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.

love it!

It makes no sense, but part of me kind of wants to see Ayumu and the childhood friend get together. It would make for a great rivals-to-lovers arc. The childhood friend does seem to be paying an awful lot of attention to her...

Honestly I kinda feel the same, they have a lot of tension going. It's like the Yuu/Sayaka ship which is actually pretty popular. Not that I expect it to happen but the story is putting more focus on Ayumu and Asuka's relationship than we usually see so I am curious where Asuka's character will go from here.

Honestly I think it's a testament to the writer's skill that the bridge too far for people wasn't the dubcon, the semi-coercion into sexual situations, or the constant lying; it was tossing lip balm off a bridge.

good doujin but it would be hotter if Sakiko called her Hatsune

I would enjoy this more if it were overtly a comedy and took itself less seriously. It would basically be a different manga, but I would love it if they made the competition over small things extra ridiculous, and made them clearly into each other while still mutually failing to realize that their competition is increasingly just an excuse to be gay. You could make Komaki deadpan and Wakaba tsukkomi.

Late but The Girl Who Never Wins is literally this lol.

Not to mention there seems to be a recurring motif with Kasumi and hanging. (Bottom panel of ch3p21 where the window framing evokes Kasumi hanging; the light fixture shape and placement at top center panel of ch7p13, which are absent in the reverse shot; bottom panel of ch8p22 where she looks like she's hanging from the light fixture).

I skimmed through the series and this isn't even all the hanging imagery. Chapter 4 has a ton (appropriate since it's the one that mentions her friend's suicide), from the hanging rose on the cover and here to Kasumi positioned in front of her hanging uniform. Chapter 5 has another hanging rose, and positions Kasumi below a narrow shaft of light. Chapter 7's cover has Kasumi's ribbon getting lifted above her head. Chapter 9 has a hanging letter, and puts Kasumi right in front of the bookshelf divider to look like she's hanging off it. This isn't even counting a lot of additional panels that manage to put a long, narrow line above Kasumi's head that I didn't include because they're less definitive.

Gosh I love the art in this series so much. The rather extreme use of basic technique in place of patterns and effects is so stark, I just love it. There's always something with the art. Oftentimes manga art feels like a vessel to tell a story. Here, it's like the art often is the story. It's just beautiful.

This page in particular was so striking to me, the strategic use of minimalism sold the emotions so well.

Edit: On a different note, I just realized, should this chapter have the Suicide tag? Mizuki was clearly considering it here. Though it was brief and not focused on so maybe the tag would be misleading.

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Yukari concluded that she fancies Shouko so quickly that it makes me wonder if she already knows she likes girls. I didn't think too much of it in chapter 1, but she hasn't second-guessed herself about this since then. She's the type of person who thinks a lot about how she fits into society, so it would be a bit odd if she came to this conclusion so easily if she hadn't already thought a lot about this topic before. And this story is not set in a de-facto 'homo-normative' world (like SasaKoi is); Yukari herself assumes Shouko must have feelings for the same boy as Tenri, and she has not entertained the idea that Shouko could be in love with Tenri.

I can see no other explanation than that she already knew, yeah; she certainly doesn't behave like Shouko is her first crush. For that matter, her realizing she's a lesbian might be one reason she became a loner (as we can see from this chapter she used to have friends).

to be honest I think the author has done a pretty good job steadily building up the darker themes in the manga until this chapter. it's an escalation but I don't think it's that out of step with what else we've seen so far. it's just that Sayori and Mizuki have decided to wallow in their issues while Kasumi and Haruyo, we hope, will get better.

one other thing i'd like to point out is the different expressions they each have at the start. Mizuki seems to be remembering wistfully a time when their relationship was simpler and more innocent, while Sayori is enjoying poking fun at her for having been the one to destroy that innocence. seems like there are still some jagged edges to their relationship (pun half-intended <_<).

This was really good! I thought the dialogue was very naturalistic.

Honestly I think this is pretty interesting. It's fundamentally a more or less standard romcom, clearly inspired by watanare (the whole friend vs lover dilemma, socially awkward ordinary protagonist x sexually forward love interest who's also a model). But the pacing and framing are straight out of a horror manga. This dissonance carried the manga through the first few chapters for me.

Recent chapters though have revealed additional layers. As @Purple Library Guy says, Soprano is really more toxic to herself than she is to Mirei. She's basically forcing herself to be like Oduka Mai because she thinks that's the only way to win over Mirei. That's a fairly unique dynamic and I'm curious to see where it goes from here.

This is the era of horror yuri.

Also this is like, barely Pseudo-incest lol. I guess the tag technically applies but it is rather misleading.

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I may get a lot of hate for this, but am I the only one who doesn't feel bad for her? Like, her bad ending happened because she's so stupid and makes terrible choices.

If you want to victim blame rape and femicide victims, 4chan is that way ------------->

I don't understand why the reaction here is so negative. I didn't think these 3 chapters were a masterpiece or anything but I thought they were overall pretty good, and like @Cornonthekopp said it's notable that Elizabeth rejected getting superhuman strength and is (seemingly?) going to succeed via other means. And frankly, I don't even think this was that edgy; as rape as backstory goes it was pretty tastefully done, we don't even see anything (the two consecutive black pages were actually quite striking and memorable to me), and the gore is hardly over-the-top either. It feels kind of like people are letting their (understandable) bias against the dark fantasy genre color their views on the actual work.

I also in general am happy to see any yuri work that doesn't focus just on romance; as much as I enjoy romance, I think it's also very important to see sapphic relationships centered in other genres as well.

I believe the Het and Bisexual tags would both be inaccurate, since Alice's bisexuality is only mentioned in passing and is not relevant to the actual story. By contrast, Alice being an ex-sex worker is a major story element. I did suggest a Het on page 5 tag, but it seems like it was removed later, which is understandable since you don't actually see Alice's partner. As such, I think the current tags are fine.

I wouldn't necessarily call it a break, but since I tend to pay more attention to yuri, when i'm feeling tired or like I don't want to focus, I gravitate to trashy het instead lol

Does het on page 5 really, like count here?

You don't see the guy she's riding.

I suggested it but I agree it's borderline, that said, it's obvious enough what she's doing that I do think the tag is warranted.

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