>>4551544 This is actually the first chapter in quite a while that was halfway coherent, because it actually followed the character arcs that were established at the beginning. Too bad it came after half the manga felt like a fever dream.
>>4551674 He is depressed he has a mycropen, at least he isn't like the yuri start with slavery guy who dropped it because he got butthurt MC is getting together with the girl he dislikes
>>4551708 99% of chapters are 1 page 3(参)-koma. And some gags definitely cannot be considered yuri. Not that anything het happens to our MCs tho. Well you'll get it by Chapter 5.
>>4551709 Sounds about right to actually make every day a holiday. It was nice to see them fly on kites on day 1. You got to love the tag >What the fuck am I reading? >>4551710 You really got me worried with that spoiler before the second sentence.
>>4551704 >Valentine's Day is the Beginning of the End (Touhou, ReiMari) lots of scanned doujins lately, i wonder if it's the same guy providing the raws.
>>4551806 You could just read it and make your own conclusion? It's one chapter so far it's not like you're picking up a long running series that's at chapter 78 or something.
>>4551981 It would be extremely kino if Saki actually heard correctly the first time and Mahiro is just trying to gaslight her, but I don't think Kuzushiro will take that route.
>>4551948 >buys and corrupts people with her money >gets out of legal trouble using money >thinks everything can be solved by throwing more money at it >has an army of emotionally dependent girls that work for her for pennies >thinks having four people share a single room is fine Is Chie the first realistic depiction of rich people in manga?
>>4551981 >Rinne is such a bitch, what an awful one-note mean girl villain >wow turns out that she was going through hidden struggles we didn't understand that were causing her to act like that >Ayano is such a bitch, what an awful one-note mean girl villain >wow turns out that she was going through hidden struggles we didn't understand that were causing her to act like that >Tomita is such a bitch, what an awful one-note mean girl villain >wow turns out that she was going through hidden struggles we didn't understand that were causing her to act like that >Mahiro is such a bitch, what an awful one-note mean girl villain
>>4551990 The difference is that none of the previous girls showed up acting like they just want to be mega friends. They were openly hostile -> but wait they have reasons. This girl is openly overly friendly in a way that contradicts Saki's memory.
I think it makes a lot of sense for where the story's at right now for Saki to basically have been mentally casting Mahiro as a villain because, as a crush (maybe even one who was crushing back to her) she represented the biggest threat of her sexuality being discovered - her greatest fear. The way she's been portrayed so far with blank evil eyes and cruel smiles was Saki being an unreliable narrator because of that. Unless it's a mistranslation, we explicitly see this chapter that part of her recollections about Mahiro were actually "words that were never spoken", and only after Saki realizes that do we see Mahiro start being drawn with light in her eyes. Kuzushiro did something similar with Tomita's expressions when she was being portrayed as a flat bully stereotype versus now Saki has realized that she's a real person.
It's actually the reverse of the other characters. For Tomita and Ayano and so on, it was their inner struggles that were hidden, but here Saki was *Mahiro*'s "moon on a rainy night". All of Saki's self-loathing and terror at the idea of someone seeing through her was hidden from her view, so she just thought "oh, I must be creeping her out, huh" - and Saki really needs to learn how to deal with that this time around, because Detective Kanon is hot on her trail and will absolutely definitely figure out her own feelings sometime within a decade. Maybe two.
>>4552022 I'll hold off making that judgement until we've seen more than zero (0) stinky thoughtforms refusing to shower until the next chapter is released
>>4552018 >Yuri Yuri Panic ch15 "But what if they managed to resolve the situation in a satisfactory matter?" Yeah, nah. Their fate was sealed. How that got past the metric fuckton of people in the production committee we will never know, but the nuclear armageddon was 100% justified.
>>4552130 >too convoluted You're overthinking it. The drama with the bitch was solved and now we're back to the ghost mistery and the "evil" spirit of the lost member of thd idol group possesed the tomboy of said group and now ambushed the exorcist JK It's not that convoluted to me but I guess that's because I watch less than 10 minutes of short videos every day.
>>4552055 I agree with that sentiment. Saki created her own boogeyman by associating her fears of being outed as gay, with a girl who at minimum, just wanted to be friends. It caused Saki to create this false idea of Mashiro, and a warped memory of their one meaningful interaction. All because at the end of the day, she's wasn't, and still isn't fully comfortable with herself, with how she's created this distance between Kanon and herself, beginning with the whole "living together after high school" thing. Not that Saki herself is opposed to the idea, but she's scared that she would scare Kanon off, or come off as creepy, because if Saki were around Kanon even more than she already is, she doesn't know if she'd be able to contain her emotions.
>>4552012 Died for me around chapter 17 or whenever the school festival nonsense storylines happened. I'll probably go back to read it when it ends and/or gets actual romantic development but I can't be fucked trying to decipher that shit chapter by chapter.
>>4551973 Let me see if I can wrap my head around this one. So Saki was so terrified about being called out as a dyke that she ghosted a girl who had the same eyes as the teacher who she had a complex about and Saki realized that she, herself, was the asshole this time? What are the chances that Kanon has to spend the night at Saki's house and they get to sleep together and Saki loses her spaghetti for real?
>>4552321 They was never a relationship to ghost, she freaked out and it's only now that Mahiro actually got a chance to talk with her, so it's less that she was an asshole and more that she made a mistake that stuck with her all this time (well, imo). As for Kanon, Saki will confess her feelings and Kanon will spend the entire chapter against a white background having an inner monologue.
>>4552313 >Wasn't Mercury Fairly Conservative!? (Gundam, SuleMio) Did the publisher nuke other works of this author off the internet? The one about a witch and a white haired girl seems to be gone from a bunch of websites.
>>4552477 Narwhal horns are highly sensitive, but are actually a tooth and therefor a tusk and not a horn. Almost all horns have live nerve endings since they've got bone underneath all the keratin, but must are not that sensitive. It's not unreasonable to assume that demons could have evolved thinner coatings for their horns over millions of years due to selective pressures that caused more sensitive horns to be advantageous to reproduction.
>>4552477 I thought horn arousal was more of a psychological thing than a physiological thing. A normal animal will feel their horns being touched but won't be aroused, while a humanoid will.
>>4552477 It’s theoretically possible. True horns consist of a bone core with a keratinous sheath, so there are nerve endings. As these horns are poorly placed for combat purposes and likely evolved purely for display purposes, and due to their small size, there’s no real evolutionary pressure for them to be less sensitive, and depending on demon social behavior, a sensitive display structure could help reinforce social bonding, which would offer a hypothetical evolutionary pressure for these horns to become more sensitive over evolutionary time.
Slave Yuri 12 https://mangadex.org/chapter/01436df7-0bbc-4743-9e97-e436f192d755 Taking bets on how many chapters this new chap will do before dropping it like the last 3 chaps.
>>4552591 Translated from korean, with source images being screenshots at fullscreen, with the reader UI visible, and he didn't have the IQ to set his monitor to portrait mode to get a higher res... dear god
>>4552650 Gemini says it's harder to hear from the back because the torso dampens the sound, and hearing aids are directional (they point to the front to avoid background noise).
>>4552650 >>4552652 She whispered it against her back, AND it was raining. They were on the second floor so the full sound of the rain against the roof doesn't help Kanon at all. Even with hearing aids.
>>4552663 Why absorb what you're reading? Just ask AI what happened a few pages ago. Why even read the manga, flip through the pages then ask AI to sum up what happened. Forget speed reading, embrace not reading.
>>4552668 Even though I am sometimes (often) a retard myself, I'd rather let my fellow retards of the book club known as /u/ tell me I'm dumb instead of reading some AI slop that will get everything wrong anyway.
>>4552669 I bought Love Bullet and Idol x Idol Story online, and I'll head to Barnes and Nobles for the EN localization for both sometime this weekend.
>>4552669 Nothing digital, but I import about 30-50 physical volumes of various yuri series every 3 months or so. Speaking of, I'm due to buy some soon, just got to make time.
What's it like buying yuri manga IRL? Ever had any awkward conversations with the girl behind the counter, or do you mix it in with normie stuff like FMA or whatever the kids read nowadays?
>>4552788 Upsides of being German! I get asked what I'm searching for, if my data for that "your book is here" notification is still accurate and if I want to pay upfront. No smalltalk about the title or the genre, no awkwardness or underhanded judgement, no nothing. You just go to the store and buy a manga.
>>4552788 Never had a cashier comment on what I was buying, that would be considered very poor form around here. Of course in any specialized shop where the staff loosely belongs in the same community of nerds as you you can get some small talk going if you want but you'd have to initiate it and check out is not typically considered the place for it.
>>4552793 I see, typical Teutonic efficiency. Just Hans giving a blank stare from the other side of the counter as he has long since accepted his role as a soulless cog in the machine.
>>4552788 Same way as buying anything else IRL works. Cashiers at bookstores, and cashiers in general don't get paid enough to care about what some random is buying. Especially if it's a busy day.
>>4552848 For every person they see buying a book about two cute girls kissing, they get to see 10 people buying actual porn looking extremely awkward. Guess who they will remember when their shift is done and tell their partners about their day at home?
