The cafe has a system where girls become "Schwestern". Essentially it's like MariMite's soeur system.

And the cafe is called Liebe.

This was in the last issue of Yuri Hime when it was still quarterly, before it relaunched as bimonthly, in 2010.

You'll see when it gets published...

It is published though. I can read the Japanese chapters that are online.

Also, if that's what the synopsis you read said, the person who wrote it was on some major shrooms.

If it's this then that is what it's about. Nadeshiko grows a penis.

We have needed a new action yuri series for a long time, hopefully this one is a long runner.

It died after 2 volumes worth of chapters, without an ending, more than a year ago.

No, it was not. "A hidden or less obvious meaning", according to Cambridge Dictionary, "the implicit or metaphorical meaning", according to Merriam-Webster. There was nothing 'hidden' or 'metaphorical' in "Girl Friends", the romance was not a 'less obvious' theme. If it was, then pray tell, what was the main theme?

This is why the "subtext" vs "yuri" distinction is a bad thing. The romance can be the main meaning even while it is subtext, because it is implicit rather than explicit. Whether something is explicit or implicit is not about how central something is to the narrative. Part of the problem is that encourages people to think being subtext is bad.

Anyway, if people are going to take "subtext" like this, then it becomes really misleading to tag a series such as this one like that.

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"Girl Friends" is not subtext, it never was subtext, it was not written as a subtext work. Gradually falling in love is not subtext.

That's not really what the word "subtext" means, but if you want to use it that way then there's no reason to think this series is "subtext" until it ends.

Under the real meaning of the word, Girl Friends was subtext until chapter 10.

Oh, it's another manga with subtext from Yuri Hime, you know, a yuri magazine.

The "subtext" vs "yuri" distinction made here, encouraged by the tagging system is pretty stupid. It's a yuri manga. In the chapters so far the yuri is subtext rather than explicit, but it's early and it's likely to turn into romance. How many chapters was Girl Friends "subtext" for?

Sounds akward in German too. ^^ "sisters in love" would be "Verliebte Schwestern"

But is the title valid for expressing something similar to brothers in arms? Because the manga is not about sisters who are in love.

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The issue of Miracle out this month has announced next month's chapter is the last and so the last volume will be 8.

Most of the above is not really true either. Japan has changed. Their views on homosexuality aren't actually far behind the US.

The problem is when an author try to change the genre they started. This is already a series. Maybe this one will be on Yuri Hime Pixiv, since the name of the author was on the list, so it has even the chance of getting a tank in the future. Some flashback of their past would be nice, but I don't think it should change the format more than that.

It's practically confirmed there will be a web manga based on the characters, but it sounds like it will start fresh.

The latest special chapter in Birz magazine, which entwines with chapter 43, ends with Seri and Shouko sharing a romantic kiss after Seri effectively confessed.

Using "they" as singular is grammatically wrong, so Minami saying "parent" and then "they" would traditionally not make sense. However, I think here she is referring to a single parent and using "they" as a gender-neutral singular pronoun. And I agree that it is likely done as not to bring too much focus on the parent. The key things to take away is that Minami is being abused.

The translator has to use "they" like that to avoid making an assumption. In Japanese there's simply no pronoun used, which is just normal. The use of 親 rather than something gender specific also doesn't really stand out in Japanese like it's some deliberate thing, so there's probably nothing much to read into it.

I saw the first episode. It's very low budget anime. I know this anime is just advertisement to buy the manga, but come one. It's like Yuri Hime doesn't care

I think it's pretty childish to see it that way.

I said one scene. One scene in 8 chapter hardly should be considered subtext. We have a lot of more in less in any MTK show.

But there is more than that. Shijou is pretty obviously very jealous when Minoru spends time with other girls and right now the plot is over whether she or the newer character gets to have Minoru training with them, which is also who gets to live with Minoru.

Also, there is in fact many manga that will try to explain things like the rules and strategies of a sport or similar activity. It's quite a popular genre of manga, so it just shows an unfamiliarity with manga to be criticizing this particular one for it. If you're not at all interested in the information then of course it's not going to seem good, but other people do want this sort of thing.

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Look, it doesn't take supernatural powers to see the pattern.

Indeed, instead it takes an inclination to make pointless assumptions and waste time on them.

There's more subtext than that. I think there's a credible chance it will be canon romance in the end.

My guess is that "cyclops" was deemed a racist slur, while "mono eye" is PC.

I think it's more just a language difference. Whereas "mono eye" isn't common in English, it has been spread enough in Japanese as a general term for one-eyed monsters, and meanwhile "cyclops" is still a bit more specifically the one-eyed giants.

Although it does raise some questions as to the relationship of Koharu and A-chan. After all, it's pretty unlikely Koharu is the son of "Tousha" (she calls him Tousha, not Dad/Papa). More likely she is his younger sister or something, and if that's true, the whole "call me Mom" thing makes less sense...

I'm pretty sure that "tousha" was baby talk for tou-san (dad).

I don't believe Akari could have had Koharu and have been a model student, so my guess is Koharu's father was her brother (which is why Akari and Koharu looked related) and in the first future timeline she had become Koharu's adoptive mother after something happened to him.

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What... but... what...

Why does Koharu exist in this timeline? I'm so confused.

She was already a baby before Rinko ever traveled forward in time. You see her as a baby in chapter 1. Which makes it unlikely she is Akari's child.

Wait a second, how does rinko know shijou's name? She doesn't make any appearance before chapter 5

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/ashita_kimi_ni_aetara_ch03#16

I think it was Kuki, she admits it while the others think about whether they did it or not.

On page to she's the only one who is just embarassed and turns red.

We see her thoughts saying it wasn't her.

Look up Kewpie 3 Minute Cooking so that you know what the theme song sounds like.

Anyone knows whether it's still got serialization or not back in japan?

It's a ongoing web manga at http://denshi-birz.com/futari-beya/

Sometimes it has special chapters in Comic Birz too.