Ahhhh. I feel cleansed. Beloved Edeleth.

"Liz liked getting cakes too" holy shit, that is so unbelievably weak, it's beautiful. Absolute poetry. I was worried, with the long hiatus - what if the writing has improved? What if time and distance from the project has made Kitta Izumi grow as a person, and she looks back on these characters and sees how pathetic they are, and that their trash personalities no longer speak to her soul? But no, miracle of miracles, Liberty has returned, and no amount of heartbreak, sorrow, and self- actualisation can stop Liz from acting like an insufferable bitch to Maki for no reason. Dreams do come true. All we need now, is one more chapter, where Maki runs back to Liz like a helpless little puppy, no lessons are learned, no apologies are made, and it fades into dreamy white light as if these two getting back together isn't the bad ending. It's all I want.

I'm losing it lmfao Rhea's like "we can't do this, I'm trying to turn you into my mom" that's kind of a crazy reason to jack someone off until their dick disappears then say "Okay no more :)"

Is she her mom and this is some time travel thing? I only played the first Fire Emblem game and that was a while ago so I don't remember the storyline. There's no incest tag so I thought it's just some forbidden superior/subordinate thing.

It's really hard to explain without going into complete spoilers for Three Houses and having a total Pepe Silvia meltdown over the timeline and the relationships involved, but basically:

Rhea is trying to forcibly reincarnate her mother (Sothis, a dead dragon god) into Byleth's body. This is the latest in a long line of experimental resurrections that Rhea has been attempting to carry out for the last 1000 years or so; all of them have been complete failures, although Byleth seems the most promising candidate. Unbeknownst to Rhea, however, Sothis has already awakened within Byleth, but instead of taking over her body, she's just been hanging around like a sassy imaginary friend. By this point in the story, a crisis has forced Sothis to completely meld her soul together with Byleth, and they have become a kind of gestalt entity, with Byleth in the driver's seat. Whether Sothis is conscious within Byleth, and would be aware the whole time she's doing the nasty with Rhea, is... inconclusive.

Also, Byleth's mother was sort of an artificial lifeform that Rhea created, in a failed attempt at creating a shell for Sothis to manifest into (presumably using her own DNA, though that isn't explicitly stated). This clone/homonculus ended up falling in love with a soldier and giving birth to Byleth, a pregnancy for which Rhea served as midwife. So in some ways, Byleth and Rhea are more or less unrelated, but in other ways, Byleth is both Rhea's mother and her grandaughter at the same time.

You might wonder how fucked up you'd have to be to ship these two characters together, given the circumstances, and that would be a great question to ask Intelligent Systems, who made Rhea a completely real and valid romance option in the game. Meaning that this doujin is, in fact, almost completely canon-compliant, magical disappearing penises notwithstanding.

last edited at Mar 17, 2025 11:24PM

Meguru pouring her heart out about the strained and borderline inappropriate attachment she has to her sister (to put it optimistically), but Kasane's lost in daydreams about sisters yuri and can't pay attention, lmao. Get your head out of the clouds, Kasane! This ain't no Mochi Au Lait caper! Stop trying to cosplay yourself into one!

last edited at Jan 26, 2025 1:21PM

I think this is the first time I've ever seen "but there were only two beds" as a story trope.

I mean I guess you're right but not in the sense of like Twilight love triangle where the main girl is in between two people and doesn't know which one to choose.

I mean, this actually resembles the Twilight triangle pretty close, in the sense that the aloof older love interest runs away and leaves the central character in despair, while the younger love interest tries to fill the gap and gets a bit pushy despite being clearly turned down several times already. It's a surprisingly close parallel when I think about it. Hopefully the similarities end there, lmao.

This is cute, but there's no "sensei" element to it at all, lmao. It's just a teenager and the cool older lady she's crushing on.

Are you sure she's not named Malenia? Because all that sounds like Malenia to me.

Elizabeth is the ultimate boss of Persona 3. Margaret is the ultimate boss of Persona 3 Portable. Unless it's a localization issue, I don't think Malenia was a name in those games.

Malenia is an optional super-boss in Elden Ring, haha. The joke was how similar they sound in terms of crushing difficulty.

god like, someone offered up the possibility that Maya may be trans several chapters and years ago now, and holy shit, this chapter with it's "only a few people called me by that name" in addition to everything else that other people have noticed from previous chapters. No way there's a cis explanation for this one haha

Yeah, the amount of emphasis placed on Prez asking her out of the blue to play Viola, and then going on to elaborate that it would be a twin role ("You'd be great in both male and female costumes!") says a lot to me. It totally works fine as an androgynous gloomy cis girl suddenly being reached out to by the outgoing drama club president, but it becomes even sharper and more powerful as Maya's fond memory of being seen as who she is for the first time.

Another manga just rushes into the relationship stuff without a proper buildup

This got a good cackle out of me.

