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Biyaku Café
| Alt Names: |  Aphrodisiac Café 媚药咖啡店 媚薬カフェ 媚藥咖啡店 Biyaku Cafe Cafe Lovepotions |
| Author: | Ukyou Ayane |
| Artist: | Ukyou Ayane |
| Genres: |  Drama Gender Bender Romance Shoujo Smut |
| Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
| Status: | Complete |
| Description: | The aphrodisiac night retreat is a place with no menu, and the tea is made to the customer’s image by the employees. An omnibus story surrounds the overbearing masters, various customers, and the tea! |
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Teriguu, WTF?!
See, this is the kind of reason many women see horrible sexism in places where I might think it's not actually there: They've been sensitized by all the places it totally is there.
Meanwhile, ch 24 is yet another demonstration that when the person who won't take no for an answer replies to your turn-down with "Well then at least do this"--DON'T DO IT. It is always a mistake to give them whatever consolation prize they are asking for. Choke down your guilt and ignore them, or maybe give them something different instead.
Chapter 24....that ending. the feelings are so tense and welling up. I keep hitting the scene on repeat, rereading it over and over again. Phew~things are really serious here. The mangaka's light-hearted-ness towards Shibata at the end there isn't helping either~
Also about this debate that people are having down below, best leave it to the forums no? I don't come to read manga to delve into gender studies. If I wanted to do that, I wouldn't be taking break from studying (which is why I did not want to read through everything). If you think this is bad, remember Gone With the Wind. It's way more popular and praised as a great "epic" cinema despite that scene where there is a clear explicit refusal and forcefulness. I've also read way worse mangas and stopped reading them because of how lightly they play around with merging explicit rape over with romance. I'd say more but I'll leave it here for now since I have more important things to get to.
@Teriguu, those are some really offensive and sexist comics there.
One more, Swedish comic:
Four nuances of menstruation
1. Neutral week
Ah, hormone-free week! Why not assemble IKEA-furniture, call the tax-department and set up a zen-garden?!
2. Ovulation
HEEEERE'S ZELDA!!
- Lock up your sons!
3. PMS
Why does the cat look so angry at me?
I need to move out in the forest.
Do my face look strange when I speak?
No one can understand anyone. We are all so alone.
I need to erase all my social media accounts!
Hashtag: SAD
4. Menstruation
NOTHING PAID?
"A CHANCE TO GET EXPOSURE?!"
TN: This is about how young swedish artist often get offers to participate with their art without getting paid for the sake of exposure
Here I fan translated a comic just for you Gale
Looking for cleaners and typesetters.
Panel 1:
Everyone hates me, I just know that
Nothing will ever be okay again
Panel 2:
The anexiety, like a black snake through my guts - will it always feel this way now?
Panel 3:
Why do I feel like this, what is behind this guilt and soul tormenting?
Panel 4:
Ah.
Hm. Well, going chronologically rather than by page, how it goes is roughly:
Overall, I don't see quite the mire you're seeing. Some questionable things, but the unrelieved negativity, no.
And while doubtless there are some personal things somewhere behind some of what I say, I really feel, to go English Major for a moment, that my reading is supported by the text.
Just... For fuck's sake, dude. Dust, eye, plank, whatever.
Well. All highly serious arguments aside, this latest coupla chapters are pretty dashed cute, so many thanks to Mystic Iris and Decadence!
And Merry Christmas to all!
Not a huge fan of original flavored Ramune as well as melon because it's too sweet for me. I usually dilute it with sprite or 7up so I share one bottle with another person. Orange is the best if I drink it all on my own. I haven't tried any other flavors so far.
Re: "Drugging" etc., I find it hard to go along with a formulation of rape that says every bar pickup, ever, was rape. I'm not into bar pick-ups myself, but there's whole cultures based around them and I'm not willing to say oh, all of those damn proles are rapists.
So like, "fed a girl 3 mugs of tea with brandy" == "drugged" == "tricking a girl into drinking so much alcohol she falls unconscious" is a problem for me,
As to what rape is . . . rape and rape culture are far too common, yes. And the traditionalist narrative that used to say basically it wasn't rape unless the victim was half-killed trying to resist was a huge problem and there are those still trying to maintain it. But I remain suspicious of the counter-narrative that says if there is the tiniest hint of aggression or perhaps even forwardness, it becomes rape.
Where do you see the bizarre and surrealistic in this manga? As It's pretty normal for a shoujou smut manga, and it's no way near the bizarre manga territory.
