Oh, you're definitely jealous. And finally starting to realize your own feelings as well. ^_^

hmm if only that was the case fr

Laughs hollowly, stares into distance

What. How could things possibly not escalate from here. What are you even doing, Miyagi.

I realized two pages after the fact that "curl" sfx didn't say what I thought it said and had to stare at it for like ten seconds to realize it actually said "curl". There was an "ahhhhh" right nearby, so at first I was like "damn, our protag is fast, okay".

Are there women who even like this kind of body?

As far as I know, every time they crunch the numbers on dating site data, physical attractiveness consistently ranks fairly low in importance with women. Plus butch lesbians are a whole thing. So however you look, you're within someone's strike zone, and even if you weren't it wouldn't sink your romantic prospects anyway.

Do you criticize Batman stories for normalizing being a creepy vigilante billionaire?

Yes? Not really enthused with Superman upholding corrupt systems, either, he's kind of a cop. I see no relation between this and Kasane, who has never done anything wrong~

Honestly though, I do enjoy a story that can revel in what would be an obviously bad idea IRL while also being self-aware about it. Kasane being a kindhearted goober who's also a little gross from time to time must be a tricky tightrope to write for.

Awwwww, what a cute horror story~ (Get that bomb collar off the child you horrible, horrible creature.)

So... those corpses are notably not eaten. Is it really snake things killing everyone?

The snakes hunt by heat. If the warriors managed to escape but then succumbed to their injuries, their fading body heat might not have been enough to draw in the snakes. Other scavengers are going to avoid this area for fear of snakes, leaving the bodies to freeze to the point of becoming inedible. What I'd be concerned about is that the only visible signs of injury are copious amounts of blood and what looks like bandaged snake bites, which reads like a nasty sort of poison to me.

An attenpted genocide would force the commoners to overthrow the nobles as a matter of survival, so no amount of commoners' resignation or nobles' scheming could stop the revolution. There might normally be some wiggle room based on how the genocide's architect spins their misdeeds, but if that architect is the one conspiring towards a commoner uprising, then they can be sure to die in whatever way is required for maximum unrest. It's a far more reliable strategy than orchestrating a rebellion directly, as powerful, charismatic leaders create a single point of failure that only require a poisoned wine glass to break. The only problem is that you'd have to be an absolute villain to kill a bunch of the people you're trying to save just to shake them out of complacency, and no one born into that much privilege would seriously consider this plan.

...Which is to say that I'm fairly confident Aurora didn't need Natori's "foresight" to know her genocide's going to fail, and was rather reassured if anything. It must hurt her to drag her sister's name through the mud, but she probably counted the dying part as a plus until Natori came along and complicated things. She's not angry at Natori for supporting commoners' rights, she's angry at Natori for making her second-guess her suicide plan by making life worth living.

Alternately, we're looking at the iterative model of time travel, and this is the very first loop. The original time travel creates a paradox threshold that puts future events on hold until the paradox is resolved. Future self 1 meets her own past self 1, who is a virgin as remembered. Both selves lose their virginity, older-1 returns to the future, and in doing so passes the threshold and functionally ceases to exist. The intervention causes younger-1 to grow into older-2 who travels to the past†, encountering her younger-2 self. This intervention creates older-3, and so on.

This process repeats an unknowable amount of times until older-n and older-(n+1) are identical, at which point a stable time loop is formed. The potential paradox having been resolved, the threshold created by the original time travel ceases to be, and time continues normally. All previous loops have been overwritten, erasing all evidence there was ever more than one loop. A time traveler may have academic knowledge that other loops existed, but no being in existence will ever remember anything other than the final, stable time loop.‡ It's only our privileged position from outside of time that allows us to see this moment that the universe itself forgot.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a paradox scope and yuri goggles, and I intend to use them.

†: Or doesn't, in which case a paradox occurs and you need to break out the magical girls.

‡: Except for things which can exist within time paradoxes, in which case you really need to be calling the magical girls already. Sonic screwdrivers are all well and good, but they just don't have the same oomph as swords and lasers powered by the light of an unyielding soul.

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Which armored core are those characters from?

They're apparently the player character (cyborg) and mission control (ghost girl) from Fires of Rubicon. I don't think either of them have official character designs.

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That...but it...lewd x-rays are really not supposed to look this way.

This was picked up by someone on MangaDex!

Home karaoke machines? With Japanese thin walls???

Maybe a change in building standards was also involved in them gaining popularity? But then they're using one without immediately getting a knock on the wall, so...Maybe it's got magic high-tech noise suppression to go along with its resizing trick.

me when i go to the assassin factory but end up adopting a daughter

Welp, guess I was wrong, we did actually get to see a little of The Facility (TM). I feel like I remember Sakura playing a shooting game at a summer festival, but now I can't find it? Not sure if foreshadowing or figments of a tired brain's imagination.

