Every chapter I read this and I wonder “how did we go from dumb little gag manga of a girl trying to get her male teacher to drink a love potion and messing it up and getting girls to fall for her instead, to THIS?” lol

I do love Mochi and this manga, but it’s just so WEIRD how it evolved over time. We went from “simple joke done a few different ways” to “overarching high school drama with 30+ distinct individual characters each with their own personalities, lore, and interconnected relationships, all set across various dramatic arcs where our brash yet charismatic heroine solves problems and pulls bitches through the power of “fuck you, get along!””

It’s gonna be so weird one of these days when I finally get around to rereading all this from chapter 1

That's fair, thanks for further explaining your thoughts. Also I want to say directly to you I apologize for my side of this, be well.

No worries I wasn’t actually like offended or anything by anyone here. Some of us just have a difference of opinion from each other, no big deal. Take care

As one of the supposed “Battan haters” that seemed to kick off this big debate, figure I’ll clarify myself a little here.

I don’t “hate” Battan. While her works thus far haven’t really been for me, I can at least see why others might like them or find them interesting. I think her strengths are her unique art style and commitment to writing about weird, unorthodox, often messy relationships with flawed characters. Even if I personally don’t really like any of her characters and often find them acting stupid or being awful, I can see how someone else might see them as interesting. And her art style did grow on me a bit and now I do kinda like it.

For me, though, her biggest cons are her characters. Again, I can see why someone ELSE might find them interesting. But I always find them annoyingly stupid, selfish, toxic, etc. Someone else might praise that and say that makes them more human and engaging than most other yuri characters that are just a cookie cutter set of stock personalities and traits. But I just see them as that: awful characters with no redeemable qualities that make me want to root for them or keep reading.

I might be kind of a hypocrite tho lol. I’m still reading Fatale Game despite hating all the characters and not really enjoying any chapter so far. I really wanted to give it a chance since I just could not power through “Run Away with me Girl” and really wanted to see if things might end up developing to a point where the characters actually become more interesting than what I have now come to realize must be the stock standard “toxic Battan character”. But so far no luck.

Maybe I can be classified as a “hater”. Idk. But hey, even though this one shot wasn’t my favorite thing ever, I will say it is categorically my favorite Battan work yet! I think the comedy and shortness of it help prevent that usual toxicity from seeping in and souring things for me (even if it looks like that blonde girl would have been a classic toxic Battan character if this had stretched any longer than a one shot).

In short, I don’t hate Battan so much as I tend to hate her characters. Fans may interpret them as intriguing and flawed characters that feel very human, but I just find them dumb assholes who are toxic in some way for cheap drama. I like her art, but her stories tend to just be too bogged down for me with these stupid characters doing stupid things. It’s so much that it almost feels like Battan WANTS people to hate read her works, like those influencers who purposefully do controversial shit just to get more eyes on them.

bro was expecting a love saga from a bloody one shot XD

Not really. Just thought it would have a reveal like that, just ending with the blonde girl being all surprised and flustered and stuff. Didn’t need or expect anything more than that

Meh, thought there would be a twist that she wasn’t actually looking at Reina, but at the blonde girl the whole time. Kinda just ended really sudden and dull too

Was hoping this would be the first manga by this author that I might actually enjoy lol

lmao Killer Queen is in love with lulu

It’s always the good mangas that die young…damn axe…

I keep reading this and I don’t know why lol. I hate how it makes me feel, I hate the editor, and I hate how much everyone is so obsessed with that emotional slut. I kinda hope this ends with the editor being abandoned by everyone after manipulating them all and realizing what a piece of shit she is while they all go off to be better people and live better lives. Though I doubt that’ll happen obviously lol

This chapter REALLY threw me off lol.

The “roommates” joke or whatever it was supposed to be felt kinda weird, but I figured it might just be some weird translation thing that made more sense in Japanese or something. Still seems like they’re together and it was just some awkward attempt by the author to force a “is she cheating on me? No of course not, she’s just being her same old mega rizzler autist self.” joke.

The sudden time skip REALLY came out of left field though. Really could have used at least a panel or two of establishing the new setting, like a “X years later” or “We’re in university now” or SOMETHING instead of just time skipping so suddenly like that. Especially since the last chapter gave no real indication of this coming; it wasn’t even focused on the main couple!

Despite the clunkiness of this chapter, I’m actually more excited for this series now. I’ve actually been kinda bored with it for quite a while now since it felt like it explored all the stuff it needed to already long ago and was just kinda dragging on. I was really just reading each new chapter cuz of sunk cost fallacy. But time skipping them to college and seeing how all the other characters are doing and stuff could finally open up some new interesting things for the story.

Shouldn’t this have the “Bisexual” tag? The first page of the story literally has the succubus girl next to a man she presumably sexually drained.

Idk, I’m interested for now, but for a first chapter it was a little too edgy for me lol. The start was pretty good, but the over the top cartoonish abusing uncle and cousins are a bit too ridiculous. And the whole thing with some random monster or whatever ripping the cousin and her apart was kinda weird. Even the “how can I go to hell…when I’m already in hell…?” line was a little cringe lol.

But still, I’m interested in at least seeing what the hell kind of explanation there is for whatever happened and what exactly this senpai is. I just hope the edginess gets dialed back just a tad cuz it really feels like I just read some late 2000s fan fiction or something.

