Hmm this developed in a more quiet and less dramatic way than expected from last chapter, much to Xiaoyang's chagrin. Yundao's been a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to her advice and intentions, hopefully the next chapter goes well?

I looked up that song Bodys and it's pretty good, with lyrics that directly imply this is The Moment. It's a romantic song that talks about not wasting time not getting together assuming we have forever, which is particularly relevant given what's happening with Joe. Also lyrics about holding each other until we forget we can't talk, which feel very apt for Mitsuki and Aya.

The way some people talk in here you'd think we had a scene of Erika slapping a label on Aya's forehead that says "To Antarctica" and then shoving her in a mailbox.

While I don't share the specific problem the general thing in chapter 3 of doctors basically treating you like an idiot who needs to super justify every little thing and every curiosity the doctor has regardless of relevance to convince them to do their jobs is super relatable. I guess doctors being assholes like that is more universal than I would have liked to think. :(
At least when Kazuki went into the OR they didn't come face to face with a dozen medical students staring at their exposed body. One horrific invasion I experienced last time I needed a surgery that they thankfully didn't. Wonder if it's less common in other countries, or if they might even do the sane thing and require patient consent before letting in a bunch of kids to be an audience in your most vulnerable moments
(And that's before we get to the "audience participation" that is very common in America but I can't talk about that without feeling sick)

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I can agree the cops and robbers arc was better thanks to the extreme absurdity, the dodgeball mostly kept to plausibly real, even unmasking Kamen. I still thought it was fine though

@Genevieve
I can see Gabinomicon doesn't want to reply cause he actually knows Erika is suck as a human being and a friend. He couldn't admit his favorite character is such a scum.

To those Erika's defenders, let me ask you a question: Would you go lash out at your best friend if he/she starts dating your crush? Blaming them it's their fault that your crush doesn't love you back?
For the life of me, l would never do such a loser move towards anyone, let alone my best friend. I know Erika was only 14 yo back then. But so was Koto and Aya. They would never do that to Erika.

Poor Aya, still see this selfish snake as someone she can rely on.
Poor Koto, still believe in this selfish snake as her best friend.

And l hope Erika can just die painfully at the end of the manga.

I'm a woman and simply didn't have anything to say earlier. You're weird.

Not that I mind, I love manga about lesbians doing sports.

Shout out to Keijo!!!!!! lol

This really gives me hope for dramatic climax at the end of a year.

I wouldn't expect this to be the kind of manga that ends as soon as the main couple gets together, but also I could see the author wanting to wrap this up so she can start a new manga in a not twitter format, one where she can put out 30 page chapters instead of 4. I got to imagine this medium limitation is frustrating to work with sometimes.

When I saw the chapter title I was like "oh no what did Joe do at the airport?!," glad to see that not only did not not highjack a plane (as far as we know) the chapter wasn't even about him but about Mitsuki being suave as fuck. Damn she looks amazing on that last page.

Awww what a great chapter, what a great kiss. Also lol at the like kid drawn like she's from Azumanga Daiou sitting next to them in the theater, so cute.

Koto and Aya very obviously could never have worked out without them dealing with the gap between their past memories and their present relationship. Thus the only possible scenario where Erika WOULDN'T say "Do you truly love the present Koto?" is one where she's dumb and giving bad advice. Therefore there's not really any motive you can legitimately read into that line imo. Any friend knowledgeable about the situation would have said the exact same thing to Aya.

I care so much more about Kamen and Loki than anything related to that jock or nurse tbh

Interesting to have a cute slice of life domestic happiness extra at the end of a volume where the couple in question broke up on rather serious terms. It gives this otherwise happy little story a haunting feeling, presumably this is one of them looking back on her memories with sadness.

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"technobreak"?? What kind of bizarre slang is that, sounds like some fighting game lingo so why would it refer to that. Also the secret ghost wasn't nearly secret enough in this chapter, so there wasn't the fun spooky game of trying to find her. :(

PS the whole "bisexual slut" thing feels honestly like such a minor non issue to me these days. It's also a backwards understanding of the trope: it's not stereotyping bis as promiscuous, but rather stereotyping promiscuous people as bi. Like "that girl has had so many partners that I bet she even cross gender lines". It's not actually a reversible trope in this context, there's plenty of non-slut bis in yuri manga. Just very very few non-bi sluts. It's the irl sluts who should thus feel offended here, not the irl bisexuals :P

Oh no, someone stole her nipples.

Clearly her birthday suit is a peach colored latex gimp suit. Dunno how Tongtong didn't already figure out that Luxi's a maso bottom, she probably has to help her put that thing on every time :P

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So, she just happened to get dropped off near the school?

No, she just happened to get dropped off at a place where she can conveniently get to school on public transportation, which isn't actually surprising at all lol

Idk if that’s a crush, or a sister or an ex girlfriend. But I kinda get the feeling that this girl ain’t a virgin which is why she’s doing this 7 day dating thing like impulsively. Trying to be an adult but having flashbacks to someone saying otherwise ….

