Agreed in that it still won't be traditional NTR due to MC being the one to feel guilty, but there's still this whole dynamic of Yuki being very emotionally invested while Tsukasa seemingly uses that to her advantage while treating the third girl as her real girlfriend. That's been pretty overt by my standards. Maybe we could get a double NTR, but with Tsukasa as the one who was rejected it's more of a love a triangle situation.

It still is quite adjacent to NTR since from Yuki's perspective it will be like Tsukasa is being taken away from her. Even if she logically knows it's the other way around, they are already living and sleeping together and the like. She will want to avoid losing access to this. Since we get Yuki's point of view instead of the girlfriend's and therefore are primed to emphasize the most with Yuki, that's what makes it feel similar to NTR.

I'm almost certain they'll end up together for real by the end, regardless.

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I think this work can fit the Netori category, where the atmosphere is very different to NTR since humiliation almost does not exist, and it is about the protagonist "stealing" someone's partner/loved one. But also, cheating and any NTR category are very different, NTR is a very specific fetish and I don’t think this work will dive into that direction, for now

I'm placing my bets against you on this one. The protagonist being faked forced into situations that make her feel guilty or uncomfortable but she secretly wants has been the undertone of this. Though we'll need more than three chapters to get an idea of where this is heading.

What are the chances that those creepy things are summoned by Kagari hersel so she can play the protector? They became worse the day after Ageha told Kagari she was scary. The kissing is probably not required either.

Probably not directly summoned? With this type of thing, the act of engaging with Kagari would make her more aligned with spirits. Also spirits may be drawn to Kagari herself.

I'm sure Kagari lets things progress further than necessary. She always gets there exactly when Ageha can't deal with the situation by herself, which wouldn't be possible if you weren't close by. I also get the sense she likes other people judging Ageha and isolating her since it lets her be the kindest person in Ageha's life.

I guess we'll never know her full motivations though. The pain of the one shot.

I suspect there's more to this than we saw, but that we're not moving toward "Slender did nothing wrong". I mean that there were other ways of handling whatever this was meant to address, but that this is how Slender knows to do things and feels is their role as an antagonist.

The idea that the insides were eaten is interesting, as that would explain why Takahashi skin suit was found. Kind of weird to just leave the skin out in a park though. Slender seems more cautious than that.

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OP asked for comedy.

Still a good rec if OP can get through some of the unpleasant subject matter to the happy ending.

Anyway, comedy is subjective, but two I'm reading now that I like are "There's No Way I Could Date My Fave!":

The perfectionist class president, Tsukamoto Anne, has one small problem: a gyaru in her class, Kenzaki Kaoru, is so exceptionally dumb that she's in danger of repeating the year! However, Kenzaki Kaoru has one small problem of her own: the class president, Tsukamoto Anne, is exacly the kind of person she worships as a god-like fave!

(https://dynasty-scans.com/series/theres_no_way_i_could_date_my_fave)

And Stupid Woman 26:00:

Atsuko and Yuri were classmates in elementary, junior high, and high school, although they hardly ever spoke to each other during their school days. At their first reunion in 15 years, Atsuko discovers Yuri's secret and makes a move...

What is the destination of these two opposites, who have completely different interests and groups and whose personalities do not match?

(https://dynasty-scans.com/series/stupid_woman_2600)

The description of stupid woman doesn't do it justice so OP read the first chapter. You will find out the humor style quickly.

Or, since I tend to read darker subject matter, for the ultimate fluff OP can read the ones I got bored of and dropped:

Still Sick - (https://dynasty-scans.com/series/still_sick)
A Scummy Gap Student With a Hard Life Calls Upon a Lady of the Night - (https://dynasty-scans.com/series/a_scummy_gap_student_with_a_hard_life_calls_upon_a_lady_of_the_night)
That Time I Was Blackmailed By the Class's Green Tea Bitch - (https://dynasty-scans.com/series/that_time_i_was_blackmailed_by_the_classs_green_tea_bitch)
Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess! - (https://dynasty-scans.com/series/please_bully_me_miss_villainess)
(Yearning for a Night Full of You, more of a fluffy drama) - https://dynasty-scans.com/series/yearning_for_a_night_full_of_you

There's probably more I'm not thinking of, but that should be enough to start with. Nothing extremely bad or male gazey happens in these, while I did think they were well executed for what they are. People who like that kind of thing more can answer too.

