As a German, I've never felt so insulted in my life as while reading this chapter, and there's a lot I get to hear about my home country. Finally I understand why people waste time on stuff like "sensitivity reading" ...

The idea that a German baker would be impressed be the flavorless sawdust pressed into vague bread shapes over freshly baked(!) real bread defies any reasonable belief. It's like suggestion to an Italian that frozen pizza is just as good, or to a French that processed cheese is perfectly acceptable, or to an American that ... well, forget Americans, they are hopeless, but otherwise!

(also how on earth is she slicing bread? Well, I'll not pretend I'm infinitely knowledgeable about how people do it; but I've never seen anyone cut a bread horizontally into some sort of pizza-shaped thing ^^; )

(also southern Germany - at least in parts - had notoriously bad soil. At the very least it's not particularly rich soil. That's why you get these sorta frugal-simple meals/lifestyles ^^)

she is the one whom left

She's also the one who came back. I never got the impression Joe had any expectations that she'd this or that; that's clearly something she wanted to do and is doing on her own iniative.

... so honestly don't get what this drama is even about. It's "too late"? Does she have terminal cancer? ^^ If not, what's the problem ...

A satisfying chapter. Keep going like that!

I always struggle with plots where all that's necessary to progress is tell somebody to fuck off and move on with life. It's not actually much of a challenge, and especially in this situation, where there's barely any connection between the two ... ^^

2) How exactly will Bai Yan's (obviously doomed) attempt to steal Xiao Lu get connected to Xiao Lu's subby sexual yearnings (assuming it does)?

imo it looks like ex-friends-that's-a-bit-too-late is attempting to manipulate that dude with a crush to interfere in some way.

Which will probably trigger some more jealousy/possessiveness/protectiveness, similar to this chapter, and somewhere along the line Tongtong's going to realize what's going on with Xiao Lu.

Was a surprising fun and memorable series. I particularly remember that plainly spelled out crude moment in one of the chapters ... shame about the meh ending though ^^;

I'm vaguely convinced it might be the exact opposite to the witch theories: she could be the descendant of some sort of witch-hunter. There surely must be some sort of special humans, otherwise how on earth does anyone in a medieval society "burn a witch"? Why would witches be scared of humans? They can go invisible, fly away, manipulate memories ... no, logic tells me there's some sort of "special humans" around.

... of course, this being based on world building logic, weeell. It's a bit flimsy with a series like this. But still. ^^

Not bad, not great for me. The heroine almost gives me isekai-protagonist vibes in how she goes about things, and the "love interest" really doesn't have much of a personality so far. Maybe now that it introduces some characters that might possibly be antagonistic there'll be some more to this.

You know you've been accepted into the family if you become a target of domestic violence.
On the flip side, there's overpriced shitty ice cream.

Aya's gonna be miserable about it, and Koga's going to find out or otherwise pick up on that and there'll be some kind of grand gesture to make up for it.

I can just picture Koga apologizing to producer dad in the middle of their talk about future stardom because she's got "something really important to do" and rushing to meet Aya, who is hanging out somewhere being down and depressed. Of course, producer dad won't be annoyed by it but rather go "ah youth" or somesuch thing and everything will work out anyway.

Also if that actually happens I wouldn't be surprised if it's The End of the series. ^^

I always find it underwhelming when nearly all developments around characters come externally, instead of any internal growth any of them achieve on their own ...

This "kyousuki" stuff sounds more fucked up than reality TV usually is. Teenagers?! I guess in a country where the "idol" garbage is acceptable I shouldn't be surprised, but still ...

Don't some of the classic "it's a fancy lady school to train young lesbians errr ladies" manga have prom-like events ("graduation ball", that sorta vibe)? Can't say I'm entirely sure but feels like something I've seen before...

Mh, well, makes sense of course, but this is "always" the way these type of relationships nowadays go. dunno what other option there could be, but somebody come up with something :p

Meh ending. But hated that entire ending arc, so maybe just me ^^

e: oh, wait, 1 more chapter ...

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I didn't do any actual statistical analysis, but it feels like if you'd plot yuri protagonists and their love interests from the 90s to now in terms of "outspoken lesbianess", you got way more that are decisively and vocally lesbotic now, and with fewer and fewer that are kinda ambiguous or only "single target", sometimes even just "temporary" with each batch of new manga releases. Give it another few years ...

An interesting(?) inverse of the concept is maybe Transistor Enus, where the heroine is clearly saying she's into women (and young boys, okay, don't judge, she might be a catholic priest), but there's this one guy she has a romantic interest in (nothing comes of it but it's there).

Mh. Kinda like a character introduction info dump ^^;

... also turns out everyone has fake names, basically.

Just normal friends, as usual.

Yeah, I think Mistuki pulls it off by being lean and tall and also wearing those pants super low lol

Being a fictional character made to look good helps a lot, or so I hear ;)

That’s what I was thinking—it’s not like this author to have a major character transformation/epiphany take place entirely off-panel.

Well, some of the early development certainly was done more vignette style than a connected narrative, so it wouldn't entirely be unexpected either to just keep moving forward. And let's also not forget that we JUST had her and her uncle play hooky to watch a movie, would be kinda odd doing something similar right away again.

She'll probably explain herself if Mitsuki gets jealous or feels unneeded now or something though. ^^#

Some of the boys in class will start questioning themselves ...

"I raised you to be a worldwide daughter."
How many pancakes does that require?

The fan doesn't want vampires well being. She wishes for a double suicide with her

Last pages claims the opposite for some reason.

A Japanese salesperson glaring at a costumer? Least realistic thing I've seen this year in manga.

For some bizarre reason I felt the nun would be revealed to sinisterly murder the cat after the heroine is gone ...

e: also, only a psychopath would open a letter like that.

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