The gacha of divine favor.

Aww dammit i thought they were finally going to hold hands (╯°Д °)╯╧╧

I got the "great luck" one on my first try xD but after that I didn't want to try at any other shrine!! Why to "fix" something that is not broken, right? XD

I don't see why Chidori and Nanoha keep saying they're dating, because they're really not. I mean, how is what they are doing together any different than being close friends.

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^^ Get your fresh bait here!

Is the height gap between these dorks growing? Nanoha's always been taller, but she had a full head and shoulders over her girlfriend in this one.

KISS ALREADY, YOU USELESS LESBIANS

whoaa! hold on dude! they clearly haven't been to eachother's houses yet or properly indirectly kissed. not mentioning they still haven't watched the fireworks together. it's still way too early for them to kiss!

Um, where does “bathing together” fit in?

(Asking for a friend. . . a very good friend, but nothing more than that. . . not really, but, . . . it’s hard to say—we’re close, sure, but. . . anyway, I really need to know about the bath thing.)

I mean my FRIEND does!

^^ Get your fresh bait here!

Is the height gap between these dorks growing? Nanoha's always been taller, but she had a full head and shoulders over her girlfriend in this one.

Yep
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/hana_ni_arashi_ch01#8

Yep
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/hana_ni_arashi_ch01#8

Even on that page they're presented with two different height gaps. The measurement shows the top of Chidori's head going up to Nanoha's mouth, but the next panel shows Chidori barely reaching Nanoha's shoulder.

I think the author hasn't been very concerned with maintaining consistency.

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KISS ALREADY, YOU USELESS LESBIANS

whoaa! hold on dude! they clearly haven't been to eachother's houses yet or properly indirectly kissed. not mentioning they still haven't watched the fireworks together. it's still way too early for them to kiss!

Um, where does “bathing together” fit in?

(Asking for a friend. . . a very good friend, but nothing more than that. . . not really, but, . . . it’s hard to say—we’re close, sure, but. . . anyway, I really need to know about the bath thing.)

I mean my FRIEND does!

lol, that's the best "I'm asking for a friend" I've seen.

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Lovely chapter. Such good atmosphere. Wish it was just a little longer.

I don't see why Chidori and Nanoha keep saying they're dating, because they're really not. I mean, how is what they are doing together any different than being close friends.

A number or yuri have actually pointed out how the early dates are like being out with close friends.
I don't see how you can say they are not dating just because their pace isn't further along. They are "seeing" each other. That alone entails a certain level of behavior towards each other.

Different people move at different paces. I once came across a woman with relationship experience who said she had never actually gone on anything she considered an actual date before.

Later in the week: "You've been bringing your lunch more lately instead of buying something from the school store. What's up?" "Oh... I'm just a little short on spending money..."

I don't see why Chidori and Nanoha keep saying they're dating, because they're really not. I mean, how is what they are doing together any different than being close friends.

A number or yuri have actually pointed out how the early dates are like being out with close friends.
I don't see how you can say they are not dating just because their pace isn't further along. They are "seeing" each other. That alone entails a certain level of behavior towards each other.

Different people move at different paces. I once came across a woman with relationship experience who said she had never actually gone on anything she considered an actual date before.

Actually, I can't argue with any of that, but their going soooooo slooooooow. I want more, and my yuri-skeptic senses are starting to tingle. They're saying these two aren't really dating. They're just a couple of bored girl, at an all girls school, playing a love game. (I know I can be a yuri-cynic sometimes, but I just can't help

Edit: I have had that feeling ever since ch 13. Chidori felt the need to state neither she nor Nanoha had a boyfriend. I thought: If they were seriously dating, shouldn't not having boyfriends go without saying.

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Is the comments section the path of thorns indicated in their Romance fortune? Jk.

Actually, I can't argue with any of that, but their going soooooo slooooooow. I want more, and my yuri-skeptic senses are starting to tingle. They're saying these two aren't really dating. They're just a couple of bored girl, at an all girls school, playing a love game. (I know I can be a yuri-cynic sometimes, but I just can't help

Edit: I have had that feeling ever since ch 13. Chidori felt the need to state neither she nor Nanoha had a boyfriend. I thought: If they were seriously dating, shouldn't not having boyfriends go without saying.

“Go without saying” to who? Their friends? The basic premise of the entire story, one that gets repeated so often that readers complain about it, is that their relationship is a SECRET.

Chidori “felt the need” to say that she did not have, and was not looking for, a boyfriend in response to the following question: “Chidori, aren’t you going to get a boyfriend?”

I have no idea how that (or anything else in the series, for that matter) translates into evidence for a “bored high-school girls playing a love game” theory.

Actually, I can't argue with any of that, but their going soooooo slooooooow. I want more, and my yuri-skeptic senses are starting to tingle. They're saying these two aren't really dating. They're just a couple of bored girl, at an all girls school, playing a love game. (I know I can be a yuri-cynic sometimes, but I just can't help

Edit: I have had that feeling ever since ch 13. Chidori felt the need to state neither she nor Nanoha had a boyfriend. I thought: If they were seriously dating, shouldn't not having boyfriends go without saying.

“Go without saying” to who? Their friends? The basic premise of the entire story, one that gets repeated so often that readers complain about it, is that their relationship is a SECRET.

Chidori “felt the need” to say that she did not have, and was not looking for, a boyfriend in response to the following question: “Chidori, aren’t you going to get a boyfriend?”

I have no idea how that (or anything else in the series, for that matter) translates into evidence for a “bored high-school girls playing a love game” theory.

