I totally get Kawai's frustration here. If a goddamn percussion player was giving me shit about missing notes, I'd be pissed too. Nobody else can understand the pain of being a wind player. Those fine muscles around the lips take constant practice to maintain. Think you can just skip a couple day's practice like it's no big deal? Too bad, can't hit those high notes anymore, and your endurance is shot too. Have fun in your two hour rehearsal when you're in pain by the 60 minute mark.

This was a pretty good story. It's interesting that he was having trouble committing until after that confrontation with his father. His first instinct was to just keep lying to him until he was dead, but that line, "I just want you to be happy," seemed to make Chiaki reconsider. I know in the real world lots of people do have to keep lying to their families, or just completely cut them off, so it's nice that this story had a happy ending where his father accepted him.

pretty much exaggerated psychological thriller but quite fun to read. got hooked into this.
but was this axed tho? i feel like there could be more into this. there are a lot of plot holes too like how they never introduced who this person is, and that i wished there's more to Akane not being an Innocent Devil but a 'God'.
Miyori being a shotacon is quite uncomfortable and the story's overall kinda confusing, but hey i like it. :)

Yeah, it was cancelled early. The author talked about it on his blog, it wan't doing well and they gave him notice that he had 4 issues left to wrap things up. That's probably why the ending feels rushed. But also I think this was always going to be kind of confusing since structurally, it's a bit of mess. Plus my frankly embarrassing translation probably didn't help.

Wow, that was really something special. What a great series.

god I love Sumiko's art so much. I don't think she is coming back for this series tho, she's focused on "The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All", but it doesn't hurt to have some hope ;w;

My dream would for this to get picked up by a publisher and serialized. But I'd be happy with just a 3rd chapter wrapping it up.

I mean, I like all these songs, but it's just surreal to read a story where they're acting like this music unique, edgy, and mature, when here it's the most overplayed shit I've been hearing in stores, in movies, and on the radio my whole life.

Japan has never felt so foreign.

when i was in school, i was also one of very few girls in our city who liked rock, metal, punk, etc. the other girls mainly listened britney spears and other pop stuff. they might have heard one or another rock song, but not many girls dared to say out loud that they really liked this kind of music. even "p!nk" was too much rock for most girls...
today a little bit more girls listen to rock, but if you watch concert videos of rock concerts, the audience is still mostly male.

Where I live I don't even think it's necessarily a question of whether you "like" this type of music, it's just so culturally pervasive that everyone is familiar with it regardless of if they'd ever actually choose to listen to it. Boy or girl, when I was in school I think everyone was familiar with these songs. Something like Blur Song 2 has been in so many games, commercials, and movies that even if you've never heard the name Blur, you still know this song.

Though now that I think about it, I had a girlfriend in high school who'd never heard of Nirvana... So maybe it's just that the people I usually hung out with were the type who were more into alt rock.

This ending was really bizarre. It's pretty unclear why their solution worked at all.

When do you think the Pope will call for Hidesuke's canonization? He's performed at least two miracles already, and is clearly a deliverance of divine grace.

is this ongoing? how many chapters?

It's already completed and there's only one more chapter.

I mean, I like all these songs, but it's just surreal to read a story where they're acting like this music unique, edgy, and mature, when here it's the most overplayed shit I've been hearing in stores, in movies, and on the radio my whole life.

Japan has never felt so foreign.

WAIT A MOMENT, did they have sex on chapter 6? O_o I wasn't sure, I just noticed the tag.

Don't worry it's not just you. I also feel like that wasn't even remotely clear and then got whiplashed by the sudden realization xD

What's fun is trying to figure out when Marika realizes they've had sex.

Also, finally started reading this and got sucked in enough to sneak ahead and finish reading Volume Two. Very cute ending, their confrontation in the bar is sweet and hilarious.

But also, I got way too distracted from the main story by goddamned Karen. Holy shit woman, keep your fucking pants on. Two 14 year-olds, at the same time!? And the author just throws that in as an aside and moves on? The manga should have a spinoff series: a plucky young journalist hears rumors about this lesbian porn actress running a bar where she lures in minors and seduces them. She goes to the vice squad, but the only one in the corrupt force who believes her is a jaded veteran just weeks from retirement. After many struggles and some fun banter, they finally catch their mark and put her away, thus saving yuri forever.

I agree with Blastaar. The cheating was one of the most important developments in the story. Before that point, Setsuko was deliberately vague about their relationship. Yukino was a very damaged person, suffering from a deep insecurity, which drove her to make an insensitive and perhaps even cruel decision. This forced them to confront each other, but more importantly, it forced them each to confront themselves. That's what I really liked about this story. The characters are very human: imperfect, insecure, damaged. They hurt each other, and they hurt themselves. But they both decided that what they had together was worth repairing, and ultimately they were able to openly deal with their issues as adults.

