I'm getting Amano Shuninta vibes from the art style, with Aiko especially

last edited at Jul 6, 2024 9:01AM

Nice to see this one here too

What is Hinata's deal on pg 14, like what is she freaking out about

Fact: 90% of yearners quit right before they're about to reach their Happy Ever After

This has a very similar premise to A Monster Wants to Eat Me, so doesn't it feel a bit played out to debate if this is yuri or not? Both of these series employ a story mechanic that we could call "cannibalism edging". Even without the cannibalism, a relationship where a girl hangs around another girl who intends to kill her has a pretty clear eroticism to it.

Tbf aki went through the exact same thing with yori, her feeling just sat there while the plot was happening until they magically disappeared and developed new one for shiho out of nowhere. With Miki at least her unrequited love and struggle to accept her sepai are the main focus of the story

As far as I remember Aki had to accept that her love for Yori would remain one sided. She couldn't really do anything other than live with it, so when Aki learned Shiho has feelings for her Aki decided to see if she could develop mutual feelings for Shiho by going out with her. I don't think any of this randomly disappeared or came out of nowhere here personally.

Yes! A lot of yuri fans seem to be confused by the idea that one girl/woman can be attracted to multiple other girls/women in her lifetime. I know that lead characters in yuri manga (especially the school girl stuff) can come across like they have a single-target sexuality, but come on... Aki didn't develop feelings for Shiho "out of nowhere". She is just gay! In fact, it's made clear that she isn't 'in love' with Shiho, at least not yet.

Aki being a lesbian (or bi) of course doesn't mean that she has no standards, or that she would be fine with any girl. It's the opposite: Shiho isn't just any girl. She was always bad at getting along with other girls, but Aki still befriended her. Even after Shiho's departure and hostility, Aki still couldn't help but worry about her. She was always special.

I think it makes sense if becoming friends again and knowing that Shiho is into her flipped Aki's switch, and allowed her to see Shiho as an option. (And I think another factor is that now Shiho is letting Aki see the more awkward and clumsy side of her again.) Combined with what she said in her dialogue, I totally get why she would suggest dating.

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Nina got so close their heads ended up touching (first panel), so I think that's why Momoka flinched and probably made a cute noise

I'm eating my own words, man. The warden is her father??

Man, that feeling when your father who is also the prison warden doesn't decide to execute you and also sends the hottest new sex android to your cell that night.

Freud would have a lot to say about this...

Mature ?? This shi's everything but mature bro ToT

That tag refers to "older adult" characters (i.e. not mature themes or mature content), though I don't see any women like that in this work so far.

Also, why would they send androids to release sexual urges of inmates?

And finally, is the prison for both men and women? That never happens.

If it's women only, why would they send android women? And why not creating also android men for the women who want to?

I'm pretty sure there are only women prisoners in this facility. Maybe they only get female androids because this is still new tech and male prototypes are not yet in service or occupied elsewhere? Maybe it's supposed to humiliate the prisoners that they don't get to choose a male android? Another thing to consider is that e.g. in the United States, lesbian and bisexual women are over-represented in incarceration. Which makes the idea that a lot of these prisoners with nothing to lose (now it looks like they're all on death row?) would be tempted by female androids less unrealistic.

As for why the prison would want to manage the sexual urges of inmates: in a way, this unfortunately happens in real life, just with much cheaper, low-tech methods. Rape is of course extremely common in prisons in general, but e.g. a trans woman who is incarcerated and held in men's prison may be deliberately placed in the cells of the most violent male inmates to give them an easy outlet for their aggression. Even outside of that extreme example, when a prison turns a blind eye to the rape of any inmates, it is basically managing the aggression of inmates through rape, and these fictional androids have the same purpose.

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Shout out to yuri girls named Hime

gotta be one of my favorite genders

I'm also getting the impression that Komaki is a coward, and that she's doing all of this because she's afraid of asking Wakaba out, but doesn't want anyone else to have Wakaba's 1st time experiences. It's almost dating with extra steps...

Yah, in her head, she thinks it's better to be hated forever by her rather than risk losing her by taking the step to just tell her she loves her.

I think Komaki has convinced herself that she already lost her, and that Wakaba only goes along with the game because of a misplaced stubbornness. And with every single "precious thing" she takes from Wakaba, the idea that Wakaba might still care about her becomes more and more unthinkable.

last edited at Jun 16, 2024 4:29PM

How did everyone miss that she was kissing her under water? Last I checked, pool water isn't the most concealing of substances.

Light gets refracted and reflected on the surface of water. People would have to see the girls from above or from inside the water to be able to see what they are doing. Otherwise they just see wobbly shapes and the reflection of the sky.

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When an artist is such a tasteless hack even a good yuri ship turns into shit in his hands... Almost impressive, really.

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Curious why the human protag is supposed to be executed, since she appears to have simply been born in the prison. Wondering how she'll get to know the android sex bot.

I can see that the file the warden is looking at is left almost completely empty. That, and the fact that the warden is very invested in her execution, is suspicious. But I don't think the comment about her coming "into this world" means she was born in the prison. This setting doesn't come across as crazy as Stone Ocean, and even Emporio was only able to stay in the prison by hiding himself from the guards. A max security prison keeping a child imprisoned seems really far fetched, unless they needed her for some evil purpose like human experimentation.

I'm putting my money on something else for now... Though I will say that if some powerful entity simply wanted to get rid of her, sending her to a max security prison and on death row is a really convoluted way of doing that. If she was e.g. a spy or assassin burned by her employer, it would make more sense for them to kill her on the outside. So she might really be just a dangerous criminal?

