Can we have a yuri bosozoku spin-off series now? Pretty please?..

Haha, I don't remember exactly the feeling evoked in the original, but here you get so clearly the reversal of who is the dominant one in this relationship. Can't wait to see it again.

Wakana has always been the real queen. She just loves Ruruna too much to break her delusions.

Read a little bit ahead of what's been posted here and to me Jolene feels more like a sociopath who realized early on that antisocial behavior had steep, long-lasting social ramifications, and that she needed to squash her violent impulses and play by the rules of others if she wanted to get by in life. She's definitely got some of the traits associated with yanderes, but doesn't really have much of the single-minded limerent obsession that defines the archetype.

That's how I make sense of this series, too.

Wholesome couple bonding gives me life.

After more than 130 chapters, Elsa finally gets bonked for being horny.

Yup, literally got bonked into the horny jail. :D

Who was he again? Feels like I've seen him for the first time but probably not.

I'm pretty sure that's the prince, who if I remember correctly was both Evie's fiancé and was a potential love interest for Elsa, hence Evie's role of being a villainess.

Obviously neither of the girls are invested in being with him here, but I don't think we know how the current him feels about either of them since he only really got to do anything during the childhood arc. If I remember correctly

I am hoping for another Narita character arc. :3

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Errrr... I mean....
Uh.. Hinoka... I think the poor girl's intelect is melting away, isn't it?

Nah, her intellect is fine. It's just that her brain frees up all available resources to think about Hinoka more. Who needs breathing and eating when you can think about yuri?

I think there is still a bit to Lily's old folks' story that remains to be told, specifically on how they went from being satisfied with casual sex to having a child together.

Knowing Narita he'll go the extra mile and cosplay as Aya for the roll call.

Narita best wingman.

Extroverts are TERRIFYING!!

Word!

Who dresses like that at work? It looks like the marketing girl just got isekai-ed from a fantasy world. As stupid as it sounds, it kind of breaks the suspension of disbelief for me.

Thank goodness it wasn't just me. She was giving me "baddie-of-the-week from a magical girl show" vibes.

I kinda like it. Maybe it shows the extrovert is just as looney as the MC.

My guess is, based on this chapter, that Zhiyi deliberately tries to emulate this "Party-chan" mascot's appearance, assuming that this is what Ai Xu likes. Based on their "exchange" in the elevator, Zhiyi is a big fan of Ai Xu's work and is actively pursuing her affection, not yet realizing that she needs to be very careful with her. If she does realize that and change her behavior accordingly (i.e. shielding Ai Xu from excessive social obligations), this series could become incredibly Wholesome yet.

I can work with either, but I must say I'm leaning more towards team "cute fuzzy little bat".

Like this?

Also, I don't think that a slap would work, since slaps are still part of the regular "courtly" (for lack of a better term) contexts that Hesha is used to. I think Jolene has bitten her not only because of her impulses, but also because a bite would be so far outside Hesha's normal context, it would flip the power dynamic between them on its head instantly, without giving her any chance to respond. What I am saying is, she knows she could make things much, much worse for Hesha, but repeatedly stops herself in order to deescalate, and Hesha is too myopic to realize she is playing with chemical fire.

I will say thought that I don't agree with the read that anything she's done has been de-escalatory in nature.
If anything, whenever she "snaps" she seems to just do whatever she wants to do in the moment regardless of the implications or the consequences it could have, and it's nothing short of a miracle things have worked out as "well" for her as they have so far.

Cus like... if I managed to antagonize the local princess who literally owns the city I live in and had to make a list of things to do to try and de-escalate things, physically assaulting her in gradually more extreme ways wouldn't make the list if it was a million entries long. If anything, she's lucky Hesha hasn't just gone to her family and had her hanged for assaulting her the first time.

That's fair, but it's only luck if you have no idea how the local princess would react to violent actions. On the other hand, Jolene strikes me as someone who is (like a lot of sociopaths, accidentally) pretty good at reading people around her, so she might have picked up on the fact that Hesha is actually not in the position to run to her dad to complain quite early on. This makes her getting away with violence against Hesha twice more of a well-calculated risk than a miracle.

Remember in Game of Thrones, that one time the king had a peasant boy executed just for lightly tagging the prince with a practice sword while playing?

I haven't watched the series and stopped reading the books after the fourth. :)

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Knowing Ruruna, her plan will turn out to be either incredibly dumb, or incredibly obvious. Either way, it will help them pass the time until Wakana shows up on her private helicopter to save them.

Never watched Dexter, but IMO Jolene has once again been very measured (which is the opposite of crazy) in her response. She used her one advantage (physical capability) to completely shut down Hesha's momentum, then backed off and explained exactly what that retribution was for. Note that Hesha does not carry any ill will against Jolene for biting her, because she seems to have accepted that the bite was a consequence of her own actions. Again, I am not saying that Jolene is not a sociopath, but if she is, she is a very high-functioning one.

A normal person does not bite people just because they're upset at them; if anything, the fact that she felt the impulse to bite her rather than something more mundane like slap her makes it much more abnormal behaviour that most people wouldn't even have considered.