Chidori's declaration of, neither of them having a boyfriend, was part of a inner monolog, ch13, pgs 6, 7,8. She was angsting a bit over Nanoha having a past crush on a boy. It just seemed to me, like Chidori was thinking that one of them getting a boyfriend wasn't necessarily a deal breaker, for their relationship. I totally admit it's wasn't really a big deal. Certainly not enough to dismiss their relationship as fake. But, add how stand-offish they are physically, and my admittedly overactive yuri-skepticism starts buzzing.

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Chidori's "neither of us has a boyfriend, but..." line is just her saying, "We don't have 'boyfriends' per se, but we are each other's 'girlfriend'" in response to a question about boyfriends. There's zero implication that Chidori thinks that one of them having a boyfriend would be acceptable. Her feeling sad over some boy Nanoha might have liked 3 years ago is pretty good indication that she wouldn't be okay at all with Nanoha having a boyfriend.

And I tend to be pretty sympathetic to how slowly their relationship develops. I remember my first relationship in high school. We were super awkward around each other and barely did anything couple-like for months. These two started dating around the beginning of April, and it's probably some time in June now, so it really hasn't been that long. For some people it just takes time.

Also, we can see inside these characters' heads, and it's very clear that much of their awkwardness comes from their embarrassment over their intense attraction to each other.

Chidori's "neither of us has a boyfriend, but..." line is just her saying, "We don't have 'boyfriends' per se, but we are each other's 'girlfriend'" in response to a question about boyfriends. There's zero implication that Chidori thinks that one of them having a boyfriend would be acceptable. Her feeling sad over some boy Nanoha might have liked 3 years ago is pretty good indication that she wouldn't be okay at all with Nanoha having a boyfriend.

And I tend to be pretty sympathetic to how slowly their relationship develops. I remember my first relationship in high school. We were super awkward around each other and barely did anything couple-like for months. These two started dating around the beginning of April, and it's probably some time in June now, so it really hasn't been that long. For some people it just takes time.

Also, we can see inside these characters' heads, and it's very clear that much of their awkwardness comes from their embarrassment over their intense attraction to each other.

Yes, yes, all of those are valid points. I not really arguing against them being in love. I'm saying Chidori's weird, casual, thought that neither of them had a boyfriend, set off my fake yuri detector, and that's turning Chidori and Nanoha's slow pace from cute to painful, for me.
I pretty sure I know what Chidori was getting at with that thought. It just struck me wrong. Why would Chidori start an inner monolog, by clarifying that neither of them had a boyfriend. Shouldn't that have been a given. Until that moment I wasn't even thinking boyfriend, then bam Chidori brought it up. It's like that comedy bit, when a character casually asks a another characte: "hey what's up". And, the other character suddenly gets defensive, and says something like: "Nothings up! Why would something be up!? You're totally crazy to think something is up!" It completely clues the character into something being up.

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I agree: you’re totally crazy to think something is up.

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I agree: you’re totally crazy to think something is up.

I think he/she is a literature teacher

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I agree: you’re totally crazy to think something is up.

I think he/she is a literature teacher

That’s not how a literature teacher interprets textual evidence.

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I agree: you’re totally crazy to think something is up.

I think he/she is a literature teacher

That’s not how a literature teacher interprets textual evidence.

No, they interprets the author's thoughts which some author didn't even know they've been thinking like that.
True story from my country

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I agree: you’re totally crazy to think something is up.

I think he/she is a literature teacher

That’s not how a literature teacher interprets textual evidence.

No, they interprets the author's thoughts which some author didn't even know they've been thinking like that.
True story from my country

Literary interpretation and paranoia are both forms of pattern recognition, but they aren't the same thing.

"Yuri-scepticism" is a trauma-induced form of neurosis that manifests in a kind of paranoia where, when characters in a story repeatedly say "we're dating," the paranoiac responds "they're not dating."

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I agree: you’re totally crazy to think something is up.

I think he/she is a literature teacher

That’s not how a literature teacher interprets textual evidence.

No, they interprets the author's thoughts which some author didn't even know they've been thinking like that.
True story from my country

Literary interpretation and paranoia are both forms of pattern recognition, but they aren't the same thing.

"Yuri-scepticism" is a trauma-induced form of neurosis that manifests in a kind of paranoia where, when characters in a story repeatedly say "we're dating," the paranoiac responds "they're not dating."

Stop picking on me (sob). I know, I have a problem (hic). I tried to get treatment, but my health insurance won't pay for anti-yuri-scepticism medication (sob).

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I agree: you’re totally crazy to think something is up.

I think he/she is a literature teacher

That’s not how a literature teacher interprets textual evidence.

No, they interprets the author's thoughts which some author didn't even know they've been thinking like that.
True story from my country

Literary interpretation and paranoia are both forms of pattern recognition, but they aren't the same thing.

"Yuri-scepticism" is a trauma-induced form of neurosis that manifests in a kind of paranoia where, when characters in a story repeatedly say "we're dating," the paranoiac responds "they're not dating."

Stop picking on me (sob). I know, I have a problem (hic). I tried to get treatment, but my health insurance won't pay for anti-yuri-scepticism medication (sob).

I’m sorry—I just lost it a little bit when one of the cutest yuri couples in the history of the universe was off-handedly accused of being not yuri. And so I was meaner than I should have been.

Call it what you will—what Chidori and Nanoha have is real, dammit. They’ve given us the hottest in-PE-class eye-sex ever witnessed by human beings, they’ve introduced us all to the sensuous delights of upper-arm-pinching, and they’ve performed the most erotic and deeply emotionally resonant indoor-shoe footsie ever.

And no one can come along with some conventional bog-standard middle-class white-bread definition of what counts as “yuri” and try to take that away.

No one. Ever.

That said—can we be pals?

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