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As a Riri stan, I don’t actually care if Mei chooses her (TBH Mei doesn’t seem like a great partner XD ), I’m just rooting for a big ‘ol gay awakening for the best girl. Come out of the closet, Riri, the water is fine!

Aside from the slightly too elongated proportions, this is gorgeous!

This is getting REALLY good but I'm having a hard time parsing a lot of the text so i feel like im missing some of the subtleties. They're really talking past or around a lot of stuff which makes things difficult, but also they sometimes say things that I don't follow or something and it becomes difficult even to attribute the dialogue bubbles. I'm not sure exactly what the source of the problem is yet because I couldn't figure out what was being said even when I tried, so I couldn't track what was going wrong. Think I'm going to need another read over this.

I'm hesitant to attribute it to the TL myself bc I don't know much about translating, but it does feel that way. Right now I think what's happening is some piece of text will have something wrong with it, and because of how much the mangaka is relying on the audience, that stumbling block creates a serious problem because suddenly you can no longer follow by inference because the trailhead to the next idea is gone. I really adore writing that trusts the reader significantly. so that's a huge shame.

It's definitely a translation issue. Whoever is doing it is producing a very literal translation instead of making an effort at localization, which leads to characters saying things that are awkward, out of place, overly blunt, etc. in English. Phrases/expressions/idioms don't generally carry over word-for-word between cultures, so translating them literally leads to stilted or confusing language like this.

You can definitely take it too far in the other direction as well, and lose the original cultural context entirely or add distracting quirkiness to the characters (e.g. the classic "let's turn Osaka-ben into a Southern drawl"). Translation/localization is definitely an art, and we should appreciate those that go the extra mile, whether officially or unofficially. :)

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Should it really qualify for the NSFW tag with the giant black bar censorship? By that standard a blank page is the raunchiest thing imaginable.

This definitely has the feeling of writing from experience. No way the author is pulling all these specific lived-in details out of nowhere. Glad to have a story that's not just tropes or predictable fantasy, just wish the art was a little more polished.

Agreed. What a cliffhanger to end this image on too! heart eyes

I just wish Sappho Scans had continued with their translation. The /u/ effort is so clunky it takes me out of the story every other page. It’s like one step up from MTL.

Which girls are now out? Which girls are practically out? Which girls are still in and in good shape? Which girls have yet to make any move and technically still in the running? I lost count. Someone remind me please and who is who? I think there are 7 in total at the beginning.

There were always 5 (corresponding to the five senses):

Karin (“Taste”) - More of a FWB. She’s been very direct and the most physical, and has asked Mei out, but Mei’s response has been comparatively lukewarm.

Kaoru (“Smell”) - Left for a study abroad program after confessing to Mei. Mei seemed to value her as a roommate and senpai and enjoy the attention but I’d put her at the same level as Karin.

Minato (“Hearing”) - Despite her princely aesthetic is the most immature of the suitors. Definitely seems most content to admire Mei from afar and utilize her talents in the recording booth. Lowest rank, I’d say.

Maria (“Sight”) - Mei seems pretty well stricken with her, but she has put a moratorium on dating (and most physical contact) until Mei graduates in a few years. Certainly in the lead right now.

Riri (“Touch”) - Kind of the dark horse. She’s so far unable to be very honest about her feelings and desires. Mei is certainly physically attracted to her, and during the sleepover and meeting her family she certainly presented herself as an ideal life partner. But because she’s so closeted it’s hard to say where she really stands because they haven’t talked about their relationship as such.

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^ Mitsuki is upset about the ticket because music is their “thing,” so she doesn’t understand why Aya wouldn’t mention to her that she was going to a concert, even if it is with her club/without her.

I think the downers are reading too much into the various “conflicts” here, though. They’re bringing their baggage from other series that use these beats in a much more melodramatic way. Yes, the mangaka ends some installments on a moment of tension, but this series is usually refreshingly direct in resolving conflicts. I don’t get the feeling at all that any of this is building to a big blowup. This all feels to me like normal navigation of the process of learning to live with someone else and the time of a relationship where there is still discovery and its associated uncertainty. If anything this series underplays the day-to-day conflicts and little jealousies of taking a relationship from dating to “building a life together”

There’s a lot more “why the FUCK did you load the dishwasher THAT way?!” than “I wub you soooo much let’s eat some cake and make out” in real life. :D

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I like the light-haired girl's expression in the first panel, but Senran Kagura images with small breasts just does not compute. XD

^ Thanks for the heads up! Per their posts there, it's going to be an 8 page mini comic. :O

Im happy to pay a few bucks for art this hot. Maybe we could even encourage the set to get extended?

So uh, lovely wedding, but what exactly is that at the bottom right in the wedding panel?

That's Jenova, from FF7. One of the jokes/conceits of this series is that Jenova is Hinami's "mom" and thats why she has crazy powers.

(I guess that would make Sephiroth her brother?)

"Now that's what I call 'raising morale!'"

I really hope this scene continues and we get new installments of it weekly!

Now that's top-tier problem solving skills!

I agree with the assessment that the black-haired girl is the narrator/locus of the time loop. Think about it - if it were Mitsuki, she would be doing something different in each loop to try to affect the outcome. At the very least she wouldn’t be able to play the bikini humiliation identically and realistically each time. To me, it makes the most sense that the black-haired girl is fixated on Kyou, and this was the day/moment when she had her hopes both raised that her crush could be gay (makeup tableau) and dashed (assuming Kyou leaving with her bf leads to, uh, non-yuri content). She’s trapped between hope and despair.

But I also agree that this author’s stuff is always half-baked. I’m still reading a LOT into only a few vague panels. “Left wanting a bit more” is spot-on.

^ Yes, it will end tomorrow.

If it ends tomorrow, we'll be missing January 1-3, and October 11-16. Hopefully the gaps get filled at some point, or we'll be missing critical plot points!

^ I’ve never worked in an office where someone wore hot pants, stiletto heels, and a bow tie. But I’ve also never worked with women who had figures like these?

This scene could go on for 100 more panels and I’d still swoon at every one. :D

I would buy/watch/read all 14,759 installments of One Piece to get to this moment if they ever make it canon. XD

This… took an unexpected left turn

A doujin filled with sex scenes but no actual nudity is... a choice. XD

Technically speaking, NSFW isnt the right tag but in this instance I almost understand it.

Is this Gender Swap or does this artist just draw women with a more masculine aesthetic?

Although one of the characters is clearly bisexual, I don't see a corresponding tag. Please fix this.

The whole "couldn't go all the way with men" thing suggests otherwise.

Okay, but she had physical contact with many men; that should be somehow indicated in the tags. I, for example, have a mental disorder, and a scene like the one on page 15 pains me a lot.

Note that tags have specific usage definitions here that may differ from your own personal ideas of them. To wit, bisexual is:

“Meant to describe content, not strictly identity. Should be used in cases where a character's sexuality is especially relevant to the plot or character themselves. One-off lines do not count.”

So Kuroiwa simply mentioning offhand that she has dated men is not a statement of identity, nor is it particularly relevant to the situation at hand except in a “why did I never care about sex/romance before?” kind of way.

All that said, it seems someone found and applied one of the randomly-perfectly-appropriate hyperspecific old tags just for you. :)

Maybe she just needed to wash her hands?