Ugh you're absolutely right. It's corrected now. Thank you!

I live in a city with a yellow line train so it was the first place my mind went, even though I did genuinely think to myself "huh I can't think of any trains I've ridden in Japan that were just named after a color instead of the destination or something". This is what I get for translating this chapter when I'm as tired from work as the ladies in this comic.

no problem at all! in fairness, many train lines (in tokyo at least) are color coded, but it's not something that comes up on the loudspeaker. the one i always rode was blue! thank you for translating this so lovingly and faithfully. i can tell you really care :D

coolsnail posted:

asking out of curiosity because i can't find it written or documented anywhere (apologies if it's a weird thing to ask), but. what are even the qualifications for becoming an uploader (role/permission)? is it something staff just decide on, or like something one would apply for, or...?

If you're a scanlator and want to upload your own work, it's a pretty simple process that starts with posting in the #scanlation channel (on Discord) or dming me (also on Discord, orangepekoe0863). We always maintain some form of discretion in regards to scanlation quality, otherwise I can't think of anyone who's asked that's been turned down.

If you're not a scanlator and just want to be involved, we've done recruitment for various positions a couple times. When that happens, it gets posted and pinned here on the forums, and also posted on Discord, when that time comes. At that point anyone could post if they're interested and we'd pick based on post history, account age, Discord history, vibes. I'd tentatively like to recruit a few people this year, but we're not there yet.

No apologies needed at all.

thanks for explaining! i do one-person translations every so often, that's why i was wondering! :D will probably check out discord then, tysm

that was a fun read. yuni's work never disappoints :D i love how grounded her stories always are, like, these characters are just regular people. it's really refreshing in a genre like yuri which tends to lean dramatic or idealized.

i do want to poke the scanlator about page 7. i'm pretty sure "this is the yellow line" is mistranslated, and it's referring to the "please stand behind the yellow line" they always say when a train is pulling in. it's super minor and doesn't effect the story at all, but i got the feeling the TLer just wasn't aware and figured i'd point it out. the translation is otherwise well done and really natural, so awesome job!

I will never understand how the lack of STDs in (fictional)porn is something that people care about, or the lack of hygiene-condoms, etc. lol

it's not that i care exactly. more like it occurred to me while reading and i thought it was funny, because with her body count it's not that out there? and in a very much porn manga it would never ever be addressed. like the realism adds an absurdity, i guess

i'm not sure. i know that the art was spread because someone who liked it reposted it somewhere else (with artist tagged), and that was what got her in hot water. which feels ironic to say on a website like dynasty scans but

wtf this is so romantic

^ some of her more suggestive? umamusu yuri art leaked and she kinda got pressured out by the community. the fact that she deleted all her imas stuff too though, god. ugh

you may kiss the bride (on the forehead)

perfect palm-sized boobs!

azumako rules so hard. and don't worry about kotori in the back, that's her uh. excitement? showing

chihamiki is the only other miki ship besides my otp that i really enjoy. their dynamic is so interesting, and miki just... Goes better with girls who are more serious and driven, because it contrasts her personality really well. great art, 11/10 (get it? 11? pocky?)

mikiritsu!! kiss!!!!!!! screw the xbox, you've got a girlfriend to make out with

heartbroken that we lost this artist recently. like, she's not dead, but all her work is deleted after an Incident. feels like the burning of alexandria

asking out of curiosity because i can't find it written or documented anywhere (apologies if it's a weird thing to ask), but. what are even the qualifications for becoming an uploader (role/permission)? is it something staff just decide on, or like something one would apply for, or...?

her being bi doesn't bother me so much as the way the whole thing is framed. it's just Too porn lens for my taste, i think. feels like the artist is a straight dude who washes a lot of irl porn videos (the sex scenes were totally referenced from stuff like that, it's so obvious). i liked the art up until the porn started, too, because although the bodies looked nice, the expressions were so exaggerated i couldn't take it seriously. and outside of the abrupt sex, there doesn't feel like there's any chemistry whatsoever between the leads. main girl was also reading horny shoujo manga, which... is statistically likely to be het, but not guaranteed i suppose, or maybe she's reading it for the boobs and we just don't know it. without further context, it just feels like "sure i'll fuck girls too, i'll fuck anyone" x Normal Girl(tm) who's a little confused and inexperienced. and that's... the thing? we have little to no context, and what does exist isn't that good. i'm definitely not continuing this, and i wish anyone who does lots of luck. (honestly, seeing that it was lazy lily that TL'd it explained everything lmfao)

