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Welcome to Class S (and related) club’s reading of 少女たちの痕にくちづけを 1 | L21

あらすじ

秘密の花園で紡がれる、吸血鬼少女たちの物語――開幕!

深い深い森の中に建つ学園で過ごす少女たち。 彼女たちの秘密は、全員<吸血鬼>だということ。 人間に気づかれることなく狩り=吸血をするため、血の絆で結ばれた“姉妹制度”が少女たちにもたらすものとは――?[/details]

EN blurb

**“I’m sure someday, I’ll get you to look my way.” Danger and uncertainty are common for a young vampire, which is why Emille will be assigned a “Big Sister” on her fourteenth birthday, like all the girls at her school. Deep within a secluded forest, her sister will teach her how to hunt and safely feed on humans. Learning to rely on each other for survival cultivates a deep relationship comparable to that between family-but does theirs have the potential to evolve into something more?"

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Looking forward to reading/discussing this with everyone!!

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I read this already recently, but I enjoyed it enough to read a 2nd time around

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finished the first volume

vol1

The first 2 chapters got me worried that it would be very generic genki girl x tsundere onee-sama, but it got more interesting afterwards. Especially towards the end. I can’t say I’m interested that much in the main couple but I’m curious how Yucca (awful romanization but, it’s what’s used on her room sign…) will develop. Also the other girls (Violetta? perhaps I am blanking on the name) relationship with her onee-sama. She also seems interestedin Emile, but not really aggressively pursuing her like I expected at first.

I said before I don’t really love the genki girl yuri heroine. So far Emille feels like a really generic version of it :sweat_smile: Well she is cute, I guess. It’s not like I hate this character type either I just need her to have a bit more going on.

It’s a very quick read so I’ll read the next two volumes soon hopefully.

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That was fast!!

You probably saw my review already, but I shared that same concern when I first read it. Anyway I’ll post vol 1 thoughts sometime in the next few days I guess

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vol2

Yucca backstory was very intense. For a while I even believed she killed her own onee-sama, because she was that into seeing emile (or a girl she thinks resembles her) suffer. I don’t mind that I was wrong on that or anything, I think it’s good enough that the story invoked these doubts in itself. I also think it’s fitting for a vampire story have that sort of more twisted and possibly sadisctic character. I was really interested in how it was going to get resolved…but then it went in a very underwhelming direction where she was just talked down, realized the error of her ways and left the school. This reminds me a bit of how I felt about the last group read, where I had also felt the solution was disporportionate to the drama build up.

Maybe I just want things to be more dramatic in general.

Next plotline about the vampire hunter girl…I quite like her because I like dojikko characters. Eve’s actions this arc feel…odd. The way she couldn’t tell Emile about her being a hunter was a bit contrived, but w/e not a big deal. The second time around her getting them face to face instead of just telling her felt really dangerous. She seems to have thought that the hunter would just let Emile go but she knows this girl even less than Emile does. And a hunter knowing their faces and names, isn’t that awfully dangerous? I’m confused on why Eve did this especially considering her backstory. Although right now I geniunely can’t tell if this is actually supposed to be Eve being reckless or we are just supposed to accept it as another plot contrivance as Emile seems much more upset about her friend being a hunter and not at all about her onee-sama intentionally putting both of them into mortal danger (that they could still not be out of if her hunter friend changes her mind)

So I’m kind of of two minds about it, if Eve’s actions are actually going to be explored, great. If not, I’ll be annoyed again.
Besides that I look forward to seeing how things resolve with the hunter. I think it’d be nice to get more from humans perspective. Emile obviously and understandably only thinks from the vampire pov.

Lastly the half vampire half human character. I asume she won’t be too important at this point, but I like her design.

I imagine the next volume will be resolution of the hunter plotline, and afterwards focus on whatever is going on with violetta.
I am hoping Yucca will get some more content as she just dissappeared in to the night, but not sure at this rate if there would be enouhg room in a single volume for that to happen.

I feel like I come across very negative when writing these, but I am enjoying the manga fwiw.

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