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whoever the adaptation writer is (too lazy to recheck) they are making…choices…everything not only made much more sense in the novel it was also just more exciting

….can we please pay at least a little bit of attention to actual demographics when tagging series? this is a harta series meaning it’s a seinen manga. Lumping any and all gay content into bl & ignoring their actual classifications in Japan is how we get lazy and disrespectful shit like putting a shojosei with a trans woman lead in the bl categories on this site

Three friends get together for an unfortunate occasion. Each of them is facing a difficult moment, b...

Even if today disappears, these feelings will not. An everyday in which nothing happens, with each d...

I know next to nothing about Kaiser except he’s an asshole and [redacted] but by god does “your very existence has ruined my fucking life” in this context hit it does things to me it’s soooo fucking good

Okeya, sword smith, navy blue store, tatami stitcher, plasterer.Stories about the skills and spirit ...

…I could tell it was gay-lesbian hostility (solidarity) but wow that whole situation has to hurt

Sanayazama Kazura, a girl who just wants to be loved, discovers that the girl she had been spending ...

Everyone who lives there has a “reason” for doing so. Towards the end of the Taisho era (1912 - ...

Please I’ve seen it too many times already can cn>en translators learn what what white wine in English means before 1:1 translating 白酒 into “white wine” when Actual white wine would be 白葡萄酒 THESE ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT TYPES OF ALCOHOL WITH VERY, VERY DIFFERENT PROOFS we’re talking 11-14% (白葡萄酒/what is commonly referred to as white wine) vs a whopping 35-65% (白酒)

You can literally leave 白酒 in pinyin it’s ok to do that it’s /better/ to do that actually

look all I’m getting from this is that she’s boob height

ohhh this is gonna hurt (it already hurts) I’ve been mega interested in this since I first saw it on twitter and I’m no at all disappointed this is incredible so far. Takana’s emotions and her desire especially are so raw…Ema seems to also have not completely able to come to terms with the past, and I’m hoping (though it’s damn slim, poor dude) that her marriage is a lavender one, but that probably won’t be it. he seems like an actually good decent guy so fingers crossed, especially that it won’t be messy for everyone’s sakes

yo he wasn’t supposed figure out black = vx until much later but oh well I guess

I’m incredibly conflicted about the fact that my first reaction to seeing the summary was to check the gender of the kid & the relief that came seeing ars is a boy….ive been burned too many times

main couple vibes aside idk if it was the author, translator, or both, but SOMEONE was going off in those monologue boxes which is extra funny bc why are we getting these wistful, melancholically poetic lamentations during a chapter that was literally 95% just oral sex lmaooooooo

ok so I haven’t touched this manga in a hot second BUT I HAVE been reading the novels and it’s literally crazy how different they are like there was no arts festival or summer retreat in the novel and the way that certain characters come into the story are also wayyy different (for example rosette. She DOES NOT try to bribe Violette for her silence for one thing nor does the prince ever actually come up in convos between them they’re just purely friends and very cute ones). Also the manga has no business being nice to maryjune like this. No business at all.

but one thing I’m definitely unsatisfied about is how the manga is treating her family issues because hhholy shit does it not even TOUCH the depravity and absolute cruelty that she had to live with for so long.

Like. They brush over the fact that Violette was raised a boy and that her mom was projecting her father onto her and that’s bad, that’s already awful, but it doesn’t even show the full extent of how bad it was. She was like /basically/ being sexually abused/molested by her mother as a child because of her resemblance to her shit sperm donor. Her dad’s awful yes but the one who truly fucked up the poor girl to the point where even now she’s got horrible body dysmorphia AND gender dysphoria. On top of so many other issues.

As for her father, don’t worry the author herself said in one of the author’s notes “Forgiveness was never on the table in the first place” thankfully unlike the writers of a lot of other similar plots in japanese manga/light novels I get the impression she’s much more aware of matters around abuse and the like. There will be no redemption for him (actually, as of volume 4 of the LN he’s gotten his just desserts in the best way possible from the least likely suspect).

Speaking of which, y’all will NOT believe who the last boss is! In retrospect it makes sense but damn is the reveal and That MomentTM specifically quite surprising.

Also don’t worry Yulan is endgame like expediating an engagement behind ShitSperm’s back endgame!! Also the prince is meh. But unlike the manga which seems to be pushing for a surprise turn around in the novel Violette and Claudia actually mutually agree to put their past behind them /and/ Claudia is officially engaged to Rosette (the author apparently has plans for romance between them so we’ll see how that goes).

Not to mention ohhhh he puts maryjune in her place. Violette puts maryjune in her place once more too. Even [REDACTED] puts maryjune in her place which was hilarious. How is this girl so brainlessly selfish is a question for her parents.

Not Takuto’s footprints abruptly cutting off-
love how this chapter was like “we’ll give you a beautiful break from the kids’ plot lines and then destroy you in the last couple pages”

I also wish he stayed chubby but ngl I appreciate that they actually laid down a proper foundation for this instead of just going like ~he *magically* lost weight doing exercise he’s not used to~ like yachiro being an ex-athlete (& like, pretty hardcore from the sounds of it bc what do you mean he was toting around bodybuilders for training??) who’s basically recovering from the depressive episode that his accident sent him into is very realistic! Just, it would have been nice to let him keep a little of that…

also I get drawing is hard but who the fuck does sous vide in a convection oven where is the POT

So. The thing about this manga is that it was scheduled to have a volume release in December and that is now very much not happening because it turns out the mangaka copied the eating scenes from a couple of other manga, most notably meshinuma

here’s a twitter thread with some of the comparisons: https://twitter .com/d9yyg0vgr226224/status/1725311697324474853?s=61