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I know that this series is one that is extremely niche, but every chapter I read transports me right back to grad school. This chapter features such stereotypical events as:
It's like stepping back in time for me.
Hm. The title of this grabbed me, the actual manga didn't. I wonder if I would find it more compelling in later chapters?
Yeah, I don't think the title really does this series justice. There isn't really any gyaru romance in it at all. Instead, it is more of a workplace comedy or parody of working in an academic lab in life sciences. I spent years doing just that and it is nailing that parody/humor aspect, so I enjoyed it a lot. However, that does make it extremely niche.
Huh? I wasn't expecting romance at all and your reply seems to suggest you think I expected it. What about the title implies romance? I definitely expected a gyaru, but no romance. A workplace comedy of working in an academic lab in life sciences sounds interesting, though I don't have a background in it.
That's my bad, romance is something I was expecting going into this series, especially after the first chapter consisted largely of discussions on how Lala can appeal to other members of her department. Looking back on it that expectation might have come from my conflating this series in my head with Rikekoi - Science Fell in Love, so I Tried to Prove It, which is much more explicitly a romance.
Oh! How did you like that? It's on my to-read list.
I watched the first season of the anime and loved it, planning on reading it after finishing the second season. However, I hated the end of the second season and the direction the story was headed, so I decided against reading beyond that. I still think that the first season is a great standalone experience and I liked it a lot.
Now I'm curious where the story was headed in the second season that turned you off, but that would be spoilers…
Not a comment on this chapter but the series in general: I get it goes against the gyaru aesthetic, but the lab inappropriate attire is bothersome. I don’t think it sends the wrong message since it obviously isn’t a serious manga, but it could.
Hotpot with the autoclave? Wtf?
Haha, yeah. I have served as a safety rep for my lab since I moved into industry and I work in a BSL2 space, so I was dying on the inside when they were cooking using lab equipment. Though, back when I was in grad school, I was a complete idiot about biological safety. I spent years working with salmonella and never knew what a BSC was for instance. I think it was a byproduct of being in a physics lab instead of a biochem lab. None of us knew how to do biological things the right way. Instead, I was much more concerned with laser safety around some of the YAG lasers we used that had the capability to instantly fry my retina if I wasn't careful.
I did theory partially to avoid these problems (serious). I don’t know what rules my friends in the laser lab had. I mostly remember sending students home because of clothing faux pas, particularly open-toed shoes.