We know why she ran away in spirit, based on the scenes of her interacting with her shithead husband. She doesn't need any more reason than "look at this motherfucker, would YOU want to live with him??"

I also am up for differing perspectives, but I feel the need to clarify here. Luxi did not lie to her mom, nor did I say she did. Her mom thinks Luxi lied to her because she thinks Luxi was in on Tong Tong's mom lying to her. Luxi's mom came up with a narrative where everything is related in a way that confirms her worst fears about herself.

I also don't see thinking homosexuality is a disease as abusive, so much as ignorant and deeply harmful. I think she genuinely believed it was dangerous and that pursuing the gay stuff would be extremely bad for Luxi. It's the parent's job to step in when their child is about to make a major mistake, especially one that could ruin their life (eg alcohol addiction). The problem is that, when they don't check their biases, they can end up being the biggest source of harm, despite genuinely wanting to help.

It's like a parent denying their child life saving medicine because someone on social media convinced them that the medicine would kill their child. The effect is the same as if they were trying to harm the child (that is, as abuse), but it's a genuine attempt at good parenting. People define abuse in different ways, but for me it cannot be abuse when both the conscious and subconscious intent is to help someone.

If I'm right, realizing that Luxi is both successful and happier will make all the difference to her, along with finding out that Luxi never lied to her and still values her. Neither of these are information she yet has.

Child abuse does not require bad intentions. It's frequently done thinking it's the right thing to do, even, and that doesn't make it not abuse in any way. Abusers say "this is for your own good" all the time. Their supposed ends do not justify their means. Especially in cases like this where the desired "end" is forcing someone to deny their sexuality. Luxi's mother scarred her terribly and she'll never be able to make up for it or continue having a relationship with her daughter if she clings to her supposed good intentions, because it's not up to her.

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Jesus, I don't know why, but something about this dynamic is so frustrating. I get why, but they're like, two dropped assumptions and one honest dialogue away from both having exactly everything they want, but Gotou won't just say "I like you and I want to divorce my husband" and Shigisawa won't let go of "She's straight and she's just using me!"

YOU LIKE EACH OTHER. JUST SAY SO YOU F***ING IDIOTS.

Yeah we know that, but they don't. They both fear rejection and feeling helpless, so they preemptively pull back in self defense, and interpret the other also pulling back as proof she doesn't like her. The fact that we've got this final dramatic confrontation, this bold breaching of that gap, is the communication you want, as best as they're able. Dunno why this would still be frustrating for you when it's finally coming out instead of the tragedy continuing unimpeded.

She has no paths forward from here except to fully surrender and beg forgiveness, or fuck off from her daughter's life forever like countless bigot parents before her.

IOW, “Paging TongTong’s Mom—homophobia cleanup on Aisle Luxi’s Mom.”

That seems likely, although like I said early I'd really like it to be Tongtong herself. A few chapters back, before the start of the domme arc, Luxi's ex-friend was saying some shit at Tongtong's expense and Luxi stood up and unabashedly defending her, pointing out that Tongtong tested into the same college as the bully despite not liking to study. The framing for Tongtong was that this was a pretty major moment for her, getting defended in public against the same kinds of mean girls that had cut her off in high school, leaving her friendless. I'd love to see the turnabout of that, of Tongtong sticking up for Luxi from the source of her trauma in turn.

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Nah that mom was absolutely abusive, she threatened Luxi to force her to break up with Tongtong and repeatedly denied a core element of her daughter's identity, calling homosexuality a disease and unnatural and the result of bad influence. Luxi was 100% in the right to hide this part of herself from her mom, that's just rational self protection, and even in this moment when the mom finds out she's implicitly making yet another unreasonable toxic demand on Luxi by framing the situation as an exclusive choice between Tongtong or her mother. The problem is entirely in her and the shitty societal elements she's representing.

edit: worth drawing specific attention to one particular element: The thing Luxi's mom is reacting so badly to here is the mere presence of Tongtong. She didn't catch them making out this time, she freaked out over Tongtong answering her daughter's apartment door. She expected Luxi to cut Tongtong off and never see her again and that's obviously fucking dumb and she has nobody to blame but herself. Her initial ultimatum was for Luxi to choose between breaking up with her girlfriend or being sent away, and Luxi chose being sent away on a delayed, self-managed path: she waited to go away by her own volition to college, and kept her girlfriend. She has not actually lied to her mother or even contradicted her, she merely violated the spirit of her mother's demand, which was to magically become "normal". There's no excuse for Luxi's mom's behavior, no extenuating circumstances that make her worth sympathy in this moment. Her hard life as a single mother has nothing to do with her rank bigotry here. If nobody trust her that is because she is untrustworthy, and if her daughter is done with her that's nothing less than what she deserves. She has no paths forward from here except to fully surrender and beg forgiveness, or fuck off from her daughter's life forever like countless bigot parents before her.

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This series is definitely an all time great for me. :)

I'm kinda hoping Tongtong goes the fuck off on her. Not her mom, her mom's fine but the emotionally satisfying thing would be Tongtong loudly asserting "Lun Luxi is MINE, and if you actually cared about her even a fraction as much as I do you'd accept this most important aspect of her life!"

