It's big! It's bold! It shows Tsumugi and Beniko as you've never seen them before!

With some actual closure to their story? Because that would be very appreciated.

last edited at May 30, 2017 10:44AM

Out of all of the shit anime I've seen announced for 2017, This has to be the fucking worst.

Just to make it 100% clear, you do know that Anime Maru is a satire site, right?

Just a little side note, something I saw pointed out recently that seems to apply here. When sending a message to non-English speaking authors, try to avoid English idioms as much as possible. There are a bunch of cases where artists think a comment is negative, or even upset at them, when it's actually a compliment like "Your stuff is so good, I hate it!" Better to keep it as straightforward as possible.

Also, if you do that, try not to make it too obvious you're reading the doujin books in English, since it's technically piracy. Japanese artists get really ticked off about that.

Really? I would think that for goujins they would be happy since there is very little chance, if any at all, that they will release their own official English translation. I guess it's the exception when authors like Ratana Satis actually show up to support scanlators.

I dont get it, is it suppose to be her suggestively abusive father/boyfriend that smokes? Too artistic for me.

What? At the end of Sasameki Koto they're a couple with the blessings of their friends and families. How is that ambiguous?

It ends with them going to different schools and Sumika crying because she's graduating and becoming an adult and not able to be physically close to Kazama anymore.

Blessing of family and friends, yes. They prooooooobably end up together, yeah. But there's STILL the "our precious youth drifts away in the summer breeze and let us cherish these beautiful memories of our high school days" nonsense.

Uh, no, Kazama moves away temporarily to be with her grandmother who doesn't have much time left. They are still a couple with the blessings of their family, they just have a small long distance relationship for the time being.

It's finally over. Yay! Now I can avoid being baited with excitement to see something new on Dynasty Scans only to find out that it was this load of trash. At least the comment section was entertaining.

last edited at May 25, 2017 10:56PM

nhaaa, I love that manga! I still hope a kiss (on the lips) of two <33

There are two instances if im not mistaken. First one, Sakurako got drunk and kissed Kasumi XD. Second was when Sakurako got sick, Kasumi gave her meds via mouth to mouth. I think i saw the drunk scene on Yukiko's twitter.

I can't remember if this has been posted here yet but there's a scene where one of them fishes a candy out of the other's mouth with a kiss.

"Why are you so wet down here...?"

"I dunno, maybe it has something to do about being waist deep in the bath... moron"

Title: Elixir

Genre: Yuri

Description: Eunha is heartbroken when she finds out her high school sweetheart, Siyeon, used an elixir to make her fall in love. When the two reunite 10 years later at a business meeting, Siyeon asks for a second chance. But before they can talk things out and rebuild their trust, greater magical forces interfere.

Link: https://www.lezhin.com/en/comic/elixir_en

So Elixir is a spin off of the series Daily Witch and has finally been released on Lezhin in English. While Daily Witch was more fantasy adventure with romance elements, Elixir is focusing on romance and drama. Eight chapters have been released so far and I have enjoyed it. It is far more sexually explicit than what we saw in Daily Witch, which makes me more excited to see what we will get in season 3, but there are hints of sexual abuse between Siyeon and her sister(?).

With quite a few yuri series either finished, close to finishing, or being put on temporary hiatus on Lezhin I can't think of a reason not to recommend Elixir.

last edited at May 25, 2017 6:43AM

Entoma, watch the spoilers.

kinda new at posting here, how do you add spoilers? Is it like on 4chan where you put [spoiler] and [/spoiler]?

https://dynasty-scans.com/forum/topics/5657-forum-post-formatting-basic-markdown-tutorial

You have to use two equals, like this "== spoiler ==".

I just checked the author's twitter. Shizuka is kneeling down crying while Ichinose is just staring at her. Holy shit, I'm so excited.

Just skimmed the raws until 147 so if you're curious, you are getting exactly what you wanted. Shizuka tries to use Ichinose to make Kaoru envious. While in the middle of gloating Kaoru passes out and Shizuka takes her to the infirmary. Kaoru then kisses Shizuka. Shizuka still clings to Ichinose for comfort. Kaoru then forms a crush on the girl in the manga club who wears a medical mask, when Kaoru tells this to Shizuka she gets jealous. Then while arguing in the library Shizuka kisses Kaoru, Ichinose witnesses the whole thing. Personally, Shizuka is just as terrible of a person as Kaoru and can die in a fire for all I care.

last edited at May 23, 2017 4:04AM

There is no other series that deserved to be tagged subtext more than this.

