With the premise of this series essentially being the erradication of misogyny through the power of gay, it took me a few seconds to realize that the shopkeeper was implying they should prostitute themselves to pay for their goods. Seriously, I don't know what tone that was supposed to be delivered with.

He's just pissed they altered his merch without paying for it, no prostitution implications. It'll clear up next chapter, if it follows the LN, as a lead in to talking about the wage gap.

Something interesting I ran into is that all the stories from the LN author might be set in the same world. The great mage Laplace is mentioned in A Lily Blooms in Another World, although I haven't read Dragon Daddy Diaries

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How in the hell has KFC weasled it's way into being the holiday meal in Japan? Do they not use racoon meat in it there like they do here?

Ditch that company. Seriously, tell them to gf themselves.
Just get an arubaito or two, be a shop clerk or something like that, and it'll be more than enough to make ends meet. Anything's better that working in that hellhole. It's no different than being a slave at the salt mines.

You have revealed the true nature of all labor. Salt mines all the way down

Has this always had the couple life tag?? Did I just miss something?

Yeah, it was put there early on because the editor blurbs and advertising are explicit about them being a couple but it's all subtext in the story itself. But hey, no text exists in a vacuum

Fun tags added: literal product placement of the author's own merch

I did not understand ch 23, why did the kohai apologize ??? Could someone explain it to me, please
Was it cheating??

She did the taxes for the wrong year because kouhai brought the wrong receipts. She apologized for wasting the whole night.

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Pokemon trainers wearing bondage gear now.
Gotta Dom em all.

welcome to original gen 1! Everyone had whips and it was totally cool

(Also note that, at least in the US, Subarus are the stereotypical lesbian car.)

X e n a

It really gets you in the spirit

And continues to do so

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yeah damn this chapter has really only heightened my suspicion that they or more specifically Nirvana will turn villain in the future that man is sus as all hell

I'm betting on Shy's sister being one of the main amalreiks villains, and probably one of the final ones.

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Feeling some hardcore pre-covid subway nostalgia right now

It's like replacing Tokyo with New York. Both are names of capitals of the country, so technically they're the same and your readers are more likely to be familiar with New York than Tokyo, so it makes perfect sense, right?

Strawmanning the entire practice of localization, the process of recreating the original artistic experience for a new audience and the gold standard for any even remotely professional translation, isn't going to persuade anyone. Is it rough here? Sure, absolutely. Does that mean awkward, direct translations with flattened character voices where new audiences have to be in the know or interrupt their reading experience to look something up are inherently superior? I don't think so, but I can strawman too. Personally, I think translations where you don't adapt for a target audience do a massive disservice to the creator and their art while straying very far from their intended reading experience

I believe this is the last untranslated story from "This Channel has Nobody but Us."

If this can be confirmed, I'll move it to the collection. The first few pages of the collection has a table of contents if anyone wants to check it out as I cannot read Japanese. The page counts don't line up, but that might just be a padding thing

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Could someone enlighten me? What's an asmr audio drama? I know what all these words mean separately, but...

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It is slapped together because she is an inexperienced writer, this being literally her debut.

While she may get better with experience, other writers do well in their debut work. The question of talent versus incentive remains.

Not everyone does well in their debut works, so it is hardly an actual argument. Plus...

Consider for a moment that this series is one of Galette's flagship series, one of the only ones allowed to continue when the magazine was in rough shape due to covid and tightening budgets. Like you say, it's basically a VA having fun, and it sells books. Keeping an indie publisher afloat during the pandemic is an impressive debut no matter how you slice it.

It might be more interesting to speculate why the hell it manages to do it's job so well. Here's to another 5 years of it!!

Take that Clamp.

Damn, Goggled, I still love you at least <3

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all future legal repercussions

Proving their innocence in the court of law isn't really the issue they're facing

Ah, of course. The love liquid was tears.

All hail 0mnissience, purveyor of Mayakuro!

Hey, you! You can buy this in high quality card stock on Ticcy's store. It's the size of a postcard. For like three dollars. And it's glorious. Do it.

I (although it also makes it less yuri, in the sense that "yuri" as a marketing category is largely about depicting a homosocial as well as homosexual world with the messy interface between genders largely airbrushed out, idealized and streamlined for the consumption of a straight, male audience).

Have you ever been kicked in the shins before?

So mean!

But, to expand, I think your description of yuri is quite accurate apart from the demographic which seems a few decades old. From some admittedly outdated reader surveys of Yuri Hime and major GL hubs, yuri readership is split evenly nowadays between straight male and lesbian readers, so I'd say the airbrushing and streamlining is a factor of romance genres, publishing expectations, and the quality of manga storytelling in general rather than pandering to a male audience. Josei and shoujo romance are equally streamlined in their own spheres, although it's worth mentioning each individual publication will probably skew toward one audience or another

And Battan fucking kills it. Probably more josei than yuri in the end, but she doesn't appear to be trying to publish in the genre

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Ah, new glasses day, the most important day of them all.

Should have seen this coming, even the chapter number ad two pairs of glasses... :P

Considering Seven Seas also did Whispered Words

Except, of course, they did not. One Peace Books did.

Yeah I saw in reviews that the One Peace release was very messy, so I unfortunately never bought Whispered Words. It would be nice if Seven Seas did a re-release.

You can/should still pick it up. Even if the typesetting errors and other typos are a bit silly (someone typeset an editor's correction comment in mine lmao), it's still a really good read. Seven Seas would need the rights for a re release

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Apparently page 14 of chapter 14 is an almost shot for shot recreation of a strip from Gasoline Alley, a comic from 1930. So, an homage to Frank King. I don't really know anything about comics, but I wouldn't be surprised if these references have been all over the series

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Really EFFECTIVE mushroom, huh?

It's only okay to use drugs to avoid your problems in real life, not in Gensokyo

"the princess never dies at the end of fairy tales" as someone currently taking a college course on fairy tales i can assure you that that is incorrect

You mean like the original grimm brothers stories?

Maybe a bit of the ol' Bluebeard

A surprise! Keep your eyes out, this will be getting a physical release

It was cute, but... seriously what kind of shitty restaurant they are to run out of all ingredients at the same time XD? You shouldn't even run out of 1, but I'll give them that, but all of them XD?

Look I worked at a fast food place where someone would just like, forget to order most of the items on occasion. It's plausible.

They were out of chicken last time I went to KFC. This manga hits home in a very personal way