It's that a lot of them want to leave but only a handful are actually allowed to, and the Circs have no idea what the criteria for emigration are. There is some sort of screening process they have to go for, and to make a guess from this chapter, the GI might be basing it on their standardized decomping test scores. If FBB is the GI's internment camp for decompers, then someone who can't decomp doesn't need to be there. There's a good chance Diode could've simply walked away from FBB if she'd managed to get to the emigration boat during the Bow Awow.

The jumpcut from Meguru saying "I'm the most disgusting one of all" to Niji blissfully writing RPF about her and the girl she's blackmailing into dating her was low-key hilarious.

I feel like the difference between Niji and the rest of the cast is that on some level, they're aware of how everyone else thinks about them. Even though they feel compelled towards certain expressions of sexuality, that awareness at least makes them pause and reflect on what they're doing. Meguru got a really big dose of that in this chapter. While this is probably only going to make her turn her hatred of sexual expression inwards (at least for now), she's at least aware of how she's hurting other people. Niji, on the other hand, is blissfullly detached from everything. Any time she has reality pointed out to her, she rejects it and substitutes her own. Heck, she's even disregarded the one thing Remu asked her not to do, just for the sake of shipping two people she barely knows. It's kind of hard to see how she grows from here—she's already had her foundations shaken to the core and managed to rationalize them away. It really fits the abusive parent analogy brought up earlier, and if that's any guide, maybe she won't change at all.

Terra and Diode found a pretty big landmine in this chapter. It's starting to make sense why the Circs have rewritten and obscured so much of their early history now. The reason they're at FBB now is a pretty bitter pill to swallow. Adds another sense to their attempt to escape the Circs, which doesn't bode well for life in the Galactive Interactive...

So if I dress up in an outlandish costume and start acting like a cringey edgelord, I get canceled in person, and banned or blocked on social media. But if I write a web novel that persuades other people to do the same thing, I get a publishing contract and throngs of fans mobbing me? Gosh, capitalism is weird.

Well, they do say in a gold rush, the one who comes out ahead is the one who sells the shovels. Same thing for chuunis digging the hole they'll eventually wanna bury themselves in.

I think it's interesting how this chapter really drives in how one-sided Io and Misa's relationship is. Misa is constantly trying to do things to make Io feel better and it was nice to see Misa openly vulnerable about her inability to meet Io's expectations at the end. It's adding a lot more depth to their relationship and I'm really excited to see how it'll continue to develop. Hopefully we can see Io taking care of Misa's emotional needs too.

Yeah, this chapter was really nice at peeling back a layer of their relationship dynamic. Really get the sense that Misa's such an aggressive womanizer / top to keep herself at an emotional distance, and it seems like the slow march of the story has been Io progressively getting underneath all of her defense mechanisms to the point that Misa is starting to think of them as being in a serious relationship. As emotionally needy as Io has been through this story, it's nice to see her acknowledge Misa's emotional needs at the end and give her at least some support.

Can't wait to see how they handle the press release Hase's about to send out. I can imagine they might both appreciate a return to normalcy, but it's probably end up dumping fuel on the fire given the direction their relationship is headed.

actually, you can tell it's the divorce arc by the fact that they're listening to oasis

I think this is the direction Igarashi always intended to take it. While this scene was definitely a dramatic escalation, it's not entirely out of nowhere. The art's always had this slightly unsettling atmosphere to it, and looking back this chapter is making a lot of callbacks Kasumi and Haruyo interactions. Kasumi exploding with rage when Haruyo ghosts her parallels Mizuki's reaction to Sayori telling her she's not moving in; and Kasumi telling Haruyo she wanted to punch her afterwards and says that she wanted her verbal abuse to hurt is sort of analogous to the cutting; the panel where Mizuki says she'll call the police and won't see Sayori anymore is 1:1 with the panel of Haruyo saying she won't touch Kasumi anymore; Sayori and Mizuki's expressions when Sayori says "then I can forgive you" is the exact same pair of expressions Haruyo and Kasumi have when Haruyo touches Kasumi's lips.

Not to mention there seems to be a recurring motif with Kasumi and hanging. (Bottom panel of ch3p21 where the window framing evokes Kasumi hanging; the light fixture shape and placement at top center panel of ch7p13, which are absent in the reverse shot; bottom panel of ch8p22 where she looks like she's hanging from the light fixture).

There's been some pretty ample foreshadowing that this story was going to go some pretty dark places from the start. This chapter doesn't feel so much like a tonal change as much as it does shifting gears.

So I know noighd had a note at the end of the last chapter about the flower on the title page being a chrysanthemum, but we have more of the plant from the flowers spilling out of the cut on Sayori's back on page 11. That's definitely clover. Some of the hanakotoba meanings are "Think of me", "good fortune", "promises", and "revenge"

Hey all, sorry this took forever, the redraws were a tall mountain to climb with not as much free time to climb them... Chapter 17 released on Thursday and it looks comparatively benign, so hopefully we'll have that up soon.

Just for the record, the narration on page 10/11 appears to be from Io's POV, so I'm pretty sure the choking is just another one of those "no contextually means yes" scenes. Do be dearies and actually have boundaries, safewords, and the like negotiated and understood before trying out CNCplay like this IRL tho!

Well, that marks the end of Koi Fishing! I thought we were making pretty good progress, but girlswhokiss has informed me that we're only about halfway through the novel.

