Aocchi, you sure you don't want any?

...ouch. This chapter is some quality Nene content.
(Also Naru's Dad confirmed ninja.)

I haven't seen anyone else even noticing that line, and I think it's one of the most clever ones in the whole series.

I was thinking "hey, there's a relatively popular foxgirl manga that just started a few months back" and was about to recommend it then remembered it's not yuri.

I'm more curious where in the story someone could possibly get the impression that everything is virtual.

To be more precise, after posting a comic parodying/criticizing the trope where both characters clearly want to have sex but find some reason to refuse to do so, what they specifically said was:

"You can't just have them having sex constantly, but as someone who wants them to do it, I feel like it's a gigantic waste to end the series right as they do it. So I really want them to do it more during the story, but looking at it from the author's point of view, it's not that easy to do."

They're also self aware about it, openly stating their own series is affected by "the curse," and pretty actively discussed the topic with the people that replied. Even stating that they wanted to have them do it at a certain point, but after consulting with some people on it (people which they made clear weren't the editor) was told they shouldn't.

Interesting note: the author has posted that they have always hated that kind of lack-of-progress in relationships in stories, but after making their own manga now understands why it can be necessary.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/its_tough_being_neeko_ch03#18

She's reading "Bright and cheery amnesia"!
Well even if there isn't any yuri in this series at least Neeko is a yuri fan.

She's not reading it because it's yuri. She's reading it because it's comic Cune, the magazine her own series is published in, which just happens to also be where Amnesia is published. That's just the cover of last month's issue. And while it is a fairly yuri-strong magazine, it also runs a number of straight romance series. The pile of magazines behind her is topped with the maiden issue from over two years ago. Which as I recall had an original cover by the author of Hinako Note.

Based on the author's comment, the comic she is in the process of reading seems to just be the first doujinshi the author ever made. Solely for the purpose of a joke. Though I can't find it anywhere to check. (Pretty much every doujinshi the author has ever done is straight porn, so if that bothers you, be careful.)

There were two chapters published that month. How can you be sure it was 69 and not 70?

I don't know why. There's absolutely nothing special about--

Oh. It's solely because it's the number 69, isn't it?

The final boss demon lord himself is only like level 80 as I recall, and stat gains per-level in RPGs, especially for enemy monsters, tend to get exponentially larger as level increases.

I don't think it's really all that farfetched.

I feel like Momiji's reaction this chapter is less about having a crush on Aoba and more about considering her a rival, thus not wanting to show weakness in front of her.

And apparrently not being able to pick her own clothes is a weakness she doesn't want Aoba to know about.

I don't really understand why so many people seem to think THIS is going too far, after everyone cheered on the prologue chapter of volume 6 as much as they did.

There's a reason I found it odd that some people only thought it started getting dark later on after it started going into how fragile monster lives are.

Aki was on the verge of a total breakdown right in chapter 1.

re future content what tells you hotaru was meeting Catherine? Hotaru says "Sore chōdo ima kai tete" - just draw it right now, or something like that. What does that scene tell us??

I get it, that's the drawing Kou found, and it was someone talking TO Hotaru

That's not what that means. It means "This is what I'm working on right now."

She's pulling the same stuff Hazuki always pulls.

Well, Hazuki is more about worshipping their beauty and trying to act tempting and submissive. This one is going to make Kou "her dog", she is clearly more dominant and the way she's portrayed is rather ominous.

Hazuki can be pretty aggressive, too. She likes to see how much she can get away with (see the maid chapter). But they know Hazuki better and are more comfortable with ignoring or outright refusing her.

Kou doesn't quite have a reading on Catherine, though, so she can't be sure if it's okay to respond in the same way.

The dog talk was pretty much entirely work-related, though. And the actual flirtatious stuff was done with a much lighter attitude. (See Christina talking about her sister way back at the start of volume 6 for a bit more on that)

The thing is Kou seemed to flutter a lot under Catherine advance. If this is a new manga, it would have a gayer opening than many Yuri one.

Never thought about it, but it now seems to be obvious. Kou definitely seems to be the more submissive type

Kou had also just met Catherine a few hours earlier, and Catherine will both her boss and her landlord for the forseeable future, and she's in a culture completely different to her own, so Kou not being sure how to respond is understandable. She could be worried about offending or angering Catherine if she pushes Catherine away like she would have Hazuki.

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I don't know what it is about Japanese that makes people so anal-retentive about romanizations. I've never seen students of Chinese Korean or Hindi or Farsi argue that things must be romanized a specific way. And most of those languages are impossible to pronounce romanized words without having at least a cursory understanding of the language's pronunciation rules.

But then it comes to Japanese and it is only ever acceptable to do it a single way, and that single way must maximize readability for English speakers. (Though anyone experienced in the Japanese language that has heard people without much knowledge of it try to pronounce words romanized in that supposedly most readable romanization can tell you that's total bullshit and the words are still all pronounced completely wrong.)

PS: That's how they officially write the title.

So did Hotarun stay at Christina's sister's place when she was in France?

Signs point to probably. See link below for spoilers why.

https://i.imgur.com/zs2lnGw.png

Also, some french typos if translators come around

As far as I am aware, we left the French exactly as it was written in the original. Outside of re-typesetting it to fit the English in and because it was written sideways (and partially in Japanese):

(Edit: On a closer look, it appears someone made some typos with the diacritics somewhere along the line.)

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I like how Nako can barely hold in her laughter when Kawai answers Bocchi and not Aru.

I'm pretty sure he did that on purpose, because this DOES seem kind of like a "series suddenly got cancelled" final chapter. And he likes trolling.

Pretty sure she just finds it embarrassing to kiss someone in general and thinks that it should be something special that only couples in love should do, instead of doing it solely because it's useful.

Combining that outlook on kissing with her statement in this chapter that she doesn't dislike kissing Haruko leads to some interesting interpretations.

The chapter seems kind of like a sudden tie up ending to the series but no, it's still going strong. It consistently runs at the front of the magazine, placing it in good company next to New Game, A-channel, and Hidamari Sketch. It's actually one of the very few series always at the front of the magazine that hasn't had an anime adaptation.

Next volume should be out in 2-3 months.

You should probably double-check the translation before you start trying to analyze word usage like that.

Also re: that post from 4chan, this incident didn't really expose anything industry-wide like that. In fact, all of that stuff about production committee makeup, division of profits, and wages in the anime industry has been a relatively hot topic on the internet in Japan for months now, following a tv program that had a segment about the anime industry and showed a bunch of charts and graphs with all the details.

When I say "rumors" I don't mean just people coming up with arbitrary explanations, but fairly well-researched and reasoned theories.

With nothing beyond vague comments from those actually involved, though, it's impossible to judge.

Edit: and normally I would agree that a lot of the claims sound dubious, but among the people I see supporting and helping spread these claims there are a number of big names from the anime and manga industry.

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I've seen a number of people say things about meeting Hotaru in France, but Hotaru has been back in Japan since the New Year's chapter. Nearly a year in the story.

There are a number of theories flying around the internet in Japan that there were actually darker motives behind the situation.

I'm not sure how much I believe any of them, but even the companies involved in the collaboration campaigns are starting to distance themselves from things.

I'm not sure the gardener analogy is apt.

Maybe if you didn't give a shit about your garden, and hired some random person and let them do whatever they want with it. And what they did ended up turning into a world-famous attraction. And now that it's famous, you suddenly decide to force that person to do things in a certain way, completely different from what they had been doing all along.

Sure, you've got the right to do so, but it's also understandable to call it a bit unreasonable.

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