I actually looked up "Salamander" by Asuji Ibuse and it's a really depressing story. It's a parabola about depression and loneliness actually.

The frog is trapped by the Salamander and is slowly dying.

It's about their acceptance of their fate: being trapped and dying.

Is the girlship meme finally dead?

last edited at Sep 29, 2018 5:35AM

I actually looked up "Salamander" by Asuji Ibuse and it's a really depressing story. It's a parabola about depression and loneliness actually.

The frog is trapped by the Salamander and is slowly dying.

It's about their acceptance of their fate: being trapped and dying.

Ok, thanks for the flashback of my college years... I studied Japanese literature... If that isn't screamingly typical of Japanese lit, I don't know what is. Melodramatic angst followed by death (most preferably by suicide).

"Konatsu's feelings have reached Koyuki..."

(ﾉ^_^)ﾉ

Like TFS Zarbon said: "This is sounding really gay"
Just confess, Damn you.

last edited at Sep 29, 2018 9:11AM

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
* Throws any throwable object around *
waaah!! So cuuute!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
let me just scream with you xDD

God help us all, Konatsu's a scaly.

Not Lizard, remember? Amphibians don't have scales. =3=

THE SUBTEX LAYER IS BREAKING DOWN! THE GAYNESS LEVEL IS THROUGH THE ROOF! THE YURI! THE YURI IS BURSTING FORTH!
CAPTAIN, HOLD ME, I'M SCARED!
'

last edited at Sep 29, 2018 8:57AM

its lizard

its lizard

best post

THE SUBTEX LAYER IS BREAKING DOWN! THE GAYNESS LEVEL IS THROUGH THE ROOF! THE YURI! THE YURI IS BURSTING FORTH!
CAPTAIN, HOLD ME, I'M SCARED!
'

The subtext shields are still holding, though—Konatsu’s feelings have finally gotten through to Koyuki, but neither of them can quite say what those feelings mean yet.

If the shark or the turtle (or either of the hard-shipping dads) spill the beans, though, it’s a yuri apocalypse.

The thing is... in the novel, the Salamander and the Frog don't date.

The Salamander imprisoned the Frog because it was feeling lonely, being unable to leave its cave.

In the end, the Frog can't leave, even if it wanted to, it accepted its fate. Somehow, they became friends.

Super Friends.

The thing is... in the novel, the Salamander and the Frog don't date.

The Salamander imprisoned the Frog because it was feeling lonely, being unable to leave its cave.

In the end, the Frog can't leave, even if it wanted to, it accepted its fate. Somehow, they became friends.

Super Friends.

I honestly haven't read the story, but the brief synopsis you have provided sounds like an excellent metaphor for unrequited love.

random posted:

God help us all, Konatsu's a scaly.

Not Lizard, remember? Amphibians don't have scales. =3=

The tag finally doing it's job lol

HaruhiAA posted:

its lizard

Is not lizard, they're still amphibians you guys don't get it!

I get the joke, it was a good one, this is a really funny inside joke

And “holding hands = lewdness” jokes NEVER get old.

Especially intertwining fingers.

Staring at your “friend’s” sleeping face for 2 hours.

I honestly haven't read the story, but the brief synopsis you have provided sounds like an excellent metaphor for unrequited love.

Or Stockholm Syndrome.

I mean, the metaphor about the Salamander and the Frog is that Koyuki was feeling lonely and Konatsu accepted to be her friend and to stay close to her to alleviate that loneliness. Like, a BFF.

No yuri. Still subtext.

The thing is... in the novel, the Salamander and the Frog don't date.

The Salamander imprisoned the Frog because it was feeling lonely, being unable to leave its cave.

In the end, the Frog can't leave, even if it wanted to, it accepted its fate.

that sounds like... hotel yurifornia? you can subtext any time you want but you can never...

finally confirmed yuri???!!!!

holy shit, Nettaigyo’s latest chapter did not fucking disappoint

10/10

throws confetti

Ok this cannot be subtext anymore im sorry.

Nya-chan posted:

I actually looked up "Salamander" by Asuji Ibuse and it's a really depressing story. It's a parabola about depression and loneliness actually.

The frog is trapped by the Salamander and is slowly dying.

It's about their acceptance of their fate: being trapped and dying.

... I don't think this manga is going to follow that route, after all... She wouldn't mind being a frog.

Nya-chan posted:

I actually looked up "Salamander" by Asuji Ibuse and it's a really depressing story. It's a parabola about depression and loneliness actually.

The frog is trapped by the Salamander and is slowly dying.

It's about their acceptance of their fate: being trapped and dying.

... I don't think this manga is going to follow that route, after all... She wouldn't mind being a frog.

"I don't mind you trapping and slowly starving me" is a thing friends say

it's skinship, guys

Staring at your “friend’s” sleeping face for 2 hours.

Yeah, they're superfriends.