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Edit: Mangadex posted my comment twice for some reason and I can't delete it :/

If anyone was confused by Midou's reference of the night bell: The night bell is a Buddhist tradition wherein temples ring their bells 108 times on new years. Each ring represents a human sin, and the hope is that ringing the bells removes any sins committed in the past year. The bell is rung...

So this was a very well written depiction of the kinds of feelings you get after being sexually assaulted. The self hatred, the attempts to pretend it never happened, the fear of intimacy. It was all conveyed in a way that really resonated with me. Which is why it is inexcusable that it ends...

@Thrembs Regarding the work trip example, I think you might be right, since I remember being a bit confused by that conversation when I read the translation. At the time I assumed I'd misunderstood the raws, but maybe not. It has been like 6 months since I read chapter 15 raws though, and...

@Thrembs Could you give some specific examples? I admit I haven't read through this chapter raw since it came out, but the only thing that jumped out to me was the "pleasure-hungry lover" line, which sounded less like a porno line in the original dialogue, at least to me, and was more of an...

Kei's so cool! What a good friend.

@Thrembs Yeah, everyone has their own tolerance level for prejudice in media. What feels authentic to one person may feel excessive to another person, depending on their personality and experiences. I can certainly see the appeal in what you describe: a supportive main cast facing external...

@AllosaurusJei That makes me wonder what Japanese law would make of something like shared motherhood IVF, i.e. where a lesbian couple has a child by having one partner donate their egg, and impregnating the other partner via IVF+a sperm donor. In that scenario, both the biological and birth...

Yay character development! I like how they show Koto's full journey from a self-loathing lesbian terf to a self-accepting lesbian ally. A lot of LGBT stories either avoid bigotry in general, or depict homophobic/transphobic people as total villains that cannot be redeemed. The former is...

I'm torn on this manga, so I'm going to rant about it for a while. I think the subject matter is interesting - there's a lot of people who mix up sexuality with gender. Iran's forcing gay men to transition jumps to mind, and in the other direction I've know people who think trans people are...

I'm tired of going back and forth with someone who seems to want everyone to beg them before they'll deign to support their assertions, so I'm going to stop doing so. In other news, I really liked this chapter. This is a story that relies heavily on subtleties of narration to convey emotion...

@Oeconomist Why should I trust you conducted a deep analysis just because you said you did? You're a random internet person who hasn't shown me any evidence. For someone obsessed with fallacies you sure do like appeals to authority.

@Oeconomist So with your C# example it is easy to verify. Even people who can't distinguish a C# can listen to the tone from a website back-to-back with the note under dispute. I think a better musical comparison is listening to a two similar-sounding bands in the same genre, and arguing the...

@Kaarme I agree that its really hard to be an open crossdresser at school and most workplaces, particularly in Japan, but it certainly isn't impossible. There are remote schooling options to complete classes online, as well as remote work options for many jobs. Plenty of remote workers work in...

@icekatze Sorry but I just don't see the same things you're seeing. Nanoha politely declines to go to lunch, and then says "Plus... It seems like someone has more fun without me!" in an annoyed tone. Note she isn't yelling because her speech bubble is normal, in contrast to Chidori on the next...

@JavelinJoe Yeah, I like that head-cannon too, even if I doubt it's the author's plan. My point was just that two friends arguing isn't suspicious, so even if the 3 friends don't know, the fight won't change that.

@icekatze She was trembling because she was mad at being disrespected. One of the friends even says "She's really pissed." In regards to outing her: their friends all know Nanoha and Chidori are best friends, even if they don't know they are dating. And close friends have arguments. I can...

@Lilliwyt I'll somewhat defend Nanoha here. From her perspective, Chidori has been whispering with a mutual female friend, and when Nanoha asked a reasonable question about what they talked about, Chidori responds by blushing and saying "Its a secret." I'm sure Nanoha trusts Chidori, but its...

That was rather horrifying. When Red said Wolf tasted like blood I hoped they would do a twist and have it be like chicken blood or something less horrifying. But nope, just straight up murder. I didn't like this at all.

I enjoyed this series. I liked how Akina started alone, made a few friends, then reconnected with old friends, then connected with their her friend's friends, then her brother's friends, etc. It expanded from a small cast of 3 people to this large web of loose associations and...