Fuuuuuuuuu.........

Knowing where this story his headed, chances are she's in love with No-rae but has no idea that she is because maybe she has never had a serious relationship before or been in love with anyone. I mean, she was already checking No-rae out and calling her cute in her head and wondering why she never remembered No-rae... well someone as cute as her. So, yeah... she's got the hots but doesn't fully realize and understand it. It will either be No-rae or Ji-hwan who lets her know. (Best guess.)

Hey Bluedrop, might want to be careful with that avatar of yours. Not sure if real nudity is allowed but something tells me it's not. Might want to change it to be safe.

Turtleduck Scans translated the first chapter of Otsu Hiyori last manga, Otomodachi kara Hajimemashou.

I think Otomodachi kara hajimemashou will be a long series like girlfriend from Morinaga Miruku, it's said in the article that it's girl meets girl, boy meets boy.

This is what I heard as well. And, since someone picked it up, does that mean it'll start showing up here or is it being put out somewhere else?? I've been wanting to read that one for a while.

The art's still great, but it has been looking rougher than some other chapters. I totally get it though (deadlines etc).

This chapter wasn't all that bad. It's seriously been a while since I've finished one without sighing. I'm hoping it'll pick up to how it used to be (before it was a complete train wreck).

Before it was a train wreck... Oh, how young I was then...

You mean like... around Ch.3...ish?? I feel like we were raging early on lmao. But, with this story, I don't even know what's what anymore lol.

Ummm...
Update on possibly getting a printed version of Their Story

Alice Cheshire

I give up hope
They won't get anywhere
Higashiyama won't make them a couple and you guys know it.
He'll just continue to milk us over and over again
But nothing will ever come from this.
They might be in love, or something but they'll never be a couple
So I give up hope

Is it just me or the last few days have people been overreacting towards Stretch almost as much as they do with Citrus? There's still very clear development going on. Them actually getting in a relationship this soon would feel kinda rushed anyways. It seems rather unlikely that they'll be in a relationship for awhile realistically. Until some of their personal problems are taken care of at the very least.

Couldn't agree more. It's like, when no progress is made people flip tables for no reason. I agree with you, this appears to be moving realistically and if a relationship does happen, it may take place after most of their personal demons/problems are sorted out. I will say this, as much as I don't mind seeing this two not get together, another side of me really wants these two to get together lol!

redmoo

When are they gonna do the nasty

Never.

Im with that guy on the previous page about this. The author is just gonna wring us until we get tired of him. Although I do feel like the best part of a yuri romance is how the two got together, we're looking at literally volumes of nothing but het drama/just regular drama (the miscarriage, family issues).

As a person who has read every yuri comic on this site at least twice, I'm going to toot my horn for a minute here and admit that i know my stuff when it comes to my yuri. I noticed that every time the younger girl even suggest something that is even remotely gay, her sempai has that look of utter disgust on her face.

I think she's homophobic while her kouhai is a little bit more adventurous but is too apprehensive to act on her yuri tendencies because she knows her sempai is homophobic.

If it weren't for Prism showing that the author clearly has the ability to make a good Yuri comic, I wouldve stopped reading this junk around the 2nd or 3rd chapter in.

EVERYONE! Don't worry! The expert is here! Pay heed to his great words and look uponith redmoo as our yuri savior for they haveth read all thy stories contained in Dynasty's vaults and have decreed Stretch a hoax! Nothing to see my good fellows, move along and find better yuri pastures. Nay! Redmoo! Please bestow your yuri wisdom and guide us to these... better yuri pastures that you and your infinite wisdom may know of and that us, lost sheep may be brought back into the fold that is pure and true yuri!

Halmoni & Lara 77

From my interpretation, the "I vowed to keep that promise that we made 'as friends'" meant that No-rae would keep the promise as long as they remained "friends", because it was promise that they made when they were friends. She was running away from Seol-a due to her unwanted romantic feelings, but then she realized that she didn't have any excuses to run away anymore. She didn't want to lose Seol-a. No-rae didn't have to act on her romantic feelings and distance herself from Seol-a. So No-rae decides to let things play out naturally, and see where their relationship goes.

As for the "Because for now, we're still friends", No-rae is acknowledging that they're just friends at the moment, but she knows that they won't be able to stay friends forever. The Korean says "as of yet", but it sounded slightly awkward so I changed it a bit. I'm assuming that this means that No-rae with either confess her feelings when she gets the balls to do so (and thus upgrade from friend to girlfriend), or she'll end her friendship with Seol-a when her feelings become too much of a burden to bear.

I couldn't agree more, this is the same interpretation I had.

x3. This was a really good chapter, probably the best thus far.

Also, was it me or did Kyung-woo ask Seol-a for a one night stand when he said,

I don't mind if you say it isn't serious. I just want one moment with...

I mean, of course I could totally be wrong but I still don't trust the bastard.

@ Halmoni
Line 9: No-rae: I can't...fall...asleep...(small text): Hiing (qc/n: whining/crying sound? change as you see fit)

Is it more of a snoring sound? Maybe a bit of a whistle kinda sound.

loudsea

Honestly, kids these days just aren't properly educated . . . how could anyone not be able to tell a Spinosaurus from a Tyrannosaurus from a Velociraptor? Know your dinosaurs, people!

The lack of Velociraptor feathers is a bit disappointing though.

All the raptors pluck their feathers nowadays. Keeping your feathers is so prehistoric.

