Lilim Holic - Vol. 2 Ch. 19 - The Feelings I Once Had

[TNT261]

Oh she's just the type to get attached easily huh? Well that sucks for her I guess.

She's going to have such a hard time in college 😭

 

[Inra002]

Thanks for the chapter!
Don't worry guys, there's no 'Harem' tag on this...yet.

soooo..... it's either a NTR or a losing heroine XD

 

[Sophie_Hokhmah]

soooo..... it's either a NTR or a losing heroine XD

ofc losing heroine, she has smaller boobs! xD

 

[SnatchinFat]

Girl…no.

Don’t do it. Leave that man alone. Even if you have feelings for him from this, don’t. Dawg a girl liking another boy is one thing. It’s another when your girlie telling you about this boy and you try to insantly sleep with him out of jealousy then YOU CAUGHT FEELINGS FOR HIM FROM ONE CONVERSATION AFTER APOLOGIZING?! HALF ASS, MIND YOU?!

Nah, girl. Rinka being a messy young girl. God damn.

 

[Mangamoz]

Critical thinking? In MY MangaDex comment section?

That's not critical thinking, it's capitulating to tired cliches.

 

[Atx271]

It's a cursed, doomed ship, yet it's headed out of harbor regardless.

Y'all are way too uptight about another girl catching feels for our boy. Losing heroines (and heroes) are an important part of a romance. They show that he's not just a low-standards horndog who'll follow the first crumb of attention he gets, and the contrast between who he likes and who he doesn't lets the story highlight what parts of their relationship bring them together.

There's a reason that stories that are all fluff with no drama, tension, or conflict are the literary equivalent of cotton candy. They might be briefly sweet, but they'll never satisfy you long term.

There is no reason that conflicts in these stories have to involve "losing love interests". This story already has one as a premise. What the MC likes and doesn't like does not require devolving another character into a designated loser role. I'm not saying this will happen here. There are fine ways to include love triangle elements. But it's ridiculous to ignore how it's often a major red flag, that never adds anything which could possibly be meaningful or satisfying. The second girl already having feelings for the male MC in the same chapter she's crying over her boyfriend ghosting her is enough to cause concern

 

[Skater901]

Rapist to rival, what a progression.

 

[RioAl]

Well looking at her circumstances it make sense, but i believe on this exact point MC will straight up reject her..... except EMU is okay with poly relationship

 

[bhoirr21]

is it just me or does she look like malfoid

 

[Zeffaso]

I am totally weak for "loser" gyarus... Emusisters...

 

[RollOmega]

Oh hell yes, that's the good shit, get the comment section ablaze

 

[BitterMatte]

I cant really connect with this manga.
I mean upon seeing a sucubbi I would immediatly start asking questions like : I you have a hat on and held i really tight. If you pop your horns do they push the hat ? Do they pierce it ? Do they merge with it ?
Is one of the last 2 same question but with your hands

And She would walk away and never look back.
The end

 

[BobBob]

I wonder how many people will feel bad for her by the time she gets rejected.

 

[Lex79]

Seems like the author couldn't resist making this another love triangle after all.

 

[GreenDude1]

Blaming your actions on your blood type is fucking stupid. There are 49 blood types in total so you are essentially saying that all of humanity can be split into 49 groups exactly with no margin of error.

 

[red168]

BACK OFF, LET ME ENJOY NORMAL ROMANCE!

 

[Friendly-Sentence710]

Feelings status: right to fully metastisized stage VI.

Thanks for the chapter!
Don't worry guys, there's no 'Harem' tag on this...yet.

You saw that blush, you saw him unintentionally rizz his way right through her defenses. Might as well add it now.

Mangaka will do annnnnnnnything to add losing heroines to their story, ESPECIALLY when they already like each other. Most likely going to be a confession into immediate ending kind of manga - zero idea how to write a story without this unnecessary and cliche side interest.

OTOH, She's an attempted rapist because she was angry-enviious her friend(?) was happy, so I'm not going to feel bad when she loses

 

[ReasonableSuspicion]

He's the succubus, FOR succubus bro 😭✌️✌️

Incubus? That's for human women though...

 

[Papa420]

Thanks for translation

 

[Tsunjigiri]

It's a cursed, doomed ship, yet it's headed out of harbor regardless.

Y'all are way too uptight about another girl catching feels for our boy. Losing heroines (and heroes) are an important part of a romance. They show that he's not just a low-standards horndog who'll follow the first crumb of attention he gets, and the contrast between who he likes and who he doesn't lets the story highlight what parts of their relationship bring them together.

There's a reason that stories that are all fluff with no drama, tension, or conflict are the literary equivalent of cotton candy. They might be briefly sweet, but they'll never satisfy you long term.

I agree with the sentiment, and yes, people tend to want to see some drama, but I also have few issues with the concept as it is usually presented - including here.

• there's plenty of valid drama and conflict that can happen, it does not need to always be the same thing
• the way the drama is executed is about as important as the type of drama it is
• lack of added interpersonal drama does not equate to lacking tension, conflict or meaningful themes that serve as satisfactory literature (there are plenty of examples out there)

he's not just a low-standards horndog who'll follow the first crumb of attention he gets

- a typical failure of the trope is that it will instead portray all the other parties (typically multiple) as this exact "low-standards" person who fall for the first crumbs (whether contextually understandable or not). Introducing secondary love interests is also something you can do well or not so well.

Thus to me the failure of this drama is not that it exists but that it's not really good.

Formulaic tropes aside, the current narrative context is such that we would already have meaningful drama and themes to tackle in myriad of other, likely better ways.

Instead, for these two to be alone right now, having this kind of heart-to-heart, her immediately falling for him, is so forced a sequence that it is worth an eyeroll or a two in my opinion.

Bad drama never leaves anyone satisfied either, after all. Remains to be seen what the author does with this.