Wish manhwas started getting animated too.

Which manhwas ? Koreans ones tend to have a big proportion to full course dramas and Chinese one can be more ligh heart but are silly and very long for some.

I mean in general, because manhwas feature adults and more real situations/characters.
I don't know much about manhuas though.
But if you want an example, like I said her shim cheong would be epic.
Also in a more everyday life situations stuff like It Would be great if you didn't exist.
I don't know about the Korean drama i keep reading. To me they just seem normal? Anyway, at least something happens. I'd take drama over stupid and overplayed stuff.

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I'd honestly like to see something outside of Japan becoming popular and getting the title.
90% of the mangas feel the same. A school setting with basic plot and typecasted characters.
You need to look for really hard to find a good story amongst all of the repetitive ones.

Wish manhwas started getting animated too.
Anyway, right now I'd say the best ones are Lily Marble and Hana ni Arashi. Useless princesses is also good, but not as much as the other two.

There's also the Webtoon Mage and Demon Queen which is awesome. It's a fantasy story but with yuri pairing instead.
And last but certainly not least, the latest one I've discovered, Her Shim Cheong. This one reminds me a bit of LOK and would make a fantastic anime adaptation. Full fledged story with yuri pairing

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Thanks to whoever dumps all these chapters at once!

Yes I'm sure that was their first time. You can see they didn't know how to position themselves :P
Y'all stop bumping this thread ;-; I'll have to resort into headcanon where Yuuna somehow gets resurrected now.

There's something really weird going on inside my brain when I read a combination of death with well drawn sex scenes between adult, non moe characters...
It's like a very attractive gift box that contains shit inside.

Furthermore, is this a supernatural issue of a ghost actually showing up to her, or was she hallucinating? We won't know.

Ah! I am so happy to hear that! It's one of my absolute favourite series (assuming we're talking about "Her Tale of Shim Chong"

Yes I was talking about that! I'm in the look out for new series, so finally I found something worthwhile. If you want more people to get to know it too, maybe make a thread here and upload the first chapter (since that one is for free).
I actually wanna talk about it a bit more, but won't do it here.

Btw thanks for that manhwa recommendation in the credits. I've just read it and it's literally one of the best stories in the past years.

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I do remember a very short bonus chapter, which both left me feeling like they, while not knowing about it for sure, were kinda on it (at least that's the impression I had), AND that left me thinking that those 3 are gay too.

I know what you're talking about. I think they were talking about getting a bf and one of them said "or a gf" and the other said both is fine these days. The third was a bit more shocked. I think the one with the glasses.
But I don't think they're gay. It felt more like they'd be accepting of Chidori and Nanoha dating

How subtle, what with the furious blushing and all. Chances are their friends knew all along.

Ikr? But this is manga we're talking about, and most of the time (in romance) characters are conveniently extremely dumb

@zensunni Thanks!!

Eventually, they end up meeting up at a particular place and making up in a beautiful scene that I won't spoil... then there's the bath scene... and if you thought they had trouble dealing with the aftermath of the kiss, try the aftermath of THAT... let's just say things happen in the bath and there's more emotional fallout... When they get back, I'm pretty sure the senpai can tell that she's lost though. That's where the last one leaves off.

Wow can't wait to read that xD

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I've noticed that thing about bans too. In some certain topics, people got banned without even one warning.

I've seen some of the upcoming chapters in another language. Can't read them, but... it was worth looking... (before you ask, there was a post somewhere in this thread with a link I think... I think it was Chinese... and no, I'm not going to discuss what's coming up, just that I'm looking forward to it and want to see what's beyond what I've seen on that sight more than I want to see what I've not been able to read...)

Could you tell us a bit about what happens next under spoilers? Or the link for the Chinese version?

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The only way I can ship this again is if the classmate starts trying to understand Haru more and not act like a nosy bitch. When she does that, she needs to apologize and try to redeem herself. Then, I will be all for it again

I wouldn't call her bitch. Nosy yes. But I think she is supposed to be a tsunderish type of character. Like she actually cares about Haru, but her ways are wrong.

Nice. I approve.

As always...

FURIOUSLY TAPS ON SCREEN

This girl has a crush on Haru. I ship them

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This spoiler further reinforces my suspicion that Risako is actually gay or had a crush on Kaoru
But of course I could be wrong.

Nev, it’s obvious they don’t understand the concept of focus (or just don’t care about it) and are never going to stop making excuses for this one and projecting stupid suppositions onto those who don’t.

You know, you can complain about something you don't like without being an ass to others, right?
Everyone can be a "professional critic" and a writer. Your opinion is not science, so miss that condescending tone, because you're talking fancy words but actually not saying much.

Oh no...this was too short. I like Nanoha's smug smirk when her sister was looking at her

It makes me wonder though, if Nanoha believes she's become an adult after a kiss, what will she become after they have sex? :O

she will retire :P

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This is ridiculous--if those things are irrelevant to the supposed "point of the story," why bring them up at all? If what we care about is the actions of the characters going forward, there's no obvious need for any mystery about their past.

Because we need a strong reason of why Uta was living with Reiichi and Kaoru instead of her parents, despite the fact that she clearly suffers there too?
If the family situation wasn't mentioned at all, someone would very reasonably think it's utterly stupid that Uta lives with them.

If we're supposed to be focused on "these characters slowly growing," why are we not given the background information so we can see what they are growing from and to fully understand how and why they are "growing into" something else?

