Fumiko Fumi, of Bokura no Hentai fame, right?

Lol.
Took me a few seconds to realize what you were talking about. :P

Sad. Either route this manga goes is bad. Unrequited lesbian love vs. Wife who cheats. Meh.

Then the Wife Who Cheats agrees to elope with you, and, when she asks where the two of you should go, your reply is: "To the Moon."

I wonder how many of y'all can identify that reference. ^.^

NO WAY! I was sure Teppu had been completely scanlated since long ago... but, as it turns out, there were some short stories missing!!!

That makes me so happy. <3 Hehe, I love this manga to bits -- and now I have new pages to read.

Anyone knows if there are more shorties like this one that we should expect in the future?

She needs to make a list:

That was good. A great and detailed list that proves that Rikako is her best choice and that it's a pity they will never end up together (as the Rikako ship never even made it to the water in the first place).

That said...

Sempai:
- You have to spill your blood in a bowl to attract her
- Will always be young and beautiful

Um, what? Are you implying that she's some kind of vampire? If it's a joking reference to another story, I'm not getting it.

That was quite original. And very enjoyable.

The MC should have refused the challenge from the start. The proper thing to say was: "You have become a real adult, you have a proper job, you are a productive member of society, while I'm still a worthless street delinquent who hasn't changed since her school years. It's my loss."

Btw, yelling in the opening chapters "I will never fall in love with you!!!" is like raising a huge endgame flag that reads: "And they married, had many children (even though they both are girls) and lived happily ever after!" Just sayin'. :P

Is there anyone, anyone at all in this forum, who dares to claim that they wouldn't have fallen for Souma's seduction -- if they were in Sawa's shoes?

Show me one person who claims that, and I'll show you a liar. :P

I've noticed people like to dump on this author a lot, but I think this is the first thing I've read of hers (I think it's a her, anyway), and I liked it. There's a grittiness to it that I find enjoyable.

Yeah. Kodama Naoko is one of the damnedest best authors out there. I love her style. <3 Dunno why some people whine so much about her stories -- if you don't like an author, don't read her manga! Nobody's forcing you to!

You're welcome! ^_^

Neeko's aim for the future should be as a housewife in a yuri couple. She would get that wonderful "every day is like Sunday" happy lazy life that Chiro-chan told her about, and she wouldn't have to worry about having to raise children one day (which is like 90% of actual housewife work).

Uri-chan, please marry Neeko-chan and live happily with her forever.

(Save her from a fate of sponging food and money off Imoko for her whole life...)

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Kinda wish we got an explanation of what 2.5D anime means, but I guess if Japan uses "3D" for irl stuff, then 2.5D probably means anime made with CG animation.

There was an explanation in a recent manga by Morishima Akiko. I think it went like this:

3D is your real life. If you're in love with someone irl, that's 3D.

2D is animation of any kind. Hand drawn, vector-based, computer animation, Motion Graphics, Claymation, whatever, you name it -- as long as it's animated art, it all goes in the same basket. So if you're in love with, say, Frozen's Elsa, that's 2D.

2.5D is a term coined to describe live action visual media. Normal movies and tv shows and the like. The stories are fiction, and the characters are not "real" people... but they are played by real people. So if you're in love with Shin Yun-bok from Painter of the Wind (not with actress Moon Geun-young who plays Shin Yun-bok, but with the character Shin Yun-bok: you feel that you and her belong together, and as for that hussy Jeong Hyang she can go kiss a duck) that's a 2.5D love.

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Fumi-chan is... fat?

They must be speaking a different language, one where "fat" means "slim as a reed"...

Only in manga the world is so beautiful and pleasant after the apocalypse. In Western fiction, the usual post-apocalyptic setting is something like the world of Fallout -- deserts, radiation, monsters, bandit gangs fighting wars for fuel and territory, and all that sort of thing.

In manga, your typical post-apocalyptic world is modelled after the world of YKK: life is easy, water and food are plentiful, the cities had been overgrown with verdure and flowers, the minuscule number of survivors can scavenge anything they need from the abandoned shops, and the only wild beasts around aren't deathclaws and nightstalkers but cute fluffy cats. Everyone is nice to everyone and you can just laze around all day long enjoying yourself.

Western fiction needs to learn the lesson from manga. Totally.

Not even one message? I guess not too many people watched the anime... aw, and it was so cute, too...

This short story is just fluff, but I liked it. Guess the author just wanted an excuse to draw Hinata in a gakuran confessing her love to Aoi, hehe.

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I hadn't read this story before. I've just read the 7 chapters in one go.

And all the time, while reading, I kept thinking: "What a great story! Brilliant writing! Perfect pace! Realistic, lovable, easy-to-identify-with characters! THIS STORY IS SO GREAT!"

I kinda feel sorry for all those who had to wait 2 years for chapters 6 and 7... but, hey, now I'm in the same boat as y'all. Hope the coming chapters will be released faster! (crossing fingers)

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'I want to make her even cuter/happier! And then maybe kiss her. And do XXX and yyyy with her. And then zzzz. And maybe even hold hands!'

