How exactly do upload requests work?

Hi! So, you put in the upload request, then that goes to our backend, which uploaders and staff members can access. Depending on any number of factors - yuri content, objectionable content, staff interest, audience interest, scanlation quality, permission from the relevant scanlators - the request is either immediately granted, set aside to be uploaded eventually, or dismissed.

Do you need to provide an email to an uploader here on Dynasty with the scintillation files attached when submitting the form or is just pointing to a URL where the files can be found enough?

No, you don't need to do anything like that. A URL is more than enough for our purposes.

I'm not sure what I did wrong, but I never heard back. How does one find out if or why their request wasn't done properly or failed to meet standards for uploading?

You didn't do anything wrong! Unfortunately due to technical limitations, we have no method of communicating what the situation surrounding a particular upload request is to the user who requested it. I am always available to answer any questions, including ones about specific upload requests, by e-mail or in the Suggestions for Improvement thread, or on our Discord server.

As far as your specific request is concerned, it appears to have fallen into the middle category - set aside to be uploaded eventually - and not re-visited since. I can't comment much on the specifics, because I don't know them well for your request, but it appears to me that the request itself was done perfectly. I'll take a look into those specifics in the coming days and see what the hold-up is. If there isn't one, maybe you'll see it up soon!

Wow, thank you so much. I was just hoping for just a little information, but you went way above and beyond. (✿◠‿◠)

We're back up to date with the current releases. If anyone has the stitched versions, feel free to put in an upload request and we'll upload those instead.

How exactly do upload requests work? I filled out the form for one about half a year ago. It was for a classic manga series with light yuri elements that was not and will not likely ever get an officially licensed English translation. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but I never heard back. Do you need to provide an email to an uploader here on Dynasty with the scintillation files attached when submitting the form or is just pointing to a URL where the files can be found enough? How does one find out if or why their request wasn't done properly or failed to meet standards for uploading?

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Wait, she has borderline personality disorder? Has that been established?

Well, originally she said メンタル弱い (lit. mental weakness). I am not sure if it means the same as borderline personality disorder. Maybe it's just an interpretation.

Shimizu is hardly a trained psychiatric professional so that's obviously in the colloquial sense - not that Maekawa didn't check off quite a few of the symptoms mind you, on a quick look at the description. Wouldn't call that an unreasonable localisation.

Yeah, actually, this was changed in QC to 'random depressive episodes', but I think i must have accidentally uploaded the pre-QC page! I'll need to fix that.

(I don't think the BPD line is TOO off, but it's a bit more harsh than just being unstable, which is what Shimizu says in the Japanese (in an admittedly pretty rude way.))

BPD is a very specific and rather nasty mental disorder. It carries a much different connotation to it than simply a generic mental weakness or depressive tendencies. It would be a bit like if you labelled her bipolar, psychopathic or schizophrenic. Each of those mental illnesses is unique and carries a very different meanings and collection of symptoms. Some of the key symptoms of BPD include self mutilation, extreme mood swings, repeated suicide attempts, violence towards partners and family members etc.

Eh, more like she actually had to face a consequence for once and doesn't like how that feels.

^This.

It's not over the top or even shounen like, it's just that someone finally called her out on her bullshit. Which was likely the first time in her life anyone has done so. Plus it was her crush that did it. Both of those factors are enough to completely shatter her world, in my opinion at least.

There is a huge difference between getting put in your place and told you are human garbage by some stranger and getting told it by the person you look up to and like most.

@Marion Diabolito

I almost included (as I have done previously) a qualifier about how Okazu has been important for the promotion of English-language yuri. Having known her work in that context is the reason I was so shocked at the degree and nature of these two particular misreadings (a term I do not use lightly—textual interpretation has a very large subjective element, but contrary to popular belief, it is possible to be just flat wrong).

As the course of the conversation in this forum indicates, depending on how a reader defines “yuri,” there’s plenty of room for debate about this series (to a much greater degree in the early stages, of course). There is (or was) a legitimate argument that the series is yuri bait (“legitimate” in the sense that I’d still strongly disagree but the premise is not entirely out of bounds).

