Yosh! – p. – 2025-01-17

…I really need to reread Yosh! don’t I?

If you’re talking about Kate learning magic, she can’t use it directly. Instead, she needs to use elementally infused Orichalcum that she was given by Penpen and turned into bracelets and other tools.

I’m assuming she turned them “invisible” with illusion magic, or is using her shadow-familiar in some way to use the energy, as I can’t see any bracelets, necklaces, rings or earrings that she would need to do this.

She’s the sister of the pro-chimera reporter who runs the animal shelter kate’s dad works at. The reporter also mentioned at one point that they were dating

Chimera shelter, not anime shelter, i just adopted a cat so my brain went on autopilot

Bad luck as in that motherly figures with that hairstyle rarely make it out of the flashback or prologue of a story… but there comes Kate to the rescue. And I think this shows Kate is welcoming and accepting of the addition to the family.

There’s a meme about that hairstyle?

in a fair number of anime that hairstyle tends to be the one worn by mothers who died or will die

Gotcha. I looked up the hairstyle and all I found was it’s often used to convey “sweet/nice mother”. TBF, I didn’t really look that hard.

It’s a trope, actually…

Can healing magic work on not-really-living hair or did Kate find a workaround?

looks like illusion

Not healing, but creation magic can.

magic hair weave

Dunno why this has to go all the way to creation or healing magic. When all she has to do is make it grow faster. It’s kinda already the way our hair replaces itself. Just speed it up.

Was Kates magical genes paternal or maternal?

Kate’s magic is orichalcum-based since chimeras don’t normally have the ability to innately cast magic, iirc? It’s been hundreds of pages (edit: after going through the archive, turns out it’s already been over a thousand pages!) since she started lessons, but here’s the beginning of Kate learning how to cast spells: https://www.yoshsaga.com/comic/sudden-shower/

Chimera with animal body parts (natural magic users are technically chimera too) became like this because all their innate magic was used up in their transformation, when Fire undid the seal in an improper way.
Blue only has ears and a tail while Kate also has stripes means that Kate had more innate magic to begin with.
I don’t recall when this was first said, but it is mentioned again by Kate here: https://www.yoshsaga.com/comic/useless-stripes/

So while Kate’s current magic is done via her orichalcum jewellery, she also had a born natural magic potential that could’ve come for either, or both, parents.

“The hairstyle is magic – literally.”

Just thinking about the fact that Kate’s egg donor (biological mother), doesn’t want Kate to be able to change her last name, and went through the trouble of getting government cronies to help prevent it all because Kate is a chimera. I just hope that the girls talked to Phil about it and he decides to take Kate’s instead.

Shame Kate didn’t take Yuki up on the offer of making all those Chimera haters turn into Chimera’s themselves, letting them see how it feels to be ostracized by people they’ve known for years, just because they woke up wearing a new body without their knowledge or control one morning.

While yes a shame, that isn’t Kate’s way of doing things. She seems to be more of the type to let them send themselves to an early grave using up all their energy hating how happy she’s become despite their intentions.