I really like this. I wish the ending had been just a little stronger. Like one or two more pages of content. It was a little abrupt.

To be honest, I don't understand idol, streamer, vtuber, etc. culture in the slightest. Precisely because, it feels too fake. A love of a character transposed onto a real person, the selling and consumption of both real and exaggerated qualities.

But what did resonate a lot about this story was the cycle of fervor and then forgetting, on both sides even. The rant was both beautifully written and beautifully translated. When I saw the walls of text in the bubbles, I immediately thought "this is going to be good". Her bitterness is raw, and to cap it off, we never learn her actual name. She's just LPE-chan the whole time. But it seems like that's what she wants. To be remembered and genuinely loved to some extent no matter what character is needed for that purpose.

It makes me wonder if I have been guilty at least once of that offense she mentions. Probably at least a little...

But yeah, good story.

Also if someone's suicidal and in imminent threat of attempting to kill themselves, don't ride an hour to reach their residence while their means of killing themselves is right there, call the police lmao.

There's no way, after spending this much time together, going to classes, and all this other stuff, that Elsa doesn't recognise the name "Smollet" when she starts going to the school?

The use of "Lady Smollett" out loud around Elsa was a translation mistake and it will be changed/noted in future chapters. Originally, no one uses any part of Yvonne's name when referring to her. They always refer to her by a generic title. For example Linda always calls her "my lady" and the others call her something like "the young lady". So Elsa doesn't know her first name or what family she's from.

Apologies for the confusion.

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Sunrise Arrow, thank you!

And I'm so excited Demon Girl is back in serialization. Hopefully with Ito-sensei in good enough health to keep it that way.

Those are extras not a sequel. She's explictly said there are no plans for a sequel at the moment.

The author is definitely depressed but that's not much of a stretch to deduce.

Really ? I always wonder how anyone can make assumptions about the author's life based on what they wrote. I know very happy and balanced people that write fucked up things and vice versa.

Simply because you can only write about what you know.

And it's impossible to know anything that you haven't experienced.

Authors who try to write about things they haven't personally experienced, there's a touch of inauthenticity about it. It's hard to escape autobiography.

Yes, impossible to know anything that one hasn't personally experienced, which is how it's impossible to write about anything outside the bounds of real life or to ever empathize with and reliably recreate experiences that are not one's own.

Come on, fiction is fiction. Sometimes creators can only draw from their own personal experiences, and much more frequently a story is born of pieces of personal inspiration that a reader might never have guessed at, material gathered from other people, general research/life knowledge, genre conventions, and straight up making things up.

Once, people kept asking this yuri artist if a particular series came from personal experience. She said no. And then she said "people ask if I made the story based on personal experience for every one of my [distinctly different] series. XD"

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Huh. I thought everyone in the town with those eyes must be under the mermaid's sway, but guess it's not that simple. Ichika must have willingly given herself over. I reread ch1 and belatedly noticed that Nina's eyes change too half-way. Pg22 they're still pure-black, then she talks about wanting to meet the mermaid, and by her next appearance on pg28, her eyes have changed.

It seems this will be significantly more metaphorical than literal.

Also the cat being blind, an eye-focused condition, probably says something too lol.

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Hino-san is over, can't believe it. A relatively clumsy ending though it still did what I'd expect it to and it did well with the typical final gag. Going to be weird not having any more updates of it in the future.

she put her hand on Aizawa's shoulder, and she definitely stopped Michi from asking more questions that might lead to Kasumi realizing she was not herself for a moment there with the possession

Putting her hand on Aizawa's shoulder seems perfectly in-line with not realizing anything. She walked in after Aizawa stopped possessing Kasumi, and Aizawa's wearing the school uniform, so she would have just looked like a random student who was there with Kasumi and Michi for no good reason. Sayaka noticeably also immediately blames Michi for the strange position she and Kasumi are in, not Aizawa.