>>4552788 Anon, unless you're disturbing them or ruining their day, strangers out there in the world don't give a shit what you do and will forget about you thirty seconds after crossing your path. Same goes for cashiers, they just want to be done with their work, not mull over who bought what.
>>4552829 It would take that Hans himself to buy yuri at this book store for his co-workers to care, and then it's just because he gets to chat with said co-workers. They are all just cogs in a machine and so are we. No random stranger cares what you read. Supporting your local book store is cool and all, but at the end of the day, it's just a nice gesture.
>>4552890 Wait what was she thinking about when she had sex with her girlfriend?? The drugged out people sure I'll believe that she coped hard. But her girlfriend???
>>4553241 After all that talk, Saki didn't even have the guts to say "mom im gay, wat do" Even though the mom set the stage for her to open up At this point she doesn't deserve Kanon
>>4553233 Trust the plan. Timing is everything here. She has to make her move after Shouko catches feelings for her, but before Shouko has a chance to beat herself up too much for "perverting their friendship" or whatever.
Where I can, yeah. Bookwalker has been a great find for some series I've been following for a while that I can now directly support. I don't have a lot of room for new physical books but I at least want to help signal to authors that there's an audience out west. I'm so glad Love Bullet is getting translated, and even as slow as the translation seems to be going I'm glad I can still support Princess of Sylph too. It's nice to feel like I'm doing my part to hold off another axing.
>>4553830 I feel like the village chief had many options to prevent the ninjas from organizing into an assassin association considering there's a mindwipe power among others, but I guess being dumb is a shared trait between all of them.
>>4553836 >>4553837 >Should I improve the institutions for people with special powers so they can choose to live happy lives? >Nah I'll just stop them from reincarnating and lock them in purgatory Honestly fuck the chief
>>4553830 I'm really not into this explanation, like chicken-chan just went "poof" wherever she was being kept and vanished int the ether because she was supposed to be dead?
>>4553842 It doesn't sound like fate is literal to the point of reality-warping, I assume she got snatched by another one of the chief's subordinates. There are at least two crows for instance.
It's not over yet and I don't want to be a doomer but for a while now I've been feeling maybe it would have been better to end it earlier with a non-ending and a generic "and their adventures continued".
>Satoko becomes super focused to save Konoha from Ayame >her power shoots up to unimaginable levels >manages to leaf Ayame but the Earth and everything on it will also be leafed in a few minutes >they just make it to the ferris wheel in time and ride it to the top
>>4553883 It's just an infodump which explains away the main mystery surrounding the series. I liked the chapter myself but I can see the argument of leaving that specific part of the setting vague.
I was expecting a bit more existential dread feeling posts not gonna lie. I dread to think about the full year the first pursuers had to endure until Sakura appeared and made Limbo Great For Once. I know Chief probably does not realize what she's putting the people she's "saving" through but we readers do.
>>4554093 Burger is somewhat secretive (if not outright careless) with time but I would believe they have been living together for 4 years already. Sakura was 1 year in. There was the 4 month period she lived with Marin to test the booba. The failed school year where Yoshida graduated, the long ass mission to kill the boat dude, and that's before chapter 30.
>>4554122 Since we actually did go back to school again not that long ago, both chapter-wise and in-story time, it's all but confirmed we are still in Konoha's first repeat year. Best case scenario is then >chief literally dies as they escape >konoha was a first year on chapter one, during spring, as we know sakura was around 1 year in-story >after sakura eventually satoko went to marin's for months. aoi was 17 when she disappeared, and yoshida was wearing a summer outfit, probably about to finish 2nd year, konoha somehow passed to third year. >then it's a long time until Yukie and Konoha failing 3rd year and yoshida graduates. >now sometime deep in 4th year, konoha's second try at third year. Chief appears to be waist-high to Karasu, around a metter high, which matches with a 4 year old girl according to AI. She is just a very precocious 4 year old with a 500 year old mind.
>>4554093 I haven’t gone back to reread the chapter and check if there’s anything contradicting this hypothesis, but is it possible that Leader hadn’t seen the chief for a while before she and Satoko ran away? She says she rarely exits the room where she does all her fate manipulation, after all.
>>4554209 All she and Momiji say is that she's not the chief they last remember seeing at an unspecified time. But yes, now that I think of it, there is no reason to assume she hadn't been reincarnated already by the time they escaped. She was already used enough to her new body to use her powers on Fumiko-senpai for all we know just a few days after the escape.
>>4554269 The premise is played off as comedy but only a complete psychopath would feel nothing while making girls fall in love with her just to take photos.
>>4554269 >not taking a pic when they find out The instant their heart breaks and their feelings turn to hate is the moment they loved her the most Is she even trying
>>4554278 >Young Robot and Perverted Professor ch50-51 So not only did she programmed her lolibot to wet the bet and feel anxiety, she also made her capable of having nightmares. I am starting to think the professor may not be a good person.
>>4554269 Author has a rough road ahead for them. Writing a player character requires some social skills that would make people believe they can even score several people easily like that. And then her being an outright bad person will make it even harder to somehow sell her. Well, I suppose she does target bisluts, and those are the easiest people on Earth.
>>4554297 It's really been 3 years. What was the new thing she was working on anyway? All I remember was the magical girl oneshot. I would guess 2 years is enough time to prepare for a new series. Also kill yourself.
>>4554269 I'm betting the old camera of that new girl is what the MC gave her years ago and forgot about it and her completely cause she moved out or something.
>>4554444 >It's a Secret, Shirotae-sama ch4.4-5 Letting humans into the school continues to be a really bad idea. At this point it had to be intentional, there is no way anyone thought they were not going to end up getting killed and enslaved by the vampires.
>>4554460 Seems kinda pointless. It is still cheating either way, may as well eat the cake after cumming.
>>4554444 >It's a Secret, Shirotae-sama ch4.4-5 A great thriller manga. >>4554502 Yeah, things just seem to get worse, the first-year vampires seem to especially be against humans, funny enough.
>>4553866 >Or, My Great Detective ch4 Cute. Also, the volume 1 bonus booklet has one of those "relationship" charts with arrows between Momo and Kotone, and Kotone's arrow to Momo says (suki).
>>4554546 I honestly never understood how people could read a CUNE manga that starts with two girls getting together and thinking the author would not do the same with the protagonists, I think half of the pages of the magazine are yuri currently,
The Plain Girl Sitting Next to Me ch57-67 (and whatever other chapters might get added in the minutes following this post) https://mangadex.org/chapter/a7a24488-99d7-4f27-82fc-617379bdc385
>>4554564 >The Plain Girl Sitting Next to Me ch57-67 (and whatever other chapters might get added in the minutes following this post) They owe Shiori a threesome
>>4554460 Why make her choose someone so early, if she'll just keep on fooling around with half the town anyway? I guess the author thought this NTR-baiting is funny, but I don't. It fucking sucks
>>4554759 It was funny, to be fair, the prospect that she thinks she really saved her chastity there is funny, when Karin can even go around telling people that her pussy was delicious. Also, how the hell did she turn that into a hug? Karin was literally mid tonguing her. Crazy acrobatics there.
>>4554763 I kind of wish there was a little bit more focus on why exactly the teacher has become so obsessed with Togawa specifically. I get that Togawa being out late at night with another woman kind of subconsciously unlocked sensei's repressed homosexuality, but I don't know, it still feels like there's something missing to it. Like, how does seeing Togawa specifically with another woman at night just, start this whole thing? What about Togawa that's apparently irresistible to sensei?
I still like it though, it's nice to have a manga where the societal taboo of this kind of relationship, not just between an underage and of age person, but also student and teacher is actually at the forefront. Too many manga's go "Yeah this 35 year old woman is having a toddler eat her pussy. What do you mean why is nobody batting an eye?"
>>4554811 You should read the original novel if you want more exposition, Iruma currently new series has a very similar concept to this one but seems to take in mind what he wrote in the afterword of this series where he still felt the whole thing was too tame.
>>4554811 The manga cuts out a lot of Itsuki's inner monologues, unfortunately. To answer your question, though, it's a mix of finding Rin incredibly attractive to the point where it serves as an awakening for her being a lesbian, mixed with Rin being a vulnerable and cute girl with a toxic family situation triggering Itsuki's maternal instincts that warp into an obsession, and also the fact that despite being married, Rin is the first time Itsuki has ever fallen in love with anyone. It all kind of melds together and makes her fall into an obsessive love.
>>4554815 >>4554816 You have now convinced me to read the LN. I understand why they'd get Itsuki monologues, it's a recurring theme I've noticed when LN's get adapted to manga's, where they cut out things to make it more palatable for the manga format/reader
>>4554818 Yes, the smarter editors will realize this and try to make use of the artwork to tell a thousand words, usually manga adaptations that don't do this don't last very long.
>>4554819 The whole point of skirts are to draw eyes to the legs. Just like how wearing a shirt that exposes your collarbone is meant to draw eyes to the chest. It's feminine fashion 101.
>>4554811 >>4554816 The books don't explain it any better. She just fell in love at first sight and it was somehow mutual. Everything after that was just contrived excuses to get them to bed
>>4554859 Iruma probably has little input in the artists for the LNs and mangas, Adashima itself actually has 2 different manga version draw by different artists with very different styles.
