a) girlfriend
b) better girlfriend + cool magic powers + eternal youth
One might argue that choosing b) runs the risk of being murdered by a), but I'd argue that's a bit toxic and a red flag for a) as well.

Peak.

Nah, man. I think if I was getting eaten by a youkai, the fact that they could die from overhunting us would be pretty meager consolation. And if humans actually started thinking how Reimu does, Gensoukyou would fall apart. It's not just that they're required to exist, they're required to be weak and ignorant. Whatever technical superiority they have is completely in Reimu's hands.

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Bocchi would also rather head-canon that, but alas.

This pic was actually drawn by Bocchi from the dark timeline where she never got into the band and popped off in the Vocaloid scene instead. The other hikikomoris really vibe with her songs so she's making enough money to spend her whole life alone in her room, not even talking to her family any more and just drowning herself in delusions about Miku. It's very sad.

^^ Not a site rule, but a good idea for one. I'd up the number, though.

Don't let the cute lesbians distract you from the fact that someone just translated a japanese pun on fish by ???replacing it with a japanese pun on a different fish???
Absolutely unhinged

I'm in full support of Momoyo wearing literally anything other than her usual outfit.

That snake better be ok.

Popping in to note that I made a couple embarrassing mistranslations on pages 8 and 18 of chapter 42. They've been fixed now.

Most notably, the part about how the Miyadeguchi were scapegoated as traitors against humanity and the Hakurei, not accomplices of the Hakurei in betraying humanity. Basically a very tunnel-visioned misreading of "betrayed humanity with the Hakurei" when it should've been "betrayed humanity and the Hakurei", which led to a couple further misinterpretations.

Ooooh, got it. Thanks for the fix.
So then Suika was working with the Hakurei and they used Mizuchi to frame the Miyadeguchi family? Or, at least that's how Mizuchi understands it.

Wait, that's it? The Hakurei are maintainers of Gensokyo and the place clearly doesn't exist for the benefit of the humans in it. Hell, it's literally the one place where humans haven't already won. They're just here because their faith and fear are what mythology needs to survive.

I guess this would've been a sick twist if I knew less about Touhou, but it honestly took me a while to figure out what part of it I was supposed to be surprised by. After seeing Yuugi immediately take Mizuki's side and Mizuki declare nobody would side with Reimu after hearing this, I really expected more.

That is a good point; I'll update it in a few.

For those who are lost regarding the ending, they are running away together and no one is getting left behind.
While there are sirens in the background towards the end, it is unlikely that these are for them since no one other than the two know about the situation.

Cool. I kinda forgot the scanlators might read my post so I hope I didn't came across as rude. Thanks for the translation.

But yeah, I'm starting to lean towards Maika playing the robber and Uta playing along (a bit too loud) while running away with her, rather than Maika offering to take the fall and Uta picking up on it. It's just that Maika's logic for why Uta should also run away was so flimsy, I thought it might be deliberate.

Since Maika is used to street life already, I think they'll have a decent chance of surviving as fugitives. Plenty of unfortunate people in this world manage to live outside the law.

I really doubt she's used to street life. Her outfits are perfectly decent, she hangs out with friends at a cafe or something and I thought pages 27 and 28 looked like she was on the way home from uni. It also sounded like this was her first attempt at prostitution and she hadn't even thought of robbery before, so if she really needs the money, it's probably a recent thing. But her friend thinks she doesn't even need the money that badly so I think she's just generally impulsive and reckless.

I feel like this missing some tags

I feel like this missing some pages.

It's not, I checked the originals. I have a few corrections/clarifications, but even after reading the original, I'm still confused.

page 1: "weekends hit you hard"
I don't think she meant in general, just this one.

page 2: "...sounds about right". "which is it"
I think the original is more like "...that's it" "what is?". Like, being accused of robbery gave her the idea of trying it later that day.

page 28: The middle speech bubble's not really wrong, but I think "Because I feel like everybody's surprisingly nice" would be a little clearer.
The bottom one seems wrong to me, I think it's more like "Isn't it normal to only think about today".

