Uh ... Is most of the chapter missing or did they actually put out a 1 page chapter?

edgy manga wants to be edgy, Sakura looks and behaves like a child so I don't care too much about her but ruka and chiharu have story, I don't know what to feel about ruka an sakura being the same age but I want ruka and chiharu together, they are just so into each other it makes me mad when we cut to sakura being dumb as always

I don't think I'd describe this manga as "edgy".

That was a cute way to confess, but for some reason I can't help but think about that other girl from page 12. Just standing there, on the other side of the book case, thinking "Oh gods, they're flirting again. This is so awkward. Wait, are they going to— Quick, make a noise!"

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the author thought of random things to reference, at shoved it all into a single chapter

You make it sound like that's not most of the chapters.

fuck it. everyone's nonbinary

Probably true, to some extent. Even the far-right macho men types felt the need to invent a system for breaking down and classifying masculinity beyond just being a binary with femininity. It's almost like the hard gender binary they claim is fact doesn't actually exist.

Every chapter Sakura becomes bigger and it looks funny as hell. Like she is in a completely different scale than the other characters

New theory: The story is building up to the reveal that this is actually urban fantasy and the reason the yakuza is protecting her is because she's actually a giant or an oni or something.

But one little detail is catching my attention: the panel where it is stated 'I'm Takane Nagi and you're Arimoto Airi.' That sounds like a reaffirmation of some induced identity shenanigans. Like maybe the Airi we see is actually Nagi made to think she's Airi, and that's why when she tries to run home she runs to Nagi's home.

In that vein, it's worth noting that after the frame splice, they've switched sides at the table. It's not obvious, because they're lined up with their positions in the frame at the top of the page, but those two frames are from oposite perspectives.

I might be misunderstanding something, but isn't the thing under her wrist a belt?

I want to see more character designs from this AU and artist.

Also I love how every time it goes back in the past Riri is throwing out hints to him but he's the densest most oblivious person in existence lol.

Eh. I don' tthink that's quite right. Even in the first chapter, Ooma outright says that they were "probably in love with each other". Her problem is that they never actually vocalized it to each other or acted on those feelings. From what we've seen, even if he missed some of Riri's attempts at flirting, what actually held him up were his own feelings of inadequacy and obligation.

Put another way, they weren't dense or oblivious, they were just too stuck in their own head.

As much as I and I assume many other readers would love to see it, a scene where Yuuri just turns to the camera and says "I am transgender and want to be a girl." is never going to happen in a somewhat light-hearted manga like this, but the same goes for option 3. Much like with many of the other gender bender manga out there, the mc's gender is probably just going to be left vague and up to the reader's interpretation. Automatically flocking to the interpretation that it's "het in a non-het package" because of it is insulting to the original work and other interpretations. This might just be my opinion as a trans woman, but no living cis guy would ever choose to remain in a wrong-gendered body just for a crush. If Yuuri does ultimately choose to stay as a girl, a queer reading is unavoidable.

I don't know if it'll go this way (it probably won't), but the managa has set up a fairly natural way to functionally do just that. Specifically, it could have Kyouko get used to Yuuri over the course of the series and, as the deadline approaches, tell them she'd be OK with them returning to their original form, only for Yuuri to decide to keep her female form because that's the form she prefers.

"Serious Disiplinary Committe member."
The next page:

You'd think she'd be used to it by now, given how many girls she gets.

I think Nonon x Satsuki and Ryuko x Mako being so good is part of why we didn't get as much Ryuko x Satsuki as we might have in a similar series without those canon pairings.

How'd she even die? Doesn't look like she flew out of the van after hitting the railing, railing means she shouldn't have been in the street to get hit...

The railing was bent, meaning she was in the street and hit the railing (after getting hit by the car) and rebounded.

There's one thing I don't get. This person has been in their current body since it was two, and they decided to commit to it back then. So why now are they still going "Oh, I better do this teenage girl thing to better understand teenage girl-ness"? They've had the same amount of normal growing up being a present-day girl as all their peers, they should already know what they're doing (well, as much as any teenager does).

I feel like that "as much as any teenager does" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

malibus88 posted:

Hmm, it's really cute but I don't know if I like the gender bender. I will see how it goes but I just can't get over it.

For me the gender bender is a reason not to pick it up especially with yuri tag added to it.
I just don't find any allure in reading a story about a guy changed into a girl and ending with a girl, since it's rather a fake yuri approach since in reality the mind is of an original male individual but now in conveniant female body, so basically heterosexual relation than a yuri one.

I'm not saying you're being transphobic, I will say though that I have seen very openly transphobic people use this same line of logic. How someone can't be a girl because they have the mind of a boy, and the other way around. So be careful with that line of thinking.

No offense but for me personally transexual content has nothing to do with gender bender/gender swap type of stories.
Transexual people if they truly want to be of their desired gender they have to take hormones for life and take serious operations to change their body sex than what they were born with, while in gender bending stories the change is pretty much magical stuff, which has nothing to do with actual transition and it's mostly used for comedy purpose, so in a way gender bender stories itself as genre of fiction are transphobic and insulting in that way if you gonna look at it.

