I consider them to be "pseudo"-twins the same way young looking girls in hentai are "of course" 18 yo. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

So it's a translation choice rather than actual info given by the author ? 'cause in the latter case, it would bring a definite answer to the question while the former would still leave it up in the air. :p

No, it's definitely written like that by the author. But y'know that doesn't mean that they are not related. When a hentai artists states that a character is 18 yo, you know that that's not how you're supposed to interpret it and he knows that you know etc. I wouldn't be surprised if their pseudo-twin status is going to be retconned at some point later in the series.
If you want to take it as definite proof that they're not related, be my guest. But that leaves you with the unsatisfying dilemma of how two unrelated girls can be so uncannily similar looking and also have nearly identical names. Names that you might choose as a parent if you had twins.
Maybe the best strategy is to abandon the attempt to apply real world logic on this topic and just acknowledge that the author is having fun with it and leave it at that.

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Very good chapter :) Are these 2 actually a couple? She thinks 'this is what I look like when Yuu is doing me' - or should it be 'this is what i'd look like 'IF' she was doing me?' Or is 'doing me' not referring to sex from behind like it seems?

Certainly sexual connotations but she didn't mean "fucking". Didn't really know how to translate it better. "Manhandling", "working over", i don't know. If somebody has a good idea, let me know.

Also I noticed on page 2 it calls the Mahiru / Mahiro 'twins' - pseudo twins - meaning for sure that they aren't?

I consider them to be "pseudo"-twins the same way young looking girls in hentai are "of course" 18 yo. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Also, the page 3 chapters list makes it seem at the end of this volume (ch 83) the 3rd years graduate?

As someone put it: "they are eternal".

Oops, chapter 67 didn't really need to be on the front page. It's just a very minor revision. Oh well.

I will upload the, like, definite edition of the raw volumes in a few days (there is some small amount of cleaning to do). Once again, if someone could point me to a site like batoto, but for raws, I would appreciate it.

Ahaha! I wrote that in January. I put much, much more effort into making the source images look acceptable than I thought I would. But now you can find the first seven volume in Japanese on https://manga.madokami.com/ (Raws/Otome no Teikoku). You will need to make an account to download or use the reader. To do that, open read.txt in the root folder, where the process is explained. When they ask you to post something in their IRC, you don't need to download a client, just go to https://kiwiirc.com/client and put in their channel name to connect.

The volumes themselves are .cbz files which you can open with a comic book reader (for example: http://www.cdisplayex.com/). Turn on "cover", "display two pages" and "Japanese reading" so the pages line up correctly. Alternatively, you can just extract the image files from the .cbz as if it's a .zip file. But I recommend using a reader.

Volume 8 & 9 will be added some time in the future.

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Anyhow, I've proven myself a liar once by posting when I said I wouldn't. Put it down to my vain panic over not expressing myself clearly. I'll try not to prove myself a liar again.

Sorry for baiting you! Seems we're on the same page anyhow.

I'm actually less worried about the psychopaths who commit murders and more worried about the ones who become investment bankers or government policymakers

I can broadly sympathise with this. Physical violence put me in hospital for a night, but workplace backstabbing put me on anti-depressants for much longer, and it affected more people than just me.

I think the point is that psychopathic investment bankers and their ilk are able to do much more damage than a serial killer ever could. There is no telling how much long term damage Exxon's climate change disinformation strategy did, for example but it's definitely more than the equivalence of a couple human lives.

you modify the bubble size???
Idk ive never heard of that, it sounds kinda.. risky? Idk, to modify the content

Sure. It's not modifying the content any more than replacing sound effects is.

DrMario posted:

When I quoted "smells", I meant it as in it was only one syllable, so it can't and shouldn't be split, so the only way to change that is to reduce the font size

or you can just draw a bigger bubble.

Good luck with that one (we are talking about manga scanlations)

I do that occasionally. It's not hard.

When I quoted "smells", I meant it as in it was only one syllable, so it can't and shouldn't be split, so the only way to change that is to reduce the font size

That's not true. Other than using smaller font size, you can use different words that are shorter or splittable or you can just draw a bigger bubble.

Orenji-kun, if you're reading this: when splitting words, the hyphen should be before the line break, not after.
"Dynasty-
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"Dynasty
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This was really good but I don't get why people are calling this kinky. The sex wasn't particularly kinky, there was just a lot of it. If this manga was an ice-cream, it would be stracciatella.

Found an interesting (and short) survey about the characters and pairings for this manga:
Survey Monkey

The results are pretty much what you expect, though the sample is quite small (60 people?).
Interesting that Onoda x Nanasawa are listed as a pairing.

