Beautiful, and definitely made me think. But I can't help but think that for all of Eva's musical talent, she is a child stuck in arrogance and distance from others. No matter how beautifully her sister played in agony, it was only a matter of time before she either slipped and fell into the sea, or turned and walked away from the edge. She chose the latter.

Oh, she deffo killed everyone.

I feel like she probably let a zombie in to cause chaos and that's how she overcame the numbers advantage they had.

This is probably going to be a relatively short manga, because I've read another LN by the original author recently (Did You Think My Yuri Was Just For Show?) and it was wrapped up in a single volume. It was a fun little book and surprisingly detailed about the VA industry (although I'm unsure of the accuracy), and the characters had some nice roundness to their character despite the short length. Asakura does seem to forget we only get the MC's POV in these things, tho. Like in that LN, the love interest was definitely bffs with the MC by the time of the confession, but we have no real reason for why the LI said yes to it other than it's required for a happy ending. It was jarring in a book where at least part of the anxiety was "I'm falling for a straight girl oh no".

Maria for endgame I believe it!

For me, the main in-story conflict of what Niji is doing isn't even the consent or her posting it online*, it's that she has considers her fictional Remu something she only has to interact with real Remu long enough to uncover. Azuki knows she can't force the IRL Meguru into what she wishes had happened, so she settles for sculpting a simulacrum. Niji wants to sculpt the real person.

I dont really enjoy depressing stuff cuz im already in a deep depression myself, but the familiar word "saudade" caught my attention.

its such a strong word with alot of feelings in it, the best way i can translate it is "missing something from you past so much", this remind me of some friends i lost, some views i cant see anymore, some parents that already left this world....

i will give it a chance, maybe in the future i can say that i had saudade of reading it.

greetings from brazil.

My parents are Portuguese, and the last time we were there, my mom admitted that she could barely recognize the place. Of course everything is better than when she was young, living under the dictatorship, and she truly believes that. But it's not what it was.

Saudade is a very complex thing.

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)

That's really fucked up, I'm in the US too and it's a total violation of medical ethics. Something like this would be beyond the pale at my local big training hospital: any time I've gone there, they've always explicitly asked for consent when bringing in a medical student or getting a recording for training students during my appointment. Even for basic treatment, I've needed to sign a form that has detailed stuff like "we are a teaching hospital and conduct research on excess patient samples, you have the right refuse to consent to this and still get treatment" and "you have the right to ask for the names and positions of all people involved in your care", and I assume a surgical form would be even more involved about whether students may possibly assist.

The American Medical Association explicitly says that "all physicians share an obligation to ensure that patients are aware that medical students may participate in their care and have the opportunity to decline care from students" AMA Code of Medical Ethics - Medical Student Involvement in Patient Care. You are allowed to ask and confirm whether students are involved in your care in any capacity, and if any doctor ever gives you shit for it you can whip this page out. And if you ever get lookers-on again, you can whip this one out, because that's also an ethics violation.

Ah yes, just what the world needs. Another generic isekai adaption with the same shitty setup as every single one of them; including slavery 5 minutes into the story. Sigh.

Vellis says he "contract[s]" Aurora when he summons her so I assume it's not slavery but by game lore a summoner-summonee contract. But they sure are using it awfully similar to normal isekai slavery in this first chapter.

Just like "king" has been used as a title by some female rulers in real life history, I assume "patriarch" is also a title in this case. It implies that a man is supposed be the head of the family, so these people might also be deliberately calling her patriarch to emphasize that she is breaking social norms by leading her family despite being a woman.

I think the simpler explanation is that a lot of languages don't have an equivalence for gendered terms.

Yeah, I'm wondering about that. If it is an ungendered term, wouldn't "Head of the Yao Family" work better?

I look forward to more of our cute modern Japanese engineer who was able to get all of these modern amenities working in the Middle Ages.

I would not have guessed this was yuri if it wasn't for the tag. I didn't see a hint of attraction between the two, even while they were bathing.

this is what I’m afraid, that there is 0 yuri and only slice of life between friends :( really hate the usage of Yuri tags for friendship or subtext

The original gives it the Yuri tag on Comic Walker, so we'll see how it goes.

I know what dysphoria feels like, and don't assume I don't. My life vastly improved when I addressed my dysphoria, but it didn't mean I disconnected entirely from my AGAB.

Okay, but you are not Hodaka lol. They're looking pretty thoroughly disconnected already.

I still disagree with you, especially because I think whatever's going on with the curse is going to be addressed in some fashion and make Hodaka's choices more complex as to what he wants to be. Also, what you wrote screams "binary trans experience", so if you're not enby yourself I want you to think long and hard why you decided that another person in the trans umbrella had to have a lecture on dysphoria.

