AnimexObsession posted:

God I really am loving this. I don't really see how they would ever end up together for real... But I'll just leave that over to author-san

It feels like Komaki doesn't actually dislike Hishikawa. In fact she seems like she like her stubbornness and enjoy playing straight woman to her antics. Once Hishikawa realizes she can be honest with her feelings toward Komaki I can totally see them hooking together.

I think for me the line that best captures Komaki's attitude so far is chapter 1, page 15: "I'm glad you're having fun, but you really are the worst." She sincerely means both halves of that sentence: she cares about Hishikawa's happiness and is at least a little bit entertained by her idiocy, but she also fully realizes just how unreasonable and inappropriate Hishikawa is being and wants her to find a better way to approach relationships.

This is starting to remind me a little bit of The Real Her, with the MC trying to mold her overenthusiastic admirer into the kind of person she wants to be with.

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Arisa's smug expression on page 2 is the best.

I think we missed the number 98 and 99

Some pages in each chapter of this are for Patreon subscribers only. You can probably guess what's in 'em.

The panel right below it is a Kaiji reference, but I think that's just supposed to be a "creepily over-detailed" face.

Also page 90 has Medusa doing the Will Smith "look at this" meme.

I think the upper panel is a reference to Kakegurui and the lower one is Kaiji; the joke is that they're both gambling manga with very distinctive and very different visual styles. (And the former has some preeeetty heavy yuri subtext in places.)

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I like the art, I'll look forward to the next chapters

But I do think the mangaka is going for a comedic approach rather than a rapey approach

I think the biggest thing that makes it work as comedy without being too unsettling is how completely unconcerned Komaki is with the whole situation; no matter how far out of line Hishikawa gets, she's never more than mildly annoyed. It gives the sense that Komaki's willing to indulge her friend a little and is still able to set boundaries on how far things go.

If there's ever going to be a real relationship between the two, I really don't know how it's going to get there from here. But I'm kinda curious to find out.

At least Shuri isn't cheating on anyone and has good intentions underneath all the insanity... kinda.

Well, its Mira. Happily Ever After Yuri is her shtick. This one has overt rape, but plenty of her works in the past have been kinda rapey....

I can usually deal with Mira's work okay, but for some reason this one bothered me. It's partly the way Asami's internal monologue gets all victim-blamey, but there's also something off about how abruptly the ending resolves everything.

This was just fucking dumb. Also, even hentai sites have the common decency to tag something as rape even if the girl "likes" it by the end of it.

I dunno, I got the impression all the characters are just weird violent people with weird violent sex lives, who live in a world where there's an implicit understanding that whatever you're physically capable of doing to someone is okay. I guess you could argue that it might as well be tagged, because people who avoid stuff where there's consent issues are probably gonna want to stay away from this one...

...but also, I feel like it's kind of a moot point, because if the rest of the tags didn't scare you away, is that really gonna be the one that makes the difference?

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"Dyspnea: Difficult or labored breathing; shortness of breath. Dyspnea is a sign of serious disease of the airway, lungs, or heart. The onset of dyspnea should not be ignored; it is reason to seek medical attention." For those who were wondering.
To be honest my first thought was Xeroderma Pigmentosa when the sun stuff was said but they're being a bit too carefree imo for it to be that. Yeah it was in the evening but still.

The latest chapter specifically says she's "allergic to sunlight", which is a pretty reasonable description of solar urticaria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_urticaria

It's believed to be an allergic reaction to unidentified compounds that are produced in the body by reactions with sunlight. It would have to be an extreme case if it's severe enough that she has trouble breathing when she has a reaction, but it's possible.

I wonder what Sensei is "wrong" about. Why Aki dislikes the rain, maybe? Doesn't seem like there's much else it could be.

"Toudou cut her hair short because she's pregnant"

Is this a Japanese thing? I don't get why someone would do that

Short hair is easier to look after, and won't get in the way as much if you're likely to be throwing up a lot.

...A Cat shape shifting Vampire? Ok then

Carmilla was depicted as being able to turn into a panther-like creature in order to feed, so lesbian vampire cats are an idea with a long history, at least.

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This was their first meeting in 12 years or so? It could be another 12 or never again. After her realization, Midori could change. Azusa may cheat for the thrill with different people, but I think for Midori it is only because its Azusa.

I don't know. I think that even if Midori walks away, Azusa will find a way to "just happen" to run into her again. She seems like that sort of person.

Awesome start into the weekend. <3

@LilyBlack I'm glad to read that it can work and that it worked out. I think if it doesn't work out it can develop into a pretty bad situation. I uesd to be interested in a friend, as well. Didn't even tell her, though, because she had a boyfriend and was very into stable relationships. It took me really long to get over her. And for some time I didn't have any contact with her, which really helped. But now I can be normal friends with her, at least.

I'm just glad that Qui Tong never had a male love interest and Sun Ling would be very jealous and so on. Because then it could easily be interpreted that QT just kissed SJ, because she didn't want to lose her as a friend. With the kiss how it actually went, it leaves nothing but a sweet aftertaste.^^

Oh, sure. Like I said, I wouldn't recommend it, because there are a lot of ways it can go wrong. But if you reach a point where you can't "just be friends" with someone while ignoring your own attraction to them... well, at that point the friendship is already at risk no matter what, and it's probably better to be honest about it. ("Honest" doesn't have to mean "pushy", of course, and SJ definitely crossed the line into pushy sometimes.)

