That is quite a long ship-name....

Shorten it to Preaver? lol

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SAEKI-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!

(love is shounen battle anime)

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Imagine only reading the Full Number chapters and ignoring all the additions. The story would barely exist.

Yes, but Kasumi said she just prefers to be Sakurako's pet cat. In the end it's up to the people participating in a relationship to define it. In many cases even each partner will view their relationship differently let alone what strangers and various other onlookers think. Still, final word goes to the people in said relationship.

If I see a girl and a guy eating at a fashionable cafe together and acting extremely close to one another I might interpret it as a couple who are dating, but if they tell me they are just siblings hanging out than that's what they are.

Anyway, the entire point of this chapter was that not all relationships fit into silly pre-cut categories or labels nor should they.

This would only apply if we had no insight on their general life though...

I want you to repeat this sentence out loud and then smack yourself against the head:
"We cuddle and sleep together, romantically love each other, kiss each other, go on dates together, live together, want to get married, are already integrated as members in the respective other's family and base every decision of our life around each other. OH but we are totally not dating though."

Heck I smacked myself for saying that out loud. As explained before, people can make up or ignore definitions and naming coventions if they want, but on an empirical level, its just undeniable.
Seriously most people would stop being in denial at the "love each other romantically and go on dates" stage.... How do you do it Yukiko-sensei?

^Everyone has some arc they don't like. Even the best series have lows. The overall strength of this manga was always its variety and bigger picture.

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BugDevil posted:

I'd just be happy if there were more fantasy stories with a female protagonist period. Straight or otherwise.
And preferably one without the copout of a an all-female cast or being stupidly overpowered.

I know, don't reach for the stars and stuff.

Destruction Flag Otome/Bakarina

I can say that I've seen it happen more often in Web Novels and the like recently, which is great.
But it doesn't really hit the mainstream. And that's the niche mainstream of manga/anime/LNs...

I'd just be happy if there were more fantasy stories with a female protagonist period. Straight or otherwise.
And preferably one without the copout of an all-female cast or being stupidly overpowered.

I know, don't reach for the stars and stuff.

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Like, the idea of an out-and-proud lesbian getting transported to some sort of homophobic world definitely has potential

Transported? All she needs to do is step outside the door. lol

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High-school harems are just not hip anymore. Sadly the harem is like a hydra, cut off one head, two new will grow.

Then what we need is an ISEKAI YURI HAREM.

The story about a raging lesbian enter a fantasy world where homosexuality is still a major taboo, on the quest to convert every cat girl, elf, princess and loli pixie into gay mess....

Through the power of lewl handholding!!

I don't really like harems of any kind, even if they are yuri.
But gosh darn it, if it means something new for the genre, I'll even watch a freaking Isekai Yuri harem anime!!

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BugDevil posted:

Are you quoting something or is that your interpretation of the situation?

You disappoint me.

The argument about definitions and labels reminded me of it and it fit perfectly.

To be unecessarily fair... I don't read Nettaigyo.
Though from what I heard about it, this is certainly appropiate lol

"We have a certain way of how we want to convey our relationship, but that doesn't apply to the onlookers. People should have freedom of expression which applies to both us and others. We don't intend to define our relationship as dating, but the onlookers are free to see our relationship how they want. Rather than denying the onlookers' interpretation, we want to keep doing what we want to do, believing someday our opinions/ideas and worldview will be accepted"

Are you quoting something or is that your interpretation of the situation?
Either way there is no different worldview involved here. They just choose not to use the word that describes what they do, even if they do it.

I can't believe Marika would use the C-word.

If I don't define my action as breathing, but suck in oygen and expel CO2, am I not breathing?

Apparently, that’s for others to say.

Isn't that what you are doing here? They say they aren't (quite) girlfriends. You say they are.

Be respectful of the characters' opinion of their relationship. ^^

Sakurako simply said they are more than just girlfriends. Their relationship cannot be defined easily because they are all these things at once.

That doesn't change the fact that they are dating. It's something that doesn't need to be named, because it happens in front of our eyes. The "inhaling" and "expelling" is there. Therefore they are "breathing" even if they don't call it that.

I just don't personally feel "dating" is the right word to describe two people who don't consider themselves to exactly be lovers, even if in practice they pretty much are. I understand why others do think of them as dating and I wouldn't argue against it.

If I don't define my action as breathing, but suck in oxygen and expel CO2, am I not breathing?
At some point defining things is meaningless, because actions speak more than words.

It's kinda like a narrative tsundere. "Just because they do all the things you would call dating, doesn't mean they are dating or anything."

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Fate grew up to be taller, but their love is equal.

Hatsune Miku: Goddess of selfcest.

^^Oh come on. Lipstick and girly eyelashes. Can't ignore the obvious signs.

Moicy? Sounds like a Scott trying to say Angela's nickname. Genius.

This series will forever be amazing.

At some point without notice, our desire to kill each other turned into just... desire.

Train your body all you want, your mind is already her slave.

Ash's mom sure is popular. Move over professor Oak, lady's changed her taste in 20 years.

@Hollows Flower crowns are more a kids thing. So it happens in pretty much every direction at that age.
Teenagers or adults doing it tho? 100% gay. Even if it's straight.

Or was she?

Missing the rain here, but then again, their house is floating in the galaxy nebula, so that can be excused.