Well, Shou taught me to expect nothing and nothing i got, so hooray!

Personally i think all this time Higashiyama Shou never forgiven the cancellation of Prism, and that Stretch is his way of doing a big "Fuck You" to people who complained about his tracing.

lolol, "I did something massively unethical, so I'll punish the people who continued to support me so I even still have a career at all."

Yeah, that sounds likely.

Unfortunately fans who didn't care at all about tracing and just wanted the sequel have been punished twice with both the cancellation of Prism and that revengeful master bait ironically called Stretch.

Ooooor you could go with the simpler solution that he did a series about two friends for a non-yuri magazine and still managed to slip some yuri in anyway. But I guess conspiracy theories are more fun.

WOMANCE!!!

Ooooor you could go with the simpler solution that he did a series about two friends for a non-yuri magazine and still managed to slip some yuri in anyway.

Yeah, I also got the impression he was straining hard against the limits of his publisher's spec, but I guess we'll never know. Even if that were the case, he wouldn't be able to state as much without burning bridges. He won't pay any bills by fostering a reputation for being non-compliant or indiscreet, especially after the whole tracing thing.

I might fantasize that he'd done this or that instead, or circumstances had been different, but whatever happens, he's a talented writer with a knack for elliptical storytelling and slow burn. I wish him well. Perhaps the stars will align for us all in the future.

Maybe his editor simply did not want full yuri in the manga.

Maybe his editor simply did not want full yuri in the manga.

Seems likely. From what I gather about manga publishing, the editor has quite a lot of say in story decisions, especially for a series.

Omg, finally more!
And there was so much yuri action! Apacolyps is comming 0-0

Super friendship, huh? More like super fuck you, Shou.

I love the ending picture of the different grains of rice. I personally don't like brown rice it doesn't taste as nice. The author is differently stretching our pain as yuri fans with the super friends part but at this point my heart is already crushed that I no longer feel pain at this strip. What I feel is indifference to this manga. I do hope the author well in his future endeavours. But I probably won't read the next manga by him, who am I kidding if it has yuri or subtext yuri I'll read the shit out of it and complain cause we don't have that much material to not read the yuri/subtext yuri manga even if it’s bad.

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Well.... Fck me.

By the way, Shou's specialty isn't yuri.

It's loli porn.

As someone pointed out elsewhere though, it's been a while since he did anything porny. But I think Stretch was his labor to get back into the good graces of his publishers after the tracing debacle, so who knows where he could go from here.

As someone pointed out elsewhere though, it's been a while since he did anything porny. But I think Stretch was his labor to get back into the good graces of his publishers after the tracing debacle, so who knows where he could go from here.

If his aim is to do more stuff that's not porn, despite the mess of an ending this is a pretty good addition to his resume. Certainly the audience numbers in Japan were high enough.

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Someone explain the punishment strip, I don't get it :(

Someone explain the punishment strip, I don't get it :(

Did you read the last page?

Super friends

Superfriends? That is quite a stretch.

Superfriends

Wait...

Sorry, couldn't resist. Yes, I know I'm silly.

Super friends

Basically me right now at work. I hate myself for allowing myself to get my hopes up that maybe, maybe we'll get more...

I love rereading my manga but this still hurts too much to reread right now.

Ooooor you could go with the simpler solution that he did a series about two friends for a non-yuri magazine and still managed to slip some yuri in anyway. But I guess conspiracy theories are more fun.

Probably this. Still kinda disappointing to read, but I don't exactly hold it against Shou.

"Is that friendship?" "no" <----- me "YEESSSSS!!!" :D
"it's super friendship" <------me "oh........fuck" :(

Shou should give in and acknowledge that he is destined to do Yuri manga.

I means there is a reason why he has only got success with yuri and hentai. His drawing on male character suck badly. And all of his male characters looked like clones of each other

NO!!! WHY MUST YOU TAUNT ME SO?!?!

:: sobs in corner ::

SUPER FRIENDS

SUPER FRIENDSHIP HOW BEAUTIFUL~☆

I would've been fine with a friendship manga, I really love stories revolving around fierce friendships, especially involving women, but this is just a slap in the face after the ridiculous amount of subtext we've been getting. This has just made me disappointed all over again, thanks Shou. The message feels like it's saying "oh yeah these two dig each other, but lol no theyre not together dont be stupid" which is something I hateee in mangas.

It's a shame because I enjoyed what Prism had before it was cancelled, but I wished Shou had either done a love story here in Stretch or had wrote a platonic friendship story if he couldn't do yuri in a non-yuri magazine. This just really sits badly with me. Because its a really great love story but to just shit on it at the end like this, and with such obvious 'ha ha audience no theyre not friends, theyre SUPERFRIENDS' just feels like BS. Ugh whatever Stretch, im gonna read the next VE chapter to make myself feel better

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