I do agree that the series should probably not actually be tagged with Yandere unless something changes from here. The alleged Yandere lacks the very specific core thing that defines that archetype of dere; the extreme obsession with someone, and simply being "mentally unwell and violent" isn't close enough in itself imo, that just makes them psychotic.

It's an interesting read for what it is so far though, just not what I expected from the title.

I do NOT "respect" the author's depiction of yandere. Sorry, but if a girl fights back against bullying with violence she is not a yandere!! I do like the story and the dynamics between the characters, but this is not a yandere.
She could only be a yandere if she still enjoyes hurting and obsessing over the villain once their relationship is getting deeper. But we haven't seen any signs of that so far. She doesn't even care about vilainess.
When I saw the tag I almost skipped it too!

It's pretty lighthearted, especially the description of the series. And I like that. I just do not appreciate the use of the term "yandere".

I mean... I agree that the term is inaccurate in this case but it's also not the that big a deal.
It's not like this one story's inaccurate use is going changing the world's perception of the word or anything.

glares at NTR titles, the most inaccurately used term in all of fiction

Also, I don't think that a slap would work, since slaps are still part of the regular "courtly" (for lack of a better term) contexts that Hesha is used to. I think Jolene has bitten her not only because of her impulses, but also because a bite would be so far outside Hesha's normal context, it would flip the power dynamic between them on its head instantly, without giving her any chance to respond. What I am saying is, she knows she could make things much, much worse for Hesha, but repeatedly stops herself in order to deescalate, and Hesha is too myopic to realize she is playing with chemical fire.

I will say thought that I don't agree with the read that anything she's done has been de-escalatory in nature.
If anything, whenever she "snaps" she seems to just do whatever she wants to do in the moment regardless of the implications or the consequences it could have, and it's nothing short of a miracle things have worked out as "well" for her as they have so far.

Cus like... if I managed to antagonize the local princess who literally owns the city I live in and had to make a list of things to do to try and de-escalate things, physically assaulting her in gradually more extreme ways wouldn't make the list if it was a million entries long. If anything, she's lucky Hesha hasn't just gone to her family and had her hanged for assaulting her the first time.

Remember in Game of Thrones, that one time the king had a peasant boy executed just for lightly tagging the prince with a practice sword while playing?

Never watched Dexter, but IMO Jolene has once again been very measured (which is the opposite of crazy) in her response. She used her one advantage (physical capability) to completely shut down Hesha's momentum, then backed off and explained exactly what that retribution was for. Note that Hesha does not carry any ill will against Jolene for biting her, because she seems to have accepted that the bite was a consequence of her own actions. Again, I am not saying that Jolene is not a sociopath, but if she is, she is a very high-functioning one.

A normal person does not bite people just because they're upset at them; if anything, the fact that she felt the impulse to bite her rather than something more mundane like slap her makes it much more abnormal behaviour that most people wouldn't even have considered.

She reads a lot like Dexter is intended to be; a sociopath with violent impulses that they keep in check through adhering to a strict set of rules about what's "proper" both in order to be a functional member of society and so that their violence only comes out towards targets deemed "acceptable."

Specifically, the way she speaks about- and treated "being naughty" towards Hesha implies that she has these thoughts and urges of violence normally, and usually she doesn't act on them because she's come to believe they're "naughty" but in the same way that Dexter has no reservations going after someone who's a "killer" Jolene has no reservations "being naughty" towards someone who has also been "naughty."

So far there's still nothing yandere about her. She has the violent impulses but no obsession, only really targeting Hesha as a reaction to Hesha targeting her rather than having any interest in Hesha herself. Based on what others have mentioned about the series, I don't think the writer knew what a yandere was when they defined her character.

Welp seems like the protag at this point is just straight up Dexter-style crazy

I've been wondering why (presumably) Riri sent the perfume to Fujiyama in the first place. After all, it's not like she couldn't just go over to her house and ask to hang out, right? I mean, she dropped off the package there.

I can only come up with three explanations:

1) Fujiyama's apartment is dangerous territory for a dark magical girl, considering that her target is flanked by the most badass magical girl ever and a very temperamental magical girl, so being there physically for very long is not a good idea

2) She wanted to guarantee time alone with Fujiyama so there would be no interruptions (unlike last time)

3) Her ability to corrupt and alter things works better in situations of isolation

I strongly suspect it's #2 with #1 being also true, but kind of an afterthought. I'm the least confident in #3 being the case, let alone being true at all.

4) Yandere obsession to be irrationally close to Fujiyama.

Oh this can get ugly real fast, because aside from masochism, Masono isn't in the best place mentally speaking, I do worry she gets abused outside of her kink if she's willing to meet anyone that gives her any attention online.

