In which we read God Awful Shoujo (GAS) and weep madly/try to figure out what went wrong.

Umazes I cannot believe you've read Love Celeb to the end. Man.
I dropped that manga when I got to the part that her manager abducts her and takes her to that god forsaken cabin in the middle of nowhere because I couldn't take it anymore, even though my standards are really bad. Like, really bad.

And guys, Akuma na Eros, srsly?
This was the first manga that seriously offended me. I couldn't read past the first chapter. Are you really forcing yourselves to read that crap?

Can't we
Can't we just read stuff like Basara and cry because the story is awesome and
and
gosh

We are a bunch of masochists, aren't we?

And me and Umazes wear the tiara and crown, respectively.

But yeah, basically.

Well, half of us are masochists.

The other half are sadists who revel in watching us despair over Bad shoujo!

I'm reading this entire thread with my hands in front of my eyes. It's like a slower, quieter horror movie that never ends.

Guilty as charged.

Agreed. Any ideas on how to organize it better would be very welcome. (I am not the best organizer, so I tried my best to make my updates linked coherently). Aside from reading it one by one. I believe we're on Rot's LR of Love Monster?

And if anyone wants to stop reading the manga, please indicate it at the end of the post, like "I'm finished with this manga and there won't be any more updates regarding it" or something.

I'm not doing Love Monster anymore. This thread has gotten too depressing. (I edited in a note at the end of the last LR I did too, for clarity's sake.)


Maybe we should ask either for only one person to LR at one time or have people create their own threads? I don't think we want to have this forum flooded with LRs, though. Also, what are the legal issues with this? I imagine that using manga that aren't officially translated and avoiding use of every single page in it's entirety would probably be better. I don't know how things would go with manga with an English license. (Which would be why I probably wouldn't do Fushigi Yuugi.)

Edit: Clarified translation part.

I agree, one LR at a time, and the stories can't be too long (Limit on three volumes at most). Cannot use every single page - be reasonable, and only show us the really godawful but SFW stuff. Or stuff that is horribly hilarious. I don't really want to see nude people - get enough of that on MTV, and you can just say they had sex or something. I trust your judgement on this, since y'all are responsible people of the internet.

I'm sure you knew that about me already, didn't you?

As long as it sticks to one at a time, I think this thread will go along swimmingly. <3 I don't really have any useful input on the rest, I'm mostly just here to rubberneck. :D

I'm just here to rub my hands together and watch the eventual despair that'll settle in this thread.

(What's that? I already made this joke? I have no idea what you're talking about!)

So the lineup is as follows: After I finish Aishite Kudasai, Donmai is doing My Lovable Fatty?

Donmai, please confirm this.

Yes! Technically My Lovable Fatty is a manhwa, not a manga, but shitty girl comics are shitty girl comics regardless of their origin!

Oh, wait, wrong pear pun.

(Is... that... a codpiece?)

... That was the very first thing I noticed too.

... I spent too much time on the Internet. Time to go watch something wholesome.

I swallowed all the 15 pages 'til now, just so I could ask, Love Monster really ended?
Because I remember reading this long, long time ago (back in the age before online manga readers, when Bush Jr. hadn't been reelected yet), and I didn't remember it being that skeevy. Not that it means so much since my standards, and my English level, were not very high at the time, and I'm the kind of people somewhat accepting of whatever fiction trows at me. Then again, I was reading it when it was ongoing in Japan, and stopped reading it around the time

because I got distracted with other shinier stuff and the release of this story was too slow for keeping my interest.

You know, I would have never noticed that if you didn't point that out.

Izanagi, and by extension Persona Four, will now be slightly awkward for me. Congratulations

Well considering his wife it only makes sense that he protects his crouch.

Someone should make that codpiece their avatar.

Ah crap, I've been found out.

You were already found out, Ravenholme.

See, after the initial terror, I couldn't stop laughing at the ridiculousness that is Aishite Kudasai, Sensei.
Then that laughter takes on a slightly hysterical, disbelieving tone during Love Celeb (and I idly start to wonder if I am witnessing Umazes ' decent into madness).
Then I somehow cringe my way through 13 chapters of Love Monster simply out of morbid curiosity. The laughter has been replaced my a frozen look of horror by this point.

And finally, after watching maniskumquat 's livestream of Black Wolves Saga, I think I have lost the ability to react to things. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing..

Probably for the best, all things considered.

Don't worry, Sedrine, I'll catch up to where you are in Love Monster so you won't be alone. ... Although considering Umazes read the whole thing, I probably will as well. It's only fair.

You guys have triggered my confusion, and thus I read Love Monster.

My chocolate bills have risen the past day or two. Who's going to help pay for my trauma recovery bills? D:

Yelim, why?

What the hell is wrong with you people? I said don't read Love Monster!
/whacks noses
Stahp.

