Chekhov's love interest: "You don't bring a romantic rival to the stage without creating some drama."

This was foreshadowed for a while now, and while I wasn't sure whether it'd ever come to anything much, I don't think it's a big deal. This will be resolved quickly.

Sun Jing will just reject Mo, and Mo will go crazy and murder Sun. Then Qui Tong gets revenge by killing Mo, before committing suicide. The End.

The entire thing was just fantasy.

It's a manga after all.

Yes, incest laws are largely ridiculous in the modern world. Sexual abuse/rape/etc is covered by other laws anyway, so it really only affects consenting adults, which, I'd say, is nobody's business but their own.

Even the argument about children is shaky at best: there's plenty of genetic issues one can have that arguably are much worse and have a higher probability of popping up in your kids and nobody's outlawing those people from having kids.

Basically all feels fairly hypocritical.

Juje, those Mochi-sudden-ends can be very sudden indeed!

Isn't she just doing the "bad guy" routine so the younger sibling won't feel any jealously over the past relationship? Basically make it clear she's out of the picture by antagonizing them? A noble self-sacrifice?

Those boob physics on page 12 ... well, I suppose in a bra-less universe.

I'm really only following to see whether she'll accidentally draw underwear on someone at some point.
Oh yeah, and to see Saki vs Teru ...oh,wait, they aren't playing each other in the team finals. So sometimes in the single tournament final in 2028.

Stay stronk.

What's this worrying about an inability to suppress her wicked desires? Wicked desires are meant to be embraced, not suppressed! Cover her in chocolate and devour her!

Eh, that trope is pretty much one of the oldest when it comes to romance - think of poetry or serenading; or heroes going about solving this or that quest to demonstrate their love.

Maybe this is a little differently nuanced, but the mechanism is similar.

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Now what?

Rape.

I'm still hopeful the feeling is mutual

Then they can rape each other.

(I'm just in a very Christmas-y mood lately)

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Now what?

Rape.

It's very Japanese.

Always comes at the cost of the quality of the story. If it's character-driven, it needs to flow at the pace that makes sense for the characters, not what's good for "we can sell more volumes this way". It's not always a complete catastrophe, but, heck, there's plenty of romance writers out there who manage 800-page novels without having anything stuck in limbo forever.

But they don't base their entire relationships about 1 single idea that as soon as it gets resolved essentially ends their story.

(also it's frustrating that editors nowadays seem too often to be as much about how to sabotage a good thing as actually making a story good ^^)

... and Mari seems to prefer keep hoping for Arisa to somehow figuring out things on her own rather than actually taking the lead.

Yes, I was initially hoping that "progress" would actually be Mari kinda getting more pro-active now that she has "no choice" while Arisa simultaneously kinda starts remembering things, so both would progress towards some physical relationship again and have some character development going on.

Doesn't seem quite the route it takes which I find a bit of a shame, but, well. It's still OK, for me. This is only 16 chapters so far; ask me again at 30 ;)

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Btw, from which manga is your icon? I feel like I read something like that looong time ago but can't remember what and I've been a while wondering when could I ask you (?)

It's from the manga that features the most yuri kisses ever but still somehow isn't quite yuri; Transistor Venus.

Anyway, brilliant series.

Woa, talk about drastic development.

If there's alcohol-amnesia the next day I'm going to murder the author. Just saying.

Yes (5th years). It's so elementary they ban underwear there. Down with the trappings of civilization!

It's Sakiverse. If you aren't used to nudity everywhere by age 5 something's seriously wrong with you.

All joking aside; the very fact that this gives Qing Tong the opportunity to realize she actually misses Sun Jing and is sad when not around her is probably rather fortunate for the further development of their relationship. Forces her to actually confront her feelings instead of hiding behind super-friendship.

Maybe.

People's Armed Police arrested her for corrupting the public with yuriness. She's rotting in a cell somewhere, no doubt.

Like the Mochi Au Lait Emergency Incest Services.

That IS a good question. The manga wasn't exactly subtle about it ^^;

That is not the most important lesson. It is: HIDE YOUR PORN SO YOUR FAMILY DOES NOT FIND IT!

Well, porn 's porn; illegally obtained voyeur pics that could get you send to yuri prison are an entirely different matter, though.

There seems to be some actual progress. No wonder I was confused whether this was really the series I actually thought it was.

Cat girls with human ears are heresy. Purge the unclean! Kill the mutant!

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Or Kuki grinning while adding a video of herself getting beaten up to her personal treasure collection.

I've read a bunch of FF urban fantasy over the last few years, and I was sorely tempted to start an Excel table on vampire properties. I don't think they were even once the same - not that I complain; variations are fun, but there's some that don't even need blood anymore, which kinda makes the idea of vampire vaguely ridiculous, if you ask me ...

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