hey, small note for the scanlator: "while there's no one i'm bad with" should actually contextually be "i don't think there's anyone who'd be against that anyway (= extra time with the gf)". panel transitions are a little awkward so it's an understandable mistake tbh. very cute and promising though

^ is it ever really "dry" humping when it's yuri?

I really dont think thats how it was meant to come across, but the line about souls being born and returning to a dark place like the ocean floor lowkey sounds like Ai is telling Kaede to drown herself lol

i think it's a call back to ai's conversation with kon early on where kon says that when she's overwhelmed, she imagines herself as a deep sea fish. kind of showing indirectly what a huge impact on ai she's had

"Even now, there are times I can't help but see as salvation the fact that all life eventually ends up as nothing but skin and bones."

I feel that, man.

I interpret this manga thusly: a neurodivergent, let's just say autistic, individual finds her special interest, and commits to it to the point of being willing to die. I view this as the literal reading. More esoterically, let's proceed from the fact that Itou wants to become part of Takahashi. She wants to be enveloped by Takahashi, she wants (her skin) to be full of Takahashi, and she wants Takahashi to eventually present as her. Take the special interest reading, and we can interpret this as Itou wanting to integrate her special interest into her identity. She wants to be enveloped by her special interest, she wants to be full of her special interest, and she wants her special interest to be what people see when they interact with her.

I'm not sure everyone can relate to this feeling of a not-completely-obsessive interest in a less-than-proper topic, but to me this really resonated.

Fantastic manga. Thank you for scanlating.

love this interpretation. i read it all in one go now that it's finished and, yeah, as an autistic person with my own extremely fixed obsessive (and isolating!) interests, it hit home. even the ending is like... it's years after. itou is no longer in the middle of it. but even with distance and time and growth, it's still who she is on a fundamental level. i have a Thing like that myself where i was so deep in it at one point in my life, it was self-destructive, but years after the fact i love it, and i will continue to love it and define myself by that love for the rest of my life.

if there's one thing that stuck out to me about the last chapter, it's when they talk about white lies. i guess it's connecting to the human vs monster thing previously, and therefore bringing itou closer to the "human" side where takahashi is. but... i guess it just feels weird to me. i'm not sure i agree with that being kindness, and not just cowardice? and if anything, rather than growth for itou, it feels like crushing her into this box and calling that growth. i know she spent the whole manga saying she wanted, desperately, to be normal. but i think there's a sweet spot somewhere, where you can keep your principles and be truly honest, while also showing consideration for other people. just because you read the room doesn't mean you need to agree with the room, you know? so i have mixed feelings, i guess.

^ not incest. they're only treated as blood-related if they share the same mother

i read through 14sai not that long ago, and i should probably double check, but... this feels like a massive tone shift. like these are basically just different characters? or some kind of weird AU. reliance made more sense to me before i checked out the source work. it's honestly baffling.

yuni's type is hot, i agree. and once again she never misses

this is like if far side strips were yuri, which is a concept i'm kind of in love with

that is an extremely well drawn boob

i totally misread the author name and was like, wow morinaga milk really changed her style huh? i liked it but i feel like the end was a little too abrupt. could've paced it better

isn't this a foursome?? do we not have a foursome tag

i've asked this before, but can we please have separate tags for the different imas branches? like i'd be more than happy to submit tag corrections on all of it so it'd be properly sorted, however many hours/days that'd take me. as someone who only likes 765AS and is whatever on every other branch, it's really annoying.

^ it's come full circle because the current generation of teens and younger is like this. they only know mobile and touchscreens, so you give them a mouse and they're 100% lost

this was awesome. huge props to the translators too, anything in novel format is a lot of work

I mean, people from Japan love their puns as much as most people do, so there's a non-insignificant chance that "Neko" as slang for bottom also gets associated with cat imagery.

oh it absolutely does, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all here which is why i mentioned it.

happy birthday, your present is a threesome and a new polycule

so, neko as in bottom isn't actually from cat. it's from nekorobu, to lie down. translating it as kitten is kind of weird and off with that in mind

spe talks about her two moms and people will act like it's a crackship smh

^^ those aren't tongues, they're headset microphones

now that's a crackship (admiring)

the commenter up above, as far as i can tell, was talking in terms of character design accuracy. and on that level i tend to agree: if it's too far from the source, i dislike and ignore. so, paging back and moving on with your day is free and easy! if you like this interpretation, enjoy. and if you don't, there's a ton of other art to look at. and neither side needs to belittle or antagonize the other.

absolutely incredible chapter, just on an art and storytelling level. the kind of thing that sinks into you and lingers. i'm someone who actually really loves agegap yuri, but including the "ugly" parts and not just the idealistic ones. i wish we had more GL manga with truly awful and selfish women like yurika here.

and... as someone who went through something kind of similar in my early teens, i empathize with aoyama a little too much. sometimes you really do need to face your past and set the whole damn thing on fire, just let it burn away so your present self can be free of it. sometimes that's the form closure takes. and i'm really glad she could get there in the end.

MIKIRITSU???? my otp of otps?? i actually recognize the cover art too. it's really hard to tell which imas books are yuri and which are Pdol and happen to have two girls on the cover. it's always a gamble (and usually i lose). this was such a huge treat though with ridiculously adorable art. thank you so much. i'm fed at last.

One of my first ever yuri doujins i ever read was Lascivious dreams , i Hold that dear

inu's work can be pretty great! the sex in that one fell a little flat for me personally (squicks) but i loved the story and ricchan panicking lol. good book.

Qchan gets infinite wife snuggles!!!!!

^ AS P here, she totally looks like iori

love the way the boobs were drawn here, yum