End of the final chapter, Master's name is revealed: Itou Hachi

When I saw how mind-numbingly cute those gloves were, I could feel it in my bones that there would be an equal and opposite reaction.

End of the final chapter, Master's name is revealed: Itou Hachi

I FUCKING KNEW IT

tbh I would love to see Itou Hachis work animated someday. it might as well be this manga.

Basically, I'm just saying that I trust Itou Hachi that answers do exist even if we never get to learn them. In many works I don't trust the author and accept that the answers aren't given because the author never came up with them in the first place.

My questions are not primarily aimed at what Itou Hachi is doing (although if she wanted to, it seems like it would be easy enough to drop some more specific background details into Mist’s responses, etc.), but at what readers are doing (and what they are given the information to be able to do) with what Itou Hachi is doing.

Is the whole beastkin/human system a hopelessly corrupt exploitation of the labor of the powerless? (All of human history making “yes” a pretty good bet.)

Is it a humane (and ponder the implications of that word for a second) way of helping the beastkin make the most of their lives?

So when readers are considering the pros and cons of the possibility of physical love between Master and Mel, are we looking at:

• Bestiality
• Pedophilia
• Interspecies MIscegenation
• Sexual Slavery

And how soon can we get it?

And on another note, why did my predictive text think that the next word that comes after “Pedophilia” might well be Blitzkrieg?

Cause whatever system you're using was programmed by a pedophilic nazi? That or your search history must be very interesting...

That escalated quickly.

Aw, damn. I wanted the kidnapper to be beat up by Master!

@Zaita: Which manga is your avatar from?

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I know it’ll never happen, but I’d really prefer if Mel and Marie ended up together.

Damn this went from cute onee-loli shit to some intense ass angsty shit

Aw, damn. I wanted the kidnapper to be beat up by Master!

@Zaita: Which manga is your avatar from?

Pretty sure the manga is Hana ni Arashi, not sure which chapter though.

Edit: Chapter 16

Man, master. Just kiss the damn girl!

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Wow, shit got really serious. I was expecting Mel's almost kidnap to be nonviolent, like her other almost kidnaps.

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EDIT: while I'm still concerned about what exactly happens to the beastkin child who do not pass the examination pre adoption school,

And why is it that the one thing the students at that school must never ever do is to go down in the basement? There’s nothing down there, nothing at all, even though there are hints that the basement is considerably larger than one would expect for the size of the building, parts of which might even be accessed from hidden tunnels deep in the woods behind the school.

And there are no strange sounds coming from down there. That’s just beastkin girls being silly with their overheated imaginations.

And what smell? Those silly girls again . . .

this is a quote from something but I forget what exactly

SHIT GOT REAL

Hah, on page 11 is that the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore I see? Who knew we were in Firenze all this time!

How dare you! How dare you raise your hand against a beastkin girl and strike her down! I don´t even know your name, dipshit, but you just skyrocketed towards the top of my list of anime/manga characters I want to kill!

How dare you! How dare you raise your hand against a beastkin girl and strike her down! I don´t even know your name, dipshit, but you just skyrocketed towards the top of my list of anime/manga characters I want to kill!

Easy there! A beastkin kidnapper is only the tip of the iceberg here. This manga is basically the Handmaid's Tale with furry lolis. The beastkin are basically slaves of humanity, marked and treated as property. And the whole reason that Mel and Marie are orphaned? Genocide.

Well, that escalated quickly. I guess it really feels like end of story is near. I really can't see it continued whatever the resolution of it will be.

Aw yeah, let master think about what she did wrong. Today's chapter was great

And this is the point where this story (story's world building?) doesn't make any sense anymore. Couldn't Hachi stick to the doujins where Mel and her kind were similar (or the same) to the one from Legally Married Yuri Couple Book (and Isn't The Moon Beautiful)? Ehhh...

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Yes, the best way to resolve problems between two people is by keeping them from seeing each other and talking things out.

so there slaves? oof that really put a dampener on the story

This is kind of late, but am I the only one who thinks Mel and Marie looks like Shio and Satou?

Master didn't do anything wrong

so there slaves? oof that really put a dampener on the story

I don't know if they're slaves, but they're certainly not considered equal to human citizens. The fact that they can't use public transportation or even go into restaurants by themselves proves that. However, it does seem that the state takes an interest in their welfare, to an extent you wouldn't see if they were slaves.

My interpretation is that they're sort of permanent dependents: they are considered legally incompetent, incapable of caring for themselves or living independently. The ones we've seen are all treated pretty well and I get the impression that if protective services discovers that they're being forced to work they'd be removed from the master's custody and the master would be punished. The fact that the kidnappers even exist is sort of proof of that: the requirements for adoption are strict enough that many people fail, and resort to illegal means to acquire their own beastkin.

So it's still fantasy racism, but not quite to the level of slavery.

Ouch. That tone shift.

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