Yuriloveisbestlove posted:

I'm not a big fan of harems, not even yuri ones, but this seems ok, For now I'll see where this goes going forward.

Harem is my single least favorite genre but I'm glad I gave this one a shot. It's hilarious.

@Aquwin It's still worth watching even though Touma sucks. The biggest downside is there's a fair bit of stuff in season two of A Certain Magical Index that's connected with the events of Railgun S. Past that though the connections between the two parts of the franchise are weak enough that you can just watch Railgun and get everything.

@Aquwin Way too much. He plays a relatively minor role in the first season but he plays a pretty major role in the second season unfortunately. So far in season 3 (7 episodes into a 25 episode season) he's only shown up in like one episode though, thankfully, and played a minor role in that one.

Omegand posted:

Also how's did it go to the deep end 'this much'? Its just a pretty realistic portrayal of abuse.

If this is realistic then I guess humanity is more doomed than I thought it to be

This is the post of someone clearly not remotely familiar with domestic abuse. Because it's pretty realistic. The primary difference between Tazune and most domestic abusers is that most domestic abusers tend to learn their behavior from their father. But do note I said "most" and not "all" since some, like Tazune, don't.

What's even the issue in the first place? It being so consistent is kinda weird and I can't really think of much that would explain it.

I was wondering if this somehow wasn't just an issue on my end since I hadn't seen anyone else mention it yet but I've been having a ton of issues too. For like the past 4-5 days it's been down for hours at a time for me with the occasional getting the site to load but just getting the "something has gone wrong, if it keeps up contact the admin" error screen.

TimSuu posted:

Also, before you guys start spouting things like "oh, real anxiety problems need to be dealt with more cautiously", "oh in reasl life those things are too harsh they're so mean" how about in real life, you don't have infinite money to sustain a family with only one parent working, or in real life you actually age and people die eventually. Kids here commenting and taking only bits and pieces of the story and applying it to real life getting annoying af.

People have repeatedly stated that the mother isn't wrong for wanting to do something about Neeko's problems but specifically how she's going about it. What she's doing is far more likely to result in it backfiring and making things worse than actually helping.

in real life you actually age and people die eventually.

Coincidentally this is also relevant. You know what happens far too often with people who struggle with severe anxiety problems and depression like Neeko does? When they're pushed too far they far too frequently attempt or succeed at committing suicide. People die eventually indeed. Sorry that some of us value someone's life more than some money. (Which her family clearly isn't terribly strapped for to begin with.)

KangaNoodles posted:

That milf did a good thing I think, throw them in the deep end swim or drown....

You know that an actual anxiety problem, as Neeko appears to have, can't simply be solved this way, right? In fact trying to do so is far more likely to make things worse. The best case scenario in such a situation is simply that it maintains the status quo.

Well that was a crap chapter. It was an unrealistic outcome even considering she didn't have to deal with the hell that is a customer service job during a sale. (Those are bad enough under normal circumstances. Customers are crap.) It was very unlikely that things would turn out as successfully as they did and the mother shouldn't be let off the hook for something that was very likely to just make things worse.

majere posted:

Maybe, but superstitious hostility is generally rooted in religious doctrine and Japan's dominant religious traditions are practised rather loosely by most people and don't really stigmatize magic as a concept anyway. Most teenagers who aren't hyper religious would find actual magic pretty cool I suspect and if anything jealousy would be the source of conflict. Teenaged me would have thought Mari was the single coolest person to ever live.

Considering how heavily Japanese culture desires conformity above everything else, I rather doubt it. People get bullied over the stupidest shit just because they're a tiny bit different than everyone else.

MagiMaki posted:

"Hey, you can revive little animals? So you are basically a white mage? Burn the witch!"

Who would react that way. e-e

A lot of people sadly. People are dumb and superstitious even in the modern day.

Serenata posted:

On a kind of off topic note, I blocked a couple of users in MD over this chapter, their overreaction was awful, like they really really hated this... they complained the whole arc and complained even more now that it's over -.- ) but they'll be back next time anyway so I had to take measures.

Mangadex's comments are packed full of total idiots so I wouldn't really put any stock in what most of them say. There's one user who goes around looking for any manga with a light-haired character just so they can complain about them; there's also some really annoying people who will go read series that are about as far away from porn as you can get and then drop really blatant sexual comments whenever a girl appears. It's why I don't bother reading comments over there most of the time.

BeanBeanKingdom posted:

I'm not well-versed in what kinds of behavior can be construed as autism, but she definitely fails to pick up on cues and can tend to get single-mindedly fixated on some things. I've always simply ascribed it to her upbringing though, she was the honor student with no friends and a lot of pressure so it's no wonder she's bad with others. In this chapter she managed to recognize her selfishness towards Konatsu as born from her lack of empathy, whereas Konatsu recognized her own selfishness as being more malicious and caused by not wanting to let Koyuki stop having to depend on her. So in that regard I can see Koyuki's issues as being more deep-rooted and less voluntary than Konatsu's.