Came to see where the discussion has gone and all I see are black bars like it's a hot night at the hentai lounge. Seems like the next release is gonna be good eh?

takachi

Snip

RR, you write so delicious! Really enjoy reading your posts :)

Lol thank you Takachi =]

Nya-chan

Well, absolutely nothing happened storywise since chapter 32. Just Ran and Keiko living like a married couple, without being married or even being a couple.

That's the problem. "Nothing happened." Like others have mentioned, plenty has actually happened. Slice of life can look like filler when in reality, the filler is actual story being told. We are seeing the characters interact with each other. More insight into their daily lives, how they speak, subtle cues about routines, how they deal with daily problems, how they cope with certain things, what they like, what they love, what excites them and what doesn't. Slice of life is that, a look into the daily life of characters. This story just happens to capture life pretty damned well mixing the mundane, the tragedy, heartbreak, drama, comedy, and doldrums of daily life. And lately, I'm beginning to think this belongs up there with the greats of the slice of life genre, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou and Aria (both with female protagonists... interesting).

The story doesn't JUST revolve around their pasts, it's always moving forward in their daily lives as well. For example, we found out Keiko really doesn't know a whole lot about Ran despite living with her. In fact, she maybe doesn't know anything at all besides the facade Ran appears to be putting up. We also learn that Keiko appears to be finally pulling through her nightmares and Ran is clearly worried about her to the point she wants to drown her worries in booze. Seriously, going by your idea of story in Stretch, this was MAJOR story development and it was totally passed off in an off-hand kinda way. Shou gave use chapters of back story to Keiko and these nightmares and in two pages, Keiko appears to just be over it and we're not presented with some big dramatic cliche, "aha!" moment. One day you just kinda go, "Oh! I'm apparently over that issue!" without ever realizing the exact moment you got over it.

The past few chapters have shown just how close these two are and yet how distant from each other they are as well. Keiko is seriously thinking about her future and Ran is actually a serious and deep person as well. Both discovered something about each other they never knew and both are comfortable enough to horse play in the bath. There is plenty of story going on. And while like many, I would LOVE to see these two start a romantic relationship, I'm just enjoying the ride. However, in regards to a romantic relationship between the two... I feel like it'd be very physical with little to know maturing on their part. I think it may have to do with overcoming their pasts and problems that stemmed from them before taking that step into a relationship... but maybe that's just me and they could start before either one is truly over their problems?! o0

Nya-Chan

I just can say that Mei is very vulnerable to Yuzu and that this "weakness" bothers her, so she holds back a great deal.

For now, every time Yuzu takes a step forward, Mei takes a step back. If Yuzu doesn't give up, eventually Mei's resolve will falter because she actually needs Yuzu more than she realizes.

Exactly.

ChocolateCakeLover

So we think is logical. But there is a part of me that would love to see Saburo Uta go full troll on us.

You don't think Saburo hasn't already??

I'm a little surprised that it's the Korean fans drawing all of the NSFW material. XP

Perversion is universal.

And maybe one day there will be official art?! C=-D

-EDIT-

@ anon

I have seen the argument tossed around heavily on DeviantArt. Surprised to see it here considering there are far more raunchier works in the Images section. These are tame by comparison. Maybe some just are shocked at seeing the two mains in the throes of passion while we're nowhere close to seeing the two mains in any similar depictions of the story no?

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so sweet! Doesn't even need any romantic hints or anything ;D

Exactly. Really enjoyed reading this one :)

It's slice of life, stories don't generally move fast in this genre and unlike most slice of life series, there is actually quite a lot of story in this series.

Ya know, I've been wondering... does it really matter who's on top?? O_o

d.d.d.

I actually like the little teasing with Ji-Hwan confessing his feeling to No-rae because he felt threatened by Seol-a LOL

Amen! I'm so glad I'm not the only one to notice this! (Unless you read my post about it sometime back. In which case, >=-l )

I got the feeling that he picked up on their growing mutual affection and decided to try and land a preemptive strike. Hell, we still don't know how he'll interact with No-rae yet since it appears that the two haven't talked and thus, he probably hasn't learned about Seol-a chasing after No-rae either.

No-rae's mom hugging Seol-a gave me the vibes of a parent officially accepting the significant other of their child and Seol-a is just really surprised. (Course, No-rae's mom could be all like, "COME BACK AND BOOZE IT UP!! YUB YUB!"

And Seol-a's derp face...

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Look at her entire body language. Her feet and legs are leaning away from Nanami, I even think her hips and the way the dress is swishing seem to make it look like she's trying to distance herself. The left hand could be seeing has trying to push her away as well but got caught by Nanami. And then her head itself is leaning away, not to mention the annoyed look in the eyes. Tis gonna be a battle OF EEEEPIC proportions.

HOLY SHIT. the ENTIRETY of page 76 gave me the creepiest fucking deja vu I have had in a long time. WintheflyingM.Fer.

It's a sign!

No, I nearly broke out into a sweat -_- ....

Seems like No-rae barely slept the night before.

Heuheuheu...page 4 of the extra can easily be misconstrued... just sayin...

Or am I the only one whose mind went there??

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HOLY SHIT. the ENTIRETY of page 76 gave me the creepiest fucking deja vu I have had in a long time. WintheflyingM.Fer.

Dropping this like it's hot.

You're dropping the series??

Korra is definitely strumming something ;P

I like the 'chapter 1' part... Hope this manga has a lot of chapters.. It is a bit rushed though... The sudden confession and new school and... Should've been devided over 2 chapters, maybe even 3... Oh well.. New fresh yuri! (owo)/

Too many romances take too freakin long lol. This is a nice change of pace ;)