Yeah, success in Japan is more important, but i think success overseas plays a role in it too. I mean, Citrus is quite popular outside of Japan and it got an anime. Obviously it sells well in Japan too, but i don't think many studios would want to make an anime of it if it they wouldn't be able to sell it overseas as well.

Citrus' western sales is completely irrelevant to it getting an anime tbh
It's like how the west hates Kabaneri apparently, but it's getting a season 2. Japan doesn't care about the west's opinion

Anyways, yeah YagaKimi is apparently doing quite well in Japan, so we're one step closer to get an anime of it. I think a lot of that depends on whether Citrus and Netsuzou Trap does well this year, which i think it would do since they're quite "eye-catching" for anyone not interested in yuri.

Yeah they have erotic undertones, or are full out erotic, for NTrap at least
I'm excited about both, it's true that we haven't had yuri anime that weren't comedy in a while. Them doing well at least indicates that the market and interest in yuri is alive
Lol it'd be great if ppl stopped assuming that absolutely everyone else hates Netsuzou Trap and freely and randomly bashed it on all other threads
Like please lol, can we just leave Netsuzou Trap alone and out of other threads? Yeah it's getting an anime, it's popular in Japan, rip, the end. Don't watch it, that's all. Good thing that not being the Japanese audience it's for, they won't care about our opinions. If it does well over there, they'll consider more yuri, that's all.

BTW, whats wrong with Deen? Is it because they make yaoi anime?

Someone mentioned on another thread that they're a low budget studio, tho I dont really know/am familiar with them

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Does this artist use honey instead of ink? These is SO, SO SWEET!

LOL
This is basically written like a pickup line lmfao, this is great

Hopefully, it sells well enough overseas so that way we can get a YagaKimi anime sometime soon.

Eh, success overseas wouldn't really matter, tho it would encourage licensing more yuri :0 (no matter the hate Citrus gets, it does have a big enough fandom, I'm pretty sure it did well to show the publisher that we want more yuri. We did get like over half a dozen licenses for 2017, that's more yuri than in the past years) It'd be more important that it does well in Japan, and I think it is actually, YagaKimi solod over 250k iirc? (I saw it mentioned somewhere) That it's doing well means that at least, it won't be cancelled (TTvTT) and Nakatani will be able to write the story she wants/planned (and maybe more). And the series' success definitely wouldn't reduce the chances for an anime adaptation ;u; I really liked the voice acting in the pv, to be able to see the characters move as well would be great

Even if ppl shouldn't reply to a troll, I'm glad it brought to light that we all agree that the girls aren't fat and look good. They have pretty realistic and healthy-looking bodies. It reminds me how much I love the art, I think they all look fantastic, and actually have curves, rather than have sticks for legs, or just huge boobs and butts and skinny af waists. I really like Kishi's art style, he's easily one of my favourite artists on this site, and he's fantastic at drawing expressions. Like when a girl smiles, gosh, her eyes just light up, you can tell she's smiling with just the eyes alone. His art is 10/10 for me

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I know I ranted about the cover a lot, but tbh, I'm still really happy to be holding a copy in my hands rn, finally
Oh and this is to show how it looks like lmao, like I was really surprised the first time I saw it. If I hadn't known about it beforehand, well, it definitely looks like a het shoujo romance manga, it's super misleading haha. It's eye catching I guess, and I bet readers unfamiliar with the title were definitely surprised when they picked it up out of curiosity, like surprise gay

I prefer happy endings too, but I still really liked this one. It might have been open ended, or a straight out bad end, depending on how you see it, but regardless of how you choose to interpret their relationship in the end, I think that in terms of character development, it was simply a good end. I'm very happy with how the main character turned out. Actually, I don't remember the details, but I recall her being a nicer person in general, really appreciating the other girl and valuing their friendship. Mc is annoying at times, but that's from seeing her behaviour from a detached perspective, a lot of the things she does or says is pretty common among teenagers her age, it's like, "normal", though not less annoying and cringe. And then in the end, her behaviour is just so much more likable, we see how she's grown. Even if she never directly confesses to her, even she legit keeps this inside forever, meeting that girl has changed her. That girl gave her friendship, love and warmth, and she's grown, she's happier, she's a better person now, and I can live with that.
I don't think/rmember if they ever mention it, but tbh I hope she dumps the shitty boyfriend, would have been better if she did. Hope she at least opened her eyes on wanting to date better people

I think that as a younger teenager, just 3 years feels more significant than when you're older. It's just 3 years, but I think I do feel the age gap, when it's 15 vs 18 years old, the level of maturity is noticeable too (among 15 and 18 years olds in general. not this pair specifically).

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La naissance des pieuvres isn't really a lesbian movie, it's more a depiction of teenagers growing up and going through things such as first, transient feelings of love or sexual attraction.

Sounds interesting, I remember the title and watching the trailer when I was a teenager, tho I never watched it. I might give it a go. For some reason I only recognised it you stated the French title, I suppose it's more striking and memorable than Water Lilies

Haha yep. I swear, it's the pink spine and title font.
It makes me wonder if that's what they were going for, another twist. You go into this expecting cliches, but the way this particular manga stands out is that if twists them and delivers other things. Tho that's kinda far-fetched, they probably didn't pick that font with that in mind TT_TT It's like the person in charge of the cover design didn't even know what story they were doing, and just winged it based on the back cover. Why didn't the translator/typesetter stop them tho. I have a hard time believing everyone working on it thought the font was fine, did no one object? >_>

(I hope new readers will not ignore it because of the cover desgins)

Well actually, if there were new readers, they wouldn't feel the way, they have no idea, and I don't think they'd give it a second thought after getting into it either, since they'll be used to it. (Bloom into You is still kinda a love story, just not the kind you'd think it was, based on the cover, title and font and spine pinkess). But at least for me, it's kinda meh, tho I'll get over it, being able to own a copy I can read is pretty good.

