Is she just carrying around her sister's letter while at school?

Probably but that's not crazy. If it means something and has shocked her, she might want to look at it regularly. Plus she could have wanted to show it to someone. Now I'm wondering if we're taking a duo trip to the sister or if she'll go on her own.

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People defended it as a joke last time so I knew that's what I'd wake up to, and for me just as it wasn't funny the first time it's not funny the second time either. In my opinion it's a really strange conclusion for Aya to jump to joke or not, and I really hope this won't become a running bit where we see it a 3rd and even 5th time. That's my opinion and if people find it funny or are indifferent about it that's also fair, for me it's going to annoy me every time it happens though lol

It's definitely valid, not finding the joke funny; it's not all that funny to me either. I just don't think there's much need to look into those joke lines more deeply as of yet. It's the same anywhere else the same joke has popped up in other romance manga and wasn't implying some issue with those relationships. If something changes in future chapters, then maybe but right now it just seems innocuous and comedic. Maybe the joke doesn't read well across cultures. As Appstore said in their comment, it's definitely one I've seen in a few manga with perfectly healthy relationships; so the authors are definitely pulling it from somewhere.

I'm not looking at it deeply or even expecting it to be deeper than a passing punchline, I just don't like it and don't want it to be a running bit one way or another.

I don't mean you specifically. That part was talking about some of the other comments before and that we continue to see now that are reading more into it and the author. I did say I had no problem with your comment or what you were saying and partially agreed with you, at the beginning of my response.

That makes sense, I didn't mean to come across as rude only that I wasn't 100% sure so I wanted to clarify on my end in regard to how deeply I'm looking at the cheating aspect.

Yeah no worries.

People defended it as a joke last time so I knew that's what I'd wake up to, and for me just as it wasn't funny the first time it's not funny the second time either. In my opinion it's a really strange conclusion for Aya to jump to joke or not, and I really hope this won't become a running bit where we see it a 3rd and even 5th time. That's my opinion and if people find it funny or are indifferent about it that's also fair, for me it's going to annoy me every time it happens though lol

It's definitely valid, not finding the joke funny; it's not all that funny to me either. I just don't think there's much need to look into those joke lines more deeply as of yet. It's the same anywhere else the same joke has popped up in other romance manga and wasn't implying some issue with those relationships. If something changes in future chapters, then maybe but right now it just seems innocuous and comedic. Maybe the joke doesn't read well across cultures. As Appstore said in their comment, it's definitely one I've seen in a few manga with perfectly healthy relationships; so the authors are definitely pulling it from somewhere.

I'm not looking at it deeply or even expecting it to be deeper than a passing punchline, I just don't like it and don't want it to be a running bit one way or another.

I don't mean you specifically. That part was talking about some of the other comments before and that we continue to see now that are reading more into it and the author. I did say I had no problem with your comment or what you were saying and partially agreed with you, at the beginning of my response.

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People defended it as a joke last time so I knew that's what I'd wake up to, and for me just as it wasn't funny the first time it's not funny the second time either. In my opinion it's a really strange conclusion for Aya to jump to joke or not, and I really hope this won't become a running bit where we see it a 3rd and even 5th time. That's my opinion and if people find it funny or are indifferent about it that's also fair, for me it's going to annoy me every time it happens though lol

It's definitely valid, not finding the joke funny; it's not all that funny to me either. I just don't think there's much need to look into those joke lines more deeply as of yet. It's the same anywhere else the same joke has popped up in other romance manga and wasn't implying some issue with those relationships. If something changes in future chapters, then maybe but right now it just seems innocuous and comedic. Maybe the joke doesn't read well across cultures. As Appstore said in their comment, it's definitely one I've seen in a few manga with perfectly healthy relationships; so the authors are definitely pulling it from somewhere.

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I feel like naming Lily's mother "Eris" was a v deliberate choice because Eris is the greek god of strife and discord famously being responsible for setting off the trojan war. clearly this means this series will soon spiral into a story about international conflict and tragedy on the battlefield

Most definitely.

I think a lot of jokes in this manga don’t land with readers. Not the manga, artist or reader fault, some stuff get lost in translation, it has the humour of a 4koma but with “regular” artstyle, so the situations are taken more seriously than they should sometimes, and how much manga/anime the reader has see to understand how popular/common some of the jokes are.

The cheating joke is always used by the partner who loves to overthink everything when their partner who is more aloof is overly affectionate, is more on the line of “omg does she feel guilty over something?”.

