Tomoe and Kana!

That girl in white looks like she's decomposing and unraveling. I doubt there's a real story to go with it, but it's beautiful and disturbing.

What a strange blend of clothing styles. There's Texas with angel wings, arm bracers, faux toga, pocket watch, and what looks like a broken gladius (Roman foot soldier sword). And then Lappland is in Victorian garb complete with a mini cross at the waist? The watch might be Lappland's actually. But still, while this is pretty I have no idea what setting the author was going for here.

Nevermind, I figured it out. It's based on this Lappland skin. Well that's cool.

Interestingly, the pull rates for four stars is higher than three stars

That's very good for us, as pulling three stars after their potential has been maxed out sucks.

Here's another doujin that seems like it could deserve a translation. To be fair it appears to be set in Mitakihara, but since it features a PMKM character... That may one day get a banner in MagiReco...

Have you submitted an upload request? I'm interested in seeing it translated too.

I'd take them from you if the game allowed me too.

I would happily trade 100 of these things for one roll. That's an absolutely shitty conversion rate but that's how much I wish I could be rid of them and how certain I am I will never use them up naturally.

I said "only" in a jokey tone because I admit that's a massive amount and I could play this game functionally forever with that much, but I mean it when I say that I enjoy saving them up, I enjoy hoarding things and lately with the double grind events my AP pot hoard was not getting bigger, and while you can say it is pointless to just hoard, I enjoy hoarding things and it isn't my fault that looking at big numbers makes my brain release small amounts of endorphin.

So that's the appeal. It all makes sense now. AP Pots are drugs, got it.

I stopped buying any pots and the number's finally going down for full AP pots. Unfortunately 50 AP pots continue to accumulate.

Sheesh! I don't think I've blushed like that since I first started dating back in college. Almost too intimate.

It's a great intimate scene and the author had to have done that knowing what all the yuri connotations/interpretations could be. At this point, I'm actually okay with this just being subtext though. Precious few works manage to capture the type of feeling where a bond manages to defy all labels and runs deeper than words can capture. I think this one does that perfectly.

Heartwarming chapter. Really showcased the change Shima's undergone as well as the movement of life, even though nothing happens here besides her visiting her family, which is an amazing feat of writing. I almost cried when she said she was going to stop her mom from glomping her until she noticed that her mom's arms were thinner. I could feel just how deeply they love and care for each other, despite their awkward interactions.

I love that cool, calm Adachi is back on the surface. When she stuttered while asking what color the underwear was, I laughed at how her awkward, embarrassing self was still there.

Also got my wish and prediction of seeing more Yashiro. I knew she was crucial to the story in some way. As to why she is the one who makes this particular story the main timeline, that's unexplained if interesting to speculate on.

I guess a romantic Shou x Yashiro pairing may or may not actually happen lol. Yashiro seems to be too pure and alien for that.

There is authorial intent that's shown in the afterword. ' "As long as they have each other, they don't need anything else." It's a bit of a dangerous line of thinking, but the two of them can acknowledge those feelings and try to have a normal, happy relationship.' I think that saying that there is zero authorial intent is a tenuous claim, even if exact interpretations of the text can vary.

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^ It's honestly hard to tell. The line between fact or act is so blurry. But those two technically do still have a Vtuber persona, we're just more interested in their relationship instead of the gimmicks.

I guess they do still have their fetish stuff and other profile characteristics to think of, it just becomes really hard to think of the way they act as Vtuber personas when they're actively talking about how they feel about each other, Sukoya's often been more self-deprecating when it comes to Tomoe, and they also discuss to some extent the way they see themselves and the other. Well in the end none of those things truly undermines the fact that they do have a created persona they could fall back on and that, if nothing else, they likely exaggerate some personality traits for the viewers.

My consumption history is a mess as I jump from community to community all the time. I think I had gotten into reading webcomics and while I was searching for more webcomics with lesbian characters, yuri content also showed up and linked me to Dynasty.

Can't remember the exact first thing I read on here or what my impression of this site was. First work was probably something from Amano Shinunta. Immediate impression was probably frenetic awe as I realized there was an entire sub-genre I'd never heard of before that was all about my favorite hobby of indulging in gxg voyeurism. I did a lot of archival trawling from that point onwards.

Have heard of it before, also never tried out. I'm surprised there aren't more Madoka VNs actually. Touhou gets a bunch. Maybe it's because Madoka has a lot more licensed products and there aren't as many fan game developers in the community?

On another note, I'm once again so happy Tart 2 is twice as long as it would normally be. Would be bliss if more events could be like this.