She reads a lot like Dexter is intended to be; a sociopath with violent impulses that they keep in check through adhering to a strict set of rules about what's "proper" both in order to be a functional member of society and so that their violence only comes out towards targets deemed "acceptable."

Specifically, the way she speaks about- and treated "being naughty" towards Hesha implies that she has these thoughts and urges of violence normally, and usually she doesn't act on them because she's come to believe they're "naughty" but in the same way that Dexter has no reservations going after someone who's a "killer" Jolene has no reservations "being naughty" towards someone who has also been "naughty."

Yeah, I can agree with all of the above. Still, the amount of self-control you describe, especially if she does have to restrain her "naughty" impulses at all times, is remarkable.

Also, I don't think that a slap would work, since slaps are still part of the regular "courtly" (for lack of a better term) contexts that Hesha is used to. I think Jolene has bitten her not only because of her impulses, but also because a bite would be so far outside Hesha's normal context, it would flip the power dynamic between them on its head instantly, without giving her any chance to respond. What I am saying is, she knows she could make things much, much worse for Hesha, but repeatedly stops herself in order to deescalate, and Hesha is too myopic to realize she is playing with chemical fire.

At this point, Jolene is basically playing Raise-a-Villainess with Hesha by teaching her how to function in society, which nobody in her family has bothered to do so far.

Welp seems like the protag at this point is just straight up Dexter-style crazy

Never watched Dexter, but IMO Jolene has once again been very measured (which is the opposite of crazy) in her response. She used her one advantage (physical capability) to completely shut down Hesha's momentum, then backed off and explained exactly what that retribution was for. Note that Hesha does not carry any ill will against Jolene for biting her, because she seems to have accepted that the bite was a consequence of her own actions. Again, I am not saying that Jolene is not a sociopath, but if she is, she is a very high-functioning one.

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"Why put on clothes if they're just gonna come off anyway?" Indeed, Kase-san, indeed. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

That track physique is doing things to Yamada's brain and understandably so lol

Honestly, that physique would do things to most people's brains, not just plants'.

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So Babulus feared Luliam and Nana's crowning would endanger her standing at court, so she sabotaged Nana's staff to fire miasma at Luliam, but Eldora turned out to be a siscon and took the bullet for her instead?

Other series may bother with nuance, depth and all that rigmarole, and they're all cowards. Just cram all the good stuff together like some semi-insane himejoshi's ravings.

I tried my best to come up with my own clever comment about this chapter, but you have basically done it for me, so kudos to you.

Damn! Yura's been my favourite but this Ruruna beach look is so damn fire.

Hm... so, what's the hypothesis on Ruruna's seduction power? Does it actually work, just not on Yura, or does it not and Wakana and Miyako are really into Ruruna?

The latter IMO. She can force her thralls to obey her orders with some effort, but she cannot make them actually like her -- in other words, control over physical actions, but not over emotions. Wakana has clearly been down bad for Ruruna from the start, and Miyako is so desperate, she is fine with anyone, but Yura's thralldom was effectively a favor for Wakana, so she won't do anything for Ruruna unless directly ordered/forced to.

Reina is so down bad, it's almost painful to watch.

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That panel dividing to censor just enough lmao

Yea, art censorship is all fine and good, but what if censorship was an art?

I accidentally popped to the start of this thread and realized this manga started in early 2019. It really really doesn't feel like it was that far back. WTF even is time?

Time is that which prevents everything from happening all at once.

I guess we've dealt with Zhixu's demons, so now it's Tang Chao's turn?

I respect the author's vision, but "yandere" just doesn't mean what they think it means. "Mentally snapping under the weight of impossible expectations of being a culturally-perfect love interest" is not the same as "being a confident young person who breaks restrictive gender norms in a calculated way to advance in life".

So far, in fact, I haven't even seen any particular cruelty from Jolene. She has been merely setting and enforcing her boundaries in ways that are largely proportionate to the respective original violations.

Jolene exhibits more Yandere traits as the story goes on though she’s never really what you’d consider a classic Yandere. There is another character later on that does feel more like a true Yandere (obsessive, manipulative, controlling, etc)

Thanks. I will reserve judgement until more chapters have been translated, then. :-)

This will be a good one.

For the people questioning the yandere thing, its valid for you to do that. Its shows up now and again, but i think the interpretation of "yandere" expressed by this author with a certain character's actions are different from the mainstream view of how a typical yandere would act or think. Imo, I think the author's view of a "yandere" is a character that appears kind, calm, and level-headed on the outside but they are actually on the inside cold, calculated and cruel and will express/act on that cruelty when it comes things or people they care about or getting something or someone they desire. Either way, this story is dope and ill happily reread this here since the translation is actually good

I respect the author's vision, but "yandere" just doesn't mean what they think it means. "Mentally snapping under the weight of impossible expectations of being a culturally-perfect love interest" is not the same as "being a confident young person who breaks restrictive gender norms in a calculated way to advance in life".

So far, in fact, I haven't even seen any particular cruelty from Jolene. She has been merely setting and enforcing her boundaries in ways that are largely proportionate to the respective original violations.

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Maybe Ruruna should just accept that Yura is simply her girlfriend's (other) girlfriend?

The number and power of one's enemies can be a measure of one's character, Ms. Ye.