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Needy Misa and domestic Misa/Io is great. We've seen them gradually built trust with each other in a way that wasn't first clear was going to happen, despite some people accurately predicting that. Despite Misa's fears of being inadaquate, it seems like Io is fine with it.

This makes it look more like Misa had some type of relationship with Io's mom, though the exact nature of it is unclear. She literally mistakes Io for whoever this woman is though.

Io's response with the letter will be interesting. We've seen that maintaining her career is extremely important to her. She's been taught it's her value as a person, but it also happens to be something she's very good at and enjoys doing. Despite that, there's no way she's on board with sacrificing Misa.

However Misa would want to protect Io's career knowing it's important to Io, especially if the alternative is sacrificing both their careers. Misa also understands that short term compromises are sometimes are made to maintain one's public image and that escalating isn't always the right choice.

Therefore Misa may tell Io not to challenge the narrative for now... but that's complicated by that, independently of the impact on Misa, Io thinks she shouldn't have to hide being a lesbian. Io is the one who wants to out herself on some level. There's a lot of ways the author could with this depending on what they have planned for Io's character arc.

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Cuddling with another girl in her bed when you have a girlfriend is cheating 100%

Depends, people do have different standards with these things. Some women are more physically affectionate with their friends - actually men too, just less often.

That doesn't change that Aomi is pushing the line, both here and in other situations, while making excuses that are almost plausible. This allows for Yuki to feel manipulated into doing what she wanted to do anyway without feeling responsible. Yuki is very obviously not used to receiving this type of attention and wants more, despite the logical part of her understanding the issues with the situation.

How exactly Aomi got used to acting this way, especially at such a young age, is another question. Usually the love interest starts out as more mysterious than the MC in this type of story and then we learn more gradually, so I'm expecting that in later chapters.

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I'm disappointed since it feels like the author could have gone on for another 100 chapters. I don't feel we've exhausted their idea pool for this series at all. Hopefully we can get some more series from them.

This is a good summary of the series. We had an extended plotline about the MC's love interest bringing weed killer to the MC's house.

Weed killer saga was good too but this is a step above, which I didn't think was possible. It's not just characters being weirdos this time, there's some pseudo-scientific phenomenon at play related to processed/unprocessed foods and I cannot really fathom how do you even come up with this stuff

I believe that step one is being Japanese, but that there's several more after that author had to accomplish to bring us this chapter.

If TL wanted a forced joke with MSG, they missed MSG -> Management of Sausage -> Sausage Management. I think it's too late to work in a correction unfortunately...

Well the whole idea of this chapter was absolutely insane, you have to be a genius to even come up with something this stupid that works (and I mean this without a hint of irony :P)

This is a good summary of the series. We had an extended plotline about the MC's love interest bringing weed killer to the MC's house.

I found out about this series relatively recently, but I've enjoyed it a lot more than I expected. The art is fun too. It still feels like the style of standard manga art, but they take a lot of liberties to do things in a creative way. A lot of series are shackled to the moe aesthetic or otherwise want the characters to seem conventionally attractive - which is weird to me given how unrealistic manga art is, but manga readers somehow developed unrealistic beauty standards for simplified comic characters.

A big issue for me with the end pairing is that Azuki never acknowledged she was mistreated, that Meguru had a negative impact on her life, or that Meguru is a deeply flawed person rather than idolized savior like image she had of Meguru. We even somehow end with Azuki wanting to spread Meguruism to the masses.

Instead of going through any of that, it's more like she is rewarded for never moving on from Meguru. Just never move for a decade and your toxic ex will show up at your apartment, spontaneously admit all their mistakes that they realized on their own, and get back together again. There was never any question of Azuki forgiving Meguru, but this ending is more like Azuki is incapable of understanding there is anything for which to forgive Meguru.

A natural way of handling this would have been to have Meguru react more negatively to Remu, which could happen at the same time as Niji development. Then Azuki would have to step in to help Remu, which would mean acknowledging that this type of behavior toward Remu is inappropriate, which means acknowledging it was also inappropriate with her.

If, after all that, Azuki still forgives Meguru then it would be moving and tie things up nicely by having Azuki show she can also accept the accurate yet flawed version of Meguru. But that would require more chapters than we got. I wonder if the rough skin was alluding to this - like the real Meguru isn't like Azuki imagined and has rough edges, but that's still okay and even valuable to Azuki. Who knows exactly what the author was thinking, though.