And she therefore probably wasn't stopping Michi from saying anything that would let Kasumi know she'd been possessed, but rather anything that would let Kasumi remember how she'd been snuggling with Michi. Simple jealousy.

Of course she could just be an absurdly good actor, but I don't think there's anything that contradicts what's being shown of her being truly oblivious. Michi had the ability to see ghosts since childhood, so Sayaka's likely the same and that's why she thinks everyone can see them.

Ch6 is the formal end of the series, and the extra was a bonus adapted from the web novel that was written later. The web novel is gay, being translated, and can be read at: https://riverbaihe.wordpress.com/. It's unknown if there will be more extras in the future.

Luinthoron, you are a whole percentage amount of my motivation to keep translating. Always gratified to see your comments.

And yep, lots more detail in the web novel. The next few chapters will have even more details and background for this arc.

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I, one of the translators, was very conflicted if it should be tagged as "subtext" or "yuri". I believe that it fits the yuri genre as a whole without a doubt, and the light novel could probably very safely be labelled "yuri" based on the parts I checked, but given that this manhua (which came first) straddles the border, "subtext" seemed the safer choice.

I'd encourage everyone to let the story speak for itself though and judge it on that basis without too many preconceptions of what it should be.

I would have preferred a more muted last page. Something about Stue immediately having a sobbing breakdown seems at odds with the tone. We already know that she regrets, but her brother's right there, and if she had really been that determined to protect the princess, she would have fought the townspeople and died with the princess already. The explosive crying would make more sense if she had tried to protect the princess and failed, not in this scenario where she gave up the princess without any resistance and literally led her to her death.

In my mind, it would have been more fitting if the last page was her crouching down to hug her brother while saying that she did save him, her chin over his shoulder, tears silently streaming down her face where he can't see. And then maybe after some time, then she starts visibly showing it and really sobbing.

« You're an experienced and greasy ol' sleaze! »
« A-Am I sleazy?! »
I'd really like to know what they said in Chinese. Please?

If you're capable of reading the Chinese and want to know, then go buy the raws. https://manga.bilibili.com/detail/mc32438

I mourn what could have been. Sad that it's ended so soon without its full potential being realized. However, the ending was still good all things considered and I would like to think that it's still what the author intended for all along.

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Yvonne was NOT trying to confess to Elsa. She just wanted to secretly give her the flowers and that's all. The kids were the ones who tried to make things explicit.

The wording of lines on pg6 and 7 were changed to try and make this clearer.

Nice premise. Hope it goes somewhere interesting.

Losing track of the side characters, not yet enough investment to remember them, but Aizawa sure is getting possessive.

Aw it's over. A great series though!

An epiphany in the closet is indeed ironic and fitting.

Much thanks to the artist for providing permission to translate.

(She also happens to be one of the most prolific IroYachi artists on the Chinese side.)

Beautiful. Lovely story.

Wut. Is this premise.

Everything is better with the guidance of the goddess of lilies. (ღˇ◡ˇ)~♥

This is translated from Chinese, right? I noticed the word "yuri" appears several times. I wonder what word do they use in Chinese? Tangerine?

Translated from Chinese yes. The Chinese word for yuri uses the same characters as the original Japanese and has the same meaning. 百合 / Lily. Pronounced differently though, of course (bai3 he2). In the interest of localization, ironically, those were kept as "yuri".

As for that "tangerine" thing... Do not speak of that abomination.

I'm half-joking. There's nothing wrong with it inherently and "citrus" / variations of that are other Chinese slang for GL/yuri/FxF stuff. I just have a grudge against them. But anyway, the original Chinese word for the genre was literally "yuri" in that it had the same characters as the Japanese phrase and it is still the most commonly used phrase for the genre.

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[A bunch of theories.]

Nice theories. Good to see some thought going into what might be happening.

If there's no actual source, then please stop spreading misinformation. The government as a direct entity doesn't have some grand scheme against Tanjiu specifically and in fact it was the publisher, not the government, who asked for the censoring of one kiss scene.