I miss the old flamewars, when I trolled the fluttering feelings worshipers, back in the day.

Aikosaurus posted:

Nobody spat on her in this thread or have been mean...
People are just stating their opinion.

I understand that her stories are pretty cleaving, but that does not equate being hated or spat on. She does have her own style, both in writing and art style and it's pretty unconventional compare to the average yuri artist. Both working for her and against her. But I see no hate so far in this thread...

Some people wrote here and in the Fatale Game thread that just because it's Battan it must be bad, or "see author, close page", without judging the stories on their own merit. There's clearly a bias against Battan because she doesn't always write yuri that ends well, or doesn't write only yuri. Or maybe her manga are trying to make people think and people don't like to think.

I don't get why people spit on Battan like this.

Her art is gorgeous, her stories are engaging, with complex, not cardboard cut characters, but somehow she gets some flak because it's not what the average yuri reader wants. Even "Run away with me girl", which ends in pure yuri, isn't immune to criticism because a character dared to get pregnant by a MAN (the horror).

I, for one, love Battan, her art and her stories. They usually speak of adults, with adult problems, sometimes making stupid decisions, sometimes being infuriating, but always being interesting.

Even this story wasn't bad. It's just 10 pages ffs. Don't expect it to be groundbreaking. It was cute and the punchline funny, and that's all it was trying to be.

I'll keep on loving and reading Battan whether some people hate on her or not.

And reading Fatale Game and her twitter, I think she's aware some people hate on her and it must be taking a toll. People are mean for no good reason.

The LN being pretty short (two volumes?), I think it'll end soon and will be wrapped up with this volume.

Obviously, Ren fell for Sui, Piercing girl fell for (or will pursue) Ren and Sui is in an unrequited love with unknown red-haired character and rented Ren to overcome her shyness (maybe).

Unknown character looks like a flirt, a player, is in a relationship, or is straight.

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Tamahime posted:

Those ball hands are a... bold artistic choice. But the story is interesting so far. I love her "only one way to find out!" attitude" where she goes from "what is a lesbian?" to "Sure, I'll have sex with this woman who's hitting on me, why not?"

Alcohol helped.

Mugino posted:

Is actually see scary just take a girl she just meet.
Uuuh...

What?

Seeing the page 2-3 spread, I think it's going to be a triangle, or even a square.

Tamahime posted:

Not to go all “skeleton xylophone” on this, but the bar can’t actually be in the same spot as the CD shop - here, the bar clearly is on the basement level, you have to go down a flight of stairs to get to it. But you can see in all other chapters that the record store was right off the street with a big picture window next to it.

It doesn't say it's in the same place though. It says that in the shopping street the cd shop stood, there's now a music bar.

The phrasing is a bit ambiguous,but for me, it means that the cd shop closed and in that street, a music bar opened.

Uncle probably sold the shop before going to the US.

I'm not surprised Mitsuki didn't go to college. She must be working and doing music at the same time. Gotta eat before making it big.

Nice.

It's still unknown what they actually identify as, anyway. That's the point.

Giftnova posted:

BoomAndZoom posted:

And I wonder what’s taking so long with the updates…

It's published in a quarterly magazine. Which means 3 chapters a year.

Quarterly would imply every 3 months, since 12 / 4 = 3. Every 4 months aka 3 chapters a year would either be quadrimestral or triannual respectively. Both of which i've never heard before looking them up literally just now xD

Anyway, whatever the name is, "Rakuen Le Paradis" has 3 issues per year: February 28th, June 30th and October 31th for the physical releases. And a month later for the digital releases.

Since this is using the digital release, we can expect, at the earliest, chapters in April, August and December.

Looks like the scanlator sat on the "August" chapter for a few months. Not that it changes much of anything.

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BoomAndZoom posted:

And I wonder what’s taking so long with the updates…

It's published in a quarterly magazine. Which means 3 chapters a year.

The thick plottens.

And it's already been sniped on MD. (╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻

I hope /u/ doesn't drop it, because otherwise, it won't ever be updated here ever again.

Blastaar posted:

Golly, this is just the fluffiest yuri story, isn't it? lol

Unless...

I got whiplash after the tone of the previous chapter

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Next timeskip will probably be about Mao and Chizuru

Smells like she's wrapping it up for finishing it at volume 4, with a few vignettes of their future life.

I don't think she wants to write about the musical career of Mitsuki.

Lipstick covered face

She's using a "find my items" tracker app on her iPhone, so it can be anything, even a key chain.

As far as I remember, they're now high school 3rd years and had their fall out in 3 year of middle school (probably).

So, at least 3 years have passed since Yuhi rejected Sakurako.

Most probably, Yuhi, after that, already got her comeuppance by getting dumped by a senpai (the one who gave her the necklace) and on which she's still hung up and that she tries to get over (unsuccessfully, as can be seen how she's attached to that necklace) by playing around.

Door-to-door salesmen are very common in Japan. They can sell everything, from Encyclopedias to magical water and Vacuum cleaners. Or they can belong to cults and try to convince you to join.

They're almost always guaranteed to find someone, because housewives stay home most of the time in Japan.

It's a common pattern shown in manga too.

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A drill that will pierce the heavens.

So, Bisexual ?