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.

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.