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so I did do a bit of re-reading in no small part because a lot of people unhappy with Meguru and Azuki getting back together are saying her arc was rushed. And like that's just not what happened? Like she came to a resolution with Remu in the last three chapters that allowed her to fully accept both Remu and Azuki and herself for having sexual desires. But Meguru's breaking point was in chapter 10 and 11 where she tested Azuki for sexual desire (disgusting), Azuki passed (she acted as if sexual desire is digusting and didn't do anything), and Meguru found herself deeply unhappy about it.

Like that's the point she started truly working through her issues and she had all of volume three to do so. Yes her confrontation with Remu was chapter 15 and 16, three chapters before the end but by that point she'd already changed a lot from who she was at introduction. the idea that that is the moment she started to resolve her issues is just wrong, though I can see how it would be remembered as it was the big confrontation.

overall Meguru is a recurring character throughout the story and starts really working through her issues at the end of volume two pulling about a third of the focus on the entire series. I'd say that's not exactly rushed. Honestly it has me arguing she's not just an important character but one of the protagonists. So, ultimately I'm not going to say you're not allowed to like the idea of Remu and Azuki better than Meguru and Azuki but I don't it's fair to argue Meguru is underbaked.

When people say "rushed" they don't really mean the physical amount of chapters dedicated to the issue - otherwise every oneshot would be rushed.

When I hear "rushed" I think it generally refers to whether something feels earned on an emotional level - whether characters went through enough adversity or if it feels like they simply skipped to the endpoint of their character development. It's true that Meguru resolved her issues over time just by thinking about it more deeply and reflecting on her own points of view, but personally, I think the idea that she is self aware enough to realize that her own rejection of sex was just her forcing her own trauma onto other people just isn't very convincing. If she was that kind of person, she wouldn't have done what she did and vanished all those years back in the first place.

I don't think the series was especially terrible or anything but I certainly think the ending feels unearned. Everyone sat around and exposited their motivations out before wrapping them up in a neat bow and it's just hard to imagine someone upending their whole worldview so painlessly. Of course, the axe probably had everything to do with that, so it is what it is.

This is basically my feeling. I like the ending but not how we got there. In addition to Meguru's realization feeling out of character without additional setup, it also doesn't feel believable to me that Azuki could have a healthy relationship with Meguru.

Her entire life was screwed over because of this more or less. It would be incredibly difficult for her to get in a healthy place with the person she has all the emotional baggage over, while a new person would still be hard but doable. If they had additional development and interactions then I could accept Azuki successfully navigating the difficult route of getting over her baggage with the very person who caused the issue, but without it I can't.

It's not like bad though. The last couple chapters were very well executed, at least as much as exposition dumps can be, and are logically consistent. Azuki and Remu not being the end pairing even makes sense for various reasons. I'm glad we got an ending for this one and enjoyed reading a lot before the last couple chapters.

Anyway 0/10 manga, no incest threesome, dropped, unsubscribed, blocking usui shio on twitter.

lol

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It also shows Miyu that she doesn't have to perform for Shiori, whereas as a hostess she has to be always on so to speak. Even if she's not feeling well, she has to create the hostess experience for customers and get along with her sometimes jealous coworkers. Here she part of why she relaxes is she realizes she can act like a sick person and not mega dom.

I'm guessing it's not all do hostess work, but it would certainly heighten these types of fears.

I have just two questions. Given the subject matter, how was this so high quality? And why must it be a one shot from an author with nothing else available?

This is why I don't like to read one shots.

Can I revive this? I want to know what new ones are available that I missed, particularly that aren't on here. I know on here we have Even a Dog Might Stumble Upon a Princess (https://dynasty-scans.com/series/even_a_dog_might_stumble_upon_a_princess) and Keeping a Jewel (https://dynasty-scans.com/series/keeping_a_jewel).

I also found out about There's No Way I Could Date My Fave! (https://dynasty-scans.com/series/theres_no_way_i_could_date_my_fave), which is lighthearted but fun from a drama perspective. I'm not sure if "socially awkward person reinvents herself as a gyaru" counts as a trope yet, but it can be a nice premise.