>>4555061 >I'm in Love With the Villainess ch61 Four chapters ago, a sword girl got killed, and Clarie wanted to kill herself. Now, another sword girl is going to die, and Clarie still wants to kill herself. Such progress.
>>4555070 They're going to asspull a way to beat the mind control dude and still do reforms despite every revolutionally actually being a villain's pawn or dead? I know that the story will go into bullshit sci-fi territory later on, but I don't know the details.
>>4555126 How's this revival? From a glance the TS looks good but the speed makes me think MTL and since I haven't even started but had it on my list for a while I would rather not read deeply to check.
>>4555394 >why are you putting your hand in my pantsu? >well, I had sex with her too >huh, so that's how it is? well I guess it's fine then That cheating slut could literally do anything with the MC, she is so dumb
>>4555508 Cool, then it must be easy for you to say which manga specifically that applies to? Because that doesn't fit the manga being talked about, or any yuri manga that is currently being serialized for that matter. Even Asumi-chan which is borderline porn still dedicates a large part of the manga to the girls' feelings.
>>4555509 Usually happens when a good author has to dumb down their writing in order to get picked up by a publisher, and then their natural talent seeps in. Hopefully the editor spots this and asks them to write a story more suited to their talents.
>>4555508 Actually het romance is overwhelmingly vanilla these days. Now yuri is the genre that emphasizes physical contact, with first chapter kisses being more frequent than ever.
>>4555525 >a story more suited to their talents. This is Mochi we're talking about. Which editor is going to greenlight a hundred chapter incest saga with massive crossovers with everything they've done before?
>>4555509 As worried as I am about the poly, Mocchi Au Latte knows their shit. All of their manga (probably except for handsome girl and sheltered girl) have great romance
>>4555527 It's really not on either side. Het still has useless harem garbage or acts as a boyfriend manual and yuri still focuses on the actual relationship between the women
>>4555533 That would explain the fans not the works. What it likely is the TLs are only interested in translating these types of yuri while letting others languish. But you can't shit up an entire thread, gotta blame the lesbians writing them!
>>4555389 >shoujo seikan hyouryuuki It’s a good thing they summarized the climax of the chapter at the end, because I couldn’t parse what was happening visually at all.
>>4555660 >retconned the slave that MC killed into a bad guy >everything was actually part of Sun Tzu's good cop bad cop strategem and no innocents were hurt Lame
>>4555679 Eh, on the one hand I agree that it's kinda lame that she wasn't just being brutally practical and, in her own way, sparing the slaves a worse fate; on the other, I do like devious manipulators.
>>4555772 What's even the point of getting married in another country when it will have zero value back home? If you just want a fake marriage ceremony and party you can set one up in japan.
>>4555785 I'm pretty sure foreign marriages have legal validity everywhere, no matter what the law is in the country they are at any given moment. Well maybe not in Iran and Best Korea but you know what I mean.
>>4555798 eeeeeh depends! Some don't recognize marriages if it would have been impossible for the two brides to get married in that country, but you're right that this is mostly countries like Iran and such.
>>4555798 Thats not how the law work, countries don't have jurisdiction outside their own borders. You can get married abroad but unless you make the paperwork back home, all you have is a useless piece of paper. Their marriage would be as invalid in japan as your second amendment rights.
>>4555800 Well back when my country didn't have divorce but our neighbour did people would go get married there and come back the next day, so they could divorce if needed. And to my knowledge it wasn't just to have a party. Then again there are a billion treaties and alliances between the two so maybe it was a localized thing where it just happened to line up desu.
>>4555807 It's not "illegal to get married" as if it was a crime. Japanese law simply does not recognize marriage between people of the same gender. To the eyes of the law you are not married, no matter what your western certificate says.
>>4555808 I know it got turned down on the national level again but doesn't it depend on the prefecture? >western certificate says Didn't know Thailand was western now!
>>4555800 Some countries do/did recognise other countries' gay marriages, even if they don't/didn't themselves allow gay marriages, on the basis of broad reciprocity and wanting their own things to be recognised in other countries. I don't know if Japan is one of those.
>>4555825 New Zealand, so easily forgotten... Yeah but what's important is if a country recognizes gay marriages of other countries even if they don't let women marry other women themselves.
>>4555758 >KaoYuri This is so awkward and boring. I like the artist’s other yuri well enough, so I have to assume that the one making it come off so weirdly dull is the writer?
>>4555836 She's shy, always hiding in the corner. australia might be her only friend, but she's oddly obsessed with Rugby. Perhaps she found a cute girl on the rugby team.
>>4556063 even the worse tropes in yuri are often done better since they involve a main character who is allowed to have a personality and doesn't exist solely to self insert
>>4556064 I will concede that point to an extent, but I will also point out that a decent chunk of the MC's in harem yuri manga display the same behavioral traits as their m*le counterparts
>>4556044 >literally nothing happened yet >waaah it's shit because cheating and ntr and infidelity imoane please. Do you also cry at every single scene of a sleepover?
>>4556074 According to some anons everything is a harem manga apparently. This is no different from Hougetsu going with Tarumi to the festival and yet it brew a shitstorm.
>>4556079 Yea the reactions to this are really forced and nonsensical. You could remove the cheating aspect and it would be the exact same story so far minus the MC occasionally freaking out. I won't say the writing so far has been good but it's the second chapter and nothing has happened, it wouldn't be getting half this kind of scrutiny if it had a different title.
>>4556074 The two that immediately came to mind when typing that post definitely do.
>>4556079 No, it's bad because the writing is absolutely atrocious. If you like the manga because it caters to your fetishes, that's fine. Just don't get so upset when people voice that they actually want a well written manga. The story and it's characters are lazily written, and would still be so even under doujinshi standards. That's how bad it is.
>>4556083 >the writing is absolutely atrocious But how can you say that when literally nothing happened? So far it's just a slow girl meets girl just like half of the yuri manga in existence.
>>4556084 NTA but be serious, do you really think the writing in those first two chapters was decent? Two girls getting naked in public in broad daylight because of the rain like it's the most normal thing in the world? There's contrivances and then there's this shit.
>You can't point out the writing is shit because it's only been 2 chapters What kind of dumb logic is this? Is this the manga version of "Just keep playing, it get good after playing for 100hrs"??
>>4556063 >Yuri has boyfriend manuals Wut >>4556066 Like we all kinda joke about it but it's true. There's just immutable things about the genre that no matter who writes it has to somewhat follow. Like, "My Girlfriend Isn't Here Today" is supermarket checkout stand tier but still has more meat to it than if it was het. A story being yuri objectively makes it better.
>>4556083 How about you actually explain what's wrong with it instead of throwing around buzzwords like "muh bad/lazy writing"? Or mention what are the harem series you thought of. We can't read your fucking mind.
>>4556104 >Nothing like having someone with no life experience trying to nitpick writing I wonder if it is the same anon who thought eating cat food was weird
>>4556105 A chapter can be anything from 60 pages to one page, trying to come up with a standard is meaningless. Most series only last between 3 to 5 volumes anyway.
>>4556110 Because people do it anon, it's not weird to see people half naked in a public gazebo if the situation calls for it. It's not weird to see girls showing their midriffs on shopping malls if they want. Just go to the beach on summer for a change. That deosn't make them a streaker. >inb4 bikinis are not underwear
>>4556096 In my unwarranted opinion the equivalent would be 2 chapters. First chapter to see if you enjoy the characters and premise, second to see how it handles actually telling the story. Reading's a bit more active so it's a bit easier to tell when you're not going to enjoy forcing yourself through something.
>>4556084 >nothing happened How do you think they got to her house? How do you think they even came to the agreement that she'd stay at mc's house the whole summer? Things have happened, you just don't think so because MC and the girl who's relationship status reads "situationship" haven't started fucking. The entire manga reads like the mangaka just wanted to do a 2 part H-doujin, but got told to format it for a manga. Everything is so painfully contrived, from the living situations of school-aged girls (this shouldn't need an explanation), to the gazebo (tits out in the rain baby), to the agreement (agreeing to someone moving in same day as your first real interaction with them huh). What the characters say and do make no sense. (re-read chapter 1)
There's no attention to detail in the story, all of the important things about the situation is completely glossed over if not outright ignored because author wants to speedrun to whatever point they want to get to. Which is probably them having sex. You believe that there's no issue with this because them having sex is the only thing you care about. I think there's an issue because the story is badly written.
>>4556118 This isn't a hardcover novel. This is a yuri manga for teens and young adults. Characters are written in tropes that will have little to no deviation. If you can't tell who's who from chapter 1, then either the mangaka is an especially skilled writer, or you're just stupid. Given the first two chapters, it's the latter.
