It always baffles me when countries don't allow for same sex couples to adopt. There's so many kids out there that need loving parents and a good home.

It mainly has to do how marriage works in Japan and how slow they are with changing the system. For marriage the woman has to be registered into the man's family register which is why same-sex couples cannot do that right now. Single mothers are generally looked down upon, and up until not too long ago children born out of wedlock did not have the same rights as "regular" kids when it would come to things such as inheritance.

Japan's adoption system is pretty bad anyway, only around 15% of orphans in childcare institutions actually get adopted (compared to something like 70+% of the UK and the US). Additionally, most adoptions in Japan are adult men getting adopted into families so the family can keep their family name and company through their adopted heir. Ironically this also allows same-sex couples to become recognized as family by adopting the other.

Are you saying that in Japan, if you are gay, you don't marry but get adopted?

I've heard it's a thing that works with gay men and I'm not sure about women...but yeah basically a loophole there.

Edit: Though I've heard least Tokyo as of last month now acknowledges gay couples with a...certificate of being a couple or something? Apologies I'm probably remembering the exact details wrong. Basically there's progress, but definitely a lot of work to be done still.

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Hmm guess I'm the only one thinking it's stupid they don't just tell each other.

Maybe in a One-Shot version. "Hey Step-Sis I like your pseudo-incest comics!", followed by the response of "Oh yeah? Wanna fuck?", and then they fucked. Roll credits.

I'm not sure I understand the dynamic here. I can understand the mangaka not wanting to be exposed, but why would the stepsister not be like, "Yo, love your work!"?

I think because it's embarrassing to tell your step-sister that you love her romantic step-sister comics.

^Some people are too up tight about that stuff- i dont generally disagree but a joke manga isnt a place to care about imo.
especially when its mostly from kids.

The thing about kids people mention 'what about adoption' did stand out as troublesome to me tho. I dont know how its percieved in Japan but it was like the option never occured to the mangaka- like having kids was totally out for 2 girls when they have plenty of options.

Japan only allows a couple to adopt a child if they are married, and same-sex couples cannot get married in Japan.
But even then, Japan has a very low adoption rate of children.

It always baffles me when countries don't allow for same sex couples to adopt. There's so many kids out there that need loving parents and a good home.

Drawing genre of stepsister yuri? I thought manga most of the times just ignores the "step" and goes straight to incest without any dilemmas

Eh one of the most big name yuri series is stepsister yuri.

What i meant i can u really call it a genre? When in manga there is often no distinction made between "step" and blood relatives

I've seen it enough and defined specifically as "step" to qualify it as a sub-genre at the very least I think.

are yuri otakus even a real thing

No. Cease your investigations.

Not on this Family Friendly Christian website they aren't.

Praise the lord!

^I'd honestly be more surprised if she didn't lmao

Love these two <3

Lovely bears

Haha I clicked on this thinking "wow that's a Rare-Pair", and it's very cute! I love this :)

Good'ol cockpit sex

Nice

I think the boob bonk skips the date and jumps straight to sex instead lol

Post-Apocalyptic Snuggles.

I'm already loving the all of this fan art of the new characters and the game isn't even out yet.

Bocchi the sticky

Adorable

This artist always makes me interested in history lessons, well history lessons from them specifically I suppose haha

I choose to believe this is canon.

Looks like they had a fun sweaty night

Dance is also a form of battling!

Cuties

I don't think Yu in general realizes how badly Ayumu wants to completely destroy her in bed.

Fortune favors the bold as the saying goes lol

@eromancer: I was mostly thinking how I've not seen many Yuri doujin parody works in awhile. Also I've unfortunately seen at least a couple of hetero doujins for Super Star myself, which aren't my cup of tea and I don't seek them out, I sometimes see what's new and popular out there for series I follow just to see what's getting made.

I think though Yuri Doujins aren't as common as fanart, and in terms of Super Star getting maybe less hetero doujins than usual I think it's mostly due to other series taking priority with that crowd. I imagine Chainsaw Man is probably getting the majority of focus there this year. Combined also with the issues that have come from Covid, conventions getting cancelled, I remember hearing someone mention that Japan had a lot of specialty printing shops close down, and other issues from the pandemic unfortunately.

So I still think it's less of a problem with Super Star, and more of the doujin landscape, at least currently. As I've seen a good amount of people that have a lot of love for Super Star, and a good amount of ship art for it. Just unfortunately doujin works are scarce for it, at least for now. I'm at least hopeful that we'll see more Yuri doujins for Super Star in the future.

I don’t know why, but Jun is really setting of my “danger alarm” for some reason. Like, I keep getting the weird feeling that she’s going to try and “register” Nadeshiko to herself in order to eliminate her competition, and that’s going to start a whole thing. I don’t know why that’s the direction my brain keeps going in, but it is.

Pretty sure you're describing NTR essentially, and yeah I have trust issues with authors because of times I've seen series randomly jump off a cliff straight into NTR hell. I really hope this doesn't go there.

I'd be more worried had the general tone of the manga been slightly less silly up to now. The author seems happy with keeping this pretty light ( with a layer of wholesome sex on top, obviously) .

Fair point haha, I suppose I'm just overly cautious to mentally prepare for the worst, while I also hope for the best. I'm hopeful that this just leads to some absurdity, and maybe some sexy situations.

Nadeshiko: *Deadpan "bip boop, am robot, leaking fluid"

Hey now, nipple fluid is serious business.