The thing about this is, to be much more simplistic than some of the discussion above, as I read it I was thinking "So, she's in love with the blond girl, right? But she's like in sort-of-denial and stuff. And there's some other stuff."
But then at the end I was thinking "Wait, so is she in love with the blond girl or what? And how does the career change stuff have anything to do with that?"

So true about the three sizes--in manga everyone always knows that like it's some crucial piece of information, but really? I know ONE person who probably knows that, because she's into sewing and makes costumes for herself. Everyone else, probably not.

Woo howdy, does this take me back!
The art style perfectly supports the feeling of adolescent social anxiety I remember. The hyper awareness and vigilance. The self isolation.

I can't entirely relate. I was isolated and fairly antisocial, but I guess not socially anxious as such. So I was more thinking "God, this is so stupid, but it looks like I have to pay at least SOME attention to it because it looks like I'm going to get targeted again. When can I get out of here so I can pay attention to a good book?"

What a horrible woman.

Okay, was this released during the pandemic? Circumstantial evidence says yes, but with the anthology being called KAIKO: Fuyumushi Kaiko Works Retrospective, i'm not sure if this isn't actually significantly pre-2022.

Dunno about released during, but some of the story is certainly taking place during. I mean, it might not be specifically named, but there are pretty direct references to it being psychologically easier now that everyone's masking so she doesn't have to constantly see how pretty the other girl is.

I kept expected Bey— Peypey to walk on on the ladies during them being flirty... I knew she'd catch something eventually. Didn't think it'd be the curse on Evie

Almost feels like her NOT interrupting them violates some kind of rule. Not that I'm complaining.

I get that they're both self-deprecating, but come on . . . weren't those descriptions a bit too on the nose for the other to not get it? I mean, they're together constantly, and it doesn't occur to either of them "Say, wouldn't I KNOW if she was that close to someone like that?"

Definitely not feeling like trusting this Mia person at the lab. But, there's also the possibility that since this is a story with a lot of fluff, we may find that a lot of things that are hinted as ominous will kind of end up not being bad, Miyazaki style.

I'm definitely feeling like the story as Loco understands it is not the real story, or at least far from being the whole story.

There's one thing I don't get. This person has been in their current body since it was two, and they decided to commit to it back then. So why now are they still going "Oh, I better do this teenage girl thing to better understand teenage girl-ness"? They've had the same amount of normal growing up being a present-day girl as all their peers, they should already know what they're doing (well, as much as any teenager does).

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a 'ba-dump".

Very silly old school anime-SF. But I should note that I'm not saying that to criticize.

I feel like I'm just reading this out of habit by now. I loved it at the beginning, but now there are too many characters with same-face syndrome and I can't remember which ones are annoying and why.

For extra poetic justice, I note our OL said the creep lady was actually good at the job. As in, if she hadn't tried to pull nasty crap to blackmail our OL into making sure she kept her job . . . she probably would have kept her job.

I did find myself wondering how on earth this little cinnamon roll could possibly have ended up ostracized. Like what kind of monsters are these kids?

Him being killed couldn't have happened to a more perfect person. Bragging about abusing your wife to a classmate to her like it's just casual chitchat is fucking wild.

Worse than that--bragging about abusing your wife to her classmate THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO SEDUCE. That guy sure looks like plant food to me.

Could've asked the teacher lol

Yeah, I was thinking teacher's place might be good. She's, uh, giving them guidance . . . and absolutely not giving in to her submissive horny urges.

Okay so in addition to Ni Shang being Yandere, the main character is a complete moron.

Be fair, she doesn't know she's in a romantic comedy. All the obvious stuff here is only obvious when you know the setup.

Jung’s conception of introversion and extroversion comes from Freud, and had less to do with liking to be around people and more about your cognitive functions. Jung expanded on Freud and began to articulate a personality typology. Modern MBTI tests will pay lip service to Jung when results don’t line up with self-perception, though the content is quite far removed from Jung aside from the fascism and the spirituality. In the United States, at least, these tests are in practice somewhat deterministic because we have many superstitious idiots in powerful places.

The original Myers and Briggs were a mother and daughter team, which started with Myers, the mother, doing psychological experiments on the daughter, Briggs, during childhood. Myers was obsessed with Jung to the point of writing self insert yaoi fanfiction which was rejected by every publisher she submitted it to. In the decades following WWII, the CIA was conducting a lot of personality research (think: Black Panthers, Weather Underground, Courtney Love), so Briggs was finally able to find institutional backing. The findings suggested personality resisted type and that theirs was a fraught taxonomy, so they were ultimately booted from the lab. The daughter was still able to sell the exam to Human Resources departments who, being populated by middle-class white women in the 70s, were a bunch of self-help heads and wanted a way to weed out rebels and slackers. From the outset, these types were codified to mark people as unemployable. Both Myers and Briggs believed everybody had a potential and some were best relegated to menial existences in the home. I read a biography about them because I wanted to prove to a friend it was bullshit.

Yes I did get ENTP and no I do not have a full time job.

Very interesting post . . . I was always skeptical, nice to know my skepticism was warranted.
At the same time . . . how does a woman write SELF-INSERT yaoi fanfiction?

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.