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ahhh... Amane represented as a flower which only blooms under moonlight....

and Tsukasa, represented with a flower which can withstand the sun's heat.

the Yugi's love for one another is painful to think about...

the sun and the moon...

ゲッカビジン（月下美人、学名: Epiphyllum oxypetalum、英名: Dutchmans pipe cactus, Queen of the Night, or Princess of the Night）In Japanese, the name is something like, "beauty beneath the moon" (gekka bijin). you can read a bit about its meaning in JP here.

the summary: a night-blooming cactus flower with a beautiful white glow. its petals wither by morning, lasting only a short time.

It is a common myth as well that the flower only blooms once a year, adding an impression of rarity to its ephemera.

in the language of flowers, it communicates something like… "fragile beauty" or "fragile love", as a result.

something beautiful, seen only under the light of the moon, not meant to last.

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golden cosmos....

symbolic of 'wild beauty'. A more resilient cosmos, which can withstand the heat of the sun, more vigorous than other varieties.

the golden, scrappy, wild, beautiful little flower reminds you of someone, doesn't it, Amane....?

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I need to sit and think a long time about ... this Well-chan's demeanor compared to the one from the previous timeline.... I would really like to understand what Tsukasa ? does ? for the Well's ? psyche ? I'm invested in that poor well... I think it's the key to our happy ending, but not only as an asset, though it's difficult to articulate ... I don't want to think of it as an entirely other thing separate from the Yugi and Nene-chan, not another 'person' in that sense, but .... more like..... *trails off, ambling into the distant horizon*

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ch 120

OFF WE GO

First off... I like how tiny itty bitty Amane feels in this promo image... I wonder if drawing the grown-up Amane is making Aida-sensei reaaaaaally mentally shrinkify the 13 year old boy, really impress in her mind he's young, small, weedy ... he feel soooooo little boy here

ughhh i was soooo excited for the full color spread of Amane x Nene-chaaaaan... OHHH THE GHOUULLLLLL!! red red red ... makes Nene-chan's red eyes feel like Amane's destiny, right? ♥♥♥♥

classic horny horny horny panels hahaha mmmmmm... sensei loves to put Nene-chan in such gripping peril...

I'm so fascinated by well-chan's perspective on human desires, expectations.... I don't see it as an evil entity, but a confused and mixed-up one. Human's desires are what dictate a kaii's nature ... humans revered the well, prayed to it, honored it, and created a narrative wherein bodies offered to it were to be grateful, thankful, eager to fall to the bottom, offered 'paradise'.. it was seen as a protector of the village, something it relied on, necessary for peace & prosperity, a pillar of the community, a God, not a Monster ... different.

all the same, the people thrown into it resent it, wither bitter and resentful ... there's nothing consistent or easy to understand about what humans want, whether they like or dislike, respect or fear, want or dread... I feel there's nothing 'obvious' ... I don't think there's an opportunity to become something 'nice' in a human, comprehensible sense. Just a mess of the extremes fed into it for centuries ...

in some way, I have to find its sentiments beautiful... or pure, for what they are.

mouuuuuu;;; made me emo... how sweet of an impulse for Nene-chan... the well entity exists outside of conventional time and order of events, right....? I think it can be confused and mixed-up (as much as Tsukasa can in every timeline...) easily, there must always be shades and impressions deep down corridors of itself... I really love what Tsukasa being merged with it seems to do to his mind, so I'm really endeared by this poor muddled little Amane, mess of stimuli.... beautiful sad girl crying....

such an Amane-like expression, it makes me feel forlorn....

these poor twins..

sweeties... lost confused things..... threadbare...

pretty girl crying in your hazy memory... what a perfect 'first impression' of Nene-chan to stick inside of you... poor confused creature, Amane....

I really appreciate you Nene-chan!!!! you're right you know, that's not the right age at all!!! I don't blame you for trying to rationalize it... in moments like this Nene-chan feels like such a direct audience surrogate ... when she does things like try to postulate about the injured Amane in the Bookstacks, you know, calling out the obvious thing in plain sight, which we'll be pulling apart as not-the-case....

I'm happy its said plainly that he's killing many people... it's funny we've abandoned a world where Amane has murdered one person in a passion, for another world where Amane is made to kill wantonly, without a personal touch...

it makes the previous Amane's actions feel entirely self-directed, doesn't it? Not under a curse, but his own decision... something important, a special reason....