The middle bubble coming from the top panel but being placed after the "why" is really confusing. At first, I somehow interpreted it as that scene happening after the robbery, but I guess she's just answering the friend's comment that she's weirdly optimistic in the flashback and then the same logic applies to Uta's question somehow.

I still can't really make sense of Maika's reasoning for why Uta should run away and it's not a translation issue. And if she's gonna play the robber and let Maika stay, why offer to run away in the first place?

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Every single time I see "the class's green tea bitch", I'm reminded of the "every squad got the" meme.

Remember when Marisa was the cool, confident girl everybody was falling for? God, I miss that.

Idk man, I think it's missing something.
I really love both of them and I wish I was into the ship, but I can't help but find them a boring match.

I gotta admit, i definitely like the tonal shift to combat centric it definitely plays to the artists strengths. That said MARISA DO SOMETHINGGGG because why is the girl who canonically dreams about fighting people not actually fighting. Like at all

Seriously. The games make her out to be almost Reimu's equal, but in manga she's a helpless little fangirl. Sad.

Prom arc cancelled, let's gooooooo

Not really, though.

Actually, I could go for a doujin about Mokou meeting someone that legit probably could kill her.

As far as I can remember, this is literally the one instance of this triangle where Alice actually beats Reimu. And Reimu's not even that broken up about it.
Meanwhile every other ReiMari artist's like "lmao alice on suicide watch in the background".

I don't think it's meant to be connected, but the fact that the artist behind some of the cutest, most wholesome MariAli switched to Alice getting absolutely destroyed by Yuuka makes me kinda sad.

That being said, I'm still surprised Youmu lost, but it shows that much like the Touhou itself, there many more games to play in the future.

Youmu actually did win. Remember that each of the Four Senses have to be called "-sama" by everyone, and at the end, Yuyuko called Youmu "Youmu-sama".

She lost, but won Yuyuko's recognition. Barring a complete mistranslation, I see no way to interpret Remilia and Patchouli's conversation as Remilia ultimately losing.

No, she won. Or else what is the last panel supposed to mean or imply, especially since the manga's author talked about the significance of the last panel and how it was planned ever since the series started, in response to someone else talking about the last panel revealing the winner of the tournament? Not to mention that Yuyuko is the very last person that could call Youmu "-sama" in normal circumstances. In an earlier post I also brought up how with that in mind, it was likely that Patchouli was talking about an alternative outcome and way that Remilia could have won rather than what had happened in reality.

Patchouli's conversation with Remilia was an implication, but the last panel is pretty much the direct confirmation that it was actually Youmu that won.

Literally what about Patchouli's dialog sounds like a hypothetical? Yuyuko using -sama to show that she considers Youmu the winner regardless of the actual result is waaaay less of a stretch. And if that's not typical of her, yeah, that's the point. Youmu proved herself by getting as far as she did.

That being said, I'm still surprised Youmu lost, but it shows that much like the Touhou itself, there many more games to play in the future.

Youmu actually did win. Remember that each of the Four Senses have to be called "-sama" by everyone, and at the end, Yuyuko called Youmu "Youmu-sama".

She lost, but won Yuyuko's recognition. Barring a complete mistranslation, I see no way to interpret Remilia and Patchouli's conversation as Remilia ultimately losing.

It got drowned out by her confessing for the first time, but Marisa casually saying she wants to be reborn as a human so she can die before Alice again is pretty fucked. She watches her love agonize over it for decades and she's like "damn, couldn't be me".
Not complaining, mind you. It's an interesting explanation for why Marisa doesn't just turn.

This author has written really wholesome MariAli, but I also remember another doujin where Alice was really torn, because she enjoyed Marisa's company, but she normally had a policy of collecting any human samples she could get for her research.
So if they say this doujin's Alice is bad news, she probably is. But then they also say this is a good ending from a MariAli perspective and that's the one I'm reading it from.

Anyway, I really like this kind of story where you never really find out how far the dark undertone goes. Yandere Alice is pretty common, but it's neat to see a version that would actually fool anybody.