“Could it be... a call from help from Kaede?”

Holy shit that there, that's schizophrenia right there. I'm not even kidding.

Yuuuuuuup. There was also that bit last chapter where she was talking to an imaginary Kaede seemingly aloud, and at the end looked surprised to remember Kaede wasn't actually there. And that scene transition to the strangling is just weirdly abrupt in a way that feels like Ai having a disorganized perception of time. The girl's not well.

"I said only experiments allowed in the lab! Experiments!"
"...Yes? So we're experimenting. There's still lots we haven't tried."

WTF this must be the author’s revenge for Hinami’s constant harassment.

If so, he's really softened over time~!

Tsukino finally joined in on Hinami's shenanigans. Look at her swing that axe without hesitation. Progress!

She's joined in a couple times before, like with the biker gang and the multi-lane drifting. I suspect she's down for anything more metal than wacky~

Just now realized amShepherd finished translating all of the previous chapters that only had the honestly kinda bad translations before, so now it's time to reread everything to see how much nuance I missed out on. If amShepherd is on here, thank you very much!

Yeah, okay, barring some kind of decent twist/explanation (or shakily written asspull, let's be fair), I think I hate Hana.

Maybe she'll actually be just a harmless but taunting jerkass, or the framing and perspectives are deliberate choices to make the reader think along a certain path and she was totally an all right person all along. And besides, we're only a few chapters in.

But I don't like how she treats people, and I don't like the trajectory being established.

Same, though I still kinda hope Hikaru and Harutaka amicably break up? Hikaru clearly has a lot of respect and gratitude towards Harutaka, but I just don't see a shred of romance there. To me at least, she reads as never having understood what love was supposed to feel like on account of her one actual love being labeled as childish affection, leaving her to assume her strongest opposite-sex platonic relationship must be love. Like, so what if Hikaru does get over Hana? That just means sooner or later she's going to catch feelings for someone else, and they're going to go through all this again. Continuing with the relationship is just going to keep hurting them both.

We don't need no thought control...Hey, teacher! Leave them kids alone!

Thank you so much!

The vibes continue to be weird, where if the characters were teasing each other in most other circumstances it wouldn't feel so off. The whole I wouldn't mind if you sold me into slavery because I'm your slave...with the flesh devouring worm you put in my body, bit feels like the author wants this toxic sexual tension vibe...but it's uncomfortable and unsexy instead.

Riiiiight? I can't remember the last time I saw two girls flirting and thought "wow, that's the least romantic thing I've ever read". The yuri goggles are literally fused to my face, this shouldn't even be possible.

Wow, that credits page. Poor Ann got inhumed alive~

can someone explain the title

Running purely off the English translation , "crosswing" refers to a wing of a building, not a flight wing. It sounds like something that should fly, but once you see it it's obviously impossible. The Japanese name has something completely different in place of crosswings (Google Translate says "engaged dragonfly"?), so I'm guessing it's a similar sort of pun.

jumping off a cliff info jaged rocks and water is NOT something you easily come back from wtf LOL

I actually don't think it's strange in the slightest, because you'd be amazed at how bad of an idea jumping off of tall things is. You can jump off a 15-story building and still survive depending on what you land on and how, though you're liable to wish you hadn't. In that vein, I'm not so sure Saki came back "easily". Her right leg should be visible in that shot, yet it isn't, which leads me to believe her right leg isn't.

Can someone please tell me I'm not the only person who can't look at the title and hear some obnoxiously British person yelling OI MATE, WE GOT US A ROIGHT BLOOMIN' COMPLEX 'ERE, WE DOES

I can't be the only one.

You were the only one, gee thanks

Teenager's gonna teenage (well, they are a bit older, but you get the feeling...).

No, I think they're teenagers. Mid-to-late, 15-16?

I'd thought they started the story at 16-ish and must be 17 or 18 by now, but yeah, still definitely teenagers. Evie is technically older, but she would've experienced an immediate and premature puberty if her brain chemistry matched her mental age, so she's definitely got a teenager's raging hormones. Though, speaking as someone whose first time was in her 20s...age is merely an exacerbating factor on the immediate and barely controllable horniness from having sex for the first time with someone you love, not a prerequisite~

I would watch that anime.

Alright, I feel dumb. Does that "Pacific coexistence" on page 8 refer to something I've forgotten, or is that just a wild auto complete error?

Gotta love that afterword saying there's not much room for Devices in sex scenes. Clearly, kinky magic sex technology was not as far advanced in 2007~

Nanoha immediately confirming that yes, they had gotten larger, wonder how she knew that...

Ironically, you'd usually have trouble noticing gradual change over time if you see something every day, so it's probably Fate's long absences that make her so confident. That, or she keeps pictures to peruse while Fate's gone and noticed the change while reminiscing through the older ones~

Does this count as NanoHayaFate?

Nah. While mostly absent from the anime, Hayate's notoriously touchy in the sound stages with basically anyone that lets her. There's literally a bit where Hayate, as a 9 year-old child, laments not being able to grope Signum on account of the power imbalance ruining the vibes. It's fairly common to see it crop up in fan fics, though oddly rarer in manga, possibly due to space constraints.

Anyways, I wonder if it's the same baby? And also, sound Tsukino isn't getting shocked at all, is this a sign that she may be able to gain sentience? Like, what if Hinami does all this crazy stuff so that when Tsukino eventually find out that their world isn't real, she actually believes her?

Tsukino's unambiguously the only other fully sapient being within the manga world already, given both how she behaves and how Hinami talks about her in the post cards. Hinami does crazy stuff so the manga doesn't get axed before she figures out how to get Tsukino into reality, since her usual method of "just do it lol" only works for getting herself out. If anything, I worry Tsukino's not going to adjust well if she's ever exposed to a world with stable continuity.

Welp, somebody cue the music.

Mutant hybrid plant girl >>>>>>> Barn animal Cronenburg abomination

Ah, this warms my heart...

The scanlators keep getting worse and worse. From icky to sicky, now they're sick AF? How do you people maintain high work standards in this situation? Get better soon~!

wait is there a knockoff knight heron scanlator group or do they just have two profiles kfhsdfjk

I believe they post as Night Heron when they're releasing NSFW works, because they respect a good pun~