One that I think would be getting a moderate amount of attention if released on here is Candy and whip / Ame to Muchi. It's being translated by a group that starts with an A that accepts money in exchange for an early release, but releases a chapter for free every month. The other content their website is surprisingly bad considering they charge money, but I forgive them since they bring us this masterpiece.

"Meari is a pretty, young girl who makes a living through papakatsu. What seemed like an ordinary date takes a surprising turn when, instead of the usual "papa". a woman shows up. Unlike the men with hidden motives, this woman simply enjoys spending time with Meari, showering her with gifts of money and luxury cosmetics. Delighted by such generosity, Meari lowers her guard... until the two of them find themselves alone in a love hotel."

Since we can't link paid groups, I'll link Mangadex, but there's not very many chapters on there. The Spanish is in sync with the free English releases on the other group's website, which gives you an idea of how far along it is.

https://mangadex.org/title/df8aac0c-31ea-4e4a-8daa-f0167c2aeda7/ame-to-muchi

Besides that synopsis, I can confirm that the author is a big fan of girls vomiting. There's not that many vomit scenes, but I haven't seen this much attention to vomiting in a series since Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii.

What else have we got?

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To be fair, it's easy to be confused. This series has a lot of pedo alert material. It's like chekov's gun, but with high school teachers. Tune in next week for the chance to find out which teacher it is.

Some thoughts here...

I'm going to say Karen CANNOT get a job. Karen is in hiding, which is why she started these arrangements. The most likely explanation is still that she fled the idol group that got mentioned, as Karen looks like an idol, but it's most likely only due to the lack of other info.

She can't have done this with that many people. How many lesbians are there that would agree to this? She has some sort of standards with who she stays with since she won't do it with anyone. Therefore as a soft prediction I think she's done it just enough to get accustomed to it, maybe with 3-4 people (including Nayu), and one of the early ones conditioned her to think this way.

This could also be related to the behavior where people over correct following a past unsuccessful relationship. There is some type of rejection or negative past romantic history there.

Her statements about not understanding romance are interesting, given her excitement about Nayu liking her. Someone who wants to be loved but not love others. She appeared to be on good terms with the person where she showered, so it's unclear why she was sick on the streets during chapter. It could be that she was starting to get attached to that person, or maybe Karen planned to avoid that person until she was no longer sick.

Either way, it shows she is trusting Nayu more than she normally would with someone, but, naturally, only in ways Nayu won't understand. I don't think they'll milk the misunderstandings too much in this one, but it makes for good drama. They both feel vulnerable and scared, but in ways that are difficult for them to understand or relate to with the other person.

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Plot twist, the youtubers are nice.

The main issue is still that the youtubers are youtubers while the main pair is on a crime run. Yumi isn't even a good fake name.

It's fun how they subverted the motorcycle chase by getting stuck in traffic and using that as a chance for Yuri to open more. When it comes to difficult experiences, it can be easier for some people to talk to a stranger than someone they're close with.

Acting differently with different people is typical of I think all people. Being more assertive around someone you don't feel threatened by is not confusing to me. I still feel bad for Atsuko because Yuri is about to tsundere at Atsuko more after creating a situation where Atsuko felt vulnerable, threatened and scared for Yuri's well being. That sort of pent up frustration with someone who you care about and who is an abusive relationship for not protecting themselves must be very common. Same for the person who is being abused fearing judgement and blame for allowing that situation to happen at all, thereby leading them to question their own support network.

@JuniperPengold

In fact, I still use they/them for Niehara the most part, though sometimes I use she/her due to my aforementioned interpretation. There's ultimately no contradiction between a transfem interpretation of Niehara and one that has them using they/them pronouns; I know other transfems IRL who only go by they/them.

You are right I suppose. One reason why I don't use the terms transfeminine and transmasculine is that they are vague and can be used different ways by different people. I don't feel like I receive much information if it's not meant as an analogue for trans man or woman, whereas trans man / trans woman / nonbinary are used in a more consistent way. I also don't care about people's birth assignment that much unless it's relevant for some reason.

However, there are certainly people who identify as transfeminine or transmasculine while using they/them pronouns. If you all were thinking of it that way then I will concede it's a correct usage.

@Cogito

I think a transfem analysis of Niehara could be very interesting, but I think it needs to be informed by a similar analysis of Takahashi, who I feel is much more clearly transfem since she seems much more committed to presenting as a girl.