This story pretty much in single chapter confirms that approach by making an adult guy self take over 2 years old girl body and live her life as his own now, his stronger mind took over and we have him still thinking with his male mind monologues as narrator through the story about his past and love life and he still identifies as a guy in them.

For me such work is not a GL/yuri work, here we clearly see that the attraction to the woman came before him being changed into a female and it comes from him being a guy before, so hard to call it like that as girls love work if it's a heterosexual one.

You do realize the whole point of fantasy is doing things that aren't possible in real life, right? Sure, if a person wants to medically transition, in reality, then they'll have to go through a long, hard, and imperfect process, but fiction isn't reality and it's pretty easy to understand why someone might want to imagine a world where they don't have to do that.

Also, like ninryu said, not every transperson needs to or wants to medically transition or medically transition to the same extent.

SpencerSDH posted:

Well, if Kitano is trans, then this is not yaoi.

Maybe I missed something, but was it confirmed that Kitano was trans? It kinda read to me like they just liked women’s fashion. Not saying that it wouldn’t make sense if they were, just that removing the yaoi tag might be premature.

People forget that GNC is a thing. You can be fine being a boy and like cute things and want to dress like a girl.

While it's true that GNC is a thing, and I'd be a bit surprised if that didn't cover at least one person in the class, the look on her face when Girly said she was a guy does not scream "just in it for the cute clothes."

yurifox_ posted:

Not usually a fan of gender swap manga most of the time it just feels like fake yuri.

But this first episode was interesting and it's got an agegap which I usually love so will give this a few chapters to see how it fleshes out.

Maou-sama seems pretty committed to living as a girl here. Even her ponytail is made of hearts.

Even so, it's very clear that he still refers to himself and sees himself as a man. Like almost every gender bender "yuri" manga, it's just het between a cis guy in a girl's body and a cis girl. In this case, she's even aware of the fact that he's the reincarnated demon lord, so it's not yuri in that way either.

If I read things correctly, it seems like they use masculine pronouns when referring to their past life, as the demon lord, but feminine/gender neutral pronouns when referring to themselves in the present.

BoomAndZoom posted:

And now that I think of it, they're in High School, aren't they? Just in time for puberty to be at its high, and that's when the body start to show its secondary sexual traits. So perhaps if Girly calm down and do some research and observation or something, then I'm sure he'll have eliminated at least half the femboy contestants no problem.

Literally all of them are wearing collars of some sort and several appear to have visible breasts, so that's probably not going to work out. Also, it would be a pretty lackluster story if that had a chance of working.

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To be fair to Girly in his original reaction to Kitano, she's the one who told him she didn't want to dress that way, so it kind-of made sense he'd go out of his way to downplay it, rather than add more focus to something he thought she didn't like.

Also, I wonder if the twist will be that everyone in that class (with the possible exception of girly) is actually a girl (cis or trans) and the whole "only one girl" thing was started to give them a bit of a shield against the rest of the school. That would make the principal's attempt to out one of them a bit odd though, unless he had some other plan Girly preempted.

In a similar vein, I wonder if the vial of "poison" will be another fake out and it'll just be some exfoliant or something, since chemical exfoliants are literally just dilute acid.

Good news is it looks like she finished and were gonna end up this dumb arc next chapter hopefully.

Bad news is I expect lame ass Watanabe so now join their friend group and just be annoying the entire rest of this series. Nagi needs to hurry up and wifey up Airi because this stupid Watanabe seems to be obsessed with her have a feeling she's gonna be in the way from here on out.

She could also experience some character growth, which seems to be a bit of a thing in this series.

I'm not sure how I feel about this chapter. On the one hand, it had some good character interactions and developments and this conversation probably needed to happen at some point. On the other, it's placement feels odd. Wasn't this supposed to be part of some plan to help Claire or convince her not to go down with her father? Because it doesn't feel like it relates to that goal at all and they seem to be operating under enough of a time crunch that dragging Lilly around and arranging all of this just to clear the air seems counterproductive.

I will say I did enjoy jealous Claire when she would randomly blurt out about not taking Rae or her belonging to her but either way Lily overstayed her welcome far too long and now it looks like Lily caught the eye of the creepy cousin who in the novel raped someone that they kind of just played off in the manga that does make me feel bad for Lily.

That's not what Manaria did and not her relationship to her lover. I only clarify now, when I normally let the assumption go, because you mentioned the novels.

Everything I agree with though about Lilly and Rae. This new addition is fine and most of them have been good updates to the novels but I don't enjoy the manga's accusations against Rae here. She was more than clear enough and Lily was actively trying to get in between two people who she claims are her dear friends. The story just dances around the immoral facts of that and it's the one thing I never liked. I do enjoy her overall whenever they allow her to move on from this stuff.

Just a few chapters ago, Lilly called Manaria "the shitty woman who laid her hands on her help" and Manaria basically acknowledged the statement as accurate. While she didn't explicitly say it was rape, there aren't many other ways to interpret the statement and the alternatives aren't much better, so I'm a bit curious about what their relationship was in the books.

Ooh. It's been a while since I've seen anything from GRS and this is an excellent image to return on.

The pacing on this feels breakneck.