I haven't seen them for a while, not since the gyaru ghost showed up I think.

Maybe the jacket was stinky in some way. There's reasons to sniff something besides arousal lol. It genuinely seems more likely to me to be a "what's that smell??" kind of sniff since she did it out in the open.

Kako's come pretty far in accepting Nozomi as her child, actually, she just hasn't said it out loud. She's fully taken responsibility and bonded with her as a parent, she knows all the future stuff is true, and Nozomi has such a strong resemblance to her. I doubt she doubts her heritage at this point.

Interesting that the one servant claimed "Her Majesty hasn't sent anyone to check on you all day," and yet Yu Dingdang was in fact fully aware of Qi Nian's condition. Sus!

This is the kind of manga that I probably won't bother reading unless I find out exactly how it ends before hand.

I don't know how it ends but I feel pretty confident predicting this isn't the story of "how the girl I liked became my new mom" or anything like that, since it's completely published and Sappho Scans picked it up after presumably reading the full series.

This is really interesting so far.

Yeah, I think, the dreams aren't so much Karin with Hiro's dad, they're Karin with Hiro's dad superimposed over Hiro.

These are things Hiro wants to do with Karin, and that she is due to Karin's crush (whether real or imagined) is subconsciously superimposing her dad over.

So yeah, I don't think they're prophetic or that Karin is a reincarnation of Hiro's mom. I think they're meant to be read for what they are dreams, so just a little nonsensical in the exact ways that tell you a lot about the person dreaming.

I agree with this analysis. It's notable that her dreams are not pairing Karen with her dad as he is, but rather a teenager version of him, and from the perspective shots, Hiro seems to be dreaming from the perspective of that teenage boy. We could read into that all sorts of ways, of course, and I'm interested to see how it goes. :)

I had this feeling, too. She understood that Aya was important to her, but it never felt romantic to me. Maybe Mitsuki didn't really understand her feelings until Aya kissed her (though I'm not sure why she'd say "I knew it" if that were the case).

So how exactly are we reading that, “I knew it! It was just as I thought!”? I would have expected Mitsuki to be, at best, a bit shy and abashed post-kiss/mini-makeout session rather than quite so . . . what? Triumphant? Is it, “I knew her lips would be soft”? Or, “I knew she was romantically attracted to me”? Or . . .?

Obviously, it’s a positive reaction, but a little enigmatic, at least to me.

Mitsuki had bad self esteem for a long time, remember the series started with her assuming Aya would hate her and make her life hell if she learned Mitsuki was "oniisan". Aya's been pretty obvious for a while now trying to indicate to Mitsuki this is not the case, but never stated her romantic interests explicitly because thanks to Mitsuki friend zoning her, she thought Mitsuki didn't want a romantic relationship. So Mitsuki had very good reason to believe her feelings tonight would be reciprocated by Aya, but was still anxious about it, enough to be super relieved that her anxieties were wrong and all the rest of her was right.

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Lol sorry but all the sex is Plot Relevant.

Lmao now that is a character introduction.

There's been quite a few fantastic moments happening in short order across yuri manga recently. And I certainly do not mind it lmao

Wrt "did she win," Maria basically said "make me endgame and go have fun with the rest of the girls first"

It occurred to me today that this manga is very similar to the Korean GL comic "Love Thy Neighbor" by Willow, except that's a longer, much more fucked up and pornographic story lmao. You know a story is juicy when the main characters have multiple nightmares about each other. I'd honestly be shocked if the author wasn't a Kodama Naoko fan, although in Love Thy Neighbor the characters actually do talk things out, mostly resulting in them realizing they're dealing with an even more broken person than they thought before.

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This is why I advocate being a nosy bitch who gets in everyone's business. Imagine waiting to get the chisme until it's too late, couldn't be me.

(also lmao at the Dorian Gray excerpt someone posted above. Wilde was a pederast struggling with his self narrative imo)

That seems like a wildly uncharitable and probably homophobic read of Dorian Gray.

You just know with how Hiro does thing that their kiss is gonna be in full color and the lighting will be fucking immaculate

I’m expecting something like this: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/akebi_chans_sailor_uniform_ch43#32

This was the moment that got me 100% confident in my prediction that this series is yuri. And look who wins yet again! All of us, because goddamn that shit is so adorable.

Actually, for this series, they redrew a lot of SFX. Not always, but often.

Official don't redraw SFX at all. They just add a small side text.

Scanlators go beyond what official cares to do.

You make it a simpler matter than it actually is. I, as I'm sure many other people too, don't want to see SFX redrawn. They're part of the original art, not just something superimposed. It's over-localization and usually it also results in more of the page being covered up by necessity. Side text is the way to go.

I'm a fan of the Yen Press house style, where the sound effect is labeled with a transliteration of the sound in Japanese, with English in parenthesis describing what the sound is. Ex "doki doki (heartbeat)". It's educational! :)

Gotta love it when the slow burn finally pays off. Thank you to Kirin-kun for getting the chapters translated into English so quickly for us. Seriously, weekly uploads for 3 years while translating other series too is no joke, even if its just 4 pages.

from their MD page:

I mostly suck at redrawing complex SFX so I often leave them as is. Doing SFX is a fool's errand, I tell you.

