Xian jun always knows how to give me butterflies in my stomach and get my blood pumping with all this tension

Erika remains the most interesting character in the series. She reminds me of Saeki Sayaka in many ways but less repressed, probably due to being an adult. So far she's doing everything right, and incredibly enough her wish on the tanabata seems to have created the story as we're seeing it today.

People are trying to find a villain to blame here, but neither Erika or Koto are really bad people. The title "how to break a triangle" is extremely apt here, because that's exactly what Aya's disappearance did to both of them. Koto was in love with Aya, and recieved a positive response from Aya too, and then she disappeared. What should have been a typical high school romance stagnated and froze in place.

There's no way of knowing if Aya and Koto would have even been happy together, for all we know they would have broken up within a couple months. But because Aya disappeared that those feelings sat and stagnated for 7 years, and became very twisted as a result. I don't think it's really accurate to say that Koto loves Aya, more like she loved Aya, and without any outlet for those feelings this entire time, it's become more of an obsession or dependency issue.

I don't know if it was really correct but I do think Aya coming back is kinda the best way to force Koto to process and get over those stagnant feelings, although it will likely be at the cost of Aya being really miserable due to her unavoidable circumstances. Compared to Koto I think Erika has done a much better job processing her feelings towards Aya and Koto, although her love for Koto has been in stasis, I don't think it's necessarily gone sour in the same way Koto's feelings seem to have gone.

queer people are fun

deradicalization arc?

Agreed with the other commenters that this is a really unique premise and I enjoyed it a lot

Quite nice overall, though I'm surprised the fish she shares an aquarium with are so blasé about her eating their kin, especially as the whale grieved for its friend.

I mean to be fair a lot of the fish eat other fish. And many will display cannibalistic tendencies too, different value system. Although between different species of fish its like calling cows "human's kin" haha

Full support for lesbian marriage fueled revolutionaries

im very curious what direction asumi-chan is going. Things are kinda happening in the way i assumed they would logically, but i didnt expect this to actually be the way it happened, unless the point of this is that asumi and mai are gonna meet once, and then mai is gonna get sent to tokyo as a way to progress that side of things while also drawing things out more?

idk about this direction, i do feel like introducing nanao, while positive in the short term, kinda went too far and is detracting from the entire idea of the lesbian brothel escapades the story was built around. Its kinda interesting though because asumi still doesnt seem like she really has fallen for nanao, or at least she hasnt fallen enough to stop caring about mai, even when literally nestled in nanaos boobs lol.

Yeah no Yamada is definitely the more mature of the two by this point, and has been for a while let's be honest. That is some insane amounts of irresistibly cute fluff though, well played Takashima-sensei.

profile picture matches how I imagine the tone of this message is. I agree though, I've been annoyed by this series for so long but every time they get all fluffy and make up I get sucked right back in

If they mutually liked each other then how did she become a cupid? I thought only people who had never gotten to experience love were chosen right?

Koharu never actually comes to the conclusion that she was in love with Aki, what she did realize was that she wanted to fall in love but hadn't. Which by my understanding is the more important pre-requisite to becoming a cupid.

makes sense, thanks!

between the ad chapters and stuff like that one lipstick commercial about reincarnated lesbians it seems like yuri really does sell (at least for beauty products lol)

If they mutually liked each other then how did she become a cupid? I thought only people who had never gotten to experience love were chosen right?

we went from "everything i said about wanting to be a girl was a lie" to "i feel like ive grown as a person" pretty quickly

Jiang is so down bad it's crazy

Glowing mirror and talking reflection makes me think Fantasy or Supernatural more than Historical

Historical is because it's set in the 1920s

Indeed. But I wasn't expecting magic, spirits and cursed mirrors! That development caught me completely by surprise, heh.

I thought this was going to be like Couple of Mirrors. Know what I mean? A realistic drama set in the 1920s, with a yuri love story between the wife of a cheating rich man and a lowly commoner girl—the main difference being that in CoM the commoner girl was a thief and in this manhua I expected her to be a cabaret singer. It appears I was slightly off beam on some details. :P

I don't know if I would change the tagging, tho. On one hand, adding a tag like "Magic" or "Supernatural" seems reasonable. On the other hand it would totally spoil the big surprise... so maybe leaving it like this is a good idea.

This story is like if couple of mirrors was actually about mirrors

bigoted JK exorcist and surprise male rival bartender, things are heating up

i can hear the voice "the sengoku era... I mean it's yuri isn't it?"

People gotta let go of their preconceptions about the author. This manga is significantly different -- and imo better -- than any of her previous serializations. I'm really enjoying it so far and I highly encourage even people who dislike Kodama Naoko's previous work to give it a chance.

Agreed, so far this is really compelling, and so much more grounded than anything else I've read from her so far, besides maybe the marrying my female best friend manga.

what a cliffhanger lol looks like a more cosplay-y pride parade set up

What were the events that led to this? (I'm wholly unfamiliar with the source material)

I'm not sure if this fanartist might have their own ongoing story between these three, but Raiden Ei is known to disappear into a pocket dimension and let her puppet rule the country in her place for years at a time in the game.

Ei became depressed after a massive disaster killed her twin sister and most of friends five hundred years before the start of the game. She created a puppet to rule in her place while she hid in her pocket dimension. She has only begun interacting with the world again after the protagonist defeated her.

Wow, that sure ups the angst. Thanks!

yeah even in game miko (the pink haired fox spirit) was very unhappy at Ei basically ghosting her for half a millenia

Oh dear, a new princess is on the scene to cause problems

Alright, i didnt skip the chapter when i saw it just because i was asked by the author

Compared to their last one shot, Wanna Sip?, this one doesn't feel quite as snappy. However the characters and plot development are still very well done and enjoyable, really looking forward to seeing this author continue to put out one shots, and hopefully a series in the future!

For all that this is marketed as a comedy, this series is actually is shaping up to be pretty interesting palace intrigue. The Empress Dowager as the obvious villain, but I have to wonder about Yu Dingdang's family. Her habit of hiding her smarts and playing the emperor could mean either she developed the skills to survive in her family, or more interestingly could mean that her own family has some shadowy plans which she may be a willing part of.

I feel I know what Sarah is doing. She probably could only pull off petrifying everyone, and is trying to force the princess to kill her so she could make her take back the royal sword. But damn.

my guess was that she was a snake princess impersonator, but your idea actually makes more sense. She definitely doesn't want to see Natalia in danger ever again, so she probably thinks it would be easier if Natalia just killed her to regain the sword, and no longer suffer physically from all the fighting.