Why a Korean heart

Why a Korean heart

When the local US middle-schoolers are making finger hearts, I don't think they're just "Korean" anymore.

Yup, "normal", just gals being pals, nothing out of the ordinary here folks

last edited at Apr 23, 2023 3:36PM

Aya “if i keep running the gay thoughts won’t catch me” Oosawa

Aya: must run away from gay thoughts
Gay Thoughts: Mitsuki

Sometimes they do manifest as your hot female classmate with accidental rizz. Ms. Oosawa is learning this the hard way.

Wtf were the 3 chapters before this they really didn't need to be drawn. Even though the progress is faster than a lot other manga it's still feels slow? We got good progress today though.

With the little xs for eyes, her heart is dead too lol.

What chapter was the "don't cry" panel from?

What chapter was the "don't cry" panel from?

It's redrawn from the end of Chapter 38.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_guy_she_was_interested_in_wasnt_a_guy_at_all_ch38#4

Mitsuki is just too fucking dreamy

Joestar Secret Technique didn't work out too well for Aya.

Just face it, girl. You're doomed to be a couple with this accidentally-suave dork.

Aya “if i keep running the gay thoughts won’t catch me” Oosawa

"YOU CAN'T CATCH ME, GAY THOUGHTS!"

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"the story will not be yuri"
Yeah, uh-huh.

There's a lot of people, Japanese lesbians especially, who have problems with "yuri" as a genre and the term's all encompassing use and the trope baggage it carries. There's a lot of people who feel the same way about calling any m/m story "yaoi". I don't think there was ever any chance this story wasn't gay, considering the author and everything about their twitter profile ("I love the love of women" in the description, almost all the art is of two women kissing or otherwise being romantic, etc), not to mention everything that's been happening in the story at every turn lol. It's just not being told within the predefined box of a specific genre.

tl;dr just bc smth isn't "yuri" doesn't mean it can't be (explicitly) gay

tl;dr just bc smth isn't "yuri" doesn't mean it can't be (explicitly) gay

And another data point for the proposition that when a Japanese author says, “This isn’t going to be yuri” it’s best to wait and see how things actually shake out.

Sometimes it really doesn’t become fully yuri according to Dynasty’s (comprehensive and to my mind quite appropriate) definition, like in A Tropical Fish Yearns For Snow.

And sometimes it means a gyaru crushes so hard on a cool nerd girl that she almost pees her pants.

last edited at Apr 25, 2023 8:23AM

Sometimes it really doesn’t become fully yuri according to Dynasty’s (comprehensive and to my mind quite appropriate) definition, like in A Tropical Fish Yearns For Snow.

Not Yuri

Even in English, the terminology isn't all that consistent. In the heyday of the Shoujo-ai Archive, for instance,"yuri" was considered only applicable to works that included sexual content.

I love it!

If I remember correctly, the author didn't want to make a "yuri" per se, but a "girl's love" because she feels the term yuri implies something different from what she's trying to convey. So like, it's still gonna be gay asf, but it just won't be "yuri".

To those who has the physical copy, are there any infos on mitsuki's patents or aya's dad??

To those who has the physical copy, are there any infos on mitsuki's parents or aya's dad??

Nothing more about either of their parents. There was a clear answer about why Mitsuki had such a strong reaction to Aya getting even slightly bullied by her friends after being associated with her.

tl;dr just bc smth isn't "yuri" doesn't mean it can't be (explicitly) gay

I go way back to the late nineties and I've always sorta kept the old '' Shoujo/Shonen ai = undertones, some light skinship Yuri/Yaoi = actual physical stuff happening''. It's not that clear definite anymore, but I still have that distinction kinda hardwired in me :P

To those who has the physical copy, are there any infos on mitsuki's parents or aya's dad??

Nothing more about either of their parents. There was a clear answer about why Mitsuki had such a strong reaction to Aya getting even slightly bullied by her friends after being associated with her.

Aaaah now I want more to close the box in Buyee to sent it here hahaha but I'm still waiting for the magazines to arrive to Buyee warehouse ~

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To those who has the physical copy, are there any infos on mitsuki's parents or aya's dad??

Nothing more about either of their parents. There was a clear answer about why Mitsuki had such a strong reaction to Aya getting even slightly bullied by her friends after being associated with her.

Can you tell why?sorry if im asking too much im just i really curious

To those who has the physical copy, are there any infos on mitsuki's parents or aya's dad??

Nothing more about either of their parents. There was a clear answer about why Mitsuki had such a strong reaction to Aya getting even slightly bullied by her friends after being associated with her.

Can you tell why?sorry if im asking too much im just i really curious

I'll give you the entire rundown, but I'd still suggest just waiting for a scan to show up. But if you still want it...

When she was little she knew she was different and that there was pressure to conform, but at first it was just her only friend telling her she'd look cute in a skirt and wanting her to get one. She laughed it off and said the skirt would look better on her friend than her. Mitsuki was already listening to Gorillaz and dressing like 1990s Seattle. Despite being aware they were different from each other she liked her friend and they got along. Even back then Mitsuki was charming and fine with doing her own thing and she was happy with her friend as things were.

Then she and her friend got peer pressure bullied at school by the cool kids group on the same skirt topic (they were both wearing pants or shorts instead of a skirts) so her friend, while feeling conflicted getting dressed the next morning, conformed to avoid sticking out. She had tried to encourage Mitsuki to do that as well, but Mitsuki showed up the next day still as her authentic herself. Which clearly troubled her friend who seems to have a tad more social awareness than Mitsuki, but nothing happened as a result for several days so maybe it wasn't a big deal in the end.

Unfortunately the consequences came later when her friend heard the bullies badmouthing Mitsuki so defended for her only to get retaliated on much worse. Mitsuki walked into the aftermath of it, and instead of this bringing them closer together her friend was very upset at her. She couldn't understand why Mitsuki wouldn't just conform even for that one day and had a meltdown and cried at her while Mitsuki stood stunned. Her friend ran off and she just stood there and let her go. That seemed to break Mitsuki. It was a trauma event for her. Feeling that emotional outburst, finding out it was because her friend tried to defend her, realizing (in her mind) how much she could hurt someone she likes by something as unchangeable as just being herself. She told herself letting her friend go was for the best. She wasn't just going through life with a different rhythm than others she fell completely out of sync with the world. She shut down emotionally at school and was totally alone for years. Until we see her notice Aya in class, just prior to the start of the series, sitting next to her and literally leaking sound into Mitsuki's cut off world via her loud headphones.

Thanks, @Cranscape. I hope we'll get to see these chapters soon. I'm considering buying the kindle (digital) version since I can't import, I wonder if it has these chapters.