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

Literally all she's done so far is hang out with her friend and told her parents whenever they did something they're not allowed to do.

Your standards for abusive manipulation are way too low.

This is based on the assumption that, since this is a romance and we're introducing the premise, the motivation for her behaviour must be some kind of obsessive love. Which would make her a yandere.

In theory, it's also possible she's just a nasty little snitch who betrays people for helping her and then sets them up so she can betray them again . . . but then why is she a love interest? Like, I'm not a huge fan of the whole yandere thing, but many people are, it's an understandable schtick. But hardly ANYONE is a fan of love interests who are simply treacherous pieces of shit, that's just a lousy story. So the yandere theory seems a lot more plausible.

This cinnamon roll with sweet creamy icing . . .

The complications in my life that get in the way of fun have all come from the kids and the ancestors, never from the marriage itself.

Sakura knows they whack people off at this job but doesn't know what sex is? Whatever, I won't think too hard about it. Author probably just finds the conttast humorous

They whack people, and they off people. I don't THINK they whack people off.

Why does almost everyone in this comment section (not Blastaar) feel the need to be mean to at least one of the characters?

They're all pretty nice people. Not perfect people, but pretty nice. On one hand, Hario has done nothing wrong and has been nothing but nice throughout. On the other, yeah, Takara and Ema shouldn't have kissed with her being married and all, and ideally should get serious about coming up with an ethical and honest course of action. But geeze, they've been in love for 10 years or something without ever being able to forget each other; this is big love, it conquers a whole lot, they had one slip-up in the heat of the moment, I think we can agree they shouldn't have while still cutting them a bit of slack, eh? Not like they had sex.

At least one person is going to end up getting hurt really bad, and I think we all know the biggest hurt will be headed for Hario, but that doesn't mean anyone has to be seriously in the wrong. Life can just be messy like that, it isn't anyone's fault, and they're not going to get through it perfectly but they're trying and none of them is facing each other with ill will, so why rag on them?

I would be fairly optimistic at this point, but the series page with its little synopsis reduces my confidence quite a bit.

"The Princess and Prince of Hibiscus Girls' Academy, Jougasaki Suzuran and Emma Grace Rosenthal, and the story of their waning love, 'til its fading end."

I don't know where that comes from, and I don't know if it might somehow be misinterpreting or deliberately misleading about just what love might be waning and fading, but on the surface it doesn't look happy.

I sincerely hope these two find love and peace and happiness... ... but my goodness, the subtext. Or is it just "the text" at this point, since I've seen it in so many manga? Sacrificing your life for a job... and it's not even so you can support a family; these two were barely supporting themselves! There is so much that is wrong with that... no one should have to live like that.

What's worse is that they place the blame mostly on themselves. "If we only had the goals, dreams, determination, bravery". No mention of "if our culture didn't demand we do this" or "if the fruits of our labor came back to us".

These girls did the right thing, and my heart weeps for anyone who is stuck in a position like this.

... I really hope this story doesn't end with "whelp, that was fun, but we're out of money and societal pressure is too much, so it's time to grow up for real and do the right thing... by heroically sacrificing our lives for a 'greater good' that never seems to include us."

Preach it, comrade! Lay down that needed class war!

Feels a lot like throw away the suits together, hope these 2 get a happier ending.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Could be worse. Could be India.

Whoa. Quite the bad stuff she went through. Hope she's doing well.

You know, it occurs to me that the title of this is pretty misleading. I haven't actually read the last few chapters because the tenor of the conversation here kind of warned me off. But what I'm saying is, the title would imply that first you get the Sturm und Drang, and then afterwards it gets happy. But as far as I can tell that, like, doesn't happen at all.

I love when romcom/slice of life stuff randomly just inserts some sort of supernatural shit and plays it completely straight

Not sure "completely straight" describes anything going on here.