You don't always need a full background of a character to read about their progression.
Development timing doesn't always start from the very distant past to now.
One thing led to another in Uta's situation. Her broken family led her live with Kaoru and grow her feelings more.
However, we're reading about a story of how she deals with it now.
When Uta first lives with the couple, she is aware of her feelings but she is still.able to manage them. Then her feelings get too much and she finally knows she only has no choice but to leave. All this is a slow process, and you can't have a character quickly go through that. Otherwise it won't be convincing that her feelings were as intense/serious as the author's trying to depict.

Same for Kaoru. Uta had to leave for her development to start. The whole point of her character is that she always avoids uncomfortable situations to the very end. You can't expect to see any drastic change in just two chapters. That would be bad writing.
Also these two characters have an intertwined dynamic. Uta pushes Kaoru to change. I could go on about this specifically, but I've said it in previous posts and I don't want this to be that long.

It's like, you're reading a story about a depressed person. We get hints about their past because it's mandatory, since we know there must be a reason of their depression. But the story focuses on their day to day struggles and how they're trying to deal with it now. How depression affects their lives now and how certain situations are different for them now.
There are different angles a story can focus on, depending on what the author is trying to say. In this example, if the author wanted to show the effects of, for example, an abusive father, they would focus more on the past. If the author wants to focus more on how people are dealing with their depression in daily tasks, they wouldn't add as many background details, but focus on the present more and the background details would be more disperse.
The first narration is about abusive families, the second is about moving forward.

We're not going to get the details about these questions quick. If this bothers you, then yes the story is not for you. No matter how much someone explains why apples are tasty, if you don't like them you don't.
But that's subjective and doesn't mean the story is bad.

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You may well be right. But as you say, the ratio of "we're about to find out" chapters followed immediately by "actually finding out" is . . .not high.

That's not the point of the story. The point is, we see these characters slowly growing, and that's exactly the reason why some people read this.
It's not only about solving these questions. Maybe some readers just want to see the answers to these questions, and maybe this story is not for them.
But that doesn't make the story bad.

I feel like this story doesn't deserve its popularity. Unless there's something wrong with the author's health, Saburuta doesn't put much effort at all. It's like look I gave you two new characters with cute design, so now I can take a four months break.

She was doing autograph singing in other country's like Thailand in those month's.

I don't think she was doing these since June. It was around September.

I feel like this story doesn't deserve its popularity. Unless there's something wrong with the author's health, Saburuta doesn't put much effort at all. It's like look I gave you two new characters with cute design, so now I can take a four months break.

She's that good at reading people, but Uta basically had to spell it out she was in love with her?

However, given the many occasions where readers have been mis-led into anticipating that important information will soon be revealed or a significant change is about to occur in the plot, there's no reason to believe that such explanations will occur except in a massive info-dump when the series is about to end.

I think you're making a big assumption here. If you analyze stories for a living, then you know this is a character centric story, right?
The information is being withheld because it serves a purpose. It pushes for character development.

I personally don't see any big foreshadowing of upcoming information reveal like you said. Care to use some examples?
And well, the latest chapter has pushed the possibility of Reiichi not cheating slightly higher imo. That's also an assumption, but I tend to not find it impossible because the author has already given us some deeper character development than the usual cliche yuri stories.

The pace is good if you read all of the chapters in one. Maybe the waiting between the chapters only to get a slower development is the frustrating part for some readers. Not referring to you in particular, just in general.

She got angry with her husband, which is not at all usual according to her friends, by the way. I'm sure she won't accept a reiichi or risako becoming now. We would all like it to go faster but kaoru evolves slowly but surely towards a less submissive character

Kaoru is pretty pathetic. I don't like her as a character but I find her interesting nonetheless. Of course she wouldn't do a 180 turn and fully confront her husband head on.

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None of this even touches on the list of "apparent cliffhangers that went bust" or the "we interrupt this domestic melodrama to bring you another episode of the Schoolgirl Yuri Club After-School Special."

Not sure if you're referring to the secondary characters here like Kuro. I agree on that. But this chapter wasn't about her, so I don't think this is relevant right now.

Regarding the cheating not being explained, that's just how a story works. Leaving some mysteries throughout a story is better than explaining them fast. That's a good writing actually. Don't serve everything on the reader's plate right away.
And it's also good because the "cheating" showcastes Kaoru's character. It would be different if it didn't serve any purpose and was only used to prolong the story.
But that's not the case, because it has pushed Kaoru's inner conflicts to come out and help her grow in the process. It is a plot device that is intertwined with character development.

Also pretty sure we will see more about Uta's family situation when we change to Uta's perspective again.
It would be bad writing if the story ended and these things you've mentioned were left without an answer. The story is still ongoing.

I feel like this cheating angle has been prolonged way too much to not have any other significance than just Reiichi cheating.

Also regarding Risako. She may very well be in love with Reiichi and cheating, but on the other hand her words this chapter don't add up with this angle much.
When she was asked about her love life she had nothing to talk about. Instead she avoided the issue and said she was in love with her job. But then admitted she didn't like being single.
We also learn from their friends that men hit on her often.
So my question is, even if she was in love with Reiichi, why wouldn't she at least try dating someone, since she doesn't like being single and also knows Reiichi is married and not available in the way she wants to?
Also we know Reiichi liked her in highschool and not Kaoru. So why did she break up with him in the first place?
If her love for Reiichi was this strong as for her to meet him in secret now and not even try to move on and date someone else, then I find it hard to believe she would break up with him for Kaoru's sake in the first place.