I vaguely knew some of that, in a general sense, but not in context. Both of those explanations were very helpful. Thank you.

Well, that isn't the room of someone living somewhere long term and now Riri's putting things off.

I get that the whole point is Ooma being a reincarnated demon lord or whatever, but this is getting so repetitive. Do we really need a flashback every single chapter just to illustrate how their relationship was back then? Is it not enough to just show Ooma and Riri's relationship as it is now, without constantly interrupting the flow of each chapter for useless flashbacks?

Yeah, I wouldn’t call them useless but at some point is just, idk, it’s like the author has zero faith in our memory or our reading comprehension
Honestly the more chapters the more I prefer the one-shot idea, I don’t think this manga is going to be long either, at max 20-30 chapters, first it comes from a one-shot, second it a premise that if you extend it gets repetitive. I am pretty sure the final line will be after they show us what truly happened with Ooma in her previous life

Personally I really like Zai haha

In addition to what the others said, the past chapters aren't just about showing us how Ooma messed up in their past life. They also gradually give us more information about who these characters were and what that world was like. For example, after some of the earlier chapters, some people speculated that maybe part of what held Ooma back in their prior life was some sort of social situation that would have prevented them from being together (which was pretty reasonable, given what we knew about the setting), but this chapter makes it clear that, no, not only could they have been together, but everyone else thought they already were, to the point where they included Riri in formal invitations to Ooma.

Mm I have a hard time trying to explain what I mean in eng but my point (not the original poster) was that even though the flashbacks are not useless, resorting to the same visual resource in all the chapters make it lose cohesiveness (for me)

Stories can have different levels of linearity and different people will vibe with them differently, just like any other thematic or styalistic choice. Simply jumping back and forth between two time periods is relatively tame, as far as these things are concerned (compared to something like Memento or Cloud Atlas), but if that's not your thing, than it's not your thing. Personally, I like it when authors push the bounds of how they handle chronology.

I have a question that's completely unrelated to the plot: On page 32 it says that both Momiji and Kouyo are written the same? How does that work, both in terms of how are the same characters making such different sounds and how would someone who's reading it know which set to use? Is there more to this that I'm missing or that isn't coming across?

I remember asking a Japanese tutor about something similar a, very long time ago, but I couldn't think of a good example at the time, so she wasn't able to give me an answer and I didn't stick with my studies well enough to figure it out myself. (I really do need to go back and work on that.)

I'm hesitant on this one, for all of the reasons people have mentioned, but it also has some very entertaining scenes, when you stop to think about them.

The most blatant is the look of utter revelation she gets when he asks if she's gay followed by her basically going "I only said that to get him to stop, but maybe I—HOLY SHIT I'M GAY!", but there's also the part where Momiji apparently got her sister, who's a professional make up artist, to help with her transformation. So, what, she went "Hey, sis, I need you to make me look like a girl, so I can get with this lesbian I used to bully in kindergarten" and she not only agreed but went all in, to the point of insisting Momiji wear colored contacts. I will laugh if we get a flash back to that scene and the sister basically says "So, you're finally coming out, sis?"

Holy shit, I thought that was a crease in her shirt. That scar is huge. What was she trying to do? Disembowel her?

I do believe something along those lines was the goal, yes. Then she realized who she was cutting into and her priorities rapidly changed.

The reveal and fight between the two must have been very dramatic and intense lol.

Also I think that is a different scar compared to the initial first scar we saw she got from Hana in the previous...It is a diagonal scar...The scar we saw in previous chapter was straight line it seems/Vertical type (Of course it could be the same scar and cut butt author just forgot the angle perhaps???)....Plus at the end (Pwn/REKT Juuna/Evil general laying in a pool of blood...Or is that her hair...blood or hair?) So yeah...Definitely more than one single cut from Hana's sword [That scar (Diagonal type probably was the most intense injury that couldn't be fully healed even with magic apparently???)]

The first cut we saw was a cut, not a scar, and Juna explicitly treated it as trivial. This scar is definitely the result of a second, far more serious, cut.

Well, that isn't the room of someone living somewhere long term and now Riri's putting things off.

I get that the whole point is Ooma being a reincarnated demon lord or whatever, but this is getting so repetitive. Do we really need a flashback every single chapter just to illustrate how their relationship was back then? Is it not enough to just show Ooma and Riri's relationship as it is now, without constantly interrupting the flow of each chapter for useless flashbacks?

Yeah, I wouldn’t call them useless but at some point is just, idk, it’s like the author has zero faith in our memory or our reading comprehension
Honestly the more chapters the more I prefer the one-shot idea, I don’t think this manga is going to be long either, at max 20-30 chapters, first it comes from a one-shot, second it a premise that if you extend it gets repetitive. I am pretty sure the final line will be after they show us what truly happened with Ooma in her previous life

Personally I really like Zai haha

In addition to what the others said, the past chapters aren't just about showing us how Ooma messed up in their past life. They also gradually give us more information about who these characters were and what that world was like. For example, after some of the earlier chapters, some people speculated that maybe part of what held Ooma back in their prior life was some sort of social situation that would have prevented them from being together (which was pretty reasonable, given what we knew about the setting), but this chapter makes it clear that, no, not only could they have been together, but everyone else thought they already were, to the point where they included Riri in formal invitations to Ooma.

So, for those lacking context, what did she forget?

Have we met the fan at the start of this chapter before? She looks familiar, but I can't quite place her.

That last panel looks far to sweet and innocent for Yukari.

Also, Yukari, why are you using google maps, you clearly don't need it? What are you planning?

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So Akiba knows they're in a secret relationship? Because why else would she go up to her and say all that stuff about stealing her away etc if she didn't know.

I'm pretty sure it's the president who knows about their relationship and she said all that stuff because he put her up to it. Also, she seems to have a thing for Suda.

Free as in "A short game put out by a single dev for free", not "Free to play, but loaded with micro-transactions." It's mostly a basic puzzle game with some nice art. Their follow-up is also a yuri game, unlike Hell Taker.

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".

wouldn't you even now?

What part of this was edgy?

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