But to assert that there is zero yuri content in the first two volumes is to raise the bar for “yuri” to the point of ignoring the specifics of the text itself, and that’s just, at best, very bad critical practice.

(And if the “zero” is supposed to be seen as an off-the-cuff overstatement, well, that’s not good criticism either.)

Although admittedly it's a bit more ambiguous in the early volumes it's quite apparent from the very start of the story that Sakurako must be either lesbian or bisexual and that she has a huge crush on Kasumi. I found the entire tone of Okazu's review rather negative and narrow minded which is a bit unusual since a lot of her reviews are much more balanced.

So I came to check up on whats worth checking out in the new season but having read the last few pages it seems like nothing ? :(

Is there even a nice all girl slice of life anime or anything?

I was surprised to find Senryu Girl appears to have at least one girl who is into other girls. I don't think it is likely to blossom into a romance since she isn't the MC, but by the end of the second episode it's quite clear she finds other girls attractive and even hits on one a bit.

In the great yuri desert that is spring 2019 it's the only sign of water I've seen. As far as nice slice of life with mostly female cast there is Hitoribocchi no Marumaruseikatsu and Joshi Kausei.

That's pretty much it. The other shows with lots of female characters like We Never Learn: BOKUBEN have harem-ish qualities which I doubt you are looking for.

English dub of the anime is coming out March 19! I prefer the original, but now I can share it with more people~

Edit: today my copy of the Hakumei & Mikochi World Guide came in the mail. It's packed with full-color profiles of most of the cast, a small world map and a map of Makinata, tons of world details, photos of animals some of the cast are based on, and even a few pages of micro-sized cooking.

My favorite bit of info:
Hakumei - 23
Mikochi - 24
Conju - 26
Sen - 19

I'd figured that Sen was the oldest of the group, with Conju being the youngest, but it's the opposite :)

That's neat. Although, I didn't have any specific ages in mind, I am surprised that Sen is the youngest. I personally would have ranked them from youngest to oldest as follows.

Hakumei, Mukochi, Conju, Sen.

Sen and Conju were a bit of a toss up in my mind, but they both seemed older our titular pair.

Sen looks young, but her no-nonsense focused personality gave me the impression she was older than everyone else other than maybe Conju. I guess when I think back on it, she is quite shy and socially stunted which could in part be seen as a sign of immaturity, but this is often the case with shut in academic types and has little to do with age. I must say she is impressively skilled and knowledgeable for a kid who isn't even old enough to drink a beer.

I wonder if there is a glimmer of hope for a season 2. Sadly, iyashikei are often difficult to market to the public since they don't have any real obvious hooks to grab people with so many never make it past the first season.

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When did they start dating? I swear I´ve missed something XD
Are their kisses deleted scenes?

There were a couple of kisses and countless sexual advances made by Sakurako over the course of the story, but just very recently in chapter 53 we saw Kasumi show the very first concrete sign we have been given that she is beginning to see Sakurako in a romantic light rather than just harboring a deep platonic love for her.

Kasumi gave her a light kiss on the lips totally of her own volition, with zero prompting from Sakurako, and it was adorable. The look of shock on Sakurako's face was priceless. It's one of my favorite yuri kiss scenes in recent memory despite just being a short, simple peck on the lips

Up until now the dynamic has been extremely one sided when it comes to physical affection. Sakurako has traditionally always been the only one showing an interest in physical intimacy. She is always the one initiating and pushing for skinship. Kasumi generally has been quite content to indulge her on it and seems to like how happy it makes Sakurako, but she always shuts her down if she starts taking it in a sexual direction.

This kiss is a really important turning point in the story because it is the first solid evidence we have been given that Kasume is starting to see the deep love between them as something more than just platonic. Sakurako remains unchanged in that she is an incredibly thirsty lesbian dying for a sip from a tall cool glass of Kasumi.

It looks like Sakurako might finally get her wish if things keep heading in this direction.

Mistakes were made...

