Great chapter. Maybe I'm unimaginative but I like the chapters of plain Riko and Haru interaction the best. Also wow, Riko's personality is really sweet. The mom situation/stuff is pretty important for establishing her character, I wonder if we'll get to see her show up at some point as well. I feel like the story has set up a good basis for itself at this point, will be curious to see where it goes next.

Thanks to the YP team for the chapter!

Touhou Project was on my black list...

Hmm, so I guess the blacklist just removes chapters from the most current release/recently added lists, rather than going back to populate them with older chapters.

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Satoha is badass.

Well, I'm pretty sure that the only reason it was brought up in the bio in the first place was to explain Yuri's hair. So I'd agree the statement doesn't necessarily mean contradiction with the in-story setting.

In any case, always great when we get to see author's notes. Pretty interesting that Atsushi got scouted before having actually published yuri, I wonder if publishers find them via pixiv or something. Gotta admit I will be curious to see his thoughts after the conclusion in the second volume, though. For having provided a launch point for brand new yuri mangaka, I'm disappointed all over again about Tsubomi's closure.

Thanks again to YuriProject! The extra material is quite lovely.

It wouldn't be that surprising if the guy turned out to be cheating because, after all, this

It's kind of hard to lose something so strongly attached to your cell phone, but the guy is missing his face so he probably misplaces a lot of things.

I take LifeCharacter's stance on the protagonist's reaction though; it was just her immediate, not-well-thought-out emotional reaction. If it turns out it was just the guy's honest mistake, I think lil' sis has shown enough awareness/self-reflection that she wouldn't stay all blown up about it.

I think it's pretty valid if authors (yuri or otherwise) present guys as jackasses in teenage relationships in general though, because -- let's be honest -- the highschool dating scene is pretty damned shallow. I take that as a default stance for both guys and girls, the whole population. The main idea is, while it is nice to occasionally see a genuinely nice/decent guy in yuri, I don't mind at all the general portrayals of them 'cause most of the time they could actually be called pretty realistic.

Oh man, that credit page (lol). Sakuraba does seem to have it out for Sasami-san. But a large part of it must actually be self-loathing at her position instead, and Sasami's seems to be the perfect type to patch that up. I'm looking forward to some really sweet character development.

(Incidentally, seems it's Midori and Aoba. Really nice names.)

It's pretty shallow of me but I can't help thinking that these are Morinaga's cutest character designs yet. For one thing, I know it's cliche, but I can't get enough of the hime-cut. And Aoba's long hair is just gorgeous; I don't usually have any particular preference for twintails, but here she is just cute.

Amazing to see this updated today, and what a chapter, to boot. The stories in Office Romance have always been incredible but revisiting the Honey and Mustard couple is such a great treat. The way the original chapter and the extra ended, there's no way Morishima-sensei could have left it at just that, lol. I loved how it tied in with both the younger couple from Honey and Mustard and the 'younger couple' from ch.1 as well.

In any case, big thanks to Lilicious for putting this chapter out, and I would definitely love to see more. Morishima-sensei is one of my legends of yuri, really one of the best.

Dynasty/Michan?

Oh how you wound us...Mich takes all the credit again ever since the Michan-sama thing

lol, shit, what a slip. I totally meant to refer to Kyra-sama instead, dunno how I mixed that up.
(lol, really, sorry, chalk it down to sleep deprivation from me last night.)

Wow, chapter 4 was brutal. I would've gone "okay, maybe she has a point" if it really was that she thought the straight girl's feelings wouldn't last and didn't have that many feelings for her, but as it is that ending was just sad.

Also, ch. 5 gave me complicated feelings. Like, my current self does love all these heartwarming, romantic, uplifting yuri stories all over the place. Still, that last line "You have to live for love when you're young" just seems like too much fantasy to me. I wonder what it is; seems totally contradictory for me to have a problem with that when I can swallow the shallowest of the "moe-moe" vanilla series. I guess it's the pinning of the statement on "love" itself, like as a general ideal, rather than specific actual persons/relationships.

Oh, but thanks to Dynasty/Kyra for these chapters anyway though. Jin remains a very striking author, and her artstyle is pretty gorgeous.

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Always exciting to see a new series pop up. This one is so cute! Jumps right past all the subtexty 4koma series you see from magazines like Kirara into straight-up yuri. Thanks so much to the Yuri Project team, and I hope you have luck with a translator. (heck, if you don't manage to find anybody after the summer is over, I might give it a try myself.)

Got my book on Friday, and just finished reading it today (Amazon kinda skimped on the shipping, grr...one of the corners of the volume got a bit smudged). Really fascinating to discover that the serialization/collection of stories took 9 years and the completed 2nd volume only came out about a year ago in about April. A few of the older miscellaneous stories which got included in the collection are noticeably less compelling than Nana and Hitomi's story, but a couple of the other ones are quite worth it as surprising hidden gems.

