Unlike the majority of ecchi/hentai, there's a defined plot and the pacing is pretty quick. But more importantly, the reason it manages this is that the off-panel events are absurdly load-bearing. Think about it: Basically every time she dies she has to run back multiple seductions/attempts, most of which account for at least two chapters in isolation.
(Side Note: I actually find this thought to be funnier than anything the manga has taken time to show and I hope they continue to skip every recap)
This does double duty in making Marie kind of relatable despite her scumminess, because her frustration and stagnant character are consistent both in-universe and to human behavior in general.
No wonder she hasn't learned to love the game. She's being forced to learn to speedrun it as her first playthrough.
Anyways, I think this manga is an excellent example of not compromising between airing out all your outlandish kinks and writing something technically excellent. Be the change you want to see, or something. I need to go to bed.
Is Franlesh cross-dressing and actually a girl that will join the harem in a future chapter?
Feels like a coin flip to me, currently.
Goddamn do I love straightforward/easygoing shredded tomboys. I know we already had Mizuki but she seemed like kind of an airhead and that's not the same thing.
Garou's still my favorite (for sheer BAMF-ness, I'm not into men) but I'm so glad Suiko's finally properly introduced.
Werewolf kisses. Wow. Hmm. *Looks down and fiddles with waistband* Yep.
Toned bordering on buff
Super tall but still wears heels for some reason
Long hair and long skirts
(Very) Busty
Now if only her personality was, you know, totally different...
First chapter of sequel/side-stories/follow-up/whatever just dropped in Korean.
Time to binge reread while it gets translated.
Did it not occur to anybody that Korean may not have more generalized terms like "sapphic" or "WLW"? Hell, you don't even need to go any further than Google Translate. "Lesbian" translates phonetically (much like English words rendered in katakana), so it's a pretty safe bet that that is a trendy way to say it. It probably isn't as precise in meaning as it is in English, just taking up the rough meaning of "WLW". As mentioned, there does not seem to be any equivalent to broader terms that would explicitly include bisexual or pansexual (et cetera) women, and as a result spelling that out results in phrases that are very long and even to my untrained eye seem pretty clinical. If there was no shorter way than "Homosexual and bisexual and pansexual women", wouldn't you compromise with a term that sacrifices a small degree of precision for a large degree of conciseness?
Translator, since you have an account on here, care to support/refute? I may be resourceful and able to infer quite a bit, but I do not actually understand Korean.
...by the number of people just casually victim-blaming Min in the comments. What part of the fact that she's trapped in an abusive relationship with a manipulative *predator* doesn't click?
Look...
- The professor is the one with power and experience, so rejecting Min was her responsibility.
- Because Min lacks experience with relationships, she fails to grasp the ways in which the professor is taking advantage of her without an outside viewpoint.
- By the circumstances of the relationship, Min cannot speak to anyone about it, preventing her from obtaining an outside viewpoint.
At worst, Min is wishy-washy, but literally all of this is the professor's fault in some way. I know it's a comic, but I sincerely hope you all don't interpret real-life abusive relationships this way. Victim-blaming is really shitty.
if she was smart enough she would've broken up with her
Min could’ve let go if she was “smart enough” when the professor broke up with her. She’s the one who held on. And dares to get jealous when Yuma hangs out with someone other than her
Being smart has almost nothing to do with it. The kind of manipulative bullshit the professor is using messes with your mental and emotional state, and it can be very hard to break yourself out of the loop of that kind of abusive relationship even if you are familiar with the behavior, and Min isn't. I explained why Min doesn't and shouldn't be expected to understand just how toxic the professor's behavior is, because it is *manipulative*. None of it is obviously evil to an untrained eye, that's the point.
What about "You all are victim-blaming and you shouldn't do that because it's awful" did you not understand? Or do you just not care?
But the professor didn't stand her ground and push Min away when Min came back. She got drunk and pulled Min back in because Min misunderstood her initial attempt to break up. She's the one with the experience, she's the one with the power, the onus is on her.
For fucks sake, she even acknowledges that what she's doing is wrong at the time!
It cracks me up that the first two responses to this are THE MOST stereotypical victim-blaming comments you could imagine.
You might as well say "She was asking for it".
I agree with you. The professor is really manipulative if you realize it. The professor is older and she knows better than to be in a relationship with her student. But she does anyways. If you actually read it, you see how she attempted to break up with Min and min becomes compicted and now professor comes back messing up mins feelings again for her own selfishness.
Min is the victim because she being manipulated by the professor. So you guys can't blame Min on how awful she is. Smartness is not something an individual think about when they are manipulated by someone. Maybe it would've been better if a person thought about what to do before getting manipulated.
However. The professor should just said straight up instead of crying tears. Those tears made Min think and feel that the professor was still having lingering feelings for her. But the professors ignores her and then later comes back and cling onto her.
I dont know if anything I said makes any sense. But I always read comments after I read a manhwa or manga, and these opinions stick onto me and I realize a lot.
So I'm glad someone commented this.
I think we all should try to understand what is happening in a story, how it started, who caused it, what caused it, whats the problem, who's the bad, who's the good?
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I understand that we don't always know these things. But maybe before we judge a character or a person, In general, not just in webtoons and mangas or manhwas, but in real life too.
If you notice, many manhwas and mangas show our reality we live in and I think it is very important and critical that we think things through thoroughly before coming too conclusion.
It's kind of harsh how we depict a character in a way and then in the end they were the victim and then people are going be like "awe, I love u, like u," towards the character.
There many things like that, that happen in society. People are judge based on what they do and look, but everyone has a backstory that brought them there. Maybe some do it for fun or intentionally. But of course, we can't tell if a person is good or not. Anyone can be good anyone can be bad. There's no way of telling until you get to know them and their story.
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People go through
Trauma
Manipulation
Abusive families/relationships
And much more that we don't know. People who go through these things sometimes change. And you won't know anything unless they tell you. But people who have had things happened to them rather not talk about it to anyone because they can't trust anyone, no one's going to understand, and if the people know, how are they going to help?
I just wanted to point this out respectively. Please take no offence. I just wanted to say what I thought. Have a great day!! ლ(´ڡ`ლ)
If Suhee and she do end up together, I have a feeling it won't be as out of left field as you think.
First, heteronormativity is very strong in conservative countries like Japan and Korea. Second, it's a much harder cage to escape from for bi people because they're not forcing themselves, only limiting their options. It involves a lesser degree of suffering but it's still not good.
I personally get the impression that if and when Suhee just confesses instead of trying to seduce(?) Chanmi, it will force Chanmi to think about herself in *that* context (after she probably runs away and hides for a while) like she was forced to think about Chungyeon. What Suhee's doing currently is awkward and will never go anywhere because Chanmi will always misunderstand, and that is, I think, a good part of why people don't like them as a potential couple.
With Chungyeon coming out, Chanmi has proven herself to be understanding and introspective in the right circumstances. She just needs a reason to stop and think about herself and her feelings in a similar way and she might realize that she also finds women attractive. She has already thought to herself that Suhee is cute doing specific things on a few occasions, but I'm pretty sure she's been trained to assume all thoughts like that are totally innocent.
To be clear, I don't mean this would happen in a "Spaghetti's straight until it gets wet" kind of way, or in a "Person is secretly gay but acts homophobic to hide it" way. If you don't know what heteronormativity/comphet is, look it up.
Seems the artist has finally given the absolute bare minimum plausible deniability that "Gilbert" is male. It was pretty funny in the first few chapters of Season 2 that nobody noticed the huge rack under that suit. I wonder if it'll just be ignored or if at some point "Gilbert" will acknowledge the change.