^That's a reasonably accurate summary of how it goes ingame too actually :d

^tbh I wouldn't be particularly surprised if they were using her to make a statement or two about tsundere clichés... all the more so given how one of the underlying themes of the manga seems to be, roughly, that you only come to get along with people by actually interacting with them. katewarner may well be on to something with that observation that Ucchi has just about been undergoing Tomoko's character developement in reverse... (on which note, can't really blame her friends for finally getting upset.)

Nice to see that Dallas got over Alicia. I'm kinda sad there's so little yuri art of this series, though. There's a large cast, and both VC1 and 4 has canon lesbians (like Dallas here).

Fun fact: Valkyria Chronicles has the same character designer as Katawa Shoujo (the main girls, anyway), another game that Magical Ondine has drawn yuri fanart for.

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Probably one of the few people who actually wasn’t rooting for Yuna x Ano. Ano is great but this pairing has my heart

^^Hina is pretty passive actually.

Hoping for fewer jokes about gay panic and pedophilia, and more cozy wholesomeness.

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^Ahem. Iruru/Ilulu will be introduced so expect more of the latter at least. She is actually Tohru's age, but she looks like Kanna's age with Lucoa's bust size. God I hope they change her characer design for the anime...

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^Yeah but Yuna's kind of an useless lesbian so someone had to get things moving

^Considering their first time was possessed spirit sex... I think nobody was really ready for what moved who.

^True, but if memory serves Yuna was the one spinning her wheels over doing it as themselves so it rather fell to Hina to make the push - fairly literally too IIRC though it's been a while since I played the game.

^This is what happens when two bottoms have to move the relationship ahead.

a magnificent yuugi

Please forgive me for the length of the following. I wrote this profile of Uchi and would like to share it with all of you, but there is nowhere I can think of to put it but here.

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Because I'm unpopular, I've come up with a theory about Uchi.

First, Uchi is normal. Really normal. If we focus our memory right, we'll remember her, and there were a lot of her. The person we'll remember clearest when we remember her is ourselves. No one wants to think so, but at that age I and everyone I really talked to went through it, confused obsessive yearning "love".

Who has not stalked or surveilled someone, while in that state? Everyone has, if only between classes or minutes or seconds a day, paying attention to that puzzling person who infuriatingly may not be someone you understand liking. The rich girl or guy can't shake thoughts about a scruffy, poor kid. The scruffy, poor kid can't stop thinking about a rich kid. Precociously successful users of the other sex start fantasizing about being the passive partners of someone of their own. Proudly ignorant kids secretly envy and yearn for smart kids, and vice versa. "Bad" kids yearn for "good" kids.

All these kids, like Uchi, begin mysteriously appearing where they normally don't belong, paying strange attention in ways people don't associate with them. As Akane said, looking at Uchi walking beside her, "What is she doing here?"

Why? Because we all have voids within that need to be filled in specific, specialized ways. One of those voids is the need to achieve identity through the internalization of difference. Uchi, I think, sees herself as an "Emoji", a simple-minded, simple-faced innocuous person as Tomoko sees her. Her friends value her, but she doesn't know why. She's a cypher to herself, and she feels like a fraud, because like several other kids in the series, especially Yuri, she suspects that she really doesn't exist. Being "normal" is hell. She fucking hates it.

So this perverse, "disgusting" person, this panty-stealing weirdo, suddenly becomes relevant. But desiring an acquaintenance with that person, or an intimate relationship of indeterminate and possibly unwelcome nature, is scary as hell. So Uchi has to see Tomoko as "disgusting" for wanting her and thereby kept at some kind of distance, because Tomoko not wanting her would make Uchi collapse back in upon herself, and she fucking hates herself. But she wants Tomoko.

How? Maybe sexually. I mean, every freaking thing people are when they are teenagers is sexually charged. Sex is the functioning brain. It's more subtle for girls, but still true to a considerable extent.

But really, whatever her sexual draw, Uchi just wants to be Tomoko's friend. She wants to hang out and talk with Tomoko the way Tomoko's "harem" does, because she knows they are real friends who really know the girl she wants to get to know. The irony is that Uchi has a stellar group of friends, and finding her way back around to them will mean she is finally the person who can talk with Tomoko as a friend, who doesn't feel like an emoji, who doesn't hate her own guts.

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^On the upside that gave us the scene where Hina consults her track-team sempais; and it was glorious.

Sheery's twitter is so funny! MemeFest! ROFL!

Poor Ucchi crashed so hard in the last chapter. Her friends even figured it out and were being completely supportive, and she still blew it.

^That was pretty swell. Those two were my favorite pair anyway. (PS: It's senpai)

I think these two are cute together. While I would have also liked to see Yuna x Ano, it became clear pretty quickly that that wasn't the way things were going. And that's fine.

Although I admit, Ano did feel like an under-utilized character...

I personally prefer it when Negom uses the actual characters rather than inserting OCs to satisfy her purple x blue fetish...

Best ship.

^^Literally interchangeable and equally valid due to being a simple transliteration difference. Prithee do not needlessly insert sticks in orifices where they do not belong.

and..... they ended up like this :3
https://instagram.ffra1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/2acbfd9ce0f23acd8112fb3bacf7608e/5D0E6604/t51.2885-15/e35/47585598_352106065521023_630870716564111360_n.jpg?_nc_ht=instagram.ffra1-1.fna.fbcdn.net&ig_cache_key=MTk0NjI5MDg1NTY1NjY1OTkxMA%3D%3D.2

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@venom very true which is sad because it started off so good then it kinda felt like Takako Shimura just lost interest and hurried the last 1/3 or so of the story

cute, but just anytime I see Asami I can't help but think of Lust from FMA

^^^ So freaking true