Always good to see some Sailor Moon art from Ticcy.

I am low key dissapointed there wasn't actual suicide. To be honest. But eh happy ending, fine ok.

Do we have an “attempted suicide” tag?

No, and I think it's better that way. The "suicide" tag only means that it's a theme or plot point in the story, not that there's actually a concluded one. It's a content warning tag to prevent undue stress to people that might be affected by the topic and as such often also presents a spoiler for the story. With that in mind I think at least the uncertainty of what actually happens should remain.

That said, we do have "Rape" and "Foiled Rape Attempt", so I guess you could argue for consolidating those.

As a counter point, a rape or foiled rape is more likely to happen towards the start or middle of a story, while a suicide or suicide attempt will either be the inciting incident or climax. That means splitting rape and foiled rape attempt spoils less than a similar split for suicide would. I'd also argue there's a bigger difference in impact between a rape and a foiled rape, compared to a suicide and foiled suicide, to the point where a foiled rape can even be played for comedy in a way that none of the other three can.

Are their fingers normally that rectangular?

This made me feel oddly happy :), If they ever sleep together, I think the hate-sex tag would be there, just a thought. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Nah. I think this is closer too (but not quite) a tsundere situation, rather than a hate sex one. The dark haired girl wanted to act aloof and tough, but absolutely wasn't able to follow through on it.

meena posted:

So many thoughts.
3) Hoping this means Sumiko gets more serialized work. I really want a continuation of My Female Friend Comes Home to Me Every Now and Again.

and i wanna see a full translation of "We are addicted to her", no matter what you hater say

Wait, which one was that?

So ... Any chance you'll be translating the other stories set in this school?

Who are the three Tarous anyway? Since it’s tagged as alternate reality and gender bender, I assume this is a parody of something, but what is it parodying?

Did you read the notes page at the end?

Cornonthekopp posted:

to me this makes the cat girl transgender

I was thinking the same thing. They were male. Now they are.

Well, I guess we now know how effective her commands are. Normally, it's the sub who calls their partner master, but clearly not in this case.

The tomato juice meme in Japanese vampire manga is just so stupid ^^#

Marceline says hi and then goes back to sucking the red out of a tomato.

Didn't Vellis just explicitly say they're not going to throw their morality away? While their affect has been a little bit flat, all we've seen them do so far is help people and not ask for much in return.

Did I miss something?

She looks very smug.

SushiKnight posted:

Just saying... those musical illiterates (both characters and, maaaaybe, the mangaka) who say that the guitar is not "refined" nor "noble"; somebody should smash them over the head with the collected works of the maestro Joaquín Rodrigo, 1st Marquess of the Gardens of Aranjuez.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oxH-7VklBI

That shouldn't be much of surprise, since guitars are about three centuries older than violins. That's a lot of time to develop traditions and cultural cachet.

I fear it's more a matter of the guitar being seen as a "popular" instrument (despite masters like Rodrigo proving that full-blown orchestra-based classic music can be written for it) and the violin is seen as "not a popular" instrument (despite there even existing a word in English for a violinist specialized in popular music, "fiddler").
Such is life.

I feel like it has more to do with the fact that rock music has (generally) leaned towards "counter cultural", whereas classical music is more "traditional", for lack of a better term.

I'm not exactly a rocket musicologist though, so I'm not all that well-informed about the subject.

Rock is much newer and has roots in jazz. By the same token, it also originally came from music produced by black people in the US that was later adopted by white performers due to its popularity.

With that said, guitars don't need to play rock and rock doesn't need to be played with guitars.

This reminds me of the one where a pair of famous generals, and their subordinates, reincarnated as a bunch of high-school girl delinquents. Whatever happened to that one?

That was a spark of a memory! Shame I also don't recall much. Was definitely an interesting premise.

Found it. It's Dragon and Tiger. Unfortunately, it's listed as ongoing, but hasn't updated since January of last year.

Just saying... those musical illiterates (both characters and, maaaaybe, the mangaka) who say that the guitar is not "refined" nor "noble"; somebody should smash them over the head with the collected works of the maestro Joaquín Rodrigo, 1st Marquess of the Gardens of Aranjuez.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oxH-7VklBI

That shouldn't be much of surprise, since guitars are about three centuries older than violins. That's a lot of time to develop traditions and cultural cachet.

I'm starting to wonder how much her father would actually care. Ririsa and her mother obviously think it's important, but it makes sense that they'd be overly sensitive and careful with that sort of thing. Similarly, it makes sense that the younger sister thinks its important, because she's young, personally values the violin, and is looking for flaws she can use to try and drive off her new family. However, in the grand scheme of things, there's nothing wrong with playing the guitar, even in classy settings, so I'd expect the father to care more about some combination of the style of music, type of guitar, and level of success, rather than the specific instrument.

I'm also a bit curious about how the various characters would feel about a more traditionally Japanese option, like the shamisen. They seem to be a more western-styled family, but its traditional origins and presentation definitely lend it an air of dignity. At the same time, shamisen's can also go extremely hard. I mean, basically any instrument can (electric violins are a thing), but rock is a much smaller leap for the shamisen. Also, yes, that is a violin with frets.