I want to know why that would was so precious... I believe it is our most precious reality...

anyways, Kou having been killed by Amane is so great ahahhahaha, I love it!!!! Really thrilled us when reading the MANGAUP like UWAAAAAHHH!!!! I don't feel anything about particular panels... but it is a great decision.

So many people came to the Red House, I had thought "how are we going to divide up all of these people sensibly?" because of course, you can't constantly have 5 characters interacting in every scene, it's too many cooks in the kitchen (not that a lot of things don't do that wwwww, but I feel AidaIro tend to create a tighter cast for insular events).... simply killing off Mitsuba and Kou for this timeline is hilariously efficient, GODBLESS!!!!!!! They got so many panels for the early chapters this arc so I feel there's no love lost... and we'll certainly have to deal with Mitsuba's exploding body when we get back to 'our' timeline anyhow.... so, it's a solid move--!!!

I kindof loved how they got 'shelved' for the latter half of the far-shore arc (and again, it was a fine counterbalance to all the Kou/Teru we got at the start of that with the train.... they simply had their turn).... I loved how they were like facedown in a puddle while other important events happened wwwww... I sincerely think AidaIro give all of their characters their due time, and aren't as quick to abandon characters or relegate them to being randos as a lot of (particularly shounen) manga....

I'm sure some people won't like it, but I feel we were given such a clear image of Mitsuba & Kou's life in this world. If I cared about them, I'd be happy to play in that space for ages. It's a well-constructed little playhouse.

we're all so curious...

he's the most interesting thing in the entire universe, in every universe, isn't he?

it must be said that this is a well-drawn and interestingly-constructed panel... sensei is very good at a scary crop.

GODDDDDDD seeing Nene-chan pulled towards the well is the scariest thing ever, but it also makes me feel hungry with a deep profound lust ... ouhhghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh give the girl to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I prommy to take good care of herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ouuuuuououuuuu *shakes this off of me*

anyway.

Love to see Teru blast Kou--!!!!! What an amazing situation HAHAHAHAHAH this is like a dream, I love this for Teru....! I've always imagined he'd completely back Kou no matter what, but this situation is interesting... it's not 'his' Kou, at least... he's wanting to 'go back' to the one who is stupid and helplessly dependent on him, innocent and naive ... but ah, it's still miserable and horrifying, I love for such a real trauma to strike Teru! Ahhh having to exorcise your cute little brother like an old yeller situation.... hahahaahahaaaaa. Heehoo---!! AIDAIRO-SENSEI'S PARTY!!!

go ride that train together lads.... lol... it's really funny .... they doied.... RIP... I'm sorry, but I kind of hope this arc lasts years in real earth time and they're just gone for that long .................................... I would like to focus on those who are left behind , and even how this influences Teru and Akane's demeanor overall... well, even Aoi... Teru is typically such an obnoxious guy, and able to play off a lot of emotions... I know Akane has a lot of sympathy for that poor dumb animal, deep down, perceptive to Teru's lonliness (though it doesn't alter how annoying or ungracious Teru is, Akane is just too kind to ever really abandon him...). In a situation like this even Aoi has to be grounded... an interesting dynamic left behind here--!!!!!!

I like how harsh and without any kind of pleasantry or flourish... don't have anything left inside of you for performances of grace!!!! I like it I like it.... show me the realest Teru ... !

So edged with the inner chambers of the well-chan </3 let me see her </3 </3 </3 ohhhh let me seeee </3

I like the small detail of Akane using his phone flashlight to peer into the well's depths....

you've never looked better, Teru! I want to see you like this (: let's stop jerking people around and being capricious, alright...? It's a deflection at the best of times anyway, isn't it.... in one way or another.

I'm eager for the next chapterrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a wonderful turn of events!

huge fan of what we're left with here!

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RIP kou and mitsuba, this is the funniest update. I'll do a proper post later

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ouhhhhHGHHHhhhhgghghghh thank god Aida-sensei messed up Tsukasa's seal, so we inexplicably get to see Ghost Hotel twins interacting, PLEAAAAASE!!!!! you always get along better than anyone thinks, don't you, Yugi? Amane worrisome oniichan muttering abunai abunai while he fixes up your seal for you.... oh no oh no....! like you scraped up your knee or put your shirt on backwards... fussing with you... Tsukasa feeling so compliant like you'd expect otouto getting fixed n fussed with .... patiently standing still while Amane fix up the mistake...... what a good pair of brothers.... hug my pillow >< myuuuuuuu.....

also, it's definitely yet still apparent that Tsukasa is missing a hand in this AU ... you don't even see that hand in this illustration, which feels intentional....

sooo soooo glad TsuNene swapped for this event mmmuuuuuu ♥♥♥♥ Amane your girlies....!!!! your touyssssss!!!!!

sooo cute when Tsu is haunts her like this hehehheehe....bovver bovver bovver!!

