I'm still not clear on what Womance was about. Did it take place before or after volume 4?

neversung posted:

I'm still not clear on what Womance was about. Did it take place before or after volume 4?

Volume 4
Start reading from top of page 156
http://dynasty-scans.com/forum/posts/147120
spoilers alert

last edited at Feb 15, 2016 2:30AM

neversung posted:

I'm still not clear on what Womance was about. Did it take place before or after volume 4?

Volume 4
Start reading from top of page 156
http://dynasty-scans.com/forum/posts/147120
spoilers alert

Well yeah I've been keeping up with the thread. It's just, we don't have translations for any of the 4-komas I can't figure out what they're about or when they take place, is my point.

Well yeah I've been keeping up with the thread. It's just, we don't have translations for any of the 4-komas I can't figure out what they're about or when they take place, is my point.

Previous extras weren't really continuations of the story, so they were just that. Extras. The 4th volume one is more like an epilogue so it's a few weeks/months after the end of the manga. Even if it isn't weeks/months after the end, it's still after the last chapter.

last edited at Feb 15, 2016 6:10AM

Well yeah I've been keeping up with the thread. It's just, we don't have translations for any of the 4-komas I can't figure out what they're about or when they take place, is my point.

Previous extras weren't really continuations of the story, so they were just that. Extras. The 4th volume one is more like an epilogue so it's a few weeks/months after the end of the manga. Even if it isn't weeks/months after the end, it's still after the last chapter.

Awesome! I was "worried" that we'd have no insight into whether Ran and Keiko meet again, so it's nice to hear that. :)

I have no hope for this ship. I'll read it as just another friendship manga. PLA-TO-NIC.
It'll be all in your head other yuri shippers

The final volume extra was translated.

"Super" friends confirmed.

The bitter feelings I had regarding the series have faded, though. My major criticism against it isn't concerning the lack of "romantic" resolution, assuming things, but that the ending came out of nowhere with almost no explanation (or none, I don't really remember) and then it kind of just...finished.

It wasn't handled well, even though the rest of the manga was handled really well.

Oh well.

EDIT: Reading over the pages of this thread since the ending hit, I remember why I loved this series once upon a time (and it's not because of any lilies). This was written so nicely for so long, handling interesting issues in a mature way. It's like, Stretch is this beautiful fucking quilt that Shou was knitting lovingly for a long time, and he nearly finished it off, but at the end he tugged away a crucial string and the whole fucking thing fell the fuck apart, leaving this pile of beautiful threads but it was just that: beautiful threads. It isn't whole or complete and there's no meaning in it.

I'll probably end up writing an essay on this series one day. Hmm...I wonder if I should tag it as yuri. It seems to have at least one lesbian...

last edited at Apr 16, 2016 5:27PM by Nezchan

Super subtext ending but at least better than the last normal chapter.
Still, the flirting and hearts in the background can't fool the third whe- I mean their friend right there.

last edited at Apr 16, 2016 5:27PM by Nezchan

Yeah, I had my heart broken by Stretch. At the moment, all I can see is Ran crawling into a bottle and staying there, poor girl. She's got it bad for Keiko.

So much of Stretch is so good, it would have had a guaranteed place in the yuri canon had it gone that route. Alas.

Shou went full troll in the extra.

praise the weeb lord she hath brought us a new stretch chapter

"Womance"

Stretch extra. Just to add a little yuri bait to your everyday life!

This time.. could it be !? ---> SUPER FRIENDSHIP . Nope.

last edited at Apr 16, 2016 10:22PM

just gals being pals

Because smut,subtext and bad end are sell like hotcakes.

last edited at Apr 16, 2016 10:35PM

I wasn't particularly butthurt about the lack of yuri originally, but it feels like he stuck the boot in a little there.

I'm glad they're such good friends.

Now this is a much better ending. Thanks, Shou! Now fuck everything forever.

I'm glad they're such good friends.

SUPERfriends

Ran is soooo gay I'm just glad to see her gayness again.

Knowing they'll never get together.

last edited at Apr 16, 2016 11:22PM by drpepperfan

I always see it as Ran's gay as fuck while Keiko's still figuring it out, and is pretty sure that Ran's gay as fuck and isn't put off by that.

Seriously, the ending is what happens before a time skip in a romance story, followed by them getting together in the end. It's like Shou left that part out.

super friends....

I always see it as Ran's gay as fuck while Keiko's still figuring it out, and is pretty sure that Ran's gay as fuck and isn't put off by that.

Seriously, the ending is what happens before a time skip in a romance story, followed by them getting together in the end. It's like Shou left that part out.

Its a crush.. i doubt Ran is very gay from the beginning.. she just has a feeling on Keiko..

I demand a sequel... sniffle...sniffle...

Its a crush.. i doubt Ran is very gay from the beginning.. she just has a feeling on Keiko..

Dunno about that. I feel like I remember it being clear she had no interest in men (and for a long time).

Then again, I seem to recall her not having much interest in romance in general.