^ Agree with all this, except I think the problem has nothing to do with any in-story qualities of the characters (that is, which imaginary person is most to blame) but is just a complete fuck-up by the writer who has introduced a storyline that makes an incoherent hash out of the characters and their established priorities and motivations.

From what I know of the manga industry, there's probably some editorial oversight taking place that's driving these plotlines.

Kase-san is no longer some cute little indie manga published semi-occasionally on minor-league yuri websites. It's officially hit the bigtime. I can go into Barnes & Nobles half a world away and buy an official English translation of the latest tank.

And once you hit that level of notoriety, publishers start wanting you to craft storylines that match their polling data.

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This series has gotten a lot more sitcommy since Takashima-sensei started writing for the tanks instead of for minor league yuri websites.

Since I am 100% convinced that Takashima-sensei has no plans to ever break these two apart, I'm not super worried about the intervening drama. I will probably be annoyed if Kase-san loses the race, but even then I expect that it won't do anything other than generate additional drama which we will have to soldier through before it gets resolved in Yamada and Kase's favor.

As another poster pointed out above, I'm very appreciative that Yamada has finally used her words like a grown-up to express her feelings. Also the fact that she has become more and more comfortable with initiating physical intimacy. So there's some growth there, and I approve.

I feel like it would be a break from cliché to have them actually go to school in different cities and successfully maintain a long-distance relationship. We've got the "Wait I'm going with you!" trope already with Yamada and Kase-san, so it would be a cool change of pace to see "Yeah, no, I gotta go where the education is" but still have it all work out anyways. Long-distance relationships are tough, but they don't have to be the death of a relationship.

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Every time I get the names of the friends straight, a volume break comes along and then I proceed to forget which one is which.

Sounds like a good excuse to re-read the whole thing from the beginning!

Hallelujah it's back!
...anyone else feel like their friends left specifically to give the two some alone time?

I am going to be very disappointed if, when the girls finally screw up their courage to come out to their friends, their friends DON'T say "Uh, yeah! Duh! You guys suck at keeping secrets!" or something similar.

Babes in lab coats and no shirt is a weakness of mine.

I'm not familiar enough with Dragonball Z lore to understand what is going on here.

Mike98, EugeneZX, a random yuri fan, and Felipe are all the same person. He's using (at least) four different accounts to talk to himself.

What if, hear me out here
Lovecraftian yuri?

My friend, you are not going to believe this, but...

https://dynasty-scans.com/pairings/abigail_x_lavinia
https://dynasty-scans.com/pairings/cthugha_x_nyarlathotep

Do you know of any artists here on Dynasty that use watercolours (or their works have a watercolour-look to them), like some of the pictures by Moyu Marginal?
I'd really like to see more of those. Even single images are fine :)

https://dynasty-scans.com/images/8254
https://dynasty-scans.com/images/6919
https://dynasty-scans.com/images/14896
https://dynasty-scans.com/images/11048
https://dynasty-scans.com/images/13317

The anti-ghost charm hovering in mid-air (from the perspective of the fake medium) makes it clear that the crepe Reiko was eating earlier in the story was also hovering in mid-air, with bits occasionally just...disappearing.

Forgot to give credit to the artist. Can find 'em here:

https://www.artstation.com/suelynlee

https://www.instagram.com/ricebuttket/

https://www.reddit.com/user/ricebuttket/overview

 

BlueDsc said:

That was money well spent. I love the little Boss drones.

Thanks! I like 'em too. Also notice the wall to the right of Serval.

 

OrangePekoe said:

Such fun characterizations in this!

Thanks! It's a mash-up of Kemono Friends and Shadowrun. Shadowrun is a tabletop roleplaying game from the '80s that basically asks the question "What if cyberpunk science-fiction also had elves and ogres and dragons and magic?"

Lion and Moose are your basic heavies. Beaver-dono is a rigger, Prairie-chan is a hacker. Bag-chan is a battlemage, and Serval is a street shaman.

Really liked the outfit the artist designed for Serval.

Had this idea several years ago. It was inspired by this pic here: https://dynasty-scans.com/images/5187. Finally decided to throw some money at an artist to make it happen, and this is the result. Figured I'd share.

Ribbed for her pleasure(tm)

Looks like she's brandishing some kind of dildo at her friend.

Implied BDSM

Girl in the blanket looks like Lili from DanMachi.

I always struggle when I see words like "TYPEEEEEEEE." What exactly does it sound like when you extend a silent letter? I know: it's just a me thing.

Take heart that it ain't just you. I always have the same reaction.

Looks like this:

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/theres_a_ghost_behind_that_gyaru_ch11

Might be missing page 112. The page list jumps from 111 to 113.

I feel more educated and refined after reading this. Where's my top hat?

Love the message in this one. Fated lovers (including lovers who met as tiny children and don't remember) is a very common trope in manga and anime, and I've seen it shoehorned into a number of works that absolutely didn't need it. So I like this subversion.

Must be good with her 6 fingers lol

Not better than 3 hands

I've read that chapter over and over again so many times because I like it, and always thought that something was wrong with that panel but couldn't never put my finger on it.

Which is funny because you've got five extra!

As someone who bought (when it was new) the first ever issue of X-Men which introduced Kitty Pryde (Uncanny X-Men #129, Jan 1979) from the "Hey Kids! COMICS!" spinner rack at 7-11, she has a long history of being involved with dudes named "Peter".

She was canonically 13-years-old in her debut, and was seriously crushing on Peter Rasputin (aka Colossus) for years. She even asked him to take her virginity at one point when it looked like they were both going to die from the Brood parasites they had been infected with. (Uncanny X-Men #165) He turned her down because she was too young, and because he wanted that first time to be because they loved each other and not because they were about to die.

After she broke things off with Peter Rasputin (for reasons way too complicated to go into here), she dated Pete Wisdom for a while in the pages of Excalibur, which was basically a UK-based version of the X-Men.

They may have made her interested in girls at some point, but that would have been a later character development. At the very beginning, and for years afterwards, she was definitely into dudes.

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This is Ground Control to Major Tom. What the fuck is going on up there?