So…I really don’t get the whole reveal with Yuuka, or even the argument they had. So is Yuuka just some sort of yandere that doesn’t actually believe Ayaka’s condition and just likes her cuz she’s cute and doesn’t really care about her as a person? But she’s a witch herself, so she should know stuff like that could be real, so was that whole argument just a farce? And has she been the one responsible for “choosing” the days this whole time? Canonizing days Yuuka herself wants to carry over while skipping iterations she doesn’t like, like the ones where Ayaka gets closer to Michiru? So Yuuka is the one responsible for killing Michiru over and over to try to get Ayaka to give up on her and move on so she will stay “her Ayaka” and not be anyone else’s? Then why doesn’t Ayaka seem to remember this and keeps going to the hospital with Yuuka every time Michiru dies? I also don’t really get the whole thing about Ayaka’s power not being “perfect memory” but being “able to relive moments” or whatever.

Idk, I’m still interested in this story, but it just seemed to really fly off the rails into a direction I’m not sure I like in an instant (and not just because it made Yuuka evil for some reason and I really liked Yuuka). If anyone’s got a coherent, easy to understand explanation of what’s going on now, I’d be grateful, cuz I’m getting REAL lost lol

I'm disappointed that the KIMO line is not translated as disgusting instead of creep.
Having someone call you disgusting is more emotionally damaging than a mere "creep".

Gotta disagree.

Sure, “disgusting” is definitely gonna do some damage and is not a great thing to be seen as. But “creep” implies that you already are disgusting AND that you are quite possibly dangerous. Like, a creep is usually someone who has degenerate interests/desires and may even act on them in some way. Maybe even morally reprehensible and/or illegal. Whereas someone who is “disgusting” may have degenerate interests and desires, but has probably not stooped to the level of acting on them or involving other real life people in them yet. Basically, “disgusting” implies that people wanna stay away from you cuz you are undesirable for whatever reason. “Creep” implies that people want to stay away from you cuz you are undesirable AND potentially dangerous. At least, that’s how I interpret those words.

Damn, poor Adachi getting NTRed like that.

wow that's a lot of miserable cranks in the comments, I bet they didn't even see the sick ass pose.

Fun pranks are a dying art out here, keep it up yuri comrades

Oh, yeah, SUCH a “fun” prank. It’s the equivalent of dressing up in a brick wall costume and standing in front of a door, preventing anyone from going through it for a whole day. It’s not fun or entertaining; it’s an inconvenience.

Sure, it’s ultimately harmless and not that big of a deal. But it’s still fucking annoying. At least past April Fool’s stuff that used silly dialogue or memes and stuff has SOME entertainment value. This is just boring and unimaginative as far as “pranks” go. What’s the joke? You can’t read it? Yeah, and I can’t read Japanese either. I could look at literally any other untranslated piece of media or fucking a picture of a road sign in Vietnamese and get the same experience. It’s not humorous. It’s just “whatever” at best.

And before I get lynched by the joke police for the crime of being a grouchy grumpus, I’m not REALLY that mad or anything. Again, it’s just a small, annoying inconvenience that I know I only have to deal with for a day. But that’s why April Fool’s sucks so much. Just a whole 24 hours of mild annoyances and inconveniences from people who think “comedy = (lying + disruption) X frustration”. Just a stupid thing to have to deal with others forcing on you EVERY year when all you want is the thing you came for. In this case, the next chapter of a story I liked reading.

Fuck April Fool’s Day.

People like this make me reconsider my stance on the advocacy of thought crime

I thought the comedic twist was gonna be that the arranged partner was the maid herself, and that the girl just ran off before her and the brother could explain that to her lol

Picture this.

Calm down, Socrates, it’s just a silly little comedy manga.

Delinquent prince looks like a female version of Raz from Valkyria Chronicles

Damn, human beings suck. If you wanna be self destructive and drag down someone else with you, at least have the decency to limit it to the people who hurt you in the first place. Don’t just pick a random stranger and dump a bunch of pain and trauma on them like that.

Saki is a stronger person than me. If I got that emotionally involved with someone about to take their own life, then they told me “eh, I never really cared about you. I just wanted to see if I could get you to care about me before I killed myself” I would be fuckin livid. It’d be a murder happening in there, not a suicide lol

I know it’ll never happen, but I actually want to see Komaki get cucked by Matsuri lol. Show that overconfident toxic asshole the power of ACTUALLY COMMUNICATING YOUR GODDAMN FEELINGS instead of doing the exact OPPOSITE of what you want and trying to make the person you love absolutely despise you.

I get this story and its characters shouldn’t be taken THAT seriously, cuz holy shit do they not make any sense or behave even somewhat believably. Yet I still can’t help but get a little pissed off at Komaki when she monopolizes and takes advantage of Wakaba without real consent, and Wakaba for being an idiot and letting herself get swept up by Komaki’s stupid “challenges” she can never win. Like, why not just challenge her to something she KNOWS she could never win and be done with it? Challenge her to fit inside a small box or something, use your small stature to your advantage! It’s just such a glaringly stupid relationship from the beginning I can’t help but keep reading to see how the author is going to “justify” it when they inevitably get together.

Something definitely seems up with Matsuri, but at least she’s more honest and not “abusive” towards Wakaba. It’s impressive how this manga has me cheering for the “villain” love interest lol

Kind of a cringe title and chapter name, ngl

Wow. I was really waiting for the end of the chapter to be that the girl was just lying about her home life in order to garner sympathy so people would buy her stupid products, and that she actually had normal and loving parents (or equally kooky scam artist parents but they at least love her), but…I guess not…

Kinda just makes me sad. That girl really needs some help.

Needs a yandere tag