more like she surrounds herself with pain-in-the-ass women... keeping Mizuki as a gf, keeping her relationship with Sui... only the recently-named-Chitose can she kind of not be blamed for, since she keeps running into her by chance.

I doubt this was a chance encounter. I'm sure customers are able to see the faces of the rentals before requesting dates. I recall Sui mentioning she picked Ren because she looked similar to her crush at some point.

Aw man, Ren regressing into her "girlfriend for rent" persona whenever she's with Mitsuki really hurts. Her job has taught her how to get what she wants by saying the right words. "I don't want you messing around in my kitchen" turns into "I don't want you to get hurt" or "I want to keep an eye on you." I just wish Ren could just relax into herself when she's dating someone.

I'm sure the job is part of it, but I got the impression from the flashbacks to her past that she's been navigating people this way her whole life. If you grow up with people who despise you, you learn to be whoever you need to be to keep them placated. She's probably never felt safe being 100% herself before, and it's also probably why she's unusually tolerant of Mizuki's controlling behavior.

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Pronoun error on page 10 3rd panel I think?

Crack theory: Mona isn't trying to get Naoi back because family, it's because the last time their mom tried to save a relationship by having a kid she was the result, and Naoi became the black sheep. So she instead fears that will happen to her... unless Naoi comes back to reprise that role, then she's safe.

I mean, I doubt it'll go that way, but the way this work is going that wouldn't be off-tone.

It seems to me like Mona wants to ingratiate herself with Kurumi to either have leverage in pushing Naoi to move back in with her or to just have a home away from home so she doesn't have deal with what you just described.

I don't think Hario is a terrible person or a villain or anything like that but I do think there is an element of male entitlement in Hario's attitude towards his relationship with Ema that's not being addressed when analyzing the situation? He is very much aware that Ema is not really in love with him the way he is with her but continues to hold on to this belief that he can wear her down with kindness. He knows she married him for her own convenience and not out of love for him as a man. It doesn't justify or absolve Ema of all the lying and cheating she's done, but even in the latest chapter he is framing her inability to love him properly as a choice she is making.

I know Asumi went through a whole training arc to make sure she can top properly, but it would be incredibly funny to me if they end up having zero sexual chemistry and the sex ends up being just as awkward as everything else has so far.

This chapter really ends up putting into context the coke-and-mentos chemistry Asumi and Nanao have

The amount of effort that Asumi is having to put in just to make things sort of work out with Mai compared to how she is with basically every other girl in the cast is pretty telling imo. Although, it could just be the burden of expectation that's suffocating their relationship and they'll be more comfortable with each other after doing it.

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Wow Mei-chan is a lesbian stud. At this point it's almost at a supernatural level.

Also is still it okay to use the word "stud" these days?

"Stud" is slang for a black masculine lesbian so you might confuse some folks using it in a queer context.

The person they commissioned to do a LN adaptation is not writing the anime so who cares? I kind of think it's insane to expect everyone who works on a yuri to be a diehard fan and I'm sick of people doomposting every time something like this comes up.

The drug didn't make them go crazy, it's that she clearly had severe mental health problems that she was self medicating for. But thats obviously a dead end because instead of getting psychiatric help, you build tolerances and one day the drugs aren't enough to make you not want to kill yourself. Everyone's in such a tizzy that this is war on drugs propaganda that you're not even trying to analyze the story.

Mdma can be fun, but do you know what happens when an untreated person with severe BPD pops them like they're candy?

This. Their relationship would've had this same dynamic with or without the drugs because the drugs are not what made Tsukushi like this. They just accelerated the decline.

I get that the end makes it look like "drugs turned Sakura into a murderer" but I think the actual implication is that the built up resentment from sacrificing herself to try and keep Tsukushi happy (which is how a lot of BPD relationships end up) is what made her go harder than normal. The drug just removed that inhibition she would have otherwise had.

Mizuki is cute but she seems to be fairly high maintenance. If Ren wasn't good at reading people I'm not sure how their date would've gone.

Now that we have sort of a circular love triangle setup going (I will be gobsmacked if Mizuki isn't Sui's crush atp) I wonder where pharmacist girl is going to fit in. It would be weird to establish that she works at a place that's close to Ren's and then just never bring her up again.

Is her power being gonna just gonna be a simple "I must believe in myself and my power to protect and save people" and poof it's gonna come back lol?

Betting it's either going to be that or it comes back during the wedding ceremony or when they have sex.

Honestly I was expecting it to drop the cheating angle pretty quick but this gray area of "we're on a break right now" is kinda juicy.

Man this still had at least a couple more volumes worth of gas in it, sad to see it end like this. Watching Meguru sprint through her whole character arc in the span of like, 3 chapters sure was something. Honestly the way she magically got over herself and immediately hooked back up with Azuki for a happily ever after left such a bad taste in my mouth I think it would've been better to end on a forever cliffhanger instead.

I suspect I saw the image in HEY's pixiv bookmarks having taken a look and it's such a strange thing to get upset about.

I don't blame anyone for being exhausted with art with dicks that are attached to nothing more than torsos or (to paraphrase a comment I saw) the faceless cishet homunculus, but I don't understand why people are taking it as a capital offense that the author of a work liked fanart that had either of those in it

People were running around claiming it was "dykebreaking" kink content and I guess a lot of people just took this at face value because he's a man and it sounds horrible enough that they don't really want to go looking for it to confirm. This then kickstarted a fresh cycle of all of the usual discourse related to kink and men writing sapphic romance.

Whole situation just seems like a group of dedicated haters manufacturing outrage to get the author cancelled if you ask me.

I think it's pretty obvious after the latest chapter it's the homosexuality she's anxious about, no? The cousin thing is also weird but I don't think I've ever seen cousin incest get stigmatized in anime/manga the same way that homosexuality does. If it was just about being cousins then there wouldn't be much of a reason to bring up the childhood crush like it was also 'abnormal' unless that was somehow a different cousin, which I feel would've been mentioned if that were the case.

Lots of yuri works go out of their way to avoid queer identity labels like "gay" and "lesbian," it's not all that unusual to see characters dance around terms like this.

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.