I think going full fantasy it's okay, I'm used to that since ARIA... But now I'll need some confirmation, how many chapters are out in Japan so far? I'm gonna spoiler talk right now.
When I finished the anime, a friend told me that he saw somewhere that it would turn into het and that totally killed my hype, but could it be that this development with Peter Pan was what he was talking about? and nothing to do with Akari or Futaba? if so, I would like to keep reading, but if there are many chapters out there without translation, anything could happen and I would like to know right now if I'm being baited.

PS: I Just found the raws of the newest chapters... I'm gonna sacrifice myself and see it all, I'm gonna save you from potential bait
PS2: My big mouth... Sorry but my third world internet didn't let me load the chapters, but here you go http://bzland.net/?PHPSESSID=jlaea46ra1d0g5m44duqoo7081&board=3520.0 I just want to know "I'm being baited with the main characters?" Yes or no? .... That's all I ask.

Volume 10 won't load for me, but what I can see from volume 11 the yuri subtext is alive and well.

This Peter Pan crap has by far been the weakest part of this manga. It's not even the het that I'm upset about, the whole thing is just way out of place and just wasn't all that interesting. Couldn't they just have had the teacher's fall in love without going full blown supernatural?

last edited at May 22, 2017 4:28PM

This is different it is 100% funded by yuri fans if this crashes and burns it's means there isn't a big enough audience for yuri to support itself. If you break out when something like galette is out you'll be a break off in the already small community and would either hurt just her and not make enough both her and galette so why not just stick with the group keep the community in one place. In short she will be fine galette shows no signs of burning to the ground and if it does use the solo mode as a last resort it's not like she can't just jump ship before it explodes.

Precisely that. How do they pretend to do better than Yuri Hime and other pretty famous magazines that went under with the exact same recipe?

Because they get the money before hand. It's like pre-ordering, they know exactly the minimum it's going to sale and can plan around that. Less risk than a regular magazine.

last edited at May 21, 2017 5:39AM

More like they were translated (on pastebin file translation was right away) but there was no one who wanted edit that especially because final chapter sucks

This going to get a bad end tag?

Edit: Nevermind, found the Portuguese version to spoil myself. No need for the tag, but that was rushed as all hell. Seems like the author just got bored and wanted to end it.

last edited at May 20, 2017 2:34AM

So this is what happens when Maitake runs out of fucks to give.

Going to be a great day when the yuri tag gets added to this series.

last edited at May 19, 2017 12:50PM

From what I have heard, Doujin!Sakurano is kind of a pervert, and it seems Yukiko is really trying to revive that aspect with the pool chapter.

Doujin!Sakurano?

I believe that this series was originally started as a doujin that was more explicit with the yuri until it got picked up for publication and was rebooted with the yuri toned down. I don't believe the doujins have been scanlated anywhere.

Take out the yuri, add in the het, yaoi and bad end.

last edited at May 13, 2017 3:01AM

Still no chaps 2-6.... so I'm not picking this one up. But honestly from the 5 or so pages of the last chapter I've read, I don't like the art at all. So not really a big issue for me. But watching them "play" table tennis I thought this definitely needs a "supernatural"-Tag...

Chapters 1-6 are covered completely by the anime, so if you are still interested you can watch it and then continue with chapter 7. Also, this isn't Saki, there is nothing supernatural going on. It's purely symbolic representations.

That's the thing: she was basing her actions always on previous Madokas. When confronted with the final Madoka, the one trying to save her from becoming Homulily, she did little to find out what she truly wanted and took the same radical attitude she'd developed when try to save previous Madokas from Walpurgisnacht.

Previous Madoka's are the same Madoka with her memories erased. If you want to treat other Madoka's like their opinions don't matter then Madokami is no different, Madokami was just another version. She literally asked Madoka what she wanted, she wanted to stay with her friends and family. Take away the knowledge of the suffering of magical girls as they turn into witches and Madoka wants to be back home with everyone. Homura is just doing what Madoka asked of her.

Homura's time magic was incidental to her wish to save Madoka. Since she was now in a rewritten reality where Madoka couldn't die or become Kriemhild Gretchen, her magical girl powers would naturally be rewritten as well. And it's not like Homura wouldn't have met Madoka when her work on earth was through.