>>4556113 >In my unwarranted opinion It's not unwarranted, it's a public forum and I asked a question >the equivalent would be 2 chapters The reasoning is sound desu
>>4556125 Anon, their living condition is no different from "muh senpai works abroad" that's in 80% of school themed stories. Running away from home is nothing new either. Tits in the air is just a nothingburger in modern society as has been said a trillion times in this very thread. You would be complaining were the cohabitation deal for 4 days or 40 years, so that's no argument either. You don't hate the story because it's badly written, because by the examples you gave of bad writing 99% of stories are badly written. You hate the story because you picked up a series that's obviously going to have cheating elements from the title despite you don't liking said cheating elements. Why are you reading This Girl Will Get Cucked In 5 Chapters if you don't want to see a girl getting cucked in 5 chaptres?
I read the manga to see what the fuss about. I have to agree with anons here, the writing is utterly amateur, just imagine if in Adashima, very earlier on when Adachi questioned Shimamura if she wanted to enter her house because of the rain outside, Shimamura accepted her offer, nothing absurd so far, even though it would be incosistent with her character, but whatever it's still at the "Ignorable" range, yet, Adachi goes on and ask Shimamura to stay and sleep in her house, at the same bad, some may think "wow good the author cut the filler in their interactions and got to the best part already" but this would just show that the author writing is bad because he disregard everything in the story just to have the characters in a illogical situation right at the start, if the follow up is a good writen sex scene, this whole illogical situation could make it a good 18-rated doujinshi, but as a manga, where the follow up will for sure not be a good writen sex scene, it's bad, really bad.
>>4556122 It hasn't been that long since the side-characters dominated this mango, let the protagonists be gay for a bit before she comes back to sweat all over Rinne.
>>4556133 What? What are you talking about? What is so absurd about one girl who makes clear she is having problems at home asking another girl, who lives alone of all things, to spend a night on her house?
>>4556143 Yes, but this is another thing, they have a proper argument about this, she will pay half of the rent, she will tutor MC and you can easily tell MC is attracted to her, so what would be absurd about this exchange?
>>4556131 >Why are you reading This Girl Will Get Cucked In 5 Chapters if you don't want to see a girl getting cucked in 5 chaptres? Why are you reading Sorry But I'm Not Into Yuri if you don't want to see a girl not being into yuri?
>>4556058 >villainess meets yandere I like how now that they’re out of immediate danger and have negotiated a beneficial deal for themselves, they just don’t give a crap about all their dead (male) guards and are just enjoying themselves.
>>4556188 Controversial opinion, but out of ignorance they aren't. It's like someone sins but they didn't know it was a sin because nobody told them. Bisluts, however, know the path to salvation and still choose to do evil.
>>4556213 That would, in most cases, still make them bi >>4556209 Not true! All women's lives can be improved by being with other women. Salvation can be had for all XXs. XYs are just failures, shadows on the path to righteousness!
>>4556259 Considering every reply to it was mocking or shitting on it, it's a pretty dumb way to start a conversation, by asking why people think it's good. But I'll give you my best shot, as at least someone who's interested in seeing what happens next. The MC acts in such a dumb way, that is goes back to being funny, I feel like Tsukasa could carry around a sign saying "please fuck me" and Yuki would be asking what does she mean by that. There's something humorous about some extreme lesbian beauty trying to cheat on her girlfriend with this dork.
A Story Of Getting Masturbation Support From An Expressionless Older Woman - Ms. Kusunoki From The Masturbation Support Center https://exhentai.org/g/3926264/c8d6bcdcfb/
>>4556436 nah because people have a superiority complex over the site it uses because it has a retard filter that takes a 2 minute Google search to solve
>>4556462 Last I remember, apart from underaged (Loli/Shota), it was stuff Guro, Scat, Death/Torture and such other happy and sane fetishes for definitely happy and sane people.
>>4556474 I've always exclusively used ex so I was only repeating what I remember hearing through the years but from a quick try, you get a trigger warning for scat. Not gonna test other tags, maybe it's just loli and shota and they were just talking about this warning.
>>4556480 Guro also gets warning screens like this. Not sure what else off the top of my head.
In my experience there are also a few just completely random things that aren’t available on e- that are on ex, things that don’t have any extreme tags. They’re rare, but I’ve run into it multiple times. That said, I haven’t visited the site much in the past few years so I’m not sure if this is still the case.
>>4556529 Good. Now let usuishio write a new wholesome romance. Also, it's hilarious that Niji got shafted and doesn't even get to make up with Remu. Deserved!
A Story Of Getting Masturbation Support From An Expressionless Older Woman - Ms. Kusunoki From The Masturbation Support Center https://e-hentai.org/g/3926264/c8d6bcdcfb/
>>4556564 Remu will be forever a harmless virgin who masturbates will dolls, Niji is the average incel who crashes out because women don't act the way she wants them to Don't compare them
>>4556564 >the girl who is dating her IRL fanfaction will be okay >unlike the girl who is dating dolls, that bitch be nuts At least Remu has real people who support her. Niji gets randoms online calling her writing shit.
>>4556529 Should have ended with Remu gesturing at a phone screen and saying, "What the fuck is this, Niji?! You promised me you'd stop writing weird shit about us! Seriously, I make one lewd joke about a doll, and you turn it into this? And why did you have to bring my sister and her wife into it this time?"
>>4556529 >Azuki x Megu ending I guess we were media literate enough after all to predict this. Definitely a rushed ending though, which is disappointing. Niji kind of goes nowhere, and I feel like Megu 180'd a little too fast. I do really appreciate Usui writing about "unconventional" characters, but for my money, Crescent Moon and Doughnuts is still Usui's best work. That one is literally perfect.
>>4556669 Will their respective acquaintances meet each other? Also I wonder if Arai will start doing longer chapters when she deems it necessary, this one had nice pacing because she didn't feel the need to put a break every four pages so it would've had to be written differently if it was three regular chapters.
>>4556694 Please don't let this be a "how do i get together with my childhood friend" reversal situation where Kanon starts pursuing Saki now but Saki doesn't want to hear any of it because "theres no way kanon would like shitty old me"
>>4556529 I guess this isn't a bad ending for Remu, who's still getting a supply of dolls to fuck; a human girlfriend is ultimately a bit superfluous for her, though we see some hints that she might appreciate it as a bit of a bonus on occasion. She's a good girl who doesn't deserve to be hurt for her amusingly-fucked-up sexuality that doesn't harm anyone else.
>>4556773 I hope everyone who posts stuff like this always confesses to all their crushes immediately without doubting themselves or deciding it's not worth it. We need more people like that in real life.
>>4556773 Not really, given what we know about both Saki and Kanon. This WOULD be a straightforward conversation if Moon on a Rainy Night were written in a way where all of the characters know everything that the reader does (too many people say things as if characters in stories always know everything the reader does, which is a rare way for a story to be written, outside of mysteries and the like.). Or if Saki and Kanon will interpret the others' words, thoughts, and feelings the same way the readers want them to. (Which is often a way of saying "I would do X in this situation, so the character should've done the same.")
Sorry for those two mini-rants, but it's something I often come across when discussing stories, and they bother me to no end.
>>4556787 I'm just going with the logic. >realizes her true enemy has always been herself >hugs from behind and says it out loud for the first time >apologizes to her and promises to explain herself the next day It'd be convoluted to make some story up, pretend it was something else or any other type of drama at this point. She just has to repeat what she "rehearsed" but this time looking at Kanon so she can understand. This is the logical solution to the current problem.
>>4556802 Because you know every chinese work is gay as fuck and this is one of the newest ones I currently like a lot, though of the new ones my favorite is that one with the real state protagonist
>>4552880 Is this series still good? It felt like it was jumping the shark with the mobster daughter. But like 12 chapters for an arc is kinda crazy for a yuri
>>4556912 FYI, while the other translation has worse typesetting, the actual text is accurate. Sciencey is making a lot of stuff up that can't even be excused as localization
>>4556914 Without examples I’ll just assume you’re incompetent and you feel that way because you failed to decode the full message from the JP. Like most n3-kuns who make similar complaints.
>>4556921 For the record: >こんなんばっか食べてるから "because of only eating stuff like this" >ざこざこ人間は "is that pathetic/weak/useless humans" >堕落するの "to degenerate, to fall into depravity, to get corrupted" No mentions of "filling me up", no mentions of "addicted to feeling it in my stomach", she's not even talking about herself. She's talking down to humans.
>悪魔メシ "devilish food" >に負ける "losing to-" >ざこ悪魔 "weak/pathetic demon" Nobody calls her cute, they're calling her a loser.
>>4556927 Also not sure how they’re justifying translating ザコ悪魔 as “what a cute devil!” It’s like sciency’s translator for this doesn’t know what zako means, but it’s not like it’s hard to look up.
>>4556920 Here's another one: what is obviously a food trend somehow got turned into a "fish girl" (presumably interpreted as a vtuber???) by sciencey's translator. It's ridiculous.
>>4556942 Not to mention that "Ytter" is a very clear reference to twitter, yet the translation decided to turn it into something that sounds like a streaming site.
>>4556958 >typesetting by sciencygirl What? So she, despite being both a good translator in her own right and group leader not only OK'd this crap but actually stared at this script for hours as she typesetted it line by line?
>>4556964 >Young Robot and Perverted Professor ch52 Did those kemono girls appear in the background before? Never noticed if so. The world gets weirder again.
>>4556963 >>4556965 There are three translators in the group. Sciencey sometimes (very rarely) translates herself, then we have another person who has been translating for the longest time, and just recently the new person.