Rot, Randissimo, I'm sorry.
I wanted to know why people were so disgusted with this.
I'm sorry...I don't know if I'll ever be the same again after this...

You won't be. You'll be suspicious of shoujo forever after from this point on.

I...I'm now on chapter 22
How do i stop
help
Maybe I just really, really hate myself deep down.

Tsk, tsk. I won't stand for this Love Monster hate. I'm coming for all of you!!

All. Of. You.

I stand by my claim that Black Bird is more romantic than Love Monster.

Let's begin Aishite Kudasai - The Final Campaign! It's short, but not very sweet.

Previously, almost ten pages ago, we were unwilling spectators to Hijiri trashing Ayano's office and...doing other things. That ended with a cliff hanger offer of letting Ayano go. Could it be? Are we saved?

'
Ayano is startled at the presence of Hijiri's new underling. With Hijiri ruining her security defenses with his temper tantrum earlier, her office is as vulnerable and destroyed as a crappy shoujo manga.




Minion #2, knowing that she has nothing to offer other than the occasional appearance, begs Hijiri to give her more screentime. Unfortunately, he gives her some excuse to gain her sympathy and she backs off on her demands. Judging from how little she cares about why the room looks like it's been in World War III, she's not a very cautions person, Hijiri thinks. She'd probably be the same without a brain..and he's in the mood to eat one.



The minion, perhaps not understanding the importance of cognitive functions, agrees to give Hijiri her gray matter. Hijiri smiles in triumph as Ayano gasps in horror. So that was his plan! He wanted to mock her by partaking in some zombie snacking right before her eyes!

Her eyes shut in pain as she waits for the crunching and slurping sounds of brains being eaten but not by her. "Curse you, Hijiri! Not only did you not give me your brain, you stole one from me!"

However, in the next instant, Hijiri does something very surprising.



"I can't eat her brain. It tastes...too much like air!" Hijiri screams in anguish. "Why would fate present a brain for me to eat, only to make me suffer so? I need more brains of better quality! I deserve better; I sparkle!"


His Orz human speech converter changed *brain-slurping* to *lovemaking*.



Knowing that he can't gather delicious brains by himself, Hijiri begs Ayano to reconsider her rejection. He's really hungry right now...so much that his body is trying to eat himself. To win her approval, he projects a shota image standing beside her and gives her fanserivce.



Ayano tries to resist the shota and the fanservice, but it proves to be too much for her moe-meter. Why hadn't she started those therapy sessions earlier? Had she always been the type of person who was into cannibalism? But his brain...it's so close to her right now and it smells so good. Maybe if she had just a little....



Her eyes glaze over as her zombie instincts take over and she does whatever possible to get more human flesh. Fanservice is a small price to pay for an alliance to enslave humanity and steal their brains. The messy remains of the tarnished room around her is her final big 'F U' to education and logic.


"Screw education, I eat brains"



Hijiri leers at her in victory before trying to eat her brain. Maybe his original assumption is wrong; what Ayano needs isn't more brain matter, it was less. With her capacity for thought impaired, she'll no longer disobey him. Ayano has sorely underestimated his prowess as a vampire. Even if he's a little rusty at mind control, a weak mind poses no problem for him. And a brain that has only 70% of its matter remaining? Child's play.



Delirious and under his thrall, Ayano has only one last time for lucid thought. She conjures up a picture of a shota and sparkles. The 50 Shades of Grey and Twilight fandom aren't so bad...

Soon after, Hijiri visits the Chemistry Preparation Room again. He wanted to replace "Chemistry" with "Brain-harvesting", but it might alert the authorities. As he knocks on the door, Ayano silently opens it. She's lost her capacity to speak, with only a small percent of her brain left. Hijiri leers at her (hopefully), but the only thing she does is try to bite his head. Maybe he shouldn't have eaten that much...Too late now.


He offers up fanservice to the fourth wall in order to get the voyeurs to stop watching them, and shuts the door with his characteristic 'Slam'. He'll see the rest of humanity again soon. It'll be Japan first, and then the world!

Total loud noises: 14 - If you were drinking extra while you read this, you should get yourself to a hospital ASAP (OtomeGamer accepts no responsibility for starting this dangerous game).

Otherwise, count yourself lucky that you were sloshed when you read this. It's much worse sober.


~Aishite Kudasai, Sensei: The End~

Hijiri needs to step into a mental hospital and fast. There are so many warning signs that he is not well that it's ridiculous. And she needs to check into therapy for this. After losing her job of course.

Epilogue: Zombies took over the school

The only possible end

I need a teacher to come tell me the fucking procedure for dealing with students like this.

I demand to know because if there isn't one, I'm fucking done.

Couldn't the teacher, I don't know, report this to the parents if said student was harassing her?

Of course the parents might not believe her...