Oh god that phone call with Rin is everything…
Somehow I missed their previous chapter together and just caught it going back through things, and it’s like peak romance?? Somehow, some of the best yuri I’ve ever read?? It’s just so… sweet and honest and intimate. The emotional history together they were working through was really touching and kind of painful. It’s a peak bully/bullied relationship dynamic, and the way that Itsumi was so honest about being unsure in her feelings was so genuine. I love the way they navigated through that. And the fact that she has a thing about being wanted bc of her emotional neglect, and a thing about being bullied during sex that most likely tracks back to their history together, and the trauma that she experienced… to be able to re-frame that with Rin making her feel wanted, Rin as the traumatizer rewiring the bullying, physically, into something loving and sexual and explicitly consensual…

It’s genuinely beautiful.

I’ve been noticing more and more that this story delivers some really strong, resonant emotional beats. I think part of that comes from the characteristic rawness of Mochi’s work, but I also can’t help but think of a video essay I watched once called Art, Furries, God, about how silliness, baseness, can serve as a sort of self-disarming on the part of the author, removing any sense of pretentiousness or the idea that a work should be received distantly as Art, and thereby allow people to drop their guard and engage with it more closely, and feel its message more strongly, more honestly.

There’s a certain quality in this work and in Watamote, which it reminds me of, where the comedic framing makes the emotional moments more emotional, more real, more impactful. The gay hindbrain food trash setup disarms the story so that when it delivers an emotional moment and comes back to being gay, it feels so sweet and earnest.

There’s something to be said as well about the way this started as a gimmick gag manga and has expanded from there: it evokes the shape of a genre, a shell and a scaffolding and a set of expectations, and then slowly chips away until it shatters it and repurposes the pieces into something new. It created this sense of something new, something unconstrained editorially where anything can happen if it works for the story, for the fiction, and that it won’t run up against the glass wall of genre.

It feels like leaving your comfort zone, like stepping into something new—eager and earnest and daunted by possibility. It feels vulnerable—it feels, in fact, much like you do when you’re just figuring out your way in your first relationship, and you don’t know what’s going to happen.

I think this story is incredible. And I think it has the potential to be even more. Much like the characters, I’m both nervous and excited to see what happens next.

This is such a good take and I fullheartedly agree!

I was already in love with this manga, but the reference to my favorite book and movie really got me. Thank you, creepy little sister. You're as crazy as Jack, keep it up lol

last edited at Sep 5, 2023 6:14AM

sick so far

I know it literally doesn't matter, but I'm kinda curious if this drug

A. Just makes you temporarily horny towards your normal sexual orientation

B. Makes you temporarily horny towards the same sex

C. Makes you temporarily horny towards the same sex and also permanently gay.

C would be kinda fucked up, like you just changed the course of someone's life on a whim without consent. It would be unMochi to write that, I think. The drugged male teacher chapter kinda implied B, but it would also be consistent with events if that teacher was in fact actually gay the entire time.

I don't know why you'd ever consider B and C to be on the table without being given a very good reason. Gay stories have lots of gay people in them, there's no reason to assume all the gay ass behavior we've seen hasn't been the truths for those gay ass characters.

It's also kinda, if a tree falls in a gay forest kinda thing. If all the characters are canonically gay, and this is the kind of setting where that very well might be true, then it's likely irrelevant exactly how the drug works because everybody is gay anyways.

Arare is an absolute menace and the epitome of narcissism, she’s a fantastic antagonist and has an interesting contrast to Toudou, both have ungodly rizz but Arare being so heavily dependent on it to such an unhealthy level while Toudou barely even notices her own charms is so funny.

I know it literally doesn't matter, but I'm kinda curious if this drug

A. Just makes you temporarily horny towards your normal sexual orientation

B. Makes you temporarily horny towards the same sex

C. Makes you temporarily horny towards the same sex and also permanently gay.

C would be kinda fucked up, like you just changed the course of someone's life on a whim without consent. It would be unMochi to write that, I think. The drugged male teacher chapter kinda implied B, but it would also be consistent with events if that teacher was in fact actually gay the entire time.

I think the implication is that it just makes you super horny and open to sexual offers without being too picky about things like orientation and gender

I know it literally doesn't matter, but I'm kinda curious if this drug

A. Just makes you temporarily horny towards your normal sexual orientation

B. Makes you temporarily horny towards the same sex

C. Makes you temporarily horny towards the same sex and also permanently gay.

C would be kinda fucked up, like you just changed the course of someone's life on a whim without consent. It would be unMochi to write that, I think. The drugged male teacher chapter kinda implied B, but it would also be consistent with events if that teacher was in fact actually gay the entire time.

I think the implication is that it just makes you super horny and open to sexual offers without being too picky about things like orientation and gender

As a counterpoint, the male teacher was immediately horny for the other male teacher, but not for any of his female students or coworkers. We're probably not having any straight reappearing characters, so it's an academic question.

Doesn't the drug just make you horny for the first person you see?

Also

Linterdiction's post

You're not Temp!

Rin and President fans arguing over who's gonna win. Meanwhile me, a Ruruka backer, dying on the floor because the one chapter with them on a date went to someone else.

Also hold up, Ruruka, the flat pervert best friend? And I don't mean flat in the physical sense. She's like, the least interesting character in my opinion, why her?

Also the potion definitely doesn't do the first person you see, because in this chapter MC drank the potion but thought of Rinmei instead of her sister in front of her.

Heeeere's imouto!

