Actually pretty cute for the het that it is. Never would've thought of this pairing but it makes an odd bit of sense (relatively). Way prefer it to RinnoMarisa, which comes off a bit pervy old man-ish. (The only acceptable age gaps go the other way, like here! lmfao) IDK though maybe Rinn/Mari hits better if you've actually read the COLAs, still need to get to them.

I'd loooooooooove it if this is going in the direction that Momiji IS Kouyou's "true" self and Ao's increasing fondness for "Kouyou" is merely her finding ways to see Girlhood through the sheer eggstrocity of it all. (And thus that she's still totally gay.) Still not sure that, or even a more gender-fluid approach, (hell even a "cishet but continuing to be gender nonconforming" approach) is where things are headed though. But each chapter does seem to make Actual Trans Girl Momiji more probable, so at this rate....????

Really love this take on Reimu's characterization. Also, kinda funny how they just sorta grow boobs, but I think I prefer that to it being more straightforwardly lolicon-y.
Edit arguing with myself: Reimu IS depicted with a bosom in other panels, it's just more noticeable when they're being fully defined like that. Meanwhile Marisa really didn't change much. XP

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they've invented the trans girl version of yuri bait and i'm. unironically excited to gamble with a different aspect of identity for once! (though in the case this is bait in that way it would also count as yuri bait for the same reason lmfao)

somewhat heartening is "his" seeming enjoyment of being cute? this continues to do a marvelous job threading the needle where theres just enough indicating maybe the good faith interpretation holds true while not really disproving any bad faith either. deserves a "psychological thriller" tag haha

ahhh, a conundrum that can only be solved through COMBAT!

This second chapter really cements to dynamic of "flirting with going somewhere really confrontational and gross, but not" and "flirting with something that actually is saying something Profound about constructed gender or something, but not" at the same time. I'm cool with it being here at this point, it seems averse to going SO far as to cross a clear line for this site, but i am also not optimistic for where its headed. I joked before about them both turning out trans but another 'fun option' would be if Ao realizes she definitely likes girls and definitely doesn't like boys alongside Momiji deciding she "can't" be a girl (ideally for reasons of genuine identity rather than biology) and they don't stay together at the end of the series. I'm rooting for the author to pull a 180 and make this genuine trans lesbian rep but considering the alternatives to that or "making it just regular straight" is somewhat reassuring.

(I do find it funny how we now have panels contrasting Ao's perception of boymode!momiji with momiji standard that could be construed as setup for Ao realizing shes a lesbian or bisexual. It is doing something interesting there maybe -and neither outcome is necessarily negative out of context.)

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I think the people in this thread forgot nonbinary people exist. Like, one of my main reasons for transitioning was distancing myself as far from masculinity as possible on moral grounds. I will fight anyone who tries to tell me I'm not a woman, but in a hypothetical world where gender norms are reversed, I'd be just as fervently a man instead. Momiji seems to have a similarly utilitarian relationship with gender. She's still trans, but she arrived there as a function of her circumstances, not due to any inherent self-identity. She's not going to represent the average trans woman's experience, nor should she.

Dear God i hope the manga turns out to be as benign as your good faith wills it, but i fear you might be projecting a bit too much understanding of feminism & gender roles onto this. Though (echoing what others have said) I am myself unsure of how deeply the author understands anything, the whole manga seems to hop onto an actually topical point and back off again at random measures.

In that sense, while I'm deeply cynical, I am looking forward to see more of this?!?

It's funny how the discussion always splits into this is trash vs. no, you don't get it, this is going to explore queerness, etc. When it's obviously just a het story that adds a few twists to make it more fun, like Ranma. Queer reads are fine, but ultimately these stories don't get past that surface so shit talking the story is also ok. Both sides are pretty annoying tbh but I think these type of stories are very honest from the beggining so the complains feel kind of forced

i mean, a queer reading IS directly invoked by the text (the girl all but calls herself gay), so thats a bit. not-actually-mutually-exclusive to it being largely irreverent towards actual sensibilities in that area. its both, for better or worse. (probably worse.) (holding out hope though...?)

Best case scenario for all this argumentation is that she ends up transitioning and its het the other way. XP

need some Plussy now

was Letty being a fairy A Thing that was believed back in the day? this is like the third doujin so far to say that...

Edit: ok not sure if any other doujins say that, I definitely read this one already and forgot. Still though lmao

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People treating fatness with the same level of concern as like, recreational drug use, when “fat” is something you can literally just BE, is always kinda sad. Like i should just be shouting “AWOOOGA” here and instead I gotta be woke or whatever. (Also re:lore- adventurers canonically fluctuate body weight quite a bit due to how resurrection works in-universe, which I suspect has led to some of the fanart interpretations? Also theres portions of the manga where Falin is drawn a bit more heavier-set, though by no means “fat” necessarily.)

