Certainly an odd manga, but it has heart and the art is fantastic so I'm at least interested.

Also I recommend everyone here read the author's oneshot "Gachikoi Slayer and the Army of Gachikoi Fans." It's on Mangadex and I think you all will like how it ends :)

Yandere tag needed

I mean, this woman has been very obviously cutting the MC off from any other people since childhood, and that's an extremely psychotic thing to do. So this is absolutely yandere.

Idk she doesn’t seem that crazy
Yet

What part of "Manipulated people and events to ensure that the MC can only ever be with her" does not seem crazy to you

That's literal, real-life abuser behavior. It's extremely controlling and she's been doing it for years

If that was her goal she's been spectacularly unsuccessful, since Yu Wan has at least one close friend and seems to barely interact with Ni Shang at all anymore. So it would seem she's at least changed her approach since they were kids.

I really liked this one. The ending leaving it ambiguous whether or not they'll ever meet again gives it an even greater impact imo.

Chapters 12 and 13 are in the wrong order.

really fun and cute! "even in the midst of a dystopia you can find love" is a sentiment that I feel is particularly applicable these days lol. Tokinaga Yasuna seems like a fairly new artist, so I'm definitely looking forward to their future work.

aside from Nyaan being whitewashed, I really liked this doujin. It was cute and the characters felt consistent with the show.

furthermore, the whole attempted rape scene at the start i think could be symbolic of how victims of trauma usualyl become the abusers (cycle of abuse) or internalize/normalize the abusive behaviours that have happened to them- making them feel like a monster, different, disgusting, etc.

You seem to be confusing the original Niehara eaten by our favorite worm with the monster who replaced him.

Monster Niehara also attempted to rape Itou in Chapter 11.

I think a transfem analysis of Niehara could be very interesting, but I think it needs to be informed by a similar analysis of Takahashi, who I feel is much more clearly transfem since she seems much more committed to presenting as a girl.

Thanks for reading, everyone! Chapter 21 might be delayed a bit since I need to obtain the raw for volume 3, I hope you don't mind leaving off on this cliffhanger too much.

This is without doubt, NTR baiting. I am conflicted, but if next chapter they fuck I will forgive it.

They most likely broke up and that was the typical good-bye kiss that is misunderstood by the protagonist

I hope not, that would make the manga far less compelling (and hot). I want to see a corruption arc!

Page 34 is the hottest thing I've seen in a minute

Where's the threesome?

presumably next chapter :p

it would be funny if all this time the player was actually trying to flirt with her but the other gal was too dense to notice

Oh she 100% is, the player clocked that "straight" girl real fast lmao

I actually really liked this one! They have a very fun dynamic.

This was really hot, it really nailed the emotions of both characters knowing they "shouldn't" do it but they can't help doing it anyway.

This chapter is interesting because if it weren't for the cover art you'd assume for all the world Sui likes Ren. But there is the cover art, so we know she's actually in love with someone else and is using Ren as a replacement, and when Ren inevitably finds out she's going to have a mega crashout. Textbook dramatic irony. I'm scared but also excited.

I'm so happy for Shinoi, people with horrible personalities need love too

I think it's really interesting to see a time travel story where the time traveler isn't the viewpoint character. To be honest, I wonder if maybe Hinata is lying about the whole time travel aspect and is just using it as an excuse to get close to Yuzuki, though Yuzuki's vision is evidence against that, but that could've also been a legit dream inspired by the things Hinata told her. I don't necessarily expect this to be the case, but it would be kind of interesting.

Regardless, looking forward to future chapters!

Like the recent chapter is really cute but I can’t not think of how Riko has romantic feelings for this literal child the entire time. It’s all played for fun light hearted fluff and not the deeply disturbing mental illness it is so I can’t get into it, that gross ass moment of Riko oggling the child’s feet in chapter 2 should be horrifying but it’s just treated as normal and kinda silly. I know I hear the “why read this if you don’t like it” replies coming my way but I just wanted to get it out there

I don't entirely agree that it's played for fluff. Unlike most oneeloli manga, Riko is (a) well aware she's a pedophile, (b) dislikes this, and (c) is trying -- unsuccessfully and ambivalently, but still -- to overcome it. It's not a psychological horror or anything but it's not being framed as a-ok wholesome either. The tension of the manga comes precisely from Riko's rationality/superego being in conflict with her feelings/id. This tension is played more for comedy than drama, but it is there, and it's what I find most interesting about the manga (along with the prominence of Yuuka, who plays a much bigger role than typical "third wheel" characters which makes me wonder just what her place in the story will end up being). It would be a completely different manga if Riko were in love with Yuuka instead.

Wow, this was a great first chapter. Ren was so well characterized, I love how she's selfish and materialistic but still human enough to be sympathetic, and the manga made her comphet clear without coming across as preachy. Really looking forward to more!

Seeing the page 2-3 spread, I think it's going to be a triangle, or even a square.

It seems likely that Sui has a one-sided crush on the red-haired woman from the color spread that she's (unhealthily) dealing with by buying a rental girlfriend. I wonder if the one-night stand woman from this chapter will show up again, though.

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Those saying this is a happy ending, how serious are y'all? I mean, when I look at Yuina's face on the last page, I see nothing but terror, as it dawns on her that she's just traded one abuser for another, one with no qualms about killing.

Nah, Yuina's feeling a rush of just about every emotion at once I think.

Marika isn't an abuser. While she's obviously not all right in the head, she's never anything but gentle with Yuina, and the only person she hurts absolutely deserved it. It's a happy ending because Yuina needed someone like her.

"Not too shabby" is a common phrase in American English. Using "shabby" by itself might be strange, but the phrase as a whole is fine and didn't feel out of place to me at all. "Perish the thought" is probably too formal given the Japanese line, but I'm not sure it was worth multiple posts of discourse about it lol.

Anyway, to move on to the content of the chapters posted, I'm still enjoying this series. It's feeling less like a horror manga now as Mirei comes to understand Soprano more (i.e. she's fronting constantly because she hates herself). I also liked how Emi handled the entire situation extremely rationally lol. Soprano needs a real friend other than Mirei, maybe Emi can be that for her.

I really love the art style, Marika hair especially, also love when a character has sex or sexual intimacy as a form of selfharm. But the story is quite weak? Edgy is not the word, Marika dialogues feel pretentious or cliche Idk how to say it

I don't think the story is weak, more just simple/straightforward. Marika being a teenage edgelord is I think deliberate; not only does it fit with what she ends up doing, but it's also precisely what draws Yuina to her. Yuina's experiences have taught her that the world is an empty, meaningless place, and so Marika's ultra-cynicism reads to her as honesty.

While I agree the art is the main draw to this oneshot, not just the quality itself but also the paneling, pacing, and overall usage of the art to tell the story and convey emotion, I think the characters are pretty interesting too. Definitely one of the better oneshots I've seen in a while.

Oh it got an anime, I was wondering why I kept seeing art of it in images section... to be honest I barely remember anything about this series, other than the fact that I dropped it very early because it was just kinda bad and uninteresting, did it get any better? :P

EDIT: Comments in this thread after I stopped following it didn't give me that impression, if anything seems like people liked it even less :P Seems like Takeshima Eku's art is always wasted on bad stories.

I personally think the LNs (up to volume 6) steadily get better and better.

This manga is seriously amazing, I love it so much. Houjou is one of the most deranged protagonists I've seen in a while lmao.