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with no ability to really know what is going to happen or has happened, what would be my own ideal ...

I would love the Clockeepers to have had a hubris and just be fucking obliterated or sublimated into whatever Amane has going on, powerless. I would love for the twist to be that they just don't really have a simple ripcord to pull like Akane thinks. I like Amane and Tsukasa as such disruptors, the likes of which the system has no good plan for controlling, especially with Nene-chan acting together with them, with all her special powers. I'm not sure if it's plausible at all though, given Akane still has his yorishiro from the clockkeepers.... <- but we still don't know what really happens to a yorishiro that is 'taken over' by another 'mystery'.... other than that Mitsuba just didn't seem to have one anymore at all, so he clearly didn't longterm inherit the Tengu's in a meaningful way (though in Hell of Mirrors, Hanako seemed to briefly still believe they could strip the ceiling yorishiro to fix things? So is there a holdover period? would having a new yorishiro have just made Mitsuba more stable/powerful ? did his bond to the Tengu's gradually lessen ? was it still technically there, bonding him to the system of Mysteries at all, just not ... well? he definitely had his own properties due to his condition after all, much like how everything about Hanako isn't a result of being a mystery, but a result of his specific situation...)

anyway. Mitsuba's situation is obviously waiting in the wings for a proper explanation (it wouldn't have been introduced at the end of the Festival otherwise... Iro-sensei does pick things back up later)... which makes me suspect it will come into play in some way.... even just in service to an explanation ... I also think learning something about the usurping of yorishiro would be verrrryyy valuable for analyzing Tsukasa...

anyway (a second time). I'd love Akane to not have the sway he thinks he does in this situation. Everyone got pretty owned by the Clockkeepers last round, we've already proven their Big Power so, no need to do that a second time.

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JSHK makes me think about this, if only because somehow, I feel so evenly served by AmaTsu and HanaNene, and then I watch everyone be so appreciative of the delicious cake baked, it's like there's no difference at all.... its all about loooooooove.... I'll see everyone in the next hell....

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how to say this ... I feel such a peace observing fandoms lately, and enjoying all sorts of things ... I think it's wonderful how little difference there is between m/m and m/f or f/f, in terms of the spirit of it...

Whether it is Mono/Six, or shipping Captain/nu3 agents in Splatoon, there's a wonderful spirited delusion ... I think if you think something like, "hetero shippers have everything handed to them on a silver platter!" its just not true wwwww, there are so many delusional hetshippers, imagining a pairing from crumbs of evidence, or in canons with no romance, or characters with little to no dialogue... zooming in on a blurry piece of text, reading into a random tweet from officials, drawing a wild conclusion from a very brief interaction, screencapping two people barely touching and dying ... it's so invigorating when I observe it all over, in anything, that persevering thirst. I used to have an impression of this kind of "living in desperation" was more exclusive ....

That's also to say ... I think there are entitled or canon-contingent-obsessive people in any sort of space, aren't there? As time marches on and fandom changes, it feels more and more true ... I couldn't say this sense of sameness of all shipping, used to exist quite so much when I was young (and I'm 32), but there's a different kind of atmosphere now... and it's one where the spirit of a shipper is so self-directed wwwww.... delusion can come from anywhere, isn't that so beautiful? I really like seeing someone's heartfelt perception persevering.... I'm feeling there's less and less distinction between the genders of characters in a pairing....

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ch 119

WOOOOOO!!!! its endless fun at the JSHK

we don't know herrrrrrr... who is she! Lovely little Red House...

thankful for DBS, as the manga-UP upload (as it displayed on our tablet, I guess?) was too low-res to make this out even, let alone read it... medicine... the satchels that Amane would dissolve in water for his heart condition, and a cup of water? and some pills...

I wonder if that would simply mean, that Tsukasa never sacrificed himself at age 4 ... I would say the panel from Amane's birthday, it resembles moreso the clockkeeper's tall silhouette before young Amane... perhaps they made their proposition for a 'better' world simply, as they did in Nene-chan's dream, with her plant?

I don't know ... but it would be interesting to imagine an Amane, who simply was able to persevere through illness with medication, and still takes medication til his death (???).... a Tsukasa who was unable to do anything personally to save Amane, is interesting ... just a useless double-figure, no sacrifice to make. That is interesting to me, with Tsukasa's lack of self-value... his suicidal tendencies.