I'm not sure she is. She can't change as easily, so once she picks a suit she sticks with it. We have not seen any evidence of her ever using a male suit, but that doesn't mean she hasn't done it or dislikes it. More info will come in future chapters, which should give more of a sense of if she has any history or feelings about this topic.

Monster Niehara also attempted to rape Itou in Chapter 11.

I still think this may not have been a real attempt but a pretend action to manipulate Takahashi. That is some dark content if they were imitating their own abuser, though.

Given earlier posts by other commenters, I should say that is NOT generally what abused people do. It is what abused people do who internalized their abuser's actions as morally justified. For instance, many abused boys become adults who feel violence is the natural response to weakness. They are hyper vigilant about maintaining that dominant position of strength for themselves to prevent a repeat of what they experienced. They feel justified using violence to achieve this.

An abused boy who feels it was wrong for him to be abused is likely to have emotional issues as an adult, like overreacting to criticism or assuming negative intentions from others. Despite that, they will not employ violence as a strategy in the same way because they feel no one is justified in being treated that way. Most likely, they had some type of support to help them understand what they were experiencing was not their fault or justified. They are more likely to be involved in advocacy than to employ violence as a strategy.

Real life abused people are not mimics who feel that they have no valued identity nor any moral worth, though. Slender might really imitate actions they see as unjustified, as they themselves as fulfilling that type of role in a story.

@JavelinR

I don't think the author wants you too feel too bad for the mimic, given what they did immediately after that backstory. Rather I think it shows it's species doesn't know much, or anything, about humanity by the time they first take human form. Her/his first experience with a human was an abuser obsessed with movies. And now the mimic thinks nothing of hurting others while obsessing over acting out it's own movie.

Even a mimic as articulate as Mr. N is still operating off a mimic logic. I think that's the point of the backstory. You can say "monsters don't operate off the same logic as humans", but this chapter shows how one type of monster develops and what it takes from its experiences.

... Sounds about right, as far as that goes, which is the part of the story that has no real world analogue.

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I see this story as being like The Matrix, which could be a metaphor for almost anything if you wanted. The themes are more general. In this case, it's about social norms, why people uphold them, and what it means when someone is unwilling or unable to conform to what society sees as unacceptable.

That means parts will be very similar to a particular real world minority group, but might remind a different person of a different minority group, and then the next part is similar to a third minority group. The author may or may not be pulling inspiration from these groups, but they're writing something broad enough that almost anyone could relate to some part of it.

At the same there is going to be an internal logic to the story that is completely unaligned with the real world, because we aren't really literal meat farms to power robots or man eating worms hiding in skin suit. This can be be interesting because it creates situations we would never encounter in day to day life, but strains making direct comparisons to real world groups in any consistent way.

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do I have cis disease because Slendy doesn't read as a trans allegory so much as BPD or something. Narrativizing, taking on roles for safety, being abused in infancy, etc

I understand that seeing fictional characters as allegories for supersets of mental or neurological disorders isn't exactly socially appropriate, but that's the point of this entire manga so I get to "pathologize" all I want

The subtext to me is that monsters are like minority group members who have become radicalized, at least on an individual level. They adopt the posture as an enemy of society after being consistently treated as so. Slenderman considers Itou to be a monster. A corollary implied is that someone who has come to uphold the social structure is a human, even if they are, say, a giant worm.

Slenderman even accuses Takahashi of being too human-like last chapter. This makes sense, as even a human will kill to maintain their survival. A human-like posture is Takahashi keeping the death at a minimum or outright eliminating it when an alternative presents itself. While Takahashi can never fully integrate into wider society, this avoids challenging the social structure as much as is possible.

Being cautious about real world attributions is sensible, given "[Insert minority group] is like a serial killing urban legend" is not the type of statement people generally want attributed to their group. The actual content of the story still deals with it in a sensitive and unproblematic way, at least by Seinen comic standards.

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^ I mean, it'd be they/them as usual, no?

This would be incorrect if we interpret them as a female identifying person trying to pass as male for safety, which is the case JuniperPengold was making.

