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So my brother and his friend were walking across their college campus one day when they hear another student muttering something. They stop and listen. She's just saying "Rats? I hate rats. They drive me crazy. Crazy? I went crazy once. They put me in a hole. I died there. Then the rats came...

And suddenly we're reading Komi-san again. Kind of a weird shift but okay.

"Introverts are weak against silence." This author has never once met an introvert.

@readingsit @dankenglish If you do read the book please do let me know what you think. I'd like to hear other peoples' opinions of it.

"Guys, I think that girl likes me." "What makes you think that?" "Well, during class, she stood up, stripped off all her clothes, sat in my lap, and started grinding. For the entire duration of class, she was whispering in my ear about how much she wanted my babies and describing the house we...

"I also like fireworks."

Oh wow. This arc is going to be more action-oriented? I wonder if she's finally going to notice that he's not a eunuch. The standard trope would be him getting injured in the escape and her nursing him back to health, noticing his lack of a... lack, so to speak. Thanks for the translation!

Have you ever read the book A Brother's Price? The author actually spent some time thinking about the implications of a heavily skewed sex ratio, and it's a much more interesting piece because of it. Similar to this, about a 10:1 ratio. The book revolves around aristocracy and landowners, who...

As every zombie movie teaches us, always double-tap. Gotta make sure the readers know this relationship isn't heading there.

Finally someone calls it out...

One of my favorite books (and the only romance-genre book that I don't find unbearably disturbing) has this as a major component! A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer. She goes into detail with how much that unbalanced male-female ratio changes political and cultural values too - for one thing...

I want to push back on this a little. I agree with pretty much everything you said about the existential horror of childhood (if anything, I think the systems of childrearing and education are even worse than you state; to my mind, most education is ritualized, formalized child abuse), but...

I love this trope. It's probably a bit mean, but it speaks so much to me; to have your illusions shattered, to have every excuse and petty rationalization cut out from under you, to have the guilt of your false beliefs and prejudices squeeze your heart, until it feels like you're choking on your...

My all-time hated trope is tsundere characters; I don't get why anyone finds them interesting or entertaining. They act more like mobile drama balls than sympathetic characters. I've wanted desperately for an MC to react to their bullshit with a simple, "Oh, you don't like me? Fair enough, I...

"B-but I have a boyfriend!" "So does spaghetti until it gets wet..."

The world-building in this series is... painful. "Is that one of those magical silver foxes that can turn into humans?" "Yes, but there's no way it has enough mana to turn into a human!" Then why do they think those foxes can turn into humans? Why does every chapter make it sound like everyone...

Unlike the makers of that lottery game, who twirl their mustaches while tying the hopes and dreams of children to railroad tracks.

The Tomoki's Dick arc is the greatest comedic story arc in manga and I love every minute of this nonsense.