Hmm... I sympathise with the author's desire to retain some narrative tension and intrigue about the situation, and not show the characters literally telling us how the story is going to end, but arbitrarily deleting a speech bubble was a little clunky. Perhaps it would've been better to cut away from their meeting at some point before Noa's misunderstanding was cleared up, and only show the result of Amano finding out she's suddenly leaving the brothel? Then we could flash back to the meeting again when it's time to resolve the tension and find out what exactly Noa agreed to.

last edited at May 22, 2022 5:14AM

So I like this a lot actually, even if the ending feels the need to drive the message home a little too hard to consider what would be more satisfying. Literally nothing would have to change for them to live together, it'd be fine so them being direct neighbors is a little funny all things considered.

Thinking about it, I feel like the better effect could have been achieved by having them have that exact same "Well, goodnight!" moment going into different rooms in the same apartment, rather than neighbouring ones. I think I would have been happier with that.

Yeah, okay. They're not in a romantic relationship, but they're committed to being together. I can get on board with that. I feel like they should probably just live together, at this point, but having them be neighbours is pretty much perfect as a visual metaphor for the relationship they have, so I can't really complain.

On the whole, I feel like this could very well be the best asexual romance story that we could possibly have gotten, for better and for worse. It fully explores the depths of their feelings for each other without cheapening their identities, and shows them growing and becoming fuller people together. Even so, it still feels a little anticlimactic. I think we're straining at the limits of the genre, here - maybe the takeaway is, stories centering deep aromantic partnerships can be great, but don't structure them as romance.

Lmao, polyamory is a disgusting fantasy, but molesting a friend in their sleep is just a youthful indiscretion? Yeah, okay.

This is such an inventive way of showing a crush. The one that's caressing her finger is a really good touch, too. The fact that it's her left ring finger feels like a suitable coincidence.

Lmao, I tried to pay attention to what was happening in the story, but I couldn't stop staring at the butler lady and seeing exactly Linhardt from Three Houses.

I was so excited when I saw this update. I couldn't click on it fast enough, and boy did it not disappoint. I fucking cackled at that last page. Please, please tell me that her dreamy, irresistible senpai has a husband and kids in England. That would be perfect. Pack even more layers of misery into this train wreck, please.

Saonji: ships everyone else
Everyone else: ships Saonji with Tachibana

The irony is delightful.

People saying "The android is a loli in the end because Itou Hachi's gotta Itou Hachi" are correct, but I also want to point out: if the android had looked like a child in the first place, nobody would have blinked. It would have easily been explained by the grandmother saying she wanted her lonely granddaughter to have a friend. But if that had happened, Itou Hachi wouldn't have been able to draw a clingy ojou-sama kissing her clueless but enthusiastic teen robo-maid, and we all know what really matters to Itou Hachi.

So... This is speculation, but with all the foreshadowing about things feeling "out of sync", and her strangely intense trust in Menou, the odds on Akari having travelled back in time with her powers seems pretty high, huh?

This seems pretty interesting, anyway! The description made it sound a bit edgy, but it doesn't feel unnecessarily dark so far, and the worldbuilding is fairly intriguing. I'm on board.

I really love the expression Edelgard has, here. It's like she's caught in this moment of reflection, thinking about how grateful she is to have to have Byleth in her life, how much she adores her, how lucky she feels in this moment. It almost looks like she has a tear welling up in her eye, too? It's really sweet.

And exactly how else this situation could have been solved favorably?

Edit: Misread your point. It makes sense that the king is the one who brings down the gavel, sure, but he didn't need to be the one who laid out the prince's idiocy or exposed the other girl as being an assassin. The maid would have been much better served as the one explaining all that stuff, having uncovered all the facts and made all the preparations for this exact moment, so the king has no choice but to punish his own son. That way, it shows how much work the maid has done behind the scenes to protect her mistress, and also gives her way more lines to express the emotional bond they ostensibly share, instead of relegating that to a few pages at the end.

last edited at Dec 1, 2020 5:33PM

I was all pumped up when the maid jumped in, but then she kinda just stood there? She showed guts insulting the prince to his face, but it was the king who did all the legwork on this one, and that wasn't super satisfying. Maybe the author felt that the hyper-competent maid gimmick is overplayed, but I wanted something a bit more substantial than her standing up and saying "What about this [commonly known and easily verifiable fact], huh?" when the king comes along a minute later to deliver the real kicker.

Even then, if the maid isn't here to be all-knowing and badass, give me a moment where the maid passionately extols her mistress' virtues in all the ways only a lover would recognise, or the noble lady fiercely coming to her maid's defence when the prince disregards her words as a mere servant. Something more personal between them, y'know? I can see yuri potential between them, but not much yuri energy. Wanted a bit more from it.

Okay, wait, are they seriously acting like her crippling character flaw here is how indecisive she's being, that she doesn't know whether she wants to choose her loving supportive girlfriend who she cheated on, or her long-reviled but sexy ex with whomst she cheated? Like, she's not being decisive enough, and that's why she's such a disappointment to everyone? Am I reading that right?

That friend, lmao. "Don't you ever grope your sister's boobs?" "Y'know, you two are the perfect height for kissing each other. Haha, I kid. But really, though..." I can't tell if she's observant and open-minded, or just weird.

last edited at Nov 17, 2020 6:32AM