Well, Kanna certainly knows what she wants.

Cute and hilarious as always. With that said, I'm not sure how I feel about Patchy's library. On one hand, the design is awesome. On the other, all of that humidity, from being in a room with a large body of water, cannot be good for the books.

Also, oof, Meiling. Getting smacked awake and wondering why Sakuya was being so gentle hurts almost as much as Komachi not being phased by the statement.

I just noticed Pandora in the last panel and all I can say is that her sacrifice will not be forgotten. XD

The real question is whether this will make it easier or harder for Marisa to get away with her ill gotten goods.

Bit ironic that the princess is the bodyguard.

Stylish as all get out, though.

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Donkey Kong posted:

On an unrelated note, I saw the leash and immediately thought of “Her Pet” it’s been so long since I’ve read it tho, I literally had to look up what the name was

Is Her Pet on Dynasty, because searching it didn't seem to turn anything up.

The whole, “I’m not interested in love because I can’t get over a heartbreak” plot line isn’t fresh but I don’t mind that— i DO mind, tho, that the “revenge” is over the most immature BS, it’s so ironic how her friends called her mature when she gets rejected in the most tame way— like, maybe she could’ve worded it a tad nicer, but it was mean enough to warrant REVENGE like omfg—

To be fair, the only "revenge" she initially wanted was standing the girl up. She only when with a more extreme revenge when it looked like her new pet had asked her out and then immediately went off with another girl and the next day showed up with yet another girl.

For a gag-a-day comic, there is a shocking amount of continuity in this story.

A reference I never thought I'd see. A Popeye reference! I'm not going crazy and misremembering Hassan Chop!

Wouldn't it be a Soul Eater Reference with Maka, Sid, and Shinigami chops?

Also, speaking of references, what was the reference at the end of the first chapter?

So, she found the cat ears in the school's prop storage. Did she find the tail their too, or did she just have that on her, in case she ever had an opportunity to use it?

^That's Tifa

I ... What? How did I even make that mistake?

^I wouldn't say Odd, but for me, the ship felt unexpected. I’ve watched the movie many times and never really considered them as a ship. The same goes for the Gogo x O-Ren fan art I’ve been seeing lately, it's not odd, just unexpected. At least, that’s how I felt at first. But honestly, the Gogo x O-Ren art is starting to grow on me. (^v

To be fair, this is the same artist who also gave us Yu-Gi-Oh themed The Devil Wears Prada fanart.

Why is Aeris's hair green?

Are you sure A isn't the intro to the lewd fantasy and B is the romcom?

Is there something about The Devil Wears Prada that makes it particularly odd for DS?

It's a safe assumption to make that Ashido was in that chair earlier.

Oh. That's not a bight mark, it's the sign of an appreciative spectator.

Going by the cardboard wings and fake halo, that angle may not be as holy as she claims.

It seems Toga is very skilled. Also, should that ankle monitor be red?

Actually, real question, did someone take a bite out of that seat that's behind Ochoko?

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myrrhmidon posted:

HOLY SHIT. SADOKO COULD TURN BACK THE LEAVES!

...with flaws tho but wow. Just a name change and she really got more powerful. However, I really like how much Konoha has grown to like actual Satoko. So goodbye competent Sadoko and welcome self-depreciating Satoco

As Konoha pointed out, Sadoko probably wasn't more powerful, just more confident and determined. Satoko had already put in the hard work and training before hand. Konoha was, specifically, talking about her kuni skills, but the same logic likely also applies to her leafing.

So, does this version get horse ears when sufficiently flustered?

FluffyCow posted:

Rent-A-Girlfriend but lesbians is basically saying to me "that weird and terrible cuck series but lesbians", and while some would definitely enjoy that (more power to em) it still wouldn't be my thing no matter how that cake is sliced lol

To be fair, it seems like the cuck aspect also got dropped with the saphening, since she got dumped at the start, so chalk that up as another improvement.

Purple Library Guy posted:

The webcomic El Goonish Shive had something vaguely similar.

Oh, hey, an EGS reader! Allo!

There's at least three of us here! (Probably more, if we're being realistic.)

I just want to say that the credit page format continues to be fantastic and I really appreciate the translation notes.

Linterdiction posted:

LETS FUCKING. GOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I feel like i've been idly searching for exactly this kind of thing for a long while. I'm sooooo fucking excited for this. I love BDSM stories with an experience masochist that explore the sadist's side of things. This weekend is gonna be so awful and I have so much work to do but the knowledge that this manga exists and is being translated...

In that case, have you read The Real Her

I think part of the reason age-gap or student×teacher stuff can bother people so much, unlike violence in action movies, is the way it relates to the core conceit and what a reader/viewer is looking for.

With action movies, you're looking for cool action scenes, likely with a side of bad people getting what they deserve. Violence, and quite a bit of law breaking, doesn't really conflict with that. In fact, it's probably an explicit part of what you're looking for.

Conversely, with romance manga, you're often looking for an exploration of the characters' relationship, which means you're a lot more likely to both notice and focus on the implications and issues created by unsavory details like age gap and student × teacher relationship. This can also get in the way of extending the fantasy, like picturing them meeting each other's friends, if you're the type who likes to imagine your own scenes.

The other issue is that potentially abusive power imbalances like this are a lot closer to real life, so it's a lot easier to picture yourself in the place of one of the characters, or in a similar position, and not like how that makes you feel when you start applying real life logic to that image. By contrast, even though you probably wouldn't like being in an action flick in real life, those kinds of things are divorced enough from most people's experience that it's much easier to maintain the fantasy logic, and ignore the more realistic consequences, when picturing yourself in those scenarios.

I think Sal Jiang can help me demonstrate what I mean. Imagine if the main character's relationship in Black & White was presented like the relationship in Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko!. Being told that you're looking at the start of a beautiful and loving relationship, while watching the two characters hurt each other and just generally be awful human beings, would be a bit uncomfortable. But, of course, Black & White isn't Ayaka and you're not reading it to see a loving relationship. You're reading it for the absolutely toxic yuri and fantastic hate-sex between two people who heard Fie on Goodness and thought it would be a good song to base their lives on.

With all of that said, at least for me, this premise is absurd enough and the power dynamic is inverted enough, that I'm mostly just curious to see where it goes.

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Doctor_Hoot posted:

I will cut her slack because the prince had tried to suffocate her earlier, but clocking a crossdressing person still feels like a lame way to win a fight. Even if the prince is just a cis girl.

Still, from this mangaka, it's kind of interesting to see a less wholesome pairing as a main couple.

To be fair, Oliver actually referred to the prince as a women when they first went to meet her, so it's unlikely she was revealing anything that was actually a secret to the other people in the room.

doughnatsu posted:

Silly little detail, but I find it very interesting that her appearance notably changed when she was isekai'd? I don't think I've seen that before; she hasn't been reincarnated as another person, she was summoned, but for some reason her hair and eyes are different. And her reaction to it and the flashbacks show us it's not a case of Anime Hair(tm). I wonder if it has anything to do with actual magic she may have now? Anyway, I think this concept is very fun, and I hope to continue it. Always here for another Yuri iseki ng lmao. Thanks for translating!

She mentioned her hair being a different color, but how do you know her eyes also changed?

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