Yes, but Kasumi said she just prefers to be Sakurako's pet cat. In the end it's up to the people participating in a relationship to define it. In many cases even each partner will view their relationship differently let alone what strangers and various other onlookers think. Still, final word goes to the people in said relationship.

If I see a girl and a guy eating at a fashionable cafe together and acting extremely close to one another I might interpret it as a couple who are dating, but if they tell me they are just siblings hanging out than that's what they are.

Anyway, the entire point of this chapter was that not all relationships fit into silly pre-cut categories or labels nor should they.

This would only apply if we had no insight on their general life though...

I want you to repeat this sentence out loud and then smack yourself against the head:
"We cuddle and sleep together, romantically love each other, kiss each other, go on dates together, live together, want to get married, are already integrated as members in the respective other's family and base every decision of our life around each other. OH but we are totally not dating though."

Heck I smacked myself for saying that out loud. As explained before, people can make up or ignore definitions and naming coventions if they want, but on an empirical level, its just undeniable.
Seriously most people would stop being in denial at the "love each other romantically and go on dates" stage.... How do you do it Yukiko-sensei?

I personally think the terms significant other or life partners fit them better than dating, but again as I was saying from the start, the entire point of this chapter was that not all relationships fit into silly pre-cut categories or labels nor should they. ~shrug~

I don't get these reactions to "reading" unless it's some kind of joke that I'm too old to understand.
Besides, you can go read the AdaShima manga and see how much of Shimamura's inner monologue (which is pretty important to understanding how she relates to others) got cut out.

Many young folk are apparently highly allergic to reading more than a few sentences at a time so every time somebody uploads a light novel on here there is a parade of people angrily screeching about it. It's gotten to the point where it's so ubiquitous that it's become something of a joke and thus somebody literally made a joke about it in the first post which others are now chiming in on.

Anyway, hooray for however translated and posted this. It is appreciated.

Reading a PNG? What is this, some weird chemtrail-tier paranoid conspiracy document on imgur??

"Never doubt the worm."

That's fair. And I'm jealous. I live in a pretty conservative European country, which also happens to be one where most books aren't published in English. If I want a physical book in English, I either have to pray that one of the big local book vendors have it on stock, which most of the time they don't. Amazon ships the cheapest here and even with them it costs at least as much as the item itself. So ebooks make the most sense, but Amazon overprices even those, so then I'd use something like Kobo, but their selection is a lot more limited.

The fact that the last time I bought a book online (it was We Are Okay by Nina LaCour) was last summer probably illustrates my situation. I've been aching for the official Bloom into You volumes since last year as well, and I still haven't been able to afford them. This is getting really off-topic though, so I'll just stop here.

So yeah, back to the topic, I'm also really grateful to those who are translating this light novel.

It really pisses me off how much ebooks cost. There is no physical product and thus there is a fraction of the overhead to e-publish vs actually printing a book yet they charge like 80% of the price of an actual book. It's for this reason that I always buy physical copies which kills trees and it burns fuel, time and money to ship them. There is just so more more value in having a real copy that you can resell, give away or lend to others when they are priced so similarly. They really need cut the prices on ebooks by like half to make them a fairer bargain.

It would be one thing if that massive profit margin on ebooks was going to the creators but its not. It's the publisher that takes most of it and they are barely doing anything for it.

I'm sorry you live somewhere that has such awful shipping prices.

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If I don't define my action as breathing, but suck in oygen and expel CO2, am I not breathing?

Apparently, that’s for others to say.

Isn't that what you are doing here? They say they aren't (quite) girlfriends. You say they are.

Be respectful of the characters' opinion of their relationship. ^^

Sakurako simply said they are more than just girlfriends. Their relationship cannot be defined easily because they are all these things at once.

That doesn't change the fact that they are dating. It's something that doesn't need to be named, because it happens in front of our eyes. The "inhaling" and "expelling" is there. Therefore they are "breathing" even if they don't call it that.

Yes, but Kasumi said she just prefers to be Sakurako's pet cat. In the end it's up to the people participating in a relationship to define it. In many cases even each partner will view their relationship differently let alone what strangers and various other onlookers think. Still, final word goes to the people in said relationship.