Soooo....not Yuri?

Just one woman being unable to keep her eyes off the other, and committing murder for her on short notice.

And of course, the leads being offended at the mere suggestion that they have feelings for each other is always guaranteed to stay that way.

Jokes aside, this premise goes hard, and I'm shipping these women anyway

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Somehow the person with the most characterization is the dude? (Did I missed it or does one of the girl not even have a name?)

The popular girl is Hideka, the cute one is Nami

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This development is comedy gold (and I say this with love)

I know this is probably not the place for this but
Page 30, first dialogue

こんなバカみたいなことに付き合おうなんて
I can't believe she's going along with my foolishness.

Looks like a mistranslation to me.

Yeah, it's Almelia who is going along with the silliness, not the other way around, and those are her thoughts

The story keeps threatening to leave the all-ages zone but that just can't happen in this magazine

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I appreciate the fixes in general!

While I was listening to the drama CD, I realized that the biggest barrier to making a good anime (or live-action drama) out of this is probably music licensing. The background music on the drama CD includes all your hit favorites from gunge bands like Nibana and alternate rock bands like the UFO Fighters, which is to say it's bland name stuff that sounds vaguely like songs from some of bands namechecked in the manga. A huge part of the charm of the manga is the specificity of the girls being super into bands that were at their peak decade(s) before they were born (believe me, writing that out hurt me more than you), and without that, it's less compelling.

They could name drop and reference the bands and albums without necessarily playing them. The only music that absolutely to be played at length is the stuff that Mitsuki makes, no? Otherwise it might be enough to license at most two or three dad rock songs for the most important moments.

I assumed Asako would be more passive, since she seems to regard shoujo manga like textbooks for love, but she is flirting back already? And she has to be doing it on purpose since she dropped the honorific there. I'm warming up to the character designs too, so I'm more optimistic now!

I was surprised to see how MangaDex's comments section is absolutely dominated for calls for this to have a poly ending. Some of the calls for that have almost 100 upvotes, which is pretty wild.

It made me really curious what separates this manga from others with love triangles where you don't see that type of behavior in the comments. I think it's probably because the least likely corner of the triangle (Diana, the one not in the title) is so hard to dislike. She's earnest, straightforward, and fairly relatable (a teen girl having a very obvious crush on another girl who is oblivious). Since you can't see an obvious "Natori + Diana" only outcome, Diana fans hope for poly, I guess?

Typically, most love triangles I read are manhwa with much higher stakes and where most of the characters are very manipulative. The comments on those stories are generally like "X is a bitch and should die". Nobody is calling for a poly ending there, lol.

Anyway, when you get down to analyzing things, Natori hasn't shown any romantic or sexual interest in any character. I wouldn't even be surprised if she was ace. Obviously, the OTP is Lapis + Diana. Let's go!

Yes, Diana is such a sweetie that most of us don't want her to end up alone, and there isn't a fourth girl to pair her up with. (There is the cat girl, but they haven't interacted almost at all.) It's kind of rough.

The few yuri and lesbian stuff I have seen with a poly ending, that were remotely serious (i.e. not goofy harems like I Won't Sleep With You For Free), signaled that endgame pretty early - at least before the half-way mark. (E.g. Muted by Miranda Mundt.) It feels like this one is past the point where it should have marked Diana as having a legit chance, and Lapis as open to sharing Natori with someone. If Lapis were on a route where she would eventually warm up to the concept, that should have been signaled by now too. I say this because the story feels like it has concluded its first act, where most of the players including their goals and character arcs have been established.

Lapis' arc of getting de-radicalized from her mass murder plans could theoretically happen in parallel to learning to love polyamory. But after the disaster has been avoided and Lapis has found a reason to keep on living, the story will probably end pretty soon. So if she doesn't complete her polyamory journey by that point, we will probably never see it at all.

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I think it's a decent twist that the villainess falls first and instead of being "fixed" by it, a new level of crazy comes out

Take this skeptically but Isuzu's hairlick is drawn so sharply and consistently this chapter, and her incisor when she scowls, I'm starting to doubt she's fully human. The comparison with Hinata in c36 p21 says it all. Isuzu's hair spike is always there, and her pointy fang when she scowls, makes her resemble the ogre characters much more than the human characters. And her ogre-level strongman ancestor has a version with a non-human biodad, so it's not breaking from the false-history worldbuilding. If so grandpa could be more racist than sexist about which traits disqualify her from being a warrior. Finding out you're more diverse while grappling with racism is less of a feelgood plot but would have a more interesting family dynamic. I'm leaning a bit over 50% she's technically an ogre girl, take a shot if I'm right.

It's also grandpa's fault she was put off and forgot to order more mint liquer. Bad human.

The ward placed by this enemy is supposed to disable humans, but Isuzu doesn't seem to be affected. Maybe it's been explained with something else and I just forgot; it's possible that Isuzu can withstand it because of her training, or the enemy deliberately excluded her from the effect because otherwise there's no sport in defeating her. But if Isuzu were part youkai, that would also make it more ironic when she says she can't "mix" with Naori and her ogre friends.

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When Rubeus claims Diana wants to marry Natori, isn't that basically a confirmation that same-sex marriage is possible in this kingdom? I don't think it has been mentioned before. If that information was in the game too, it's even funnier that Natori still hasn't figured out that she is in a love triangle with two girls.