Kinda reminds me of how some people can split apples with their bare hands... but of course, Hinami's her own beast

the apple thing doesn't actually require that much physical strength. it's mostly leverage and exploiting a natural "structural weakness", one could say.

i'd put some hands on that clock too

Then there's the fact that she calls her hand "oyaman" which isn't a term that exists in mahjong. I'm not good enough with kanji to understand what the pun is there, but it might have smth to do with the fact that the hand she has doesn't actually net her 18000 points.

Ooyama Nobuyo was Doraemon's VA between 1979 and 2005.

Ahhh neat, there we go!

This is very cute and gay, great piece. But damn, that kiss must be tasting foul xD

I was expecting this to be like… Dora the Explorer… I don’t get the joke if it’s anymore more than the tiles being the wrong ones.

There's multiple things going on here. For one there's the obvious wordplay with dora tiles and the doraemon.

Then there's the fact that she calls her hand "oyaman" which isn't a term that exists in mahjong. I'm not good enough with kanji to understand what the pun is there, but it might have smth to do with the fact that the hand she has doesn't actually net her 18000 points.

She'd need 6 han and be Dealer to get 18k points, which would be a Haneman but as far as I can see she's 1 han short. Now, if that triplet of the 5 of characters were actually 9s, then it'd work out. Dunno if that mistake's intentional though

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Is it just me, or are those sisters a bit... NOPE. That's just the Yuri-Brain taking over for a moment. Pay it no mind.

could they be, y'know...

oh they're fucked. everyone knows borzois are freakish horror amalgams from the nightmare realm

While it is still too many characters, I'm glad we're beyond the "make sensei fall in love with me with a love potion, while this glasses perv licks me" and the "shounen battle cops and robbers" part of the manga.
Still enjoying it, but maybe once this arc wraps up, the cast can go down a step and the "main" girls can get more time. (Or maybe all of these girls are main girls and her harem is just that big.)

setting any romantic connections aside, i'm p sure all the girls from the class are here to stay, it's an ensemble cast.

I know it is Japan but what the hell was the abusive boyfriend thinking when he tried to punch her into the face in public?

You'd be surprised what shitty, entitled men think they can get away with

"No you see, I got up at night to go to the bathroom but i slipped on the duvet and accidentally fell fangs first onto her, without any intention or desire to feed on her. And the blood just happened to splash somewhere near my general mouth area, so i went to wash myself off. But oh silly me, I got lost on the way and somehow ended up here. Could happen to anybody."

okay guess i gave her too much credit there.
"No i didn't feed on her. I just went on fed on her. Oh. Silly me~"

let's goooooooooo

idk what would be worse: if it was all cold, calculated and deliberate or if she was just completely oblivious to the manipulative effect her behavior has on the people around her.

We might still get an end of volume omake, maybe? if we're lucky? pretty please?

If you're a slit-mouth woman, can you really afford to be so picky? You can change her, you know. She was just having a rough time - going through some things.

"things" being her senpai's innards, probably

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mmhh...I do see Kiho's point of view but if she does not want to spend time with her friend, that just means Kiho does not like her that much in the first place. I think if people want to spend time with each other then they will make time. Obviously it isn't the case for Kiho. It kinda sucks knowing her friend doesn't feel the same as she does about her and I think that their friendship could not be the same again.

She does like her friend though. She just feels smothered by her (to her) unreasonable emotional demands and thus pulls away for breathing room.
They clearly weigh their relationship with each other differently, which is a tough thing to resolve but Kiho definitely wants to be friends with her, bc if she didn't she'd long since stopped associating with her altogether.

Just based on her vibes from 144 and 147 for now, she strikes me as the resident "stand-offish grumpy cat" who doesn't much like people, getting close to them or getting involved in things. the kind who just finds most things bothersome.

So i guess her disliking physical contact fits the best with that

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Found what i'm p sure is a type on the middle left panel on ch.4.2, p11:
"Riko's kind of hyped you up!" -> Should prob be Yuuka instead, right? Since she's talking to Riko rn.

y'all are welcome~ unrelated to Ke Ran Bing but while i'm at it i'll also shout out 'Heart of Thorns' as another series worth checking out.

(it's on Dex too but after the "Great Purge" the translator switched to bato for uploads)
https://batocomic.org/series/172024/heart-of-thorns

I can't believe it took me this long to find out about this series. It's so good.

On the other hand, now that I've caught up, I don't know what I'll do with my life

might i suggest reading Ke Ran Bing's other series (as artist, different writer for that one), if you haven't already~

https://mangadex.org/title/d9339050-0957-46e9-a30a-4466eaa0a1e8/fugue-across-worlds

Is it just me, or do the backgrounds look suspiciously AI-generated?

just you, nothing remotely looking like AI in this afaict

ohh. ohh noooo. that seems kinda baaaaaad

FINALLY! Sorawo finally understands, really realizes how deep Toriko's feelings for her actually go. It's been a long time coming.

Maybe it's already obvious for some people but I'm guessing the twist is that Emma's unrequited love is Suzu herself and so she's taking advantage of Suzu's heartbreak to do this fake dating scheme.

def seems like the most likely scenario. but on the other hand it feels so obvious that i half expect some kinda subversion of that expectation. Though maybe i'm just thinking one corner too far with that

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BoomAndZoom posted:

And I wonder what’s taking so long with the updates…

It's published in a quarterly magazine. Which means 3 chapters a year.

Quarterly would imply every 3 months, since 12 / 4 = 3. Every 4 months aka 3 chapters a year would either be quadrimestral or triannual respectively. Both of which i've never heard before looking them up literally just now xD

You'd think even without any experience, she'd at least consider mentioning the issue of exclusivity at any point xD Not like that concept doesn't exist in business contracts.
When you enter a collaboration about a certain product or whatever you don't go around and make the exact same deal with two other companies without telling any of 'em xD She should know that much