What's with that dorky outfit? ¬¬

If this came from a 20 year old, then yeah, that girl needs therapy. But Adachi is a child. She needs guidance and advice so she can learn the right lessons.

In fairness, that’s part of what therapy is for

Everyone needs therapy, honestly. We all think we're capable of managing our decisions, emotions and traumas by ourselves, but most of the time we're not.

she refuses to think of any of the implications beyond the moment.

Sounds like the synopsis of my life.

I think there's been meaning in every chapter so far and some of the slowness is felt due to the medium itself, as a novel takes time to read and can afford to spend a lot of words on describing actions and feelings.

Dude, I'm an actual writer lol

Maybe I wasn't fair, there have been developments. It's just that, after 1500 pages, Shimamura still has no clue about Adachi's feelings. At this mark Frodo was probably halfway to Mordor, and Tolkien was famous for his slow pacing. The entire His Dark Materials trilogy is shorter than this, as is the Hitchhiker's Guide "five book trilogy". Voldemort had come back to life. You get the idea.

I think we can all agree that Hiruma-sensei's writing style is exceptionally slow paced even for novels. That's not necessarily a bad thing, of course. You can see from this forum just how many people love this story, and that's just within Dynasty's internet bubble.

It's just that for me, personally, the pacing is a big deal, even if I like the setting and the characters.

(Edit: and yes, I know novels are measured by word count rather than pages, there are probably discrepancies in what I said before. But I'm not gonna estimate the word count on these novels for the sake of an internet argument, so just roll with it)

last edited at Feb 3, 2020 8:21AM

I gotta hand it to this author, not many people can get me to read a story where absolutely no development happens for over fifteen hundred pages.

Although I admit that I lost patience somewhere along the way and now I just skim through most of it.

I don't think this one is similar to yagakimi at all. The only similarity I see between the two is the train crossing scene, which seems to very obviously mirror that one scene in yagakimi. But even that's not as meaningful here as it is there (where the train cleverly hides Touko's kiss from the people around them).

But all of this is just my personal opinion, of course.

This is reminding me of Yagakimi even more now - which, as far as I'm concerned, is only a good thing.

I keep thinking the same with every new chapter, yes.

The train crossing scene in this one is pretty obviously inspired in yagakimi.

I remember a story where one girl asks the other to use her as reference material for a novel. I think it starts with mc getting a letter to come to the rooftop and she mistakes it for a challenge or something. Does anyone remember that one?

One Who Depicts Love

Thank you very much

I remember a story where one girl asks the other to use her as reference material for a novel. I think it starts with mc getting a letter to come to the rooftop and she mistakes it for a challenge or something. Does anyone remember that one?

I'm not sure where you can even get Houseki no You na Mono these days. Looks like it was published through Amazon's manga imprint at some point. But apparently it sold out less than a month after being released (3 and a half years ago) and is currently out of stock. I think it must've been self-published at some point before that, or maybe the collected works were self-published individually.

The Kimi Koi no Limit afterward was from that anthology, so I know it exists.

If anyone knows where to buy it, let me know. I'd like to translate the rest of it.

I'll gladly offer to edit them too. I really need to read the sequels haha

last edited at Jan 22, 2020 3:49PM

Is sweet omelette a thing? Has anyone here tried it? I think the idea sounds hideous.

last edited at Jan 21, 2020 7:31PM

Could you kind people recommend me your favorite yuri authors? (non-nsfw, please)

Dat double negative…

I think "sfw" sounds weirder for some reason.

Also, thanks for the recommendations

Could you kind people recommend me your favorite yuri authors? (non-nsfw, please)

To me, It feels like she feel in love with her friend and slept with her, during high school, and that friend regretted. Probably told landlady she was grossed out by it. And also probably spread the rumors about landlady like girls.

I love how you people can come up with entire backstories out of thin air (I'm not criticizing, it's really fun).

@Anjelika I'm not sure I follow... I mean, if we're just debating whether the situation in this story constitutes rape or not, it's kind of a legitimate discussion, don't you think? And I don't really think we've been competing with each other (at least, I haven't).

Besides, whether this story does or doesn't normalize the unethical stuff is debatable. I can see how different people would interpret this in distinct ways.

I think it's pretty clear from the story that MC was binge drinking. If someone has drunk enough to forget everything by the next day, they were obviously far too drunk to give consent. And Landlady-san acknowledges that, saying she shouldn't have had sex with MC-chan when she was in that state. (Even if MC did remember some of it later on, the fact that she forgot about it at all is an indicative of binge drinking).

