Am I the only one who - when fanart is shifted towards a drastically different tone (usually something "serious" or "dark") when original stuff is different - cannot take it seriously?

I find this amusing in a dumb way. Whats going on through the mind of the artist when making it? I'd love to know, was probably also dumb.

last edited at Oct 6, 2016 3:44AM

Indirect Bra-ing

This artist's stuff is so disturbing-yet-tame, odd, and kinda cute. Very... different...
Amusing.

I like.

I predict more random sex like in the previous series by the artist. Given that it was already mentioned that there are others who have sex in the infirmary.

Well, they certainly looked cute getting sweaty. Felt to me like lost potential, somehow--for how few panels there were before things got hot and heavy, it did such a good job of making me feel like there were actual characters and lovey feelings there that it seems a pity that it couldn't have been stretched a bit, turned into a love story with sex as punctuation rather than sex (and probably in future chapters, orgies) with a love story as window dressing.

Pacing was weird. Seemed like one second she was masturbating in her room, then the next she was suddenly in the infirmary having sex with that girl.

probably because it started with her schlicking to her memory of having sex, then we actually jumped into that very moment they had sex.

last edited at Oct 3, 2016 12:54AM

Awesome, this was awesome.

http://dynasty-scans.com/series/yuri_mekuru_hibi

Nya-chan posted:

WTF. Where does that dick comes from? Oo

Isn't it just a toy?

its one of em 2-headed dildos.

Recycling settings and/or stories is something that is present on every form of media regardless the genre. For me, what makes a story standout is the sum of its parts: the characterization, the dynamics, the setting, the plot, the art/acting/voice acting, animation and more.

Of course it would be nice to have authors willing to take risks and try new things but at the same time I won't hold up against them if they're trying to find a place in an increasingly difficult market, making a manga is a job after all.

That said, I don't know why people continues to rag on Citrus as if Saburota would've lied to them about the nature of this series. From page one it was clear what kind of story was this meant to be and if you don't like it then, why continue to waste effort and getting upset about it now?

I'm also not counting valkyrie drive mermaid. i didn't watch it because it looked like a male-gaze fanservice nightmare

I honestly find pretty contradictory the way you claim to want more yuri that goes beyond the regular norms of the genre when you're so quick to dismiss something that did exactly that simply because it didn't fit your preconceptions about what an innovative yuri had to be.

VDM is not perfect by any means but is pretty earnest on what it is and what it wants to do and does't shy away from the yuri elements, making it a pretty memorable experience whether your liked it or not.

Anyways, the ghost chapter was a great read. I will never get tired of Mei deadpanning all of Yuzu's antics.

The only clear thing about Citrus is that it's a yuri manga about pseudo sisters falling in love. The development of their relationship and the story could have taken many ways, but instead fell in cliches and forced drama that repeats the same formula.

It's obvious that recycling will happen, but in other genres theres usually MORE to recycle.

Look at other genres, look at anything tagged as romance anywhere else... You will not only find variety in settings, but most importantly: plot

Try with other genres, a lot of em can be broad enough to have a sense of variety.

Its sad that yuri itself really is a subgenre of romance that really just sticks to a tight by-the-numbers formulas. There is almost no breathing space. We even get the same arcs regurgitated within the same manga as an entire "new arc"... That... is quite telling.

Saying that stuff gets recycled everywhere is simply not much of an argument as a defense.

last edited at Oct 2, 2016 7:02PM

The biggest issue with yuri is that they recycle the same settings. School girls have been done to death, and while there are occasionally some nice twists within the school girl genre.. it's not enough to make up for the fact that school girl still reigns supreme in yuri. Especially when you consider that a lot of the yuri we get is one-shots.. doing a story in a school setting is quick and easy. It takes more work to make something unique and interesting like sci-fi, or fantasy..

The last few yuri anime released have been school girl as well, but some had good appeals. Yuri Kuma took a fantasy setting about bears, and Akuma No Riddle was about girls trying to kill each other. If people wanna do more school girl yuri, we need more interesting stuff like that. (I'm also not counting valkyrie drive mermaid. i didn't watch it because it looked like a male-gaze fanservice nightmare)

We need more adult yuri, college yuri, fantasy yuri.. anything that isn't just school girls. It's heart-breaking looking at amazing yuri series like Flower Flower, which had gorgeous art and enjoyable characters with an interesting story that was slowly building up.. only for it to never get finished. But we get an endless supply of school girl yuri. School girl series are the mcdonalds of yuri... cheap and easy.. we need more quality food.

