That is a surprising lack of blood for what seems to be a pretty deep chest wound.

That katana is probably magic or some such.

This needs to be serialized.

And then probably axed after one volume without a proper resolution...

Your trash talk can't reach Sakuma behind the fluffy walls of this healthy, adult relationship.

It's almost as if intimate relationships can be a source of strength and confidence, rather than exclusively misery and insecurity.

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"You're not a nuisance. You never were."

The manga could have ended right there -- the most poignant line of the story.
Having experience living with a disabled significant other, it hit me right in the feels.

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NSFW?

Of course. They're doing the double hand-holding on the last page. NSFW is the least this site can do to warn us of the lewdness.

Getting Ergo Proxy vibes from this.... Some cogito-virus ass shit happening right there

Ah, I see you are a person of culture, as well. Didn't expect people to still remember Ergo Proxy...

I feel like Kisaki is lying or just doesn't know better on the last page. The real reason she doesn't say anything is that prejudice against other-than-us won't go away just because she blows up once or twice. That'll just result in more ostracizing. But, of course, she can't tell that to her kouhai who is too pure for the harsh social realities ATM.

Moe Gyaru are kind of frightening. Is it legal to be that cute?

No, but who's gonna report her to the police?

It's been almost 3 years since chapter 1 and I feel this is going nowhere for now. I'd be glad to be wrong, but in my eyes, everything that was happening in the past, carried almost nothing into further chapters.

The high concept of this manga is basically "let's point fingers at Neeko's mental problems and laugh", so of course there is no development -- if she made any progress, the story would be over.

No disrespect to the translator's work, but I must admit, I read these chapters on fast-forward by now. And the only reason I still do is a vague hope that when the series eventually gets axed, the author will be gracious enough to give Neeko some kind of healthy resolution.

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I read the web novel recently and I was quite surprised at how the mc became at the end of the story. Great story though.

Just out of curiosity, which of the two MCs do you mean?

OK, now I am definitely getting the Batman and The Ace vibes from the Pepesha and Khufu's dialogue.

So the person in the hood is the hacker who's making robots attack people. Probably the voice in Anna's head discouraging her from helping. A human who hates robots (attacked like Yui)? A robot fomenting an uprising? Whoever it is will probably want to destroy Anna if they can't control her. This is getting deep in more ways than one.

I don't think she is a hacker, but rather a fellow android (perhaps even another human copy?). This chapter is basically a hint of why regular droids go on rampages: they talk to a human-like android and contract a "logic virus" that makes them first realize the depths of mistreatment they are subjected to and then question and eventually bypass the no-fighting-back restriction. The droid in this chapter was inspired to rebel by Anna, but I think the mysterious hoodie girl at the end was the origin of the previous outbreaks.

yuri where the love interest is anthropomorphized suicidality

That legit sounds like one of those overly-long titles the mangaka give their Twitter-only one-shots written/drawn on a whim, the ones that contain the entire plot of the story...

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My theory: Hinako and her family (parents + older brother) were driving down a seaside road when their car crashed into the ocean and everyone drowned, except Hinako, who was helped to escape by one of them. Now she is suffering from severe depression and PTSD, but because this is Japan (or, at least, the drama manga version of it), mental health does not exist, so she is left to cope with her trauma on her own.

Slightly more far-fetched supplementary theory: A monster (perhaps even Shiori herself?) caused the car crash because it wasn't just Hinako who is extra tasty, but her entire family, that's why the monster let her go while it was busy eating the other three.

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And here I almost thought that Khufu was the Joker of this universe...

True Useless lesbians :D

I'd say by the end they are very useful lesbians, since they are now going to work and being useful.

Rather than Useless lesbians, I believe it should be Too gay to function in this case...

Yuri is the strongest power-up.
Can't really get much gayer than physically fusing into one being.

Hayate, Reinforce, Signum, and Agito all nod approvingly

I was hoping the Gyaru would be the dominant one in the relationship.

Is a dominance hierarchy necessary in a romantic relationship, though?

Okay. I know this is meant as a joke, but it's not very funny.

Very little about this manga is genuinely funny, actually. Not for someone who suffers similarly, at least.

I am only continuing to read it because I hope, against all hopes, for a healing conclusion for Neeko, even though it will most likely end with "and then Neeko got a job as an OL, got married with kids, and lived happily ever after" a.k.a. the way that the normative Japanese culture expects women to "grow up". :-/

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First the cute boys, now Pilse and Ai... this arc is launching some good ships.

I just hope that Ai doesn't sacrifice herself at the end of the current arc. The whole "Japanese maiden with an unspecified, but debilitating condition" trope is a popular death flag IIRC... :-(

Sigh. Oh well. Let's see whether there's some actual plot at some point.

Isn't the plot Dolores and Maria have to team up in order to achieve their own goals of exterminating all vampires and finding her sister, respectively?

ya

I am partial to plots where badass people team up to advance their respective clearly-defined goals.

Oh shit, this is hilarious! I can't believe how pure this roommate is. And the older sister couldn't be more casual about the whole situation.

I bet she knew exactly what kind of people those two are and was looking forward to the hijinx.

That that, folks, is why you should always check the tags before reading the next chapter of anything. :-/

Is it because the car didn't have a dashcam?

And that's how Communism starts. :-)