^I think the left arm is out the sleeve, and the bottom of the shirt is resting on her shoulder

may I assume that something is going to happen to her life once she turns 18? Is it something to do with arranged marriage?

Based on the content of the chapter, mostly likely she's just trying to "catch up" to her sister. Her sister ran away for love at 18, Asako wants to at least understand love by 18.

Maybe she'll burst into flames if she's not married by next Friday. The gods are truly cruel.

Which I think regardless of there being real magic or not, this girl is having sex with someone that she believes can not consent to her. She is by her own definition and logic a rapist. I think the whole chapter and situation is really creepy and gross, it's deeply uncomfortable.

Yes, that is what I meant. Sometimes these stories gloss over what intent means and how a magical "oh I wasn't actually under mind control, so it's ok!?" doesn't absolve the original intent of the characters. She's very aware of what she thinks she's doing and did. That's more than enough.

Exactly, it's really strange and uncomfortable how media doesn't seem to properly grasp what consent is in various cases like this.

one of the main problems this series has is how little gravity it gives to really extreme stuff, like this girl literally using mind control to rape another girl. like she's pretty distraught over it sure but also not .. really? it all feels kind of glossed over. there"s a lot you can do with visual presentation to depict how awful the situation is, with panel layouts, shading, perspective, etc but none of that is used effectively. anyway it'll be interesting to see how this all gets wrapped up

Yuuup, the tone is very weird here. The rape element is definitely glossed over, and not well handled.

Props to Karin. Mei's indecisiveness should get more of the girls to explore each other. Karin can't stop being best girl for me.

That's lame and defeats the point of the manga. Why have the girls date each other when the point of the manga is they are attracted to Mei because of one of the 5 senses. If any character activates that attraction than the manga's entire plot is thrown out

I personally like it when characters in media have more dimensions and are capable of being attracted to more than one person. I'm not one to focus on realism generally speaking, but that's how life works. They're a group of lesbian women that are sexually expressive and open. Having characters purely revolve around the MC tends to feel shallow with most any media, so I'm glad that the girls are interacting with each other and have more to do outside of the MC.

So I don't think it defeats the premise of the series, especially if the MC dates only one of the women in this group, I want the others to find happiness and their own partners. If they all end up together I want them to be able to enjoy each other's company as a group.

Ultimately one of those things I'm pretty sure we're going have to simply agree to disagree on though. Which is fine, and I'm mostly here for the ride of seeing where the author takes everything.

^Good to know, thanks

I think it's too early for the dubious consent tag. But I guess if we interpret the word literally, it is "dubious" that Kana is loving her of her own volition.

At this point it's not clear to me that magic is causing Kana to love her. The tag makes me think I'm getting spoilers from someone who knows something about future developments.

My guess is "the twist" is that magic isn't the reason Kana loves her, despite the foreshadowing from her dad's worries and the thoughts of the MC and theater senpai.

Does that matter if the character thinks they've mind controlled the person in the moment?

And

^Does what matter? If it's about consent, see my first sentence. By literal definition, it is dubious regardless of whether I like the tag here or not.

If you're referring to Kana not being in love because of magic, it matters insofar as this is now the primary conflict of this manga. It remains to be seen whether the author is able to conceive a way to realistically convince the MC that her thinking is wrong. Or of course whether this development happens at all.

I could be wrong, how I'm seeing things though is that SrNevik is asking if it matters if there's actual magic or not.

Which I think regardless of there being real magic or not, this girl is having sex with someone that she believes can not consent to her. She is by her own definition and logic a rapist. I think the whole chapter and situation is really creepy and gross, it's deeply uncomfortable.

Wait, simp-girl is an orc? That's surprising.

Unless it's a reference to some vampire lore I don't recognize.

MC thought she was due to her strength, but she's actually human. There's this page,

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/am_i_about_to_join_a_kill_or_be_killed_love_triangle_ch03#10

Where she's offended that the MC thought she was an orc

I read that the other way around actually. The right and middle speech bubbles of the middle panel are the MC (they're both pointing at her) and it's simp girl yelling the burst bubble on the left. The "Well you're pretty strong for a human!" is prob in reference to MC being able to pull that stake out of vampire's chest with a flick of her wrist.

