It is depressing that she's saving the author.

What? Just because he was born he deserves to live? Just because they weren't born they have to stop existing? Which is more ridiculous, the gag world or this "real" one?

He deserves to live because it's wrong to torture someone to sustain your own life. He's sick to the point that he fell out of his chair, but Hinami wants to break his legs and force him to keep drawing, no matter if doing so is agony for him.

Why bitter? Bitter in beer comes from hops, which they weren't using then.

Everyone accepting Ema running around in bare legs, huh. Guess the witch can do what she wants.

No, they used hops in Germany then. The first mention of hops being used in brewing there is in 1079, and they were cultivated since the 700s. The Reinheitsgebot was applied in 1516 in Bavaria and required that beer only be made from water, barley, and hops, and that was adopted from an even earlier law from 1487. Hops must have been well-established in beer production by then to be mentioned as a key ingredient.

^ Thank you for your service

Oh my god that's the cutest love letter ever.

Between being completely oblivious after Jolene made full-on lip contact or after her father directly grilling her, only for her to ask whatever he may be implying, girl's dumber than a brick. Actually, Jolene, as well, was very subtle with what she implied there, though I do respect Hesha telling her me no understand plis spik.

Hesha is just channeling "useless lesbian" in its purest form, girl could look at two women having sex and dismiss the resulting feelings as "I'm just jealous they get to feel good, that's all!"

#MariaSweep

Because we've all had 20 years to stew on this and it's embedded in our brains forever. Like, I still mourn the total disappearance of a Strawberry Panic parody video from 2007 called "Shizuma's Guide to Getting It On".

I love that carrot cake is apparently newish in Japan? It's one of the best cakes and I'm glad the Japanese have learned it exists and is utterly delicious.

As fun as the last page funfact is, it's also wrong - speculoos is an alternate spelling of speculaas, but it's the exact same cookie!

Not the first time i see someone claim that though, I wonder where it originates from?

EDIT: I missed that there was another page of comments and that the uploader addressed this, whoops.

I checked and there actually is a difference in the spices used, but the name actually being different was created through marketing by Lotus Bakeries
rather than an organic historic development. Speculoos don't contain most of the spices usually in speculaas (just cinnamon) and add in caramelized sugar, but prior to Lotus rebranding then they were simply sold as speculaas. According to that link, VRT (Belgian Flemish public broadcaster) and the Belgian government's Flemish language advisory board both consider speculoos a brand name. Obviously, they aren't the arbiters of language use, but their insistence confirms speculoos didn't arise organically.

tl;dr speculoos do have fewer spices, but the name is marketing and not related to whether Belgium had historical access to the spice market

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"Next time, I'll make sure not to say it" is just such a funny sentence. Next time wouldn't be her first time doing it with a woman, but her brain must have already been so deep in the "well, my homosexuality is inevitable" zone that it smashed "of course I'm gonna keep fucking women" with "crap I made a social faux pas I should remember not to do it again".

I am lucky not to have a family like this.

I think the sympathy I feel here isn't like "she's trying the best". It's "you are the cause of your own pain and it's sad that you are too far gone to see it". Almost like the feeling I got when I had to lay mouse traps one time, where I wished coexisting was possible, but it's just not. Except worse because she has a choice in her actions, she just doesn't realize it anymore.

We're just calling anyone a villainess now.

Well, when she laughs she goes "oHohoho!" in proper villainess style . . . wasn't that always the main qualification?

Also the "prince" tried to break up their engagement, which is the normal otome game villainess plot point.

The Ohohoho! is still absolutely necessary, of course.

Technically they can easily 'speak' the same language...Reading and writing the same language on the other hand...check ch.2 to 4, princess had trouble reading the cook book and did the cooking by looking at the pictures plus writing notes in her own language which MC cannot read. Olivia on the other hand...She has a job, use a PC and can easily read Japanese stuff lol.

I'm pretty sure Olivia was the first to arrive by a long shot and is certainly the most motivated to "shine brightly" so Machino could find her. She has a leg up with her studying ability so I imagine her first few days were literally spent in a library learning how to read and how the world works. After all, she magically speaks Japanese so she could start with the hiragana in toddler's books ("いぬ" over dog picture, "inu" is the word for dog, therefore い=i, ぬ=nu) and work up from there, and a library conveniently has computers she could learn to type on (even they're just for finding books).

There is also a villainess manga where the little sister of the so-called Villainess finds about how their story and life is kind of made like a otome-game and she is basically like FK U to all the developers when she finds out trying to rush the game before the release (Release involved her older sister [Villainess dying in every route]) and trying to find a way to save her older sister. The head lead developer being annoyed by the writer of the game making long complex backstory for villainess and involving little sister character too, MC basically has REZero ability with some game point aspect

Do you remember the name of that manga? I'm googling the key words but having trouble finding something with a villainess's little sister saying "screw the programming".

How did Hinami managed to give her mom that flower bonquet...?

There must be a way to open the top, because in FF7 they have to take samples from Jenova somehow. Alternatively (and more humorously), it's literally like an aquarium tank and the top is open with catwalks around it.

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You say Turbo Teen, I say Ultimate Muscle Roller Legend: https://youtu.be/nk2wViKSh_M

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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