For what it's worth, SJ did at least acknowledge she overreacted about the guy at the party, and I give her some credit for that. I'd give her more credit if she apologized properly, but it's something.

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I kind of think this would have been a stronger story if QT didn't end up returning her feelings. From the start it seemed to me that SJ aggressively pursued QT while QT clearly wasn't interested. Am I just a downer? Normally I'm all for the main couple, but I see my friends irl try to do what SJ did over and over again and it never ends well.

(putting this outside of spoiler tags now that the relevant content is on Dynasty)

On an intellectual level I want to agree with you, but, well... a similar set of circumstances is how I ended up with my current girlfriend. We'd been friends for a while, she made a pass at me, I shot her down for various reasons, she accepted it and didn't directly make another move but made it clear she was still interested and flirted sometimes, I eventually decided it'd be fun to start flirting back, and things escalated from there. So while it's not something I'd recommend (and honestly, things were pretty weird between us for a while until we sorted out just what our relationship was), I guess I can't say that something like this can never work out.

I agree with those who are glad QT was the one who actually initiated the kiss in the end, though. I think in a situation like that it's important for the one being pursued to be allowed to make the next move, if it gets made at all.

The main character comes across as kind of a pretentious dork, but the writing seems aware that she's a pretentious dork, which makes her paradoxically endearing. I'm interested enough to see how this goes.

It's an interesting relationship dynamic. Yukari is nominally "in charge", but Akira seems to be the one who physically initiates everything.

The implication is that they get back together in the end because that's all Emi wants despite everything, she's too weak to what's best for her. Did I interpret wrongly? So when people write it's good because it's realistic that automatically translates to people accepting that cheating and getting back with cheaters is good and realistic. It might be good for the cheater, sure, but no one else. Trust is destroyed and there's always the possibility of cheater doing it again because he/she was already taken back once so why not again?

Then again english is not my native language so I might be losing something in translation.

People who like it are saying that it's a good story, not necessarily a good outcome for the characters.

And in fairness, Mayu didn't actually cheat on anyone. She broke up with Emi before getting together with random dude, and then she broke up with random dude before going back to Emi. You could say she's still flighty and unreliable, and it's probably a bad idea for Emi to take her back even though she obviously will anyway, but she hasn't actually betrayed anyone. She's just kinda bad at relationships.

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This is a vampire series and you're all here salty towards them being "murderer"...people read too much fairytales..

Well, there are different kinds of vampire series for different tastes.

It is pretty interesting to contrast it with the other vampire yuri series being scanlated at the moment, Seifuku no Vampiress Lord. That series actively steers away from every possible source of drama and angst as soon as it comes into view, remaining a light-hearted comedy where being a vampire is honestly kind of a sweet deal and doesn't have to involve doing serious harm to anybody.

Meanwhile, in Vampire-chan x Junior-chan, both the vampire and the bride are subject to a combination of biological necessity and chemical mind control to lock them into a codependent dynamic that'll inevitably kill the bride within a year, after which the vampire has to find a new bride and do the same thing all over again, with no way to break the cycle as long as the vampire exists. It's a bleak, hopeless situation for everyone involved, and I'm honestly half expecting Iris to attempt suicide at some point now that she knows just how bad things are.

Super serious question here: What's the in-universe reason why Iris always sexually teases Sara as much as possible when she sucks her blood? Is she doing it just to get off, or is it somehow a critical aspect of the blood sucking process?

Well, the reason is that it's vampire yuri, but you asked for an in-universe reason, so...

The story does mention early on that bloodsucking has an aphrodisiac effect. It seems like Papiliodaemons use arousal as a way to keep their brides compliant. From the examples we've seen so far, it usually works pretty well, too.

Don't forget the story also hints something's up with Ayafuji
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/vampire_chan_junior_chan_ch01#49

That mysterious hint is just a mess, isn't? She's lost everything and gained one thing but then she loses all again, so is that in total still having lost everything and nothing gained or has she now gained something different so the total is not quite everything lost but only almost all?

... kidding aside, I hate that sort of blunt foreshadowing. Hint at stuff, not come right out with a message from the future that's so vague it's meaningless anyway!

My best guess at the moment is that the "one thing" is Iris's love. Sara's dying in a year, so she's "lost everything", but they're together. If that's what it means, then the next step is for her to lose Iris somehow.

WHAT THE FLYING AYAFUJI. There i thought iris was gonna go into chrysalis and ayafuji's gonna have to painfully continue living and watching iris grow up again but holy takano saku pulled a fast one on us

I still think it could end that way. Given how this kind of story usually goes, Sara probably has better odds of making it to the end alive and intact than Iris does.

Why not take the money and share it with her? So now instead of both being rich and in love, both are poor and in love, sounds like an awful deal~

Iris said that the money is compensation for being fed on by a monster. If Sara accepted it after that, it'd amount to saying that she sees Iris as a monster. Or at least that's the way she's probably thinking of it.

It's an interesting change of pace to see a Homura Subaru work that isn't all-out porn.