Looks like this is yet another example of an author dropping a 16-ton weight on the obvious attraction between two girls for the sake of angst and drawn-out drama.

Well, luckily things do seem to go a bit better on the yuri front in general, but it's still a bit frustrating when this happens to a series I used to like. I still haven't forgotten about Reina x Kumiko, or Hikari x Futaba!

Ah well, I consider this one dropped. Moving on....

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Actually, if Yui was 18 in 2010 then she would be 27 now.

I still can't believe that the K-On! anime is already 10 years old as I write this. When I was in Kyoto last spring I found that a lot of the locations of the show had disappeared, or changed beyond recognition. It's kind of sad.

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This is nice and all, but is there any way to get the complete scanlation of Sougou Tovarisch? Everywhere I look chapters 9 to 12 are missing.

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Carpet sharks are an actual order of shark. I don't think people tend to keep those as pets.

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Wow, chapter 6 was pretty cruel. That poor octopus was fighting for its life.

Well, if anything it strengthens me in my conviction that it's best to be vegetarian.

Damn it, Yuu. Took you long enough.

And yes, any time is a good time to tell somebody you love them. I have no idea why that would even be an issue, seeing how Touko has been waiting for you to say exactly that for ages now.

Man, why do all my favorite yuri stories always turn out to be so frustrating?

So it looks Amano is pulling the same shit she did with Aria: ramp up the subtext between female characters, only to drop a 16 ton weight on top of it when she feels she might have gone too far. And anybody who says there is no yuri subtext om Aria really hasn't been paying attention. There's Aika's obvious crush on Alicia until Amano incomprehensibly starts shipping her with that creep Al, and Akari and Alicia have more than their share of hand-holdy touchy blushy moments. Anybody remember the the Arietta OVA? I rest my case.

Of course, it's much worse in this series because the subtext really straight crossed into text on numerous occasions. Amano had Hikari and Futaba hold hands and look into each other's eyes at such regular intervals that they would have been be labeled a "designated couple" pretty quickly had they been opposite genders. And then there's the anime, where Hikari outright confesses to Futaba. Really, what did Amano think would happen?

Of course, this may not even be her fault anyway. Maybe her publisher/editor reigned her in, so that line about Futaba's love for Hikari being different than Kokoro's because she is a girl was not completely her own idea. Still, it still doesn't take away from that line's homophobic undertones.

In any case, I am pretty much done with this one. This makes me a bit sad, since I have been following it since it started, and I even went to Ito to see the locations from the manga. Well, life goes on.

Is chapter 36 the last one? If so, then that's a rather abrupt ending, almost as if Saburouta was just waiting for this to be turned into an anime, so she could grab the money and ditch a story she was not interested in anymore.

So let's see. Mei seduces Yuzu, toys with her feelings for 8 volumes, then just turns poor Yuzu's world all pretzel-shaped by entering an arranged marriage which hadn't even been mentioned until this volume. This is SO damn cliche as to be insulting, and of course very disappointing for all the readers who were rooting for Yuzu and Mei to be together.

So, really, what was the point of all of this? Was it all just a ruse so Saburouta could cash in on having two cute girls kissing each other? Sure, I liked that, and I realize this story basically just very tastefully drawn trash, but I still feel the Yuzu-Mei pairing had a lot of potential.

Still, I can't say I am THAT surprised. I remember being extremely pissed off when Yumi and Sachiko's relationship in Maria-Sama Ga Miteru just fizzled out after some 33 volumes of teasing, but now I realize that this is just how girl-girl relationships in Japanese media get treated in general. It's all just youthful silliness, they will get married to a guy after all, and their feelings for another girl will turn into nothing but bittersweet memories.

In any case, I feel no urge anymore to keep watching the anime, since seeing Mei will only make me want to throw something at the screen. Bummer.

I am sorry to say this, but Mei, you sure SUCK at being a girlfriend.

So chapter 21 comes along, and it's yet another waste of pages about those boring guys that totally goes completely nowhere. It's also too moronic that Asakura doesn't realize that Subaru is impersonating Tsukasa. Come on!

In the meantime, the main story of this manga, namely Tsukasa's crush on Nadeshiko, gets absolutely no development whatsoever.

Dropped.

I agree. Kyoto Animation, get on making this anime asap! Kobayashi-san is cute, but i am sure you can take it a step further.

Man, I wish Hibike! Euphonium had been about those two. That whole debacle between Reina and Kumiko just pissed me off.

@Chantelune

Uh, that wasn't Futaba, it's the young Mako-chan-sensei. Futaba never had anything to do with the whole
peter dream thingy.

Oh, that's right. It guess just shows my complete disinterest in that bit that I didn't even bother to make sure who's who ;) You also have to admit that they look quite alike.

That said, I kinda agree that so far, those part don't add much to the story. I guess there's some symbolism
to be found somewhere, but don't really feel like trying to figure that out.

Well, I guess it's a reference to Peter Pan, the boy who didn't want to grow up, ship 'n all.

Honestly though, if Amano keeps up all this supernatural nonsense I think I will just drop this one. Luckily we still have the anime.

@Cannibal

I agree. Chapter 53 is some retarded nonsense, to the point where I wonder what the heck Amano is smoking. And why have Futaba hug Peter, saying she will stay with him forever? The main draw of this manga is the relationship between Futaba and Akari. It's bad enough already has been absolutely no progress in that department for many chapters already, and the last thing we need is Futaba crushing on a guy, even if it's just in her dreams.

Heck, what is going on in this manga? Did Canno completely forget about Yurine and Ayaka? The other girls are nice, but they don't hold a candle to those two.

Wow, I love the scene in the Ferris wheel. have been in the very same one (The Cosmo Clock 21) when I visited the Minato Mirai in Yokohama.

Human albinos have light blue or gray eyes, not red.

So lesbians don't have serious relationships. Of course not. They just want to hump hot chicks!

Seriously, this looks likes more or less of an excuse to draw lesbian sex scenes. Which is okay in my book. I'm not too fond of that doctor character, though. I prefer a bit more human emotions.

I still don't know how I feel about placing teaser chapters on here. It's not really what this site is for.

Hornfaced bees don't live in hives. They're solitary bees. They also don't produce honey, but they are excellent pollinators, so orchard owners set up nests for them.

Uhm... Emita? You may be girl, but that still doesn't give you permission to sexually harass people. Poor Sairi...

Japan should legalize same sex marriage already.

Well, it appears Shou pulled off a almost perfect wonderful example of a "Shaggy Dog Story." When it all is said and done, there was absolutely no point in anything that happened. Ran definitely had some feelings for Keiko, but since Keiko just didn't care it all went nowhere.

It's clear to me that Shou, after the plagiarism incident (justified or not), tried to make some money by writing a mainstream series. He then didn't know what to do with it, got fed up, and simply stopped after making an agreed number of chapters.

Such is life..

As nice and raunchy the sex scenes are, the series really started taking off once Akira realized she was in love with Miu. Cute!

God, this chapter. Some people just can't resist shitting on other people's good time. And nail polish bought in a 100 yen store is hardly luxury or waste.

I agree. That father is a bit of a dick.

I wish I could say this was unexpected. But it wasn't.

So Ran and Keiko got together because of their own life circumstances, bouncing off each other, with Ran teaching Keiko stretching and obviously even falling in love with her.

And then they part.

The only question that remains for me is why Ran never told Keiko how she feels about her.Then again, one-sided loves that are never expressed are pretty much a staple in these kinds of stories.

I don't know whether there will be another volume. If not, I actually find this ending kind of fitting, although very depressing. If there will be another volume, then Ran and Keiko had better be together by the end of it!

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