I do enjoy reading scanlation and the official translation side by side.

(i also always wonder if the official team gets the files with layers, or if they work off the same material)

Probably depends, with the layers being much more likely now than in the past. I've even seen one author (tmfly, the author of How Do We Relationship) talk about adjusting how she draws word bubbles because of localization feedback, making them less thin and vertical to make it easier to put horizontal text in them, which indicates probably a fairly close and technically involved localization relationship. In contrast, the original Dark Horse releases of Berserk didn't redraw the sound effects or even label them.

Edit: just remembered that the Dark Horse versions of Kurosawa Corpse Delivery Service labeled it's sound effects in a glossery at the back of each book, which is insane. Even worse, they let the editor put political screeds back there, frequently contradicting the author's own politics, like how there's an arc about Japanese war crimes during ww2 that's very critical of Japan and the American editor inserted a rant about how China is bad so the Rape of Nanking was fine actually.

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Fuuuuck yeah that’s the stuff. I’m so glad they didn’t have the empress take it in stride like she knows she’s in a yuri, and I really hope they don’t resolve this too quickly, this shot of pain and complication is exactly what this story needs. I wanna see them work through things and fall back in love despite it all.

I love that the empress is like “i will fulfill my responsibilities but no longer will i let you in my personal life.” I love when that sort of devotion remains even when the feelings are shattered and the relationship is gone.

I love that the emperor still loves her so much that she respects her feelings and will bear the pain of losing her but still wants what’s best for her and wants to take care of her, even as she respects her wishes and allows distance between them.

God i love romantic betrayal like this so muchhhhh.

Agree with this, and I particularly appreciate how clear the problem was stated. Yu Dingdang isn't upset her husband is a woman, but she's sure as shit upset her wife kept that secret from her this whole time, even going as far as having sex while still hiding herself. And then on top of that we have the reasonable misunderstanding that the Empress opposed Yu Dingdang to keep the secret and the Emperor tolerated that behavior because she also wanted the results of keeping the secret. I'm sure that half won't be too hard to deal with, after all, if her suspicions were true Qi Nian never would have married her in the first place, she would have gone straight to her obedient cousin. But the first half is a very real betrayal that's going to take a lot of time and work for them to overcome. Qi Nian should have come out to her wife long before this moment. It should not have been a secret only revealed by accident months into their marriage.

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i see a lot of people hating on knock off slender men, and to be honest he is not great villain, and view is wrong.
but i'm not being objective, this manga was made for me specifficlly so i'm gonna defend him. the reason he hates the normal person so much is cause they don't do shit, theyed rather a namless number in the crowd then be the leader, ands thats why he used the comment section annology, people who follow the band wagon of hate or for stuff they get for free instead of contributing to soceity, obviously this made from a more collectvist point, but i do feel like this can be applied to indvisulist society, where ussally louder and more willing to make a rukuss of things, but the left and the right are just following the crowd and not saying or doing anything unique even the good people, i'm not saying he's right (no where close, complaining about free stuff can be valuable), just saying i know where he's coming from

i hop this came out as readable, i'm having a hard time putting my thoughts into word, and i feel like i wrote a complete mess (i have this hole other thing about him being a individualist being put in a collectivst soceity i don't even know how to write)

this is completely unrelated but there's something about a character complaining about comment sections of free, then see the comment section hate on him. i can't explain it, it just puts a smile on my face

There's nuance here very much intended by the arc, I think. "Normalcy" includes some very bad things, like "be cis," "be straight," "be neurotypical," etc. But it also includes "Don't force people to do things against their consent". One of the biggest threats of normalcy, even, is some of the most "normalized" people deciding that they're SO normal, that they follow all the rules SO well, that they can afford to break one or two intentionally and it'll still be fine. As long as they're a cishet white man with a fairly high income and a house in the suburbs and a Ford truck, they can go out and murder a homeless person once a year and still think of themselves as "normal".
The Chameleon's problem is kind of the inverse of that: that these norms are bad and stifling and harmful, therefore all norms are. That guy in that example isn't bad for murdering a homeless person, just bad for being a cishet suburbanite, because the best is to not follow any rules no matter the consequences. I'm sure they'd be hypocritical about being eaten alive, though. After all, throwing tea in someone's face also violates norms and yet they attempted to assault Itou as "punishment" rather than applauding her brave iconoclasm lol. Itou even points this out, saying "sorry I splashed you with tea, but you'll accept anything I do, right?" The Chameleon responds "You must pay a price for your incivility towards us". And what is civility, but just one more set of norms?

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I think @Meena is referring to this one: https://dynasty-scans.com/series/addicted_to_her, a manhua on Dynasty. :)

nope, am not.
I meant this https://www.comico.jp/comic/7318
僕らは彼女に依存症 / Bokura wa Kanojo ni Isonshou / We are addicted to her.

(the one with the problematic bisexual)
(wait, has there ever been another portrayal of bisexual women?)

Read Ohana Holoholo! It's here on Dynasty!
https://dynasty-scans.com/series/ohana_holoholo