My gender is none of your business lmao. I didn't lecture you about anything, I laid out my reasoning for why I read the character the way I do, which required drawing connections between various aspects of dysphoria with the character's emotions.
I don't know what you mean in particular by "binary trans experience" (if such a thing exists outside of your assumptions I've never seen it nor heard anyone personally testify to it, the very existence of trans people is a violation of gender boundaries, that's why the radfems struggled so badly with the concept of trans people), but it's certainly not what I described as my impression of the character, let alone "screamed" it. What kind of 'binary gender' uses they/them pronouns?

This isn't worth the effort. I'm done.

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I know what dysphoria feels like, and don't assume I don't. My life vastly improved when I addressed my dysphoria, but it didn't mean I disconnected entirely from my AGAB.

Okay, but you are not Hodaka lol. They're looking pretty thoroughly disconnected already.

I still disagree with you, especially because I think whatever's going on with the curse is going to be addressed in some fashion and make Hodaka's choices more complex as to what he wants to be. Also, what you wrote screams "binary trans experience", so if you're not enby yourself I want you to think long and hard why you decided that another person in the trans umbrella had to have a lecture on dysphoria.

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There's been multiple recent manga published in mainstream sources like Ayakashi Triangle and Zenbu Kimi no Sei that deliberately subverted their cishet potential to be brazenly queer instead. All the details align with Hodaka being genderqueer, they've even told Chihaya "I get to be a girl and I get to be with you, two birds with one stone!" to reassure her they're fine with the curse. As far as I'm concerned we should already be avoiding he/him pronouns based on the text in front of us without even reading into meta things like the aquarium date, and it would be very foolish to assume "oh he'll just end up a guy in the end".

ps: if you haven't read it, Zenbu Kimi no Sei is complete on Mangadex and is very similar to this except they're BOTH constantly switching and it's more comedic focused. If you like this manga you'll probably like that one :)

I doubt he'll end up as "just a guy" in the end, but I still think it's pre-emptive to avoid using he/him when the text has also made it obvious he's still uncomfortable with being transformed into a woman and that there's more to work on there in how he views it. And I definitely read the reassurance there as him jumping to trying to make her feel better despite how he feels uncomfortable.

Like, even if he ends up being 100% a trans woman, this is still something thrust upon him that he's trying to figure out, and we don't know how the cards will fall, especially because I'm almost certain the source of the curse will be addressed. I feel like he might end up bigender in the end, feeling both equally a man and a woman.

Also, as someone who is a nonbinary butch, I'm kinda annoyed at a common presumption that entering an enby space always means detachment from your AGAB. I still identify as a woman and use she/her even tho I'm absolutely also nb. Hodaka's gender identity being more complex than "just a guy" doesn't mean being a guy won't be an important component of the end result.

Hodaka is completely dissociated from their AGAB though, did you miss the whole "have I ever really liked or enjoyed anything before now" angle? They don't seem to have any ties to it whatsoever except the inertia from being raised that way and the expectation that their girlfriend presumably wants a boyfriend. Currently there's confusion between "is this new ability to enjoy literally anything caused by grenderbending or is it caused by being in love" but it's not exactly normal to not even like food and then suddenly you get a first girlfriend and it tastes good now lol. Dysphoria is one of the few things in life for those who have it that makes every single aspect of life worse, including raw physical sensations. There's others like severe depression but severe depression is not normally cured so quickly, whereas if you genderbend your average egg they'd start feeling like life is wonderful pretty much instantly lol

I know what dysphoria feels like, and don't assume I don't. My life vastly improved when I addressed my dysphoria, but it didn't mean I disconnected entirely from my AGAB.

There's been multiple recent manga published in mainstream sources like Ayakashi Triangle and Zenbu Kimi no Sei that deliberately subverted their cishet potential to be brazenly queer instead. All the details align with Hodaka being genderqueer, they've even told Chihaya "I get to be a girl and I get to be with you, two birds with one stone!" to reassure her they're fine with the curse. As far as I'm concerned we should already be avoiding he/him pronouns based on the text in front of us without even reading into meta things like the aquarium date, and it would be very foolish to assume "oh he'll just end up a guy in the end".

ps: if you haven't read it, Zenbu Kimi no Sei is complete on Mangadex and is very similar to this except they're BOTH constantly switching and it's more comedic focused. If you like this manga you'll probably like that one :)

I doubt he'll end up as "just a guy" in the end, but I still think it's pre-emptive to avoid using he/him when the text has also made it obvious he's still uncomfortable with being transformed into a woman and that there's more to work on there in how he views it. And I definitely read the reassurance there as him jumping to trying to make her feel better despite how he feels uncomfortable.