This world has a nearly unbearable amount of mystery... how did you get Tsukasa back? Do you understand what became of him? How much persisting love could 4 year old Amane have had, for his little brother? He's still on your mind, to this day ...

the cups which were immaculate and filled with tea on the table for Kou & Mitsuba, smashed ...

fun.

THE MOST UPSETTING THING IMAGINABLE!!!! what happened to your OTOUTO!!!!!!! screams.... a lone young Yugi.... scary, terrible, no no no!!!!

this made us laugh so hard at the manga-up release LOL

in just seconds we lost Nene-chan.....

Ahh one of those sublime Aida-sensei compositions... incredible... beautiful, evocative, heart-wrenching... Amane is such a labyrinth, isn't he... I love bandage boy looming over the edge of the stairs, refusing to walk up them further, poised to fall off entirely... so appropriate. And Hanako, pleasantly in place, not going anywhere....

I always love your instincts, Nene-chan. They're so strong. she's a good girl.

I don't know what to make of Kou, I have no idea what the house did with him when it disappeared him, what pulled him into that room, why, for what ...

s-scares me that this is still here in this world too.... please... why is Nene-chan destined to lose a leg or something... help....

N-Nene-chan, that's quite a strange impression of the Red House for you to have... thank you for being so kind to her, though... I think she's pretty misunderstood.... lets admire her wonder and mystery, ok?

there he is.... he has that kind of idiot quality to him... meep.

such an unbelievably beautiful shot....

Aida-sensei is a master... beautifully orchestrated... such a sweet Nene-chan... poor thing, poor thing...

it's like seeing an angel, right? Like seeing a fairy... I love Aida-sensei's taste for nervous gestures, hands...

the explosive Nene-chan hug moment!! It reminds me.....

of another......

she's both of your little fairy...

it's reassuring to see Amane looking this dumb and useless. It's comforting. It's familiar. Thank you.

yes. I understand Nene-chan would find it sexy.

ughf

[loses focus] get a blowjob idiot, get . suckedoff.... [SHAKES HEAD AROUND FURIOUSLY]

buffoon.... it's really calming to see you retain this quality, and also, it's not calming at all,

I love.... the blank-eyed blank-mouth Amane look.... becoming captivated...

oh Nene-chan... what wonderful lighting, what wonderful framing, so pretty. Nene-chan's stiff, strict pose, Amane's haphazard sloppy pose, his knit socks... fascinated, curious face....

you poor thing.... questions it hurts to ask.

I admire Nene-chan so much ... speaking from a Tsukasa perspective, I understand what it is like to have no good place in Amane's life, to imagine you're not the endgame, to imagine the best timeline in the world is one without need for you, a life with more delightful things filling it up, more happiness, intrinsically without you, without your love... though in my case, I accept it, and it's OK to die, since Amane is the only thing that could matter.... but I love to see Nene-chan confronting the pain of that very possibility for herself, the agony, is so earnest, so honest.... she wants more than anything to be special, because it's romantic, her romantic heart, she burns for significance in her love, in her passion amounting to something, in being some kind of good, her heart guiding her towards the right thing .... and not her heart guiding her selfishly, or uselessly, towards something with no room for her in it.... what I swallow, Nene-chan could never swallow, but that makes her special. It's sweet to cling and cling... to beg and cry.... what a wonderful love it is that sobs.

I feel for her so much, it would be easier to cry for her than for myself. Of course, Nene-chan could never be useless or unnecessary, she's so integral, to any chance for Amane's happiness. There can't be a world of a happy Amane without Nene-chan. Her sense for divine romance is correct, and it's something that everything in the world longs for, that kind of sentimentality... human and kaii alike, even kami. All the world it~ loves a lover~ 'cuz the lover~ loves the world~

bewitching, right? so nice to see him feeling this, even at this age... I'm sure he's never looked at another student this way. Or felt anything like this. This girl's intense feelings... radiating outward... unimaginable how thick and syrupy, right? it'll change the temperature of the room....

another beautiful panel by Aida-sensei.... so much envy for how she draws hair! I love how thin and floppy Nene-chan's feels... draping from the back of her head, over her downturned face... such a cute little pursed mouth. Impossible for her to keep her pain inside, she's not that type at all... too honest....

uaaaahhhhh 🙈it's TOO MUCH FOR THE GIRLS, AIDAIRO-SENSEI!!!! you can't do this to us/them.... noooo!!! isn't it wrong, it's like picking on the vulnerable..... iyaaaaa

such a sweet, heartfelt manga... the romance is so vivid... darling and sweet...