>>4556914 Update: sciency got called out in mangadex comments for dismissing the other translation before dropping this mess, deleted her comment (really edited it to only display a dot, which is... weird), said "Since people like this one, we won't be working in it going forward" (butthurt much?) before deleting that comment too. It was funny to watch. Seems they can't take even a bit of criticism or scrutiny
>>4557192 Really? The guy who larps as something he isn't and who dropped Yuri starts with Slavery because he claims he was molested by a hot gyaru in high school is perhaps a little unstable?
>>4557196 >>4557192 > We've addressed the issue and will improve moving forward. This is literally the last message on this, seems like you’re just trying to start shit over nothing.
>>4557198 I don't see that post anywhere in the MD threads. Sciency deleted all of her comments there and the chapter itself. And deleting the chapter altogether while trying to pretend they never did it by removing the comment where they said they'd make their own version doesn't sound like addressing an issue to me
>>4557205 Well, if all you do is speed-read and consider bad grammar and complete re-writes fine since you don't know what any of the squiggles are anyway, then yes, there's no reason to care about who's making it.
>>4557208 >there's no reason to care about who's making it You think I read thing because I care who the name attached to thing is? And yes, that goes for both authors and translators. At most I get a random thought of recognising a style that goes away in a second or two.
>>4557218 >Some people didn't like the stylistic choice made with the translation, so we decided to remove it and move on So they think changing the whole subject of a sentence from humanity as a whole to the protagonist herself is a stylistic choice and not a wild misinterpretation of the text, and inserting references to real vtubers that didn't even exist in the raws is a stylistic choice and not just the translator rewriting the manga to his tastes lol I see they have addressed nothing and they aren't willing to recognize any kind of criticism! Thanks for the pointer anon
>>4557219 The "stylistic choice" is likely referring to how they sanitized the degeneracy out of what's supposed to be a mesugaki mind break manga >>4556921 Really makes you wonder why they picked this up in the first place. It's just Yuri Slavery all over again.
>>4557220 >Really makes you wonder why they picked this up in the first place They just liked the art, everything else they can twist, if they could get away with AI for some panels they would do it.
>>4557225 Was that other relatively recent manga about supernatural occurrences in a school setting axed or something? The comedy one where the main character is obsessed with cats and the other girl is a bakeneko or something like that. They get abducted by aliens in one chapter and then the disciplinary committee girl is a werewolf in another. Couldn’t find it on mangadex through a tag search.
>>4557301 >>4557300 It's not about remembering, it's about caring. Yes I know Chigusa or Namori drawed thing at a mere glance. I kinda remember some scanlation group names. I remember who the author of some of my favs are, just like I know the names of a few 3dpd celebrities or pooliticians or logotypes despite hating gossip, politics or advertising. Some things are just inevitable. Doesn't mean I care or feel pride about being able to match thing with name. And yes, I would consider coming to defend some random donobegging sniping translator after botching a release a parasocial relationship.
>>4557304 >feel pride That says a lot about your post by itself. Is being able to simply remember a name something that warrants pride these days? Or do you feel like you need to tell everyone you don't care or else they'll look down on you?
>>4557304 What the fuck are you talking about Author is consistently good = you keep an eye out for their next work Author is consistently bad = you avoid them This is basic pattern recognition. Even pigeons can do this. This has nothing to do with gossip or politicians or feeling pride (???). Acting smug about your retardation and samefagging doesn't make you special.
>>4557307 Of course it isn't, that's why I don't understand why people keep raising the issue. So a translator botched a release, some people start talking about the background, someone says I don't care about person, someone says you should care because reasons. You shoudn't care. >>4557308 Sorry for having a series first view instead of an author first view. A good series stands on its own, no matter the name written by the title. Having an author-first view easily leads to keeping reading somehing you don't really enjoy because name did a good series before and missing on other good stuff because name did a bad series before.
>>4557312 Which would be fine but you also brought the author into this conversation. >series first view instead of an author first view That's so dumb, remembering an author's ability to handle certain story aspects based on the other titles you have read by them is much more effective than purely just judging each title individually. Like unless this is your first time reading a story they wrote. More knowledge isn't a bad thing Nee-san
>>4557362 NTA. >remembering an author's ability to handle certain story aspects based on the other titles you have read by them is much more effective than purely just judging each title individually This is retarded because it assumes an author will write each of their works the same way. This line of thinking only works if you see something was written by X author, so you've already decided you like it without reading a single page. Which is the exact pitfall that judging works on their individual merit, and not the person who wrote it, avoids.
Hell, even just >much more effective than purely just judging each title individually is retarded. Effectively saying the same as: >You don't actually have to read it to know if you enjoy it, just look at the author name Do you not understand how dumb this is? Or do all of you parasocials just lack self-awareness?
>Hmm, I sure enjoyed these Stephanie Queen novels. Perhaps I should check if she's written anything else? >Noooo you can't do that you're being parasocial you need to walk blindfolded through the library like Dewina Decimal intended and pick up your next book at random Somehow this wasn't a problem for thousands of years until the internet.
>>4557368 >I liked the author's previous work I will read this new one >The last work ended poorly My expectations for the new one are subdued This isn't life or death. Knowing what an author did before doesn't mean immediately casting them aside, it means having a frame of reference for how they write a story. Viewing everything in a vacuum is good, but actually caring about the medium you indulge in, and the authors you get invested in should be natural. But you would never know that feeling. All you do is consume before tossing it aside.
Not knowing the author is just a pirate's thing, there is a reason why every single producers or publisher makes sure to put the director or author names on very big letters
I do use authors sometimes as a way to filter what I decide to read/watch, for example if I know an author did bait before I'm unlikely to trust his new series and will wait it out, while I'd probably jump straight into the one of an author that made my favorite yuri. But that's where my interest in authors ends, I actually dislike finding out personal information about them, especially if their work is related to it, because then when reading it I'm going to be thinking about the author's life instead of the story, and I really couldn't care less about it, it just breaks my immersion. And least of all I care about the author's words after the fact, anything they add in comments or interviews can't retroactively affect the contents anymore, if they don't convey by themselves what the author expected then they're just not what they wanted them to be, which I also don't really care about.
>>4557302 The one I really want more of is Here Stands Gokumon Nadeshiko. Not to say Nekonome Yuuka or Paranormal Club are bad, but that one is just really good and also didn't really settle in to regular releases.
>>4556581 Ah, that was me, really set myself up for this huh. Since I only read yuri I'm so used to seeing the most important/positive relationship in the story also being the romantic one that I took for granted it would happen this time as well, but instead the romance turned out to be secondary compared to the main characters platonically bonding over fetishes I guess. Goes to show that every rule has its exceptions, apologies for my lack of foresight.
>>4557385 >Gokumon Nadeshiko I wish the raw manga had regular releases to begin with. I already read the first 2 LN volumes, but seeing them illustrated is still really fun.
The author already made some panels that show the girls do see each other in a romantic and sexual way and their break up after graduation doesn't end well for one of them.
>>4557381 >But that's where my interest in authors ends, That's what I and others are saying but you got numbnuts thinking that's the same as being in parasocial relationship
>>4557374 >I WILL read this new one >All you do is consume before tossing it aside. You sound more like a consumer than me. I consume what I like and only what I like no matter who writes it while you trudge through what the author you worship decides to shit out every time. You are just like a shonentard on /a/ who can't accept their author went to shit 200 chapters ago.
>Loved Green Tea Bitch >Couldn't even make it to chapter 5 in My Dearest Nemesis So why should I ever say that I love My Dearest Nemesis? Because it was the same author?
>>4556694 What will the next miscommunication be? Saki gets laryngitis and can't speak, so she tries to confess with sign language but Kanon can't understand what Saki is trying to finger and thinks that they just want to be best friends forever?
>>4557470 >Saki gets laryngitis and can't speak Why would that even be a problem? Kanon can read lips, she doesn't even3 hear her voice when they're not in her piano box
>>4557466 >>4557448 The translations is not finished, the work however is... unfinished as it wasn't even axed, it was outright canceled midway into the volume because the author has no condition to continue drawing anymore, or so they claim, which is a pity because the last chapter have gotten really gay between the girls.
>>4557479 Maybe, but there are other 100 sites doing this, we just need to post the links here, you don't need to make a blood pact with the website anon.
>>4557468 What? What's up with "not fear"? >>4557481 >it was outright canceled midway into the volume because the author has no condition to continue drawing anymore, or so they claim Did the mangaka got sick? And before his works blew up in popularity too, shame.
>>4551472 >Wicked Spot ch13 Yooooo dont know why I missed this until now but this was a solid chapter. The wolf lady actually really redeemed herself (mostly by just turning out to be an actual woman and not a guy) and her dog form was cute.
Still wish the story was just about these two being up to shenanigans instead of trying to fit so many cast members all at once. Hopefully it doesnt end randomly like Knight and Disgusting
>>4557500 In isolation it was fine but it's another extreme whiplash chapter where the plot and ongoings of the previous is jettisoned to do something completely different, to the point where you even lose track of space and time in the story.
