I think the transition from fantasy to reality is very subtly conveyed in a way I can get behind. We definitely start parasocial, but when she starts becoming dissatisfied with the fantasty and more interested in and curious about the real person she's delivering to... ionno. That the ex-idol is dressing up for her as an idol and isn't showing up as honestly as she was at the start is honestly coming across as more parasocial to me - because she's recreating the environment that they started in believing that's what the delivery girl really wants from her.

Ionno y'all I thought it was cute. It's a shame it's a oneshot. I kinda feel like you could easily write a whole story about this kind of thing.

I agree with you there, it feels like they were both somewhat conscious about walking the line of parasocial vs seeing the human behind the role. when the delivery girl says "i love the micchu that keeps secrets, but i want to know more about saotome-san" its absolutely intentional that she uses her idol vs real name. And i think it represents a step beyond the parasocial, and sets the stage for them meeting irl as equals. Even if the way they got there was kinda rocky.

So the tables have turned. It was once the "child" pursuing the "adult" but now the adult is taking the initiative here. They're still up against a lot of issues though, but I'm confident that if Shi Xingyuan is willing to reach out to her team that they can figure something out together.

realest panel of all time

the sapphic urge to write characters bleeding out and experiencing immense physical pain and trauma

I wonder what the true deal is with this witch. My guess is that she's a demonic Elsa from a different timeline, who wanted to go back and save her past self in a different timeline, and then found out about Evie and Elsa, and decided to protect/watch over them. Although (assuming this is the same one as we have already seen) her usage of wind magic suggests she was already with Yvonne and maybe she died in her timeline

I highly recommend the webcomic “program me” its a bdsm romcom that actually has (mostly) good consent taking between the two

So I literally just binge read the whole thing in one go after reading ur comment and I gotta say, that was REALLY good. I double recommend

program me has ruined my sense of humor, i think about shit like the personal pit of carnal lust so often

Also i think this character dynamic is fascinating. Yes the older woman did mastrubate over the other girl while they were both drunk, but she seems to realize that was bad and felt genuinely horrible over it. Its an interesting reversal of character type. The younger “innocent” one actually seems like shes dragging the older “veteren” one into a really messy relationship. Kinda a reverse corruption almost

Lol I am here for the train wreck and f up characters but why does every BDSM stuff have to be raped?? That's not even what BDSM is about. I just want a cool BDSM manga where they discuss before hand -,-

I highly recommend the webcomic “program me” its a bdsm romcom that actually has (mostly) good consent taking between the two

this is the ideal isn't it? My favorite part of this newest chapter (besides all the space facts) was the one panel of yu grabbing shizuka's stomach. The way it was drawn felt so intimate and natural, in a way that erotic manga often lacks. And the same can be said of the very nearly realistic trans yu agenda ofc but thats not new.

Our two lasses will get to have a climactic confrontation after trying to save the fair tents perhaps? Wind rippling through their hair and creating plenty of cinematic moments (i hope lol)

Im glad that even for a sex manga we still get the knight heron classic japanese factoids

This chapter feels like an entirely different story

also yeah cool flex to do a tl/redraw of the whole ass title page, ur my favorite up and coming scan group

This magazine is smart to tap into the (mostly ignored) demographic of closeted trans women who read a lot of shounen manga lol

setting aside whether the thing going on between these three was a "true" love triangle or not, I will say grabbing one of the characters and tossing them forward through the space time continuum is definitely a good way to break it

Also can I just say that old woman boob yuri is so bespoke, I hope she has some new yuri manga ideas because I love her wacky romcom style

Thank you Konbu Wakame, it's been an honor.

this is all real, i was the older sister

Hiroko lives in a mid century yuri subtext tragedy, Ayaka lives in a 2010s romcom manga. This is a yuri multiverse thing. Change the fate of the shoujo tragic heroine through gumption and grit.

Literally a chaste kiss on the lips as a goodbye and ending before the protagonist goes off to their literal or metaphorical queer death is such a like, 1950s shoujo novel thing to do, oh my god

Oof ouch owie my peaches

its a race to the bottom in terms of likeability for these two organizations lol. Hopefully our cohort of cool alt-girl secret agents, the regular gay high schooler, and her priest dad, can all work together to idk save the day or some shit

Gina on her way to radically alter church doctrine through the power of love and staggering social capital

Welcome to gay catholicism

"man i really wanna draw a hyper detailed picture of a coin laundromat... but no one cares about washing machines :/"

"Oh! lemme add some yuri to this image, that way people will care"

all my favorite manhuas are having their child arc right now

There seem to be quite a few actually existing groups who are poor and oppressed, who nonetheless manage to emphasize community solidarity, restorative justice and stuff instead of fear and brutal punishment.

FWIW, we've jumped in at the "punishment" end of the pool; it could be that people are doing other things too, but Hibai brought Benika here, not to Refugee School.

But yeah, it'd be harder to build community if the refugees are from lots of different places, with different cultures.

I think the key here that we learned in this chapter is that this security force is essentially an arm of Babylon. The fact that the vigilantes are organized through a secretive top down government organization, who's main solution to problems is overwhelming violence, makes the violent nature of the vigilantes more understandable.

If the refugees themselves were able to organize their own forms of community as opposed to being told whats right by an organization like Babylon then maybe we could have seen something different, but we didn't.

I'm curious to see what the church's influence means in the refugee camp, presumably they have their own organizations which have different methods and goals, although they seem to be walking down the path of militarization and violence as well.

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