Toxic yuri beloved

oh damn they freaky freaky. delicious

H O L Y F U C K

I mean - I like this kind of horror vibe, but the sudden tone shift makes me worry about whether the manga might somehow be struggling - trying to find new readers by going into radical new directions.

On the contrary I think the author must be confident enough to include ,uh, "passionate" content like this. Based on their Bluesky post, they were very eager to draw this scene.

I mean - I like this kind of horror vibe, but the sudden tone shift makes me worry about whether the manga might somehow be struggling - trying to find new readers by going into radical new directions.

On the contrary I think the author must be confident enough to include ,uh, "passionate" content like this. Based on their Bluesky post, they were very eager to draw this scene.

The post expresses concerns for the readership, not the mangaka. Which I can understand, when crossing different categories, it's easy to lose part of the audience. While the author seems to know what they are doing were well, I'm not sure the larger audience will appreciate the change of tone. I hope so though, I'd like to see that manga continue for a long time.

I think this is the direction Igarashi always intended to take it. While this scene was definitely a dramatic escalation, it's not entirely out of nowhere. The art's always had this slightly unsettling atmosphere to it, and looking back this chapter is making a lot of callbacks Kasumi and Haruyo interactions. Kasumi exploding with rage when Haruyo ghosts her parallels Mizuki's reaction to Sayori telling her she's not moving in; and Kasumi telling Haruyo she wanted to punch her afterwards and says that she wanted her verbal abuse to hurt is sort of analogous to the cutting; the panel where Mizuki says she'll call the police and won't see Sayori anymore is 1:1 with the panel of Haruyo saying she won't touch Kasumi anymore; Sayori and Mizuki's expressions when Sayori says "then I can forgive you" is the exact same pair of expressions Haruyo and Kasumi have when Haruyo touches Kasumi's lips.

Not to mention there seems to be a recurring motif with Kasumi and hanging. (Bottom panel of ch3p21 where the window framing evokes Kasumi hanging; the light fixture shape and placement at top center panel of ch7p13, which are absent in the reverse shot; bottom panel of ch8p22 where she looks like she's hanging from the light fixture).

There's been some pretty ample foreshadowing that this story was going to go some pretty dark places from the start. This chapter doesn't feel so much like a tonal change as much as it does shifting gears.

In Ch4 we randomly learn about Kasumi's middle school friend committing suicide. This doesn't seem that far out of place.

Okay, who's taking bets on who kills who?

This was ABSOLUTE CINEMA

I think this is the direction Igarashi always intended to take it. While this scene was definitely a dramatic escalation, it's not entirely out of nowhere. The art's always had this slightly unsettling atmosphere to it, and looking back this chapter is making a lot of callbacks Kasumi and Haruyo interactions. Kasumi exploding with rage when Haruyo ghosts her parallels Mizuki's reaction to Sayori telling her she's not moving in; and Kasumi telling Haruyo she wanted to punch her afterwards and says that she wanted her verbal abuse to hurt is sort of analogous to the cutting; the panel where Mizuki says she'll call the police and won't see Sayori anymore is 1:1 with the panel of Haruyo saying she won't touch Kasumi anymore; Sayori and Mizuki's expressions when Sayori says "then I can forgive you" is the exact same pair of expressions Haruyo and Kasumi have when Haruyo touches Kasumi's lips.

Not to mention there seems to be a recurring motif with Kasumi and hanging. (Bottom panel of ch3p21 where the window framing evokes Kasumi hanging; the light fixture shape and placement at top center panel of ch7p13, which are absent in the reverse shot; bottom panel of ch8p22 where she looks like she's hanging from the light fixture).

There's been some pretty ample foreshadowing that this story was going to go some pretty dark places from the start. This chapter doesn't feel so much like a tonal change as much as it does shifting gears.

I think there's a lot of somewhat dark parallels between Mizuki and Kasumi, between their somewhat listless lack of a place to exist prior to the Class S role play, and their willingness to sacrifice for their partner who's now given them some sort of meaning. The biggest divergence is we've seen Mizuki actively hurt her partner and lash out at them, but I get the feeling that Kasumi is far more likely to turn that inward and attempt to hurt herself.

I like to hope that when the time comes, Haruyo will be up to the task, but I get the feeling Kasumi is going to tread in some very dark places as the shadow of her friend's suicide looms over the story. For all the darkness, I do think that so far Haruyo's been shown as a beam of light innocently breaking away the darker elements, and I hope she's able to lift Kasumi out of whatever place she finds herself.

I had to read the chapter multiple times to notice that on page 15 Sayori has her knee between Mizuki's thighs. Like I know since chapter 10 all bets are off and I feel bad for not being able to come up with something more intellectual but... When I started reading this series I did not expect to see anything like that.

Anyway, I was in a bad mood but this chapter kind of fixed me

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I had to read the chapter multiple times to notice that on page 15 Sayori has her knee between Mizuki's thighs.

Also the way Sayori arched her foot to do it.

I LOVE TOXIC YURI WHO IS WITH ME

I AM BEYOND SHOCKED

#NeedThat

Cool! not in real life, but in yuri manga, wooot!

I was enjoying this series already, but this has taken it to a whole other level! I really hope we get more focus on what happens when desire is too powerful for the limitations of Class S dynamics to contain...

Gosh I love the art in this series so much. The rather extreme use of basic technique in place of patterns and effects is so stark, I just love it. There's always something with the art. Oftentimes manga art feels like a vessel to tell a story. Here, it's like the art often is the story. It's just beautiful.

BLAMEY posted:
Oh good I was worried Sayori was trapped in a crazy relationship. Instead she's thriving in one.

Heck yeah, good for her.

Out of everything I expected this is something I didn't expect the most

HELL YEAHH TOXIC YURI WOOOOOOOO

Oh good. They're toxic together. That's fine then

learning new things about myself...

Gosh I love the art in this series so much. The rather extreme use of basic technique in place of patterns and effects is so stark, I just love it. There's always something with the art. Oftentimes manga art feels like a vessel to tell a story. Here, it's like the art often is the story. It's just beautiful.

This page in particular was so striking to me, the strategic use of minimalism sold the emotions so well.

Edit: On a different note, I just realized, should this chapter have the Suicide tag? Mizuki was clearly considering it here. Though it was brief and not focused on so maybe the tag would be misleading.

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That sure is one way to express your love for someone…