Well, Granny has an interesting character design, so that’s kind of new.

I’m guessing Mei’s “That doesn’t have anything to do with you” statement isn’t supposed to come off as quite so much as “That’s none of your business/don’t worry your pretty little empty head about it” as it might appear at first glance. But it’s certainly yet another instance of Mei fending off Yuzu and keeping her at arm’s length.

Never stopping to think, “Wait, does Japan even have dedicated lesbian brothels/escort services? Does anywhere?”

We looked into this before, and there seem to be at least two in Tokyo, with 'lesbian' or 'yuri' right in the names.

As opposed to the one on every street corner in yuri manga. . . .

I think it's a good general principle that the actions depicted in comedy manga should not be taken as a guidebook for optimal real-life behavior.

As opposed to dramas about highschool girls having affairs, you should learn everything about life from them :P

Or maybe not even then.

One of the characteristics of comedy manga series like this one is the piling up of one premise after another, some more plausible than others, until, if we were to actually stop and think about it, the whole thing becomes a completely preposterous house of cards teetering on the edge of madness.

But as manga readers we are accustomed to swallow each marginally possible premise in turn and so end up discussing the ethics of specific situations like “How would you feel if you came home and found your cram-school-teacher/lesbian-sex-worker partner demonstrating her pubic-hair grooming techniques to a young fellow student who aspires to the technical knowledge of a professional lesbian sex worker?”

Never stopping to think, “Wait, does Japan even have dedicated lesbian brothels/escort services? Does anywhere?”

I think it's a good general principle that the actions depicted in comedy manga should not be taken as a guidebook for optimal real-life behavior.

“I assumed that the pink-haired girl was like me.” Um, no, asshole, not like you at all.

So, is it illegal in China for impossibly gorgeous yuri manhua MCs to put their incredibly long, impeccably groomed hair up when going to bed? So like, no scrunchies or hair ties or anything?

No, no, you got it all wrong, it's just there's only perfect people in china, at all times.. hope this helps

I suspected as much. I’m sure the formula for the elimination of bed-head is a closely guarded state secret.

So, is it illegal in China for impossibly gorgeous yuri manhua MCs to put their incredibly long, impeccably groomed hair up when going to bed? So like, no scrunchies or hair ties or anything?

Also worth keeping in mind that Mitsuki struggling to express herself openly, her fear of conflict and potential rejection, etc. Were some of the very first aspects of her shown and have been consistent problems for her, although they are slowly fading. She's not just a baby gay, she's a traumatized introverted baby gay who clearly had some fucked up family stuff happen to her before the start of the story that we've still yet to learn about.

I'm not sure the family stuff is necessarily true--we were shown that she was always pretty introverted but content to just be herself at school, then she got bullied, or more precisely her friend Sakiko got bullied because of Mitsuki not conforming by wearing a skirt (Chap. 37.5), and then she really closed herself off.

We've been told nothing about her pre-Joe life, so family trauma is always a possibility, but the explanation for Mitsuki's affect that we've been given so far is that she's a loner kid with "a different beat" whose friend got bullied because of it.

How tf is she MC’s step mom? Is/Was she married to MC’s dad?

The stepmother is married to the MC’s dad.

That’s how a person usually gets a stepmother.

The Kanna/Joe thread is directly connected to the main couple story, since Kanna explicitly said that she came back to Japan in order to take Mitsuki back to the US with her.

We haven’t been explicitly told how long Kanna was originally planning on staying, or what her hopes for the relationship with Joe currently are. Nor do we know why Joe has been Mitsuki’s de facto guardian, what the legal status of that relationship is, or why they didn’t all go to the US together in the first place (although we can infer that it would be difficult to emigrate and try to start a musical career as a punk musician while caring for a toddler).

But we do know that in the first instance Kanna’s ambitions for Mitsuki are a threat to separate the MCs.

15 chapters up on MD, pretty freaking cute overall, with an MC who is too profoundly useless to realize that the impossibly gorgeous and talented stepmother is actually doting on her.

Glad to see it here.

I have no idea what you're thinking of but that's not Nanashi no Asterism, those characters are like 13 in that series and it's not written by CLAMP so they're not marrying anybody lmao
I've seen that series get hate in a few different threads here and I don't get it. Maybe the official localization, "Nameless Asterism," fixed some issues or something, cuz that's the version I read and really liked it as a story of young kids taking their first steps into queer identities. It's not much of a romance but I don't think it was ever intended to be and it's not how it came across in the official version, it's an ensemble coming of age queer drama instead. Something in the same subgenre as "Our Dreams At Dusk".

