So dysfunctional. So enjoyable.

The elusive useful lesbians.

Way to break the mould of high school relationships taking months if not years to form. I sometimes think that authors forget how incredibly long these spans of time are to a high schooler vs. someone who's at least in their late 20s.

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Boy am I glad that I let myself be talked into playing this last week. It's been mentally consuming me since. I don't believe I've ever put as much mental effort into connecting lore, story and character elements presented in a rather obscure way as in this case, and I've enjoyed every second of doing so.

If you can stomach some horror and cruelty (towards characters as well as your feelings), Signalis is a must play.

Aaah, finally took the anime announcement as motivation to re-read what's been uploaded to Dynasty. Definitely one of my favorites.
On to Mangadex for the rest, which I had previously never bothered to read.

Good reason to re-read it then. I stopped around chapter 20 and hadn't picked it back up since. It's at chapter 43 on mangadex now. Here's hoping the later TLs can keep up with Yuri Ichigo and Knight Heron.

Just get married already!

AI images (almost used art here, yuck) are lush and "detailed", but it's also super obvious that they're done with AI once you've seen a few, even if the typical errors are corrected.
It's ultimately just soulless. It's the sum of its parts, nothing more.

Anyway, this is, for once, a "jealousy arc" I can get behind. It kinda just fits and makes sense to me in terms of character constellations and opportunities for growth. (flashbacks to the Citrus anime consisting of nothing but three jealousy arcs)

Hey, this is pretty neat.

What a rude way to end a chapter, Author-Sensei! (screams internally)

Huh.
Still a good time, but that felt very tame compared to the oneshot :D

Wakaba's like "I can fix her!"
Just hasn't fully realized it.

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Ok, page 17 completely killed me. Like, censoring the cup was just the perfect culmination of it. The motion lines on her hand!

I did NOT realize it was censored until I read this lmao

I would imagine it's more of a mishap while exporting that went unnoticed as opposed to an intentional censorship.

I think it corresponds far too exactly to "lightsaber" style censorship seen in (het) hentai for it to be purely accidental.

Matsuri rubs me the wrong way. Has from the start. The cute, supportive things she says are always undermined by art and typesetting (if you can call it that), turning what would normally be seen as a supportive, uplifting character into a manipulative one.

I think she'll be a highly toxic influence.

nah you tweakin

It would fit, the main reason to reject the idea is that it leaves Wakaba with nothing

No, Wakaba has Komaki. Komaki's troubled and therefore trouble in and of herself. Komaki can't conceive of a world where Wakaba and her could be together, so she's trying to push her away as hard as possible to make Wakaba cut ties with her, because Komaki can't bring herself to do it. Well, Wakaba is naturally awakening to her own feelings for Komaki and things will go the way things go in manga. Matsuri is not a guardian angel.

Anyway, if you really have to know, you can always read ahead in the light novel I guess, but I'll stick to what I can glean from the manga alone.

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Matsuri? Matsuri. Manipulative and toxic and out of everyone in the cast, you're thinking of Matrusi...?

Yes, because no one in this story is being honest about their feelings and desires, and I'm certain she's no exception.

Matsuri rubs me the wrong way. Has from the start. The cute, supportive things she says are always undermined by art and typesetting (if you can call it that), turning what would normally be seen as a supportive, uplifting character into a manipulative one.

I think she'll be a highly toxic influence.

Ok, page 17 completely killed me. Like, censoring the cup was just the perfect culmination of it. The motion lines on her hand!
The twitches on the next two pages!

Makes me wonder, has Hokuto Sui made... different works under a different pen name perhaps?

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I love how this series is still going strong.

Apparently the official twitter/x had some announcement recently. Anyone know more about it? I don't do twitter/x.

Aaand of course the Angel is a stalker wearing bondage gear.

Fun chapter.

I actually felt like this chapter made the solution to the "mystery" really obvious: she eventually goes to the future with Mirai and Nozomi. Mirai's got a strict legal time limit on how long she can stay in the past: her own birth. So if this couple reaches a point where they want to stay together past that, it's back to the future for them :P

Ok but how does that lead to an aged-up Kako appearing on the TV program and factually breaking that law? Because there's no way that's not foreshadowing.

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Y'all are thinking about this too deeply. Take it as "entertainment first, education third" and accept the fact that it's gonna be riddled with half-truths, exaggerations and portrayals of very unusual things as normal. That's gonna be the only way to keep your sanity.

"I clicked on the manga titled Gross Girl With Problems, and the girl it's about is kinda gross and has problems :/ Don't know why the author would have a character with problems, but guess I don't need to waste my time here."

"Dead bird, do not eat" moment.

Sorry but I’m a I supposed to like the main character? She’s flighty, kinda manipulative and sketchy as hell like I’m not exactly dying to root for her. Meguru herself seems in no position to be in any kind of relationship especially with a adult woman she should be in therapy

No, I don't think this is a series where we're necessarily expected to like the characters. They're not supposed to be role models. This is a story about unhealthy people in unhealthy relationships. It may end with them somehow making it work and coming out of it less unhealthy than before, or we may be watching a train wreck in slow motion. Either can be fine.

Regardless, as a piece of entertainment media it is All the right kinds of wrong, which is probably my favorite tag that does not exist.

"Knowing that it's 'us', it definitely won't turn into something lewd, right?"
she said while lewdly sitting on the other's lap

@Classy-Nessi
Yeah, there's always something about Betock's art that feels so right.