At least it didn't just introduce even more characters/complications. But also, though I hardly liked the dude, it seemed like a bit of a nothingburger to end her involvement with him like that. They just randomly go to Japan and run into this specific dude, and this time she Gets It and leaves and everything is tied off neatly...it almost kinda gives me the axe stinks.
>>4557507 Yes, it's either a sign the axe is coming and no surprises considering the large hiatus the series took, or Sal herself realized this plot became to small for the type of story she was writing and just got rid of it in the laziest way possible, aside from showing up from nowhere in the middle of nothing the dude just starts sperging out of nowhere the guys at work are calling him a faggot and then when asked if they are friends he just spills everything he never did for years.
Even him aside the whole thing started in such a silly way "oh no this non human creature is a murderer", forgetting the two witches who tried to murder her in the first chapters and the non human super entities that can twist reality and basically forcing her to do their will.
Though really all of this can only be blamed on the editor who can't tell Sal to just finish a single thing before moving on.
>>4557509 Are we sure this story has an editor? I just can't see how you'd look at each of the past like 6 chapters and put your seal of approval on them. If I were her editor I'd have told her to cancel the serieus and either abandon it or restart when she has time to do it.
>>4557511 It must have some editorial process because there are certain themes and words that authors are not allowed to say under any conditions, but maybe this is all there is to it and they either don't care because there are so many other works and authors trying to get in or they just gave up because they already told Sal it's getting axed at the next volume.
>>4557507 The release schedules are so stretched out, it's easy to read it as its own chapter and not think too hard about everything else.
Also I dont see how this Yoshi guy had any other purpose other than the relationship parallel to Sadako so dealing with him now or later makes no difference to me. In fact I think it makes sense to trigger this realization right now since Doggy has been the perfect girlfriend for a few chapters now (aside from that one brief moment when she thought about killing Hanako...), and Hana needed an excuse right now to turn her down or at least keep her at arms length.
>>4557500 >mostly by just turning out to be an actual woman and not a guy Why did any of you doubt Sal Jing of all people? It was so obvious that the only thing she didn't do was turn to the audience and go "I'm a woman BTW"
>>4557500 >The wolf lady actually really redeemed herself (mostly by just turning out to be an actual woman and not a guy) Where was that stated in the chapter? The dude still called her a guy
>>4557426 wait this has 16 chapters??? i thought it got stuck at like chapter 2
>>4557496 >>4557633 ah damn this is so disappointing to hear after just discovering more chapters got scanned than i realize this is like gunbured sister getting a rushed ending because the author had wrist issues......did they ever do a new series?
>>4557481 I'd love to have more official releases linked here, regardless if it's short-lived aggregators or the actual legit website, just something to foster discussion and let people know they actually exist cause they can be pretty hard to find out about if you're not religiously keeping up to date with seven seas/yen press/whatever announcements.
>>4558137 She doesn't, the whole point is that the teacher is afraid of rejecting her because she already had a bad experience with it. Though I bet you she will just say she will wait until she graduates to ask her out
Now and again I remember two things that got axed. One was a manga about a girl who showed up to investigate a school because of poltergeists or something and her love interest was a weird girl with multiple personalities. It was getting pretty fun. The other is the unforgettable witch. Ah how I miss it. Too bad not everything makes it.
>>4557719 >oneshot Why does this one have the incest tag? I've never seen BanG dream, but nothing on Wikipedia suggests these two are related. Is it a spoiler for some twist in the series?
>>4558326 Short answer yes and it's complicated: Uika is actually Hatsune, Uika's non-blood related sister and Sakiko's same-age aunt. Hatsune was forbidden from ever meeting Sakiko by her father/Sakiko's grandfather so she stole her sister's identity to do unbeknownst to Sakiko it after they accidentally met as children. If you're interested MyGO and Ave Mujica are their own thing and don't require any prior Bandori knowledge.
>>4558329 Knowing them, the right one is more accurate because they LOVE rewriting dialogue to make it more "family friendly". It's kinda insane to have a bunch of prudes translating yuri out of all things.
I mean, I have no idea what the raws say, but in the context of the story, considering they already had sex twice very recently and the issue she is having is with how the other one is just pretending they have nothing going on, I honestly don't see how "why you won't fuck me" would make more sense.
>>4558336 it was changed because a bunch of people complained about it in the comments on MD, saying it had to inaccurate or surely that wasn't what she actually said. it was not a decision to make it "family friendly" and you're retarded for even implying sciencey would agree to such a thing
>>4558463 I do kinda agree going with straight up "fuck me" is pretty inconsistent with the tone of translation thus far, even during the parts where they literally be fucking. There's also the off-chance the next chapter will throw in the third party interpret 抱いて as hug or something, what with it being a double meaning that crops up often.
>>4558463 Sleep with is the standard TL for this and IMO would work better than ‘make a move’ because the latter kinda implies they hadn’t slept together before. Fuck wouldn’t really be wrong either, if it’s said with a loud voice it’s practically the same.
>>4558466 I'd go as far to say that "fuck me" doesn't even fit the tone of the manga, let alone fitting the tone of the rest of the TL, and agree with >>4558473 in that "sleep with" should be the phrasing used
>>4558463 I know context is 80% of the meaning in this meme language but still there is clearly an active and physical kind of lovemaking implied, not a passive thing like "making a move". Are they just tired and trying to sabotage their whole operation as an exit strategy?
Manaka ch 8 https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1028907 I see the author want to make a Cosmic Kaguya look like ending but they didn't give her one chapter more
>>4558484 Yeah this ending shared a lot more similarities with Kaguya than the author probably intended. Though I reckon it wasn't on purpose since the general storyline would've been finalized a while before Kaguya came out, feels more like a coincidence. Definitely could've used an epilogue for sure. >>4558485 >guy says hello to her and she says hello back (because it was Manaka that told her not to be so cold to everyone from now on) Meanwhile: >misses Manaka so much she still imagines seeing her in her closet even after two years have passed >changes her career path against her parents' expectations just so that she can make Manaka again one day >second last page is literally her thinking of Manaka being right beside her as she runs down her own path (just like Manaka did) from now on This manga isn't an A+ in terms of yuri by any means but don't go injecting imaginary het into it.
>>4558532 >the general storyline would've been finalized a while before Kaguya came out This manga was clearly axed, i'm willing to bet the final chapter was written in a rush.
>>4558532 No anon, I don't think a story where there is no romance, one of the girls die and the other moves on with her life while the author shows she is becoming interesting to male characters in the ending is anything close to A+ in yuri
>>4558547 >the other moves on with her life You're acting as if Yui wasn't constantly thinking about her every step of the way even when it's been two years after the event. Heck it even hints to her wanting to make Manaka again. >author shows she is becoming interesting to male characters That singular male character was there to show people were acknowledging her efforts to slowly step out of her shell. Plus she wasn't even saying goodbye to him specifically and didn't even look at him when she passed by. Not to mention she was still thinking of Manaka when she did that.
Don't try to flaunt media literacy when you have none, fucking retard.
>>4558580 Having an impact in her life and being romantically interested on her are very two different things, the author could have done this in a billion different ways, but they specifically choose this one.
Only the Ridiculously Emotional Stalker Can Save the Corporate Slave at Her Limit ch7 https://mangadex.org/chapter/4497de3b-e498-47a7-8b14-a5d377b58a9c
>>4558595 >Only the Ridiculously Emotional Stalker Can Save the Corporate Slave at Her Limit ch7 I like it but wouldn't be surprised if it ended this volume
>>4558719 Make sure Tsukasa thought that Yoriko loved her back since her and Tooru were getting friendly, causing her to start sending signals, thus making sure no one would go for Tooru? idklol
>>4558868 The girl is like 8 years old. Once she fully awakens she'll realize that she can draw a girl between the onee-san's giant knockers instead of a boy.
>>4558864 I always find Itou's more "introspective" works to be really interesting. There is something very mundane and earnest about her self deprecating monologues.
Let's Hang Out When the Black Plague is Over ch10 https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/lets_hang_out_when_the_black_plague_is_over_a_slow_life_of_modern_civilization_in_the_world_of_middle_age_europe_ch10
>>4558465 Chiaki's so fucking dashing and innocently seductive. Her harshness doesn't come from being a bitch but just very serious. What's that big boobed loser hamster thinking trying to mindbreak a competent looker like that just because some bitches were mean to her in high school?
>>4558909 Cute ending, but when writing such heavy subtext, why not just go full yuri? Like, who is this made for? I have to assume the only people reading it after the first few chapters are yurifags anyway. I guess some subtext series still have large audiences and that's what the author was going for.
>>4558939 >>4558941 The place where it's published has it's share of yuri works, including Arisaku, so maybe the editor just wanted to see how something with a less romantic angle would do.
>>4559004 >Yuri is My Job ch75 Whats the opposite of a page turner? Like, dreading to move to the next page because you know a character is going to screw up. I really was not ready for Hime to actually be reliable and do her job properly. what a twist.
>>4558943 If you're strictly speaking within the bounds of existing works, then Madoka. Don't get me wrong, I'm pulling for a romantic turn in the sequel even against expectations, but there was no room for romance within the previous media.
