It would be handy to have very clear tags for “this is definitely yuri” and “I don’t know man, maybe don’t engage unless you’re okay with ambiguity.” Personally, I’m relatively okay with getting my hopes up and then having my heart broken. But I think that depends on where you are in life and what you’ve got going on.

I’d be okay if Mitsuki and Aya turned out to be “super best friends.” XD

This is basically what the "Yuri" and "Subtext" tags are for.

A lot of readers seem to want what amount to spoiler tags: “If the MCs don’t get together romantically, preferably with at least a kiss if not an actual sex scene, I don’t want to waste my time reading it.”

Dynasty has tended to be careful with tags (like Tragedy ) that give away the ending of a series, at least before the story is completed, so I don’t think there’s a viable way to ever satisfy those folks.

So... the author's gotten a collab with the 30th anniversary release of Nirvana's In Utero. Looks like a promotional sticker from a pop-up shop? Twitter translate isn't the best.

Sumiko-sensei's pretty hype, in any case!

So... the author's gotten a collab with the 30th anniversary release of Nirvana's In Utero. Looks like a promotional sticker from a pop-up shop? Twitter translate isn't the best.

Sumiko-sensei's pretty hype, in any case!

It's limited to Japan, of course.

cuuuute

That pose...

That pose...

Friends touch friends’ bare knees like that all the time. It’s just being friendly.

Lol that pose looks like a proposal move to me. Lol nice one koga-san I know what you did there. You want to give aya a special gift but in a way that your classmate won't think anything fishy about the give so in short she gave everyone a souvenir to pass her special /thank you gift to aya.How sweet is that.

Mitsuki and her accidental level 10 rizz strikes again :P

60 chapters in, and still no actual progress?

Dropped.

60 chapters in, and still no actual progress?

Dropped.

I wish I could just "drop" these kinds of comments.
There's a tag group for this on Facebook.
This isn't an airport, no need to announce your departure.

60 chapters in, and still no actual progress?

Dropped.

I wish I could just "drop" these kinds of comments.
There's a tag group for this on Facebook.
This isn't an airport, no need to announce your departure.

LOL. And since such readers have read the latest chapter at the time of the announcement, isn't it the case that a series technically hasn't been "dropped" until the next chapter comes out and they don't read that one?

(I say this as someone who more than once has thought, "Eh, I think I'm done with this one," only I kept checking back to see if it got any better all the way to the end of the series.)

A lot of readers seem to want what amount to spoiler tags: “If the MCs don’t get together romantically, preferably with at least a kiss if not an actual sex scene, I don’t want to waste my time reading it.”

Dynasty has tended to be careful with tags (like Tragedy ) that give away the ending of a series, at least before the story is completed, so I don’t think there’s a viable way to ever satisfy those folks.

Well, and even if you did, there's other people who don't want to be spoiled, and they would just be upset instead.

60 chapters in, and still no actual progress?

Dropped.

Can I have your stuff?

Cute chapter. Slowly the bond between them is growing.

It's hard to express how glad I am that this story isn't, "She's not really a nerdy introvert--she's actually unconsciously devastatingly sexy," but "She's unconsciously devastatingly sexy because she's a nerdy introvert."

(also oh my god these two are so adorable I can't)

A lot of readers seem to want what amount to spoiler tags: “If the MCs don’t get together romantically, preferably with at least a kiss if not an actual sex scene, I don’t want to waste my time reading it.”

Dynasty has tended to be careful with tags (like Tragedy ) that give away the ending of a series, at least before the story is completed, so I don’t think there’s a viable way to ever satisfy those folks.

Well, and even if you did, there's other people who don't want to be spoiled, and they would just be upset instead.

It's pretty damn hard to tag this either way because it's still ongoing and no one but the author knows how it'll actually go in any case.

Am I missing something? No music reference this week?

(I say this as someone who more than once has thought, "Eh, I think I'm done with this one," only I kept checking back to see if it got any better all the way to the end of the series.)

I feel like I very rarely "drop" anything, so much as things I'm not vibing with will just fall to the back of my personal queue and I'll invariably come back to read them anyway when I'm sufficiently bored and have time to waste.

Tags should just be gone. What people want is full on spoiler summaries for complete series anyway, and tags don't actually serve as in their function as cataloguing content anymore, so better ditch them before further devolvement. People need to be untrained from checklist reading. ^^

60 chapters in, and still no actual progress?

Dropped.

Given the page count, it's more like 10 normal chapters.

Tags should just be gone. What people want is full on spoiler summaries for complete series anyway, and tags don't actually serve as in their function as cataloguing content anymore, so better ditch them before further devolvement. People need to be untrained from checklist reading. ^^

Well people still want to know if they read a yuri series, a hetero romance, a yaoi gore drama...

Tags should just be gone. What people want is full on spoiler summaries for complete series anyway, and tags don't actually serve as in their function as cataloguing content anymore, so better ditch them before further devolvement. People need to be untrained from checklist reading. ^^

Some want to know if this is actually Yuri, which is a genre. It's very normal to want to know what genre you're reading. Yuri lets you know if this involves romance or not (specifically between women). It doesn't say anything about the other outcomes or about spoilers, anymore than knowing that something is in the comedy genre spoils a film or book. I don't see anyone asking for much more beyond that.

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Tags should just be gone. What people want is full on spoiler summaries for complete series anyway, and tags don't actually serve as in their function as cataloguing content anymore, so better ditch them before further devolvement. People need to be untrained from checklist reading. ^^

Some want to know if this is actually Yuri, which is a genre. It's very normal to want to know what genre you're reading. Yuri lets you know if this involves romance or not (specifically between women). It doesn't say anything about the other outcomes or about spoilers, anymore than knowing that something is in the comedy genre spoils a film or book. I don't see anyone asking for much more beyond that.

The series has explicitly romantic feelings from one girl to another girl. What people are actually pining for is a hint that they'll actually have a romance between them, and that's impossible to predict or tag for.

Tags should just be gone. What people want is full on spoiler summaries for complete series anyway, and tags don't actually serve as in their function as cataloguing content anymore, so better ditch them before further devolvement. People need to be untrained from checklist reading. ^^

Some want to know if this is actually Yuri, which is a genre. It's very normal to want to know what genre you're reading. Yuri lets you know if this involves romance or not (specifically between women). It doesn't say anything about the other outcomes or about spoilers, anymore than knowing that something is in the comedy genre spoils a film or book. I don't see anyone asking for much more beyond that.

The series has explicitly romantic feelings from one girl to another girl. What people are actually pining for is a hint that they'll actually have a romance between them, and that's impossible to predict or tag for.

The discussion is about whether we all view what's transpired as "explicit." I don't know that it's been explicit. There's still a lot of room to call this a close loving friendship. I doubt that's how it goes but the varying opinions on that is where the discussion comes from. You're clearly on one end, but others aren't.

The question about Yuri is because the author has avoided using that term for this series for her own reasons. So it is a genre question. And questioning whether there will be romance is a genre question anyway. What would the romance genre be without romance? And it's not difficult to tag for because most series say what genre they are in. They tag themselves on their official site etc. This series is interesting because it doesn't tag itself as Yuri but has been tagged Yuri here.

I don't personally care much either way but it's not an unreasonable question for people to have, especially considering the history of it.

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