So let me see if I understand this correctly—they really are glad to see each other. They are excited to spend time together. When they’re together they don’t want to say goodbye. Each one thinks the other looks cute in what they’re wearing. They’re excited to spend time together—wait, I said that already, didn’t I?

If they weren’t both girls, I’d almost think there was something going on between them. The way they’re excited to see each other and spend time together, I mean.

Well, if, yeah. But they're both girls, so nah, couldn't be.

I like it. A bit messed up, cynical where cynicism is very much warranted, but still with heart where it counts.

That seems like a nice length for something like this. Much longer and you'd have to start inventing annoying complications, which would be annoying.

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As these things go, it's really not that toxic. Perhaps both the most toxic and the most interesting thing here is what Soprano is doing to HERSELF, in trying to completely bury the shy part of her personality. I'm wondering how that's going to work out.

"It's unthinkable" she says, while thinking it.

I guess it's inconceivable, even.

We're just calling anyone a villainess now.

Well, when she laughs she goes "oHohoho!" in proper villainess style . . . wasn't that always the main qualification?

"My, you've certainly grown since middle school!"

Ahhh . . . now I want to ditch work and go look at the sea.

This feels like an edgy and incoherent regurgitation of five hundred other manga series. It's like it was made by an AI that is somehow also an emo boy.

It's pretty easy to tell an AI to be an emo boy.

This was such a great series. There's now a hole in my soul called "no more MahiMahi."

Exactly!

Wait a minute, hold the phone . . . this kid is a keeper! Did you SEE that chocolate?! That is high-end professional quality stuff, and she made it BY HAND without, apparently, even having any particular experience, just with willpower?! That's insane.

We have to make this test. For SCIENCE!

All the bullying aside, I was kind of disappointed that she kept saying punishment this, punishment that, but we never see her actually doing any punishing.

OK, if you're going to introduce a potentially annoying new character, it's good if they have some pizzazz. This one seems pretty funny.

So far, I'm having fun. Not sure how long this can go without adding some cheap complications, though.

So it's an "old school unrequited" plus puke? Not sure I needed that combination.

For me, the problem with all the "red flag" talk I see these days is it kind of ends up holding people to an impossible standard. You have to be perfect, up on a pedestal. Show any signs of feet of clay, bam! You're toxic, full of "red flags". I've been married for nearly 30 years, and neither my wife nor I are perfect in all respects. And sure, we work on getting things right, but also you gotta have some flexibility, you gotta look at things with some benevolence and understanding, let some stuff go.

isn’t this just the yuri version of “super attractive perfect girl ends up with antisocial loner whose sole redeeming quality is that they are somehow the first person to ever show basic kindness to the girl”

Most antisocial loners I've known, of which I myself am a borderline example, have plenty of good qualities. I'm not sure "redeeming" is the word I'd use because I'm not clear that not being an extrovert is a bad thing. So this comment kind of annoys me . . . you got a problem with loners maybe you shouldn't be talking to people who read manga. Maybe go crash a party or something instead?

This particular antisocial loner seems to have some good qualities. She's smart, has good taste, seems fundamentally decent, has a sense of irony . . . more may come up, but that's pretty solid for a start.

I'm really enjoying this. IMO it's not the tropes you use, it's how you use the tropes. Both MCs certainly fit into certain broad "types" that we see used . . . and for that matter into certain broad "types" that we see in real life . . . but they both have interesting and engaging personalities in their own way. In the case of the loner girl it's hard for an outsider to ACCESS that personality, but it's there. I loved the way she smacked her shoulder-self that was dissing her into a grease spot.

^This line on page 26 and Kasumi's behavior on the pages before feel like she's trying to preventatively "wean herself off" of Haruyo, in order to protect herself from the supposedly inevitable parting they're going to have soon. She wants to end the relationship before it's too late for her to go back to what life was like before Haruyo.

And again, for anyone who's not aware, this is definitely a real thing. My wife used to have these feelings quite often back when we were dating. It took quite a long time for her to gain enough confidence in me and herself for this to not happen.

Listen, I don't think her son has bad intentions here but I'm tempted to bet money that he's going to put his foot in his mouth in the process.

This. I mean, if he was going to NOT put his foot in his mouth, one signal would be his ability to wait for this conversation to a time when he wouldn't be interrupt her time with her friend.

I'd also want to qualify that . . . I don't think he CONSCIOUSLY has bad intentions. But it's coming at least partly from a self-centred impulse. Maybe he wants to check on her, maybe he wants to reconnect, maybe he wants to greet her new friend, maybe he even wants to apologize in some way, but with this timing none of that really makes any sense outside of a kind of patronizing but insecure need to emphasize that he's the centre of the family universe. I mean, about the BEST possibility is something like "I want to give my endorsement to whatever you're doing and be supportive--and obviously you NEED my endorsement before you do anything, so it's OK for me to interrupt whatever you're doing in order to give it." And it gets worse from there.

I'd forgotten the title of this. So I accidentally came back and read this latest chapter and remembered why I'd decided not to do that.

Cats of course have a similar idiom, something about "Throwing pounce-toys before monkeys".

The cute is off the charts here.

And hero TL work.

Absolutely, on both counts. Man, I read those TL notes and that's some seriously challenging issues. Kudos for handling it so thoughtfully.

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this one remember me of a doujin where a girl dress up as a bunny... but like a full ass bunny fursuit
need to find this again

Omg ive read that too.... the search begins

See, if this AI stuff was any good it could find this kind of thing for you. But from what I hear it would just make something up.