If I see a girl and a guy eating at a fashionable cafe together and acting extremely close to one another I might interpret it as a couple who are dating, but if they tell me they are just siblings hanging out than that's what they are.

Anyway, the entire point of this chapter was that not all relationships fit into silly pre-cut categories or labels nor should they.

I think a huge problem here is you seem to be blaming trans people for objecting to a weaponized characterization of mental illness, rather than the people who are literally, and intentionally, misusing and devaluing the term.

To use your analogy with being called gay, using it (and faggot and similar terms) as an insult, generic or not, is indeed marginalizaing toward gay people. But if someone who isn't gay objects to being called that, they're not the ones at fault. It's the ones using gay as a synonym for something bad. Similarly, trans people being called mentally ill by people who are using the term to devalue them and invalidate their experiences are not at fault when they object.

Put the blame on the people who are actively placing stigma on mental illness by using it as a synonym for "what you feel isn't real and you're not valid", where it belongs.

It looks like I've made a bit of a mess trying to explain my point.

You certainly do have a point, my analogy actually wasn't a great fit for this situation. Unlike in my example of an asshole calling random people or things they don't like gay when they aren't, in this case it is the world's psychiatric experts, the people who literally define what is and is not mental illness, classifying gender dysphoria as a mental illness which in doing so has literally made it so.

My analogy was mostly trying to illustrate that there is a harmful bias in thinking that being gay or mentally ill is bad thing that people should be ashamed of. People shouldn't think that calling somebody gay or mentally ill is an insult beyond the fact that its not nice to miscategorize somebody as something that they are not.

It's not so much that I think the individual people who get diagnosed as mentally ill and are upset about it are really to blame so much as society's attitude overall. Which is the same for my analogy about people using gay as some sort of general negative insult.

The difference being that with the gay analogy the person they are calling gay actually isn't and the guy doing it is just some asshole where as in the other case we have the world's definitive treatise on mental illness defining somebody as mentally ill and they are becoming offended by it because they view mentally ill people in a negative light and do not wish to think of themselves that way.

Sadly, what I had intended to just be a quick one off comment on how it's not good to stigmatize mental illness has turned into quite the tangential derail. Hopefully, I have cleared up what I was trying to say this time.

This chapter made me smile despite a migraine. I've been waiting since the beginning of the series for a moment like this. Kasume kissed her! Kasume, who never shows interest in any sort of physical romantic intimacy, kissed Sakurako of her own volition! We've never seen anything even close to that before. That was awesome and adorable.

(✿◠‿◠)

where is the yuri?

I can see your panties from here
We’re engaged

And if you are looking for something more explicit there is the series prequel.

Here

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Ignoring everything else, I agree with Looking East, that people's perception of mental illness is what should change first. Too many people still think of it as simply being "sick in the head" and refuse to go to psychologist, psychiatrist or attend any therapy in general to avoid being branded as crazy, even when they clearly need it. It's time people understand that there are all kind of disorders and plenty of people live just fine with them. For example, actual depression (not the, "I feel sad" kind) is considered mental illness, yet nobody is afraid of calling themselves depressed.

True, but saying being trans isn't a mental illness isn't a slight against mentally ill ppl. In fact I'd argue the opposite, that erroneously labeling certain groups mentally ill, actually harms ppl with legitimate illnesses.

No, saying being trans isn't a mental illness isn't a slight against the mentally ill.

The slight is inherent in the idea that by labeling the people suffering from gender dysphoria as mental ill it serves as a "means to belittle or invalidate their experience." In other words the reason it's insulting to the mentally ill is that it insinuates that calling somebody mentally ill is an insult that serves to marginalizes their experiences, thoughts and value as a person.

A good analogy would be how assholes will commonly use the word gay in a derogatory or insulting manner. I think we have all seen people using the word gay in slang as a synonym for saying something sucks or just as a generic insult to call somebody. Basically, inherent in the fact people are using the word gay as a means to insult and marginalize others is itself an insult to actual gay people because it implies that being gay is some how a bad or shameful thing that is to be looked down upon.