Oh and for the record, AWOOOOGA eyes pop out of my skull wolf whistles

oh my god look at the size of those EARS!!!

ohhh shoot this is Mizutataki? I knew it felt like a precursor to the “official” slice-of-life-y manga style but it actually being by the Lotus Eater’s author was more than I reckon’d. (Trying to read all the TH doujins in chrono order lol.)

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Not sure why people were confused regarding the timescale on the “man she loved” thing, story makes a point that there was a while between her finding the witch and waking her up. Theres enough room in there for an ill-fated romance with some generic audience-displeasant townsguy without it being cheating of w/e. Bi rights i guess?
This does read as allegory for questioning/denial/closeting & the coming out process. Pretty good! :3

DDC was my first touhou game (first one contemporaneous to when i got into the series, that is!), so this whole chapter was a scrumptious nostalgia cake to me :3. God i hope the explanation for the copycat possessions isn’t stupid.

I really love stories giving girls the opportunity to be criminally perverse in more subdued, realistic ways. It feels like fictionland tends to play more towards the extremes when it tries for that whole behavior zone.

Theres…. Something to Touhou that makes people wanna give neurological conditions (or fantastical analogues thereto) to even the characters that DON’T already canonically have them. This one’s a pretty well done look into characters loosing their humanoid characterization, but the vagueness-of-cause leaves the ending a weird midpoint of horror and tragedy. Not sure how worried I should be for Reisen here.
Edit: Bit of a Flowers for Algernon scenario?

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Absolutely delicious. I like the detail of more famous historical figures having their books significantly annotated and rewritten, good metaphor there. I think the books are less "memories" than actual "history" as a whole, memories and the past itself interlinked rather than one or the other.

i could see this going for another zillion years if this date goes inconclusively/mediocre (i say in a desperate attempt to have that not happen). …. I did feel a wave of relief this chapter. Heres to character development progressing the story~!

Addendum: also jumping on the aliens plot bandwagon. Its gonna happen i swear

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scott pilgrim reference!!!1! (this is a moment where fictional characters thought processes seem… Alien. how old did you think she WAS when you started- ack ech grumbl etc. this does present an even weirder middleground for the series in general- looks and acts like a kid is not a kid but is not an adult and strictly speaking is not NOT a kid either? lmao. i’d’ve preferred it if she was like 23 or something for simplicity-of-gimmick’s sake, morality issues aside xp, but hey)

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It could’ve ended worse, but I do feel like this is missing something by not being a 20 volume behemoth entitled something to the effect of “Paraphilias Amongst The Lesbian Community - Trauma And Forgiveness” that steadily transitions from fictional narrative to longform essay by about the 2/3rds point. (I do think the ending was too abrupt, but the actual components OF it seem like what would be included in a better-paced ending, and if it had to end this soon I’m glad it ended this way??? In retrospect I’m mostly surprised Meguru never had a Big Plushophile Moment, it felt like that was the direction her brand of repression was going in lmao.)

they had popular youtube songs at around similar times in a similar niche (including some by the same artist?) so IMO it does make sense ppl are putting them together.
(Now to wonder how literally one should take the implications of beheading in this XP. i’m sure Teto’ll be fine either way its all in good fun. Good safe fun.)

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I’d begrudgingly call this “interesting” but I come away with the impression that the convolutions of the narration are all dressing up a whole lot of nothing actually in particular being said.
Maybe there IS a solution in there? It feels easy to try and exonerate Seki as unreliable and guilt-ridden distorting her own narrative (especially considering the authors art of the ship that Doesn’t seem like an abusive mess? not that they necessarily share continuity, merely an artist making that sorta tonal 180 is inconvenient to my personal sense of taste lol) but on the other side of things that feels TOO clean and also still leaves out a bunch of loose ends (Kag’s role in this, whatever Eirin herself is doing, where the hell the idea of ‘selling’ her came from, etc) that while perhaps easy it seems insufficient as a catch-all Vortex Ending Explained theory. And then if we accept shes somewhat at fault for parts of it but other parts are fabricated or taking unjust responsibility, Which, etc. This feels like a thematic hole where interesting interpretations can be put in but not really taken out again. Best case scenario (compassionately not writerly) is Waka had an accident and the only cure is for Seki to take Pill Which Induce Vivid Hallucinations Of Living In The Worst Possible Whump Timeline You Can.
Also something something angst/violence/abuse of my comfort ot3 how scandalous le gasp they’d NEVER do that etc etc <- that IS my actual initial reaction which I’m looking past for the sake of not being a complete rube. But to be frank it probably is coloring my more intellectualized takeaways from this XP.

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Boob verification in progress

A really sweet Yuiman oneshot? AND its by Aya Azuma? Praise this development!