Luminous=Blue would have benefited from just keeping it simpler and sticking with the exes reunited ending I believe. A poly ending requires the utmost set-up and care.

Set up? Pfff, please. What set up beyond cute girls being gay do you need?

Yuri is about girls being lovely-dovely, and the more girls and more lovely-dovely the better.

Just inject distilled yuri into my veins.

Quality Quantity > Quality > Quantity.
Less is more when the Les stuff is less than quality.

If all you desire is the result you will end up cutting corners and then everything stagnates.

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https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/luminousblue_ch09#18

Reaches with her right hand, next frame is holding hands not lewd! with her left hand :/

Her pinky is really fat in the top frame, eh? Lolz

The series was axed so hard she lost her right arm and now uses 2 left ones

It's a shame how the series turned out because the art and the style really hooked me on

OH WHOA!
horay for the poly!
one of the best endings in a romance i ever see

that polyamory came out of no where and lasted 4 pages..

Right

The whole ending was so rushed

I don't disagree that it feels rushed, but I disagree that it came out of nowhere. I had a feeling that it was where these characters wanted to be, but there's a strong bias against it from most people, so I didn't expect the author to actually go there.

I'm honestly a little impressed.

I mean, after rereading the whole thing again with the ending in mind... well, it seems fairly plausible. The intention seems to be for Kou to reconcile them, and in doing so endear her to Nene and Amane after they reconciled, they bring Kou as well.

In fact, rereading this whole makes it feels less rushed, imo. Sure, it's a bit too fast, but well, they are young!

What... I thought she was gonna get shipped to awful sempai, then they come with a poly ending.

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Again axed? Are you kidding me?!

It's pretty obvious this manga was building up to this ending in retrospect and it just had to rush it. The people acting like it came out of nowhere are just too wrapped up in monogamy as the default and had their blinders on to all the obvious buildup.

It's pretty obvious this manga was building up to this ending in retrospect and it just had to rush it. The people acting like it came out of nowhere are just too wrapped up in monogamy as the default and had their blinders on to all the obvious buildup.

It was pretty obvious, but the series hadn't gotten to the point where this ending really made sense. Amane wasn't developed enough and Taru (at least to me) felt like she hadn't quite gotten to the point where she was in love with both of them, it felt more like she was in love with their relationship. The polygamy is great, but it didn't have enough build up to it.

No, the poly stuff isn't entirely surprising - there always was the clear suspicious with the old feelings of the love interests still very present and the heroine having no clear 'true love'. But that doesn't mean that forcing a conclusion like this makes any sense, or makes for a good read. ^^

It's pretty obvious this manga was building up to this ending in retrospect and it just had to rush it. The people acting like it came out of nowhere are just too wrapped up in monogamy as the default and had their blinders on to all the obvious buildup.

Putting aside the amateur psychologizing about other people's motives, the problem isn't that the poly ending came out of nowhere--it's that it's a preposterous ending at this point in the story.

Sorta like a war story that was obviously going to end with the good guys winning, but they skipped over everything but the very end of the final battle.

It's pretty obvious this manga was building up to this ending in retrospect and it just had to rush it. The people acting like it came out of nowhere are just too wrapped up in monogamy as the default and had their blinders on to all the obvious buildup.

It was pretty obvious, but the series hadn't gotten to the point where this ending really made sense. Amane wasn't developed enough and Taru (at least to me) felt like she hadn't quite gotten to the point where she was in love with both of them, it felt more like she was in love with their relationship. The polygamy is great, but it didn't have enough build up to it.

I agree there wasn't enough buildup to it. Maybe if we had a few chapters after they reconcile where we get to spend some time with Taru and have her come to some sort of self-realization about her feelings for them this ending would go over a lot smoother. I love poly endings, and they are incredibly rare in love-triangle stories like this, but it feels somewhat unnatural here.

I enjoyed the series for the most part but that ending felt like it was rammed into my face at full speed, bit of a shame.

Wait... if Kou ended up with them two then who is gonna date the cutie pie Sensei. smh my head.

me

Luminous=Blue would have benefited from just keeping it simpler and sticking with the exes reunited ending I believe. A poly ending requires the utmost set-up and care.

