I always find it underwhelming when nearly all developments around characters come externally, instead of any internal growth any of them achieve on their own ...

This "kyousuki" stuff sounds more fucked up than reality TV usually is. Teenagers?! I guess in a country where the "idol" garbage is acceptable I shouldn't be surprised, but still ...

Don't some of the classic "it's a fancy lady school to train young lesbians errr ladies" manga have prom-like events ("graduation ball", that sorta vibe)? Can't say I'm entirely sure but feels like something I've seen before...

Mh, well, makes sense of course, but this is "always" the way these type of relationships nowadays go. dunno what other option there could be, but somebody come up with something :p

Meh ending. But hated that entire ending arc, so maybe just me ^^

e: oh, wait, 1 more chapter ...

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I didn't do any actual statistical analysis, but it feels like if you'd plot yuri protagonists and their love interests from the 90s to now in terms of "outspoken lesbianess", you got way more that are decisively and vocally lesbotic now, and with fewer and fewer that are kinda ambiguous or only "single target", sometimes even just "temporary" with each batch of new manga releases. Give it another few years ...

An interesting(?) inverse of the concept is maybe Transistor Enus, where the heroine is clearly saying she's into women (and young boys, okay, don't judge, she might be a catholic priest), but there's this one guy she has a romantic interest in (nothing comes of it but it's there).

Mh. Kinda like a character introduction info dump ^^;

... also turns out everyone has fake names, basically.

Just normal friends, as usual.

Yeah, I think Mistuki pulls it off by being lean and tall and also wearing those pants super low lol

Being a fictional character made to look good helps a lot, or so I hear ;)

That’s what I was thinking—it’s not like this author to have a major character transformation/epiphany take place entirely off-panel.

Well, some of the early development certainly was done more vignette style than a connected narrative, so it wouldn't entirely be unexpected either to just keep moving forward. And let's also not forget that we JUST had her and her uncle play hooky to watch a movie, would be kinda odd doing something similar right away again.

She'll probably explain herself if Mitsuki gets jealous or feels unneeded now or something though. ^^#

Some of the boys in class will start questioning themselves ...

"I raised you to be a worldwide daughter."
How many pancakes does that require?

The fan doesn't want vampires well being. She wishes for a double suicide with her

Last pages claims the opposite for some reason.

A Japanese salesperson glaring at a costumer? Least realistic thing I've seen this year in manga.

For some bizarre reason I felt the nun would be revealed to sinisterly murder the cat after the heroine is gone ...

e: also, only a psychopath would open a letter like that.

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The Flatshare of Domestic Violence and Delinquency. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

If Awai hadn't gotten Sudden Ginormous Melons Syndrome it'd be all normal girls for the captain's match ...

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The comic has a serious and somewhat tragic premise, but it does not take it seriously.

It's something I seem be observing with Chinese and Korean stories oddly frequently. Like, "My Food is Very Cute" has this vampire lead and they tell her she doesn't need to be scared of witches anymore because the witches genocided all the vampires and thus that's done, it's in the past (even though the vampire just woke up so didn't have any sense of time progression) ...

... or a het manhwa, where the female lead was the incarnation of a previous queen who again, had all her people genocided by the "empire", was betrayed by the king, abused, whatever, now it's reincarnation time and it's all just some vague tragic backstory but with no relevance on how she acts now or how she feels about the male lead...

?!?!?!?!?!?

I don't get it. Is it cultural? Is it a question of writing skill? Is it a distorted observation because these moments stick out so much? Eh, who knows, but it certainly feels weird and I'd like to hear what the authors themselves say about it xD

Well, the plot development was “predictable” because the purpose of the previous chapter was to set it up.

Would be kinda hard for any plot development to be predictable without any signposting. In fact one might call such a thing "unpredictable" xD

Yeah, it's the sorta plot development that honestly just feels too convenient, contrived and frankly predictable.

I'm willing to compromise on the poly thing if there's a chapter where the girls use their time travelling technology to go back and kill Hitler.

The chapter didn't say that, though. Xiao Pei is shown being in a shitty position, but it wasn't framed as a "what to do". If anything, if we want to overinterpret it as a message, it would be a critique of how people in showbiz (or other jobs) acts toward help. The people overworking her weren't treated as being in the right.

She's in a shit job, perseveres, then gets rewarded for her perseverance by a lucky break. Insofar as this has any message it is definitely "stick with it" instead of "fuck this shit, go somewhere where people will treat you with respect before a mental breakdown will make that decision for you".

Remember kids, when you are in a shitty workplace just keep working hard and one day you too will be rewarded! ^^#

I just want Saori to kick that woman in the face...

Careful. In this series, that'd be a sign of affection.

Boooo.

e: very random, but I've recently re-reading Firekeeper Saga. Amusingly, it also features "sensory sharing" twins. Not maids though. Also one of them gets their head chopped off. But you know, otherwise, basically the same.

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