This was like 2 bait-and-switches in one chapter and both worked well, this didn't go like I thought it would at all :P

I know better than to get excited for what comes next, and I think you all should too, considering this story's track record :P

last edited at Feb 23, 2024 5:12AM

saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

I thought this was a little bit deranged but then I read the translator's note and it only makes me more worried to be quite honest lmao

... but I'll try to keep my mind as open as I am able to

last edited at Feb 19, 2024 7:39AM

XD

I like how they called magic unscientific followed by something that sounds like a somewhat scientific explanation of the phenomenon

last edited at Feb 16, 2024 4:47AM

Yuzu's character changed in the exact same way as Minami's did at the start of the series for mostly the same reason (forced to acknowledge their romantic feelings after being confronted with the possibility of their crush dating someone else) and before that they weren't at all thinking about the way they were behaving toward one another, Minami because she wasn't aware of her feelings and Yuzu because she was repressing them.

I think it was executed very poorly, doesn't mean I'm "deliberately missing a point" (what the hell does that even mean :P) It's similar only superficially - for one thing Yuzu actualy confessed before the manga even started, and we also got these (extremely) small glimmers that she still remembers even before the author felt the need to introduce the third character. But we're supposed to accept at face value that while all of this was going on, she was simultaneously completely oblivious like on that planetarium date (and all the other chapters really). That's not repressing feelings, that's just the author trying to pull a dumb plot twist (that everyone saw a mile away anyway), while the story suffered for it in the meantime. I don't think that whole progression was at all believable and that's why I didn't like it.

But anyway, I'll reiterate I'm glad we're past that point, story is already better for it.

two chapters ago Yuzu's personality inexplicably switched

Did you miss that part where Kamiya forced Yuzu to stop bottling her feelings? It is a very explicable switch

Long buried feelings begin welling up once more

I didn't miss it, I just don't buy it as an explanation :P

last edited at Feb 10, 2024 3:45PM

I don't particularly care for this since it swapped PoVs, Yuzu was more fun when it was implied she had a subtle crush but wasn't aware about relationships much.
Right now she just kinda became a fairly stock useless lesbian character, she doesn't have the uniqueness she had before.

I can see that, it was pretty disappointing that there was no real mystery about Yuzu or anything complicated, but she was just a typical character from the start but the author just inexplicably didn't show any of it. That part in this chapter where she actually recalled the planetarium feels like pointing out their own writing mistakes - yeah she didn't notice it was a date because two chapters ago Yuzu's personality inexplicably switched :P

... that being said, I prefer stock useless characters to bad writing of previous chapters, that reveal should have happened in one of the early chapters. So I'm liking this more now, for the same reasons you don't like it anymore :P

how much you wanna bet that grandpa doesn't even know that his granddaughter is running around the park and battling monsters, maybe he really just thinks it's sword practice lmao

I liked it, it probably wasn't intentional but Takimiya's story being so underbaked makes it even funnier, that last "fuck you" for her at the end is a very Akashi kind of humour.

Best case scenario, they find each other and Asumi realizes she can't throw away the life she built with Nanao for a childhood crush that she wasn't even really aware of, and they become friends instead and Mai finds her own girlfriend.

I still think this would make the most sense, first and foremost because it would be funny and this is a comedy manga :P If after however many chapters it turns out that they'd rather just go their separate ways, that's pretty humorous to me. But I think it's hard to predict anything because I also don't get the impression that any of this was planned out.

last edited at Jan 29, 2024 10:22AM

OH IT WAS HER THE WHOLE TIME but like what is the point of that, it was a nice story even without this massive coincidence

PS: there's no such thing as "Standard" English. It's not French (and plenty of French people make fun of the Académie Française anyway).

When I was taught English at school (as a foreign language) it was "officially" British English, at least according to curriculum, not sure if that's common around the world. But realistically it also didn't matter in 99% of cases :P

last edited at Jan 12, 2024 9:59AM

she's got some preconceived notions about oni (i refuse to call the ogres)

get out of my swamp

They silently swapped Yuzu for another character to save the series but hey it's working

It's really confusing to read if you don't realize that the white-haired girl from the first page of the first chapter isn't actually Aki, because the further in the story you get, the less sense that makes :P

The british English was really thick on this chapter. I wish they'd use normal standard English.

... you made me reread the chapter and I honestly couldn't notice anything but I'm neither British nor American :P Which parts sound British?

last edited at Jan 8, 2024 5:34AM

okay I'm glad this is just the name of a place, not something else I was totally not thinking of

It's even funnier that in the bonus for Doughnuts (which I don't think is on the site) there was actually some (very light) teasing about Subaru x Fuuka, while here the author went in the other direction where it's arguably more believable lol

last edited at Jan 2, 2024 10:37AM

Seems... kinda disjointed and spastic so far, but we'll see how it goes I guess :P

I always want to be "this isn't an airport, you don't have to announce your departure." Can't people keep that sentence to themselves, at the very least?

Personally I'm way more bothered by people telling others what should or shouldn't be said on a discussion forum.

I'm sad it appears to end but at the same glad that it means we won't get back to vore again :P
Probably more sad though.

I'm not sure what I expected from the present reveal, but given the fact that the author bothered to hide it from us initially, I was expecting something more interesting than just some random (and apparently expensive) perfume :P

The story is super weird, it clearly doesn't take itself too seriously but simultaneously tries to make some kind of serious point, the classic "can robots feel" etc, but it's super jarring that the most deranged character tries to tell us something meaningful about making your own choices and free will and shit :P I'm honestly not sure how I feel about it so far.

Since the issue with the dad (the other one :P) is more or less still not addressed, I'm going to assume Wen is somehow connected to it, but we'll see :P So far I have faith in the author.

Also, the moral of the story so far - if you think there is something missing in your life, check your phone case. (But seriously, that puzzle piece analogy felt just a bit too on the nose :P I'll let it slide though, the story so far is pretty good).

last edited at Dec 4, 2023 12:00PM