Huh, not sure what any of this means. Was the mark always there? Considering that the one on Micchi just suddenly appeared it might have been triggered by something? Also its curious to see that in the dream Micchi was the one seeking out Aizawa rather than the other way around, so more than Aizawa possessing her, it seems more like Micchi bound the ghost to her person unconsciously. I wonder if there's any significance to the fact that she was aged down to elementary school age where she was less careful about not interacting with ghosts?

Nice to see Hinoka's side of the entire thing, they both really are badly in love with each other...

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING. Blessed be the Yuri gods for making Yvonne see the light

I love the disaster that is Minami and have great sympathy for Hinori in having to deal with all that. Also this talk with Tsubasa might make it so that finally everybody (but Yuzu) knows about Minami's feelings.
With the manga not being released super often I think it is just the gap that makes people forget about character names, looking back at the last chapter now I also think that Tsubasa's suspicion is not completely without base, looking at the first couple of pages of chapter 6

I just love Oosawa's facial expressions in this chapter

I don't think there'll be a threesome, neither Nanao nor Asumi are ready for it and the manga seems to clearly want to keep Senpai out of Asumi's harem.
But I can certainly see Senpai trying to push Nanao and Asumi towards each other

Sadge. As others have said, both Umi and Shou have some learning to do, hope they can do it together

Drama aside, that smug face Xiaoen has when grabbing the "buns" in the extras is just pure gold

Btw, is Joe a “common” foreign name given in Japan? It’s starting to make me think Mitsuki is mixed race (even if just a quarter).

I'd imagine Joe is a nickname rather than uncle's actual name. Maybe his name is something like Josuke or similar and his friends shortened it. I imagine translator put it as Joe since it is written in Katakana (script usually used for non-Japanese words), but the Japanese itself is just "Jo" with a long "o" so we don't really know for sure if its said as a shorthand or if it's actually referring to the English name "Joe".

The intimacy…! The casual hand that reaches out with an earbud….! The shimmering energy of undisclosed love…!

The degree of familiarity these two already have is honestly healing, can understand why the 3 adults felt moved :D

Bit weird tbh, not sure how I feel about these last two chapters

Just reread this story and damn, still hits as hard as the first time I read it. I think on my first read I didn't really appreciate just how mentally broken Kiyoko was from a very early point onward, that girl would've needed some serious therapy tbh

Uh, Aizawa-san is scary now. Could there be something like ghosts becoming more and more malicious and less and less human the longer they stay around? Because in some ways it looks like even Aizawa herself is shocked at what happened.

Mitsuki still being the smoothest idiot ever I see. No matter any ambivalent wording about "crush" or "oshi", I think that last scene very clearly showed how Aya is still crushing on Mitsuki and who can blame her?

Where the other two always parts of the Saaya & Sakura extended cinematic universe or only recent additions?

It's been said before that this manhua is very cinematic and I honestly feel like it would make such a good movie. If I was rich I'd totally fund that :D

Okay, the chapter is cute and all, but where can I get that mug?

ChikyuuNeko posted:

Psychologically, this feeling is likely caused by Xingyuan's own past where she's been made to feel like an outsider due to her "abnormal" sexuality, so this mode of living has become permanent for her, making it hard to perceive herself as anything but a permanent outsider even if the people around her seem keen on making her a part of their community (as Mr Wang does) or when her "impure" feelings towards a girl are actually (rather transparently) reciprocated.

So to cut a long story short, whilst a homophobic environment certainly seems to be the root cause for Xingyuan's insecurities, this story isn't a simple "I like this girl, oh no that's bad I shouldn't do that" story but rather a story about the psychological impact of homophobia. It's about a girl who through no fault of her own was cut off from her roots, most evident in being literally cut off from her family and whose now drifting about without a sense of belonging, alienated not only from the world around her but ultimately from herself as well.

So it's not about how psychological damage caused by homophobia affects you, but rather a story exploring how psychological damage caused by homophobia affects you. Did I got that right?

There's a difference between "oh no I'm gay, everybody is gonna hate me when they find out" and "being mistreated for being gay has caused me to dissociate from the world and I don't know how to engage in basic human relations anymore". But yes, that is also damage caused by homophobia

Good chapter, really feeling Xingyuan's confusion not only about being attracted to girls in general but violently attracted to this one girl in particular. I'd say that besides the traumatic experiences with homophobia it is also this feeling of being a stranger in Mu Xiaoen's world that's causing her pain. We can see this in Xingyuan's reactions to seeing Xiaoen in the nail studio or with her supposed cousin and the kids, Xingyuan very carefully observes Xiaoen's close interaction with everybody and in one chapter even comments that "this is her world", sort of implying that she herself is but a stranger there.