I like how much it hurts you, Nene-chan... I like how much you cry for it... you can't be happy for the idea of Amane's happiness alone... you wish you could give it yourself, be a part of it. You wish it included you. You wish it came from you. It's so painful because it's so selfish.... it's a wrong feeling to have. Your body wants to reject it. It feels distracted from the 'point' of happiness... what you 'want'. You 'want' a good future for Amane ... but some part of you must be begging for this world to be terrible, so you can have what you love back in your arms, for the happiness you alone could carve out for him. I respect that pain so so much.... you don't want it to be selfish to love Amane...

BIG FINISH!!!!!!!!

I love to see it yeessssss cheering hollaring whooping laughing cackling bones creaking in pain and pleasure

SHOW MEEEEEE THE SCARYYYYYYY MAN BRINGGGG HIM TO MEEEEE!!

I seriously wonder what the deal is in this situation, my god!! we all do of course... CAPTIVATING... this age Amane being here at all is a kind of time anomaly anyway, he isn't the right age and he isn't working at the school, yet here he is grading papers... does the conditions of his situation oscillate him between memoryless states? Does he operate on the living teacher .exe regularly, or is this genuinely a moment back in time? Only performed or really happening years ago? But the Amane in the school, itself, engaged with the topic of Tsukasa-kun, the rumors, likely the house (which he logically lived in, if we see him in it here now, settled)..... there just can't be a 'version' of him ignorant or helpless or only subjected to the house as an external ill, as he was seemingly actively perpetuating the school's possessions and sending students here. Fascinated by an Amane who is briefly so ignorant but can be triggered into his own memories and involvement .... is teacher.exe just so much easier to exist in while inactive?

the Red House, she seems to always exist untethered from time ...

well I'm deeply ready for the next issue's color opening, BRING MEEEE THE SCARY AMANE MANHANDLING NENE-CHAN...!!!!!! I want to know what we do with teens in this spooky mansion... what a thrilling story.

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God. Amane grew into his gigantic ghoul hands like a great dane. omens and portents in those strangulating knuckles

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is the adult-hole-yugi at the house a second amane or an older tsukasa?

what do you mean "a second Amane"? It appears to be Amane-sensei. The one and only. There is no 'second'. It is highly unlikely Tsukasa lived to be an adult... Young Tsukasa appears to be at the school. There are 2 Yugi, so them being in respective locations separate from one another should not be so confusing. You saw one, now you are seeing the other.

The Amane-sensei we saw at the school was not a present-day Amane. He is long retired, or possibly dead; Tsuchigomori no longer works with him, as we saw. Nene-chan only saw him briefly, because of a time anomaly, which happen at Kamome around the festival. That is a PAST Amane-sensei, that Amane-sensei is NOT PRESENT IN THE SCHOOL in 2015. You saw a shadow from the past, then.

The Yugi-sensei we saw in Ch. 115 was from 1982, making him 27 years old, then.

Amane and Tsukasa were born in 1955. The present-tense of the manga is in 2015. That would make Yugi Amane, if he was around earnestly in 2015, working in the school or otherwise, 60 years old!!!!

The Yugi Amane in the Red House appears closer to 27 than he is to 60. We don't know why that is. He may have died relatively young after reaching adulthood, or became a kaii, at some point. We don't know why or how... but there is no need to imagine 'a different Amane' or 'another Amane'.

We saw an Amane-sensei at age 27 willfully spreading rumors around his school to students. A rumor about his brother, Tsukasa, a kaii which then possessed students.

Now, we are seeing the same Yugi Amane speaking casually to seemingly dozens of students souls trapped within the Red House... the house he lived in as a child.

This is the one and only Yugi Amane!

he has an incredible range.

But I think he's been suspicious since the first moment we saw him, right? We're just finally cashing in on that ominous aura.

There's nothing incongruous about the actions of this teacher, and the actions of this figure in the Red House.... if you ask me.

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ch. 118

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it is scary that there is 2 (still) hot (implies fresh, newly made) cups of tea for them when they wake up here, lol?

I don't have as much of an impression of the house Itself doing things (it feels ... more parsed INTO Tsukasa and Amane...?) so... did Amane make them tea....? Extremely psychofink thing to do if so, love that for him.

absolutely terrifying... ahhh Amane!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥

the implication of these bodies in WATER is interesting, of course ... I've got a longstanding delusion that the God of the Red House was originally something like a river or reservoir...? Something humans once relied on, worshipped and adored, which escalated it to God-status as per shinto beliefs... then perhaps, further human mythologizing turned it into what we see today. After all, women are plunged into water in the village, and dissolve into water under the house... and of course, it was a well which still tapped into this water, which the Red House was built on & which could still access it.