But also, there are people who know all of that but simply hate that type of joke.

Yeah, you're right and I'm aware. It's a pretty common joke in manga, so even if it's not super funny to me either, I'm not bothered or surprised by it--also, not expecting anything to come from it, other than comedy.

What's more interesting is these two developing arcs for Mitsuki and Aya; both of their new circles have some bumps to get over and it'll be interesting how they'll help each other over them. I feel like we'll see a lot more comfort glomping and freaking out. Out of everything introduced the Aya's new "friend" stands out the most; I want to understand what her hangups are.

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Super sweet. Sometimes you just need a good glomp and sniff sniff after a long day. People are unsurprisingly taking the cheating surprise joke way too far; it's not a serious comment. I wonder how they'll discuss the band issue though once they get the chance to talk about it. We're setting up personal issues for both of them in their new immediate friend circles and I wonder if they'll converge at some point? I'm interested in how we navigate them. Using their home as a sort of comfort base, while they each figure out their individual problems would be a fun way to handle it. I wonder if that'll be the intention. Mitsuki's dilemma is clear; let's see what Aya's will be.

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Niji's motivations aside, what's her plan here exactly? One moment she goes "Let's hook them up right away", the next moment she tells Meguru how her ex is supposedly getting frisky with her sister? Is that her idea of being a wingwoman?

It seems she wants to "punish" Remu by blowing her plans to pieces and getting Meguru and Azuki together in a messy way; she's basically exposing Remu. She wants Meguru to "take back her woman." Niji has deluded herself into thinking Remu is getting in between a love story, which is buried under mounds of irony.

I wouldn't be surprised if she wants Meguru to confront Remu so that Remu will be uncomfortable and broken as a consequence of her "bad behavior." Naturally, Niji would be there to "comfort" her and tell her how she should have known better. So, the potential messiness seems like it's on purpose and it's all highly and deliberately manipulative. It's part of why she feels so destructive to me currently. I doubt she'll get her way though, or at least I hope she doesn't. But her plans make sense to me viewed this way and considering she said punishment is part of her goal.

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That's an ominous but on point chapter title.

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@SirNevik

No I'd see her the same. "Dangerous" here also means harmful to others, willingly and actively so. Most of the other girls don't share the same qualities. They regret and feel shame; they worry and most of their issues are internal. Niji not so much, at least not as she's been presented so far.

The point here is that, if Niji were the protagonist, you would have a lot more information about her and a lot less about Azuki. Azuki's regret and shame is often expressed internally and we know about it because she with Remu is the protagonist. It's not subtext, but explicitly expressed. That gives context a creepy image of someone in a dark room with headless dolls wouldn't give.

Meguru engaged in pupeteering as well, but did it in the past. That's why Azuki is like this now, which Meguru is only regretting much later. Niji in contrast is just getting started with her pupeteering and has a long way to go to get the possible regret phase. This may take the form of the older characters helping the younger characters avoid their mistakes, or at least letting the younger characters learn from them. How Meguru reacts to finding out about the clay dolls or relationship with Remu is an open question.

Also, I should say that I at least don't think -no one- would be this critical of Niji if Niji were the protagonist. I don't want to sound like I'm insulting other people, but you tend to have particularly thoughtful readings that involve noticing small details. I have still seen audiences excuse much worse behavior in a protagonist, so I don't think what you responded to is wrong if we are describing general trends in responses.

As long as she took the same actions there's no explanation that would change my worries. Understanding someone doesn't change how I'd view their behavior and there are plenty of unreliable and morally confused protagonists. She'd be one based on things so far.

Besides hypotheticals, the main issue is her behavior and thoughts about her behavior is different than the other girls to me and feels more potentially harmful to others, currently. I can't speak for what the girls might have been in the past; I'm only commenting on who they are now. I also haven't said she couldn't be redeemed eventually; I doubt she'll have no depth. I don't think she's a monster or anything.

It's just if you look at these 4 girls, which of them would you say seems more likely to cause (non-physical) harm to the others right now? I'd say Niji very confidently and I could see her do so with little remorse so long as she got her way. The others aren't in that same mental place at the moment and much of their issues are internal. For Niji to get her way, all the other girls get involved in her play.

