Man I'd like to see that too. Really push the tsundere to be the good kind of tsundere, which usually leads to an overall healthy relationship.

also ..Did she just call her "stinky" ?

I read somewhere that people actually enjoy their significant other's body odor. I'm sure that's not true for all couples.
Internet is a scary place.

Yeah, something about how their hormones can attract you...? So if someone smells good to you without any fragrances added then you will most likely be attracted to them...? I know I've read that somewhere too.

I know I've read somewhere that if someone's body odor doesn't stink to you, that means you are genetically different from them, and thus more likely to be attracted to them since genetic diversity makes for strong offspring... or something. :p

Teleological thinking. Body odor smells differently because of various other genetic reasons. If anything scientific, it'd be for recognizing people of other clans/tribes which would be good for telling if people are invading your territory and stealing your food.

Anything involving romantic attraction...well I can't say 100% it's not the case but most likely isn't.

flips

'S kinda paraplegic yuri anyway. They're super clingy and doting while Tougo's in the wheelchair. Yuuna acts like the nursing wife. Then spoilers happen (ironic using a spoiler filler inside a spoiler bar heh) and Yuuna ends up in a wheelchair herself. Complete role reversal. It's where a basis of the relationship stems from

Pekoe I called you a saint yesterday. Now ending with this I have to call you a devil.

...I think the latter is better.

Finally I can love Negitoro in peace. Geez.

I loved this show up until it started pushing for Subaru x Minate. And not because of any angsty teen "notgaysobad" but just because it opened up so many plotholes involving particularly this relationship.

Subaru still cute though. Plus, Po-warm.

Just remember episode 10 where we got a deep look into Homura we find out these close friends have been separating themselves entirely from everyone in order to fall curse to the contract dooming them to fall into a deep despair and become witches eventually themselves. And that this has happened since the beginning of time. And Homura saw her loved one die in front of her eyes, having to kill her herself 100+ times.

Yuuki Yuuna was certainly dark but there was no tragedy other than Tougo's poor past. Madoka was hardly anything but tragedy except for the end of the anime series and a glimpse of it in the end of Rebellion. But I see where you are coming from.

Also Tougo and Yuuna are practically head over heals for each other, but I think Karin doesn't really have a someone special yet. She fights hard because of Yuuna, but not really sure it's anything romantic. Creators seem to be edging toward FuuRin for sure though.

Not much canon going on with any of these girls in Yuuna's chapter. They are great sisters but that's where the love stems from...I don't think it would necessarily be ruined by any romance.

Now if we got a chapter devoted specifically to Karin or Fuu...

Pekoe you are a saint.

For those confused the girl Tougou is speaking with is...umm...important to Tougou's...umm...shoot this is difficult to not spoil.

She's one of Tougou's two friends from her earlier life, the one on crippled on the bed.

So basically there is a slight dosage of angst mixed with sweet relief in this one. I likey.

Woooowwww. Okay this art is just stunning in every way.

^ How can she not be after episode 11? I still get choked up thinking about it.

dianjc Far as I'm concerned I was heavy rooting for that too, and I'm not convinced that FuuRin is canon. The cuddling is more just them resting against each other during the sunset after things finally started looking better for them.

I am in no way shape or form opposed though. I like the concept behind it a lot. I just think calling it canon on such shallow evidence is incorrect.

<3 you Kotori. Keep being Umi's precious.

^ Yeah I certainly consider Madoka more yuri as well. And I suppose it's all semantics. I don't think anyone in their right mind would call any of the Holy Sextet or of The Hero's Club straight, but I suppose the specific relationships are embedded in subtext.

Darker than Madoka though? I'm not sure about that one Time. Certainly dark but Madoka is, literally, in a whole 'nother universe. Different of course, but a bit darker

also ..Did she just call her "stinky" ?

I read somewhere that people actually enjoy their significant other's body odor. I'm sure that's not true for all couples.
Internet is a scary place.

Well that, and it might just be meant as a cutesy-insult. Like how when we're starting to forgive our significant others in English we typically call them "stupid" and things of the sort.

flips I guess if you consider that subtext then YuruYuri is also subtext. I'm not buyin', sorry.

Well the prequel-sequel is more a prequel that fits either after or before the season. Not like Fate/Zero vs. Fate/Stay Night. The creators and producers have expressed explicit and lively interest in making a second season. The series is way surpassing all sales expectations in Japan (delayed steam here in the US since it was delayed 2 1/2 weeks for simulcast compared to other shows). So we shall see. I'd be more than delighted to see a second season, since they obviously don't need surprise factor to move the audience to tears. Just hard to see where they would go that'd be worth a second cour.

