Can someone explain why so many of the character bios in these manga mention the character's blood type? I assume there's some cultural significance, but I dunno what it is.

Basically this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_personality_theory

If you want more examples, also check out this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PersonalityBloodTypes

Despite the fact that Makino gives proper instruction, others do not always listen to her. They see her as being too serious. On page 12, she thinks “she didn’t follow my instructions here, or here, or here either, how many times have I told her? And she still gets it wrong!” This shows that her coworkers do not pay enough attention to her instruction. It could even mean that they are actively ignoring her advice in order to frustrate her or slow her down.

It could also be that she really is a perfectionist who has unreasonably high expectations of part-time workers who are only there for some spare change and a chance to meet a potential husband. From personal experience, I can say that many professionals do start taking their own level of skill for granted and are not really good at teaching others, especially if they aren't self-motivated to work, like Seo. This is actually the most common cause of the proverb "If you you want something done right, do it yourself" being uttered in professional environments.

My point is, there needs not be something sinister like Makino's co-workers actively sabotaging her efforts in the background.

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The Ushiwaka x Miki dynamic shapes up to be quite fascinating, with both of them turning out to be such skillful manipulators. I wonder whether both are aware of each others' skills. :D

The first 90% of the chapter is basically my life in February, every February. :-(

Oh, and a new character is being introduced? Dun dun dun.

At first, I wondered whether this was Shonagon's secret alter-ego. XD

Is there any particular reason why the scanlators haven't posted any more updates to this in over two weeks? It's been nineteen days since the last installment... which as far as I remember, is not a normal trend for this series. It would seem normal if you only followed it through Dynasty, since the updates are larger and take longer. but when you follow the scanlator's tumblr, it tended to get updates more frequently than it has been recently...

Are they just shifting focus to Beloved for their yuri kick, or has the artist for this thing been on a break/hiatus?

It probably had something to do with the author being on a vacation over the Chinese New Year and thus not drawing new pages.

So, when do you guys think Nana will turn into a vampire? Round the middle of the series or at the end? (remember, it's a CHANCE of happening, and obviously getting bitten a lot would massively increase that chance)

My prediction is that, via some comedic twist of fate, Yuu will defy the statistics and turn all of her classmates into vampires.

That would be an original twist on the whole "involuntary vampire transformation" trope. :D

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New chapter didn't even start, and Haruko already getting a handful.

She knows what she wants from life and doesn't hesitate to grab it.

Ayu seems to be as bad at strategy as she is at schoolwork. The more pertinent question is where she even came from, since Haruko denies even knowing her.

Kasumi's sis really dropped the anvil there that should really be in every narrative based around relationships by now. Too bad so many authors seem clueless as to how to create good relationship drama without the old "confusing your lover's public face with their private face" trope.

If you are willing to use goggles

Wait, you mean there is an off switch on these things??

Agreed with Koveras, it's worth the watch.

Erm... you probably mean melevas. ;-)

Don't see what you're talking about ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Tsk, tsk, so sneaky. :-)

Agreed with Koveras, it's worth the watch.

Erm... you probably mean melevas. ;-)

Handmaiden

It's not only the best lesbian movie in but also the best even in the hollywood

You won't find any better than this.

It's also based on Sarah Waters's Fingersmith, one of the better lesbian novels out there. :-)

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I wish more mangas continued into college life if they start in highschool.

Yuri just doesn't work this way. The author is truly breaking new ground here, boldly going where no yuri mangaka has gone before.

This manga should run on for forever

I am afraid the author can only display so much of this insanity before they're institutionalized. :-(

Respect to him for sticking with his vision and not offering the Miyuki x Yuri option. :-)

There is a profound lesson in this chapter regarding cybernetics: it doesn't matter how strong an artificial limb is - the limiting factor is the strength of the body it's attached to.

Ugh, that's too precious. Also is it just me or was she completely on top of the billiards table? Is that a normal thing??

Well, most professional pool players don't actually need to do that, and there are special cue extensions, but sometimes you do have to lean over half of the table to hit the white ball at just the right angle.

What if Fate grew up to be a lonely landowner with a thing for underage maids?

Actually, that ponytail and general stoic attitude makes her look a lot more like Signum.

So, College tag confirmed?

Tbh, i think it's a good ending. Some people want unhealthy relationship or it works just fine for them with everything. I for one, am in unhealthy relationship and i love it and hate it at the same time :3

Unhealthy relationships are like unhealthy habits: lots of people smoke, for instance, even though it's bad for their bodies, and that's considered normal for some reason...

From the point of view of short story writing, each of the scenes has a purpose, moving the story of Kanan causing injury as a manner of working through satisfying her own needs without understanding that they are needs to start with. The initial scene with the finger breaking needs to be shocking, not just to shake the reader's expectations from the start, but to illustrate that this is an ongoing practice between the two and their relative power in the scene, which shifts at the end to reveal Iori asking for injury in part because it satisfies Kanan's needs. Everything revolves around a central theme of needs that aren't entirely obvious, and the love that lies at the core of those needs, shocking as they are.

Thank you for this analysis, I appreciate it. :-)

They are in fact out of order.

This whole court is out of order!

Your out of order!

I'm out of order!

Who ordered all these pizzas?

The Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum?

Is this a healthy relationship? I kind of can't tell.

No, it is not. Any relationship that results in potentially permanent bodily damage for one party, and emotional scarring for the other cannot be healthy by any definition of that word that I am aware of. Good thing it is just fiction, where the author is free to explore relationships at any level of unhealthy without serious real-world repercussions. :-)

Is it still Science Babies if it's magic?

"magic is just science that we don't understand" - Carl Sagan, probly

I think it was Clarke, but it could have also been Asimov.

Just to set the record straight:

• Clarke's Third Law is "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (from his 1973 essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination")
• More relevantly to this discussion, "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science" is allegedly attributed to Larry Niven, but to the best of my knowledge, this wording is much more recent, coined by Phil Foglio in 2008.

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^ Honestly, I don't think the author gave the medical conditions much thought, and used r.a. as a plot device to humorously explore the theme of romantic and sexual attraction being a result of inherent individual traits, rather than of shared experience (basically, the idea of destined soulmates). I do admit that it's fun to theorize, however. :-)

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As a science nerd and a yuri fanboy, the experimentation methods in this chapter have earned my complete and unrestricted approval.

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Doesn't this count as crossdressing?

and ruin the whole surprise?

My yuri goggles may need recalibrating, but I didn't believe the black-haired girl to be a guy even for a single page. So it wasn't so much of a surprise than a tedious in-universe misunderstanding.