Less of an explosive reaction to the truth than I was expecting, but it still ended with Takamine getting absolutely dominated (again) so it's all good. Nono really is a natural.

By the way, according to Mangadex part 3 was published in Galette meets Volume 7. Does anyone know if there are any more parts to this series?

Klara is cute; I kinda want to bully her

^ It's fine to request it here, there's just no guarantee it'll actually be uploaded.

Does anyone have a link to the “And so, they were both bottoms” comic? I remember that was posted in Images and had a second part involving a mobile app.

My god this series is going to kill me, I can't stop laughing

^ Maybe - it's from one of her official artworks, but there's no reference to Red Riding Hood in the card's description at least.

Koishi's been surprisingly popular for a while now - she even got 1st place back in 2015 despite not being playable in any of the main games (aside from the fighting games).

I'm surprised by it too, but as a art student I'm pretty happy. although, does a mangaka count as an artist?

For tagging purposes, probably not since there's already a Mangaka tag.

This is definitely more than their canon 20cm height difference, but it's hot so that's alright

Jeanne x Marie is usually pretty sweet and wholesome, but something about the way Hollomaru draws Marie gives it a pretty different atmosphere. I like it~

Finally beat Risk 18! Took longer than I would've liked, especially since I was probably using a sub-optimal set-up and didn't bother using any of my friends' operators. Still, I'll take it.

Also, before I forget, feel free to friend me~

^ Probably faster than you think - this particular fanart was made last year, back in July 2019.

Yaaaas, Texusiai! And it's a lewd(-ish) one, too~

In case anyone's confused, this is a reference to the annual Touhou character popularity vote. This year, Koishi got 3rd, Marisa got 4th, and Flandre got 5th, hence this image.
Link to the results here - this year Youmu got 1st place while Reimu got 2nd.

^ Not really, as far as I can tell. I'm fine with it either way myself. I guess Dynasty went with the former since that's what most people know it as, and the licensed English version hasn't come out yet?

In case anyone's interested, this is actually the cover of a Futa!Kaguya x Mokou doujin. The Pixiv preview can be read here.

Yuri looks kinda annoyed at how cute Nemoto is on that last panel lol. Or maybe not annoyed - troubled? Surprised? Caught off-guard?

Also I like how sitting on her girlfriend(?)'s lap half-naked is fine, but whispering in her ear is too far.

Hmmm, I mean, chapter 1 is absolutely designed to make people think she's something of a shameless masochist. I assume people have gathered from others who have read the web novel posting here that Rei isn't quite like that. And I'm no expert on Japanese media and comedy, but the masochist act is part of the old straight man/funny man comedy routine which western readers may just not be recognizing as easily. Basically, what you're seeing is the gag. Which gets better and better as time goes on and the chemistry between Claire and Rei gets unreal.

The web novel does have Rei flat-out say Claire has talent for being a tsukkomi (as in part of a Manzai), so it's pretty clear that Rei isn't really taking Claire's threats seriously at all.

That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if she was at least a little masochistic, but it's not like those are mutually exclusive anyways.

Kagami had a pretty good poker face - at least until Ooba started spilling how much she spent looking for Indou's hand towel.

Also Indou is getting pretty bold, what with her straight-up telling Kagami how much she loves her beautiful hair. Girl's got it bad~

Lol at Tom pushing both Haru x Sayaka and Sayaka x Yuu at the same time.

Huh, I'm surprised there's already another YuuSaya anthology. Was the first About YuuSaya dropped by the scanlators, or were there only the two chapters?

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Looks like the worse version of "The Real Her". I especially dislike that fantasy academy again looks like same old Japanese school. Mangaka was lazy enough to draw literal Japanese uniform for sport. This is just sad. It could be better.

It's not lazyness, it's a worldbuilding detail. The game was made by Japanese devs who wanted the setting to feel European but not alienate their audience.

This is actually something the webnovel points out a fair number of times - the in-universe game setting is not historically accurate, and a lot of the modern anachronisms are in fact on purpose to appeal to their Japanese fanbase.

I guess you could make the argument that the author was lazy for using that as a reason to not describe historically accurate clothing and schools and the like in the original web novel, but those sorts of anachronisms happen all the time in real-life Japanese visual novels/anime/manga anways.

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Haughty ojous with drill locks, can't get better than this.

The fan translation of the web novel felt a bit...shaky though. Does it get better? It was hard for me to get into it because of the writing.

Sadly no, not really.

So reading through the first chapter again, here are some of the differences compared to the web novel that I've noticed. Just for reference, the first manga chapter more or less covers the first five web novel chapters:

• Less exposition - unsurprisingly, there's less exposition in the manga compared to the web novel. This leaves out some worldbuilding stuff covered in chapter 2 of the web novel, like how the country they're in was getting corrupt and why the king wanted to introduce meritocracy, among other things. This was mentioned here, just with less detail. Also Misha's backstory of her being old friends with Rei and how she's from a fallen noble house is only hinted at.

• More Claire - this was mentioned by someone else, but Claire's point of view is shown here, such as her reaction to Rei complementing her bullying. In the web novel, her thoughts and POV are only rarely shown, so this is definitely a nice addition.

• First meeting with the princes - the last section of the first manga chapter combines parts of chapters 4 and 5 from the web novel, significantly cutting down the meeting with the 3 princes. Rei's personal thoughts on them, as well as Misha being childhood friends with Yuu, aren't shown here, though I assume those will come up later. Claire's declaration of hate(?) towards Rei was also added in to give this chapter an ending sort-of feel.

including the schmex scenes

God, if they adapted that of all the chapters I'd die.

I'm kinda happy to see it here but I did just see the author complain on twitter about pirate sites so I feel a bit bad (well I am subscribed to her Pixiv Fanbox so I am less of a pirate)

Yeah, I saw that too. Do you have a link to the Pixiv Fanbox? It's not linked on her Twitter.

^Ah, so its already getting a sequel - cool. I guess I can safely read part one then and leave the rest till it's done.

Isn't this story kinda like a recent anime? I forget the name but I'ts something about a girl bcoming the villainess in a game world? I've been meaning to watch it once its finished- assuming i dont hear it's ending sucks.

That isn't by the same author right?

I'd love to see an anime of this series- but I wonder if thats likely given a similar show has already been done?

You're right, it's a different author.

I'm not that familiar with it, but this series and the one you're referring to (My Next Life as a Villainess) are both part of a "Villainess" genre(?), which typically involve medieval/fantasy stories focusing on the stereotypical "villainess". They often involve time travel and/or isekai, from what I've seen.

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