Xingyuan's experiences with homophobia might add to this by making her feel unable to enter Xiaoen's world due to her "impure" intentions, but ultimately it is a sense of distance to a person that she's become immediately enraptured by which causes her pain, she see's Xiaoen's world but fails to see that there could be a place in it for her or that Xiaoen would even want to have her in it. Psychologically, this feeling is likely caused by Xingyuan's own past where she's been made to feel like an outsider due to her "abnormal" sexuality, so this mode of living has become permanent for her, making it hard to perceive herself as anything but a permanent outsider even if the people around her seem keen on making her a part of their community (as Mr Wang does) or when her "impure" feelings towards a girl are actually (rather transparently) reciprocated. Xingyuan feels hurt by seeing Xiaoen not just because of her repressed sexuality, but also (and I'd argue primarily) because seeing her move so smoothly through her own world makes Xingyuan feel all the more removed from it, she's awkward and uncomfortable with this world, she doesn't know or trust it and yet she still desires the person seemingly at its core, making her feel guilty and inadequate, further increasing the sense of distance to a person she wants to be close to.

So to cut a long story short, whilst a homophobic environment certainly seems to be the root cause for Xingyuan's insecurities, this story isn't a simple "I like this girl, oh no that's bad I shouldn't do that" story but rather a story about the psychological impact of homophobia. It's about a girl who through no fault of her own was cut off from her roots, most evident in being literally cut off from her family and whose now drifting about without a sense of belonging, alienated not only from the world around her but ultimately from herself as well. Someone like Xiaoen, who seems so in touch with her roots and in charge of her own world is thus almost a foil for Xingyuan, making her incredibly alluring and incredibly frightening at the same time.

In the end, this is why Xiaoen proactively seeking out Xingyuan is so important, Xiaoen is literally pulling her into her world, trying hard to show her that she's welcome as she is. It will take time for Xingyuan to learn to accept this (and thus to also learn to accept herself as part of that world) and will likely also involve a necessary breaking down of Xingyuan's seeming idolisation of Xiaoen by exposing her past and showing that she's not just Xingyuan's foil, but an independent human being on her own.
I can of course not guarantee that this is how the story will actually go, but I look forward to it nonetheless :)

So everybody x everybody confirmed?

So confirmed for no yuri? Lookin' cute so far tho, and I do like this mangaka's work a lot =w=

it's tagged as GL on dex at least, and most of Yadokawa's works are yuri so i'm not worried. and "girl meets girl" feels like a romance tag word to me as well, dunno if that's a common interpretation of that though

I'd guess it isn't Yuri yet but with the way this story is set up eventual Yuri seems very likely

With the thing about Evie being easily possessed I expect that this should lead into an arc exploring the "villainess" more and maybe giving them some idea about why Evie struggles so much with the system and just generally being made to do things she doesn't want to do. Could this be a reason why time-travel Elsa wanted them to arrive safely at the orphanage, expecting that meeting the demon princess and Dahlia would facilitate that process?

Hato x Ruri vibes off the charts this chapter. Love the facial expressions :D

Lol, Tsukushi and Hinako both just completely bluescreening in the end after being put together. Nice work indeed, though I feel like these idiots will need a couple more pushes like these before figuring things out

Nice. Good way to get past Xingyuan's fear is for Xiaoen to pursue her. I like that. Yunduo's reaction though feels a little ominous.

Yunduo is "picking up the sapphic vibes" if you will, and maybe she even understands the feeling as well...

Yeah I definitely get the impression that she caught on to the interest. It seems to only be Sixi that's not catching onto how obvious it is.

I also thought she caught the sapphic vibes, but her reaction is very neutral so I'm not sure if she's supportive yet, hence why I thought it was a ominous. But only a little ominous.

I also felt like it was ominous in the beginning, but Yunduo laughing at Sixi's continued obliviousness seems to suggest to me that she's not opposed in principle. I suspect that her looking serious was mostly due to putting together the puzzle pieces and being surprised at Xiaoen suddenly taking romantic interest in somebody, as her being single is apparently some kind of running gag in the town. So I'd say her looking a bit serious is because she realises that for Xiaoen, this is indeed a serious development and her agreeing to rent the room to Xingyuan as well as laughing at Sixi suggests to me that she's going to be supportive