More Than Friends?

Ah, shit, I like it. It's cute, and lighthearted and the artstyle is nice. But now I find out it's on hiatus. Dammit all.

Well, there's plenty of other Mochi au Lait with similar characteristics, so you'll just have to go read them all.

Ah, shit, I like it. It's cute, and lighthearted and the artstyle is nice. But now I find out it's on hiatus. Dammit all.

After chapter 16, it's more like "Halt to glorious yuri" or something, tss tss.

Hail to glorious Yuri.

After chapter 16, it's more like "Halt to glorious yuri" or something, tss tss.

Mochi Au Lait definitely write some of the cutest yuri stuffs mmm...

You might find this stackexchange answer useful in the context of Japanese, and particularly in Kasumi using her own name in place of "watashi." The most accurate answer, in my estimation, is the top one: it has the effect of being childlike and feminine -- which can correlate strongly at times in Japanese, through the whole kawaii thing, i.e. "cutesy." This is intentional on Mochi's part as it establishes Kasumi's femininity and childishness, both.

 

To your point about specific personal pronoun quirks in family contexts, there are a number of Asian languages that also do that. Take for example this page about the Thai language: Thai people commonly rely on contextual family relations in using personal pronouns, e.g. a big brother talking to his little sister may call himself just by the title "P" (reads as the letter), which means, well, big brother/sister, and he might say something that translates literally as "Big Brother thinks Little Sister <NAME> should stop stealing Big Brother's ice cream."

Yeah, I only do it when I'm with my family and it looks like Thai language is similar to mine when we're talking about family context. 

I always wonder if there are any other culture who does that.

I refer to myself with my own name when I'm talking to my family.

You might find this stackexchange answer useful in the context of Japanese, and particularly in Kasumi using her own name in place of "watashi." The most accurate answer, in my estimation, is the top one: it has the effect of being childlike and feminine -- which can correlate strongly at times in Japanese, through the whole kawaii thing, i.e. "cutesy." This is intentional on Mochi's part as it establishes Kasumi's femininity and childishness, both.

To your point about specific personal pronoun quirks in family contexts, there are a number of Asian languages that also do that. Take for example this page about the Thai language: Thai people commonly rely on contextual family relations in using personal pronouns, e.g. a big brother talking to his little sister may call himself just by the title "P" (reads as the letter), which means, well, big brother/sister, and he might say something that translates literally as "Big Brother thinks Little Sister <NAME> should stop stealing Big Brother's ice cream."

Chapter 6 is a repeat

What a blunder! Fixed now, thanks for pointing it out.

I always wonder if there are any other culture who does that.

Chapter 6 is a repeat

Tomodachi ijou should be "beyond friends"/ "in addition to friends"/"at least friends" as ijou is used as a suffix to tomodachi in this context.

Also, you can't be "more than" friends, as friend is already the maximum extend of what is defined as interpersonal relationships between non-blood related people.

"Sexual activities" [not fitting as this is not about men&women but I'll use it anyway to shorten the text] are not part of human relationships, as each of them is a singular event inbetween two human beings and may happen with or without further relationships/consent [e.g. prostitution/the infamous "one-night stand"/orgies,rape,etc.],

so you can't add them onto human relationships like friends to be "more than" e.g. friends.

Spoiler

I always wonder if there are any other culture who does that.

I refer to myself with my own name when I'm talking to my family.

It depends on the language too. In Italy you would definitely pass as weirdo and doubly so since we often skip personal pronouns.

Just FYI that the series has been translated up to ch 16, which can be found over at Dynasty Scans.

how aggressive.

I always wonder if there are any other culture who does that.

I refer to myself with my own name when I'm talking to my family.