Eh, every time there is a loli manga there's an endless amount of FBI jokes, which is essentially the same as the implication that a surprise Spanish Inquisition will get you ...

A three minute conversation while impairing your judgment with alcohol isn't going to improve anything; that argument makes zero sense. No potential rapist or murderer or whatever everyone seems to be worried about here is going to be "mwhaha and then I'm going to desecrate your corpse ... oh, oops, shouldn't have said that ..."

And the condom comment ... "obviously" same-sex relationships have still the issue of STDs, it wasn't about pregnancy. "Obviously". But you (almost) never see this brought up in erotica so it's hardly fair to single this one out. That was the point. ^^

... how in the world is asking someone in a bar safer than just someone random in a park? At least with someone random somewhere you know they aren't specifically there to prey on anyone. Plus, parks are often established hook-up spots so it's not necessarily as random as it looks, if that matters ^^

I'd say the main danger is the (as usually ignored) issue of STDs, but that's like expecting het hentai to include the use of condoms.

actually, how nice and honorable she is doesn't fit yakuza

Manga yakuza are always nice and honorable and like cats and are really overprotective over their daughters though.

I can totally see how touching 'shrooms that grow out of someone's head would enable them to read your thoughts. Even through a broom (it is known that brooms are very good to convey thoughts).

I thought she just wanted a picture of her mom to be honest, but looks like she actually needed it.

That's to prove where she is. You see the same in other manga too.

(at least usually that's the reason)

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It's a difficult one to guess.

a) A super-rich family that lives in a super-huge mansion and flies around in helicopters
b) a Matriarch with her lesbian harem of wives
c) A normal gay couple, either men or women
d) Actual aliens (explains her strength)
e) an overprotective single dad (possibly working as a legendary hard-boiled manga mangaka)
f) a hard-boiled yakuza family that'd totally appeal to Inko-sensei
g) they are absent because they work in Hollywood as sfx-designers. Nikaidou has inherited their ability to add bg sfx to anything instinctively

Do we know what is "unique" about her family situation?

@juanelric iirc, those aren't ribbons, but they are supposed to be shide, from an onusa (those wooden things miko/priests wave at stuff to purify whatever it is). Basically she's made her wooden sword into a pseudo-holy item.

CGDCT usually doeasn't go beyond subtext tho, so males not being relevant doesn't somehow make them lesbians. That's just the audience projecting.

But it's also deliberate. The producers know this. And more often than not they explicitly bait.

[insert rant about queer erasure here]

Well, it's Japan.

Either way you can see in series like Seifuku no Vampiress Lord (which fits, because hey, vampires) a male character can add. Even as a not-love interest. Or even an anti-love interest. Or whatever.

But the debate is pretty pointless without seeing the actual product; who knows what he actually means anyway ...

It's a comedy, but it'll be serious; in fact so serious that it goes with the "erase all males so there's no other options but to be a lesbian" (or something) like all the trite "cute girls doing cute things" comedies.

Well. I'm vaguely skeptical. But of course I won't complain if it's good. ^^

p7 George Takei voice: "~oh my."

Technically maybe a reverse trap crossdressing or whatever tag?

... why does this chapter read as if someone's been killed?

Don't you just hate it when chapters end with plot points hanging up in the air like this ...

Neither. By the time GTA5 came around, I was just tired of the similarities between all the games. And for me the wackiness of the older titles was just better to enjoy - what 4 and 5 did didn't appeal to me. Not to say they were all serious, but the psycho in 5 being the worst and most extreme example - it was fine in GTA2 to drive a bus full of people to a Russian sausage factory, but that's because it didn't try to be even semi-serious (and in any case it's overall the best GTA ^^).

Of course in terms of sheer scale and everything you can't beat GTA5. But that's not always everything.

From the 3D ones, I always preferred Vice City.

??? She's saying what she really wants to offer Yuuka is herself, but she's (joking) that Yuuka would "kill her" if she does so. So she says life is too dear to her and instead gives her matching jewelry.

Mh, chicken. Nom nom nom.

Yeah, Sakura no Kiwa looks to be great as well; don't know why it doesn't get more love (it's about a girl getting mobbed by cats ... and then by a cat-like girl, come on! How's that not a winner?!). They've got this "very traditional" manga-esque feel (Transistor Venus too of course). And I particularly love how Takemoto Izumi knows to convey his stories not just with text bubbles but often enough just with by the character's expressions or the flow of the panels and so on (some I feel mangaka forget that a visual medium is not just there to look pretty and to write text bubbles on).

Actually in some sense those are qualities shared by Taiyaki - so no surprise I'm liking this one as well. ^^

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Well, I suppose the fangirl meeting this super-sexy seductive authoress could kinda be a self-insert scenario that'd be somewhat comparable to what fanfiction likes to do, and since we know so little about the authoress - just those snippets - it could easily be a character from a wider-work where she plays an entirely different role ...

So. But I don't think that's particularly different from many other manga.

It's not that I'm totally against it, but the syndrome of romance comics have everyone pair up ... including the grandmother's dog ... is kinda trite ^^

Now in the early chapters she seemed oblivious, but is there any reason for her to figure out those feelings just because of one stray thought years ago? It would also not help her realize Asuka's attraction to her. So as far as I'm concerned this didn't contradict the context (yet).

I'm actually not entirely sure anymore she was completely oblivious at the beginning. I mean, that's how I always read it; that she's just being motherly and kinda "accidentally" a bit flirtatious (from Asuka's perspective). That also fits with how she "acquired" her husband; presumably not by actually doing anything (from her perspective; that's why she's so surprised) but simply by being approached and accepting.

Buuut ... it doesn't actually say what she thinks when plucks rice from her daughter's cheek. And it's her that gets scared of losing Asuka and holding hands afterwards; all blushing. And when she says it's probably her fault, and she wonders when everything changed (for her), she isn't going "yeah obviously just now when Asuka confessed". It might have been supposed to be a hint that for her "things changed" much earlier.

So ... she might be oblivious to how Asuka feels about her, but I suppose it's possible that at least on some level she been somewhat aware of her own feelings from the beginning of the manga.

That being said I'm also not really convinced by this; so let's see where the story goes with all its flashbacks and so on. ^^

Ayako's parents are dead :(
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/1_x_ch10_1#3

Damnit. I hate a vague memory of something along the line but couldn't pinpoint it. Only remembered that Best-Friend-Family's parents are off on one of those infinite manga vacations ... ^^

I was thinking about what else "crime" might refer to in these kind of stories, and one option tends to be defying parental wishes / commands / objections / etc.

Now I'm not sure that's it here (but it could be that Ayako's parents wanted something different for her), but I'd quite like to see Ayako's parents / Asuka's grandparents at some point. Well. Once they've figured out their relationship, as a sort of season 2 theme. Getting together is one thing in an incestuous relationship, making it work in the wider world an entirely different one ^^;

Demons ... incest ... everything ... this is very Mochi indeed.