Yeah that's a dumb post makes sense it was deleted.

This is basically gritty Little Witch Academia until the very end.

God forbid people enjoying poly ship art miss out on your tedious poly-bashing.

Who would have thought that "stalking is bad" is only something woke people think.

That's not what I was talking about. Using buzzwords like "toxic behavior" to describe anything they don't agree with is par for the course with the SJW crowd. I'm saving my judgment on the story until we have more than a single introductory chapter to work with. Stalking is a sign of mental problems in real life, but this is fiction, and we know next to nothing about the situation so far. Personally, I want to see what happens next.

The irony of someone saying "SJW" in complete sincerity complaining about buzzwords is great.

Ehhhhh. I'm not sure what the tone Mochi is going for here is but unless it's "Weird but in a boring way" they missed it.

I'm already on edge with this one but I'll give it a chance and see if it manages to successfully walk the knife edge of creepiness that most blackmail themed plots fall right off of.

KueKyuuQ, I think you're generally correct. As we saw so far, Aki was holding her feelings all the time and was 100% supportive of Yori, so she couldn't stand seeing how much Yori was suffering and how Himawari was being indecisive. You could say she got "angry" in Yori's place and pushed Himawari to give Yori a proper answer faster instead of continuing on giving her hope. She got impatience for Yori's sake.

majere posted:

Yeah, this is an example of how to do a love triangle that doesn't feel like shoe-horned in bullshit. It's predictable but it's not just predictable because it's cliche it's predictable because it was actually foreshadowed properly instead of coming out of left field for the sake of lazy shock value.

Yea, though I meant more specifically that unlike usual love rivals that often treat it like competition and don't mind using dirty tricks, she's presented as good person who would be a genuinely good match for Yori. Despite clearly being shown as not a treat to main relationship from the start, she still is so likeable you kinda unwitting start rooting for her. Sure it wouldn't work if Yori and Himawari were already going out and it's not only way to do it, but it definitely feels fresh.

The fact that Aki is actually a sympathetic character in her own right rather than an annoying antagonist whose just there to cause problems definitely contributes to me giving a fuck about this situation rather than just rolling my eyes and dropping the series until the arc is finished like I usually do with this trope. She's actually a believable character acting like a sane human being would rather than like a plot device.

Tbh, I'd rather see Aki and Yori together than Himari and Yori. Buuut unfortunately, I'm sure that's not gonna happen :/

It'd be interesting to see this happen for once.

Yeah, this is an example of how to do a love triangle that doesn't feel like shoe-horned in bullshit. It's predictable but it's not just predictable because it's cliche it's predictable because it was actually foreshadowed properly instead of coming out of left field for the sake of lazy shock value.

MagiMaki posted:

School yuri romance has few drama options anyway.

-Death of an important person
- Parents / friends that are against yuri for some reason
- Love Rival
- "I have stuff to do, let's see each other in 5 years "

You have really poor imagination if that is all you can think of. Sadly most authors are just like you.

For some reason, this sounds (at least in my head) like a half-hearted attempt at a roast.

It's an accurate assessment. That list is hella unimaginative.

These two really do suck at communicating.

Happy Edelgard is of vital importance to me

Nah.

Chapter 179: Meh. Kinda hard for this one to shine compared to the previous one. The Sub/Dom relationship isn’t going to last, imho... I mean: What happens when a rival shows up without all the hang-ups of punishments and narcissistic protocols?

Then Yuu will scare off the poor rival for good, yeah she loves Mari that much, as does Mari love Yuu so much she is willing to get punished for it.

The punishments and protocols are half of the point of the whole thing. Like, Mari gets off on it it's not a difficulty in their relationship it's a feature.

What's with all of these super abrupt endings lately? Like, I love this series but dang I got whiplash from how quickly it ended.

(ch32) i kinda like these two together. i thought this chapter was cute.

(overall) i almost always have something i need to ignore/overlook in yuri. theres a lot of stuff thats cute, but then theres that one thing that makes me uncomfortable.i agree that this story can be a bit preachy, or feel like it's trying too hard to inject the author's feelings about lgbt issues. personally, id much rather have to overlook a positive message than questionable stuff, which is far more common. i think this is a step in the right direction, even if it is a bit much.

It'd be easier to overlook if it weren't 75% of the dialogue.

God this is just a mess.

Why would I root for a relationship between these people. MC deserves someone who has even a shred of respect or empathy for them.

And yet again, the transwoman is "perfect". If she didn't say she was a guy before, none would have guessed.

IMO, this way of portraying transwomen by mangaka is as bad as portraying them as ridiculous muscled unshaved drag-queens haunting bars in Roppongi. It's a lie.

I personally get the impression that her proportions are deliberately drawn a bit differently from cis women. To me she looks she looks completely credible as a 28 year old girl who transitioned in her early twenties, just seen through manga vision.

Is that manga vision what's bothering you? I'm fine with it myself. Stylizing and idealizing the appearance of ordinary people is just what manga does. If anything, I feel like the author here did a great job of espousing that manga aesthetic without pretending that cis and trans women look identical.

Yeah there isn't really a ton of nuance in manga character design a lot of the time and most of the tells that someone who passes pretty well is trans are in the details. I'm not sure what the artist could have done without verging on caricature.

Or it could mean "This sure does bear a striking resemblance to Madoka."

Yeah, you totally have the wrong avatar to be taken seriously with that comment.

What does this even mean?

I don't understand why people are find this twist unoriginal. Am I missing something?

On this board, unoriginal/uncreative/bad writing is usually code for "they did something that wasn't 100% happy and I don't like it".

Or it could mean "This sure does bear a striking resemblance to Madoka."

Can we even call that a twist these days? Isn't that what everyone expects? ^^;

Yeah the only "twist" here is how unoriginal the details of its sudden swerve into drama are. I at least hoped it would do something interesting but I guess "suddenly be intensely dark" is the new stand in for actually being creative.

Not surprised by this nonsense but definitely disappointed. I was hoping the hints it was about to veer into boring melodrama weren't going to amount to much but oh well.

Misunderstanding plots are never particularly interesting but this one is especially stupid and contrived. Really hope this doesn't go on much longer it's way less interesting than the real potential this story has: how weird and sheltered Ookuma is.

Nezchan posted:

Y'all aren't owed any sort of explanation for why someone feels the way they do

Nope, but when they make a big deal in public about it, they're entitled to ask.

You mean forums are actually for discussing topics and not just dropping your opinion and bailing on the thread? Wtf.

Right--evidently the proper reply to the question, "Could you tell us why you think this is shit?" is "You're not the boss of me."

Never asked that though, jumped immediately to insults, I don't entertain ppl who insult me.

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Your replies have gone down hill.

Did you really have to respond to a week old pissing match?