"Diana, as the heroine, will always be morally right. Let's just reassure her so she doesn't give up her powers."

~natori putting a 50 cal through her foot

the sapphic urge to write characters bleeding out and experiencing immense physical pain and trauma

I was going to laugh and say "Pshaw, what an exaggerated statement!" but then I remembered novels like Clear And Muddy Loss Of Love and Female General and Eldest Princess.

Aaand I guess I have nothing to say after all.

i hate Female General and Eldest Princess spoilers—> i can’t believe people praise this as great Lesbian Romance when the supposed romance is just……UGH like we have 1/5 of the novel being romance AT THE END AND THAT is garbage fast forward because the author forgot this is supposed to be an romance novel

In their defense most Chinese novels I have read are just like that, at this point I think it's cultural. I just finished reading a series that was 4000 pages and they started holding hands like at 4/5 of it??? And it was portrayed as lewd and not in the reddit way, in the serious way. They take their slow burn VERY seriously. Just take Mo Dao Zu Shi, the most famous BLB of all as an example. Most of the series is just worldbuilding and very well written angst approaching the tradegy that killed Wei Ying in his first body.

I liked reading the female general and eldest princess but I don't know if I would recommend it.

What's this extreme hand-holding series

I must know

Lapis went full wife guy immediately

best description I ever read bout lappy

took me a moment to realize that the snake represented tongue

Tsurugimine Kiri's big gay bathroom panic strikes again!

I am the proud owner of a homosexual bathroom

we were wrong all along - mochi wasn't writing dumb trashy fun stories, they were just strategically reserving their brain cells for the decisive moment

Rin and President fans arguing over who's gonna win. Meanwhile me, a Ruruka backer, dying on the floor because the one chapter with them on a date went to someone else.

Also hold up, Ruruka, the flat pervert best friend? And I don't mean flat in the physical sense. She's like, the least interesting character in my opinion, why her?

Also the potion definitely doesn't do the first person you see, because in this chapter MC drank the potion but thought of Rinmei instead of her sister in front of her.

I know it literally doesn't matter, but I'm kinda curious if this drug

A. Just makes you temporarily horny towards your normal sexual orientation

B. Makes you temporarily horny towards the same sex

C. Makes you temporarily horny towards the same sex and also permanently gay.

C would be kinda fucked up, like you just changed the course of someone's life on a whim without consent. It would be unMochi to write that, I think. The drugged male teacher chapter kinda implied B, but it would also be consistent with events if that teacher was in fact actually gay the entire time.

I think the implication is that it just makes you super horny and open to sexual offers without being too picky about things like orientation and gender

As a counterpoint, the male teacher was immediately horny for the other male teacher, but not for any of his female students or coworkers. We're probably not having any straight reappearing characters, so it's an academic question.

It's one of those "plug-in endings" that's unfortunately weirdly common with manga. You could have gone on with the misunderstanding another ten chapters and put those two ending chapters there. Or you could have put those ending chapters in 10 chapters earlier. It wouldn't have made an iota of difference. ^^

It was honestly one of those stories where you could have assembled almost all the chapters in pretty much any order and it would not have mattered

It's also kinda, if a tree falls in a gay forest kinda thing. If all the characters are canonically gay, and this is the kind of setting where that very well might be true, then it's likely irrelevant exactly how the drug works because everybody is gay anyways.

I know it literally doesn't matter, but I'm kinda curious if this drug

A. Just makes you temporarily horny towards your normal sexual orientation

B. Makes you temporarily horny towards the same sex

C. Makes you temporarily horny towards the same sex and also permanently gay.

C would be kinda fucked up, like you just changed the course of someone's life on a whim without consent. It would be unMochi to write that, I think. The drugged male teacher chapter kinda implied B, but it would also be consistent with events if that teacher was in fact actually gay the entire time.

that was a surprisingly sweet and heartfelt moment in the midst of madness

I was squeeing at the phone call. Who knew that asking the girl you like if you can use them as fap material after your crazy sister drugged you can be so cute?

Yeah rereading it a few times, I was surprised by how real it felt. I cannot quantify it, but it had that right pitch of awkwardness, that combination of nothing to say and everything that young people have said to each other before, that levelled like a conversation I might have had as a youth.

that was a surprisingly sweet and heartfelt moment in the midst of madness

Oh yeah agreed, both characters were incredibly attractive this chapter.

What's the commoner purge plan? Killing all the commoners or killing all the ones with political influence?

Misery, destitution, avarice, prostitution

I'm kinda confused

So they went on a trip and had money for appliances? I thought they had to choose one

Probably explained but my brain small

I was just wondering when Flowerchild Ueda would write a new manga! Misa was characterized pretty interestingly, she kind of went as close as you can to the line of sexual assault without quite going over. Which does make her the most moral of Ueda's MCs so far lol. There's a lot of directions the plot can go from here so I'm curious to see what'll happen. Thanks for the translation!

Honestly I would consider it over the line

But uh, it worked out?

Truly one of the manga of all time

Honestly I find the idea that Gin is actually completely cis and het and just has the interests of a young girl funnier than the alternative. Ain't gotta stick to no gender stereotypes.

somehow, weirdly enough, I didn't expect them to actually have sex

somehow, weirdly enough, I didn't expect them to actually have sex

Chokers are considered an adult gift? I guess all the teenage girls I see wearing one didn't get the message then.

Civilization is going down the drain!

I think it's the kind of thing a young girl wears when they're trying to look mature, not something adults bother with.

One of my favorites. A lot of people fawn over the overly-dramatic or long running gl manga that are released today, and while I enjoy those too, I think late 2000s to early 2010s gl manga have a certain simple charm that you just cannot beat.

mood

something just down to earth is great

Well if it really is ending soon then I'm glad. It has been losing steam by quite a lot in those last chapters and it especially took a dive when it started mirroring comments about "Is this yuri?!"

Agreed, this is the most disappointed I have ever been about a couple going official. Feel kinda like what was unique about their dynamic is gone.

Honestly unless the conclusion they reach is “haven’t we been going out all along?” I feel like this is just undermining most of the series in a way.

ja, exactly