I think the biggest problem with the genre, what makes it rather weak, Is the recycling of the plotlines, and not its settings. Yuri is kinda of a subgenre of romance, BUT yuri sticks to even less of the typical pitholes of romance you can find in the usual Het stuff.

Making them college/adult settings really doesn't change much other than the context, general plotlines remain the same every single time.

Its always tension/drama with a third wheel/love triangle/or someone trying to stop them, and other than that there is the gay drama we've seen over and over and over. Read one yuri, and you've basically read every yuri ever.

that aside, I also don't see a lot of the writing to be any good... but well, thats kinda the case with every manga/anime and not just yuri tho...

last edited at Oct 2, 2016 4:09PM

^ it got translated
https://exhentai.org/g/982283/af790fa6f0/
or
http://g.e-hentai.org/g/982283/af790fa6f0/

Whos the guy the shorter girl mentions in ch1?

ok, i'll not be an asshole and point one out.

Story about actual real lesbians, turned into a manga
http://dynasty-scans.com/series/husky_and_medley

untranslated Yuri Saki Doujin by this artist

https://exhentai.org/g/978343/fbf32eeada/
or
http://g.e-hentai.org/g/978343/fbf32eeada/

moslty clothed sex, ecchi basically.

Heres a Haruka x Yuu hentai
https://exhentai.org/g/979419/dbe50dcc41/
or
http://g.e-hentai.org/g/979419/dbe50dcc41/

finally, a hentai doujin not NTR nor having the girls getting fucked by faceless guys.

Kinda disappointed bout what this series turned out to be.
From a refreshingly different beginning, it slowly became just another yuri series.

To the point that I feel almost no interest to keep reading.. kinda sluggishly skimming through pages...

"b-but we are both girls!"

Is it kinetic novel by chance?

Oh yeah, sorry that I forgot to mention the thing that would probably be a huge deciding factor for a lot of people. It's kinetic. I am gonna say though as someone who prefers the presence of choices, the lack of them here helps make the story feel more focused; it's still understandable though if it being kinetic will make some people dismiss it.

While I prefer VNs with choices, I don't really see anything wrong with kinetic novels either. They're basically just books but with pictures and music, and I like reading them (the good ones anyway) so I don't have a problem with them.

Out of curiosity though, what are the types of VNs anyway? Like, what would you call a VN with choices? Is it just a VN? I know that there are kinetic novels and sound novels, but what are the other kinds anyway?

Aren't there VNs with actual gameplay?
RPG and action gameplay.
Referring to that or just by narrative?

last edited at Oct 1, 2016 11:44PM

WWW.WORKING!! is some kind of spin-off with a new cast of characters (in a different establisment?), ep1 is entirely an introduction episode. not much to say, other than I am really not feelin 90% of these characters.

Shuumatsu no Izetta was slightly interesting, until it became just anime with magical powers. Sad that it became as stupid as I expected from when I saw the trailer towards the end.

Bloodivores is an anime about vampires (?), with a very anime name that the creator probably thought was super cool, but actually really fucking stupid, like most anime names.
Saw 7mins, and its fucking schlock.

ViVid Strike 3 mins in, eeeehh ~~ no thanks. not watching it.

Everything else I ignore cuz they look absolutely terrible.

I guess I'll wait for the comedies and "those" series that obviously aim to be the "gem of the season".

Saw the Two Best Friends playthrough of a game called Anatomy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYX2nPpWp8o

This... is quite something.
Different enough for me to bother pointing out.

yet again, more Futanari
https://exhentai.org/g/981717/2dd6abde32/
or
http://g.e-hentai.org/g/981717/2dd6abde32/

artist's style is kinda... changing into a more... moe art... Kinda not happy bout that =/

More by Pigeon Blood
https://exhentai.org/g/981717/2dd6abde32/
or
http://g.e-hentai.org/g/981717/2dd6abde32/

Artist made more Yuri again.
https://exhentai.org/s/a506affe3d/979227-41
no e-hentai link, nor nhentai. (yet)

Seems like its a a series again, ends with a "to be continued"

last edited at Sep 30, 2016 5:02PM

Lethal Amount of Flirting

last edited at Sep 30, 2016 4:49PM

I'll never trust a manga title again, I was deceived!

can't really say much, but I have no interest in it whatsoever if I have no idea of what is actually what might be produced out of this.

Simply putting out there are vague as "yuri hentai" without any details, might be a detriment even if its just to merely gauge interest..

Also Dynasty scans forums are rather small, so you might not get much from here.