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Wow, 9 year necro, I wonder if that's a record.

Your case is invalid. While it's true that the porn industry is mostly produced and aimed at men, women have plenty of lewd thoughts. Half of all fiction published is romance novels, many of which are quite lewd, and pretty much entirely aimed at women. Fifty Shades of Grey? Popular with women, and lewd. Slash fanfic? Women writers and readers.

And there's tones of basically porn, drawn by women and enjoyed by women, right here on this website.

Plus I remember years ago, women on the Buffy mailing list having to fan themselves because of shirtless David Boreanaz.

Teen girls putting posters of their favorite boy bands on their walls? Some of that's lewd.

Women are lewd. They might be on average a bit less lewd, or more picky, or less visual than men. But lewdness isn't male. Socially acceptable expression lewdness, that's largely been male.

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I'm much more surprised that it actually survived last week's Great Purge.

Yeah, esp with an anime in the works.

(I'm sorry. I forgot how to do /spoiler tag again)

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Personally, it's exactly because it's not a sexual series

Citrus was quite sexy early on, including Mei nearly forcing herself onto Yuzu. And yeah, very sexy covers. And by the end, they're engaged and sharing a bed.

hat I never understood the expectation for sex. The desire to see it? Sure. But there seemed to be an expectation for something the series never was or tried to be.

Expectation for something the series basically promised. Also, most people complaining are not actually demanding explicit X-rated scenes; your "expectation for sex" words are what provoked Blastaar's response. What we expected was any sign of physical affection or chemistry, not to mention emotional affection.

In Citrus, they were a pretty horny pair of teenagers. In Citrus+, they mostly act like actual sisters who are forced to share a bed for some reason. It's disconcerting and disappointing, and the very rare exceptions don't save the series.

I'm curious how this site categorizes a series as "dropped." I'm read this over on mangadex and it has up to chapter 47.5 now, so it's clearly still being translated. So why can't those chapters come over here?

a) someone has to submit the chapters

b) I'm grateful to get any translation, but Dynasty has quality standards, which I don't that one would meet.

inb4 the scanlators stop to "support" the American publishers, like the good boys they are.

I'm sure you'll all enjoy the wait of one or two years.

What was the point of this message?

needed to get her shit together on her own, without Reis help; if they had been in contact, that wouls0t have been the case.

I dunno, I don't see how having phone calls or social media or even coffee dates would compromise her going independent.

At least this drama arc is a lot more plausible (to this non-Japanese reader) than the race arc. Yamada being a pushover at her job, and overworking in general, seems perfectly plausible, as is Kase's clumsy concern+lashing out.

they also sold out to namicomi aswell so its safe to say mangadex is done for

"sold out" isn't it the same guy?

Kase has a point but her communication is shit. And Yamada has the backbone of a flower.

wouldn't "malicious rape" imply the existence of "benign rape"

No, imply 'accidental' or 'unintentional' or 'miscommunication' rape. Like how we divide killing into deliberate murder, negligent manslaughter, and outright accidents, among other divisions. No need for a 'benign' level.

I'd forgotten how it all started. So I guess "bump into each other in a crowd" makes for some narrative symmetry/bookends.

But as actual in-character decision-making, up and disappearing seems poor to me.

Not the worst ending by any stretch, but unsatisfying.

Something being likely or possible doesn't mean it makes for good storytelling. Having them coincidentally meet up again while they're both single and now ready for a relationship felt lazy to me.

Yeah, that.

The wife shut things down with the MC (a woman who showed caring for her a lot), then got lucky 1.5 years later with the MC still being available. Feels unearned.

Whole thing is author fast-forwarding to a happy ending, but like I said, it'd be less dramatic coincidence if wife had moved out to be independent but kept in touch.

If she'd moved out to stand on her own but they'd kept in touch, it wouldn't feel like an ass-pull. Or even if she'd reached out after a while. Instead they run into each other two years later, at just the right moment, both still available. Lame coincidence plot.

I'm not saying the chapter was handled well, but I don't think Aya was doing malicious rape. They're basically a couple of 16 year olds re-inventing power-exchange BDSM with no guidance and not enough communication. Aya thinks she's "bought" Marika (CNC) and they have no safeword. Ch 8 is why that's a bad idea. Fortunately Marika ends up more into it than hurt, but it could have turned out very badly.

LN spoilers: Aya finally introduces the idea of a 'safe word' 1/3 of the way into LN2

Ch 8, the 'rape' scene? I think it's mostly confusingly (poorly?) written. It's not just that the story moves past it or forgets about; right in that scene Marika switches from "no" to "let me pleasure you". And then right afterwards they're cuddling and Marika is asking "what do you really think of me?"

Rape, or Marika playing hard to get, or existing consensual non-consent? Aya probably thought it was the second or third. And even Marika's own thoughts don't really clarify her feelings: "if you really hate it that much, just push her away and go home."

"need to study harder" alone in a dark room -> cutting back on time with Mitsuki -> divorce arc/relationship crisis

Holy shit—I had a grandmother who also saw disaster looming in every little gray cloud or random stumble. But she just needed anti-depressants.

"Romance interferes with studies, throttle back on romance" occurs a lot in fiction, and sometimes in real life. Your implication that the people worrying (likely based on experience) are mentally ill is utterly rude and uncalled for.

The sister probably sees her brother more — so logically, she’d get attached to him.

Uh... no, outside of the incestbrained porn world (which sure, I'm a happy member of myself), that is not logical. Siblings are generally not attached that way, if anything because they see each other much more. (If you want two siblings to bang, raise them separately.)

In the real world, if someone tells you "a girl is attracted to either her brother or his girlfriend, guess which", you bet on the girlfriend.

"need to study harder" alone in a dark room -> cutting back on time with Mitsuki -> divorce arc/relationship crisis

Oh and Niji san.. I feel sorry for her now, and um.. what does it mean by 'heading her the right route'?

Putting her back on the track of Niji's fanfic fantasy. With 'route' probably implying something from VN dating games.

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Right, that was explicit. Wanting to be able to follow Aya to the US wasn't, though it's plausible.

I think Aya is studying so she can go to a school in America so she can be with Mitsuki… I think I may be wrong but I remember that being a thing….?

I don't think that was explicit. Could be another reason Aya has thrown herself at English.

Is there a yuri crush tag

there is. But I'm not sure if that applies

For instances in which a non-yuri story features some form of yuri crush.

https://dynasty-scans.com/tags/yuri_crush

It kind of does because in the little notebook pages we see that orange eyes is only kidnapping the author to be with blue eyes forever (sorry for not putting their names I haven’t read this for that long)

Well the tag says "non-yuri" story. This might her be a yuri story, though unrequited. Unclear.

If it weren't for Plum (that bat familiar-thingy) I'd just assume Ruruna is just next-level chuni and so dense her mere presence dumbs down others as well. But I guess only the later part is true.

We've seen fangs and blood.

Is there a yuri crush tag