Set up? Pfff, please. What set up beyond cute girls being gay do you need?

Yuri is about girls being lovely-dovely, and the more girls and more lovely-dovely the better.

Just inject distilled yuri into my veins.

Ah, I see you're a person of culture as well.

It's pretty obvious this manga was building up to this ending in retrospect and it just had to rush it. The people acting like it came out of nowhere are just too wrapped up in monogamy as the default and had their blinders on to all the obvious buildup.

It was pretty obvious, but the series hadn't gotten to the point where this ending really made sense. Amane wasn't developed enough and Taru (at least to me) felt like she hadn't quite gotten to the point where she was in love with both of them, it felt more like she was in love with their relationship. The polygamy is great, but it didn't have enough build up to it.

I agree there wasn't enough buildup to it. Maybe if we had a few chapters after they reconcile where we get to spend some time with Taru and have her come to some sort of self-realization about her feelings for them this ending would go over a lot smoother. I love poly endings, and they are incredibly rare in love-triangle stories like this, but it feels somewhat unnatural here.

Sure, but any romantic resolution from the point they were at would have felt awkward and rushed due to the apparent chapter constraint. It would have felt just as weird for the exes to get together and then just sweep the chemistry the author had established between the three of them under the rug it just would have been easier to ignore that weirdness because monogamy is the expected ending in romance even if it's abrupt and scantly developed. Of the options available I'd rather this one than any of the alternatives especially considering how much I love that last page.

The only way this wouldn't seem plausible is if you were one of the Nene haters who assumed she was using Kou - even though it was obvious she had real emotion toward Kou as well. You were wrong and you need to accept it. Certainly an unexpected outcome, but only because we so rarely actually see it happen, not because it wasn't built up to. It does make sense, the groundwork for it WAS laid, and as such I'm totally happy with it. (Excepting the fact that the teacher didn't get a girl of her own, but.)

Thank you very much for your work on this series, Piranhaplant.

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Hmm yes record everything.
*Insert and then they all fucked meme

The only way this wouldn't seem plausible is if you were one of the Nene haters who assumed she was using Kou - even though it was obvious she had real emotion toward Kou as well. You were wrong and you need to accept it. Certainly an unexpected outcome, but only because we so rarely actually see it happen, not because it wasn't built up to. It does make sense, the groundwork for it WAS laid, and as such I'm totally happy with it. (Excepting the fact that the teacher didn't get a girl of her own, but.)

Thanks for the condescending lecture—your advice about what other readers “need to do” is truly patronizing.

There’s no doubt that the narrative possibility of a polyamorous outcome was established relatively early on. You may well be satisfied with that outcome. But it’s not the outcome itself that’s implausible; it’s the herky-jerky path it took to end up there.

The story as it was actually told was little more than farcical, with both the senpai and Nene first depicted as deeply disturbed (the senpai's desire to see her loved one cry; Nene’s “hatred” for Amane) and then everything reversed on a dime because perky little Kou won the photo contest.

Nothing like setting up an intense emotional dilemma, then handwaving it away with a bunch of glitter and floaty hearts.

Nothing like setting up an intense emotional dilemma, then handwaving it away with a bunch of glitter and floaty hearts.

Well we are reading yuri.

I was in fear right from the beginning, that the story might crush my kokoro into pieces. But now having an polyamory end, I'm happy that I read this.

hmmmmm

this chapter felt super duper duper rushed and it all went by so fast and i was so psyched for the end cuz i thought it’d b cute n shid and the two exs would b happy together nd shid but it ended up being poly and i throw up. frfrrf this chapter ruined it

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Not what I expected but I am satisfied

Definitely felt rushed, that said, while im not really a fan of polyamory, this one had me kinda into it, sad to see it end in such a rushed chapter.

With this one ending and Bloom into You about to end, I'm running out of serialized yuri to read, soon I might have to give in and read the travesty that is Useless Princesses or one of the million age gap manga shudders. At least I got Still Sick left.

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