we finally have yuri about a Koreaboo. it's beautiful

this manga is far more entertaining than it has any right to be lol

GQuuuuuuX is hetbait because besides him and Machu kissing Machu is almost entirely concerned with either Nyaan or Lalah for the last few episodes, she literally has to be reminded he exists by Nyaan in episode 11 and when she and him meet up again she only talks to him about Lalah’s wellbeing. Hell, during her final monologue she’s basically just calling him a bad Newtype while telling Nyaan the exact opposite message about herself minutes prior, you could remove the confession and kiss and nothing about the narrative would change. It’s such an inconsequential part of the story I really can’t say anything about it, because clearly the writers themselves didn’t care enough about it to make it at all compelling.

Friend, I wish I could do this, but the confession and kiss isn't just some random thing, it's the climax of the entire show and what solves the central conflict, since it's what impels Shuji to give up and the central conflict to end. Not to mention that the last line of the anime is entirely about Shuji. It's not hetbait, the het relationship is just incredibly badly written lol.

Which is why I said, this doujin is gqux if it were good :p

Man I wish GQux was even half as gay (or coherent) as this

Fuck Shuji all my homies hate Shuji

Real asf , as soon as I realized that sewer rat was sticking around for longer than an episode or two I dropped the show completely. Absolute bullshit after getting so hyped over that pilot and the ED

He honestly got worse as the series went on, though part of that was me thinking "sure Shuji has zero personality and is totally boring, but surely he's that way for a reason" and then it turned out, no, they just accidentally wrote a terrible character lol.

GQuuuuuuX if it was good

Im curios what do you guys think is Haruyo's hair color?

White like the haruyo rose.

Kasumi better not fumble her

If managa wrote a story about elderly care it'd still be set in some sort of school primarily featuring middle- or high schoolers. Sometimes it just gets tiresome that everything gets forced into such a narrative alley, and I feel here that's definitely a case where it's notable. There's so many other ways this story could've been constructed ...

Honestly I think this is one case where the (boarding) high school setting makes sense, you need everyone living together in the same place and the plot seems to depend on teenage emotions running high.

Incidentally, since Shirotae is an alumna, shouldn't this have the Age gap tag?

I think Abuse, Violence, and Yandere could all potentially fit as tags for this chapter. (I would include Foiled rape attempt but we don't know how it turns out yet.) I'd probably lean toward Abuse.

I don't know if incest should be tagged for the series overall? Chapter 1 sure.

This is my position too. Keep the tag for the chapter, but leave it off the series overall

I support this as well.

Finally, a lesbian lucky pervert. I've waited so long for this day

kitaku is a goddess of erotic yuri, I hope one day they'll get a serialization

Karen is a little hard to like completely. Being a homeless lazy bum mooching off a unemployed person’s finite savings doesn’t sit right with me, I hope that changes soon (then again this dumb lesbian picked up said homeless girl off the street random and offered her room and board in the first place so maybe they deserve each other)

The fault lies with society for not providing adequate support for people living in poverty.

I'm hesitating between dropping it and resuming it. Though it's a lot of work for something so hated.

The ending isn't that terrible. Yoh rejects the guy and tells him that the one she likes is Misa. Later, she confesses to Misa, who tells her she's always seen her as her best friend and never thought of the same sex as a possible romantic partner, but she promises to consider her seriously. Bonus chapter hints that it may happen in the future, because Misa gets flustered by Yoh's rizz

It doesn't end in het at all.

Probably people think the guy should be sent to the gallows or something, but he's a pretty standard shoujo male character. I guess people lost the tolerance they had in the 2000's.

Yuri fandom is a lot less forgiving of the sexually aggressive shoujo ML archetype, even in a female character (see Oduka Mai) but especially in a male character. Generally I think that's a good thing because that archetype is representative of patriarchal attitudes (and frankly is one reason I'm very picky about which shoujo I read).

I still generally enjoy this manga because every character is severely flawed, even if the guy is the most flawed. The melodrama entertains me so I selfishly want you to continue. But I also fully understand why you might lack motivation to translate a manga that gets so hated upon with every new chapter lol. (At least it gets some sort of reaction and isn't just ignored?)

poor Nayu, she has the social anxiety that makes you fuck women. a common curse

Really liked this series overall! I actually thought the ending worked quite well, and I didn't get the sense that it was rushed; it covered everything that needed to be covered.

Because you're basically saying if someone is attracted to a trans woman (at least a pre-op trans woman), she can't be a lesbian.

Aaah, in that case we simply have different definitions for what is a lesbian. That's all.

If lesbians are (exclusively) attracted to women, and trans women are women, then lesbians are attracted to trans women. If you think that isn't the case, then which of the first two premises do you deny?

Finished translating chapter 20, which is the last chapter in section 3.

As for my plans to upload this somewhere other than wattpad, I'm thinking of trying a free website like neocities or something before I try to get it up on Dynasty.

A lot of webnovel translators use a wordpress blog, so I'd recommend that.