Whichever beautiful uploader's hand slipped and dumped all the YuYuYu...God bless ya.

It's not really subtext since they both explicitly show a care and need for each other beyond friendship. Think Setsuna x Konoka from Negima.

If you haven't seen this...you are missing out. Hands down the biggest sleeper anime of fall 2014. Don't be too deceived by the Studio Gokumi tag...it has all the good that that studio brings but all the rumors about it being super dark (in a completely different way from Madoka, mind you, it's not a copy) are more than true. More than true.

This is a good series. Just nice and lighthearted with a lot of good comedy thrown in.

Not necessarily Nezchan, those two definitely are Yandere, it don't really need to always have violence, the most basic characterists of a Yandere is that they love a person and are really possessive, obssessive and territorial about them, alternating between a loving and caring side and a more psychotic or crazy side, they don't always need to stalk, confine, threaten and use violence, but that's the cliche so most of the time they do all that, but some are not violent, takes away the violence and Akki and Shouko would probably be like Koharu from Koharu no Hibi(it's het but good) that is one of the most passive and harmless Yanderes ever made, Akki is more like the classical Yandere that uses violence any time she thinks there's someone/something in the way of her love as except for chapter 4 she's always the first to attack, while from some of her dialogues Shouko seens to be more of the "I want to lock you up and never let you go" kind of Yandere, and about not using violence against others, some Yanderes are more "if I can't have you no one will" type and attack the person they love instead of others.

Nez, I love ya girl, but I think this one's got the right idea. Due to obvious circumstances, people think that yandere is synonymous with dangerous and unhealthy for a relationship. Yandere is supposed to just mean that you're crazy obsessive...so when Akki is crazy obsessive for Shouko to devote 100% of her attention to her, Shouko is crazy obsessive for Akki to want her 100% of the time. Under 99.9% of the circumstances, those characteristics lead to unhealthy and stupid bad relationships. But these two found each other and found that .1%.

Of course, it is also very arguable to say that since language is, at its roots, just a slur and gaggle of sounds humans make to communicate a message, the connotative and colloquial meaning of yandere might be more correct a definition than the literal word-for-word denotative one. But that's arguing semantics and ultimately just digresses from the main point here.

Damn. I'm ashamed I doubted Kuzushiro for even a second. The author found a way to make this relationship more than just a comedy satire of too many things to count, and made the relationship actually develop and start to show some blossoming and healthy roots. That is straight genius writing, if nothing else.

Well, besides the whole stabbing and slicing each other up part. 'Tis just a flesh wound I suppose at the end of it all.

Blame the English language for having one word to represent a spectrum of meanings far larger than the electromagnetic. Plus, kinda unfair to say they never interacted. The fact they went out of their ways to see each other and say hello every morning carries a lot of meaning.

The hello that was shown here was the first time they've said hello to each other though. "That's the first time I've heard her voice." Also on the same way on her way home she saw her with her brother. I'm not disagreeing with you, only pointing out that one of your 'reasons' is not correct :]

No, you're right. But there's a lot that can be communicated without saying anything specifically. So you're right that I was wrong with what I said, but again, they had plenty of times they did interact, even if it was only a glance in passing. I mean shoot, that's how most relationships started in medieval Europe, and even during older eras in Japan and China.

But my main point is that their "love" is a different kind of love than one shared by best friends who have known each other for a long time and then start dating. It's a bit more shallow, and has a lot of need to grow, but it does not make it nonexistent.

It's pretty convenient that these two love each other despite never having talked or in any way interacted. Disney convenient.

Blame the English language for having one word to represent a spectrum of meanings far larger than the electromagnetic. Plus, kinda unfair to say they never interacted. The fact they went out of their ways to see each other and say hello every morning carries a lot of meaning.

As soon as I heard the dreaded word "timeskip" I knew this was spiraling downward. What sounds like the future just reveals that 1) Yuki is a shitty person 2) Rintaro is a poor sap stuck in unrequited love and 3) yet another goddam copout timeskip ending to avoid the responsibilities a writer has when creating a story of this sort.

I hope to god that's not what happens.

But then again a lot of people seem to not understand stories that tie up all the plot in a fantastic last-panel ending like, say, Yotsuhara Furiko. So I'll keep my hopes up for now.

I'm gonna go ahead and headcanon chapter four as the ending. Good job, guys, great story! Loved the ending! Happily ever after with cute photographer girl! Such a wonderful story. So cute and not angsty in any way. Like, any way. Perfect story. Ten outta ten.

.... plis .:'(