Love triangle, but a very awkward one.

It's not a love triangle. Asahi doesn't love Subaru that way.

Depends on your definition of a love triangle. If one of the loves is platonic, but it's still significant enough to interfere with the romantic love on the other end, would that still be a kind of love triangle?

I'd say romantic love, platonic or otherwise, is the minimum prerequisite. Otherwise every obstructively overprotective parent would qualify and the term would become so widely applicable as to be diluted of all meaning.

This... minus the part where platonic and romantic cannot be put together as they are oxymorons.
It's only a love triangle if romantic love is involved. Pretty clear cut. Though reading a manga about a familial love triangle would certainly be something interesting lol

One day this site will catch up to the freaking anime at least...
I seriously implore the mods to have the sense to just turn this into a translated chapter discussion thread. If the chapters aren't uploaded here, there is always https://mangadex.org/title/36835/machikado-mazoku. We are at chapter 63 on the typesets already. It's a crime that this yuri site doesn't treat this manga that has the most solid yuri development in a Kirara manga since Sakura Trick like it's not worth paying attention to.

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Infinite Thirst EX x 2 - any restraint or common sense = Profit

Koguma learned some things by now. If you make Hino-san realize she will also be embarrassed at whatever activity, she immediately stop pursuing it. That's a nice trump card to have.

And the famous quick towel change. I've known some real pros at that move.
Don't forcefully strip people Hino-san, you will go to jail~

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I'll be (not) controversial and tell you straight up... forget about Index. Maybe watch season 1 if you really care. Railgun, Accellerator and whatever other spin-offs exist and will come out... they are all better than Index. And mostly self-contained.

^I don't think it's particularily hard to make Misaka x Kuroko work. It just takes one very strong moment to flip some switches. Oh and Touma has to be shot with a chainsaw gun. Very unfortunate accident.

^Except Touma.

I do think that the relationships in the Galaxy Angels games are legitimately well written and cute (I was just joking with the harem stuff, the game goes out of its way to only cater to whatever girl you choose). A bit basic sometimes and I think they sometimes didn't know what to add for every character in every game, but it was still nice. The gameplay is fun too. I just heard the anime adaptation was pretty bad.

Who wears boots like that in the office?
Why yes, that's what's odd here. I don't see anything else out of the ordinary in this picture.

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Once again, this rarest of pairings from a clearly het harem story. Maybe I actually need to watch the bad anime adaptation one day to get this. Not that their interactions weren't already cute in the VNs.

This is some OG Goku stuff. They are both monkeys anyway.

Why do people find getting their head crushed sexy? Unless you are all masochists, in which case I get it.

Love triangle, but a very awkward one.

It's not a love triangle. Asahi doesn't love Subaru that way.

My heart!!! It hurts. That was extremely well written. Wish there was a way they could have stayed together, but I get it.

That's the kicker with ghost-romance stories: dead people are . . . dead.

So either the writer comes up with some sort of (usually far-fetched) "not really dead" scheme, or the live person "joins" the dead one somehow (also usually far-fetched), or the ending is sad.

And then readers are also sad, or mad, but usually not glad.

You mean more far-fetched than ghosts existing in the first place? C'mon.
My favorite is the "it was actually just an astral projection from the hospital bed" twist. It's hella dumb, but it allows for the "ghost" to think she is dead and the MC to still feel like she moved on... only to find out she was in a coma and woke up after MC's touching confession.

Would still make people cry I bet.

Anyone remembers a certain manga series wherein
- there's this part that [girl A] brought [girl B] to [girl A's brother salon] to have a total makeover
- girl A has a one-sided competition with girl B regarding who's cuter/prettier

- girl B's hair color is black - medium length hair
- girl A's hair color is white/yellow - long length hair

Aside from there being no real competition in the first place, not even one-sided...
https://dynasty-scans.com/series/useless_princesses

I remember it because it's still going.

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I would agree except: p11. The problem is when Shino-chan is caught in his (The director's) radar what to do what to do, and p24. Besides everybody in the department already knows. The director even...
The second one is the most telling. I mean The director even what? Heard the rumor? That doesn't make sence. After all he would know the truth one way or the other. I think it was the director even admitted it. Meaning the rumor is true.

Look, your explanation makes even less sense. Please think about this a little more.
Let's say for argument's sake that she slept with him. What would the line "Even the director knows" even mean then? The director already knows he slept with her? That's way more stupid than the director already knows about the rumor. You do understand that Misa was saying here that Maya already lost, because the rumor reached everywhere? The director now has to deal with that rumor and will be upset at Maya, that's what she is getting at here.

There is no real evidence at all for Maya having slept with the director. The entire time she has been quite adept at deflecting every approach.

This needs a tragedy tag. Nobody got anything out of this. I guess there was a little bit of closure for Mori, but ultimately it's just a girl having an unrequited crush and that crush dying. There is not even a sense of fulfillment or anything.
I hate pointless death.

I disagree quite a lot! I liked this a ton, it was really well written (and translated well too, I presume!) and the art was lovely. Although the naked 12 year old was a shock.

Mori has a lot of confidence in the last pages, and she has friends already. Getting that sort of thing at that tender age is irreplaceable. It ended very well for her.
I wish this was a series, but how to keep it from 'getting old' would be a difficult task.

