Takanashi's foolishness aside, I think Eko having thought/talked a big game about killing anyone in her way but ultimately not having the heart for it is more realistic than people might think.

Likewise wanting Risa to not kill people either less due to moral reasoning than being afraid of Risa's already shaky humanity taking a hit from it. The fact that when Risa did finally go for the kill on Takanashi it was not with any of the latter's sharp implements, or even brute force caving in of skull or breaking of neck, but instead she was readying to bite makes me think that Eko is right to be worried about Risa getting too cavalier about killing.

Stupid, stupid girl. If the scientist was willing to watch you die rather than intervene, like hell is anything good going to come of what happens to your sister by his hand with you out of the picture. And you will be out of the picture, since it's pretty darn unlikely you aren't infected now after wrestling with a super zombie. Best case, you're stuck in a quarantine cell of your own.

Maybe there's some time shenanigans involved? The MadoHomu parallels would become all but impossible to ignore at that point though.

Crack theory: Mona isn't trying to get Naoi back because family, it's because the last time their mom tried to save a relationship by having a kid she was the result, and Naoi became the black sheep. So she instead fears that will happen to her... unless Naoi comes back to reprise that role, then she's safe.

I mean, I doubt it'll go that way, but the way this work is going that wouldn't be off-tone.

Once again, the title has it wrong. The Evil General is not Crushing on the Magical Girl. The Magical Girl is Crushing on the Evil General. We can even hear the bones crack!

Not on purpose, but 'destructive testing' often yields insights that would be far slower to achieve through more safe methods, if they ever arrived at them at all. Plus I bet they don't know much about the super zombie regen, and won't know if they overtax it until it's too late.

The joke here, for those unfamiliar, is that if you get a skeleton to finish off a creeper (usually by keeping the latter between you and the former, who is unconcerned with friendly fire), it will drop a music disc.

I am unsure if this image is positing the above as an alternate means of achieving the same, or maybe that the off-screen makeouts are responsible for the disc existing in the first place, somehow.

Mostly background-less as it is, I suspect they were just on one of the public couches, especially with the previous bit taking place there. That being said, I almost think Ragatha is out of character being this unapologetically forward.

Very cute.

"How dare you be an attractive prince type if you aren't willing to be MY prince!? You're just leading everyone on, you hussy!" - A sane, well adjusted person.

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My stance is pretty simple: if organic free range clones (Identical Twins) are distinct people with their own souls, then artificial GMO clones (pick your sci-fi or realistic cloning method) are distinct people with their own souls. I mean, unless it was some kind of arcanotech 'download the soul into a new meatsuit' kind of thing like Evangelion.

^^ That's... ooof. Just ooof.

In today's episode of "Girls going through it". I was going to say something about coping methods, but there's tons of worse options than obsessive doll making. Anything interesting written on the note in front of the memorial photo?

or shes the one who had to deal with the fall out and assume the role of demon lord after their respective deaths, and as such has lived for decades or even centuries past where they were

Given that we learned in this chapter that Maou was pursuing peace with Humanity, perhaps she was something of an extremist and didn't want the conflict between Demons and Humans to end.

I think I'm leaning for a middle ground between these two. The humans killed Maou (or she thought they did) and in grief and wrath she led the demons in a war of genocide rather than continue his peace talks.

There we go. Love this, and these two dorks charming each other.

I'll be honest, this probably tops my seen list of contrived means of inducing an altered mental state in a fantasy creature. I thought the devil over in Devilishly Sweet Girlfriend getting drunk off perfectly ordinary dried grapes was silly, but this is literally just blood from a specific spot having an arbitrarily different effect.

That is a staple of the genre going back at least as far as Sailor Moon.

Definitely felt to me like a slow-ish burn that had to skip past confessions due to the looming axe, and we got a brief show of domesticity after the time skip.

Well, if them being roommates isn't enough, I guess we could always appeal to the translator.

Which word for love was getting thrown around in the raws? We looking at plain ol' suki? Or koi?

Correct, her and future Kako never met. Future Kako should have had her own future Mirai after living through these events in the present though. Time travel be wonky, and wibbly wobbly.

I truly will miss this one, it honestly could have gone on and on and I doubt I would have gotten tired of it. I am glad the author got to put a proper ending on it, even if there was a sudden timeskip to get there. If they later get the chance to go back and fill in some of the details between the trip and the epilogue that are the last couple chapters, I'm sure there's plenty to see.

....? .....! ......? O.O

Girl named Belial, with cool dark magic powers, and who seems to have been educated as the Addams Family would on certain matters. I'm glad she's willing to not press for completing her assigned mission.

Not that I'm objecting, but is this going to become a trend in this work?

"Oh my, Evie, seems we've happened upon yet another problem that can only be solved by intimate lesbian sorcery. What are the odds~?"

"It's not so strange, just the third time... this month... Now get undressed already."

I think it will be funny, mostly, to watch Arare pulling a Wile E. Coyote at itsumi's love life.

Plenty of cute stuff this chapter, like Rin gazing longingly at the close up image of her girlfriend's face on her phone background, and Kurohime looking 110% into trying the poly life. I wish them all the best, and hope that Yanagi doesn't do anything on the trip to get Rin to jump her later.

She's never seen a cheap shortcut prone to backfiring that she didn't take.

So, chapter 35-36 are what actually happened from Nagi's point of view, which we had previously gotten an incomplete account of from following Airi's perspective.

Airi put on earbuds and listened to a hypnosis recording, and proved to be very susceptible to it. By the time Nagi noticed, Airi had put herself into a trance. Nagi made a few impulsive suggestions while she was in a vulnerable state, resulting in Airi becoming rather confused on what is love and fear, partly due to how Nagi worded the command to get Airi to stop acting like Nagi, which caused her to freak out.

As a consequence of this while walking home Airi began to act quite strangely, and then become very forwardly affectionate once she started to truly feel panic over the oddities she could notice. At this point, Nagi came to fully realize just how awful the situation was, presumably from the angle of abusing the trust of the person she most cares for, and asked for a hug before putting Airi back into a trance and walking her home, apologizing the entire way even though she could not be heard.

Short version: Nagi accidentally/on purpose put her bestie, whom she's into, into a situation where she would artificially reciprocate. She didn't go through with it, but she only pulled back at her own door, with said bestie saying she 'want you to be with me' (implied offer of physical intimacy)

Exactly how reprehensible she is for mind-screwing Airi is up to the reader to decide, as well as how much intentionality went into it versus veering wildly between impulsive choices and having basically no idea what she was doing. Either way, not a great look for her.