I'm 55 years old. I have never slapped anybody out of shock/surprise in my life. It's completely foreign to my way of thinking. I can't imagine doing so in that context unless I thought the other person was a genuine threat to my physical well-being.

So when I see Ruriko slap Kurumi, I don't think "Wow, Ruriko must have been really pushed to her limit." I think "Wow, Ruriko really needs to work on her impulse control." Which is probably not the reaction the mangaka was hoping to provoke.

Fight/flight/fawn/freeze; everyone has a different response to shock/danger. There isn’t going to be a 100% common response to an unexpected stimuli for humans. We just aren’t all built the same.

No chapter today, should be a new chapter tomorrow. Blame Elon.

So. I've seen folks on MD arguing over what kind of punishment Maxwell deserves.
Any ideas?
I say put him in a volcano. Not deep enough that he'd fall into magma and die, but deep enough for the conditions would be unbearable. And then just leave him literally hanging there. Forever.

Yeah, I think Maxwell going through the end that Wendell experienced in "The Dark Massacre of the Vengeful Hero" would be pretty fitting. Chapter 47-49 if you're curious. Essentially experience every death, abuse, and method of violence that he perpetrated on others over and over again

Wait, so Spice and Wolf is getting a new anime??? Interesting choice.

Artist has started going back through and doing full color edits of the series. She's done 3 chapters already.

(even though it'd probably spell the end of the manga?).

I'm not so sure about that. Other flags have been raised for future focuses in the story already. I don't think this manga is ending before we get the side drama resolved, the foreshadowed character from the Cultural Festival arc properly introduced, and the mains coming out to their families only to be surprised they already knew.

We're at least getting through Nanjou's graduation and her pairing with Sensei. And not sure how much Nagisa will have to "come out" to her family. Her cousin seems to be confidently out. But yeah, their families are probably already at least somewhat aware. Mashiro's dad was even telling Nagisa that Mashiro was upset that she didn't comment on her hair style during her sleepover.

besides that, hopefully there is more fun school events and interesting couple building exercises for the main couple to enjoy alongside their friends, without too much of the useless drama this genre relies upon getting in their way along their journey.

Agreed, I want to see more of them being the hot couple on campus like during the cultural festival.

Weird, haven't seen that anywhere else. I follow the artist on twitter and haven't seen anything to indicate a change either....interesting.

Maybe it’s not just Prez being nice though. Maybe her imperfection is she’s using Riri’s feelings for her?

Either it’s because she likes the attention and affection she’s being showered with and that’s why she’s letting it happen even if she knows she’ll never reciprocate.

I think she just doesn't want to hurt her anymore. Nanjou's told Riri "no" multiple times now and it hasn't gotten through or turned her off. Could also just be that she thought she'd just put up with it until graduation and she wouldn't have to see her anymore.

I mean Nurse likes her back but she doesn’t know that for sure and Nurse has to push her away. It’s probably only until graduation but Prez has no guarantee of Nurses feelings.

After the shrine visit in Chapter 30, I think Nanjou is at least somewhat confident that Sensei likes her back, so no reason to try and make her jealous.

We see multiple instances where Nanjou looks uncomfortable with what's going on, but she puts on a friendly face so as to not hurt Riri. I think she just doesn't know what else she can say or do that what just crush Riri. It's difficult to hurt someone you thought of as a friend.

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Ticcy becoming a Sailor Moon fan artist isn't something I knew I needed. More please!

You can download five audio samples at that DL site. All are Sayaka x Asumi scenes. Some are textual dialogue bits from ch.17.1 while others are bonus scenes.

But I don't get something. ASMR is supposed to make you relax, right? How the hell is anyone supposed to relax while listening to the sound of Sayaka and Asumi smooching and kissing and moaning in erotic voices while they tell us in detail what they are doing to each other's bodies?

They aren't all for relaxing. There are different genres of ASMR recordings. There's definitely a market for x-rated recordings out there.

Well, that's one way forward, I guess, although she really could have kept joining her in cosplaying as well. They could do a lot more as a pair, and there would be much less arguing about money.

And nice almost kiss there. ^_^

I think this was a good choice for her at this time. Before the event, she was pushing herself really hard to get to a size she thought she needed to be to cosplay (and fit in her cosplays). This way, she can stay with Hinata and enjoy the community in a way that isn’t bad for her health. And she may find over time that she can break that mental barrier about being a certain size or weight to still enjoy cosplaying. Or she may not. She may come to really enjoy the photography and costume design. But what’s important is she made the decision that she wanted and makes her happy.

Chapter 23.3
Maxwell is Laplace's dad? What?
Also the artist and author really got a way of expressing the characters' emotions. I could almost feel Tanya's emotions there on the last several pages

Yup! If it stays true to the LN, get ready for even more incel hate coming to the comments. While volume 2 wasn’t as fun, it certainly had its moments.

DomeKano is kind of just regular, bit raunchy soap opera, with an extra-stupid ending.

Problem with Japan are things like less than less than pointless censorship (it's even ran private business, and that business will butter up politicians to keep it that way), and attempts to always pretend relationships aren't often based on sexual intimacy first and other factors coming in play later. Leading to some weird stuff like "pure yuri", almost-but-not-quite homosexual "girlships" or Class S.