The good news is that Terra and Diode's long separation is over, and there's lots to look forward to as they discover the joys of American beer on the flight over to Table of Johor.

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Hats off to girlswhokiss for translating intro to planetary plasma physics 101. Not often you get a lesbian story that has that and traditional work chanting in the span of a chapter...

Why? Meika is a fun villain.

I really can't wait to learn what angle Pri is working in all this. She's out there doing masterful work in collecting info while giving away nothing about herself.

Looks like Kaori's parents are yuri shippers...

I'm so glad Sappho picked this up! I've been looking forward to reading it since I saw a JP bsky yuri account mention it when the first volume dropped. It looks super cozy, can't wait to see where it goes!

I'm here because of an english bsky yuri account. Its good there's people out there spreading the good word!

I'm curious what accounts these are, for both EN and JP

I learned about this manga through this account, which I found back before the yuri feed got overrun with tagspam.
https://bsky.app/profile/oyunomi-hom-mad.bsky.social

Yuri Bungeibu also does a lot of reviews of new JP releases, I occasionally spot something interesting through them.
https://bsky.app/profile/yuri-bungeibu.bsky.social

even the introverted gals wanna get out of there!

From an art/horror perspective this was great, though the bantering fell a little flat this time around. Fun chapter overall!

I'm so glad Sappho picked this up! I've been looking forward to reading it since I saw a JP bsky yuri account mention it when the first volume dropped. It looks super cozy, can't wait to see where it goes!

The story is sort of exploring the theme of how hierarchies reproduce themselves through abuse, coercion, and violence. Tsukasa isn't out killing monsters as part of some master plan—he's doing it in spite of one, because his grandfather threatened to kill Aju if he didn't. She's likely aware of that, and I don't think she's so altruistic as to submit to a death that is almost certainly guaranteed to traumatize Tsukasa into compliance. They accept this is how things just are, and hope to change it in the future.

However, Tsukasa being the designated monster slayer is essentially a hazing ritual to make him complicit in upholding the existing power structure. A person who commits atrocities will almost certainly never be able to regain the trust needed to negotiate a lasting peace, and so the family's position at the top of the hierarchy, not to mention their extremist position towards monsters, will be maintained for another generation.

You also catch bits and pieces of how those dynamics perpetuate the power structure, whether it's Urabe losing a loved one to violence (presumably by an ogre's hands) and the Watanabe group playing on her insecurities as a woman in a leadership position, to Hinata being coerced into her role as the next Shuten-doji despite her desire to escape that role.

That's what Naori and Hinata have to wrestle with if they want to be together. They are a same-sex, interracial couple in a violently conservative society, and their relationship carries a freightload of historical baggage that they have to deal with in some way or another. They can either confront the system or run away from it, but either choice carries its own set of problems.

Isanuma and Mine seem to be the real toxic yuri here. I'm sure Kudou banking on them as part of her plan to isolate Naoi will go exactly as planned :)

Ironic that despite the fact Sakurako is not the one wearing the collar, she's the one most acting like the dog that caught the car

It's the kind of story where the spooks are more often than not a load-bearing structure for the yuri. The hot springs scene with Kozakura is even a note to the reader that the Otherside entities are hinting at something Sorawo's unconsciously looking away from. More often than not it's family trauma that scares her away from a conventional relationship with Toriko or some aspect of her relationship with Toriko that she's stressing over.

I think Misa might have accidentally unlocked something for Io with the humiliation/imagined exhibitionist play here. Io's thinking about all the disappointment in those online comments when she cums. I'd guess there's some connection between that and her fear of losing herself from the day-to-day of being a starlet, and well, it's a way out. No more expectations if she does exhibitionism For Real, and with her lack of boundaries I wouldn't be surprised if she starts taking risks like going commando in a skirt.

Okay, we're caught up again until the next issue of Yuri Hime!

I can't wait to see how Io's mom handles all of this...

To put it bluntly, that's a political cartoons peddling soft genocide denial and slavery apologia dressed up as cutesy yuri. There is an extensive and ongoing history of Indigenous women being forced into slavery, raped, and/or murdered by colonizers and their descendents while their cultures were/are actively suppressed. It's not any different from drawing comfort women fawning over a woman in IAJF uniform or Jewish women fawning over a woman in a Nazi uniform and calling it a "joke". Centurii can draw whatever, but the only reason to advocate sharing it here is to see if hate speech can be smuggled in if it's cutesy/jokey/yuri enough.

Sorawo hitting them with that "come with me if you want to live" rizz

I'm a little curious about Eda, she seems skeptical of Diode, to say the least. She kinda second-guesses Diode when they're inside of FBB ("is this girl giving you trouble?"), and hints that she's only doing this wife heist with Terra because Terra will blow up the warp drive ship on her if she doesn't. Pointing out the age gap and the fact that Terra's facing down 20,000 people to get Diode back almost seems like her impish way of asking "you sure you wanna do this?"

Also I love how oblivious but earnest Terra is when describing Diode's piloting style. Somehow even made her experienced lesbian copilot blush.

Io has a fever and the only cure is more milkies...

I was so excited to be able to use the "nipples on page 16" tag for this chapter and it turns out that's the one page in the boob sucking scene that doesn't actually show them. The rare tags remain ever elusive.