I also don't think I'd characterize Meguru like that. She only just came to realize why she behaved how she did back then. I don't think she was intending things in the same way Niji is now. She seemed genuine in her disgust and is only now understanding how complicated her feelings are. She's also been regretful, hesitant and unsure throughout (which are major things). That doesn't seem like intentional puppeteering and not in the same way Niji has been doing. We might just see her a bit differently.

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@Lucca

A lot of is the manga horror panel style framing we've gotten since early on. Meguru messed up Azuki way more in terms of explicit plot events, but Meguru wasn't drawn like a serial killer or eldritch horror pretending to be human so it can eat someone. This is priming people to think "Well, Niji must simply be that bad, given nothing contradicts this reading."

We recently had something similar happen in Lose Bets. A character threw stick of lip gloss over a bridge. Then readers acted like the character had crossed the moral event horizon. The paneling made it look like the character had committed a uniquely terrible act, so people interpreted it that way. Most readers are not detached enough that they will stop to think about why the paneling was set up that way or which parts of the comic are the source of their feelings about the characters.

As for why the author would do draw Niji this way, I think it's to build tension ("What will Niji do next? How far will she go?"), as well as to pull a bait and switch and say "Of course she was another traumatized teenage lesbian all along. Like in universe characters who resent the protagonists, you didn't have all the information and decided to make your judgement based on the parts you could see despite that."

Same may happen somewhat with Remu in the other direction, if she turns out to be quite as nice and well adjusted as she acts for the sake of others' approval. Not that she's evil either, but she's biting off more than she can chew in trying to realize everyone's desires and happiness. At some point that will not go well.

Edit: To build on your point of "If Niji was the protagonist," Azuki could have been drawn in a way that seems extremely menacing, with the whole "longer who obsesses over a past lover from long ago while making headless naked dolls of them" thing. We'd have had people expecting Azuki to commit a murder in that case if we had that drawing style combined with the loss of protagonist POV and most inner thoughts.

Yep, I agree with all you said. If Azuki was the “antagonist” character, people would say she never loved Meguru, because the dolls never had a face, it was just lust, and how that is creepy and that Meguru has valid reasons. etc.

People calling Niji dangerous because she snitched is hilarious to me, she is acting like a annoying know-it-all spoiled brat, nothing more. If it's about harm, emotional damage, etc. Meguru has done more than Niji has.

People don't need to justify their dislike for Niji, the story itself paints her that way (like Kira from Death Note, that type of edgy villain lol) but it is obvious that if she was the protagonist people would not see her as “dangerous” as a “abuser” etc. people would sympathize with her.

No I'd see her the same. "Dangerous" here also means harmful to others, willingly and actively so. Most of the other girls don't share the same qualities. They regret and feel shame; they worry and most of their issues are internal. Niji not so much, at least not as she's been presented so far. Her specific delusions could quite easily spiral and become intentionally harmful in a way that feels more likely than the others. Her delusions involve puppeteering people, wanting them to act in her ways or she grows frustrated. What happens when everyone doesn't play the part? I guess we'll find out eventually. I think we also have to remember the way she put pressure on her "friend" when she thought things weren't going her way, or weren't "as they should be." I imagine that also colors how people see her. I think the author is drawing her differently because she's a bit different.

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Ah, that was lovely. ^_^

But the boyfriend problem still needs to be addressed...

Don't worry I took him out back.

Niji's issues are very external and she doesn't seem to care. That's what makes her different from the others and makes her dangerous. This is a perfect example of that. Her issues necessarily involve people other than herself.

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Way to assert dominance over the ex-GF, don’t let her paw all over your rocker girl like that.

She respectfully disrespected her. I appreciate her game.

girl get your legs moving
not the time to be shocked and frozen

Ain't no way she heard her begging for help and just stopped.

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We got 2 chapters to get them together again; I'm thinking a lot will happen in the next one. Really fun series. I love their faces still.

Is this ending with the 3rd volume or do you just mean it’s taken two chapters already to get them together? If it’s ending soon, that’s unfortunate for sure since this has been pretty great so far.

It was always planned to be 15 chapters. So, it's meeting that schedule. Author said so. She normally does short series, at least up to now.

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We got 2 chapters to get them together again; I'm thinking a lot will happen in the next one. Really fun series. I love their faces still.

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It tickles me that the average straight female reader is expected to be so grossed out by lesbian intimacy that an author whose series is published in a josei magazine has to sneak in those kinds of pages in the tankoubon release. Goes to show those yuri fans who swear on the superior authenticity of "shoujosei yuri" are just properly delusional.

