[...] she still probably isn't consciously aware of it

Certainly if you also read the added web novel context notes.

Welp, as long as her Schwarzschild radius remains bounded by the dimensions of her body, we'll still have a story to enjoy. :-)

I wish they hadn't done the "eat the messed food" bit. It's so... old and tired and done to death.

For real, I wish they hadn't used such a silly (un)dead horse trope in a yuri manga that I like. There's no need to go there, dangit: Elsa is already head over heels for Evie and this for a long list of very good motives that have nothing to do with the old tired clichés of shounen romcom.

I went on a picnic for my 6 year anniversary with my girlfriend. Cooked food and everything. Some of the food got messed up in transport and she did something similar. It still made me smile and think how much I love her. So yes, it’s a trope, but it’s a good one, IMO, cause it happens and people can relate.

This chapter teaches us another important life lesson about relationships: it takes two to tango. Elsa did her best to protagonize the heck out of their date, but in the end, it was up to Evie to carry it to success, and all it took was just to reach out and to take a bite. You cannot make a date or a relationship work all on your own... but you can make it as easy for the other person as you can, and if they simply choose to reach out to you, everything will snap into place.

So no, I didn't find this scene trope-y or trite. Tropes are just tools, and this was the right tool at the right time, with Evie fully committing to making her relationship with Elsa work (even though, dense as she is, she still probably isn't consciously aware of it).

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"If I was an oil baron I'd book her for 24 hours a day and make her sleep for 8 of them..."

Oh Makino-chan, you darling, precious, adorable dork, you... that's called marriage.

Based.

That daily salary though

That's about $80, isn't it?

The reality is that the store owner would have just gave them the paint for free if they had just asked her.

It's confirmed then: the pandemic was created in a lab by the kuchisake-onna so they could roam the streets in masks without anyone noticing.

I knew what I was getting into when I saw the return of the Depressing as fuck tag, but even still, my only comprehensive reaction to this chapter is still "What the hell, yo."

A power couple in the making. :3

Does that stupid heart badge that marks Elsa as "available for services" count as an article of her clothes?

Wholesome + NSFW, nice. Is it really still just NSFW, though? Looks more like Lots of sex to me...

Just Kase being thirsty AF again.

I like how Kase said don't make that face like she didn't go crazy dealing with the Flower Prince.

Indeed. When Kase gets jealous, she becomes aggressively possessive, while Yamada just turns into a hurt puppy. One is much easier to deal with via concise communication than the other...

"Do I make you feel... uncomfortable?"

Gee, what gave that away? Swallow has only been locking up completely whenever you were in her line of sight for, like, five chapters in a row.

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But what if it was Sawara who bullied Ayako from the start? After all, she obviously has no qualms breaking into her locker, and Ayako's stolen shoes were dumped right in front of where she usually read.

I really hope Koishikawa realizes that this is an obvious trap, retracts her hand, and get the eff out of there. Nothing good has ever come from those rings, ever (not unless Shy was there to invert his powers, and even then she only turned "evil" into "sad").

This chapter is cute and all, but Hikari's freakout when strangers come in and wreck her stuff with their "help" was big mood for me.

Ah, yes, the "boyfriend". Rrright. Poor mom is never gonna see any grandchildren at this rate...

Adoption counts. Or at least, adoption should count. Counts in my book, at any rate.

It wouldn't if oneesan gets disowned, which I wouldn't put past her parents, given how they treat her sister...

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Sakurako is such a good soul: even while literally dying of thirst, she still remembers to double-check for consent.

Ah, yes, the "boyfriend". Rrright. Poor mom is never gonna see any grandchildren at this rate...

Would be funny if older sis was also a scumbag but just way better at faking it

Neesan has lots more experience, obvs.

"The Gift of the Magi" isn't centered around sacrifice but on the gesture to a heartfelt gift to their loved one. This story as the tag says is a parody, both the bird and the rose just want to give the other something heartfelt. Only Rosie has read the book and she understands that Christmas is an occasion to give a gift to their loved ones and she uses her own Roses to make a coronet. Birdie on the other hand just wanted to show Rosie a glimpse of world she is able to see.

The two stories aren't based on mutual sacrifice, but the feelings one has on the other.

While I disagree with your interpretation of O. Henry's themes, I haven't really noticed Birdie's "gift" in the first reading of the story. After rereading it, I realized that the gifts were indeed, mutual, though I still think that quoting O. Henry was a tad gratuitous...

Guys, I assure you that this series is more wholesome than you think it is. Don't let the steam get the better of ya.

That's the cue I was waiting for, thank you. Like Purple Library Guy, I have been thoroughly weirded out by the series' presentation of Swallow's intense discomfort as something romantic and cute, but you seem to say that said discomfort isn't actual traumatic stress, so I will read on to see for myself if that is correct. :-)

I am not sure how this one is supposed to work? O. Henry's original short story works because both people sacrifice their most valuable possession to buy a gift for the other, and both gifts turn out to be (immediately) useless because they are supposed to complement said sold possessions. In this case, only Rose is concerned with making a good gift, and instead of sacrificing her possessions, she instead plucks some other flowers. She then gifts the resulting flower crown to Birdie, who can just accept it since she didn't even think of giving Rose a gift, let alone sacrifice her head/hair/wings/whatever for it.

So what is even the point of quoting "The Gift of the Magi", other than to sound Deep As Fuck™?

Corollary to the law of uselessness: If uselessness in one part of the couple decreases without the addition of new useless lesbians, uselessness increases in the other.

Ah, the law of universal conservation of lesbian uselessness, as derived from Noether's theorem and the thirst translational symmetry within a bounded yuri volume.

So the Lady elopes with her Maid, huh. Not with a suitor, or a foreign prince, her maid.

Who recommended this book, again?

Elsa is playing a very long game here. Which is funny, since this is exactly what a player character in an otoge should do: choose her romance option and raise as many event flags with her as she can...

I think you mean roommate

My brain: Dont dare say it

Me: OMG THEYRE ROOMATES

My brain: Dammit!

Now Im thinking of spider roommate yuri, your fault

I've created a monster. :'D

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You know a story has great characters when every new character that appears, every one, instantly makes the readers change their otp ship to mc x new character. ¯⧵_( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯

It has already happened with Ena, with Izumi, with Serina, with Nao...

It's still Serina x Asumi for me, though. That mad top energy is hard to dislodge. :P

I cannot help but admire Hinako's earnest wish for death.

I can. Get a grip, girl. Your parents would want you to live. You've got a friend who would give her tails to help you live. You'll never forget your family, you'll always mourn them, but there's plenty worth living for and your family would want you to find it.

When you’re in the hole like she is, that’s only going to come off as platitudes, unfortunately. Convincing someone in that headspace of a nebulous “something” worth staying miserable for is a hard sell

And yet that is exactly what proper psychotherapy does. If only such a thing existed in the magical land of Japan...