Just because people with gender dysphoria are categorized by the medical community as mentally ill, it should not be seen as some sort of stigma or bad thing. It means that the stress and emotional challenges they experience due to their body not matching the gender they identify with can be addressed, treated and covered under insurance. It's actually a good thing.

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So are they uploading it as gay porn or straight porn?

Obviously, it would go under "how to do it yourself" guides for tractor maintenance.

This is one of my favorite things.

Bocchi is very yuri friendly.

Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine is all-girl.

Thats it, the only 2 all-girl ful-length shows this season, down from 10 this season. No Kirara again.

I've read the manga for Bocchi and although it's adorable I don't think I remember there being any real yuri there. I'm not really one for shipping so I get the feeling there really isn't going to be much out there for me this season at least as far as Yuri goes. Actually come to think of it, this upcoming season looks pretty weak overall for me. No yuri, no true iyashikei which are two of the genre I am always on the look out for. Hopefully I am wrong and I stumble into a handful of hidden gems.

I see this story has continued down the same path it started. I decided to skim another chapter or two thanks to the yuri tag getting added. To each their own. This isn't for me.

As for trans people being mentally ill it is simple fact at this point since gender dysphoria is listed in the DSM 5 aka the book that contains the world's consensus on the diagnostic criteria for mental illness. It is literally the book that defines what is and is not a mental illness.

It is literally the same book that defined homosexuality as a mental illness in earlier editions. It is fallable.

Aside from which, being trans is not presently defined as a mental illness even in the DSM, the discomfort of dysphoria is the issue dealt with there. And that, in part, is because in many places you can't get treatment paid for by insurance unless you have a diagnosis to bill it under.

Not to mention* trans people are constantly barraged by messages from many directions who aren't medical professionals calling being trans (plus other gender variance) itself a mental illness as a way to belittle or invalidate their experience, so you can kinda see why there'd be a wee bit of resistance to seeing that carry over into fiction.

There in lies the problem I speak of, that calling somebody mentally is seen by most as a way to belittle or invalidate their experience or them as people.

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The way the crowd here is basically screaming blasphemy is more than a little amusing.

Well, it's all about promises not kept. In manga an anime all too often an attraction gets established between two female characters, only for the writers to then go "Fooled ya! They don't have teh ghey. What, you think we're perverts or something?" And to drive the point home the girls either get a boyfriend, get separated forever by whatever means, or have a falling out over nothing.

And no, I absolutely don't care one iota what a writer says on Twitter or in an interview. This about what is happening within the story, and within this particular one the writer establishes a truckload of subtext between Koyuki and Konatsu, only to bail out later on. Koyuki's worries about her future would have a lot more weight in the context of her relationship with Konatsu, but the writer practically ejects Konatsu from the the story and then replaces her with some random other character. Why? It could all be down to incompetence, but stuff like this happens so often in manga and anime that I have become quite cynical.

Like I said, it is getting a bit better, but for every series that is serious about attraction between girls we get a hundred that are like this one.

What it simply means is what you miss understood to be subtext wasn't. Apply more rigorous perception checking next time and be aware of your own confirmation bias warping your world view or misunderstanding a fictitious story may be the least of your troubles.

For what it's worth although I was far from certain, I thought it was likely going down the yuri path as well.

I see this story has continued down the same path it started. I decided to skim another chapter or two thanks to the yuri tag getting added. To each their own. This isn't for me.

As for trans people being mentally ill it is simple fact at this point since gender dysphoria is listed in the DSM 5 aka the book that contains the world's consensus on the diagnostic criteria for mental illness. It is literally the book that defines what is and is not a mental illness.

People who have a problem with that should take a good hard look in the mirror and ask themselves if they have some sort of prejudice towards the mentally ill. People who are mentally ill should not be looked down upon or thought as less than those who do not suffer from such illnesses.

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Bermuda Triangle and Endro ended today, I'm a bit sad no one will ever write fics for them, they weren't popular enough.

Endro was a fun little series.

Looking at the upcoming season I really am not seeing any yuri friendly titles. Am I just overlooking things or is this spring going to be as arid as it seems?