Sorry if this has already been posted.

Random thought:
I was worried at the possibility of Nanasawa's appearance only being that one time, but if this survey was created by someone who has read ahead, it could be a hint :O

I created that survey. Fun fact: one respondent completed the survey in a mere 10 seconds, picking only Ichinose as favorite character and KaoruxShizuka as favorite pairing. What a bastard!

Yeah that's what I thinking about too, most people she was judgmental about in the beginning, she never met or came to know. Her classmates however, she has come to appreciate and become fond of, so she isn't unlike Chie. Furthermore, we haven't seen her rant about the fluffy-haired girl anymore. It'd be more accurate to say she accepted she was wrong in her perception of that girl, and stopped.

It's not enough to stop thinking badly of people once you've gotten to know them better. You have to stop thinking badly of people without a good reason in general. It's not clear at this point how Onoda is going to turn out. Keep in mind that getting to know her classmates hasn't stopped her from being judgmental. And since Nanasawa hasn't made an appearance again, we didn't really have a chance to see how Onoda thinks of her now anyway.

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Earl of Sandwich is a title, not a person. There's been 11 Earl's of Sandwich, the first was Edward Montagu (not sure of the first name).

Would "I am the Earl of Sandwich" be good?

Earl Sandwich.

I had forgotten that this is a real person that actually existed. Brb, gonna fix that.
That being said, Earls can be referred to as Lord.

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So that no one is disappointed: scanlation rate is going to go down again after this chapter.

It's a reasonably pervy series, in fairness.

Granted. Especially the earlier chapters. But "Virgin's Empire" rubs me the wrong way; after all it's not about the girl's virginity or anything. "Girl's Empire" would have been much better imo.

On another note:
I found out, that this was licensed in my country - but I think I'd rather not reed it since they made the title utmost crap...

srly...

オトメの帝国 = Maidens Empire or Girls/Virgins Empire. Seems fitting. But in good ol' Germany they named it "Schulmädchen-Report" like the 70s pseudo-porn series...

I think "Virgin's Empire" also sounds pretty pervy and I would not have named it like that. It bothers me.

Btw, I think I will leave a buffer of at least one volume to what is the latest volume published in Germany, since I'm not actually a fan of piracy and I don't want to negatively impact their sales.

By the way,
I read somewhere something very interesting!
Virgin's empire is maybe getting an anime!

You are probably referring to a VERY short animation of the twins hugging that lasts about six seconds and has, like, three keyframes. So nothing to write home about.

That "kiss". Though having seen the raws I know a better one will appear...in about 60 chapters.

I swear, every time you post here it's to show off how you've read further than the rest. Contain yourself.

I want to salute the translator/s for coming up with something as silly as "Dontgomery" to replace whatever Japanese general or whatever was in the original. Priceless.

In Japanese, she's saying "Ikunaaton" (instead of "Ikuna") and then claims it's the name of an ancient Egyptian ruler (the actual name is "Ikhanaton").

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I wanted to offer my services as a QCer to the people scanlating this series. However, their Ask-page on tumblr is broken and I don't know how to contact them otherwise. http://yaoi-blcd.tumblr.com/ask
So, if you are reading this: you should probably fix your tumblr and if you would like me to QC your stuff, mail me at knobibrot@googlemail.com.

I will upload the, like, definite edition of the raw volumes in a few days (there is some small amount of cleaning to do). Once again, if someone could point me to a site like batoto, but for raws, I would appreciate it.

So does anybody know how one would go about getting the raws of this series (aside from purchasing)? I can't really find them so are the translators keeping them to themselves or something (it's fine if they are as long as we get to see the translations eventually lol) or are they floating around somewhere?

They can be found in the 4chan threads. Does anyone know where I could upload the raws publicly? Something like mangatraders or madokami or the likes.

As usual with Yui7 mangas, I have no idea what's going on.

Currently the front page orders releases in the order of the date of the upload request (I think), not the actual publishing date on Dynasty. That's no good. When I visit dynasty scans I want to scan the new releases until I hit something I've seen before. But since they are not in the correct order, new releases can often pop up behind ones I've already seen, sometimes even on page 2! That's a disservice to both the readers and the scanlators.
Yes, I know that there is also a "recently added" tab. But that's no good either.
1) It's inferior because it only lists a couple of releases and doesn't show the covers.
2) Most casual readers don't know about the peculiarities of dynasty's ordering and frankly they shouldn't have to.
3) It's simply redundant. If the releases in the main window were ordered properly in the first place there would be no need for that.

Discuss.

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