Edit: Since I mentioned electric violins, here's a metal violin cover of the Fallout theme, for reference. (The metal/electric portion starts at about the 50 second mark.)

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This reminds me of the one where a pair of famous generals, and their subordinates, reincarnated as a bunch of high-school girl delinquents. Whatever happened to that one?

csz_ol posted:

It took me a little bit to understand Maika's situation. The artstyle is my favorite part, hope to see more of this author. The story is good but for some reason it felt strange, idk, a little silly even

Would you mind explaining, because I'm still having trouble figuring out her situation. I got that she hasn't seen her mom in 12 years, implying that something bad happened to her, that weekends are particularly rough for her, she needs money, and a friend was offering to let her crash at their place, so she might not have a home of her own, but I feel like there are a few missing pieces that are preventing me from putting together a complete picture.

BoobTwinkler posted:

I'm still not sure what her situation was.

Was she the only one taking care of the grandmother, and after she died because she didn't get her medicine on time, she basically snapped after realizing no one else in the family even noticed?

That's Uta.

Also, I don't think the slightly delayed meds caused her grandmother's death. Going by the preceding scenes, she was already in pretty steep decline, to the point where she doesn't even recognize Uta at the end. So, I think she just died of natural causes and it happened while Uta was asleep.

The real problem is that the rest of her family left her care entirely up to Uta, and did nothing to help prepare her for what was coming or to talk to her about the effects of mental decline. The way they didn't even notice that the grandmother had died, let alone trying to comfort Uta and reassure her that it wasn't her fault, was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

I mean, caring for a dying relative, while the rest of your family goes out to have fun, and thinking they passed because of a mistake you made would be incredibly hard for a full grown adult. For a child? I'm not sure they deserved to die over it, but it's not far off.

So are they going to learn that violins can play more than boring classical (not that classical is necessarily boring, but something tells me that's exclusively the type of classical they've been given)? Also, I kind-of want to see the sisters reacting to an electric violin.

Wait a second, an orchestral ensemble is asking for a bassist? Are they looking for a base (not guitar) player or are they a very different type of orchestral ensemble than what I'm picturing?

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I didn't see the thumbnail for this image and, when I first opened it, it was scaled to perfectly cut off the sword, so it looked like a cute scene where Mokou is getting a nosebleed from Kaguya's horny hug. And then I scrolled down.

I wonder why they went with a 5080 and not a 5090.

Kurai Tora posted:

You had my interest at the redhead, and now you have my follow at the masochist puppy.

Wait, what makes you say one of them is a masochist puppy?

haganbmj posted:

It's never really felt like Naori doesn't accept Hinata as an Ogre, so that feels a bit off. Maybe the next few chapters will develop that a bit better.

It's not so much that she doesn't accept Hinata as an Ogre, but that she doesn't even think of Hinata as an ogre. To some extent, that's not a bad thing; for her Hinata is just another person. However, at the same time, that means she's also erasing a fundamental part of who Hinata is and what she grew up with.

More pertinently, up until now, she's viewed the quest to find the special sake as a way to just solve the things that set Hinata apart from humans (in troublesome ways), without any consideration for how that would change Hinata's life and her other relationships or how it might not actually solve all of her problems.

If you don't mind a ham-fisted analogy, imagine if Hinata was trans, instead of an Ogre. For the most part, Naori treating her just like any other girl would be a good thing, but growing up as a trans person would mean Hinata had different experiences than other girls and likely faced (and continues to face) different hardships and part of having an honest relationship with her would involve acknowledging that.

To extend the analogy, this trans Hinata has already socially transitioned (she's living amongst humans, not with the other oni), and now she's considering medically transitioning too. Supporting her in this is a good thing, but it's also important to acknowledge that it isn't the only path she has available to her, that it has costs, and that it's not as simple or clean as going to the dentist for a cavity and coming out with everything fixed. One example of this, that this chapter kind-of hinted at, is that Hinata should be looking at transitioning because that's what she wants for herself, not because she thinks she needs to if she wants to be with Naori.

Now that I think about it, the way Oni, bartenders, the older generation, and the special sake are all presented in this manga makes me think it could be a really good allegory for aspects of being trans and transitioning, as well as being an ally. I'd be interested to see a more qualified take on the topic, but I already feel like I'm out of my depth saying just this much.

Wait, is punk Utena actually a thing? Did I miss an update?

Juri radiates pure gremlin energy.

That campfire flashback makes it look like Iro fancied Aino? Like it's been clear that Iro loves Aino the most in the world, just not how she loves her specifically. I don't really expect the series to answer that, I just can't help but wonder

I'm pretty sure Aino is fully intent on answering that question, what with holding a white flower out to her and declaring that she wouldn't let their experience in the flower dimension just be a dream.

I feel like the "Evil Prince's" design is fairly unusual. Normally I'd expect that type of character to either have blond hair or shorter hair; I'm not sure I've seen a delinquent gyaruu with shoulder length black hair before.

Either way, I like it and would like more.