Like, even if he ends up being 100% a trans woman, this is still something thrust upon him that he's trying to figure out, and we don't know how the cards will fall, especially because I'm almost certain the source of the curse will be addressed. I feel like he might end up bigender in the end, feeling both equally a man and a woman.

Also, as someone who is a nonbinary butch, I'm kinda annoyed at a common presumption that entering an enby space always means detachment from your AGAB. I still identify as a woman and use she/her even tho I'm absolutely also nb. Hodaka's gender identity being more complex than "just a guy" doesn't mean being a guy won't be an important component of the end result.

I'm in love with her teacher too.

I would do anything for Maria-sensei.

Or let her do anything to me.

Maria-sensei R-18 doujin when?

“First time reading hentai buddy?”
Why are you acting smug for being desensitized to porn? Not something you should be proud of lol

“there's no good or bads when it comes to porn, it flips your switch or it doesn't”
That is literally what determines what is “good” porn and what is “bad” porn. Assault is wrong no matter the context. Porn or not you can still point out how immoral something is

Dynasty isn’t even like nhentai, no one comes here specifically for hentai. It’s mainly regarded as a yuri site (and even then, there’s not just yuri on here)

nhentai is filled with degen stuff, dynasty isn’t. The fact there’s no porn pop ups or ads is proof enough that dynasty is diff from other porn sites.

There's a big, big difference between a kink, even an immoral and/or violent one, and actually wanting to do the real thing. I'm into CNC and heavy degradation, but there's no way I'd ever want to rape someone or truly make them feel worthless. It's one thing to read a fake story about it, or to play act things out partner consensually after heavily discussing it, but IRL? It's sickening to read a news article about shit like that.

I legit think we're gonna end up with Maria vs Riri where Riri wins, because when there's a choice between an innocent love interest and a sultry one the innocent one almost always wins. Unless it's Macross.

Anyway, let's go Team "really liked our female teachers growing up and then realized it was being gay when we got older, thereby cementing it as a kink" aka Team Maria

This manga makes me feel seen as an NB butch, even tho I want a breast reduction at most.

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Honestly the thing that stuck out to me the most as being "this is a surface level look at Medieval Europe" is that the MC's name is Rachel but everyone treats her relatively normally. At that time, it would have been a VERY Jewish name and the only reason I can think of why a Christian would have it is her parents or grandparents converting. And even then, the name should totally be cited as part of why the villagers are suspicious of her, but it's not mentioned.

There's times and places where Jews were tolerated in Europe, and they were pretty much always seen as "better than pagan at least" as far as I know. It certainly wasn't nonstop pogroms, although I don't know where 1350s Holy Roman Empire fell on the tolerance scale. But assuming Jews are tolerated as long as they provide a community service is probably the default in more times and places than not for historical Europe. Rachel seems to have found a niche for herself that's clearly beneficial to the local lord in some way and she couldn't do much better than that to secure a place here. The villagers are very unlikely to rise up and burn her without the local authorities instigating it.

Edit: given the state of education and cultural spread it's also entirely possible that while a Jewish person would recognize Rachel as a Jewish name, that specific cultural association would be completely lost on Christian peasants.

While true, others have pointed out that post-plague really wasn't that time. Also, I think my point is more "if they're suspicious of outsiders, wouldn't one of the first remarks about it be that her Jewish name make her extra suspicious?" Or, at the very least, it would be seen as an odd name.

I'll note, by the way, that I highly doubt she's Jewish and would almost certainly be from a convert family, especially because she's a baker. In traditional Jewish law you're supposed to clean your entire house and work space of natural leavening agents before Passover, so she would have to clean her bakery from top to bottom and then not bake for about a week. And even if she was the least observant medieval Jew, she probably wouldn't skimp on the "don't make leavened bread" part. Understandable in a Jewish community, but not good business in gentile one, especially because German areas traditionally eat special breads before and during Easter.

Honestly the thing that stuck out to me the most as being "this is a surface level look at Medieval Europe" is that the MC's name is Rachel but everyone treats her relatively normally. At that time, it would have been a VERY Jewish name and the only reason I can think of why a Christian would have it is her parents or grandparents converting. And even then, the name should totally be cited as part of why the villagers are suspicious of her, but it's not mentioned.

100% agree with everyone here about how refreshing it is that the prince character actually wants to be butch. When I was young I settled for the scraps of "wants to be feminine, forced to be masculine and secretly hates it" but now I'm too old to settle for such weak representation.

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smirks in Light Novel reader

So sad we'll probably never get more on this because Microsoft closed the studio for no reason.

I can't even see the qrts because Twitter is so broken now.

Now I'm curious, how do Japanese folks find new books in bookstores if things aren't genre sorted? I'm guessing that the imprint serves as a shorthand for genres, like how Harlequin is all romance novels? How does that work for huge companies that publish tons of different genres?