You know, I have totally lost track of what's going on in this. I'm not sure I can even remember who any of the characters are, let alone what their deal is. Somebody likes drinking, at least one person is into them . . . and . . . stuff . . .

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And from that day on, Itou became hypervigilant about sex jokes.
(projecting)

Learning to recognize crude jokes and how to use them as expected was a difficult skill that took up so much of my time as a teenager. Masking is exhausting...

Of course, now that I've learned the skill, I feel obligated to use it when the opportunity strikes.

I never really got the hang of the typical North American version of that . . . I learned the Monty Python era nerd variant with roots more in British humour.

Guess next chapter will be the last with the protagonist getting executed ...

... don't really get what's specifically "matching" with those outfits, gotta say ^^#

Looks to me like the protagonist has an extra layer, but sticking out from under and above the black over-whatever you can see what looks rather like the same skirt edge and stuff.

"Would a normal person really talk so casually about wearing human skin?"

Says the person who's casually holding said human skin like a shawl. They be matching each other's freak

And indeed, the person knowledgeably discussing the spices needed to preserve human skins so you can wear them.

By itself, that stuff would just mean these two are serious psychos. But now I have bigger questions about the setting.
Apparently, not only does the princess know about spices that can preserve human skins so you can wear them, this is just a known thing in the culture, so a random antagonist can be saying "So, could be this princess will kill someone and try to wear their skin because that's a totally normal thing for a princess on the run to be doing, better check the spice merchants to see who's been buying the 'Human Skin Preservation' Dan-D-Pak."

WTF?!

"Normal is different for everyone"--wise words, little sister, wise words.

Smol!Bat!Shirotae is adorable.

Yeah, I'm iffy on this, but I think I'll keep reading it for the bat.

Normally I'd make a lewd joke about putting her clothes over a pillow to hug/smell while she sleeps or masturbates to but this is a smol child and that would be gross.

This comment is oddly unconvincing coming from that particular avatar.

Fancy restaurant's food is a bit odd. The deserts look very good, no problem there. But the main course . . . so you have some minimalist well-presented spaghetti, sure, that's fairly fancy or can be. A big slab of . . . salmon? Tuna? Well, reasonable, but it doesn't look like they did much with it, it's really basic. I dunno.

But then there's what appears to be salisbury steak (aka hamburger) with a fried egg on top and some thick-cut fries . . . really? So the most exclusive restaurant in town is serving diner food. Annnd, there's some bacon and eggs. So the most exclusive restaurant in town is serving ALL-DAY BREAKFAST diner food. Do better research, people.

Bro thinks that what constitutes upper and lower class cuisine remains static over time

Oh, please. I know a fair bit about food in different European time periods, and to the best of my knowledge that has never been an upper class thing. There was weird medieval upper class food; it did not resemble modern Asian or North American diner food. In any case, the setting is basically 18th century vague Europe without guns, so not that far back. The whole concept of "fancy restaurant" didn't really exist in medieval times. The hamburgerish-steak with a fried egg on top is mostly just a modern Asian thing, probably never existed before fairly late 20th century, although maybe it existed in real US diners somewhat before that and disappeared since the Asians borrowed it.

Next time think for two seconds before you get snide.

Oof, that was hard to watch. I trust Elsa and Yvonne to put a stop to it, but to think there was that kind of black market under the capital... what the hell is the royal family doing ?!

I think it's a rule lately that all isekai-setting webtoons with nobility and stuff have to include at least one degenerate illegal slave auction scene.

This is a serious speedrun.

They've confessed mutual love, and NOW people are saying it isn't getting anywhere?

Funny, I had this weird intuition. Normally, I read a manga chapter, then probably go to the comments. This time I thought, "For this manga, I think maybe I want to go to the comments first and see whether I'll hate the latest developments". And lo and behold, I hate them. Might bother to read the chapter, might not, but at least I'm forewarned--thank you, fellow commenters!

As we always knew: It's not easy, being green.