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It can explore those things all it wants, but the main plot reveals what the author is really saying. And what he says with the main plot is very simplistic: bullies are bad people who deserve bad things. Not every character in fiction needs to be presented with a multifaceted human...

Toshiro giving me a bit of whiplash here. #ImWithKen

Because we've seen more of Toshiro's internal conflict and he fundamentally has more empathy for the transflorated due to his ability. We also saw Yomiko affirming her convictions and taking more drastic action, like the kidnapping/indirect murder of the two opposition members. But, like I said...

I can't believe that the mom is a total psychopath. Even if she's self-centered, it does seem like she has some real love for her daughter. But the reaction to the spoilers is making me dubious about where this whole thing is headed lol.

Not really how I expected this whole thing to go, thought Yomiko would be more resolute and Toshiro more easily shaken. But it does make sense with how things have gone for each of them.

Really nice pace to these past few chapters (in no small part because of the translator's hard work on updating quickly).

Manager lady's face is pretty dang freaky. Wonder if that's stylization or if there's some bioengineering shenanigans going on here.

Objectively this guy is just impotent and powerless within his own life which is the only reason those two can manipulate him so well. Dunno what's gonna happen to him but it's hard to feel bad when he's lying in a bed of his own making here. He translates genuine concern to patronization (the...

This plan seems a little shoddy. If Ken already knows the details of Ivy's origin, he'll have no need to speak to Kudai for verification. And, of course, they're completely unaware that the anti-transfloration movement is already surveilling them due to the divulsion of Akira's involvement...

It's certainly cognitive dissonance on his part, fueled by the fact that he is attracted to her and has underdeveloped romantic skills. That he confessed so zealously was also a product of desperation on his part. I'm not saying that she shouldn't have been guarded, just that there's an ironic...

Yeah, he's definitely genuine, just remains to see how far he's willing to go in pursuit of his goals. Often we see these types compromise on their ideals as they become more obsessed/desperate, but I hope we don't go down that route. I quite like his character. Antarctica is definitely a key...

Damn that was actually great. Somehow managed to stay fresh with the same schtick for 50 chapters. Characters were good all around and it did an excellent job breathing life into a 2D puppet doll.

That was refreshingly fast paced but otherwise meh. The husband's personality felt a bit inconsistent. Really, all the characters were pretty flat, but that's the other side of the coin for the pacing.

Funnily (or not) this is much more realistic. It's not always something so impactful as throwing away a treasured gift but a preponderance of small incidents that build larger resentment until something otherwise trivial breaks the camel's back. And that's much harder to resolve because there's...

Had a lot of interesting components but never fulfilled the potential it had at the start. The throughline of the story was fine, with a repudiation of desire in both excess and deficit and an embracement of human desire and connection. Took a bit too long to get there and Nomen wasn't the most...

Not sure whether this was just cheap melodrama or a well done psychological story. I think it had some elements of the latter but generally leaned into the former, particularly with Chika's plot. Oddly it sort of dropped the thread of Osamu's loss of humanity once it fulfilled its purpose in...

Thought this was a nice story that sort of undermined itself with the . It focused a lot on desire, both the danger of overindulgence and that it is a necessary component of humanity. But I think it got a little muddled as to what it was saying about this toward the end. It was only a background...

Looks like we're heading for conflict between Toshiro and Yomiko. I think the fundamental difference between them is that he deeply empathizes with the transflorated while she doesn't. Even if her justification in this case is Ivy's crimes, it's probably a more general sentiment and a necessary...

Ultimately, that's what depression is. No escaping it.

Nice mystery! Did have some weakpoints, namely Sawako's deus ex machina via the stock prices and the fact that there was really only one candidate for the killer when accounting for the rule that they should be present in the story at or near the beginning. But otherwise enjoyed it, Takeda was a...