PS, uh, does the elf world have STDs? she's been having all kinds of recreational sex. imagine what brand new diseases that could unleash on the human world, because we'd have no exposure whatsoever. even something along the lines of cold sores would do some serious damage

Yeah the last few pages kind of left me a bit confused on how to feel about this.
The news report says "she had been admitted several days prior".
Qiangyi had already moved out and onto a relationship with this new girl (maybe even living together) just a few days after getting A'wu checked into that mental health facility? That is one fast rebound after getting out of a seven year relationship.

this part i think, after reflection and a reread, isn't that weird. we don't know that qiangyi was 100% faithful toward a'wu during all of that. she wanted to break up, and she was miserable, so her being involved with someone "unofficially" or even having an affair makes sense (and not unheard of for abusive relationships).

like, almost the entire story is from a'wu's warped, self-centered perspective. we can only assume what qiangyi is feeling, and more to the point, experiencing. we don't know what she does outside of the house or in her regular daily life. we only know her in relation to a'wu for the most part. this is honestly pretty clever! it isn't just a'wu who's self-centered with a distorted worldview, it's the narrative itself. the only snippets of the outside world we get (qiangyi's mom, work calls...) only exist in relation to a'wu's interest. anything she can't deal with or doesn't want to think about gets filtered out.

tl;dr qiangyi could've been sleeping with girl 2 the entire time and we'd never know it, because we barely even know her. which the more i think about it is probably the point? i feel like you could analyze this for an academic paper or something lmao

a'wu is like really clearly bipolar (delusions and all), god damn. unmedicated that can fuck you up big time. like it's depressing, but i can't blame qiangyi for checking out emotionally either. she's human, she only has so much of herself to give, and all of a'wu's wonderful words were just words. she had no intention of changing.

and from the other side, a'wu was basically licking her own wounds. feeling like shit and being helpless are seductive, in a sense? it's so easy to just Give Up, and the more you hurt yourself (verbally, physically), the more it feels not only deserved, but good and satisfying. i'm just regular depressed and never got into substance abuse and physical self harm, but i get the mental space to an extent. it's like why drug addicts don't quit? your life might be shit, but it's a familiar, comfortable kind of shit. when you're unstable, that's attractive.

that being said, i feel like the last couple pages were unnecessary tbh. it was like... a little too heavy-handed? i'm not sure how to explain it rn, but i think a subtler closure would've been better here. as it is just makes it feel like cheap shock value

i stopped reading this years ago, but i'm glad mio/shizuka ended up together and had such a sweet romance while i was gone. they were my favs and iirc i stopped reading because of some drama with them midway. i'm satisfied!

Not consciously for sure.
And either way, it may be on standby but I can't actually turn off the "yuri mode" in my brain. Could be a side effect of being gay.

this is my case definitely. my brain itself is yuri so it's just fundamentally part of me!

anyway, to add a different angle to OP's question, i do take breaks from reading yuri manga sometimes. usually it's when i'm really deep into a (yuri) ship and i don't have the capacity for anything else.

and... i also enjoy the occasional galge or harem junk. i'm the lesbian that resigns to playing guys in games because it's more important to me to have cute girls to date, and tbh, i just like super indulgent horny stuff to begin with? if i were given the choice between a shoujo romance and something like girls bravo, i'm choosing the latter

nice abs, pokke

^^ i've always said oguri is like a big dog that's convinced she's still a puppy

WOOOOO!! great ogutama. silly/10

reading oshikko sensei is like a rite of passage, or dynasty scans initiation ritual. you aren't truly a member until you've experienced This. also yeah, i have a piss kink but this is soooo far outside my tastes. are there really people who are into bladder inflation?? what's the appeal there???

that grandma chapter hit way too hard. i don't have any grandparents left now (the last one passed away from dementia a couple years back), but i've also lost multiple relatives i loved within the last 7ish years. it never gets easier. the way she remembered her grandma from before it all, when she was still "herself"... and it's so fucked up and lonely because you will never get to see that person again. you treasure and frame all the memories you can, but you never knew you needed to make an album for them until now.

i think i need a minute to cry

makuiku is def my fav here