@Maiorem: I see I wasn't the only one to notice that. Shouta had it bad toward the end.
On a side note, and in reference to the previous chapter...when Shouta hits that age, and finally starts to notice Lucoa, it--and all the things that he's been doing with her/she's been doing to him--is...
Haru and Carol--that's all Ichinojou needed. Mareena is a HARDCORE example of excess. Haru and Carol are both lovable in their own ways, but Mareena is exactly the opposite: her most loathsome traits (the first two don't even have any negative traits worth speaking of, BTW) are almost constantly...
@TrueGoddessReincarnation: The generations most strongly influenced by postmodern thinking begin with Millennials, as they, growing up, had a high chance of being taught by subversives.
As a result, you find all of them redefining just about everything to suit their whims, throwing the order...
@ZayB: It might be so--very likely, in fact: it'd be a fine way to illustrate the hotheaded girl's hair-trigger temper. However, I think that there's another pair of reasons why it's done: first, in an attempt to appear fresh (I don't get how at this point, when it's been done for years by now)...
@ZayB: That series, once I came across it and started to learn about it, I completely wrote off the moment I found that it was yet another one in which the viewer (through the MC's perspective) is expected to regard an undeveloped piece of lolicon bait (that, under the right conditions, could...
@ZayB: When it comes to male protagonists, there are those I like, those I tolerate, and those I hate. Ousawa Akatsuki was one I liked--I didn't just tolerate him, and I was interested in his exploits. Best of all, his interactions with women weren't weak at all--completely different from what...
@deathmailrock: The idea that one should be so bothered by rape in fiction is ludicrous, to me; then again, we're in the era of "triggers", where fee-fees trump logic and even reality, and the progressive Petri dish Tumblr--though mostly dead--has infected the rest of the West with its cultures...
@ZayB: It's gotten to the point at which these male protagonists act like women. He has a body that's hardly any more built than a female's, he gets "pushed down", he's the one being strong-armed into everything, he's the one effetely begging the girl he so deeply fears not to come near him, and...
The whole thing was dumb on her part--I thought she'd be smart enough not to be goaded into a situation like this. After all, it's at the height of folly to gamble what you can not afford to lose--and that's exactly what she did.
I hope she doesn't get put on a bus, though--I like Karen. She is...
@CraniumAmbiguity: Madness? No, just an improbability.
To begin with, it wasn't an "argument", but merely a discussion characterized by disagreement. It also helps that you are talking to someone who is neither immature nor enslaved to emotion (and the two states are closely related). Many...
@CraniumAmbiguity: You're correct, fantasy world or not.
Perhaps it is meant to emphasize the depth of their mutual affection, perhaps it was a nonissue to the author (I'm inclined to think it was more of the former)--but either way, you're right. For someone as good as tactical and strategic...
I get what some have said about Olivia; I also get what the story itself said (and others have predicted) about Leon stealing Olivia's opportunities for growth.
But none of those are an excuse for what she did.
Not only did she see combat being waged outside and go running into it after...
@CraniumAmbiguity: Normally, I'd agree, but I think the setting is in a completely different world without certain influences leading women to be the Modern Women™ we're all familiar with that'd be the reasons for exactly the danger you spoke of.
Lit's entirely different--I would even say...
@exxp: I can only hope you're right. They've also been screwing up by putting their commentary over the images instead of in the margins--something scanlators have known better than to do for years, now.
@josepf864: Agreed, 100%. For some reason, a number of scanlator staff have been getting the idea that it somehow makes sense to cover the manga's images themselves with things they created, or supplant the narration of the story with words of their own.
In this case, the margins exist as a...
Poor Lumi can't catch a break with this guy Youta screwing up as much as he is.
-He pretends not to understand why she gets upset whenever he unnecessarily throws himself at other girls
-Is usually hardhearted toward her, outside the context of sex
-He has never responded to Lumi's declarations...