By the way, if there are any BL fans out there, crunchyroll has a new anime with similar concepts—one office worker guy develops the ability to read minds by touching people when he turns 30 (something about 30 year old virgins becoming wizards in Japan, hahaha) and when he reads the mind of his male coworker, he realizes the guy is in love with him.
It plays off of some of the same kinds of tropes as Spy x Family (RE: mind-reading) but I think it's very well done and in some cases, thought-provoking.
Similar to Spy x Family, it seems to assume that if you could read people's minds, you'd actually see more of their good sides and empathize with them more (as opposed to assuming negative intent when you can't tell what someone is thinking and/or don't understand them / their motivations).
Anyway, the anime is called "Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!"
I feel torn rooting for Anya x Damian.
On the one hand, it's cute they're developing a strong friendship as children so that if they end up together, there will be a strong basis for their feelings (even though Damian thinks he might secretly be in love with Anya right now, his denial and overall tsundere-ness is helping him continue being relatively himself around her which is ideal for any partnership, whether it's a friendship or romance).
What I love most about this couple is that they both often see each other at their worst but at least in Damian's case, he still obviously cares about Anya afterward.
Still not 100% sure about poor Anya—she's basically forcing herself to tolerate and be kind to Damian because she thinks it's crucial for world peace or will please her father.
In that regard, Damian's love is technically more sincere... except his impressions of her courage, etc. are based predominantly on actions she made herself take in order to get recognized by him, which shouldn't sit well with most shippers.
Anya forcing herself to try to like him and get him to like her feels kinda like couples forced into an arranged marriage (making it hard to root for her getting with him).
I'll need go back and find the parts from previous chapters that Damian was thinking about during the dance scene from this latest chapter (to see if what he recalls were genuine moments of kindness, courage, etc. that Anya demonstrated vs. her trying to look tough).
I know it's a waste of energy to defend fictional animals/habitats but I still care more about them then your entitled rich ass.
Mowing down a whole ass forest to build a new love shack for your baby and baby mama / ruining an entire island to build a freaking J*CK-OFF MANSION ain't sexy flexes.
They exemplify why a bi*ch keeps almost going bankrupt! ಠ_ಠ
Need authors to recognize that truly sexy alphas/semes are men who are socially and financially responsible.
How is he eating chocolate and tucking onions and other stuff that's toxic to cats (garlic, tea, coffee, etc.)? I guess when he turned human, his digestive and other systems also switched over 100%? (눈_눈)
Thank you translator for your hard work. Sorry people are so rude and ungrateful.
lol Kojima may be the neko (uke) but when it comes to stubbed toes, he's more of a dog (whines / cries and seeks comfort dramatically) whereas Daimon reacts to stubbing his toe more like a cat (hiding his pain and only being vulnerable around someone he trusts) X'D
I didn't need to see a baby--I just needed to see that scene where his brother threw water in his face whilee scolding, "You fat bastard!" X'D
I love how even though they're all a bunch of weaklings (rich kindergarteners and a stubby-legged 4 year old), when their hearts are really in something, they draw strength from seemingly nowhere to run at full speed/power.
Too bad the only ones out of the lot with even remotely pure(?) intentions were the 2 cronies lol
Damian: Motivated by pride
Anya: Motivated by num nums
Becky: Motivated by rom-drama (i.e., romantic voyeurism lol)
Cronies: Motivated by loyalty to protect / back up their friend(?) who they knew would likely be overpowered by Anya (like he always is lol)
I can't tell if all the misinformation is legit part of the story or just inaccurate translations. Please don't assume you'll lose muscle just from doing cardio/aerobic exercises. I've always been muscular / bulky and despite my best efforts to attain a cute, slim (unrealistic) anime-like body when I was a teen, the only thing speed-walking, jogging, elliptical machines, and other similar workouts ever did was make me healthier and fitter--which is awesome but yeah. My legs, biceps, neck, shoulders, etc. never stopped being muscular. The only thing that ever resulted in muscle loss was injuring my knee and having to keep off my feet for 3 months. I basically hobbled around on the one good leg and the difference between the two became so great that I started calling one leg "Bruce Banner" and the other "The Hulk". 0/10 would not recommend, haha.
Everyone in the comments needs to chill. The story and characters up to this point have been great. His drunk reaction to learning he was his first was very realistic and stems from insecurity--how is finally getting to see beyond Mr. Perfect's facade a downgrade?? When you're older, it'll make way more sense why/how he reacted this way. Especially while inebriated (uninhibited). The "it is spring after all" (or whatever) quote was probably more in reference to some new hot tomcat openly flirting--not some justification for cheating. The writer isn't breaking established characterizations. They're finally giving these 2 love birds the character development we've been waiting for. Only thing to be upset about is how much hotter this new guy is but tbph, even that has me even more in love with this because I have faith our cute protagonist will do the right thing and reject the dude. ((Really, the worst thing we're facing is a lack of other interesting/hot side characters to pair this new hottie with in future chapters)).
Wait so was the sudden bed change also part of the dream? In 1 panel, it's a mattress on the floor. In the next, it's like a loft/top of a bunk bed. I never pay attention to these types of things but since it was explicitly stated in the text, I got confused, haha. I assume the author had someone help with backgrounds but maybe didn't realize it was going to be a focus. XD
I wonder if chairman Cha will get a spin-off. I want to see more of him.