Oh my god
I love sakura trick can't wait for the English dub version and chapter 29

Why would you want an English dub with awful totally unsuitable voice acting instead of the great, cute and in keeping originals?

Badly voice acted by a 30 odd year old American woman miserably failing to sound anything like a teenage Japanese girl will totally RUIN it. Just watch the subbed version it will be infinitely better.

last edited at Jun 6, 2014 4:38PM

I actually think, from the cover, that it's a Girls Love guide for otaku girls to "catch" other otaku girls. Maybe...

That's the impression i got.

Love this series :) I hope it goes full out yuri but i suspect it might not and just stay comedic / subtextual. As long as it ends with hope- and not boyfriends I'll be happy enough.

Hmm- maybe worth giving it a glance, but is anyone subbing it? Dont see it on Baka.

I liked it - but the their wings have to be the worst ive ever seen drawn lol. The artist seems talented from everything else so its obviously a design choice but they look dumb how they are so thin and come from the lower back, dragging on the floor - they are also too big to look good- just all out sucky design.

last edited at May 26, 2014 7:42AM

Hmm- i wonder if it should have the tags if the things in question were just fantasies?

Reimu X Cirno - based totally on cirno & reimu's 1,2,3 series- its that good- in fact i dont like reimu with anyone else now because of it :)

I like Alice x Marisa a lot - I never thought Marisa worked with Reimu as a lover - though I do think she makes a great friend for her.

Alice x mystia and mokou x mystia are also good even though there are only a few examples.

Hmm- Patchouli and her familiar, and Meiling x Sakuya are also good.

last edited at May 24, 2014 6:01PM

I too love Otsu Hiyori's stuff :)

I could see what was coming when she went for the scissors- but i must say she did well for her age lol- i expected it to look a lot worse :)

Ive only ever used photoshop- and rarely the odd other package- and fonts are ALWAYS anti-aliased- I had no idea you could even make them none anti aliased- it looks so awful why would it ever be acceptable or wanted? Isnt it an ancient problem predating true type fonts? You shouldnt ever see the issue in modern systems/software?

Not the credit page, last panel on p80

Ah- i missed that- it IS breaking the 4th wall- but it IS in the omake which you dont take seriously anyways usually. They CAN show stuff that is cannon to the main manga but often, like the little body swapping sketch from 'Notes From The Garden Of Lilies' omake, its just fun stuff :)

last edited at May 12, 2014 8:11PM

Ayame-senpai likes break the fourth wall~

I had a look for it and i saw no 4th wall breaking- except possibly the credit page- but its open to interpretation since she may be talking to someone besides the reader- and since its a credit page, it dosnt really count anyway. The page is a copy of an earlier page - so it might be added totally by the translators.

As for ayame love triangle- na, dont see it at ALL... She does care for miss sunflower- both as a friend, and also i think still feels like a sempai who wants to look out for her a bit. As someone said earlier- she actually seems totally likely to support and encourage himawari-san and matsuri.

I can see her giving miss sunflower some kinda mischievous pushes in the right direction.

Anyways - loved the new chapter as always.

last edited at May 12, 2014 4:50PM

I pretty much stick with yuri for my romances nowadays since het's are just.... the genre in general is just aweful. Not really sure how to say it but... it's U.G.L.Y.

I basically agree - but i wonder if things like 'Mei No Naisho' and 'Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru' count as Het romance or yuri lol? I mean if its a guy crossdressing as a girl - and acting as such, for the whole anime/manga - to all intents it looks like yuri - even if you know its not really..

On the subject of straight guys reading yuri- id guess its the most common demographic.

Let me pull some guestimates from thin air-

70% ish male readers - (outside of japan - i think a lot more men read manga than women?) 90-95% of whom are straight (gay guys would have the least interest in yuri?)

30% female readers - 60% of whom are straight ? (Individual lesbians have more likelihood of reading yuri than a straight woman- but they are ofcourse outnumbered).

Those are total estimates on limited understandings- and id be happy to except any modifications to my misunderstandings lol.

last edited at May 11, 2014 1:43PM

Many thanks for the links :) Noppin seem the best bet then- I'm not gonna skimp on a bit extra and have more hassle/risk.

I was looking to buy a doujin from Melonbooks that isn't available as a DL - and they dont seem to sell physical stuff to ship abroad.

There are some sites (white rabbit express etc) where you can just tell them something you want and they buy it in japan and then ship it to you- ofcourse this is more expensive.

I was wondering if anyone has used this kind of service- and knows one that is reliable, reasonably priced and simple enough to use?

I think listing all the licensed yuri not here would be good too- dosnt matter what reason- if this is someones only source of yuri they may be missing out on some gems like girlfriends that basically just finished translations as they were licensed so were never up long anywhere. They can then go out and buy the actual books.

Maybe it would be a good idea to add a 'Licensed' Tag to anything that is/was here that got licensed, leaving up the mangas header page, then people can easily search what has been licensed.?

