It will be interesting to see if Igarashi ever does return. While everyone here was anguishing about what Miss Possibly Misunderstood’s motivations and intentions were/had been, I was pretty convinced that Igarashi only really mattered insofar as she did or did not affect our beloved power duo.

“Sempai was probably just teasing me for her own amusement all along”—that may or may not turn out to be the case in the long run, but as of now that’s where it stands as far as the Nanoha/Chidori relationship is concerned.

So thanks for leading to the transcendental kiss, sempai. Now fuck off.

i feel blessed with this kiss!!!!
hope that won't end soon... (；人；) this happiness is so dangerous for my heart

THIS IS FKING PERFECT

^ don't worry, there are 26 more chapters right now and it doesn't look like its gonna end any time soon

Do you mean that the raws are 26 chapters ahead? Or that we know for sure there will be at least 26 more chapters?

MacySan posted:

^ don't worry, there are 26 more chapters right now and it doesn't look like its gonna end any time soon

Do you mean that the raws are 26 chapters ahead? Or that we know for sure there will be at least 26 more chapters?

Raws are ahead.

Chidori being so tiny that she has to stand on a step and still be on tiptoes to kiss Nanoha is just so adorable I don't even know what to say.

At long last we get a proper kiss. Now these two just need to stop trying to hide things from their friends (who almost certainly know already).

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okay, now get married

oh my god they kissed!!

Okay. They kissed!

Lol. The firework display was incredibly fast.

Lets go home

Some Yagakimi development there

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My God, that was absolutely beautiful. I love how the author worked the entire scene around their height difference. Wholesome indeed.

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh I'm so happy they kissed. I want more!!

I know in a perfect world, people would not assume the nature of a relationship solely on the genders involved in it. However, I love yuri manga moments like this when the lovers get to have a laugh, because some naive person jumps to the wrong conclusion. I have to say, I think the word wholesome describes Chidori and Nanoha's relationship pretty well, though.

I have to say, I think the word wholesome describes Chidori and Nanoha's relationship pretty well, though.

...aside from all the unprotected premaritial handholding ofc.

It will be interesting to see if Igarashi ever does return. While everyone here was anguishing about what Miss Possibly Misunderstood’s motivations and intentions were/had been, I was pretty convinced that Igarashi only really mattered insofar as she did or did not affect our beloved power duo.

“Sempai was probably just teasing me for her own amusement all along”—that may or may not turn out to be the case in the long run, but as of now that’s where it stands as far as the Nanoha/Chidori relationship is concerned.

So thanks for leading to the transcendental kiss, sempai. Now fuck off.

Hey now, I'm as happy as anyone that Chidori and Nonoha got a happy ending, but i'm still of the idea that every confused girl in any yuri story deserves some sort of redemption arc. I just wish Igarashi comes later in the story and tells Chidori how her own braveness to be with the one she truly loves gave her the strength to finally start dating that cute kouhai she's been eyeing in college or whatever. Igarashi deserves a girlfriend as well. But like you said, Nanoha x Chidori forever.

Kal3d posted:

It will be interesting to see if Igarashi ever does return. While everyone here was anguishing about what Miss Possibly Misunderstood’s motivations and intentions were/had been, I was pretty convinced that Igarashi only really mattered insofar as she did or did not affect our beloved power duo.

“Sempai was probably just teasing me for her own amusement all along”—that may or may not turn out to be the case in the long run, but as of now that’s where it stands as far as the Nanoha/Chidori relationship is concerned.

So thanks for leading to the transcendental kiss, sempai. Now fuck off.

Hey now, I'm as happy as anyone that Chidori and Nonoha got a happy ending, but i'm still of the idea that every confused girl in any yuri story deserves some sort of redemption arc. I just wish Igarashi comes later in the story and tells Chidori how her own braveness to be with the one she truly loves gave her the strength to finally start dating that cute kouhai she's been eyeing in college or whatever. Igarashi deserves a girlfriend as well. But like you said, Nanoha x Chidori forever.

Totally agree

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...isn't Iggy in her first year of uni tho? Would need to be a fair bit later indeed for her to start hitting on kouhais there I reckon. ("Not as friends" chocos for Valentine's don't strike me as being particularly... confused... anymore mind.)

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...isn't Iggy in her first year of uni tho? Would need to be a fair bit later indeed for her to start hitting on kouhais there I reckon. ("Not as friends" chocos for Valentine's don't strike me as being particularly... confused... anymore mind.)

Well, you know what i meant. I just want to see her happy in the future. Her reaction to Chidori and Nanoha being happy broke my heart, because i've seen that "Fuck, i could've done that the whole time?" reaction a lot of times in these type of situations and it never gets better.

"There's a new bus every five minutes" as one gay old chap once put it. :v

Seven Seas are releasing five new Yuri titles I hope this is one of them!

You guys are so nice—you look at Igarashi and see a young woman who is confused about her sexuality and who deserves a happy ending.

I’m not as nice as that. I see a tertiary character who gratuitously hurt one of the sweetest girls in all of yuri and who can fuck the fuck off.

I’ll try to follow your example and be nicer.

But not today.

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Blas pls, we already went over that ground at quite some length.

You guys are so nice—you look at Igarashi and see a young woman who is confused about her sexuality and who deserves a happy ending.

I’m not as nice as that. I see a tertiary character who gratuitously hurt one of the sweetest girls in all of yuri and who can fuck the fuck off.

I’ll try to follow your example and be nicer.

But not today.

I agree with you. I guess most of the people who see Igarashi as more sympathetic haven't been through a situation with someone like her to see the actual impact it has on the other person. Even if she is struggling herself with her sexuality, playing with someone like that isn't an excuse. You can struggle but not take the other person down with you. She wasn't strong enough to admit she liked Chidori which is fine on its on, but "messing" with her is pure selfish and manipulative. It's easy to fall into the trap that people like her are just hurting, but struggling and taking other down with you is not mutually exclusive.
And like I said before, in this situation she can be seen as more sympathetic, because Chidori got over it quickly because she had a good support system. Igarashi could have done way bigger of a damage to a person who wasn't as strong as Chidori. Then people wouldn't root for her as much, but since we haven't seen that happening in the manga, I guess we can brush it off and root for her only because we want more Yuri.
Sure, we might see her evolving in the future chapters, or even getting a gf. But this is rarely what happens irl. So I'd appreciate a story that doesn't always sugarcoat situations like that, and younger people who read these don't go out in life thinking that these people are just poor little souls who, with the right amount of love, will be "saved" in the end. Or that they have to "save" them.

Blas pls, we already went over that ground at quite some length.

I don’t particularly care about Igarashi one way or the other as an imaginary human being; I’m just quite surprised that so many readers are so eager to read against the grain of the story in regard to this character.

Every fiction sets up its own implicit value system and moral code, one that is adjacent to but by no means identical to that of the real world; so sometimes chopping the heads off scores of people is good and righteous (Icelandic sagas, say) and sometimes calling someone by their last name without an honorific is a heinous offense (Jane Austen’s novels, or many manga).

In terms of the Hana ni Arashi storyworld, Igarashi is by far the nastiest piece of work we have seen (although not extraordinarily nasty in real-world terms), and, at least from what we have seen so far, a redemption arc for that particular character would alter the trajectory of the story into a new, and for me digressive, direction.

Blas pls, we already went over that ground at quite some length.

I don’t particularly care about Igarashi one way or the other as an imaginary human being; I’m just quite surprised that so many readers are so eager to read against the grain of the story in regard to this character.

I'm not really sure you get to say that when your villainous reading of her character and role requires rather arbitrarily going against the text of the story...