This adds so much to Niehara's character, especially as it relates to their gender presentation and the roles they take on. The first time they became human, they took on a very visibly feminine form. But the man who found them abused them because he recognized that them not being what most people would see as a human woman made them acutely vulnerable—they didn't have recourse to escape. Now, in the present, they present fem only when interacting with Itou, who they want to be close to, but take on the form of a man (and a man in a position of power—a teacher) to exert authority over others. It doesn't seem like a form they prefer, just one that they feel they need to be safe after being the victim of violence for such a long time. AND the whole thing about not being able to let anyone know their real past, having to make things up for their own safety and to be accepted, etc...
There is SO much to discuss regarding a transfem reading of Niehara.

That is a good insight. We can't yet rule out that Slenderman simply lack a strong attachment to gender in terms of personal identity. If they do have one, it seems like it would be a female identity. Adopting a female form with Itou say a lot about their level of comfort with her, though I think this is still partly because it will make Itou more comfortable and therefore is most useful.

They also chose to replace a sexual predator who was abusing kids when they could have killed anyone. They are planning to predate on the kids in a different way by killing them, but there is likely some antipathy toward sexual predators in particular.

This makes the foiled rape attempt from chapter 11 (https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/normality_and_monsters_ch11#16) stranger, but I interpreted this as an attempt to draw out to draw out the worm and to establish the hidden monster's identity. There is also a long history of emulating different people that might make it natural to act this way while acting as Niehara. To Slenderman, it's already a threatening form associated with this type of behavior and they do not feel they can treat themselves as morally pure.

Now I have to figure out what pronouns to use for Slenderman. Female pronouns might make more sense than gender neutral pronouns, now that we know this the "original" human form that was initially comfortable. I still don't have a better name than Slenderman since the real Niehara was a living character in the story, unlike Takahashi. Using Slenderman with she feels wrong though.

I wonder if the female form used with Itou is also an imitation of a real person or if it was invented by Slenderman, possibly for Itou specifically. It will be interesting to see if the flashback version ever makes an appearance.

I really love how Remu responded here. Like fundamentally this story is about girls with different kinds of wants that are “disgusting” in different ways, and about seeing through what may seem repulsive on the surface to what’s going on inside. It’s about learning to think past your disgust. And critically, this extends to all 4 of the main cast members. Not just the sexual disgust of the main two, but the moral disgust of the girls we could call antagonists. There’s this ugly desire in us to want to see these people punished for doing wrong by the main pair, and the manga is asking us to take that same measured generosity to them as well. We’re not expected to just let it slide—in both cases, we see very clearly how the things they do are wrong, and the most heroic moments of the story are the main characters defending their space, setting boundaries, and critiquing that behavior—but it also doesn’t settle for the self-indulgent route of emotional vigilantism, of punishing what one receives as wickedness, but is in fact disfunction. Instead we are shown that these people have disgusting impulses inside them that come from very understandable places, that hurt them as they hurt others, and that that is a very human thing that doesn’t discount their humanity, or make them unworthy of love. In a society preoccupied with cutting away impurity, it’s a profound and deeply important act of compassion to accept the ugly and diffcult parts of oneself and of others. And that’s the virtue that Remu is displaying here: whether or not Niji can successfully take the hand that is being offered is up to her. It’s really beautiful.

I did like the callback to "Remu is right here" from Niji's thought after commenter said no one like story Remu could exist. The implication to me is that the person Niji fell in love with was real. This is the Remu who was kind to Niji at school and didn't judge Niji, despite Niji's poor reputation and social status. Niji just got carried away with her fantasies at some point and stopped listening to the real Remu, who is still there to support her.

Connecting with the real Remu means letting go of the fantasy image in Niji's head. No matter what happens, there will be a sense of loss and grief for Niji. However, because of Remu, there is still a path to deeper understanding and friendship that can grow from it. Creating that opportunity for Niji is the most anyone in Remu's situation could do.

Looks like Niji decided to make to make that "sexual assaulter who thinks their victim secretly wants it" comparison from me literally true.

There we go, Niji has been shown the truth and instead she chose to retreat into her fantasies. Although looks like there is still a way out offered for her in the end, even if she needs to accept that they can only be friends in reality.

I'm pretty sure Niji will take the way out. I'm also pretty sure it will not be satisfying within the span of one chapter, especially given most of it will need to be Meguru/Azuki and Remu/Azuki.

I continue to believe the author is writing the arcs as planned, but speed running them to the point of confusion in order to get the story over with.

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