So, ah. Not surprising water might be a factor here too....

I like the 'aquarium' vibe behind the glass, appropriate for Kou and Mitsu eh (:

the outfit he died in, ya? It's kind of funny if somehow a kaii was related to this death lol.... ? Kou is all proud...

this outfit is just interesting lol.. the zipper on the sleeve. Somehow it makes me feel like it makes sense he thinks the form granted to him when Tsukasa blesses him into a Mystery is 'cool'...

I hadn't expected a fight for dominance, in this way, or that the past timeline would have such a vivid sense of self and identity. It's neat though, I enjoy being this haunted, and having to feel this inferior to it. Oppressive...! Surprised it naturally wants to demand you forfeit to it....

We really are upping the ante from Picture Perfect...

Kou is not a submissive person in the least, it's hard to imagine any Kou would willingly to cede to another... that cannot bode well for him lol. I wonder if he will be kicking against everyone else trying to right the timeline..... I would personally love it if Nene-chan and Kou wound up on opposite ends of "what should happen".... the biggest thing I want for Kou, among other things, is for him to have a truly selfish desire, and be driven to hurt innocent people in defense of it... I just think that would be the most interesting challenge for our noble do-good classic shounen-style lad.

I also LONG have wanted him to finally have some sort of an ultimate side, when it comes to Mitsuba VS Nene-chan. As it is, he's been able to be 'loyal' to them both, as their sides don't conflict so harshly. He has a nebulous 'save you' desire towards both, but he's also pretty useless on how to execute that, and generally being Around Nene-chan so much leads him to neglecting Mitsuba, leaving him to the dogs (broadcast club), and making Mitsuba feel worthless & disposable to him. I'd like it if he finally had so much imperative towards Mitsuba (in a world he isn't close to Nene-chan at all!) that Nene-chan is made into an enemy (there's really nothing for her in this timeline, if Amane wasn't even a happy person, is there?).

My problem with Kou is he does a lot of fence-sitting! With Teru, with Mitsuba, with Hanako, with Nene-chan.... his position on everything is middling. His most stern declaration recently was "make everybody happy" which honestly isn't an endgame to me, it's just more fence-sitting. I don't really think this manga values or rewards that kind of generalized 'goodness'...

anyway I think Mitsuba has some kind of fetish for this

Mitsuba has this strange unwellness to him in any timeline, doesn't he... he's interesting like this. As this trait comes to the surface more often, I find him more charming... he seems a little crazy underneath the performance of generic loud fussiness. and I like that being a kaii or dying young with no friends, isn't the thing that made him like this....

a fun whimsical attitude towards his own death!

But he's always willing to die so long as someone (other than his mom lol) would miss and mourn him, right? I wonder if his reservations are absolved by already knowing Kou would cry and lose it.

and then.... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

oh gosh oh goshhhh ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

HI HONEY!!!! HELLO !!!!! HIIIIII YOU LOOK AMAAAAAZING ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!!!!!!! tired and worn... mmm this is the kind of look I want for an older Amane, for sure for sure! Ohhh I knew it ♥♥♥♥♥♥ I knew you were up to something ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ how many kids have been lead here, how many tortured souls do you need? I love that they seemed to earnestly want to help Mitsuba, but couldn't help looking terrifying and suspicious. Poor things don't want to see yet more souls become trapped with them....

these trapped souls SHOULD be happy, Amane!!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I'm sure they're going to be part of something useful to you!! I'm sure I'm suuuure ♥♥♥♥♥ whatever you need them for is more important than their lives ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it's good to do as you please.... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

I can't believe WEEEE look like this eeuueuuuuu... delightful ♥♥♥ IT'S GREAT TO SEE YOU!!! matching Yugi.... ♥♥♥♥♥

Ough. I'm suspended in terror, just thinking about this MAN interacting with Nene-chan. I'm terribly worried for her. Oh gosh oh gosh. RUN GIRL!!!! What on earth will this creep feel about a Nene-chan.... she's coming to his house!!! RIGHT NOW!!! ouhhfgg.... you're going to see a girl who is all nice with it....

and Nene-chan.... what will she think of you!!! Youuuu handsommmmmmmme devillllllllllll..... ♥♥♥♥♥♥ I'm wooorried for her!! I'm also worried about your tiny baby otouto wwwwww

uhffg he's so small. HELP lol!!!!!! this fuckin CREEPER... AAOAOAuouu

your otouto he feels so innocent.... lost & confused......

