Ah finally, a delinquent x Imouto chapter. I need a separate series starring these two. They have a pretty interesting dynamic going on.

Ah finally, a delinquent x Imouto chapter. I need a separate series starring these two. They have a pretty interesting dynamic going on.

I love them as well, glad to see I'm not alone, plus her wisdom " you are possessive that's why people leave you"

it do be like that

Saori may not be winning prizes for self-awareness anytime soon but her read on Shizuku seems on point.

Babe, i want to get smashed
But you are already drunk
That's not what i mean ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Are the plates okay? I hope they didn't shatter

Are the plates okay? I hope they didn't shatter

I was thinking the exact same thing

I've had sex in a bathroom. It wasn't great. Although maybe having sex in a bathroom at work is the key

Oh my oh my ~ i think she indeed have developed a kink( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Wait so we're really gonna pretend that chapter never happened and act like this is fine--Author, what even

I also worry for the plates

Iori sure has an large sexual appetite. And alcohol seems to make it worse.

Now I'm just hyper aware of every fucked up thing Iori does and can't find comedy in any of it.

Can't resist. :D

Definitely coming to a point here where I don’t think Iori has any right to be in a relationship. Period. She’s an alcoholic who doesn’t listen to her partner and thinks the best way to respond to insecurity is violence. At this point, it’s not funny and just makes me feel worse and worse for Minami.

We need more characters like Iori, instead of all those saintly fake people you usually see in fiction.

Also - the way those dishes crash without any consequences should be a strong hint to how visuals in this manga aren't always meant to be taken literally. ^^

After Iori hitting Minami, every chapter after that one just feels weird to me. Even though yeah this one is sexy and all but it seems like Minami is starting to feel bothered by Iori.

I know all these lectures about how the author means for us to take the events of the story are kindly meant, but they're totally irrelevant to how readers respond to the story.

There are the kind of stories where all sorts of bad behavior are depicted in a light-hearted way, and where events that would be horrifying in real life are meant to be, and are taken to be, uproariously funny.

There are stories where those exact same things are taken seriously, and where the bad behavior is shown as having real-life consequences, or sometimes even worse outcomes than in reality.

Sometimes extremely talented narrative artists (authors, playwrights, mangaka) can even successfully include both of those effects in the same work (although the only such examples I can think of offhand are highfaluting people like Shakespeare, or James Joyce in Ulysses).

This mangaka, IMO, is not one of those.

I know all these lectures about how the author means for us to take the events of the story are kindly meant, but they're totally irrelevant to how readers respond to the story.

That's rich coming from the guy fighting a Room for Two crusade for the last year. :p

I know all these lectures about how the author means for us to take the events of the story are kindly meant, but they're totally irrelevant to how readers respond to the story.

That's rich coming from the guy fighting a Room for Two crusade for the last year. :p

That's because I'm taking it the way the author means.

I'm not fighting for the series (it does that on its own); I'm just laughing at idiots.

NIce chapter, I like when these two have their tender moments, Iori is really thirsty.

thanks for translating

I know all these lectures about how the author means for us to take the events of the story are kindly meant, but they're totally irrelevant to how readers respond to the story.

The irony of this coming from someone who routinely argues that authorial intent trumps audience interpretation pretty much every time anyone else isn't jiving with the author's intent is pretty ridiculous. I guess authorial intent only takes priority over interpretations that aren't yours.

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I know all these lectures about how the author means for us to take the events of the story are kindly meant, but they're totally irrelevant to how readers respond to the story.

The irony of this coming from someone who routinely argues that authorial intent trumps audience interpretation pretty much every time anyone else isn't jiving with the author's intent is pretty ridiculous. I guess authorial intent only takes priority over interpretations that aren't yours.

You have so consistently missed any of my points about authorial intention (including this one) that you have fully convinced me that I am unable to make those points comprehensible to you. But I'll try anyway because what the fuck:

It's completely possible for an author to have an intention that doesn't work on readers the way they want it to work. That's quite different from readers making up a new story in their heads and projecting it onto the story on the page.

Nice chapter

Drunk Iori is really cute.

Yeah, I’m starting to lean on the side that the shit we saw a couple chapters ago was a hard misplay by the author accidentally portraying something completely different than they meant to. IMO it was definitely bad enough to mark my rating of the manga and I think it pulls the tone in a weird, serious/critical direction that makes me slightly uncertain where the boundary is between dark, fucked up moments and more lighthearted slapstick.

This latest chapter (35) could be interpreted as Iori breaking her girlfriend’s boundaries in a pretty serious way, especially by people whose trust in the author and character was broken by a previous chapter, or it could Minami trying to balance her job and professionalism with her girlfriend being cute and horny in her workplace, and coming to a humorous and spicy balance of the two in a way that shows a little example of how being with a partner can make your life flow in unexpected directions.

Really a shame that the author fucked this up so hard and ruined a lot of people’s enjoyment of a work that relies on some small subtleties and knowledge of their relationship for its effect.

Yeah I just ignore that one chapter and just mark it under terrible chapters. Just obviously an author who used to using slapstick and not knowing its potential implication.