Truly, I had forgot that lesbians' are notorious for liking dick. I'm one myself and I forgot. Really sorry about that, won't happen again.

Trans women exist.

Yeah I know, I see one everyday in the office. She's nice and tells pretty good jokes. What's your point?

You're kinda indirectly implying that trans women can't be lesbians or have relationships with other women.
i think it's important to remember that no one is more or less gay for being in a relationship with a trans person, and that trans women also date other trans women and this is still a lesbian relationship.

How so? I apologize, if my words may have come off as harsh or rude (I'm ESL, tone isn't my forte) but how did I say that? I simply, but sarcastically, said lesbians don't like dick... Which is what lesbians don't like...Am I missing something?

Because you're basically saying if someone is attracted to a trans woman (at least a pre-op trans woman), she can't be a lesbian.

Truly, I had forgot that lesbians' are notorious for liking dick. I'm one myself and I forgot. Really sorry about that, won't happen again.

Trans women exist.

I get what you mean, totally totally. I don't mean, drawing women exactly like bara (overtly fat, muscular and hairy to giant proportions) but I guess what I mean is I want a terminology like bara that's meant to denote lesbian media and content that's made by lesbians and tends to have art cues that are a tad more realistic. Similar to the connotations of bara if that makes sense. The closest I could think of is maybe Josei GL that has a non-moe art style.

Yeah, though not all josei yuri is realistic, and plenty of non-josei yuri is. So it's more something you judge on a case-by-case basis.

You know what, good point. That is important context. It could be a situation like "Oh! So you're a man, curious I've never be around a man before". I still think it would be funny if it's about the MC trying to get the girls to pair up like his favorite yuri, I like dumb fun stories like that.

What you're neglecting to realize is that the protagonist of this manga is very clearly not a cis man, since they repeatedly express their desire to be a girl. So if the other girl likes them, that doesn't make her not a lesbian.

I really like Bara a lot. I really like to see two boys chuu each other... Never once i fantasize about being a big hairy man to kiss another big hairy man... reconsider some things maybe

Today I learned Bara and Yaoi are not necessarily the same thing. Thank you.

they are considered entirely different genres. Yaoi/BL is mostly made by women for women, Bara is for the demographic of gay man that are also bears/chasers (and me as an intruder i guess lol.) tho the two are slowly blending together, in some ways, nowadays :D

You know, I've always wondered if there was a type of genre terminology of bara but for lesbian women. It certainly exists like you know when you see art that depicts lesbian relationships by a lesbian rather than a man but there's not really a term for it.

I think "rezu komi" (lesbian comic) used to mean that but the term isn't used anymore. Yuri in general doesn't have a target demographic so there isn't really a reason to distinguish the yuri that's "for women," unlike with BL.

Edit:

It's already bad enough that it's het with extra steps, but now they're implying the lesbian character may secretly like dick/men.

Not everyone with a dick is a man so you shouldn't conflate the two.

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I don't get it, this isn't a trans manga. I think about wanting to be a woman and in a lesbian relationship all the time, but that doesn't make me trans.

Ask any of your guy friends how often they think about wanting to be women and/or want to be in a lesbian relationship.

But all of my closest friends are sapphic women.

Ask them too, for a control group

If you've seen my earlier spoiler comment, the character has an even more blunt discussion about this in chapter 5 (of at least the Coolmic long comic version) and this person denies that too. I don't think there's much point in discussing with them after that. It's not going to get anywhere.

You're right, sometimes I just can't help myself lol. Looking forward to chapter 5 :)

I'm not defining what it means to be trans and it wasn't my intention to deny the journey or experiences of anyone. However, it's important to remember that we as a society and the medical community have definitions for what it means to be trans,

"I'm not defining what it means to be trans. That said, here's a definition of what it means to be trans: whatever a bunch of cis doctors think."

The character doesn't show a desire to be a woman in those panels, again it's idealization.

The character's ideal self is a beautiful girl, which means the character wants their self to be a beautiful girl. As a comparison: "NBA players are so cool" is idealization; "My ideal self is an NBA player" is wanting to be an NBA player. The protagonist just doesn't think it's possible for them to be a girl due to internalized transphobia. But the desire is blatantly there.

Being a woman is different from being a manga heroine.

The people arguing that the protagonist of this manga is not a (trans) girl have resorted to arguing that no manga character is a woman. Truly this thread has produced heretofore unseen wonders.

That's not my point. I'm saying that wanting to be recognized as a woman, biologically, psychologically and socially is different from wanting to be a idealized fictional figure.
A girl who wants to be Superman doesn't want to be a man, but the fictional superhero

Jhonathan, are you transfem? Because if not, I ask that you don't argue with transfems about what it means to be a trans woman. For the record, "wanting to be an idealized fictional figure" is extremely often the precursor to wanting to be a woman biologically and/or socially (I have no idea what you might mean by "psychologically a woman"). There's an entire webtoon about this even. Furthermore, your point is completely irrelevant because the protagonist explicitly wants to be a woman (not "recognized as") biologically -- see here and here -- as well as socially -- see here and here.

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