I can't speak to whether or not she's actually autistic at all but autism is actually significantly more difficult to diagnose in girls than in boys. Girls tend to be notably more social, even when they're introverted and shy, than guys are so autistic girls tend to adapt better to social situations.

Nya-chan posted:

Aki is unfair. It's not because Himari would eventually reject Yori that Yori would automatically go out with Aki later. First, she didn't confess, but if and when she does, she will put Yori in the exact same situation Himari is. She wants to be the one to "make Yori happy", but she would eventually make her miserable. And she's putting the pressure on Himari to reject Yori for her own selfish desire when she doesn't have the courage to confess.

I think you may be misreading Aki's actions. If you look at the things she says it seems more like she's putting pressure on Himari to get her to make up her mind rather than spinning her wheels. It seems like she doesn't have much hope of going out with Yori even if Himari rejects her.

Links posted:

Huh, I knew this felt familiar
@Stan Miller and Hector was a Pup Scans, why was this retranslated?
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/a_love_awakened_by_a_kiss

I can't speak for everyone involved but when I was proofreading/qcing it I just wrote off the sense of familiarity as it being another similar oneshot I'd read. And considering that the title was translated differently it's quite possible that the older version got overlooked.

Lilliwyt posted:

that she's incompetent

That point is true thought,Shy is still incompetent in battle experience. Don't make it sound like the only match against Stardust make her great all of a sudden

There's a difference between incompetent and inexperienced. Shy is inexperienced. That doesn't make her incompetent. Incompetence is someone who should know how to do something but is still incapable of doing it.

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BakemonoJoker posted:

i don't even eat 3 meals a day and i'm fat , who're you fooling , huh

The fact you don't eat three meals a day could actually play into being fat. Even if you're eating the same amount of food as you would for three meals your body may be stockpiling nutrients because of how infrequently you eat.

BugDevil posted:

I suggested the tsundere tag now. They can't reject all of us (they probably can).

They can and will reject your suggestions for seemingly no reason at times. Ie: When I suggested adding the Nanoha doujin tag to a Nanoha doujin and it got rejected for some reason.

BlurredExistence posted:

Why does this take soooooo long between chapters?!! = (

The scanlation group is basically dead after the group's founder disappeared for the better part of a year then reappeared just as the remaining members were starting to settle into things only to disappear again a few months later. (This may be old and outdated info though. I either lost my Trello account or got removed from the group at some point so I no longer get notifications from board updates.)

elevown posted:

^It was still going and was quite a few chapters in front last i heard but that was over a year ago- it may be finished by now.

10 volumes and still on-going according to this. So the current scanlation is around halfway caught up to what's currently released if that info is accurate.

Jeanne Mathison posted:

Summoning a demon who bannishes your classmates to hell. So is that like a week's detention?

Pfft I can see it
The teacher finds that those three girls summoned demons to harm their classmates, and scolds them:
"Bad witches! Very bad witches! You will be sent to bed without dinner!"

I think a bucket of water would be a better punishment.

Altair posted:

Ok ok but homura in a suit nose bleed

It's all about Mami in a suit

The only good Mami is a headless one.

It's kinda hard to believe that her family is actually trying to help her at this point.

Nevri posted:

^ well then here you go.

Thanks, actually sounds like it might be an interesting read.

Nevri posted:

Also about actual "language" barrier and trying to communicate with each other without mind reading, I can recommend great story, but it's sadly het.

Should recommend it anyways. Not everyone here is totally averse to non-yuri stories.

StarDress posted:

slice of lice

That sounds like a rather disturbing genre, lol.

Beefaroni posted:

I'm honestly really happy with this development. A lot of times in mangas (mostly yuri), whenever someone gets jealous that their friend/girlfriend are getting close with someone, the friend/girlfriend gets all mopey and feels bad about it, so they end up apologizing, followed by the jealous person apologizing for being jealous. This just has Chidori being rightfully pissed off at Nanoha for bring immature. It feels realistic, especially since they're teenagers, so I'm on board with this "drama"

Yeah, I thought the same. They're not only teenage girls but inexperienced with dating to boot. Teenage girls find the dumbest and pettiest shit to argue over sometimes. (Well teenagers in general really, it just tends to be a bit more visible with girls in my experience.)

Also it was kinda hilarious that Mai was legitimately trying to help Chidori and ended up accidentally being the source of their fighting.

Looking East posted:

Dude is a somewhat gender neutral term depending on context and who is using it. I have had several tomboy female friends that used "dude" often just as an informal way to address any friend including other girls at times. It is used more often when referring to a guy but its not definitive.

It was originally gendered but at this point it's far more gender-neutral than gendered. Most people I've known that called people "dude" did so regardless of the subject's actual gender. So it really doesn't do much to narrow down whether this character is crossdressing/transgender/whatever. Nor does the use of "boku" in the Japanese version since it's not all that uncommon for girls to use it to refer to themselves either, it's considered tomboyish to my knowledge.