In any case, chapter 7 of the volume (or the 4th of Nana and Hitomi's story) is absolutely striking as one of the most profound/evocative of Morinaga's chapters I've ever read. The translation in the book didn't catch me quite as much as the scanlation I read here a while ago, but the overall effect still comes through. Morinaga captures, in a single moment of confusion between dream and reality, both the depth/pervasiveness of Hitomi's longing for Nana romantically and the scars of uncertainty carved into her by her resignation and fear of rejection/the world around her. It's a revelation in the narration which manages to evoke both heartrending anger at the society which managed to inflict such fear/uncertainty, as well as hope for the healing she can attain from the happy future before her. It's that very chapter which manages to lodge Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossom Pink as one of the very best of Morinaga's works in my personal canon.

Aside from that, I also have to say that the ending always surprises me with how awesome it is and that this rereading managed to give me a soft spot for Nana's friend/the protagonist of one of the sidestories, Abe-chan. Her cuteness seriously reminded me of Yoshino from Marimite and I really wish we could've gotten a bit more exposition for her, whether in Nana finally coming out to her about her and Hitomi's relationship, or in how she and Tachibana-sempai finally got on in the end during/after college.

All in all, a pretty good read. This current format of getting big, extended series in a single, complete lumps is pretty enjoyable. I definitely hope Seven Seas will be interested in following up with further omnibus yuri releases.

Fucking disgusting. I'm sure they must be pulling this kind of shit all the time, particularly with the more popular shounen series, but this is the first time they've done something so blatant with a yuri series that I've seen. I'd go over and spam their forums all to hell about this if I could stand going to that website again, or having to interact with its members.

Thanks to YP for the new chapter!

Gotta admit, I'm curious to see where the author intends to go with this. I still don't like Riko being dragged around, but the way that things are escalating it seems like the author is deliberately going somewhere with it. Being assaulted by a rabid harem, being pushed into advertisement because of her looks...at some point I imagine that for Riko something will have to change. I think I'll be looking forward to it.

Haha, holy shit. Yui -> Yumi, Mio -> Rio, you're actually right.

I didn't think the anime was exceptional but I do like the characters. True that the material stays a bit too subtexty to be satisfying though. Nagi and Yuuko make a pretty gorgeous couple in my eyes, wish they would go somewhere with it.

That's just the editorial blurb they put for stories in a magazine. It's usually not even written by the mangakas themselves, so it's really unimportant. Here's a half-assed/questionable translation:

page 1: "New ground silent 16 pages. With more than your ears, listen to the two's voices."
page 2: "Hold hands, embrace each other, then hold hands again."

Upon examination, http://dynasty-scans.com/authors/inumaru_sagami and http://dynasty-scans.com/authors/sagamani are the same author. Thought I should just mention that.

http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/nostalgia#29
This page blew me away. Been awhile since I read anything by Morishima other than Hanjuku Joshi but I realized I'm not that impressed by her other early works (Hanjuku Joshi is still one of my absolute favourites though). This oneshot is pretty damned exceptional though. Glad I discovered it again.

Wow, a Morinaga Madoka doujin is really interesting...really a different atmosphere from most of the other Madoka doujin's I've read. That was quite wonderful, and even Kyuubey turned out to be a nice guy. This was a rare treat.

Yeah, that's pretty much my take on it too. Except I doubt that Rikka actually killed Alice and Makopi. Isya's works aren't typically that dark, and it seems like she plans on continuing this storyline with more ManaRikka works.

Anyway, Mana has practically got a harem in DokiDoki in terms of shipping potential...she's got practically all the subtext (Rikka, Makopi, Regina). My inclination is for Mana x Rikka too, though, so I'll look forward to what Isya turns out for DokiDoki.

My copy is shipped along with some other manga stuff. Looking forward to it very much.

Ooh, brilliant. In that case, I'm really looking forward to more. While ch.1 did provide a balanced perspective in some senses, I'm really dying at the prospect of Maru's character development. Good luck/a lot of thanks to the Lililicious team that picked this up!

Haha, yeah, Asami's 'revenge plot' was pretty far out but I'd almost call the way she sprung it on Chiharu cute rather than insane. In a way, it just showed all the more how bad Asami had it for Chiharu. I can totally get why Chiharu'd still be charmed/interested.

All in all, I agree that whatever the questions to Chiharu's character, I always did read this one shot as a happy ending. I just didn't want to cover up the fact that Chiharu's smooth way of getting back in with Asami totally reminded me of the charms of a playboy.

Read this again 'cause I was looking through stuff with the "idol" tag...have to say I found it brilliant. The dry, understated narration and parodic artstyle are just too much fun.

Anyway, something caught my eye...does the story's summary, as well as the fact that story has its own 'series' page instead of just being shown as a oneshot imply that there is/will be a continuation? That really brings a completely new perspective to the first chapter of the story...I'd totally love it if that were true. It still works pretty great as a oneshot, though, so I'll live with it if it isn't.

If you're referring to whether Chiharu was dating other girls back then, then yeah, I'm pretty sure she was. The story was pretty consistent in portraying Chiharu as a pretty flippant, self-convenient person. Her relationship with Asami back then, at least, was just Chiharu playing around.

All the same, maybe the relationship will still turn out okay? Chiharu was pretty stubborn about chasing down Asami, the question is moreso if she'd stay loyal. In any case, Asami does seem pretty stuck on Chiharu too so I won't criticize the ending relationship.