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So Yen Press is releasing this as digital and paperback. Ugh, I already have 8 volumes in Japanese, so I'm not sure which version I will settle on.

C-Can you read Japanese tho? If so, it's all good. If not, well shit, cus I think it's been dropped, since the licensing.

LOL PLS. It's legit right above your post

Official english cover.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81i0vaqcbrL.jpg)

What do you think?

I'm gonna get my copy like, tomorrow, or whenever I actually motivated myself to go outside, but from what I remember (when I saw it in stores a few days ago), the cover's like a different shade, Yuu's hair isn't really as orange as you usually see it, slightly faded or something? Which bothers me. I wasn't sure if it was just me at first, but if you compared to the colour paged inside (shows you the cover without any lettering), it is a different shade.
I dislike the font, not that on its own, its that bad of a font, but from having seen the original japanese one, the feeling is quite different and that bothers me too. The title font of the cover makes it feels all cutesy and romantic, which isn't really the right tone, imo. ALSO, the title on the spine (and the spine itself) is fucking pink (on white) af. Seeing it placed in the bookshelves, Bloom into You looks like the pinkest, most shoujo-romance-looking title.
The pink is like this

The content itself is fine but I'm just kinda like??? What happened.

Thankfully there are plenty of other good things to remember about it.

Fucking this

^ Meeh, chill it with the spoilers a bit, especially the ending too, it only aired like 2 days ago, and itd be nice to encourage those who havent wateched it too

Ah, I was worried that the school play could be the climax of the plot, soon leading to the end of the series, but I don't think it will be the case. Sure that there could be multiple plot lines developed, but with Sayaka confirmed to be cast as the lover, it's likely that the production of the play and its conclusion will lead to/is aiming for unintentional development/revelations between Sayaka and Touko (since Touko isn't planning on acting on her feelings anytime soon, she's in a medium risk position). I haven't personally given Sayaka and her situation as much thought before, as it was pretty simple and straightforward, and things were static on her end, but I'm kinda worried about her now. Nanami may not be as perceptive as Yuu, but she's sharp enough. If Sayaka's acting reflects her own feelings, she may or may not realise it. Sayaka's character is mainly built around her unrequited love, I would hate to see her heartbroken, to see her feelings then revolve around that pain.

Oh, this reminds me that I have yet to buy a copy of Yuzumori-san. Gnnngh I love this manga !

Je l'ai acheté rofl, j'ai passé la commande la journée même que c'était sorti
J'y ai pensé une seconde et je me suis dit BAH, AU PIRE, et c'est ainsi que pour la première fois, je me suis procurée un manga en japonais
En plus, le shipping était incroyablement rapide, je l'avais en mains deux jours après. I probs stared at it for a minute like *□* aaah

Its been a while but im glad someone here mentioned Black Mirror and its one gay episode because I finally got around to watching some the other day and wanted to giving that episode a try, despite that I was kinda worried and scared because everything I had watched so far from Black Mirror had a bad ending (they were good, but it just isn't genereally happy. Netflix's description for the ep made me lol, it sounds like story of gals being pals/friendship haha, but starts out like 'girl meets girl' right away and I thought it was cute lol, I wonder how quickly did ppl realise that it wasnt gonna just be about friendship :P (I mean, tho it probably has happenee before, but if I were looking for a het romance movie, I might miss the one being described as about "a man and a women's bond", tho sike heteronormativity so its probs not about friendship anyway)
It was really good, im glad I actually got around to watching it, so whoever brought it up has my thanks

oh my goood my babies c:

oh god fuck this lol im still not over this ;__;

Ah ok I found your quote

"Oshiyama knew nothing about yuri at first, Yuniko gave him a lesson about it and what is ok and what should NOT be done.
But Oshiyama broke Yuniko's rule a little in ep7, where he decided Papito and Papiya to be girl(or, tomboy), but Kojima kind of drew them like boy."

I get it now

This is also the interview the anon was quoting from

I still don't get it... You mean they should have been girls (tomboys) but were depicted as boys?

Yeah. I'm guessing that having Cocona flustered over boy Papikas doesn't imply yuri, he was aiming for an all girls harem of Papikas, he intended for them to be all girls at least (like, more clearly)
That ep was basically an otome game tbh, tho Cocona's reverse harem was like 7-8 versions of Papika

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Ah ok I found your quote

"Oshiyama knew nothing about yuri at first, Yuniko gave him a lesson about it and what is ok and what should NOT be done.
But Oshiyama broke Yuniko's rule a little in ep7, where he decided Papito and Papiya to be girl(or, tomboy), but Kojima kind of drew them like boy."

I get it now

This is also the interview the anon was quoting from

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And he "broke" the rule when he asked for the Papika boys to be tomboys, but the artist made them looking like boys. (still look like tomboy, whatever)

I'm not really sure what you mean by this
Edit: Oh wait, you probably meant:
He asked the Papika 'boys' to be tomboys, but the artist made them seem like straight up boys, and so the rule was broken in terms of the idea of yuri he was aiming for
Tho, idk, couldn't he have commented/asked for a design change?

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2 thoughts.
Why not go out with each other instead, at the double dates part, and what of your kids are all girls/same gender too

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^^^ edit lol

edit: It's just that in this case, from what Nez mentioned before, she won't have watched the ep herself until usually the day after it aired, it'd be super rip that she gets spoiled as she does her mod job TTvTT

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