I'll try to keep this short, since I'm tired of repeating myself and were not even talking about the manga anymore, but here's some unwanted friendly/condescending advice: bringing up stuff like trigger warnings, all by yourself, for the sole purpose of calling social justice types immature and delusional? Doesn't actually make you look cool and realistic, to most people. Kinda just looks childish, and maybe a little obsessive, especially when you're telling me I should stop reading manga instead of talking about it oh gosh jeez, and trying to act like your "first law" is an obvious universal fact I have to acknowledge, rather than a running joke you saw on some blog somewhere. Just a tip/petty insult for you.
Haha, so you did/do go to gender studies class. Well then, I rest my case. No just kidding, but I still think you're reading way too much into this, it's like the whole trigger warning debate where young sensitive social justice warriors claims one should remove certain topics since people who have had bad experiences with those topics might gets PTSD flashbacks. Now that's what you do in therapy isn't it?! Whatever I do in therapy anyway so I can have a nice stay at batoto, I mean this is made in japan after all, you should read Swedish comics if you want to read gender studies-approved stuff.
Returning to the topic of this manga, I think the first chapter sets the tone very well for the manga as something completely bizarre, over the top and surrealistic. I'm not a big fan of shoujo smut but I love this since I can read it as I read ultra heaven or another completely mind bending manga. It's like they add small doses of LSD in that tea, the characters behaviour is just of chart. And the first law of shoujo smut still applies, if it's a bishounen it's always consensual. I've seen much worse examples than this. And oh, it is marked as "Discression is advised", which means something like "it's made in japan and even girls have weird sexual fantasies and/or preferences there".
Drugging someone and then raping them while they've lost awareness isn't "taking initiative", Jesus Christ.
I'm not saying this story is a crime and it should be taken down and burned and the earth should be salted and argarargha. I'm saying that people should be aware that this manga literally starts with the main character being raped on page 1, and that it's the kind of story where that's played for laughs and used for playful romance. There was literally nothing to suggest that in the synopsis or in the comments until I brought it up. If you're into that sort of thing, great! Enjoy it! If it makes you feel like hiding in bed and crying, well, now you know! Avoid it! Acting like this stuff isn't in the story does absolutely nothing for the people who are excited by it, AND the people who aren't interested in it at all.
And that's why my gender studies class is way more relevant to this conversation than whatever it is you're trying to do here.
I'm ecstatic to see more of Kaoru and Kagetsu's story but that cliff hanger...
You don't know me, but, like a lot of other people, I've come to respect and appreciate your comments and recommendations. Part of that was your willingness to criticise elements of sexism in stories, and praise characters for not being aggressive dickbags. It may not mean much, and you might think I'm just being oversensitive, but I honestly think you're better than this.
I'm not at all clear that's what happened. For one thing, I find it very hard to believe that anyone could be knocked unconscious by three cups of tea with brandy in it. Not unless it was practically all brandy, and that wouldn't taste like "Oh, what lovely tea".
In that first chapter, we don't actually have anything to tell us directly how sex got initiated.
My mental picture of what the mangaka's trying to convey is something like her being in this state of drunken weariness, him aggressively seducing her, and her going along with it in a dreamlike state, between her drunkenness and a certain fascination with the guy, and then at some point partly surfacing mentally and wondering what the hell she's doing. In this scenario he definitely took advantage of her, and it's kind of skeezy, but it's not rape or knocking someone out and then taking her unconscious.
Well,you know...giving the key your ex-girlfriend just returned to you directly to your current girlfriend...at least change the keychain or something!
Such surrealistic drama. Does the target market make any sense of this?
they've complicated a very simple, home friendly, already delicious, zero risk recipe like a milkshake with a fate that can easily end in misery for the stomach
Ice Cream
Milk
Whatever flavour stuff you're putting in, if any--chocolate sauce, fruit, whatever.
Blenderize and you're done. Milkshake!!!
(Ice cream normally vanilla, but chocolate for a good chocolate one, plus I like chocolate raspberry)
Yes!!! Two new chapters, thanks Transcendence Scans and Mystic Iris!!!
Ch 16: Those two are painfully adorable. XD
I have so much sympathy for Tomomi's mindset...
Ah, what a nice pleasurable couple of chapters. Thanks Mystic Iris and Decadence!
(side note--one of those "help us scanlate" pages said "Decadence is recruiting!" and all I could think was "Ain't it the truth?")