. Still love her though. She makes a great case for "I'm glad she's on our side."