I'll put this here, because why not. Google translating the very bottom of this page, the part about what other Vtubers think of them, is pretty heartwarming. It seems like other Vtubers support them.

I don't think most Vtubers are anywhere near as open as Tomoe and Kana to the extent they basically don't have a Vtuber persona? I don't know, but it makes me happy to see.

I get people trying to symbolise the story and give it pretentious meanings, but it's simply abuse. The mc was scared Angela would leave her, so she cut off them wings. That's what abusers in abusive relationships do. Make sure you're totally dependent on them and you are mentally restrained to them.

I mean it can be both. We know it's an abusive/unhealthy relationship because she cuts off wings that symbolize freedom. This is meant to be a symbolic story while showcasing the underlying irl dynamic of codependency. It does the story a disservice to discount that.

They've only debuted for slightly more than half a year and there's already doujins of them?

yessss crossick is here!! also this is based off of this: https://youtu.be/5hPVAOcSSRw?t=963

I watched like five minutes of it from that timestamp onwards and I'm shocked cause they are basically saying they're in love with each other. And the way they met in-person and described that honestly sounds like something out of a romance story. So them being in love is basically confirmed. Whether they're dating and/or how seriously they take that is a completely different question. They have only known each other since last fall.

Just made an account to post here but I'm really looking forward to the Ancient Forge event cause I really want to know why Nian and Lava are shipped. I saw this animation and it's been bugging me about what their deal is since: Nian VS Lava.

Wow that's an awesome animation. I've seen some very minor speculation, but if anything will say it'll probably have to be the event or Nian's voice lines.

getting verbally attacked for following her moral code like that has a major impact on Mami's psyche, and it becomes the primary reason for her Witching out in the route

As if we needed more examples of how the Madoka universe is full of despair even excluding the direct influence of witches.

Is that different from the mother who was suicidal over her son that Mami couldn't save from a witch in a flashback?

The woman she saves there is also the mother. I don't know if there's definitive evidence that woman is the office lady, beyond it sort of matching up with anime chronology. The game does screw with all of the timelines though, literally, so that may or may not matter. Somebody who actually played the game might be able to say more.

The change from "impossibly light" to "kinda heavy" is quite depressing. I don't think it means she'll never regain her wings though. Feathers are littered everywhere around her in the latter half of the epilogue and my favorite lines from her suggest there is hope: "I'm... not angry about it, but I'll never forget what you did to me. That's why, if I ever grow wings again... I'll make sure to take you along with me."

In events where you cannot get twenty copies of the CEs I typically given each of my support characters exactly one copy of the shop memoria (minus one usually forest or flame). If I put all my eggs in one basket (by merging the memoria) then it's less likely to get friend points.

Really? If that's what you've determined from observations then I guess that might work. Personally I only check ALL supports for event memoria. If none of the supports in the list have the event memoria, I don't even bother checking the rest as it's not worth the time. And I noticed that when I had ALL +2 in the last event, versus ALL +5 during other ones, I got less FP for sure.

PS. Are you still alive Nevri, I never see you post here anymore.

Oh same though, I've wondered that a few times. Last time they posted anywhere on this site was a month ago.

As far as I'm concerned, this chapter is all Rika, Rika, Rika. Every stance, every gesture, every word she says, every cute face she makes. When she said "I wanna feel what it's like to be loved that hard, just once..." I was so moved I wanted to jump into the manga just to hug and comfort her. Sniff, Rikaaa, my sweet baby, please don't be sad!

Tsuruta? Who's Tsuruta?

Lol, I'm sure we're going to see more development of her soon, maybe in a few more chapters or another arc. How forlorn she looks and her wish to be loved, as well as paying enough attention to Tsuruta to catalyze this character development, already show a deeper side to her besides teasing genki girl.

Happy with how Tsuruta was handled. This was the only real resolution possible if he was going to be a decent human being. Also, as I thought, Tsuruta really had no reason to be in love with Miwa, just crush on first sight type of thing. He did also idolize her which isn't going to change immediately. That'll take some time to wear off even if he's going to support her as a friend now.

I would just like to comment on how adorable that Inoken guy is near the end. The way he goes on about learning to love somebody as a friend with complete sincerity, despite having been rejected multiple times, is commendable. It shows a lot of respect for the people he confessed to.

Last random thought, it's cathartic seeing a guy be the "in love with somebody unobtainable" character for once, in a yuri manga no less. "I wonder if I were a girl, if I'd have a chance with her..." You don't even know man just how many times the female yuri protagonist is the one thinking along those lines. Now somebody else can finally experience that pain! This also confirms the narrative is unwavering on Miwa identifying as lesbian versus "if it's you, it's okay" sexuality or "reluctantly fall in line with heterosexual societal expectations" sexuality, which is a victory in it of itself for modern yuri.