We know that Madoka has the power to rewrite powers and wishes, she explained to Sayaka that she chose to keep Sayaka's wish intact. Madoka had control over whether or not Homura kept her initial wish and thus her power. Homura has no idea what that means to be taken by the cycle. Do they cease to exist, do they spend eternity with Madoka, or do they go to magical girl heaven where everyone gets cake and ice cream? There was never a guarantee that they would be reunited again. Also there is homura's need to make Madoka happy, is she happy to be forgotten by her family and friends? Most likely not, even if they spend eternity together that doesn't mean that Madoka is entirely happy with it.

If Homura merely "saved her from having to live forever like that", she wouldn't have sealed Madoka's memory and trapped her in a false reality. She might be "justified" in splitting her from the Law of Cycles, but beyond that Homura is effectively denying her right to her own agency.

First off, why call it a fake reality? It's just as real as what Madoka set up. Secondly, she sealed Madoka's memories because if she didn't she would rejoin the law of cycles. And denying her right to her own agency? You mean like she has pretty much done with everytime she went back in time and exactly what Madoka did to everyone in the universe?

Homura became utterly monomaniacal about stopping Madoka from making that wish that why she was doing it became a secondary concern. How Homura treats Madoka's actions makes it fairly clear that, even after all that time, she still didn't understand her any better; it simply reduced her to the state where her monomania was the only thing keeping her from loosing it completely.

I don't understand where you are drawing these conclusions from. How does Homura's treatment of Madoka's actions show that she doesn't care how Madoka feels? She is literally fulfilling a last request directly from a dying Madoka, and was most likely asked of her more than once. Madoka even says herself that she wouldn't want to leave her family and friends, she was wrong about not being strong enough to make the sacrifice but it clearly shows that if there was another way she would have preferred that.

It's not established that Madoka's happy in Homura's fake world, either. One thing we see throughout the series is that Madoka's at her worst when there's nothing she can do.

It was easily established when you see her laughing while unpacking with her family. Everyone is at their worst when they feel like there's nothing they can do about their crappy situation. Just like what Madoka did to Homura when she ended up sacrificing herself anyways despite all of Homura's effort to save her and then removed her time magic to prevent her from trying to fix everything.

What Homura did is almost impossible to differentiate from holding someone in a cellar "for their own good". Madoka's actions are more akin to jumping out in front of a car to push someone else out of the way. And, like I mentioned, we can see throughout the series that, if Madoka was in that position, she would never be able to live with herself if she didn't make that leap.

How is what Homura did any different? By your own analogy, Homura would be the person yanking Madoka out of the road right after she pushed the other person out of the way. Madoka made the sacrifice and Homura saved her from having to live forever like that. Madoka made that leap when she needed to but after falling it was Homura that caught her hand to pull her back up.

last edited at May 7, 2017 6:11PM

Continuing from the image thread:

It might help to look at things in broad context: it took Madoka twelve episodes of character development to make the choice to become Godoka. Homura used one line from an amnesiac Madoka to justify her actions. She's not acting in favor of Madoka's happiness when she does it; Homura's simply forcing Madoka to live in a world she dreamt up - the one where she succeeds in her all-consuming quest to prevent Madoka from becoming a magical girl.

You forget that Homura has spent over a decade going through the same month over and over again. She has known Madoka for almost as long as she has known herself. Madoka was even the one that told Homura to stop her from making the stupid decision to become a magical girl right before she had Homura mercy kill her.

When was it established that Madoka was happy not existing? She is happy not being able to spend time with her family or that her family doesn't even remember her? I highly doubt that. She chose to sacrifice herself to save magical girls from becoming witches, just because she doesn't regret that decision doesn't mean that she is happy. Besides does Homura not deserve to be happy?

How is Homura any different than Madoka? Was Madoka's universe not simply forcing Homura to live in a world she dreamt up? The one where she succeeds in her all-consuming quest to prevent the creation of witches? Homura repeated what Madoka did in order to fix all her mistakes.

Don't forget that Madoka's ascension resulted in Homura's mental state taking a nosedive and her seriously questioning her own sanity. That's directly what resulted in her losing hope to set the stage for Kyuubey and the Incubators to run their little experience in Rebellion.

Well, not really, it would have just taken longer. All Magical girls eventually lose their magic, either through overuse or despair, and have to be taken by Godoka. It was only a matter of time until it was Homura's turn to clock out and the incubators would have been there to do the experiment.

How am I not surprised that this piece of trash turned out to be a dumpster fire? Horrible characters with a plot that goes everywhere and yet no where. Not surprised that it was canceled. Never touching anything by Kobayashi Kina again.

last edited at May 6, 2017 5:03AM