Shiori said yes even before Tsukasa posed the question. That's how safe and comfortable Tsukasa feels to Shiori. Nice.

Took me a bit to think why the author name sounds familiar (I try excercise the brain by not to google everything immediately these days), but yeah, it's the author of Hiroin wa Zetsubou shimashita / The Heroine has Despaired, so may be it's be better not to expect much depth to the characters, just enjoy the gratituous violence until the comedic effect wears off.

Holy Madokami, it is so good. Going through digging up all the pain left from the series to a nice heartwarming end to tie up the emotional journey. I don't know what Urobutcher would come up with WnK, but if it's not great, I would take this as the ending of the series. (Either this or To the Stars, that shit is fking great.)

"The power of friendship is supposed to bring joy and warmth and happiness to the hearts. Then what is this pain gripping heart so cold?"

So Hana is really aware that Junna is/was the evil general? The conversation in ch07 feels like a double entendre, the narration in ch02 at the time was a bit ambiguous to me whether it was the narrator's or Hana's choice of label, but now it's clearer to be the latter. Junna does not seem to know that Hana knows, does she?

^I caught up with the licensed Eng version of the manga and have been reading the LN sporadically, I think the expressions, blushes, gazes and sighs which highlight the personalities of the characters (and, probably relevant and important around here, crank up the yuri-ness of the interactions in the otherwise non-yuri setting) are better conveyed in the manga than LN, and the manga has been adapting quite faithfully, so you won't miss much if you just stick to the manga (except for the story progress, words are quicker to publish than drawings illustrating those words). The writting technical quality is fine, nothing exceptional but not bad either, and the story itself is entertaining enough.
Ultimately it's inner court struggle genre, with some magical components (no yuri ending), if you like the genre I'd recommend it, it's one of the better in the genre.

^^ ikr? The setting is rear palace harem for the crown prince in ancient pseudo-China, so the men would always be around as the structural pillars and the series won't have a pure yuri ending, but also due to that setting most of the meaningful interactions are between the women, and so naturally the bundle of hopeful sunshine that is Reirin would be attracting all the girls waddling in the misery of the setting (and so the ones in deepest shit are pulled in even more, namely Keigetsu and Leelee). And it does not help that Reirin keeps running around pulling all the strongest moves in the romance genre on everyone.

The pace and how they are open about it compared to mangaka's previous works is a literally the opposite, makes me question what they wanted to do at the time

An Aside Told to You had decent pacing too. I think it's simply that "How Do I Get Together With My Childhood Friend", unlike the other series, was all about the "will they, won't they".

Drawing out the conclusion is the point there and as soon as the confession happens, it's over. So it did what it set out to do.

The way I see it, How Do I Get Together With My Childhood Friend being will they won't they for 5 volumes then ending as soon as the confession went through was an overcorrection for An Aside Told to You where the pair banged in chapter 02 :))

Ayumu can't stop winning.

Ooohh, Official. I've recently caught up with the manga, and been slightly disappointed that there's too little crumbs for the two sensei so far despite the potentials since early on.

Holy Madokami, she fking unbaked macarons back into starting ingredients. Second law of thermodynamics, kneel before the power of yuri!

^something like this, I suppose.

OL magical girl: tank the attacks to protect the young girls
The young girls: Pink is so cool.
Also the young girls: You monsters dare to hurt our Pink. So you have chosen... death.

"The Gujou bullying will continue until morale improves."

Okay folks, what's the point of discussing laws on real people in the thread on porn of fictional characters?

All those girls in class suddenly found a perfect excuse to shower Tsukasa in Valentine's choco, and promptly pounced. Unfortunately for them, Tsukasa doesn't notice at all :))

Still no Aquarium tag available, eh?

Kind of surprised that this new borusiti ShamiMomo doujin got here before their third one (ShamiMomo in escape room) that was released at C103. There's a translation by tabibit0 group, but iirc none of their translations (e.g. the aforementioned ShamiMomo C103 doujin, 4 other ShamiMomo books and one pretty good Zombieland Saga doujin) is on Dynasty, probably a negotiation issue?

Shimamama giving her daughter sweets in the form of a loose sugar pile poured directly onto bare hands is unhinged behaviour though.

You should read the LN, the mom is by far the strangest character in the entire cast, including the freaking alien XD Even Shimamura says so.

I do sort of keep up with the official translation of the LN, and yeah, the little alien is strange by nature, but Shimamama is the weirdo for taking that alien as a sapient pet in without missing a beat, and then she does unhinged stuffs like this as naturally as breathing. No wonder Adachi's mother is outmatched at every step :))

Shimamama giving her daughter sweets in the form of a loose sugar pile poured directly onto bare hands is unhinged behaviour though.

^^^ it's the motorcycle helmet she wears as she goes to work at the dry squid factory in S2. The old ladies checking on her are fellow workers.

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This is extremely plausibly how the original series could have ended if Homura were less mentally resilient. Her perseverance is her virtue and tragedy, kind of.

"Me with the embezzling baddie I pulled while Akira-drifting into battle on my plasmajet hoverbike" :))

biological mother x daughter incest so they're about as related as you can get.

I would argue that identical twins share twice the percentage of the genomes :))

Awesome intimidating evil(?) lesbian horses couple :))