I didn't mean that the readers didnt get anything out of it... that's up to preference. I'm saying this story in itself had no purpose beyond trying to be a tearjerker. There is no lesson, no moral, no relief, no theme.... it just exists.

Everyone focuses on "It helped her get over her death", but my problem is the death itself had no meaning. I don't care for that. Then of course the author rubs it in with how MC was in love with her since childhood, but was too slow to tell her and now they can never get together.

The moving on aspect was not explained at all. Not even insinuated. She just moved on after finding out she was loved by her. Is this supposed to imply she couldn't move on because MC was holding her back due to not having been able to confess? For me to enjoy this type of bleak nihilistic story I need some core that matters and clear resolutions. The ending was too abrupt and forced.

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How could anyone not know the difference between cheating and a cucking fetish? The former is by definition non-consensual and not accepted by the partner, hence why it is cheating. The latter is the partner getting off on it, which means they are okay with it happening, which is not cheating.
Seems some people are so intent on course correcting that they steer the wheel too far. lol

A "happy" end doesn't equal a wholesome story. This was still fucked up in every way.

Neighbour already figured it out, huh?
Ritsuka loves teaching Kozuka how to use her hands for delicate matters. The jokes write themselves.

As for earlier discussion, why is "pay rent money, or I evict you" a legitimate business transaction, but "have sex or pay money, or I evict you" extortion?

Biology. Sex acts release neurochemicals that stimulate emotional dependency and build intimacy. As such, human society, in general, tends to afford greater weight to sexual activity than other behaviors, and so forcing someone to engage in them without honest consent is traumatic, and therefore immoral.

It's not the same for everyone, because people are different, but in general, this is why sex crimes are more traumatic than non-sex crimes, and why casual sex is so hard of a concept for a lot of people.

Money is already the normal means of paying. It's unemotional, to the point and how society runs. It doesn't affect the person who hands the money over.
Selling one's body to someone if you are not into it is certainly the lowest a person can go as far as society is concerned. Well aside from stealing and murder. The only upside here is that she can't get pregnant.

It's even more questionable because she was drunk and thus unable to consent. That's why Ritsuka(landlady) regrets it in the first place. I actually quite like that the title has a twist, that it's not about Kozuka, but Ritsuka.

Of course in this particular story it turned out well, because Kozuka was actually into it without realizing at first. And Ritsuka has been going out of her way to make ammends and hold back. One mistake can't define their entire relationship.

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Just imagine what the author can do with an full sex scene

Judging by the few glimpses we already got from their first time and the way physicality is handled in this manga in general, this artist clearly knows what they are doing. Though I don't expect to see anything more than glimpses like we did until now.

I meant that to ask her out in first place requires putting forth real feelings instead of manufactured ones, something Maya may have never done before in her life

That's kind of a huge maybe. We don't know anything about Maya from before this point in time. I mean, she is fully aware of what her type is and can see through all the gay behaviour, so I assume she has experience.

There are many ways she can sort of force a relationship without giving up control or admitting her feelings. Tricking Shino by saying she found out that she is a lesbian, cornering her, then saying she will try dating her for nebulous reasons, while always keeping her on a tight leash... sounds pretty much like the dominant manipulator she is.

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I've seen 20 pages of kissing that were more intense than anything involving the rest of the body.

Gonna need that source.

Please.

God I wish I could find it again. It was honestly probably the most amazing dirty thing I've ever read and it never actually crossed the line into sex. Just lots of kissing, drool, sweat and touching... I'm really sorry that I mentioned something I can't deliver on. Maybe you will find something decent under the Lots of kissing tag at least? https://dynasty-scans.com/tags/lots_of_kissing

BugDevil posted:

You read those wannabe sexy vampire dime novels? Now I don't know anymore whether all porn you've seen is just bad or you really love a special kind of writing....

Hey, I was young.

Got it. Let's let the sins of the past rest in a deep grave... or in a comfortable coffin. (´∀｀）

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Well, I've read some text that were more intensely erotic than any porn out there and that does not depict any sex happening.

Like, some Anne Rice.

You read those wannabe sexy vampire dime novels? Now I don't know anymore whether all porn you've seen is just bad or you really love a special kind of writing....

Jokes aside, leaving things to the imagination can definitely boost the eroticism of a scene. Nothing you can depict on a page or do in real life can ever go as wild as the imagination does. Erotic writing is just a trigger for the mind to do the rest. Words also have quite some power by themslves, which is why dialogue can be an enhancement in porn sometimes. But doing dirty talk right... well that's even rarer than a well drawn doujin.

It's not even meme anymore, this handholding chapter feels actually lewder than many sex scenes out there.

Honestly, it's just because many artists don't know what makes a sex scene engaging. They are just bland sometimes, whether it's because they don't care about the physical aspect and only see it as a formality or because they legitimately don't know what to do with it.

Someone who knows how to use angles, reaction faces and sensual touching right can make literally any body part feel lewd. It's simply an acquired skill. Of course in this case it helps that hands are already quite "expressive". Hands, lips and tongue are the most effective tools of a erotic yuri artist.

I've seen 20 pages of kissing that were more intense than anything involving the rest of the body.

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