Fixed the chapter. Thanks for the heads up.

Also, in my defense "confectionary" is also a word, apparently? At least according to Merriam-Webster. But it just means "sweets" and not also the art and business of making sweets like "confectionery".

Your just projecting your own situation onto a fictional situation that's similar to yours but different.

Nanoha wants to study in Tokyo and potentially cohabit with Chidori.
There's no way there aren't any school available in Tokyo for her to apply to.
There's no way there aren't any schools that are good enough to study at in Tokyo for her to apply to.

She has the will to study in Tokyo, the means to study in Tokyo and schools are definitely available in Tokyo.

This is a no-brainer non-issue, there are no obstacles to them cohabiting while studying in Tokyo what so ever besides sheer stupidity or hubris. Every "reason" introduced for her to study elsewhere is nonsensical and therefor, forced, cheap drama.

I sort of agree with you, but I also remember being 18 and worrying so much about university applications and then picking a school. In retrospect all those concerns seem irrelevant and I'm sure I'd have been better off choosing a school based on wherever my friends went or whatever was closest instead of going to the "best" one I could. Still, at the time, it seemed like a momentous decision. To me, Nanoha's behavior reads as a very realistic portrayal of that time in a young person's life.

I see the author is going into their "angsty plot" phase. (I recognize this is cynical)

This was originally published 18 months ago. Anything else you've read by the author she wrote long after this. If anything, she's recently, and sadly (from my perspective) entered a "no plot" phase.

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"Pineapple konnyaku?" Ewwww. Nanoha, what is wrong with you? XD Who picks a beverage that proudly advertises itself as "Thick!"?

I love the idea of drinking pineapple jello out of a juicebox. It's just so funny.

Small typo in chap 111:
"well... to time study" -> "well... time to study"

Thanks, should be fixed now.

Based on their individual reactions or lack thereof, only one seems to possibly know. We have two idiots questioning Nanoha about possibly confessing, and then we have the third coming up with a plan to lure them away and give our couple some time.

More and more I'm thinking that Kumako at least knows. But it looks like the others almost definitely don't.

Whenever I pick this up again I forget that it's kinda gotten more dark and anxious. Whenever I think about it I think of cute fun cat stories, but no it goes into a lot dark headspaces, and it always blindsides me

It feels kind of divided to me. There are a lot of signs that Yuna is a deeply troubled person, seemingly on the verge of a complete breakdown. But that storyline is interspersed among a bunch of silly slice of life stuff, so it constantly feels like it's building up to something that never arrives. I'm sure part of that feeling is just the slow release schedule, and some of the author's other works are also pretty slow paced. I bet reading Girlfriends month to month as it was released was incredibly frustrating.

I'm pretty sure we released all this 2 years ago, didn't realize it never got posted to Dynasty. The worst thing about this series was the baffling variety of extras, epilogues, and miscellaneous stuff that came out after it ended. The final volume had some extra chapters, the blu-ray releases of the anime included extra chapters, there were character polls in the magazine that lead to even more post-serialization releases, and just so much junk that it was impossible to keep track of it all. I think there are even more that we never translated.

That was a pretty good ending. I think the last chapter was very well executed, and quite impactful. Unfortunately, I have to wonder if it was a little rushed. When there's a plotline established in the second-to-last chapter that just ends with no resolution, then really makes you think the serialization might've been cut with very little notice. Maybe it was always meant to end like that, but it feels a little off.

Did that nurse up and die on her way back or what?

I'm guessing she knew what was going on between them and left to give them some space. I think she's a character in another Yorita Miyuki series, but I haven't read it so I don't know what her deal is.

it's finished?
owh,i really like them

I don't think so. This author just puts 'fin' at the end of each chapter.

Same thing happens for Her Kiss - Infectious Lust.

There's one more story in this series already out. I expect it to continue in the future as well, but the author is self-publishing this so it's not like there's a scheduled serialization or plan.

"The girl I like likes a man, so I'll fuck and marry him"

Edit: wait, this was in a Yuri anthology?!

You've got to wonder what the hell they were thinking. There was a seven month gap between issues 4 and 5, so maybe they already knew they were being cancelled and no one cared about the content at this point. I actually like this story, so I'm glad it exists, however it happened.

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

Yes, this is listed in the table of contents of that collection. I wasn't aware of the collection when I uploaded this. The pages are different since this version is from the magazine release.