Recent content by MidnighTea

Thank for picking this up, even if it was just for this one chapter! Because it's totally worth reading and sharing. I'm impressed by how much this manga "gets" how orientation works. Hormones contribute to a lot. Hormones do affect your brain. However your spiritual and emotional values are...

Okay, that last page was awesome and unexpected. This mangaka is an awesome writer.

@Rukja Re: personal space -- that varies greatly by culture, just as laws do. I would say if you're standing in less than four feet of someone and staring at them intensely, you're absolutely in their space. But I'm sure that's very different in Japan and even in different parts of Japan. And...

@Rukja Violating someone's personal space and causing them to feel unsafe, is in, fact the very legal definition of assault in many places. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/assault In turn, it's also often legally defensible for the would-be victim to proactively defend themselves from the...

@Mikhail Well, in Oniishimai the situation was very literally forced on the big brother to try and make him be someone he hasn't been. Whereas in this case, Akira opened that pandora's box himself and his big sis is more speeding up the process he himself willingly initiated. Seems like...

Just want to point out that the term is "manhua" when talking about Chinese language comics. "Manwha" is Korean. This story does have some of the hallmarks of an aughties TG webcomic so it's kinda nostalgic to read. The switching aspect I'm so-so about, but I'm really curious to see the...

Thanks for the translation! I'm enjoying this so far.

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I love this manga but I'm not gonna lie, elephant-kun has become a pretty lazy way of raising tension.

I do think part of the story's point is how much gender identity is pretty illusory. The same traits that made Riko a shy... ugh, "beta" (I hate the people who use that term unironically) as a guy also make her completely moe as a middleschool girl. As to the others, they've been forcibly...

@Kabeidon Is there anything the gender bender takes away from this chapter? I'm surprised you made it up to halfway through the second volume while disliking the genre if that's the case. Wherever I may disagree with your tastes, I can definitely respect your willingness to read something you...

It's funny how Riko doesn't realize just how moe they are.

@reu I genuinely hope that isn't what's being set up because that angle would be pretty shallow plot development in what is otherwise a surprisingly "real" story like this. But I guess we'll have to see.

@reu That's literally the only perspective I need and literally the only perspective that matters when criticizing a work. The writer's responsibility is to get me, the reader, to share the character's perspective. If they cannot manage, they failed. They failed in my case. They didn't fail in...

@reu That doesn't really address my point that "Senpai" is little more than a cipher. I'm all for a well-done hetero pairing, I'm less enthused when one of the pairing has about the same amount of depth and personality as a square of drywall. To use an analogy you might understand, forget...