I was scared they were gonna drag out the confession again, but Shiho finally did it! Now the story can finally move forward lol. I don't mind Shiho and enjoyed this arc, but I do think it's been dragged for a bit too long. I also think there were plenty of fluffy chapters with HimaYori to satiate the fans of them, but it probably just doesn't feel like much because of the wait between chapters.

Honestly sometimes I didn't like the HimaYori chapters in between because that only meant the Shiho arc was gonna be dragged out for at least another month longer xD

Yeah I also hope it doesn't rewind to all the way before their confession and stuff. Like what was great about it all was that Yvonne fucked up, but they were able to talk it out and make progress together. If they go back in time and Evie "fixes" things on easy mode, it's practically another Elsa and a completely new relationship.

Lmfao after getting past all the dramatic stuff from the previous chapters, I'm really liking how this is developing so far. Makino still remaining shamelessly scummy is so entertaining. Seeing her mental process going back and forth on what she's thinking is so fun.

Thanks for the batch upload! This series definitely benefits from a binge read since the individual chapters themselves are really really short and often end abruptly or without anything having happened. So reading 5 chapters at once helped with the frustration I usually get when reading an update for this series lol.

sooooo comfy. i love how natural the whole realization to confession was. it reflected how Miyako naturally fit in her life already. i hope the story continues well into their relationship!

ITT: inability to separate reality and fiction
Expected nothing less (or rather more) from this userbase

I know right, I wish people would just learn to love every single aspect of every single piece of fiction they mindlessly consume.

In that same font, we should also allow for the ability to be gross/problematic characters in queer fiction as there are gross/problematic queer people irl too.

I think most people's problem with it is more how the grooming situation was handled than it simply existing (well at least that is how it is for me). This is fiction, but this story constantly brings up many real life issues relating to the LGBT community so having them kinda "tee-hee" away the whole Karen situation isn't very palatable. They acknowledge how wrong it is with the "that's illegal" statement and Aya warning Marika about Karen, but it was portrayed as something to brush off. The overall situation was painted in a comedic light with the whole bar watching the 2 while they are discussing this with smiles on their faces so it was just...weird.

I think the main problem with this series is it doesn't know whether it wants to be mindless porn or a commentary on LGBT matters. If the whole thing isn't really meant to be taken seriously, which from the beginning was a ridiculous premise, then I don't think there would be much issue with the problematic content. But the story offers actual meaningful discussions on real life matters so it makes it hard to "separate fiction from reality" sometimes.

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I KNEW Kana wasn't as innocent as she seemed! She's totally the top.

Super, super cute chapter.

Hmmm hints of Naori having special powers????

Good for you Nanao! So proud that she was able to confess and pretty quickly too!

Woo-hoo Shion character growth! And more Shion x Mona moments! Great chapter

Yay! I really liked the development of this chapter! Glad it did end up with the just starting over as friends route. Looking forward to seeing how their interactions will be like now.

ha, it is very interesting that while we now know who Speranza was a clone of, the android Liberta also sure looks remarkably similar to Madoka at least to me. Wonder if that will be a thing or if I'm reading into it too much.

No, I also get the impression that Speranza is the clone of the Doctor, and Liberta has somehow inherited Madoka's personality, if not her memories.

Lol I was just thinking the Doctor/Speranza obviously has a type xD

Also, the kiss was unexpected because i thought will stay ambiguos

Even if there was no kiss, there was absolutely no way their relationship was ambiguous

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Imitatio uses NTR!

It was not very effective...

Lots of plot development this ch. Didn't expect to get a 3some this quickly and def was not expecting police role play. Loved the ch. Thank you author

Aww supportive momma. Love how she figured it out fairly quickly. Another display of it being obvious to everyone but our idiot couple xD

Well not surprising this is how it ended up developing, but we'll see how it goes lol. I was cheering and pleasantly surprised when I read the "true friend" part and then groaned at the "lovers" page right after. I liked Makino's realization of being just a customer and Maron treating their relationship like a job though.

Girl is single handedly solving Japan's overfishing problem.

This is way better than hanahaki disease. Never liked that trope.

So I was like okay, the fish and vomiting are probably a representation of being gay, and the story wasn't "what the fuck" for me, until the smelts flew into the air and kissed along with them. My jaw dropped wide open.

Same that was the only true wtf part of this story lmfao

Cute cute cuteeee. Loved the flow of this chapter. The comparisons to smelling a scene through photography was beautiful

"BECAUSE YOU CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH LESBIANS!"

I love you hijiki

Edit: I got curious about that werewolf story from the extras so I checked it out and wtf was not expecting it to be a werewolf game type story about virginity lmfao

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I think new "loli" is Mai's mom? They see to have the same hair color....edit: wait nvm I went back to look again and her hair color is closer to Yuki's friend so prob one of the big sisters she mentioned?