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AMANE WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR OTOUTO!!!!!!

in other news, this Amane certainly isn't physically the age we would expect him to be at this point in time, had he aged organically. He's closer to the age he was when working at the school (maybe a little older...), but that was some time ago. So is he dead? Or did he become something else? Did he live in the Red House for his child + adult life? What happened to their parents? While Amane was spreading rumors, was he maintaining something else at home, or did he only begin this nonsense here after dying? Did he live in a normal apartment in life, but managed this property on the side, intending to occupy it later.....? It was sitting abandoned, as far as we can tell... did he wait for his parents to die? So many questions...

but uhhfffff my satisfaction.... showww meeeee the baggy-eyed grim Amane... I've been enjoying spectating JP thirst for him.... you'll have all the girls at your feet if you look like that, Amane.... we love a demented sick boy.......

[2n2n]

A splatoon-world dream I had. I really liked it, and it was very detailed. I'll report it as it was, but I'll also extrapolate details to complete the story as faithfully as I believe it would have gone, based on inference, and what 'feels true/right'.

In it, I was an octoling girl with typical long maroon-colored tentacles. I would place myself at around 14.

I was a very energetic girl, genki, excitable. Though at my work, very diligent! Very technologically proficient, well-educated as an Octoling, patient, enduring. Never complaining!

My base of operations was a large structure in a mountainous region. This remote area is actually on the surface, on a rare, tiny island of land, which the Inklings have not noticed in the middle of a vast sea. It is our only chance to study certain matter, but we cannot be loud, obvious, or build large structures here. We must remain very, very secretive, beneath the shadow of overwhelmingly tall evergreen.

This hidden facility contained hub rooms, which were bubble-shaped, with tubelike narrow hallways connecting them. The structure was made of thick metal, chrome and black, very utilitarian, with nothing obfuscating piping, wires, control panels, support beams, gauges, etc. I would say Hadron Collider levels of industrial excess, densely packed into as small of a space as possible.

This facility had a small team of people in it; perhaps only 6 or so Octolings, and a supervisor to oversee on-site. We did not typically coexist, me and the others in this facility, isolated each to our own 'bubble' and maintaining that control panel, crunching data, running tests, during usual operation and study.

Attached to each of these very mechanical hubs was a small bedroom, which had no superfluous furniture, decoration, or personal belongings. It was more of a closet with a bed in it, and I was expected to finish my work, sleep, wake up, and resume my work, with nothing in-between. My work was, physically, mostly flipping dials, knobs, interfacing with a control panel and a large screen.

Communication with my coworkers was only through phone or videocall on the screen. We didn't occupy the same bubbles in daily work.

we were researching important things for Octo society here, perhaps a solution to the energy crisis; this would be before the events of the games, an isolated Octo society struggling to solve its problems internally. My impression is that we are doing something like, taking organic materials from the forest, creatures, plants, and assessing their makeup to find something more or equally effective as the Great Zapfish in an unexpected place. We were also of course, trying to do this as quickly and discreetly as possible, concerned for being discovered on the surface against turf jurisdiction.

The only person I am personally familiar with is my supervisor. Surprisingly, he is a male Octoling, and this is incredibly rare and distinct. There is no other male in this sector of high-ranking position, and all others in this facility are the typical educated (conditioned?) Octoling females. He doesn't acknowledge me when we are in the same room with others present. He gives no impression of favoring me, in mixed company.

He's tall, and in the dream, was only pictured just off-screen, cut-off from the chest-up. I couldn't describe his face or hair, thus. He wore a thick coat, not quite a lab coat, though. A little more industrial or sturdy material, with cinching at the wrists. He wore gloves, and thick, heavy boots. He was silent, stiff, and patient, with his hands in his pockets, hardly speaking or gesturing at all. He moved calmly and patiently, always.

I trust him unconditionally, beyond implicitly. In the dream, we are at the endgame of an incredible amount of effort; to get me working, here, in this facility, solo, like this, in my own bubble. For the first time in my life, I have control over my own security cameras. I can disable them. His boots loudly clunked on his way to my hub. When he arrives, I excitedly explain what I've done, how I did it, demonstrating my complete understanding and correct execution of our plan, clinging onto his arm, nuzzling and rubbing against him while we pace towards my sleeping quarters.

