Mousou Telepathy - Vol. 5 Ch. 446 - Seems Like you Finally Noticed

[LupusVir]

...There's no twist here if he was, in fact, thinking lewd stuff, though...? Like it just becomes "her imagery isn't accurate", and, "her imagination of what the guy she knows is thinking lewd things might be thinking, is vivid". That doesn't even end with concluding she is horny, much less that he isn't (the supposed twist).

But also, separately: You're now thinking of taking it all the way to "everything she parses from him is potentially made up, not just the images, so long as there's some vague tenuous connection to what he's thinking"

And sure, yeah, that could fix this whole problem if taken far enough—but then if the readings she has of his and others' thoughts are that far divorced from peoples actual thoughts and so unreliable in every aspect, it immediately opens up other plot-holes—most importantly how and why she's reading everyone else's thoughts so closely and accurately in all other circumstances.

And honestly: An author could still navigate all of that and retcon it successfully with the right excuses. It's doable. But the legwork hasn't been put in here and it instead seems more to just be hoping the audience doesn't remember all the details that would make the proposed explanation problematic.

The twist is that she is also horny, not that he isn't horny.

Look. Mainly, I just think it's not a retcon like you were saying. This was clearly planned a long time ago. However exactly it works and what the balance is between their two horny levels and what was presented. I don't really care. I just think it's wrong to say the author is retconning stuff when this was the intention from the beginning.

Bottom line is, he is supplying the fantasies, but she is the one that has to visualize them, and she wouldn't be able to if she didn't have the requisite levels of lewd knowledge and horny. All the imagery is having to go through her own mental lense, so the result is influenced by her, whether that makes it more or less lewd depends on how lewd the original was in that instance.

Sorry about the edit, figured I might as well rather than a new comment since you haven't replied yet.

 

[himi-cat]

The twist is that she is also horny, not that he isn't horny.

Look. Mainly, I just think it's not a retcon like you were saying. This was clearly planned a long time ago. However exactly it works and what the balance is between their two horny levels and what was presented. I don't really care. I just think it's wrong to say the author is retconning stuff when this was the intention from the beginning.

Bottom line is, he is supplying the fantasies, but she is the one that has to visualize them, and she wouldn't be able to if she didn't have the requisite levels of lewd knowledge and horny. All the imagery is having to go through her own mental lense, so the result is influenced by her, whether that makes it more or less lewd depends on how lewd the original was in that instance.

Sorry about the edit, figured I might as well rather than a new comment since you haven't replied yet.

Yeah, after reading everything up to now over the last few days I definitely recall a number of spots a while ago where I went "huh? that person's face doesn't match what we've already seen" - it didn't really register as anything significant until now, though.

Bottom line is, if this is retconned the author must have gone back and edited past pages . . .

 

[LupusVir]

Yeah, after reading everything up to now over the last few days I definitely recall a number of spots a while ago where I went "huh? that person's face doesn't match what we've already seen" - it didn't really register as anything significant until now, though.

Bottom line is, if this is retconned the author must have gone back and edited past pages . . .

Which might be possible if we were reading the original Japanese on an official site. But the author has no control of past chapters here.

 

[Frostisss]

She just realize they gave him a bat-credit card.