With how many people praised "Sorry, but I'm not into women" (the manga about a girl constantly spiking people's drinks with a love potion) and this one keeps getting bashed over the gender "hurdle" I sincerely think people are only looking at this one to cause arguments because it could have any trans rep at all.

I think the context and presentation matter. For example, if you put Bugs Bunny into an even remotely serious series, he'd be a horrible, violent, character, but in the context of his cartoons the things he does are generally fine or even heroic.

It's the same thing here. Neither of these series is particularlly serious, but "Sorry, But I'm Not Into Women" is more over the topic and comedic, so it's allowed to do more over the top things.

That is certainly an intersting name for a manga.

In addition to the endless seven, I'm not really getting delinquent or public morals from either of them.

To be fair, the whole thing with Claire and Dole feeling like they need to take the fall is a bit nonsense in and of itself, espesially because it meant handing power over to Silas, thus guaranteeing the new government would be completely corrupt.

That is an incredibly cute look for Marissa.

I don't like how well that design works for SpongeBob.

Someone needs to give that sister a wakeup call. Being worried that the whole thing's rigged because the person running it and acting as the main judge is the mom of one of the competitors isn't cowardice, it's basic logic. She abandoned most of your family to work on your music career. Obviously she's going to be biased and the whole thing is unfair. Also, no, she only has one daughter in the competition. She abandoned Yuu and still hasn't bothered to contact her. ... And I just had a vision of how they could try to excuse her behavior: She realizes she messed up or, worse, she's just to embarrassed to talk to her daughter after so long and doesn't know how to approach her.

I will be so mad if they take that route and hope the author is better than that.

Doesn't feel good at all. So I just hope that Haru & Yuu thoroughly kick Miyuki's ass in the finals and make it absolutely clear that the mom fucked up all those years ago in neglecting her daughter. So when Yuu invariably lets the two of them into her life sans restitution, at least Haru and Yuu know they succeeded on their own merit.

I'm going to disagree with that outcome if only because it still validates her behavior, she just chose the wrong daughter when, really, abandoning her husband and daughter like that would have been messed up even if the abandoned daughter had no musical aspirations and just wanted to be a librarian. Yuu's value isn't solely tied to her success as a musician and that what needs to be driven home to the deadbeat.

Just reread and caught up with the latest uploads here (I think I stopped right before Shion's debut). The relationship/romance threads have changed from a triangle into such a mess, but I kind of like how it's going! I especially like how much the characters are revealing their feelings and making it known who they like to each other. Especially this moment.
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/my_friends_abnormally_cute_sister_ch13#16

I'm usually very stubborn about only liking a specific pairing for each character(s) when it comes to these sorts of love webs (unless I end up rooting for a poly route). But honestly, I'd be fine with any arrangement of the characters getting together, as long as everyone ends up with somebody.

Although I'm not sold on Momo x married woman. I like Momo and it's cool that she also has her own kinky interest, but I feel like we know so little about the older woman and her feelings that I'm not sure how to feel about them as a pairing yet. She seems to be able to read people well, so is she stringing Momo along, into NTR as well, or oblivious to only Momo's emotions? Although with how nutty this series is, I wouldn't be surprised if the wedding ring was just a hoax and a ruse to get Momo's attention and/or avoid Mizuki's wrath. "A second yandere has hit the NTR freak!"

She could also be a widow. It's not like we've seen or even heard of her husband.

Honestly the "aaaaaaangst" "Drama" and "What the fuck am I reading" tags would not be out of line for this chapter.

The way I read it, the blame is 10/90. Magical girl should not be projecting onto evil general, but she might not even know she's doing it. And more to the point, Former General basically just lured the magical girl into a romantic setup just to rip out her heart and step on it.

Here's the thing: The worst thing that can happen is not being told no, or the other party being disgusted. Because the opposite of love is not hate, it's disinterest. Magical girl is clearly pushing herself really hard to be able to do this, and Evil General cuts her off, rejects not her feelings but the validity of the feelings, and then proceeds to mockingly tear into her for allegedly using the general as a replacement.

That's not just a rejection, it's psychological warfare.

Her response was definitely brutal, but I don't think you're interpretation of it is quite correct, because Juuna isn't disinterested or fully rejecting her. She's completely rejecting the premise (and hurting Hane quite a bit in the process), but she's also saying that she wants to continue standing in for that girl, if Hane will let her.

Honestly, I suspect an actual rejection or betrayal would have been less painful.

On another note, I still don't buy that Junna ISN'T the magical girl that saved Hane. I think she just doesn't remember. We know she doesn't seem to remember her life before she joined the bad guys.

personally, i think theres almost no way shes the magical girl
between the confusing age stuff (even junna called her “older”), and the fact that junna was referring to her as a seperate person, almost like she was someone else that she knew of, i dont really think they could still be the same.

i mean, junna obviously wouldnt know that they were the same if she was in fact the magical girl, but i still dont think it makes since anymore

Eh. If we're assuming brainwashing/memory loss is involved, then it's perfectly possible for Juuna to be aware of her former self while also not realizing they're the same person. With that said, you're probably correct about that not actually being the case.

