Man I love historical clothing so much, it's nice seeing it portrayed well. The door thing is funny though I wonder if wifi can also go past c.

I am so incredibly bothered by her taking scones out of the oven stacked on top of each other like that, instead of them lined up on a baking sheet. if you actually tried baking them like that they'd fuse together and probably cook weird

She could have been just keepin em warm in the oven, not actually bakin em.

Though still that would be questionable

Okay so they got the baths thing right in the afterword but not in the main story.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Flan I think the word your looking for it not masturbation but uh, rape.

"I programmed you as best I could."

"But not to last..."

Looks like jigglypuff strikes again at the end of that last one

Huh. I'm not confident what's going on in this one. I like it but it has this really weird vibe. Huh. that last line is pretty menacing too.

"I invited them to my home so they'd never leave."... who did she just invite in?

I got that part. the text really seems to be implying something awful is gonna happen but Alice isn't acting particularly out of character? Is the story implying Marisa is actually gonna get eaten??

Oh she's gonna get eaten alright ^^

Oh hey extenuating circumstances. Nice short little tragedy. Reminds me a bit of lady vengeance

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Do not think of this as a psychological story. Do not ask what personal motivations drive these characters. This is a sociological story, just one anecdote in a country full of ruthless and vengeful selfishness.

What you're seeing in this story is the consequence of the Cultural Revolution (1965 to 1976)...

SNIP

That's just how China is now. And it could take a century or more for the country to return to its traditions and to regain it's moral grounding.

Hi uh

Sorry what?

Cause this happened to both the US (Red Scares 1&2) and the Soviets (Stalin's Great Purges), along with the DDR/GDR (basically all of it). And before you say "no it didn't", yeah sure, not exactly as how it happened in China, but it rhymes along the same lines. Patriotic fervour worked up to dispose of the ruling party's political opponents, which extended beyond and spilled over into the wider society due to said fervour.

In those periods and in the immediate aftermath sure there was a weakening of trust, but putting faith, goodwill, and trusting your fellow human is what constructs a society and maintains it. There is still a baseline level of trust present. Some folks may be more paranoid than others in the wake of it, but in what appears to be the setting of the 2010-2020s, if it's due to mao's purges it's going to be in the people who actually lived during those times, not some kids. Human memory is surprisingly short. The cultural revolution to my knowledge is not fondly remembered, and iirc sometimes evoked to accuse someone of political foolishness or wrong doing.

Besides Radical Idealism (aka Neo-Confucianism. I am assuming this is what you mean by tradition) is still alive and present in wider Chinese society, it's the whole reason it's official party line is Socialism with Chinese characterises, and it's currently evolution of Xi Jinping Thought.

I'm not going to touch on the famine stuff because there's a legitimate historical debate to be had if it was considered a acceptable consequence of rapid re-industrialization or if it was a series of misfortune and errors, or if it was planned as you said.

Also what the fuck do you mean by moral grounding?

Nice, a mystery!

I'm guessing there's some extenuating circumstances around the theft.

You're so right, the shorts that barely reach below their asses just scream "masc"

Men can wear booty shorts too /shrugs.

Besides, the thing that caught my eye onto that is their hair and general body type. Idk, I just read them as masc, but unless it becomes a critical plot point it doesn't really matter beyond "this is a prison with female sex (and so far just sex) robots being tested on the prisoners"

YES THE OLD LADY YURI IS BACK :P

I don't know about the sexual minority part, as there is straight men it seems (or I think is implied?)

What is it that implied to you the existence of male prisoners?

Page 1 chap. 2. First panel has what looks to be masc prisoners.

So... nobody's going to mention how testing experimental tech on prisoners, who have no chance at parole and will be arbitrarily executed, makes this not a prison, but a concentration camp? Especially since the inamtes here are all from a sexual minority?

I don't know about the sexual minority part, as there is straight men it seems (or I think is implied?). It might be a parallel to the Uyghurs (I think that's likely), it might just be also be death row with a government that has privatised its prisons, and doesn't really care much about ethics.

Experimentation on unwilling inmates with unproven tech has happened before, famously in those camps you mentioned, but also in things like Unit 731 (CW:Not Safe For Life stuff and also it will make you mad with how it ended), and in older prison systems (Victorian Britain was uh something, though it was more focused on psychology.)

And if you're wondering, did the us do this?

Yes, yes we did.

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SHE NEEDS A HERO

SHE NEEDS A HERO BY THE MORNING LIGHT

AND SHES GOTTA BE STRONG

AND SHES GOTTA BE FAST

AND SHES GOTTA BE A GAY ROBOT TONIGHT!

KILL THAT FUCKING SHIT OF A FATHER! YOU CAN DO IT CROW!

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THE YURI IS DOOMED :( :( :( :(

Okay I really can't get over Yukari's hair vents. What is this, 2002?

someone leans over and whispers into her ear

"Ma'm it's set in 2002"

Well that explains it.

"I don't know if I'd be feeling this way if I was with other women"

Girl congrats on figuring out your pan. May you and your lesbian girlfriend live happily ever after.

Luckily, Luna will just respawn.

grumbles something about Kosuzu and how the fortune teller was more likely a one off thing

Anyways, I like these two when their relationship is on a very fine edge of becoming very messy.

You been hit by, you've been struck by, a smooth general.

Dawwww

Myon is being left out though...

To whoever is scanlating, quick nitpick

A castle is a specific term that refers to a fortified manor, that had a license to do so. (known as a license to castle)

Unless Remilia has that she's got a Manor or Mansion, not a castle.

This is a pretty weird point, and I don't even know where to start with it, but it was addressed to me for some reason ("whoever"... the credits are right there) so I'll respond to it in pieces.

As to This as I was writing that I was still waking up. Forgot it was you

1. 99% of the time the Scarlet Devil Mansion is called a mansion, but in that specific line Remilia inarguably calls it a castle, presumably metaphorically in a "my home is my castle" kind of way. Did you think the translator decided to call it a castle on a lark, or that I should've changed it in translation because it didn't fill a technical definition?

Hence why it's a nitpick

But anyways Remilia is over 500 years old, so she probably does know the difference between a castle and a mansion. It just reads weird because everywhere else it does get referred to as the mansion. Maybe in the original Japanese it makes more sense when combined with the rough historical knowledge a lay person would know, but in this case it feels like it creates a different image as to what Remilia is referring to.

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Also wow okina uh, please say you're joking with that line of liking little girls.

It is funny that Flan just refers to all her friends as boyfriends.

To whoever is scanlating, quick nitpick

A castle is a specific term that refers to a fortified manor, that had a license to do so. (known as a license to castle)

Unless Remilia has that she's got a Manor or Mansion, not a castle.