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Yukaran Ran discussion 13 Oct 15:24
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Nope, but is pretty easy to miss among the sea of great doujins available on the site. I've read it many times before on other places so I'm pleasently surprised with it presence here.

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On this thread suggestion I started seeing Locodol andit has become on one of my favorite series. I don't know if I have my yuri googles too tight but episodes 9 and 10 were dropping with so much subtext that I'm surprised Nanako and Yukari didn't kissed like there wasn't a tomorrow.

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So when Lesbears starts airing?

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Teenager rushes into a relationship that is "abnormal" to begin with (older/same sex), has second thoughts.

I fail to see how being with an older partner is abnormal.......

The protagonist is a kid and her girlfriend was a college student. That's pretty abnormal. Even for adults age gaps can be unusual if they're a good enough sum apart, say 10~ years.

It depends on where is happening, those kind of age gaps are pretty common here in Mexico.

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Too bad there isn't all that much of that. We have opinions that are neither explained or even well thought out. And we have people -- including you -- using this story as an excuse to get on a soap box about their personal beliefs regarding ages of consent and will-somebody-think-of-the-children and hiding it under the fig leaf of criticism. Probably because they don't get enough visits if they post their diatribes on their tumblr blogs instead.

In this doujin, we have an adult authority figure using her position to get alone with one of her underage students, doesn't respect the student's physical boundaries, uses cheap tricks (such as being physically intimate with another of her students) to confuse and upset the student, and of course makes no bones about pushing emotional intimacy on someone who's immature, confused, and under her authority.
It is by no means impossible to write a romantic teacher-student story, I'm pretty sure there are a few on this site. But this is not one of them, because the teacher acts in a way indistinguishable from a predator. At best, she's an irresponsible spaz who leaves a trail of broken hearts among the teenagers entrusted to her care. That would be bad enough, and I find that a charitable interpretation.

Something really important is to keep the critcism grounded on the goal the artist had when doing his or her work, in this case you're projecting your values onto the work because the artist only did whatever he/she found appealing/would sell well.

With this in mind a more adequate critique would be that the story is shallow, unidimensional characters and all around lazy.

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What's up with people claiming that works like these are child porn nowadays? Since when a drawing is a child? Are we gonna start complaining about any work with violent content because is hurting fictional people too?

On the actual story, was cute but shallow, everything happened just because not by a natural development through the plot. Hope the continuation develops the characters better.

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Manga General Thread 07 Oct 01:33
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Heads up people, Seven Seas will be publishing Bodacious Space Pirates on 2015

http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr.com/post/99346012500/our-announcement-from-sunday-the-fifth-license-of

(We should flood them with requests for Qualia the Purple, according to their FAQ they should have access to it.)

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Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2 soured me on Bioware, what a terrible mess was their writing (Citadel alleviated somewhat my issues with ME3 though).

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Anime season 06 Oct 14:09
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Isn't Grisaia based on an eroge?

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For blame to exist the japanese editorial shoud care for the international market first so scanlations groups or readers like this have a very small (if any) negative impact on the fate of those publications (there are some very excepcional cases like Watamote, but those are the exception that confirms the rule).

Printed media is on its death throes so I think small/niche publications need to fully embrace the digital era to survive.

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Alien Isolation looks friggen amazing.

The first half hour is pretty atmospheric but is easy to get lost and the controls certainly aren't the best for combat. I'm hoping it doesn't come crashing down when I met the alien.

Other than that, I'm counting the days for Shinovi VERSUS release. Just 8 days to go!

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Dammit Ichinose, this is sweet and all but stop jumping on the KanColle bandwagon and go finish Stories of Sakuya!

It is finished.

So the rest just hasn't been translated? Series is marked ongoing, and chapter 3 doesn't seem like the end.

The last chapters have rough translations on Danbooru, personally, I was very dissapointed by those chapters.

Links are available on the Stories of Sakuya discussion.

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Fantastic chapter, I take we are close to the end?

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The only thing I have to say about the whole Pedo discussion:

http://imgur.com/oXbq9tI

Great story though.

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My Beloved discussion 02 Oct 03:09
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You know, I'm starting to feel tired of the drama on Jin's stories. They're still good and the characters are endearing but the drama bombs are getting old.

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Spike Girls discussion 01 Oct 03:02
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I'm so used to Jin's stories being so fill of drama that I got a little confused at this one, straightforward and happy. Wish she would made more stories like this.

She also needs to practice on her men, that teacher looked weird.

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The side chapters aside of being comedic, play more with the premise of Yukari's curious preception of the world. And to be honest, the fact it delves so deep on quantum mechanics and how driven/obsessed Gaku becomes as the series progresses is what it makes this story so special.

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This was PERFECT, heartwarming MeiSaku moments, cameos from a lot of characters, fantastic humor, great art and lastly a plot. 10/10

I lost it at the boys' corruption and the ending XD

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Citrus discussion 28 Sep 21:49
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I loathed chapter 13. I know Citrus wasn't very good in terms of the story, but this was just terrible! Terrible I say ;_;

Okay, so first, the chapter didn't feel christmas-y at all! What's up with that?

2) The setting is all over the place! I thought their mum, yuzu and mei would spend their xmas together at home. I understood why Mei couldnt but why didn't Yuzu and her mum celebrate together? Yuzu even rejected Harumin saying it was only for family just the previous chapter but then again she INVITES 0 Matsuri to celebrate xmas together at home which would make her mum and mei happy (?) with more ppl. Wat da fuk.

3) everyone was so OOC.

  • insert comment here about dropping citrus * then coming back to read again when the next chapter is up.

You really need to spill where you get your manga because chapter 13 won't see release on at least a month more.

Sorry, couldn't help it :p

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Mama Mama discussion 27 Sep 23:21
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That's fine. But why, given that the only thing we see from them is that they are happy, do most people assume that they are dispairingly unhappy and practically human slaves to their husbands? So melodramatic.

It's a good thing one of them didn't have a bruise from bumping into a table or something; everyone would be absolutely certain that the husband came home and beat her to death each night. :P

Simple, this is a reader specialized on the yuri genre therefore there's a bias towards het relationships. I'd guess that your interpretation is more accepted on other readers where yuri isn't the focus.

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I have Sayman on my "not read" list since he only does stories either really depressive or really weird so it was a pleasant surprise to read something so simple and straightforward like this.

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Mama Mama discussion 27 Sep 00:16
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The comments here are strange. People have universally decided that the two women are unhappy with their husbands. I got the impression they loved their children, they are happy, and the love they found with each other was added happiness. You are all presuming way too much about the part of their lives you aren't shown.

The same could say about your interpretation though.

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To be fair, the story is five years old now so is normal that some concepts are outdated plus the translator could've made some mistakes here an there since sometimes the manga gets really dense (that is the reason the scanlations stopped for a while in fact).

Some months ago I asked Seven Seas about this manga but never got an answer :(

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Chapter 16 is out

http://imgur.com/a/T5tPU

You better get ready those quantum mechanics books ready for this.

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I take this is a one-shot related to the series Shinigami Alice? If so, I wouldn't be better to include it on the series page?

I think the series is an expanded version of this, kind of like a pilot being turned into a series.

Yeah, that was my impression as well.

Batoto puts those "pilots" as the first chapter on the series for completation's sake that's why I suggest it.