Lol welp I shoulda stuck with my first guess, but that's cool they have different hair colors. Don't see enough of that in manga lol. Blue hair was totally not what I was expecting though.

I actually am starting to enjoy Yuki as a character since it's kinda refreshing to see a character that is openly into Tae vs Mai who is always written as an enigma. I'm also starting to cheer for Yuki instead since she provides a storyline that enables it (cheering for the underdog), but it's a weird spot in the story since she has 0 chances and has greatly taken focus away from the main dynamic. So overall I'm unsure how to feel about this arc. Since there's like 0 chances for Yuki, feels pretty pointless and unnecessary to just use her character to make Tae and Mai closer. It's like I rather just read more about Tae and Mai with the old format then.

I think new "loli" is Mai's mom? They see to have the same hair color....edit: wait nvm I went back to look again and her hair color is closer to Yuki's friend so prob one of the big sisters she mentioned?

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I finally watched the first episode of MagiReco and I personally thought the filler they added was pretty boring.

I (who read a few chapters before) watched it with my gf (who didn't read it before) and we both did agree that the first ep was pretty slow. I don't think it's necessarily filler, but it wasn't very interesting material since we were just waiting for something to happen.

But I also understood why they put the "beginning" of the story at the end of episode 1 because if they went into the talk with the king and stuff after, it'd feel like a very very weird episode 1 so I don't blame how they structured ep 1. They needed something to hook viewers to watch more than 1 episode so that is the hook.

Even though ep 1 is boring, I can see more people sticking it out and then getting intrigued to continue onto episode 2 vs if they watched an info dumpy episode 1 that ends with Euphie moving in with Anis. And yeah my gf did want to watch another episode after watching so it worked lol. (I also showed her some of the manga chapters that took place after ep 1 since she was curious and she agreed it'd be weird for that to be in ep 1)

Poor Miko who became the victim of the personality swap lol, but it's ok! Being fake dumb is the bigger iq move anyway xD

Seriously one of the best stories of bullying redemption arcs I've ever read. Love how they portray Ruri's conflicting feelings and also how her feelings are never ignored or belittled.

Akiyama Haru loves her slow burn and the first 5 chapters of het would not have been that dragged out if she knew it was ending in only 2 volumes. We only got 1 chapter from Tsuzuki's pov which I'm sure we would have gotten a couple more of if it had continued longer. I think the fact that it doesn't feel axed to you is a testament to Akiyama's writing skill.

You are assuming that she meant for this to be a slow burn because Octave was. But like....there are also several one shots on her resume. Not every story from an author is necessarily planned to be the same length. Her other series are 3 and 4 volumes long. Octave is her longest work by a big margin, I think it's easy to argue that it's not necessarily representative.

And again, how would this be longer without fundamentally changing the characters? I'm just not seeing it.

I answered the how it could be longer in this response where I also acknowledged that it probably wouldn't be as long as Octave was even if it continued further.

I think we just have to agree to disagree on whether we believe it was cut short or not. I think it's pretty rare in general for authors to publicly acknowledge their story was axed and most of the time we readers can only rely on how the pacing of the story feels to us. I know there's a lot of series where the the ending is rushed because the author wrote themselves into a corner, or they were just done with it or they had planned on a short story from the start so I understand how you feel when people throw the "axed" comment on everything, but I just don't feel that for this series. The pacing and tone from the chapters before the announcement to after the announcement was just too different and unusual from the pacing I'm familiar with of her other works (aside from Octave).

https://twitter.com/_akiyamaharu/status/1574969638495977472?t=V9iIUt6MVSTRa6tAAL3Fkw&s=19

https://twitter.com/_akiyamaharu/status/1574969640572227586?t=TE5ZPTX9d6jiHbb5CwPX-A&s=19

Based on her announcement on twitter (through machine translate) it reads like she wanted to continue on longer. I don't think she would word it like wanting to focus on writing the end so she won't need to write more and writing it so the readers would have been happy to have read it if it wasnt cut shorter than planned.

Yeah, I went back and read them. I don't see how you're getting that at all. Some of the fans say they wanted to continue longer, and she responds with pretty generic "thank you" messages, but that doesn't say anything about how she feels. She says she hopes to create a good manuscript and that she hopes everybody likes the story. She estimates how long it will take to write the ending. There's nothing about the language in either of those tweets that suggests she had to cut it short.

I got the impression of axed from her tweets since it kinda read to me like "It's gonna end soon even though I know the story just started so I'm gonna do my best to complete all the plot lines in these last 3 chapters." That's my interpretation of it. You had a different one and that's cool too.

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