I can't resist this couple for some reason.

“Where are my snacks?”

It's just there for the snacks, not the ewwww humaniality!

Here it is after real QC. I didn't expect for the former april fools version to be as polarizing as it was despite it being a simple shitpost that didn't even obscure much from a completely legit (though not QCed) translation.

If you are curious about the translation process and found the previous work amusing, I'm sorry to say that QC is pretty professional and not very interesting beyond learning as no shitposts are found there.

Link for those curious: https://pastebin.com/f9Z5nj1C

Original work: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/95108279
April fools': https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/akira_sensei_and_hiyori_chan

You'll always get mixed reactions to those things. I have translated a lot of manga for my own use so I love them as a change of pace.

Haru is what you get when you call up the actors' guild and have them send you a Manic Pixie Dream Girl™ Yuri Edition®

Is cute little deuterago-chan actualy a Kuzu joshi ?

"I get to see you in a Yukata! My crops are watered!"

Well, that's one way to phrase it I suppose

That's what Sumi-Sumi from Sakura Trick will say when she finally gets a date. Which may take a while, as the only girl left is Kotone's little sister Shinobu.

Sumi-sumi, let's date!

"My crops are watered, indeed!"

Whenever I get too tired of all the angsty manga nowadays, I know I can turn to the author of Renai Manga for some fluffy, uncomplicated l......

Midori Aiba and Mayu Hibiki, what is their 'ship name? Note that they always go by Mayu's family name and Midori's personal name. My guess is it's partly due to Hibiki's family name meaning Echo and thus it sounds perfectly okay as a girl's name. And partly due to Midori's childlike nature. She may be in the same year as Mayu, but they clearly have a kouhai/sempai relationship. It's my favourite couple in the series, FWIW. Just a little above Ayano/Miyoshi. Is it MidoMayu? Midobiki? Hibiba? Mayiba? EkōRyū ? Ekō for Hibiki and Kyōryū (dinosaur) for Midori Aiba, the little dinosaur.

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She can repay her debt to her sister by coming out first. Unless that actually would put more pressure, depends on the parents. Anyone notice that, in a way, the parents found the best male match possible? Puts up with her being a lesbian, scummy, materialistic, a user, etc. because she makes him laugh. Makes me wonder how well the parents really know Makino. Actually, if they're aware of how lesbian she is, that's rather depressing.

Also, after reading this and "My Younger Sempai" I can definitely say I love scummy girl redemption plots!

gotta love it when the solution to everyone's problems is just: "be gay"

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Why is the mangaka not telling people where this uni is, where all the girls are gay and students specialise in one of the five senses? It would be wildly popular!

Jumping in again to say I read all the pairings speciasl, finally, and the sacchi and kibako stuff is really genius. It's art.

Also, as much as I love Tomoko, she's way eviler than Kibako. She's almost in Sacchi territory. Though no one is as evil as Sacchi.

My list of scumbags:

1. Sacchi - Really cruel, and super good at it.
2. Komi-something - even disses her only friends to a degree Tomoko, Koharu, or Yuri wouldn't do.
3. Tomoko - The whole series is her being an apparently cute and helpless girl who's secretly totally scummy.
4. Koharu - Even scummier than Tomoko, but so bad at it that she comes off funny vs. really landing her punches.

I don't think anyone else fits, though Ucchi, and to a degree Yuri, can be bad with their mental and emotional issues

Scummy-like behaviour:

1. Ucchi - loses control super easily.
2. Yuri - Blunt to the point of madness.

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To explain why the MC reminds me of Tomoko Kuroki:

This is her reflex response to Nemo being nice to her.

BTW going back over their interactions, Kuro is a TOTAL scumbag to Nemo. Seeing it one piece at a time, I didn't get the big picture.

If you made Megumi Imae a depressed call-girl, you'd basically have this series.

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Also the dude was probably her brother, so no.

Diary June 16: if I keep Onii-chan supplied with opium, we can play dress up all day until she falls over.

I only understand this as far as, the mother seems to be ill-tempered and may present an obstacle? True?

I call foul! If her character is a sexy Chinese vampire, why isn't it hopping? "I knew what she was ... the minute I saw all the jumping ropes packed inside her coffin!"

The Tuber series is fine, but this really was great.
The twin closets are hilarious. including the fact that she left the door open on the otaku one and everyone can see in, and the lesbian one isn't much better.

She doesn't have the jerky motion but she might have Tourette's

Someday Hibiki and Midori will get real development, I believe. Midori in particular would have to experience some development though.

Midori is pretty immature, I doubt she's finished puberty.

For the record, I am an "Aiba hair down with barrettes holding it in place" partisan. But if it pleases her girl, more power to her. Hibiki is just waiting to give up on boys and get together with Midoriri.

But if you think of Midori Aiba as basically an early middle schooler, that's only a couple of years behind in development, and everything about her makes sense.

Also, Hibiki is so sweet to Aiba.

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This thing needs a love chart. I will work on one. It feels like Renako has all these levels from 1 to 10 of infatuation and Mai is #1 but that doesn't stop other girls from being #2 or #5. I can see Mai casually telling some of them "I was her first everything, you know."

Into each Citrus punch some Matsuri must fall.

I like how she still calls her Vice President. Fukukaicho. They should marry and adopt children and she'd still say "dinner is ready, please go call Fukukaicho, children!":

Mochi Au Lait had several relationships like this before she took up manga/doujinshi. She finally realised it's best to date both sisters and form a threesome, and thus a legend was born. Just a theory.

Lately, more and more yuri MCs are girls of less than sterling character. Everyone but Momo in this one is in that category.

In a way she's what Tomoko Kuroki - or, since her cuteness isn't very conventional, let's take Koharu Minami (aka Kibiko, fang girl, awkward bitch, etc.) who's equally awkward, equally into girls, and with an equal lack of self-awareness or values. But yeah, even Tomoko if she'd cleaned herself up, this is what they would have turned into if they followed Kuroki's original plan of using sleeping around with boys to be popular. I realise Tomoko has a kind of scolding morality, but that's mostly for her internal dialogue of being secretly better than everyone around her.
So I think of this as a Tomoko that kept true to her vision of using boys, and Mashino is like Megumi Imae if she worked at a lesbian brothel and had huge issues. Why did this occur to me? Because the way they are heedless of how they screw up their lives is quite similar between Makino and Tomoko. It would probably be clearer if the title was translated like a Watamote chapter, thusly: "Because I'm a Trash Ronin with a Difficult Life, I'll Get A Call Girl." And you could retitle several chapters the same way.

BTW I like Junichi and I wish she'd tell him and his parents she's not into men, but she'll be his friend. When she can get there, that would be a sign Mashiro has fixed her up somewhat.

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