Huh. This one really reminds me of (No Marriage, No Magic)[https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/no_marriage_no_magic#1]. I know deconstructions of the magical girl genre are pretty common, but I'm kind-of shocked that we got two that were so similar in such rapid succession.

Oh, hey, I'd forgotten about this and there's a few new panels on their pixiv.

On a different note, does anyone know what favor she was talking about that got her back from the moon?

That's quite the handicap from when you're fighting Ornstien and Smough.

Are we sure we didn't just mishear and Sakura ins't sevenTEEN, but sevenTY? Because "A reusable bag!? They fold up that small now!?" is the most boomer-ass thing I've read in a long while.

Or it's a rich girl who hasn't had to do her own grocery shopping thing. Or she just doesn't own a foldable reusable bag (I don't, because I prefer more robust bags and don't need the extra portability) and, thus she hasn't seen one like that before.

People keep talking about how Ena's bullets and the envy they caused resulted in Sae's fall, but I'm not sure how accurate that is. Rather, I think feelings of hate and overall negative mindset are what caused her fall. I also think it's telling that the flashback we saw before she fell had nothing to do with love or envy. It was entirely focused on her feelings of hatred towards her victims and the way she blamed them for her failings when they finally fought back. Getting shot full of envy couldn't have helped things, but I'd be willing to wager that if Ena had skipped the guns and jumped to a bare-knuckle beatdown, the endresult would have been the same, because Sae had all of the same negative traits and thoughts before Ena even died and what finally set her off was losing control of someone she was abusing.

I dunno this just felt very forced. Maybe it's an issue with it being it being a oneshot but it reads like a series of contrivances rather than a story about characters. Didn't feel a thing from it.

That's about how I felt. The individual elements are fine-to-well executed, but their pacing and the way they're introduced robs them of any impact. I think the biggest issue is the reveal that they'd met when they were younger, with their roles somewhat reversed, since it's a major element that comes out of nowhere and resolves the main tension in the story.

I want to say the problem is compounded by the reveal coming near the end, and thus not leaving enough time for a meaningful reaction or secondary plot, but it happens before 3/4 mark and this is a decently long one-shot, so that doesn't seem entirely accurate. Maybe it's more that the remaining pages aren't well utilized coupled with how sharpely the reveal and page 28 cut-off almost all the threads that lead up to them.

I don't know. That analysis also feels off.

Ooh. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing where this goes. Also, the author using reasonable bullet counts for the two guns is great attention to detail that I wasn't expecting.

In regards to the preorder for Volume 2, the doc mentions something about a Kinokuniya exclusive cover, but it seemed like that only applied to Volume 1. Is there anything like similar for Volume 2?

Aww. I was kind-of hoping the two long haired bandmates were (or were about to become) a thing.

Wow. This really reminded me of A Cute Guy to the point where I had to double check the author. Though, looking back, the art and character designs are WAY different, so I'm not sure why it felt so similar (beyond sharing a premise). I think Kaname's design reminds me of a specific character in a similar scenario, but I'm not sure who.

On a completely different note, what was with all the different fonts? Are they a carryover from the original or meant to convey something that was difficult to translate more directly?

its weird tho cause the second panel looks like dead middle school ooma? and the third looks like someone in the hospital

edit: maybe not hospital but it looks like hes got an elderly hand? and she has a young one?

Good catch. Ooma didn't have a ponytail in their past life.

Pg. 154, combined with some of her other comments, makes me wonder if the Lady is trans and experiencing some pretty serious gender dysphoria. In which case, getting topped by her servant probably isn't helping, even if she might otherwise like her. Also, if she is supposed to be trans, that's a pretty unusual detail to include in a oneshot like this, espesially without any real comment or exploration.

Yay! Nettles are back.

Everyone is talking about how she left her contact info, but it uses her business name, so isn't that just her business contact?

This has nothing to do with the actual manga, but I feel compelled to ask why its chapters always show up on the front page in reverse order. I don't think I've seen that with any other upload.

I like that Kotone is acutely aware of the fact that she has a lot of power over Aoi and doesn't want to, even unintentionally, abuse that power. It feels like a lot of stories with this sort of power disparity ignore that issue or act like the less powerful partner being some degree of on board with it or attracted to their boss eliminates the problem. Though, to be fair, the way a lot of them also include some degree of reversal does help.

What's with homeless people sleeping in literal garbage in manga lol

The Watsonian answer is probably some combination of depression, the trash being softer than concrete, and the trash pile being out of the way. The Doylist answer is that it provides some very clear symbolism for both their mental state and how society sees them.

Given how her bending sense works, she knows exactly what she's doing to Katara, right?

Also, the poses and expressions are perfect for them.