But i can see how it could be read either way

Oh interesting, yeah that's kind of confusing how it can be read both ways haha

^Yeah it's strange, I guess we'll see how it goes as you're saying

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@DrJamesFox I was seeing some Tweet examples of types and letters being messed up, and some discussion on Reddit also. So I wonder if they fixed the subs?

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And Whisper Me a Love Song: not done yet, but despite the production issues, a wonderful show that goes full yuri.

Well that's a yuri to begin with. And it had to be mention that the anime skipped several Hima/Yori dates and most importantly, the summer festival part with the first kiss.

Lmao are you serious?! They actually skipped that?! I gave up watching bc it was a terrible adaptation but I can't believe they'd skip something as important as that.

Whisper Me a Love Song is the manga.
The anime is Whimper Me a Lug Sound.

They make that part in a manga voiceover on youtube

Sadly though the fact remains that it was cut out of the anime. Voicing the manga on Youtube is a consolation prize for a butchered anime adaption.

Wait, simp-girl is an orc? That's surprising.

Unless it's a reference to some vampire lore I don't recognize.

MC thought she was due to her strength, but she's actually human. There's this page,

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/am_i_about_to_join_a_kill_or_be_killed_love_triangle_ch03#10

Where she's offended that the MC thought she was an orc

@DrJamesFox: Well uh bad news here. The fansubs are machine translated, and I've been reading that the Crunchyroll subs are AI translated from the company providing the anime to Crunchyroll.

https://x.com/hareshianime/status/1810005667866120425?s=46&t=wZTZt0XWMj6XVQJ6LWvcdg - Here's someone talking about it, I'm surprised there's not more people discussing it...and not more of an issue being taken with this on Crunchyroll.

This just further confirms I need an orgy by the end

If Angel was expelled because she falls for another angel who happens to have the same gender as her...
Wait, that doesn't make any sense.
Shouldn't angels genderless..?
But if I'm Haruka, I wanted to help Angel to find her own place. Or that, if there's anything I could do so Angel San can go back to wherever Angel san belongs to..
Angel san, what should I do to send you back to where you are?

I think an angel's gender can be whatever the author wants it to be, in this case she's a woman. The creator of a story doesn't have to follow any specific example when it comes to fiction, especially when it comes to fictional beings.

Also I believe the point is that Angel found her own slice of heaven, and she doesn't want to be anywhere else. She doesn't want to go back to a place of prejudice and hate. She found a place where she's loved, so there's no need to worry about the "how to" of sending her back.

^Just gotta be careful lol

"You've really changed a little"? Did they go to school together at one point or something?

I was also not entirely sure what to make of that line, but I think she's saying our leading girl has loosened up a bit since her 1st day? Now she's fitting in a bit more.

Yeah she's made a very noticeable leap from not even being able to talk to speaking full sentences now.

So Ema is a delinquent yet pious exorcist who's family lives with a vampire...that sure is an interesting combination. She also whips herself and learns how to wrap bandages from a mummy.

Kinda feels like the author is throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks.

I think the self-flagellation makes sense with her being this follower of god. As for the mummy teaching her and her living with the vampire, I think this chapter gives me a good idea that she's actually wanting to kill the vampire because it's the vampire's desire to die. The family element paints a picture of coexistence, and her having deep attachment to the vampire since she was born. So I don't think it's actually as random as it might appear. I could be wrong, but I think we're going to get some interesting backstory elements in future chapters, and the author explaining more of where the characters really come from.