I think you see evil where there's none. Chapter 9 had some nudity and it was in the magazine proper, no problem.

Since I buy the mag, Melody, to translate this, I can tell that the rest of it is pretty much josei. There are romantic yaoi series in it, with sex scenes. Nothing explicit either, just men kissing with only naked torso showing. It's clearly not a porn magazine, but it doesn't shy away from gay physical love either.

Yeah once I saw those were nude scenes, it made sense why they'd be taken out until the volume release. That's pretty standard.

How is it standard? They were cuddling in the nude, with a single nipple partially visible two separate times. In the shounen or seinen demo (or Yuri Hime) those pages would have easily made it into the magazine version of the chapter, at most with the nipple being covered up.

I don't see what you're on.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/my_blue_garnet_ch09#39 was in the magazine. See? Female nudity isn't a problem in Melody.

I take the two pages in chapter two as an afterthought, not as "omg, this will freak out our female readers".
Im sorry to bother is the series on hiatus its very hard to find any information on this one

It's a bi-monthly magazine release.

Something where one of the character is very touchy-feely/hands-on with her girlfriend/love interest. Maybe to the point of being a bit clingy. Like constantly hugging, touching, gropping or kissing her in an affectionate way. I'm looking for something more cute than molest-y, to be clear.

"Addicted to Her" once they get going. I love it for having a lot of small gestures of affection, along with the more obvious stuff. Maybe it fits?

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i wonder how long manga will go on? i may continue the novel along with it but i dont remember where i left off

i don't think we've been given a solid end point for the manga but after volume 10 of the LNs it stops being as much of a linear narrative and starts jumping around the timeline so it wouldn't shock me if thats when they called it. I don't know if they'd ever adapt SS, 99.9, or SS2 which is unfortunate bc those have some of my favourite moments in the entire series (99.9 final chapter and SS2 final chapter in manga form would be the end of me holy shit) but like, anything could happen

Well, volume 8 is technically the ending. I'd expect somewhere around there would be a natural stopping point.

yeah but if thats the case then we're like, two or three chapters from the end and i dont want that to be true sdfjdksfhsfsjk

LOL Yeah, I think we'll go a bit beyond that at least. We should at least have a whole new volume.

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I think I'm going to find this one extremely frustrating. I'm going to eagerly read each chapter hoping this is the one where this pseudo-couple turns serious. Then being totally totally bummed when it's not.
I wish they put series like these under another tag other than yuri, so yuri purest like me don't end up banging our heads against the wall, in frustration, every time a new chapter gets posted.

It's ongoing so even if there were a tag, it wouldn't help. It's better to just wait until it's over if that's what you're worried about. Touma is the author of "Some Prefer Nettles," and the recently released "You Started this, So You Better Finish it." It could go either way, but at least you know they do have the capacity to write GL. If it doesn't go anywhere that won't be because the author is afraid of anything.

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i wonder how long manga will go on? i may continue the novel along with it but i dont remember where i left off

i don't think we've been given a solid end point for the manga but after volume 10 of the LNs it stops being as much of a linear narrative and starts jumping around the timeline so it wouldn't shock me if thats when they called it. I don't know if they'd ever adapt SS, 99.9, or SS2 which is unfortunate bc those have some of my favourite moments in the entire series (99.9 final chapter and SS2 final chapter in manga form would be the end of me holy shit) but like, anything could happen

Well, volume 8 is technically the ending. I'd expect somewhere around there would be a natural stopping point.

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Loved this chapter. Another showcase of their unique chemistry; all that thoughtfulness and inquisitiveness from Shima meshes so well with Adachi's fixations and quirks. They're a special fit. Additionally, I enjoy hearing Shima's thoughts. Remembering how apathetic and distant she normally would be, then contrasting that with not only how much effort she puts into thinking, worrying, and caring for Adachi, but also her willingness to put her thoughts into action for Adachi--it's all really nice non-verbal indications of her love for her girlfriend. Then we get the handholding. Adachi is, as always, a one-woman woman's woman.

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So why did this one get dropped even though the series has 50 more chapters and is complete?

alright this is officially bullshit. i'm still gonna finish it because i've invested too much but this is just annoying to read now. get it over with already i couldn't give less of a fuck about hario

It feels like things were stretched a bit to fit the volume's typical 5-chapter length; there's one more chapter in this volume. So hopefully, after this volume is done, things will start moving again.

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