But like I said before, it's a gray area situation in this case, because MC-chan doesn't seem to consider that abuse. For instance, I've had sex with my ex in a couple of situations where we were both too drunk to care, and none of us ever thought of that as abuse.

I think the thing about alcohol is that it doesn't necessarily imply rape every time, but since people under alcohol lose the ability to withdraw consent, when you have sex with someone in that state, you are admitting the possibility that you may be raping them.

I would guess it comes to what each person thinks of it afterward? What if BOTH where blackout drunk and BOTH felt like they didn't consent? Is that rape or is it just a case of an awkward regret for both parties afterward?

This doesn't really make sense. How could you initiate sex without giving consent? You'd have to not consent to yourself, right? That's weird, and schizophrenic. If you're drunk and still capable of initiating sex with someone else, you're not just consenting, you're making it happen. If both parties were drunk to the point where you lose the ability to consent, sex wouldn't even happen.

I think it's pretty clear from the story that MC was binge drinking. If someone has drunk enough to forget everything by the next day, they were obviously far too drunk to give consent. And Landlady-san acknowledges that, saying she shouldn't have had sex with MC-chan when she was in that state. (Even if MC did remember some of it later on, the fact that she forgot about it at all is an indicative of binge drinking).

But like I said before, it's a gray area situation in this case, because MC-chan doesn't seem to consider that abuse. For instance, I've had sex with my ex in a couple of situations where we were both too drunk to care, and none of us ever thought of that as abuse.

I think the thing about alcohol is that it doesn't necessarily imply rape every time, but since people under alcohol lose the ability to withdraw consent, when you have sex with someone in that state, you are admitting the possibility that you may be raping them.

last edited at Jan 19, 2020 9:16PM

I love how a lot of mangadex readers completely hate this manga since it started off creepy and rapey while dynasty scans readers will eat everything as long as it's GAY.
I'm with all of my fellow dynasty readers on this one.

I don't understand where they're getting "rapey" from, in the first few chapters Hara clearly had problems with being accused of taking advantage Koduka. The reason was also disclosed in 5.1 (even though you could easily guess why she was bothered by it). So it was basically the opposite of rapey. Also, Hara never took advantage of Koduka, and was even satisfied with the simplest things, basically it's pretty innocent yuri, except for the first chapter and those close sex scenes.

Having sex with someone so drunk they can't tell night from day can be rape, since they are in no position to consent. But it's a bit of a gray area if the drunk person doesn't think they were taken advantage of, which is the case here. And it's nice that landlady-san realizes it was wrong to do that.

and Kozuka is becoming gayer and gayer, it won't be long before she notices "how long her eyelashes are"

I've always wondered about the "she has such long eyelashes" trope in yuri manga. Is this a Japanese thing, or are all yuri mangaka just copying that line off each other's works?

last edited at Jan 19, 2020 3:12PM

I shall have to try eating it without peeling sometime.

Not like it matters much, but it's hard to eat a peach without peeling it, so yes, that's probably a plum.

I have never known anyone to peel a fresh peach except for baking in pies, cobbler, etc.; they’re commonly sliced for eating by hand.

Seriously? Don't you think peaches have thick skin? Maybe it's just a cultural thing but where I live we always peel the peach before eating it.

last edited at Jan 16, 2020 6:57AM

Not like it matters much, but it's hard to eat a peach without peeling it, so yes, that's probably a plum.

Yes, Miyuki-sensei, you have become quite the depraved one, I think we learned something more lewd than handholding in this chapter.

Philia and Eros is a bit of an exception, but this mangaka does explore sexual desire in her stories a lot more than your average yuri author (without resorting to outright nsfw material, that is). I like it. Real life people are horny idiots, why should it be different in fiction?

But I personally didn't like this extra as much as the rest of the story, though.

Btw. I know we all are joking around, but we didn't even see what hit her. I'm pretty sure if she was hit, it was just normal car.

What if it was something completely unexpected that will subvert audience expectations, like a jogger or a drone or a cow.

Fetchez la vache

I agree with schuyguy. Besides, even if she did call herself Kida in the past (I'm assuming), there isn't much point in keeping that name here, since she obviously goes by Yorita Miyuki nowadays.

Btw. I know we all are joking around, but we didn't even see what hit her. I'm pretty sure if she was hit, it was just normal car.

True. People talked so much about a truck that I kinda made it into a headcanon of sorts. But you're right, a car is more likely.

last edited at Jan 13, 2020 6:13PM