I've been caught up on the manga since before the anime was announced, but man, I'm finally watching the anime now that Blu-Rays (with the least possible censorship) are out and it is still so hilarious and hot at the same time that I almost regret not following the anime threads from other sites to see the reactions and throw a shitpost of my own here or there

Yeah the anime had some interesting reactions, a wide variety. So while you might have missed some fun reactions, you also missed the headache reactions as well haha

when i first started the anime, i thought it was gonna be ecchi trash that i would gain no enjoyment from, but then something weird happened, it made a joke and i laughed, it got ecchi again, but after the ecchi left i laughed again, while i don't like the echhi if it was removed i genually think this could be up there as a great twist on magical girl tropes while paying ohmage to it and also having some fun yuri.

Well it's good that you enjoyed some aspects of the series and humor. Though I think the sexual exploration elements are important to the core themes and narrative of the story, which is also what fuels the powers and power ups. So even with those sexual pieces to the series I'd say it's an impactful entry. Though it's also fair and understandable if you're not into the sexual side of the series.

"You've really changed a little"? Did they go to school together at one point or something?

I was also not entirely sure what to make of that line, but I think she's saying our leading girl has loosened up a bit since her 1st day? Now she's fitting in a bit more.

Kudos to Wakaba for keeping her verbal reactions to the minimum.

Poor Matsuri, though. Not sure if ai was used or not, but if so...... oh, doomed yuri.

Something I've been wondering, if the "I hate you" with the main couple means I love you, does Matsuri's "I love you" mean I hate you?

Ooh, I hadn’t thought of that, but that’s actually a really cool idea. Making Matsuri a toxic, two-faced types who mask their hatred with false affection would be such a twist, especially with how highly Wakaba seems to think of her. I’m not actually sure that’s the direction the story’s going to go in, but it’d be so good if they did.

Yee exactly, I'm glad you get where I'm coming from. It would add some interesting spice, and yet another layer to these complicated feelings where lies blanket their true emotions. I do worry about it being painful and uncomfortable, but it would be an interesting direction for the narrative themes.

Maybe my mind is too Shuukura saturated but I don't think the story will stray far from the 2 lead characters. I suspect she'll just be used as a way to advance their relationship similar to how she was this chapter.

I think it's kind of a coin flip for me right now, you could definitely be right, but I think the other side is the possibility of that warped Hate & Love sandwich with various reflective parallels.

Kudos to Wakaba for keeping her verbal reactions to the minimum.

Poor Matsuri, though. Not sure if ai was used or not, but if so...... oh, doomed yuri.

It makes me feel better to imagine Matsuri is representing the bane of yuri readers: the old "just gals being pals and super affectionate". Think of her as Reina or Kumiko or someone like that.

With how warped feelings and words are in this series, I'm expecting something more twisted. I could be wrong, but I'm definitely curious to see where the author intends to go with all of the characters

I just hope it doesn't get really depressing or dark heh

Kudos to Wakaba for keeping her verbal reactions to the minimum.

Poor Matsuri, though. Not sure if ai was used or not, but if so...... oh, doomed yuri.

Something I've been wondering, if the "I hate you" with the main couple means I love you, does Matsuri's "I love you" mean I hate you?

It's shaping up to be a fun little gag manga but I wonder if there's too much going on with the whole school being full of various types of semi humans.

I think the demi human school background just adds for some fun extra flavor, possibilities for the future, but all the series arguably needs to focus on is fleshing out the wacky rom-com insanity of our 4 person group. So it should be fine as long it doesn't get super sidetracked with pulling in new characters in future chapters. Guess we'll see.

^It's a required morning ritual

If I read the words "I hate you" just one more time in this series imma stop reading

Well I guess we'll probably see you for 1 more chapter lmao

Yeah since that's pretty much the "free space" on this manga's next chapter bingo card.

Maybe it'll help if you just mentally substitute the "I hate you" with "I love you", since that's more or less what they really mean when they say it.

Exactly, if there's one thing that's for certain with this manga it's them saying "I hate you", probably as they kiss. I'm honestly not even sure if we'll ever get a proper "I love you" between the two leads with this lol

"I hate you!"
"I hate you more!"
they fuck

If anyone ever walks in on them they're going to be more confused than anything