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This graph makes me realize how far I am from reliably four slotting IroYachi. 400 rolls for a 50% shot at it, 500 for 80%, and 90% is reached at 600 rolls. Barely have 200 rolls currently. If I had known this I wouldn't have spent any rolls on Ashley. curse you Ashley.

This event is a breath of fresh air compared to the non-stop double-grind ones. I'm going to take my time with it since they finally gave us more than five days for an event.

I'm really liking the story itself this time

What do you like about it?

Edit: Still can't tell what happened to MC's back. It does seem to suggest that she cut her own wings (along with her partner's?), or maybe those are scars and MC's wings were cut before? Weird stuff.

Those are wounds from how strongly the angel's gripping her. That or the angel injured herself and is bleeding onto MC. MC did just cut off her wings so it'd make sense for her to have been holding onto her in such immense pain that she gouged the MC's back open like that. In the rare shots that are shown of MC's back earlier in the story, MC definitely didn't have any scars at the base of her neck.

MC being a former angel herself also doesn't make narrative sense as it's clear from the first part she was truly skeptical about the girl being able to grow wings and surprised at her supernatural characteristics of not needing food, sleep. etc.

It's clear that what MC did was a direct result of being afraid the angel would leave and so she literally cut off her wings. I'm more curious as to what she meant by being a normal human.

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Oh damn, she looks badass in the PV. Nevermind the meta or that the chances of me getting her are almost non-existent, if her event story shows she's an interesting character I might roll anyway.

o_O

Oh, well okay.

Alina actually debuted in Karin's Halloween event in JP, and it was a big shock to a lot of people seeing her sociopathic behavior in main story

That had to have been completely on purpose. Good way to introduce Alina's erratic behaviors.

I'm reading through the first event's story and I'm getting emotional from how exciting it is. 39 episodes, they spared no expense for it. Sort of crazy but I'm going to try to finish the entire event before starting the new one. I just love all of the character moments throughout. Tart bringing the light of dawn/hope, a blatant spelling out of what Yachiyo's real ability was (though I doubt anybody figured it out at the time?), and new avatars! It's amusing they still kept La Hire and the Baron as faceless blue figures but at least they got distinctive features. It would really benefit the story if not every non-magical girl is faceless, but I think they've dug themselves in deep and aren't going to let go.

It only took 2 ten rolls to get Corbeau

Nice, I got two Corbeau's in my first 10 roll. 3* rate-ups make them pretty easily acquirable so no regrets.

Hmm no, the first thing they find out about each other is that they are related.

While it is brought up in the story, the understanding I had is that they didn't believe it, when they have their falling out, the idea they are related is the first thing that gets thrown out of the window, and when Mifuyu confirms it to them at the end, their reaction told me they weren't just being hurtful due to being upset, it was what they truly believed at the time.

Well if anything I think that reinforces their bond being formed through being sisters. When they got along well, they were sisters; when they hated each other, they rejected that bond. The fact-checking from the doctor is a coincidence that furthered them being willing to be open with each other again. I also think they were more taken by the anecdote of them holding hands moments after birth than the confirmation that they were twins, which I'm sure they factually believed already. When they stopped talking to each other and disavowed each other as sisters, it was more like how people can disown a child or cut off contact with a family member. They're "not family" anymore, even if biologically they still are.

When I keep saying their relationship is just weird, this stuff is what I mean. The deepest, most passionate, intimate feelings they have of needing each other are just as intensely equated to them being sisters. The more of a bond they have, the more "sisterly" they are. Even though to most outsiders, it appears that the more of whatever connection they have going on, the less familial it becomes.

one particularly steamy piece of speculation points out that their meeting in the shrine reflects the story of the two lovers

Ah yep I thought of that even before watching Tsukasa's MSS actually. When they showed up in the Eternal Sakura event and something was said about them regularly meeting each other at Mizuna Shrine, I was incredulous. Like what are the writers thinking, making them fit into the story about the reunited lovers with such notable parallels. As a side note, I was already shipping Iroha and Yachiyo some time around chapter 3 because of that shrine story. XD

But talking about failing to represent the characters, Alina is one of the ones that get rid the hardest, if she is half a character without both her MSS and her relevant events, she is about a tenth of a character in the anime, were we are barely given context to how she thinks, just that she is wild.

This is hearsay, as again I have not watched the anime, but doesn't the anime only cover up to chapter 6? And Alina doesn't appear much up to that point even in the game?