All things said, I at least give credit for the work literally not ending with >And maybe one day they will meet again Because this type of ending is honestly infuriating even if the girls kiss at some point.
Though really a portal between two worlds probably changed society forever and definitely brought war and a lot of death, all because two girls wanted to eat each other.
>>4558943 Lucky Star. A lot of subtext gets a lot more fanworks than official stuff because people tend to be more satisfied with explicit confirmation. More fanworks = fanbase more easily noticed = more popularity = Kickstart yuri
I don't think what anon said is absurd, you see this all the time with shows that never deliver obvious couples, they want to keep the audience engaged and when the couple gets together the interest slowly dies, it's not a coincidence most romances call it a day when the couple gets together, you can't just continue the story based on chemistry alone like before. Or you know some works where the main couple is basically a sure thing and then they literally create a new universe where they are not together anymore.
>>4559095 Google negativity bias. A pairing not happening creates frustration which artists then channel to draw what they wanted to happen. A yuri ending is cathartic so the feelings afterwards are weaker.
>>4558864 So it was released in YuriHime, was it really so hard to make little girl being into onne-san x young girls genre than shotashit? What a letdown. So Itou is now a background artist in some anime company?
>>4559354 >There's No Way I Could Go On A Date With Rena-chin! Unless... (Watanare, KahoRena) It's kind of soulless to make a doujin for every possible Renako pairing. A true fan would only draw their favorite ship.
>>4559374 Well they are hers so what's the issue? Also poor donut. Or should I say lucky donut? Her brain would explode and drip from her nose if she saw Chie gambling like this.
>>4559364 I like to think there's rumour about Chie going around and that she'll throw money at any sob story and those inn workers just pulled off the scam of a lifetime
>>4559395 They're so cute I'm gonna fucking cry As a manga reader, this payoff to everything they've been through so far has been amazing. Maybe I should pick up the novels
>>4559364 So she CAN run out of money? She's been throwing so much money at everything and not seen a single cent in ROI that I thought she just had a literally unlimited amount of $
>>4559777 I’m not rereading to doublecheck my memory, but it seems like Haruna was trying to get into a creative field (manga?) in high school and that Hana helped/encouraged her when she was down and out, which Hana doesn’t remember. Haruna became obsessed with Hana, probably went on to make it big (which would be where all her money comes from), and started stalking Hana till realizing Hana was miserable. Cue start of manga.
What was even the point of the boyfriend subplot? >MC totally has a boyfriend, ah but she barely dates him anyway, doesn't really care either, and he gets it too so no problem; oh, and they hastily break up in the end btw.
>>4559903 The boyfriend is a simple device for Kaidou's character arc. She's only with that guy due to expectations from her friends, and the rest of the class. Meaning, she's the type to simply go with the flow, and meet the expectations of those around her as to not "rock the boat". Her relationship with Yarai is much more fulfilling than with her "boyfriend", who's only really a boyfriend in name only, which pushes her to put her own wants (Yarai) over the superficial expectations of the people around her. (Her "friends" only wanted her the date the guy because she was cute and he was handsome, no other reason)
>>4559905 >Meaning, she's the type to simply go with the flow Huh, there were infinitely less unnecessarily convoluted ways to convey the same point though, and that's ignoring how it led to this yuri manga technically having the protagonist in a het relationship for 99% of its run, which just feels bad no matter the circumstances. All in all a poor storytelling decision.
>>4559903 >What was even the point of the boyfriend subplot I'm guessing they were after the NTR audience, but tried to do it in the most inoffensive way they could to not alienate the vanilla audience, so the end result is so half-assed it doesn't quite suit either of them.
Anons, the work is a comedy, the fact she didn't gave a shit about him was treated as a joke from the start and even the breaking up part was treated as such, it's all there is to it.
>>4559905 >>4559907 Narratively, he also serves the purpose of allowing her to go no homo while being very homo with her girlfriend. Something that came out several times already and will probably be more of a focus as she comes out to more people. I get people here hate men and cheating but giving her a boyfriend to cheat on is pretty efficient storytelling. The plot would be more bland and convoluted without it.
>>4559927 but it wasn't funny, it wasn't really anything at all other than mildly annoying >>4559932 >allowing her to go no homo after a bajillion yuri works where girls go 'no homo' without any boyfriends i'm not seeing the sudden necessity >The plot would be more bland and convoluted without it. it's the opposite though, it just added needless steps that did nothing good to the story i liked the manga too for the record, but we don't have to pretend it's perfect, noting a downside to it is no big deal, the guy was hardly more than an afterthought for the mc all throughout
>>4559959 >after a bajillion yuri works where girls go 'no homo' without any boyfriends i'm not seeing the sudden necessity But thats the thing, without the boyfriend this is just another generic "b-but we are both girls" to add to the pile. The cheating angle does give the manga a thread to follow through beyond cute girls doing cute girls. I am not saying it is perfect or that you have to like it, just pointing out the boyfriend did add to the story.
>cheating angle there was no such thing in the story, it's almost never brought up, there's no situation in the story where it's matter either, heck, just the guy reaction shows how this "cheating angle" never happened in the first place, so no, it was not necessary because the author didn't even made use of it anyway.
>>4559983 Were supposed to be adults here and I think most people here are over 25 at least and adults tend to cringe at the way some teens act over those tiny worries, mostly when the narrative itself tells us that they were worried over nothing. It's a age issue more than a empathy issue.
>>4560067 >Your Fascination, My Fear A story about a loli kissing loli ghosts to fight monsters sounds fun. We need more yuri with kiss activated powers.
>>4560067 >Your Fascination, My Fear So is this a oneshot or a series? I like the concept. Kinda like I See You, Aizawa-san! if Michi and Aizawa fucked
>>4560072 According to what Linda says, you still have to physically die before the transformation happens. She didn’t drain her enough to kill her outright, but Kyoko was still dying. She put her in the coffin to “sleep,” or finish dying, peacefully. And she wasn’t certain the transformation would happen at all, since apparently the transformation can be rejected. It doesn’t actually explain why the coffin in particular, but contrasting it with the way the earlier guy is treated, I’d guess it’s either symbolizing her more sincere hope that Kyoko will transform (since vampires sleep in coffins), and/or that Kyoko’s death would mean more to her than that random guy’s, and she’d mourn her.
Just spitballing here. For all I know it’s just a magic coffin that increases the likelihood of the transformation.
>>4560090 >>4560096 In the novels there is a extra chapter which happens before this where Shimamura's mom and father talk about how she is too happy and singing around the house and how she must have got a boyfriend, it takes a few seconds for them to realize she is dating Adachi and so her mom keeps teasing her and Adachi.
>>4560223 Bisexuality is a concept that don't really exist in the common sense of place likes japan, society only views you as het or homo and trying to play both sides is just you being dishonest, it's why tropes like "it's just a phase" were so common instead of just saying "you will find a guy you like too".
>>4560261 Well she's definitely too proud to do that but, this is a flowerchild manga. Who knows what bs she'll write Misa into doing now that she knows
>>4560289 Yes. The job of a host (male or female) is selling you the illusion that after enough visits and money spent, you'll get to fuck them regularly. That you need to outdo all their other clients to be the one who gets sex. It's that kind of escalating relationship. If your host turns out to be gay, the illusion can't be sold anymore.
>>4560136 >1 x ½: My Half of You ch07 Friend characters in age gap manga are always fascinating. They are always riding that line between nosy enough to find out her friend is a pedo while also being too aloof to care. Its like they have reached some kind of yaya enlightenment where they can openly like their friend while fully accepting they have no chance.
>>4560203 >A Face You Shouldn't Show ch18 I really don't see a scenario where they both save their careers. Either one throws the other under the bus to safe face or they bot quit.
>KaoYuri ch13-2 It is kind of funny that Ritsu was all like "where is the drama?" while Yarai is just "he served his purpose, lets go back to flirting"
>>4560296 It's effective on men mostly because they are that dumb. Like how many stories or news articles that you've seen about some idiot falling for a stripper? Not sure about women? Maybe the illusion of being treated well by a guy??
>>4560287 This is crossing the line, the other girl will definitely get fired when they found out she is whoring herself. Not that it makes a difference, the latest news will get Misa fired.
While I doubt the author would do this, Io confessing the agency is lying would be enough grounds for a giant defamation lawsuit which would make sure neither of them would ever need to work again.
>>4560316 That and they are dumb as shit >There are lots of dumb femcels out there. That is fair but often goes unreported probably because it does not happen often
>>4560318 Most people don't report on themselves like that, it is at best a deeply pathetic thing to admit. There are quite a few high profile cases of women getting caught falling for it. I think there was one a couple years ago about some stalker finding out the e-thot he was spending money one was using that money to go to host clubs.
>>4560297 >>4560302 >>4560308 >>4560316 There's a trash taste podcast episode where the guest is a professional host, and he explains the psychology behind the business and how they manipulate the women so they keep coming and paying without ever actually sleeping with them. They even resort to texting them outside of work to keep the illusion going that they're the "special" customer, closer than any other. It's both fascinating and horrifying. And of course it works exactly the same for hostesses and men. >>4560321 I remember this case yeah. She was so addicted to her host that she started asking men online for money with sob stories and promises of a relationship just so she could pay millions of yen to the host.