Heatth posted...
God I wish people would stop translating the Sanzu River with River Styx. Yes, they are very similar, but there is a world of difference between a character making a foreign mythology reference and mentioning something from their own cultural background.

Ohhhhhh, is that what happened? That did seem weirdly out of place, it would certainly explain things if that was a liberal translation.

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On the one hand, this does feel like the natural comedic escalation, and a suitably irresponsible reaction from the older sister. On the other hand, I'm still holding out hope the story won't entirely abandon the themes it started with. In the hands of a good author, Riko existing in a totally different genre than everyone else can be a comedic setup and a genuine character analysis, and nmi seems like they may be such a writer.

I noticed many Kaguya doujin tackling the issue with immortality lately, and I can't say I'm a fan.

I just want to see them flirt and be happy.

You clearly have not considered how much flirting and happiness you can have when you've got 8,000 years to do it in. Reject the anti-immortality propaganda, embrace the eternal yuri~

It makes me very happy to see this here. Thank you, Gouma-den!

I am very amused at how some of this discourse around Kaguya and Yachiyo resembles early Christianity’s schisms over the precise nature and relationship between God (Yachiyo) and Jesus (Kaguya) and the holy ghost (maybe the Yachiyo clone at the end of the movie). Don’t take this too seriously though!

I am a proponent of high-kaguyology modalism, and everyone else is a heretic~

Oh my goodness, I didn't think I'd ever see the end of this! Thank you so much!

bookwyrm posted...
Momiji gets to experience a little transmisogyny... as a treat.

CaraiseLink posted...
There is a depressing trend of trans women feeling affirmed by being targeted by the same sorts of prejudice as the cis girls, and I feel like Momiji will not be breaking that trend. Smh.

bookwyrm posted...
I'm not confident I understand what you mean by this. Would you care to elaborate?

I certainly didn't mean to imply that I felt Kouyou felt affirmed in his femininity after being called out by his friends.

Ohhhhh, you meant with Kouyou's friends. I would actually class that as policing masculinity rather than transmisogyny, as a great many cis men have had that same experience of wanting to be more cute than patriarchy allows. Unknown to the ones doing the policing, the target of this manly harassment just happens to be a trans girl.

The transmisogyny I see in this chapter is Ao refusing to accept Momiji as Momiji unless she's presenting sufficiently femme. Dismissing Momiji's identity while reducing feminity down to surface-level stereotypes is peak transmisogyny. But if they went to get Momiji dolled up as the makeup panel suggests, then Ao will presumably recognize Momiji then and probably even call her cute. At which point Momiji feels affirmed in her gender...by Ao's transmisogynistic behavior. It's an unhealthy dynamic, but also inevitable when you're as starved for affirmation as the typical trans femme.

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I think Ao is demisexual tbh.

It's possible, but hard to say at this point. It's not uncommon for characters to be written as so head over heels for one specific person that they've no love left over for anyone else, with the author apparently thinking that's how True Love (TM) works rather than them having accidentally written a demisexual. It's literally so common that I only realized demisexuality was not the default state of humanity until about a year ago, and I'm still pretty upset about it. So I assume bad writing by default until specific evidence of demisexuality is presented.

Momiji gets to experience a little transmisogyny... as a treat.

There is a depressing trend of trans women feeling affirmed by being targeted by the same sorts of prejudice as the cis girls, and I feel like Momiji will not be breaking that trend. Smh.

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I'm starting to think the gods of this world are all in need of a good mortal rebellion.

Seems to be the default state of gods, honestly.

'incest' but they're just cousins

I know, right? Practically speaking it's just childhood friends yuri. Which is also good, but has a very different appeal.

Are we sure we didn't just mishear and Sakura ins't sevenTEEN, but sevenTY? Because "A reusable bag!? They fold up that small now!?" is the most boomer-ass thing I've read in a long while.

It's really going to depend on where you shop and how long it's been since you've had to replace your bags. I've been using the same one for years, and it was secondhand when I got it, so I was pretty far behind the curve when I went reusable bag shopping a few months ago. At which point I had basically the same reaction as this girl half my age.

Tl;dr: Okay kiddo calm down

*calling it now: this is foreshadowing for her being some sort of designer baby bioengineered to become the ultimate assassin or something ridiculous along those lines.

She's definitely either a designer baby, kidnapped offspring of a super, product of a supernatural event, and/or put through esoteric training methods in an attempt to make something. Tiny chance maybe just held as ransom to keep someone else under control, but probably not since she ended up with Ruka and company rather than whoever they were ransoming her to. Though given the manga's unwillingness to give us the faintest detail thus far save for name-dropping The Facility (TM), I doubt it'll ever elaborate.

Her best friend and boyfriend pulled that horrible crap on her, and SHE has to move away?

No wonder she doesn't want to have, or connect with anything/one every again. T-T

Yeeeeaaaahhh. It might seem like some overly dramatic manga-ism, but I can unfortunately confirm that this happens. T_T