We know exactly who that character is, it's her tutor from when she was in middle school, she's in one flashback panel in chapter 1. Most likely Sumie just had a crush and got rejected, she's smart and has a lowkey personality so people assume she's more mature and capable than she really is, like with the teacher assigning her to take care of Manatsu. There's absolutely nothing to imply the thunder thing is being contrasted with her sexuality instead of just the different maturity of her personality. Why the hell would you jump so far past what's available to predict something darker like that?? And she's not acting precocious or anything, she's seventeen! That's a perfectly fine age to get a fake girlfriend, that's no need to guess some dark reason for it.

PS anyone jumping straight to "grooming" with what little of Sumie we know (she's smart, gay, liked her tutor when she was in middle school, and will presumably have sex soon with her same age girlfriend) might just be a homophobe.

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Hmm... She was heading right, to the station, but then, I think she realized that Aya must feel lonely at prom. The vision of Aya in her dress is all in her head for now.

True, but the significance is that crystal clear mental image and her realization about how it made her feel. Mitsuki pictured Aya there, sad and lonely and missing Mistuki, and that made her feel something that hit her as hard as a Shounen protagonist awakening their latent superpowers for the first time lol. Presumably "I'm making her feel sad and lonely because I'm not there with her. She wants me there with her. I want to give her everything she wants for Reasons. I'm getting my dumb ass to prom asap."

Lol I just realized that Fuuko is also the kind of person who'd read a "trashy" yuri romance on her phone and then write a full on literary analysis essay about it in the comments and get annoyed by "incorrect" interpretations. She just like me fr

That was a fantastic essay of a post, hell yes. I love media analysis of that level. My only critique is even bothering to question authorial intent because really, does that matter? On some level it's kind of like a "does that politician believe what they're saying in their heart" kind of notion: who cares if they believe it internally, they're still saying it externally. I would guess at least most the elements you've pointed out are absolutely intentional: Yuni's poverty and Nanase's privilege is textually highlighted with the away game arc, after all. I don't really think Nanase and Fuuko are actually in different economic classes though, just two people who respond differently to the toxic cage of privileged respectability. Nanase is perfectly at home in that mainstream normal, Fuuko is super not. Yuni, in her poverty, never even had a chance to fit those expectations. She hides her class now and I bet that's due to past bullying over things like cheap thrifted clothes and old shoes and not going on field trips. Yuni desperately wants to fit in with Nanase and people like her because she knows what they do to people like her if they find her. It might not be Nanase specifically who bullies her but enough people *like" Nanase would to make her school life an isolated hell. Ironically, she's experiencing an isolated hell ANYWAY due to Nanase keeping her in a cage. Poor Yuni :(

Edit: in fact Nanase being so ultra "normal" to the point where she's practically the poster child for "good normal people" even though she's a lesbian points to possibly even more of a privileged economic status than Fuuko. You've got be pretty well protected from the world to know you have to hide your sexuality and yet never once question that. People like that, every other aspect of society besides the heteronormativity is working just fine for them so they never stop to question society. Fuuko meanwhile is a lesbian, artistically inclined in a stemlord family, and not exactly neurotypical, so society really isn't working well for her even past sexuality.

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Just found this, yay for new Sal Jiang, and she's knocking it out of the park as usual. So far the tone feels like a dark comedy, so somewhere in the middle between Black and White, and Ayako x Hiroko. Love to open a story on the cute girl protagonist scaring two people to death and not caring at all about that lol

Anyone else play this new indie game with a lesbian protagonist yet? It's a survival horror/visual novel type game about a sad lesbian named Michelle, who can't get over her ex-girlfriend (especially since that ex-girlfriend moved away, became an actress, and is now on the lesbian soap opera drama that everyone in her neighborhood can't stop watching). One day, she's visited in the night by a hot demoness named The Duchess who goes "hey, you're pathetically lonely and gay, I'M pathetically lonely and gay, you and I should be together! In fact, I insist." The Duchess then curses Michelle with a third eye that exposes her to the world of angels and demons to better prepare her for an eternity of being the devil's girlfriend. After that, you go around playing matchmaker for gay angels and cannibal dirtbags and whatnot as you grapple with the very difficult question of "am I really gonna fuck this hot devil lady?" There's a bunch of different choices and paths, including one where a demon tempts you with hooking you back up with your ex, but I've only done the obvious "hell yes I will" route so far myself. It's great. :D
The survival horror gameplay is fairly simple, especially if you use a mouse for aiming, but the writing, art, and music are all fantastic and super worth experiencing. I think it's only on Steam right now, but it supports controllers and should run on basically any computer, it's not quite in the "PS1 style horror game" graphics, more like "Dreamcast style horror game," but still not very modern or high detail. Here's one of the game's trailers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyvQ901Qcuk

Victim blaming’s not cool, yo.

At least she recognizes that and feels bad about it.

Lol just reminds me of the Jeff bezos "I love you alive girl" thing. Also this is probably biased by future knowledge of the character but sheesh her stare on page 6, panel 4 is really creepy.

Light on plot so far but heavy on very captivating imagery for sure...