>>4560136 > ½: My Half of You ch07 What do you think is worse half of your dead husband's genes flirting with you or your dead husband's sister flirting with you?
>>4560349 That's what I meant. We see her eat and drink. We know she excretes liquids, colloquially known as pee, so why wouldn't she also excrete solids?
>>4560368 Thx for giving me an idea anon. You can block the popup and continue reading with this filter : mangadex.org##div.justify-center.self-center.md-modal:nth-of-type(8) I still can't access the advanced search page. It's more convenient for looking up new chapters.
>>4560380 It's not, I binge-read certain manga from start to finish in a day and didn't have that issue. YagaKimi comes to mind and that's over 40 chapters.
>>4560384 It's literally 10 chapters and you can just check by opening incognito mode and flipping through a series. If you can read more is because you're logged in.
>>4559818 If anything Hana seems like the more likely self insert. Who doesn't want a beautiful rich girl obsessed with you to whisk you away from your shitty life?
>>4560590 This is probably the 2nd best panel in the manga so far right behind "I'm not having sex with you because you look like a man, I'm having sex with you because you're a woman"
>>4560618 >Dungeon Renovation Huh, I kept skipping over this one because I thought it was the one with the assassin girl and the genki wizard dungeon master, but apparently it's something completely different. Who knew!
>>4560662 Doesn't take strong goggles to see Yuri but I don't see it ever becoming romantic. Series is cute regardless though, as far as meta-fantasy series go I like it more than most.
>>4560873 >>4560877 A square object made of an unknown thin material covered with a colorful band of another unkown material and unkown writing, with a never before seen way of opening it. Why would anyone from a medieval society know how to open a plastic twist cap bottle when all they know are round glass bottles with corks at best, or ceramic ones, or leather canteens?
>>4560878 >with a never before seen way of opening it >with corks at best, or ceramic ones, or leather canteens They would at least understand the basic shape and could identify the opening.
Everyone in a isekai world is stupid, that's a rule, that's why they have to kidnap young people from other worlds, so that they teach them how to do obvious thing.
>>4560878 >Why would anyone from a medieval society know how to open a plastic twist cap bottle Because humans excel at solving practical problems like this? It's not rocket science, our brains evolved precisely for this.
>>4560897 Now they'll come back and renovate the dungeon into an apartment complex and rent out apartments to tenants. So basically, they'll do the opposite of what Chie is doing
>>4560944 I took it as her family having traveled to earth of being from earth to begin with, she said she was dying from hunger when the supermarket showed up, probably not a coincidence.
>>4560952 >>4560955 >>4560956 >>4560957 >>4560962 I agree in the sense the decimal system is confusing, it's not 48.1, it's 48 part 1, though really in practice it makes no difference from just sequential numbering.
>>4560967 You would still need to upload part 2 to notify people it's out, which seems overly complicated to return to at some arbitrary point and delete back into part 1. Lots of readers use aggregator sites which can already be inconsistent with pulling the right chapters and this would complicate it further. This would also delete comment sections for half the chapters. These may not be issues for you but ultimately loading 2 half chapters instead of a full one is hardly an issue either. Worst case scenario you have to skip through an extra credits page.
>>4560967 I don't believe editing a chapter actually notifies anyone that a new chapter was released, and yeah deleting and reuploading is a waste. It's just a worse way to do it, rather than uploading as they are.
>>4560975 No authentic nip experience exists. If the publisher decides that 16 pages at once is too much for today’s busy reader, you’ll end up with 8 4-page parts instead of 2 16-page ones.
>>4560975 >Authentic nip experience >Says this like the "authentic nip experience" is a good thing People really will eat shit and smile, as long as it's Japan's shit.
retard twittos are just vomiting spoilers in their cesspool the minute an Amayo half chapter is out, so I think it's better to have it translated as soon as possible to ruin their like farming.
>>4560965 you can't do that in mangadex. If you upload two chapters numbered 48 and specify part 1/part 2 in the chapter title, the reader will just skip part 2 straight to 49 when you click next chapter because they have the same number. The best way to do this is using decimals.
>>4561071 not sure if anyone else noticed but it was literally inaccessible a few hours earlier because they fucked the insertion of some kickstarter ad and broke it. they've been tinkering with the website it seems
>>4561083 I wonder how badly MD is struggling financially to keep the servers up. Over the past few months they've been doing things to push for more donations and general revenue. Such as adding additional features for people who donate, and they've slowly implemented ads on the website. There was also talk earlier in this thread of people being limited in amount of chapters they can read in a day without being logged in, which is a way to limit traffic (usually from bots), and in turn, limit running costs.
>>4561144 I don't believe it's that bad. They would save a lot of money simply by reenabling RSS and not having thousands of users refreshng their heavy pages many times a day and they know it. This is most likely the best way to fight against ai scrappers without having to rely on cloudfare which would be extremely disruptive.
>>4561199 I'm sure the original dialogue was cringy too but this localization is really killing me. No one effin talks like this every sentence cuz it's so freakin cringe.
>>4561220 What stake? She just gave them the money and the OK to continue running the place the same way that caused it to almost go bankrupt, so even if she did buy a stake, she's likely never ever seeing a yen from this blackhole.
>>4561230 The same as her entire Harem sans Niito. 0 (零) + one more girl sleeping standing on the guest room because they are not moving anywhere any time soon.
>>4561223 >>4561230 Chie got there by searching for a luxury inn, so reviews online must be great and it must be popular enough for her to even get there in the first place. Their problem is that the building is decaying and they can't pay the renovation.
>>4561241 Meanwhile we see no other guests at all and the fact that they let the damages run as high as 120m to begin with should be a black flag that they at the very least lack either liquidity to pay for maintenence or income to afford it to begin with. Luxury doesn't necessarily mean anything other than higher running costs. That's why quality is the first thing that gets axed when times are rough.
>>4561244 A bad review on Yelp because a customer had to share a room with a cockroach (or worse) will fuck up your business a lot harder than keeping it luxurious.
>>4561310 Ah shit, so when the story becomes interesting here's an axe after just vol. 2, it really must have been unpopular to not even get vol.3 chance.
>>4561311 There was no chance of it getting popular with how many hiatus it had, any momentum it had died right there. Then you get into the blatant issues the work had.
>>4561463 it's 1000 yen to be able to see everything anon. you can shill out 1000 yen and then mass download yourself. i could do it but i respect them too much
>>4561310 Yeah, I’m not surprised. Would have been nice if the publisher had given it more of a chance since Sal was clearly distracted with her other work for large portions of it, but the plot has been kind of a mess, and the inconsistent publishing couldn’t have been helping its popularity, either.
>>4561486 >Would have been nice if the publisher had given it more of a chance It abandoned its own premise by chapter 3 and went off to do something completely different in every chapter after that. It was an unsalvageable mess and I'd be shocked if they let it continue while other more promising and better structured stories get axed instead.
>>4561486 Anon, it would be nice, but not fair, you have authors who give everything they can to the serialization and they also don't get this opportunity.
>>4561489 Yeah, when you consider the final chapter is likely the one chapter where the protagonists may actually hold a real conversation with each other for the first time it's baffling, even more when you consider everything that happened in the story so far it doesn't really make sense they would. >Hana started being harassed by this witch she hated online >She suddenly gets kidnapped by other witches who try to harm her >Sada starts fighting the other witches but they both get captured and forced to bring back other witches >Some lore about how dangerous things keep happening to witches >Sada is some crazy murderer and so Hana gets scared of her (because you know, the people who almost killed her and are threatening her are not scary at all) >Wolf witch talks to her for 5 minutes and she decides to talk to Sada. >Turns out Hana isn't even a witch at all and probably would be best if she wasn't involved at all
>>4561310 Honestly years from now, who's even gonna know that this was supposed to be a battle manga? Like I'm glad she got to write for a TV show but clearly this series suffered for it.
>>4561485 I know right?! Aren't they just too sweet together? >>4561494 >Does Anyone Know How to Train a Wolf ch1 ch1 is always interesting by default, I don't know this one yet. Let's see how this develops.
>>4561489 Just in terms of Sal trying something so out of her usual wheelhouse, I mean. I think she had something there, but between her obligations with the Ayaka/Hiroko adaptation and an editor that perhaps wasn’t really invested in keeping Wicked Spot focused, the story turned into a mess. It’s a shame circumstances turned out that way, because who knows if she’ll get another chance to try something like Wicked Spot.
>>4561465 The reversal is going to be kino, when Noa is deliberately touching Selene to put herself to sleep and avoid her awkward questions/admitting she likes her.
>>4561314 >>4561489 Wasn't even aware of this series until the news broke out. No one is talking about these. Honestly if I were a publisher I would be pissed off at this too.
https://mangadex.org/chapter/afb2d90f-868d-46a3-bffc-a5ebb842e995 Kimi ga Shinu made Koi wo Shitai I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day Ch 39 Until the End
>>4561838 >Otherside Picnic ch89 So basically the girls got duped by a doppelganger, the STALKER's wife either doesn't exist or never existed in the first place and the STALKER himself is still alive. Also, free loli.