Oh god that phone call with Rin is everything…
Somehow I missed their previous chapter together and just caught it going back through things, and it’s like peak romance?? Somehow, some of the best yuri I’ve ever read?? It’s just so… sweet and honest and intimate. The emotional history together they were working through was really touching and kind of painful. It’s a peak bully/bullied relationship dynamic, and the way that Itsumi was so honest about being unsure in her feelings was so genuine. I love the way they navigated through that. And the fact that she has a thing about being wanted bc of her emotional neglect, and a thing about being bullied during sex that most likely tracks back to their history together, and the trauma that she experienced… to be able to re-frame that with Rin making her feel wanted, Rin as the traumatizer rewiring the bullying, physically, into something loving and sexual and explicitly consensual…

It’s genuinely beautiful.

I’ve been noticing more and more that this story delivers some really strong, resonant emotional beats. I think part of that comes from the characteristic rawness of Mochi’s work, but I also can’t help but think of a video essay I watched once called Art, Furries, God, about how silliness, baseness, can serve as a sort of self-disarming on the part of the author, removing any sense of pretentiousness or the idea that a work should be received distantly as Art, and thereby allow people to drop their guard and engage with it more closely, and feel its message more strongly, more honestly.

There’s a certain quality in this work and in Watamote, which it reminds me of, where the comedic framing makes the emotional moments more emotional, more real, more impactful. The gay hindbrain food trash setup disarms the story so that when it delivers an emotional moment and comes back to being gay, it feels so sweet and earnest.

There’s something to be said as well about the way this started as a gimmick gag manga and has expanded from there: it evokes the shape of a genre, a shell and a scaffolding and a set of expectations, and then slowly chips away until it shatters it and repurposes the pieces into something new. It created this sense of something new, something unconstrained editorially where anything can happen if it works for the story, for the fiction, and that it won’t run up against the glass wall of genre.

It feels like leaving your comfort zone, like stepping into something new—eager and earnest and daunted by possibility. It feels vulnerable—it feels, in fact, much like you do when you’re just figuring out your way in your first relationship, and you don’t know what’s going to happen.

I think this story is incredible. And I think it has the potential to be even more. Much like the characters, I’m both nervous and excited to see what happens next.

You nailed why I enjoy comedies with serious elements so much. I partially blame my Creative Writing degree for causing me to over-analyze and be overly critical of so many works -- but with something like this manga, you know immediately that it's not ASKING to be taken as seriously, and that somehow just makes it so much easier to disregard my inner critic... and of course, once I'm hooked, that gives room for writers to worm their way into my emotions.

we were wrong all along - mochi wasn't writing dumb trashy fun stories, they were just strategically reserving their brain cells for the decisive moment

I haven't lost hope that the harem route is our final destination, since in this this very volume we had Kinue going down on Toudou, Shirashiro telling her she'll show her her panties (or lack thereof) whenever she wants, and of course the ghost harem.

I like the Hanei x Toudou scenes, but I miss Yomotsuka, and Kamisada hasn't had her turn yet, and I also want more scenes of that crazy Iwagaki, and that ghost girl Toudou kissed in the mountains.

Aaaaaaaah that phone call was sooooo cuuuute.

Also masturbating while holding an axe should be on everyones bucketlist.

I know it literally doesn't matter, but I'm kinda curious if this drug

A. Just makes you temporarily horny towards your normal sexual orientation

B. Makes you temporarily horny towards the same sex

C. Makes you temporarily horny towards the same sex and also permanently gay.

C would be kinda fucked up, like you just changed the course of someone's life on a whim without consent. It would be unMochi to write that, I think. The drugged male teacher chapter kinda implied B, but it would also be consistent with events if that teacher was in fact actually gay the entire time.

I think the implication is that it just makes you super horny and open to sexual offers without being too picky about things like orientation and gender

As a counterpoint, the male teacher was immediately horny for the other male teacher, but not for any of his female students or coworkers. We're probably not having any straight reappearing characters, so it's an academic question.

The teacher is gay.

I don't have any evidence to back that up whatsoever, but I can feel it in my bones.

On a more serious note, I haven't thought too much about it but I always figured it just made you horny towards the nearest person. The "fall in love with the first person you see" kind of love potion, but horny. So it just makes you horny towards anyone regardless of gender.

I will get incest finally please

Wow, everyone really just blurting out every thought they have this chapter. Prez was saying some absolutely wild shit in front of the whole class.

With how cemented Rin and Toudou's relationship is this early on in the manga I definitely foresee some rocking of the boat ahead for them, especially with wild cards like Yanagi still in play since Toudou is super weak to her advances. Can't wait to see how this new arc pans out.

This arc looks like it'll be fun. I'm excited to see all the side pairings and the personalities of these new girls. Some of their designs are pretty crazy but that's always been a Mochi staple. I'm also two steps away from jumping off the Pres ship and getting aboard the Rin x Itsumi train, omg they're so damn cute. Im still rooting for Pres x Itsumi but it's starting to look like she's too much of a player to be tied down to one girl, and her sights are set on the Yakuza girl. Sigh...it was fun while it lasted I guess.

Man, I feel so bad for Kurohime. She's thinking about how she wants to go to the beach with Itsumi while Istumi is making plans to go on a date with Rin.

I'm ready for shounen manga arc part 2

last edited at Oct 12, 2023 1:41AM

Ah chill. Literally chill.

I'm a huge Hanei supporter, have been since day 1. I think the fact that they're dating either means that this arc (plus epilogue) is going to be the last one, or Toudou is going to cheat on her girlfriend. If it's the latter, I'd feel bad for Rin, but I do want to see more of Yuina and Kamisada. If it's the former I don't know what I'll do with myself, Mocchi has me addicted to this shit.