That's why DomeKano may seem out place, but it really is the contextual reality that is so twisted around it that it makes it stand out. Lot of that weirdness is also foreign import from a more puritan era, that Japan hasn't shaken off.

My point was more addressing the sexual and erotic nature of the show and that this wouldn’t be any worse than that show was or even on the same level. I mean it starts the episode 1 with them having sex. The difference would obviously be that it’s Yuri, but there’s been explicit Yuri shows before. In fact, it wouldn’t be hard to not show the full graphic scenes if that was an issue.

Oh boy another yuri manga jam-packed with drama where all the characters are pos. Can't wait for the inevitable anime adaption lol

Shall I be so lucky!! I'd love to watch this shitshow in anime version.

Amen!
But I kinda doubt that they will take to tv something so sexual and erotic as this manga.

Where to start? There are already some really fucked up manga that were adapted as anime. Honestly, this story would look pretty regular next to Redo Healer or something gross like that.

There's even a very explicit yuri-service anime out there, Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid. I guess the upcoming Looking Up to Magical Girls will go somewhat in that group.

Only difference is that if this was to be adapted, it would at least treat sex and same-sex attraction with some respect (which is why I found ch. 17 off-putting), and not be just focused on revenge rape and torture, or just having boring, badly set up fanservice scene after another.

Seven Mortal Sins anyone? Just a straight up H-anime but censored as hell. Ayakashi Triangle also got censored too, even though it’s mostly fan service. There are definitely series out there that are more explicit than this. Oh, can’t forget Domestic Girlfriend, pretty certain that series had some not so safe scenes.

I dunno, after this chapter, I would not call Ayaka's feelings for Hiroko "love" anymore. Admiration, projection, identification, desire to emulate, they can all feel like love but they are inherently unequal and romantic love usually needs to be equitable.

Really, I don't buy this. It sounds more like it comes from pleasant but semi-bogus self-help stuff than from real people. Real stuff is messy.

I am sorry I did not manage to get my point across -- I was stressed and didn't have the time to review my post, particularly the second sentence, so I ended up writing something trite. What I intended to convey was that Ayaka idolizes Hiroko because the latter represents what she wants to be professionally. At least, that is how her interest in her started out in the flashback. Ayaka has a deeply-seated insecurity about herself, presumably a anxiety about failure, and latches onto a person who she perceives as perfect, oblivious to the fact that she has only ever seen one of Hiroko's facets, her persona at work. She calls it love and even the manga's title says that, but romantic love in the way I have experienced it is rooted a desire to be with someone, not to be that someone (if your or anyone's experience has been different, I am sorry I cannot say much about it). My point is that Ayaka is chasing a false idol without seeing the shitty person behind it with whom she can actually fall in love.

Ehhhh, this isn’t what I got from this at all. Hiroko’s work ethic and how she’s able to be so kind and cheerful peeked her interest, but I do not get her wanting to BE Hiroko, just learn more about her. That’s what is going to be her drive to come in everyday. Dressing up, making her lunch, everything was an attempt to get her attention. She didn’t copy her and Ayaka already has recognized work ethic and performance.

I always felt deep intimate friendship + sexual desire = romantic love. I've been "yelled at" several times, for that belief, in the story comment sections. However I honestly can't think of any other way to define it.

I will say, sexual desire isn’t necessary for romantic love and romantic love isn’t necessary to feel sexual desire for someone. They are separate things and while they are often intertwined that is not always the case.

[...]Saying people don't have the "balls" to write polyamory is like saying people don't have the "balls" to write stories about accountancy, or keeping reptiles as pets. Both of those happen now and then, but there will never be a revolution after which they achieve their rightful place with just as much stuff written about them as about sports or crime.

There should totally be more stories about accountants. The shit we get up to up to something else! /s

But seriously, my tax professor had some of the craziest stories ever about his time representing clients in Las Vegas.

I kept expecting this to be a dream sequence…

^ I can see where you're coming from

I will say, I liked how you roasted that one guy in the comments of one of the chapters tho.

Yeah, they’ve now resorted to changing the events of the story to victim blame girls that got drugged. Just batshit crazy. And you can’t actually argue with them since they have no intention of doing so in good faith. Doesn’t matter how many times you tell them that every plot point is based on real life headlines, they’ll just call it a feminist agenda

The comments section on MD for this series just reinforces a lot of the themes of this series for me. To the point I’m just avoiding them now.

I don't get why Riri keeps trying to win the prez's love. The prez was clear when she told Riri she likes the nurse. And from the extra we know that the nurse loves the prez. Riri has 0% chance.

I think the only way she can finally give up would be seeing the prez and nurse kissing while hugging.
Ami is an adorable and funny girl. I'm sure they will eventually end up together but I wonder how.

Who knows. We aren't always rational when it comes to love. And while we know that the nurse loves the prez, I doubt Riri knows that. Her thought process may be that the nurse will turn the prez down after graduation. It may very well take seeing them together for her to finally process and accept it. Or maybe Uda's presence and comfort will be that spark. Time will tell.

no chapter this week. https://twitter.com/agu_knzm/status/1639850719082868738?s=20

These what seeds!?

It's a thing: rapeseed, (Brassica napus, variety napus), also called rape or colza, plant of the mustard family (Brassicaceae) grown for its seeds, which yield canola, or rapeseed, oil.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/plant/rapeseed-plant