I think this is a pretty interesting exploration of what it means to be a woman and be expected to perform femininity. In the beginning, Touno was insecure about her femininity: she derived self-worth from exaggerating her own expression of it and degrading those who did not meet that, because she thought it was how women can have value in society. After the interaction with the nurse, she swung hard the other way, imitating this idealized version of Jimizu that rejects every one of these notions that she found harmful. But the real Jimizu was neither of these – rather, she’s just comfortable in who she is, happy to do one thing sometimes and another thing other times; able to reject the pressure to constantly perform while also take pleasure in owning a feminine identity for herself. Touno is conflicted: her role model is embracing the tools of the oppressor; everything she thought she needed to reject to find peace in herself is being done like it’s nothing.

I find it very realistic – we are always caught between the femininity that is a tool of oppression and the femininity that is a tool of empowerment. Is there a right answer between these two? No, not really. And there’s always some amount of bitterness there: can you fit in well enough to perform? Or can you even afford not to? I think it’s that bitterness this oneshot captures well. No matter what you do, you can’t truly free yourself from having to exist in society, and you can look around you and see that everyone is failing in one way or another.

Angel Demon Shoujo tags… you will be remembered…

The story was lacking in specifics. It’s hard to relate to the characters because their struggles are only vaguely hinted at and not explored as much as they should have been.

This story is quite unambiguously positive about her appearance. People are so used to irony that they can’t accept that something might be exactly what it seems on the surface, and not part of some elaborate plan that actually the main character being presented as the bad guy.

Sigh. Would be a terrible shame if we started erasing trans-adjacent stories because they show the slightest hint of problematic elements. Can we not do that please?

The aunt feels jealous of youth and is afraid of aging; she presses the flowers in an attempt to preserve their beauty forever, as an extension of her desire to do the same for herself, even to the point of prioritizing superficial / “tacky” beauty, hence the “worst taste” comment. The theme is also hinted at by her disdain for being called “Auntie”, and why she is so disturbed by the age the woman the man is cheating with.

What a fun oneshot =D

Oh yeah, um... what's with the title?

The Japanese title is “ロングロングタップオンリーオンリールック”, i.e. literally “rongu rongu tappu onrii onrii rukku”. Not sure what the intent was here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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This was adorable, thank you :)

Could someone please explain what she's talking about on page 26?

Editor here… had a rough time with that one lmao. We concluded it’s not supposed to make sense.

Lewd

as far as I’m aware it was published as a series of doujins at Comitia, so I don’t think axing makes sense

I don't really get what happened in the second half, did she confess? Hypnotize her? What spell is she talking about?

Yeah, she cast a spell to make Kana-chan fall in love with her. It’s not a spoiler to tell you but it’s also explained later on, so you don’t have to understand at this point; I think it’s intentionally confusing.

Yaaayyy it got uploaded here :D :D

Harem when

Holy Fucking Shit: 40 000

Honestly, this is such a huge letdown. "Just keep putting up with things" is the absolutely worst thing you could tell people.

Lots of people have repeated this sentiment but I really don’t think that this story has a message, at least I did not interpret it that way. This story, overall, is intended to depict failure — it’s a story about failure. There’s no moral communicated, it’s just two people who made decisions that seemed reasonable at the time but turned out to have bad consequences. But that’s fine, since it’s made quite clear by the story that they had no way of knowing.

Another way of putting it, it’s art without hope. I will acknowledge that this genre is controversial in and of itself, but personally I think that it can be very enjoyable and empowering to read in its own way.

The sense of betrayal is justified. I do think it’s funny though.

Dismemberment plan

Very cliché setup but Sugano Manami manages to make it really good. I love this

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Niice! I really liked this series.

As I was already kinda expecting, axed.
What a shame.

Do you know that? It didn’t seem very rushed to me

She’s definitely not a ghost. There’s way too many suspicious moments in this chapter where she didn’t let on any information that she should have known.

Wow, that’s really nice. I’m biased but it's one of my favourite oneshots now.

I’m genuinely really impressed. I didn’t find this manga particularly funny, or beautiful, or tragic, but it thoroughly manages to be wholly unsettling throughout. Just…what? I feel like it can only be classified as fiction that makes you want to throw up.

To be honest, it’s perfect.

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Wait so the whole sexual abuse thing was just dropped?

Love it. The main character keeps reminding me of a different one and I don’t know who though.

Very based