Actually one of my all time favorites. I think the best lucky star doujin.

Very well drawn, and perfectly captures the characters- seems exactly how it would go down if the anime did konoxkaga :) Very sweet too as well as funny.

How common is this forced marr-- I mean arranged marriage in japan?

Anyways... I felt like gauging my eyes out when the story ended with no answer... I really hate cliffhanger-ish endings.

Yeah, you see it crop up in quite a lot of manga / anime - and while they arn't forced marriages to the extent in happens in some parts of the world, it still kinda is if there is emotional blackmail and lots of family expectations and pressure.. Very sad..

As for how common, I don't really know but Im guessing arranged marriages are a lot less common now in japan - its probably more just a bit of badgering by your mum, or her trying to set up the odd omiai.

It might be more common to be more arranged in upper class / rich / big business type familys?

As for cliffhanger - I was fine it ending there - it was about suzu falling in love mostly- and the end of the other 2 girls relationship - and i think without more to go on it seems they WILL hook up- it seems to be implied in the pannel - Chimi is crying - and says suzu is so dazzling - dosn't seem a negative thing - and the vertical text says 'love starts in a dazzling flash' and the last pannel says tomorrow morning will be brilliant too.

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That was interesting and fairly unique. Ended hopefully - I think she might say yes? not sure..

BTW as well as chapter one and recently, Matsuri's family name was mentioned in chapter 4 and 14.

Okay, I guess I just suck at reading. Gee, thanks. ;)

Na, it seems most people missed the earlier ones- I know i did the first time through- I mean i know we read them lol- i guess they just didnt catch our attention- they were like side comments, small, etc, or on page 1 and we forgot.

wow , i think its gonna be a rest of my quota :D damn there is a lot of nice manga you guys suggest to me , thanks a lot bro :)

BTW you should read these on the reader- no matter what offline method you use it wont be as good for reading manga as the dynasty reader here :)

Then when you finish one, if you liked it enough you can download at your leisure and the quota wont stop you reading.

I think everyone's mentioned most of the obvious choices on the reader but you should also check out Girl Friends.

Well checking out girlfriends means buying it since its not on the reader, being licenced- but if you are new to yuri and havn't read it - it IS the definitve, many consider best- long great yuri manga - with a happy end :) It comes in 2 huge volumes- pretty cheap.

I'll add a few not covered yet-

http://dynasty-scans.com/series/hanjuku_joshi
Some comedy, quite lighthearted- amazing yuri manga with happy end. Very positive yuri message i think.

http://dynasty-scans.com/series/pure_water_adolescence
Probably best of the age gap yuri.

http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/kuchibiru_ni_suketa_orange_ch06
Pretty nice little series- happy end, not too serious tho not ready a comedy.

http://dynasty-scans.com/series/yuri_mekuru_hibi
Not much yuri, WTF am i reading tag- the humor is totally whacked - but incredibly funny if you can handle this sort of over the top humor- might be the manga that made the most people LOL most often of the site?

http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/maple_love#1
One of the best one-shots - cant help recommend it :)

http://dynasty-scans.com/series/choir
Its a 4 koma- if you dont mind reading those- some dont like them- it wasnt finished translating but dosnt matter as much for a 4 koma with no real plot/story- just following the daily lives of schoolgirls. Very very funny imo- made me laugh alot- alot of yuri innuendo and 2 of the girls are in love more or less- the translators took it to the chapters where they hook up properly with the best kissing scenes in yuri-dom i think :) This one is more about the comedy than the yuri though. I love it.

Cant forget this- a very enjoyable and happy little series-

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

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dammit yuri project you had one job: yuri, this is just porn

You seem to be suggesting yuri cant or shouldn't be porn? I dont see why het should have a monopoly on it.

I agree what i want to see is porn with plot- well drawn with characters etc- like first love etc.
But there's still a place for pwp yuri. It exists in huge amounts for Het manga- i think the yuri fold can accommodate a few of them for those who DO want it.

For those of us who dont- just move on and dont add it to your favs list- it hasnt killed you to waste 1 minute on it.

And as for yuri project- someone obviously wanted to translate it- maybe they love Aikatsu that much- i doubt it took much time either. Im sure THEY dont think it was a waste of time.

p.s Isn't page 4 missed some from the right edge?

Is her name really Kazamatsuri Matsuri? Her parents had a sense of humour.

Actually I think Sugano Manami likes those kinda names- Dunno if anyone else noticed but I just read it though again and noticed

Kazamatsuri Matsuri
Nanase Nanako
Minami Ami
Sakura Asakura

BTW as well as chapter one and recently, Matsuri's family name was mentioned in chapter 4 and 14.

last edited at Apr 23, 2014 11:47AM

Really enjoyed this extra background / development with miss sunflower and her brother - even if id rather it was Matsuri getting closer to her :)

That said, it was cute at the start how she was waiting and expecting Matsuri.

Interesting- and different. I dunno about LOTS of artifacts- hardly noticed any and they were pretty minor.