Unrelated but sensei was really hot this chapter. Good stuff.

I suspect she's going to end up either hurt or endangered because of it, and Sensei is going to finally engage with her in the way she wants driven primarily by worry that Masono will endanger herself if she doesn't and only like 10% for lust reasons.

Sensei's concerns currently are Masono's health > lust and I expect Masono's biggest hurdle through the whole story is going to be convincing Sensei that her (mental and physical) health is fine enough that it doesn't warrant the caution and leaning into the lust would actually improve it. (Probably not as much as Masono thinks though, realistically they probably need to meet somewhere in the middle)

I have a feeling Meria's the real deal and she sent Fujiyama the perfume to get into her dreams but Meria threw a wrench in the plan.

That dastardly Meria, ruining Meria’s plans.

YOU SAW NOTHINGGGG D:<

I have a feeling Riri's the real deal and she sent Fujiyama the perfume to get into her dreams but Meria threw a wrench in the plan.

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I'mma be honest, I don't see where the Yandere behaviour of the MC is coming from.

It doesn't seem to be motivated by her character, her past or her feelings towards the Villainess, and the first chapter seemed to want to imply that the yandere behaviour happens because she's drunk but then she was only drunk one of the times it's happened.

Yandere doesn't just mean crazy it means crazy and obsessive, but so far I'm only seeing the crazy without any real obsession nor motivation to be obsessive. If anything, she doesn't seem to like the Villainess at all and her crazy behaviour looks more like she's just a bit crazy and it happens to manifest in a way that looks affectionate but she's not actually feeling affection. Rather, so far it keeps looking like she honestly just tries to get back at the Villainess for being such a massive bitch rather than having any kind of yandere obsession with her.

Maybe it grows into yandere affection later?

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God I missed this story!

"Squeaky Toy" is the perfect description for her expressions

Funny how she still seems to think that having been the queen of an enemy country would be harder for people to swallow than pretending to be the literal witch who supernaturally cursed them and directly caused pretty much every misfortune they've ever suffered in general. (While not entirely true, it's what people believe about her.)

I feel pretty confident in saying that her true identity would probably be less hated than the person whose identity she's borrowing is.
If for no other reason than the fact that the witch's actions have hurt these people directly and extensively compared to "the queen of an enemy country" whom the commoners may or may not even recognize the name of.

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The more I think about this the more I'm convinced she was at least having suicidal thoughts.

Coworker skipped work to travel to the sea, seemingly on impulse but very much an intentional and strange choice that specifically takes her far away from anyone whom she expects might recognize her.
She talks about how she feels misunderstood and like nothing she does helps or changes anything and how it's lead to her recently losing her girlfriend in what's implied to have been a rough breakup; basically her life sucks and she has no one who can understand her or help her cope with her negative feelings building up and no outlets for how she's feeling.

More abstractly, the large panel on page 16 as she talks about it is portraying the ocean not as something beautiful to admire but rather, a pitch black void that the character is walking towards alone, seemingly to be swallowed up by and disappear into as she talks about her life in the past tense.

Then she says it feels funny to be there "with someone" and how she wishes she'd met them sooner as if their relationship is only temporary and they don't both work in the same office on Monday morning.

Then she looks taken aback by Protag Lady confiding that she's glad to have skipped work and that meeting and spending time with coworker girl was worth it.

It's all "just" a bunch of vague implications that may just be imaginary adding up, but to me it reads very much like Coworker was depressed and seriously considering walking into the sea until she just so happened to run into Protag Lady who listens to her problems and unwittingly fills in the negative space in her life where she was spiraling from by caring about her and relating to her troubles.

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Was I the only one getting the vague impression that coworker was originally planning on walking into the sea before finding a new girlfriend?

Looks like the blond bully may not be a bully so much as influenced by his friend who is, judging by the subtle "this again?" reaction he has to said friend trying to pick on toll grill.

I may be reading too much into it, but he may just have a crush on her that he doesn't know how to express, seeing as it's suggested his "bully friend" isn't particularly into the bullying, implying it's the dark haired boy going out of his way to pick on her for some personal reason.

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I'm probably going to get hated for this, but...

As much as I appreciate Mitsuki's character growth to becoming assertive and confident (and as much as Aya clearly appreciated that little move as well), Mitsuki is still showing facets of jealousy, control, and lack of trust. In real life, these things are huge red flags.