I laughed out loud. :)

What is it with holding hands in yuri, I wonder, that makes it, like, the pinnacle of intimacy? There are so many series where two girls can't hold hands in public without creating a scandal... I remember one story, "Cotton Candy" it was called, where the two main characters never ever did anything touchy-feely except holding hands from time to time -- and that was enough to make other people go: "GAH! Look! Lesbians!"

... tag "mind break"?

Nah. This isn't mind break. That tag is for stuff like "The Girl I Admire" and such.
This is one willing partner asking the other (more knowledgeable) willing partner to teach her new kinky sex games -- and loving every bit of it.

Wincest! d^.^b

You are quite right, we don't know. >_< That's why I said before that there's something in her psychology that obviously escapes me... I have no idea what's really going on in her head...

I don't think it's super complicated. Fujishiro's on the rebound from a bad breakup, Kurokawa was there for her at a critical moment. She's infatuated, and she is in the process of discovering she likes girls. (or a girl, at least)

She probably hasn't even figured out -why- she is so desperate to be around Kurokawa yet.

That would be cute... but, if that's the case, I'd like to see some confusion. In this last chapter, she looks cool and unflappable -- always in control, full of self-assurance and right on top of the situation. That's not the normal reaction when your whole world is turning upside-down, when your feelings are in turmoil and you are thinking about discarding all the things you had valued up to that time (because they suddenly seem worthless). I'd like to see her act bewildered and panicky, I'd like to see her question her choices and worry about the consequences. It's unrealistic that she's so calm and Kurokawa is the only one going into a tizzy.

I've heard a few times that some gay women had a thing for yaoi or male/male slash fiction and such when they were young. No idea how prevalent it was when I heard it or how prevalent might be nowadays.

Twenty years ago, yaoi/slash was incredibly popular with gay women. The founding mothers of the old Yaoi Slash Mailing List (which was for a long time the only place to talk about these things in the English-speaking web) were mostly gay or queer ladies. I remember one of them, Jeanne Johnson, also an essayist in Aestheticism magazine and other media, who returned to Canada from Japan in '96 and, writing on the subject of the Japanese community of yaoi fans and doujinshi authors, wrote these lines: "I had never seen this kind of pan-sexual wonderland happening anywhere in my life before" and "I never dreamed such pleasures existed until I found them in the polymorphous perversity of the Japanese doujinshi" and "I was surrounded by a cheerful explosion of homoeroticism unthinkable in any other country in the world. And now that it seems ready to spread into the West as well, I'm glad to be in the front line of the fight."

Mind you, things may have changed nowadays -- as yuri has become way more popular, and pretty much mainstream in media aimed both at boys and at girls (twenty years ago, next to yaoi, the yuri niche was rather small).

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Reading the 11 pages of the discussion, it's amusing how many people didn't get the character of Kurokawa. At least at first. I surmise that, now, they must be understanding her a little better... right?

I mean, it's not that hard to get. The hetero version of the trope is as old as literature. You know what I'm talking about? The story where the female lead claims to hate this guy who is super handsome, cool, rich, popular and has dozens of sexy women at his feet... she hates him, hates, hates, totally hates... then one day he confesses his love to her and asks her to marry him, and she fly-glomps him and starts kissing him. Yeah, cuz she didn't really hate him, what she hated was the fact that he didn't pay attention to her; once that's fixed, all's well in the world and they can start making babies. What we have here in "Useless Princesses" is a variant of this old trope on a yuri note. Kurokawa doesn't really hate those haughty, beautiful, arrogant, sexy, snobby alpha bitch princesses. She loves them and puppy-adores them and crushes on them like crazy. What she hates about them is that they won't return her feelings! That's why she has these (seemingly) contradictory sentiments of "I hate her, she's a bully!" and "I want to protect her shining smile!"

It seems quite clear to me that Kurokawa is a little lesbian in the making, who may or may not completely understand herself yet. Even her love of BL/yaoi fits in the picture. (It's a genre for girls by girls, and the characters are usually projections of female fantasies, to a point that it has been described as "lesbian fantasies in male drag" by some researchers...)

The one character I myself find kind of puzzling is Fujishiro. Okay, so being dumped by her trophy boyfriend was a big shock, sure... and being comforted by Kurokawa was nice, yeah... but going from there to "I'm-a dumping all my old friends and I'm-a relinquishing my queen bee position and from now on I'll live with Kurokawa in a cozy little hole in a quiet corner of the classroom, just the two of us, forevah!" is, like, kinda too big of a leap... obviously there's something in her psychology that escapes me...

When the Demon King said "Listen up, heroes... we are going on vacation!" I was like totes mind-boggled... I thought that she had decided to take the defeated heroes with her on a holiday... it didn't make any sense...

Only later I realized that she was using the the royal "we" or majestic plural. >_< The scanlator should have put a footnote or something...

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Any new chapters so far, or are we still waiting for chapter 3?

(If there are new chapters out, and they haven't been translated yet, I would love to have a link to the raw scans...)

I suspect a "tragedy" tag would count as a spoiler...