I’m not sure what you’re thinking of, but the Nanashi no Asterism I read here was at least mainly about a yuri love (or maybe “crush”) triangle with a rather wandering yaoi subplot and it definitely had a het ending for one of the MCs that was not justified by the initial, highly yuri, premises.

Yeah Aya unilaterally decided that Mitsuki meeting a record producer was more important than their relationship because "I don't want to get in the way of her music" or something. A choice that is blowing up in her face atm. Ironically a disaster that could be better for her than having her choice stand, since this gives Mitsuki an opportunity to tell her off for it before it's too late.

I’d guess it’s more of a “kerfuffle” than a “disaster”—the chances of not having at least some scenes at the prom are vanishingly small.

I once had a teacher who said, “Stories are mainly about characters getting information—who knows what, when they know it, and how they get the information,” which didn’t sound right at first, because sometimes there’s also heads getting chopped off and car crashes, etc., but on further reflection the idea had an astoundingly wide application anyway.

This chapter is not an exception to that rule.

It's not insane to point out that Nanase has been a feckless, forgetful, and inconsiderate girlfriend; that's right there in the text.

When reading a story equals serving as the judge and jury in Personal Behavior court, one character must be found guilty, which de facto means the others are innocent.

Doesn’t make much sense to me, but it apparently means the world to some people.

can you make more excuse harder for the dumb beloved Yuni? you spend a wall A WALL of text making excuses for way Yuni did what she did! Nanase is not an asshole but sure in your head all victims of cheating has to have a blame in the OTHER person cheating first, and continue to cheat and continue to be the biggest asshole ever

Damn, people can sure become emotional with this title (this is the kind of comments I enjoy reading lol). I've never said I excuse anything Yuni did. I was just making a case of why I think Nanase is a terrible gf. Both Can co-exist at the same time. The whole post is about Nanase, not Yuni. I don't justify in any way Yuni's action. Just because of is a cheater doesn't mean the other party is a good person...

The person you are responding to has especially strong attitudes about cheating and tends to get personal, not to mention rabid, in excoriating cheating in general, cheating characters in particular, and commenters who see nuance in any situation that can possibly be construed as cheating.

Of course it's "impossible"--they're both girls. How would that even work?

The human mind--it boggles.

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I miss my fluff.

I know there’s always been an undercurrent of tension in this series. But I miss the cool-tall-girl/feisty-short-girl fluff.

Thanks, Daphie. (I think of this author as usually doing some oblique storytelling, but this makes a lot more sense now.)

Could someone please explain what she's talking about on page 26?

I took it as lovey-dovey babbling.

Lovey-Dovey Fluff genre.

Can't wait for an another entertainment industry centric mahua that will take eons to get somewhere, and that I will still follow for some good forsaken reason. Woohoo

eons to get somewhere, you say? spoiler a kiss already happened in the manhua hehe and its one of the very early chapters too.

For me the yuri webtoon problem is less about the romance pacing inside the story than the uncertain scanlation continuation. I was just culling my Mangadex library and found a surprising number of stalled-out yuri long-strip series that I had been interested in, some of them with quite a few chapters already posted.

I’d never complain about scanlators dropping a series—-we’re all reading someone’s hard work for free. But it’s my personal impression that the yuri manhua genre has more than the average share of series that just come to a sudden halt.

Can't wait for an another entertainment industry centric mahua that will take eons to get somewhere, and that I will still follow for some good forsaken reason. Woohoo

I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to say about this one, but this ^ will do nicely.

It’s been a storyline since Kanna showed up way back. Not a new plot line. And Kanna has been projecting onto Aya this whole time. Joe and Kanna have been running parallel with Aya and Mitsuki like a cautionary tale of sorts for the MCs. It’s been blatant the whole time.

Yeah it has. I think people are a bit upset because they've been waiting a while for a big moment for our main two and it seemed right around the corner but now there's a pile of previously understated obstacles threatening to extend things again. That's the vibe I'm getting. Seems more like patience is beginning to run thin.

Just imagine how Aya feels.

This manga really is peak lesbian yaoi, and I love it so much for being that. This is absolutely going to end with Misa and Io killing people and fleeing the country together.

Depending on which characters they kill, I could be OK with that.