Clockwise from right: Dad, Pops, Father, Daddy.

Folks here supposing the mothers could get together are severely on one. This comic has done excellent work in honoring the consequences of its setting and I doubt Xian Jun feels the need to pair off every onscreen female character, particularly "Het to 11" and "Self-Isolating Homophobe".

TongTong has learned too much, she has become too powerful

please. stop praying for my Chinese gyaru freshman!!!! you are making her too strong. shes annihilating lesbians and the cops cant get her. she's too powerful.

The school is not giving you the role you want, but the role you need. That's all.

Even licensed psychotherapists generally require a patient's consent for outstanding treatment methodologies, and I doubt the school is staffed entirely by doctors (though maybe that's a reveal later who knows). They'll also periodically check in to ensure the treatment is actually providing benefit. There's no chance whoever is creating these assignments could know what every one of these students "needs" unless the author wants them to for plot's sake.

I mean, imagine Nanase after receiving this specifically adversarial assignment just doesn't complete it and is failed out. That's a huge new trauma tying right into old trauma for her to carry. It's an awful strategy as far as helping kids grow is concerned.

Neko kawaii neko cafe

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As a dedicated 2nd-year triad shipper: this chapter made for a tasty snack.

Okay yeah I do need this to develop a plot about Yuetao hunting and assassinating the tycoon.

So deeply relatable... The sooner you realize that tremendously few professionals have knowledge relevant to your treatment the better, and this step can be particularly difficult for avoidant or non-confrontational people.

Having to give repeated crash course educations, talk down conflations of personal moral discomfort with professional concern, and ultimately sort of construct an entire care plan for yourself from disparate resources really can drain you pretty quickly.

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Already this thread is full up on gross takes, neat.

Houjou is a super fun protagonist. Hoping we get a sense of her counterpart's thoughts beyond the occasional stinger.

Tfw you come back and realize that the pretty girl who's been bullying and making demands of you is also already your girlfriend.

She could very easily be the first person to call you by your name if you chaaanged your name~

Also lmao as nice as they both are this is such a dumb baby relationship. Which yeah is par for the course in the romance genre, but perhaps because there's such thick [gender] in the air around Akizuki I feel more inclined than usual to point out that these kids both need therapy much more immediately than they need a partner.

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This manga is just beautiful to look at like it's such an artistic treat.

Sorry to be That Bitch a month after its release but chapter 31, page 11 typos "just desserts" in the third panel.

Shout out to Yadokawa for the serially lovely work and Rehashed for bringing it to us.

*reads four chapters* "Huh. Interesting premise; hope it's thoughtfully delivered."

*checks mangaka* "wait haha what the fuck"

If by whatever virtue this series gets VO at some point, I am going to need Romi Park as Frost.

okay sure angsty teen gays but ROBOT RIGHTS TODAY! AUTOMATE A PATH TO LEGAL SOVEREIGNTY!

I'm so fucking happy to see a new Sal Jiang serial. Also Sada is perfect I love her.

I can't fathom folks showing up to a new work from one of vanishingly few mangaka (or published authors in general) repping committed aro/ace relationships to say "gosh, I hope this one is more like everything else I read!"

I'll be eager to see how Usui develops the story either way, but that's because I trust her not to feel beholden to every romance trope.

The obvious next step in her training is cucking her husband with his mistress.

As a tall girl, meeting an even taller girl really is the dream.

(it's the part of the court romance plot where I'm expected to cheer for a disdained noble putting the haughty/conniving servants "in their place")

That aside, can anybody identify what they're eating on the last page?

Mooncakes, potentially?

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I think the servant is assuming that the Princess will back her play and corroborate her story, and probably fake being more hurt than she actually is, to suit the Dowager's schemes. Still super risky to do without knowing that the Princess is actually on-board. Laying hands on a royal sounds like a good way to get brutally executed.

Based on the Empress Dowager's words, she may actually expect the exact opposite outcome. The plan is to turn the current Empress against the Princess by making it look as if the Princess planned this all along, so the Princess would be left having the Empress Dowager as her only ally in the palace and therefore having no choice but to play along with her schemes.

...And I was reading it as a third course wherein the aim is to convince the princess that Dingdang is jealously possessive and can't tolerate her continued "interference", forcing her into the shelter of the empress dowager's influence.

Not that any of these plots are mutually exclusive.

On the one hand, advertising's a slog. On the other, part of the reason is you rarely ever see an ad this beautiful.

The chapter didn't say that, though. Xiao Pei is shown being in a shitty position, but it wasn't framed as a "what to do". If anything, if we want to overinterpret it as a message, it would be a critique of how people in showbiz (or other jobs) acts toward help. The people overworking her weren't treated as being in the right.

She's in a shit job, perseveres, then gets rewarded for her perseverance by a lucky break. Insofar as this has any message it is definitely "stick with it" instead of "fuck this shit, go somewhere where people will treat you with respect before a mental breakdown will make that decision for you".

I definitely saw some of this. "Thank goodness someone showed me the respect necessary not to let my head crack open in a fall on the stairs. Now I have enough motivation to get back to the grind!" It's nice she found the opportunity when she did, but it would've been cool to be shown Xiao Pei considering other options.

help Lenka is hot

Too true it's fucked up.