This was all to plan, but he needed to hear me confirm, out loud, every detail, before he would ever express anything outwardly. He was unbelievably manicured in his mannerism. He wouldn't act until he was sure we were no longer monitored.

He is much older than me. He was once a caretaker in an Octo child-rearing facility, where dozens of freshly hatched squishy baby Octos would be managed and grown out of their feeble swimming bodies, over the years, until their morphology transitioned into the typical bipedal forms reached just before teenhood. It was not an uncommon position for an Octoling male, typically gatekept from military or computational jobs and ranks. I was one of the many Octo raised by him. There is something special about me, but we'll get into that later.

His position over the years as a presiding and well-mannered caretaker had earned him a unique reputation, as the Octoling females he raised would eventually occupy higher positions in society, and recall his diligence, patience, measured demeanor. Thus, when he made a request to move to a new project, he was allowed more upward momentum and trust in this sector than the typical male would (casually suppressed from various positions in their female-dominated society).

The plan we had made, we fomented when I was still in his care. He had carefully laid out every step for himself, and for me. I was well-capable of accomplishing my end of things, and he trusted that absolutely. I have a feeling in me, that I can't do anything wrong, that I'm perfect! He's convinced me undoubtedly that I am perfect. We will spend a handful of years apart, executing our respective roles in this plan. I have no doubt or anxiety in me.

And so, my dream depicted the final 'crux' moment of it all, the facility we would be reunited in, isolate, without surveillance! Finally seeing him again, and being able to interact with him naturally! About to finally see him at his unrestrained self.

But why am I so special?

On Earth, most Octopus species do not survive the process of procreation. Unlike Squids, which can mate gregariously, octopus experience senescence, and rapidly degrade after mating… and quite ghoulishly. Females will rip their bodies apart, refuse to eat, render their bodies to shreds, while tending to their eggs….

However, this is due to a particular function of hormones, and is not a necessary aspect of egg-laying or mating itself taking a toll on the body. One can disable that aspect internally, and the octopus will be able to have multiple clutches of eggs without dying, living much longer.

In this reality of mine, Octo society performs this surgical fix on the optic gland on every Octo born. Our numbers are small (compared to Inkling or Salmonoid), and we absolutely cannot suffer even more loss. By disabling this anatomical flaw, society can progress and grow… but also, our females become more hardwired towards non-child-rearing mindsets, well-suited to computational work.

The average Octo citizen does not individually procreate at all. In our ordered society, males sperm is collected on pubescent age. Storage facilities maintain vast collections of well-sorted sperm. Female eggs are not raised individually by 'mothers', but are all funneled to a central grow-out facility to maximize survival under limited resources, allowing individuals to continue work and research without childcare concerns.

My caretaker was well-educated in every aspect of the facility he worked in, with all of its procedures and history of Octo reproduction. This aspect of Octoling females which was always surgically corrected, awed him. What would such a girl, with this aspect intact, behave like? How would she differ, truly, in her behavior? What was it like, to be the male who mated with such a female?

And with all of our technological advancement, our medical research and capability, what could we do for such a girl, going through that process of violent self-destruction, of body degradation? Would she always die, no matter what? Could she be stopped, could she move through it? Would her mind rip itself apart, even if she were restrained or pacified, physically or pharmaceutically?

The little part of my makeup which should have been snipped, which was typically snipped, was not. Using his position and tenured trust to his advantaged, he falsified my documentation of surgery; on paper, I am the same as any other! I'm his little experiment… something he has waited his whole life to observe, experience. I am loyal beyond anything, and I don't know if that is because of what was done to me. It never could occur to me to disobey him, or doubt. I am his perfect dream. He has wanted nothing but me for his whole life.

The bubble facility in the forest will allow the next phase: insemination. Finally! Without surveillance, we'll have sex. Our first time!!!!!

After that, something terrible will start to happen to my mind and body, and I won't understand that part. He has not explained any of it. I don't know I'll become filled with the impetus to die die die die, I don't know I'll do everything in my power to kill myself.

To those above us, it will seem as if I have suddenly gone insane, for no known reason. Unfortunate. Noble and kind, he will retire his esteemed position in this facility, and became a caretaker again, in a closed-off sanitarium for the rare, unfit for society, too-unwell-to-contribute-to-society Octo. It will be seen as his powerful sense of responsibility, duty to his underling he 'failed' somehow... tragic, kindhearted. Here, we'll have even less security and surveillance, beyond the auspices of society's concern or progress. He'll do whatever he wants with me.

[2n2n]

for the love of God what does this symbol on the REANIMAL webpage mean