If someone had come up to Mitsuki and asked her about Western music, she would have gone into full "geek mode" and chatted them up non-stop; if said person had done that under the pretense of flirting with her, Mitsuki would not have noticed; she would have been ass-deep in gushing about Eric Clapton and George Harrison 0.38 seconds upon hearing the song playing on his phone. So, for her assume Aya couldn't deal with this shows a rather meaningful lack of trust, and maybe even a bit of projection.

And, considering the meaning of the song... Patti Boyd made her choice, and George Harrison respected it. Mitsuki would know that.

So yeah... I love this comic, I've loved it since the moment I first laid eyes on it, but I can't say I like this particular entry, and I hope it isn't the start of a dark path for Mitsuki.

You're not entirely wrong, but also, consider:
They're teenagers, and teenagers don't know what the hell they're doing. Insecurity is perfectly normal at this point.

It's not like she ripped her away from him or manipulated her or anything.

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^ Quantum stuff is nondeterministic and changes based on the observer, non-binary is constantly non-male and non-female no matter the observer (or if there is an observer or not). I don't think quantum stuff is a good analogy for non-binary as a gender.

An objective reality and quantum physics are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
It's entirely possible for there to be an objective "truth" that we can't perceive because us perceiving it changes it, but it's still nevertheless objectively true.

It's also debatable whether being non-binary means actually being neither male nor female or if it's still simply being "male and female" in different ratios but rejecting the conventional associations of the terms.

What is "female"? What is "male"? Having a penis? Brain chemistry? What specific brain chemistry is "male" and where does it begin and end? Is it a preference? An inclination? An emotion? An emotion only motivated by something specific but not if motivated by something else?

Who's to say that the things we equate to being "male" is actually "being male" and not just arbitrary or illusionary?
After all, it's not like people who are non-binary are biologically alien compared to other humans, they just don't identify with the binary gender terms we've historically developed but they're the same species and DNA as the rest of us.

The hypothetical scenario posed earlier, that of a person who's male in one dimension, female in one dimension and non-binary in our dimension where the other two are superimposed over one another; is actually only flawed in the sense that it treats being "male" and "female" as the two end points of the spectrum and equates being "non-binary" to existing somewhere in-between or on top of.

To be more accurate, the two "points" that exist in different universes that overlap to become non-binary would need to be the literal and proverbial end points of human gender definition, which we simply don't have any terms or definitions readily available for. (That's assuming the human gender definition only has- or could be broken into- 2 points and isn't more of a wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey... thing.)

"Male" and "female" are simply too subjective and ever-changing terms to reliably call the end points, should they exist.

If I were to define the premise suggested above with the Schroedinger's gender plot, I'd do as follows:
The protagonist is someone who can see one reality in one eye and another reality in the other; in one reality people are one gender and in the other they are the other. When she looks at someone with both her eyes, she sees "her" reality, the "superimposed" one where people are whatever they identify as. (Don't know how to phrase that better.)

Then she meets a person who's non-binary and discovers that they only exist in the superimposed reality and not in either of the component realities at all, and she can only see them with both her eyes and not if she closes one.

Que plot stuff, few dozen chapters of UST, a beach episode, kiss at the fireworks festival, the end.

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So uhh about having giant freaking cat suits just laying around the house?

Funnily enough, I thought the same at first when the girl showed up in it but the mom also wearing one at the end kinda clears it up for me. They're just cute pajamas and they got a matching pair as mother and daughter.

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Oh cool, lady actually got consent kinda, honestly didn't expect that at this stage.

SOOOOO many red flags if this was real life.
...But it's not, so into the guilty pleasure pile it goes!

Is... is that a god damn cloud-penis on page 15??

...I kinda hope this leads to her helping Aya trim her nails for the symbolism of it.

I can actually see a reasonable explanation for the food being left out; Both of them missed dinner and the school has a responsibility that their students eat so they probably keep tabs on if everyone shows up for the meals, so they left their food out assuming/hoping they would eventually come back and find them. The fact that they're placed together isn't necessarily an expectation that they will "eat together" so much as... well, it's the cafeteria. They probably just put the meals for the students who missed them in the same spot because why not?

As for who keeps tabs on it, I think after some consideration that the answer is the same as for who might've "spied" on them eating it to confirm they passed their tests; the dorm manager. The cafeteria is technically a spot she could plausibly be checking on in general even after hours.

Still, if I was them, I'd absolutely be getting creeped out after finding out the school somehow knows what they did together at night in private. They didn't see a single soul around them, and that close to the deadline is one heck of a coincidence for someone to just happen to be around to pass them without being noticed unless they were already spying on them to begin with.

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At the risk of pulling on a string not meant to be taken too seriously, but how did the school know about them "passing" their tests together late at night essentially in private? That has some worrying implications.