Who was he again? Feels like I've seen him for the first time but probably not.

I'm pretty sure that's the prince, who if I remember correctly was both Evie's fiancé and was a potential love interest for Elsa, hence Evie's role of being a villainess.

Obviously neither of the girls are invested in being with him here, but I don't think we know how the current him feels about either of them since he only really got to do anything during the childhood arc. If I remember correctly

@Lucca

A lot of is the manga horror panel style framing we've gotten since early on. Meguru messed up Azuki way more in terms of explicit plot events, but Meguru wasn't drawn like a serial killer or eldritch horror pretending to be human so it can eat someone. This is priming people to think "Well, Niji must simply be that bad, given nothing contradicts this reading."

We recently had something similar happen in Lose Bets. A character threw stick of lip gloss over a bridge. Then readers acted like the character had crossed the moral event horizon. The paneling made it look like the character had committed a uniquely terrible act, so people interpreted it that way. Most readers are not detached enough that they will stop to think about why the paneling was set up that way or which parts of the comic are the source of their feelings about the characters.

As for why the author would do draw Niji this way, I think it's to build tension ("What will Niji do next? How far will she go?"), as well as to pull a bait and switch and say "Of course she was another traumatized teenage lesbian all along. Like in universe characters who resent the protagonists, you didn't have all the information and decided to make your judgement based on the parts you could see despite that."

Same may happen somewhat with Remu in the other direction, if she turns out to be quite as nice and well adjusted as she acts for the sake of others' approval. Not that she's evil either, but she's biting off more than she can chew in trying to realize everyone's desires and happiness. At some point that will not go well.

Edit: To build on your point of "If Niji was the protagonist," Azuki could have been drawn in a way that seems extremely menacing, with the whole "longer who obsesses over a past lover from long ago while making headless naked dolls of them" thing. We'd have had people expecting Azuki to commit a murder in that case if we had that drawing style combined with the loss of protagonist POV and most inner thoughts.

Yep, I agree with all you said. If Azuki was the “antagonist” character, people would say she never loved Meguru, because the dolls never had a face, it was just lust, and how that is creepy and that Meguru has valid reasons. etc.

People calling Niji dangerous because she snitched is hilarious to me, she is acting like a annoying know-it-all spoiled brat, nothing more. If it's about harm, emotional damage, etc. Meguru has done more than Niji has.

People don't need to justify their dislike for Niji, the story itself paints her that way (like Kira from Death Note, that type of edgy villain lol) but it is obvious that if she was the protagonist people would not see her as “dangerous” as a “abuser” etc. people would sympathize with her.

No I'd see her the same. "Dangerous" here also means harmful to others, willingly and actively so. Most of the other girls don't share the same qualities. They regret and feel shame; they worry and most of their issues are internal. Niji not so much, at least not as she's been presented so far. Her specific delusions could quite easily spiral and become intentionally harmful in a way that feels more likely than the others. Her delusions involve puppeteering people, wanting them to act in her ways or she grows frustrated. What happens when everyone doesn't play the part? I guess we'll find out eventually. I think we also have to remember the way she put pressure on her "friend" when she thought things weren't going her way, or weren't "as they should be." I imagine that also colors how people see her. I think the author is drawing her differently because she's a bit different.

People are very much not calling NIji dangerous Because she snitched. They are calling her dangerous because of the reasons Why she snitched. Which is the fact that she wants reality to conform to a fanfiction she's been writing and she is concerningly aggressive about doing whatever it takes to make that happen.

She didn't snitch because she's concerned for Remu or because she truly cares about Azuki and Meguru and wants them to work through their history. She snitched because she wants Remu to be the version of her that Niji designed, and to achieve that she is trying to get rid of a 'distraction' that makes Remu act 'out of character.' I guarantee you she'd be acting this way even if Remu got into a perfectly happy and healthy relationship with one of their classmates because that'd be just as 'out of character' to Niji and she cannot stand that.

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What do you mean by "how about I give this castle to you?"
Does she even own it now? Didn't the state exile her family?

They did so I imagine she doesn't. But, the girl Does have some knowledge of the original plot even if she hasn't used it in a while because of her refusal to mind the rails. It's possible that sitting in that unused pool of knowledge there's something that someone who isn't exiled could use to obtain ownership.

Might have to do with why Evie ends up being a maid like we saw in that flashfoward. We still don't know what that was about

Because it's too early to tell what'll happen.

What will happen? Vote now on your phones:

A: Her wandering friend is the love interest
B: Her student is the love interest
C: The cool beauty part time teacher is the love interest
D: The cute glasses wearing teacher is the love interest
E: There is no love interest. Everything will be subtext and the manga will be highly divisive because of it.

Based on how she was acting and the title of the story, I'm pretty sure the answer is A. I think the idea here is that there are two main romances that the story is going to focus on. The student's crush on the part time teacher, and the teacher's hopefully mutual love with her traveling friend.

I am not sure if the former will end up successful or if the answer will be sometimes you have to let go of your first love and move on, but I am very hopeful that the second will be successful. If, you know, they're not just outright already dating.

Cause seriously they have a room together in their apartment and the traveling friend is constantly sending her momentos, even just cool rocks she finds, and the teacher is looking at event he cool rocks with adoring expression because it's from her. This feels like 'already a couple' kind of things

But were those Evies her reincarnated self (or other people who reincarnated) dying over and over or the Evie from the routes of the game that didn’t have the awareness that this Evie has?

Yeah, that's been bugging me, too. At some point, Dorothee found out that the world has a narrative, and even talked about it in terms that Yvonne would only really comprehend as a transmigrator. Did she figure that out on her own? Did some past Yvonne tell her? ...Is it possible that she's ALSO a transmigrator?

It seems to me like the most likely answers are either she figured it out on her own, or Yvonne told her in an alternate timeline. She doesn't really seem to act the way I'd expect a second transmigrator to.

That being said we don't really know yet, so watch me have to eat crow when that turns out to actually be the answer.

You know, I’ve felt like something has been off about this story for the past few chapters, and I think I finally figured I out what it is.

This is basically a sequel series at this point. Like, the demon invasion was basically the climax of the story, and the stuff with the parents was basically an epilogue. These past few chapters have been so jammed full of exposition (and admittedly clumsy exposition at that, especially when compared to earlier chapters) that they’ve felt less like the start of a new season or arc, and more like they should be the opening of a new series. Add in the new main setting and the fact that the villainess system has practically been written out of the work at this point and replaced with a brand new curse (at least, it certainly feels that way), and these recent chapter are basically the start of Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess! 2.

Indeed. it also sort of feels like it got some sort of...revitalization? so to speak. Like, the art seems to have a had a very subtle improvement and there's these full body shots every now and then which never used to happen. I'm honestly really digging it.

Now that someone has said it, this really does feel a lot like volume 2 of a novel. Which I guess makes sense considering this series is based on one from what I recall, but I don't think I've ever felt that so strongly with a comic before.

I’m a bit confused how the mom is taking this information so well since Mirai actually told her the truth. Did they just pass it off as a joke and go with that excuse they came up with? It seems like that to me since she doesn’t think Nozomi is actually Kako’s daughter but I’m not sure.

Yea, the implications of her words about how Mirai has gone through ' a lot' at her age is meant to be that they told her the actual excuse off screen and she accepted it because, well

Is this the part where I have to remind you that two cis girls can't have a baby together?
Even Kako herself doesn't believe that Nozomi is her daughter.

This. Yea there are ways for Cis Homosexual couples to have kids, but they all require at least one third party and they would leave the child biologically as either Mirai or Kako's. Not both of theirs like Mirai claimed.