Summer break chapters are gonna go so hard. I regret ever saying I thought the art style didn't suit this.

Dunno if I can handle 5 more chapters of Nina being this desperate and awkward. It's a little too real.

I wonder if she'll be desperate enough to encourage Sui to keep using her. Or maybe she'll seek out piercing girl so she can do the same thing Sui just did to her. Hope she gets an actual name soon but it would also be kind of funny if we got to chapter 10 or something and Ren still hadn't bothered to remember it.

Well, at least that made more sense than the webnovel ending. I think I would've been sold on this story better if Wakaba had an iota of self-awareness instead of just having an epiphany right at the end so everything could be neatly wrapped up. Or maybe if they were both meaner to each other.

Man I knew Ema wasn't going to going to leave Hario the second she knew it was mutual but I didn't expect her to try and warm Takara up to the idea of being the Other Woman before anything else. It's like she's so resigned to the bed she's made it hasn't even occurred to her how selfish and craven it is to do this to Takara.

Tristan and Isolde parallel? The ring?? The phone??? Diabolical. You couldn't get this kind of emotional devastation out of a normal cheating setup.

Glad being infested with flesh-eating parasites hasn't dissuaded her from being a cheeky flirt, I guess. I'd be a bit more unnerved personally.

So they did exchange names at some point, Ren just couldn't even be bothered to remember hers...ouch. I still really like tongue piercing though, hope she gets another chance soon.

Sui changing her mind about the date does line up really neatly with Ren telling her colleague to just "roll with it" so I'd be willing to believe she's the 4th woman. She doesn't have wavy hair but Touma gives a lot of care and attention to her characters' appearance so it's more likely to me that she just styles it differently outside of the office or something like that.

Hesha is such a funny character to me. She's so unwaveringly sincere in everything she does that it seems to cancel out how hopelessly socially unaware she is. Loudly declaring to a room of people that someone belongs to you and telling them who they should and shouldn't sit next to is such grade school behavior lol. Although a lot of the social fighting in the school so far has operated on grade-school logic so maybe it's not supposed to come off as awkward and it's just a symptom of clumsy writing.

i'm guessing it's not gonna end up being mao but ruirui instead

I'm thinking it might be Futami-san herself, manipulating her authors to keep them isolated and at constant odds with each other, thus making them vulnerable and leaving her the only person they can latch onto for support.

This was also my first thought. Her whole game is giving them just enough attention to make them feel special and loved and then using that to turn them against each other and make them feel like they have to outperform everyone else to prove they're the most worthy. What Futami said doesn't necessarily exclude herself.

However, the username does kind of point to ruirui and that "working group" was 100% about distracting and scoping out Nanakusa, so it could also very much be one or both of them.

I'm kind of glad Sendai's motives/feelings got spelled out like that. I still occasionally see WN readers struggle to understand why she keeps going back to Miyagi's room early on because everything's filtered through so much denial and repression in the text.

This is a little too hokey for me but it's still a better payoff than what the WN went with.

Read a little bit ahead of what's been posted here and to me Jolene feels more like a sociopath who realized early on that antisocial behavior had steep, long-lasting social ramifications, and that she needed to squash her violent impulses and play by the rules of others if she wanted to get by in life. She's definitely got some of the traits associated with yanderes, but doesn't really have much of the single-minded limerent obsession that defines the archetype.

This chapter is interesting because if it weren't for the cover art you'd assume for all the world Sui likes Ren. But there is the cover art, so we know she's actually in love with someone else and is using Ren as a replacement, and when Ren inevitably finds out she's going to have a mega crashout. Textbook dramatic irony. I'm scared but also excited.

Yeah I have a feeling this might develop into a rebound daisy-chain where Ren will just keep hooking up with the chick from the bar whenever Sui goes back to her situationship/crush until it stops being casual.

Rare show of vulnerability from Yuni. They might've had something nice in different circumstances, I think.

I always assumed no one had ever asked about her family since she doesn't seem to have any close friends, but it makes more sense that she felt the need to hide it since most of her school peers seem to come from much higher class backgrounds.

This manga edging dangerously close to "How do I Get Together With My Childhood Friend?" levels of confession sabotage.

Hario does need a bit more screentime tbh, he's been conveniently absent for a while. Would be weird if he wasn't jealous of Takara considering it's kind of obvious by now Ema likes her more than him and he's been waiting literal years for Ema to come around to him.

This is probably the fastest I've ever seen someone go from googling "what are lesbians" to having gay sex. Didn't even take 24 hours. Gay awakening Any% WR.

Well at least the crazy is mutual. Still has worrying implications for the future of the main couple if Sayori and Mizuki are supposed to be parallel to them. Maybe Kasumi's suicidal tendencies will activate something in Haruyo like a sleeper agent.

Cute! Feels like something you'd see in an anthology from 20 years ago.

The world-building is really gonna make or break this one for me I think. If the vampire roommate had no qualms killing that girl on night one (assuming no red herring), then I imagine there's not really too many legal or social consequences for doing so in vampire world. Which begs the question of why anyone would want to send their human children to live in a school full of deadly predators they will be cohabitating with 24/7, unsupervised, with no safeguards.

Honestly I think "mind break" stuff is usually pretty fun but I don't like how it was used here. I kind of preferred how KitaKawa did this kind of relationship where the sub already had their own reasons to go along with whatever the dom wanted to do, even if they weren't really into it in the same way the dom was initially.

But, I also think a lot of elements in here would've worked better if this was a multichapter work and it had time to cook in the oven? I wasn't particularly sold on any of the emotions or motivations the characters had in this and it made everything feel pretty flat to me.

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.

Right? Feels like all of the fun stuff got glazed over.

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Who dresses like that at work? It looks like the marketing girl just got isekai-ed from a fantasy world. As stupid as it sounds, it kind of breaks the suspension of disbelief for me.

Might take a look at future chapters, I like the fact that MC works in collectibles, but not convinced yet.

Glad I wasn't the only one who thought her outfit looked like bad cosplay.

The tags had me scared but unrequited feelings for an older cousin is pretty tame.

Love a good gloomy introvert x popular extrovert pair. Especially love it when it's not the "loser" girl who needs the most support. "Popular girl secretly feels suffocated by her idyllic school life and needs an escape" isn't fresh but it definitely feels less played out than "Loner comes out of her shell with help from popular girl and learns how to make friends."

That last panel of Sendai at the end is peak, I regret ever doubting this artist.