Commandershepard13 posted:

This is full of plotholes.

If humans are extinct, what do the zombies eat? How do they reproduce? They should just rot away.

They're zombies. Their existence requires you to ignore logic to begin with, so we are you applying it now?

The state of the human race here is ambiguous. The game's title refers to "extinct human race", but then the guy says "humans ARE things we hunt and eat." Maybe it's like Planet of the Apes where the surviving humans are different somehow than they were before?

Homura is honestly just really bad at being evil and I love it.

I'd argue she was never evil to begin with but I digress :).

I agree. Homura isn't evil. Just really selfish XD

It's really a philosophical conundrum, Homura fights justifiably for her own self-preseveration, but in doing so she hurts the one she loves, which hurts herself. Ultimately my take is that accepting her sitation as hopeless would be tantamount to suicide, so she pretty much takes the only sane path available to her. Would you give up your life, love, and happiness for the good of the world? Most people wouldn't. Whether they SHOULD is the crux of the "did Homura do anything wrong" question.

But did she end up being able to see Hanako face to face on a regular basis or not?

I just noticed that the older lady noticeably grows up too. She's even going to the same school as the younger one in the first two pictures. My guess is a 4-5 year age difference.

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^A neat thing about Inuyasha is that he actually didn't have human ears except when he turned human. But then he was drawn with hair covering where his ears would be anyway so it wasn't all that noticeable.

^She's a detail-loving scientist with bad eyesight!

Zoetrophy posted:

lol @ "I'm gonna go wash my hands for a bit."

This is definitely a mistranslation of something akin to 「ちょっとお手洗いに」 which, while literally translatable as washing hands, actually means going to the bathroom.

Might not be a mistranslation, so much as a colorful choice of words. "I'm gonna go wash my hands" in English is a common euphemism for going to the bathroom.

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Rain Spectre posted:

Can someone explain why the hell incest is an acceptable field of interest?

The thinking behind them in Japanese media, is that because they're highly socially unacceptable, incestuous relationships theoretically require a greater commitment from both partners than other kind of romantic relationship, instilling a sense of extreme emotional intensity in the viewer.

shit manga 1/10

Scintillating analysis as always, chief.

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Having a coach who's also a friend is really hard, and it can easily be a strain on both aspects of the relationship. On the one hand, you may not want to be friends with someone who constantly criticizes you, and on the other, accepting criticism from someone you consider a peer is pretty painful. Shijou to her credit struck a better balance this chapter of positivity and urgency.

That last page had to be mochi realizing the power he has over us, his slaves, because we all are going wild over this little one-shot he has blessed us with

That's actually Stan Miller making the show of power, but otherwise yeah you're right on the money.

The whispering part was nice

Lol, oops

I like the concept of this ending, but it would have been so much better if the the series maintained the steady pacing of the first 4 chapters. Another tragedy of executive meddling I reckon.

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This was pretty hard to follow. I hate the character designs too. Is that a child, or a chibi?

Momiji is a child, the maids are adults, everyone is chibi. The perspective is confusing so you have to pay somewhat close attention to tell what's going on, I still liked it overall though.

There was a 2 year time skip in chapter 4 of Tsumugi, maybe it's during that time that Kidaha gives Yuuri and Fana the necklaces, the events of the original Earth Girls happen, and they give the necklaces back. In fact that's the only possible explanation so I'm going with it. It also partially validates Mira's sketchy chronology comment: the last part of chapter 4 takes place 2 years after the original installment.

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Looking forward to it.

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I installed it but it doesn't work :( After installation I picked random story to read and later checked if hover will change color. Still looks the same ;/

Not sure if this is your problem, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't actually detect whether or not you've read a chapter, just whether you've added it to your "read" reading list.

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Yo Cannibal, I often agree with the comments you post on this site, but you've really got to consider that other people have different values and different frames of reference than you. At times you dismiss other peoples' takes on the manga they're reading out of hand, even when they explain with evidence how they arrived at their interpretation. And you assume the author is either incompetent or doesn't have an intention they're trying to convey, which I don't recommend. Try to consider where the author is coming from, even if their writing doesn't quite work for you.

I love that people are getting into it in the discussion on this one, but honestly I don't get the vibe that the author has any well thought out intentions with this one. It just feels like they wanted to do a "cute, but with a twist!" nonsense story. Time will tell, I guess.

I'm 95% sure the author intended this story, and Suzuki's interactions with the couple to be cute and funny. Clearly for most users here, it didn't go over that way, and I think that's probably because a lot of us have dealt with at least one person with horrible boundaries, and relate very negatively to those kinds of characters.

Also, in her first appearance Suzuki was completely out of line, trying to steal Fumi away from her girlfriend. She seems to be on better terms with both girls but continues much of the obnoxious behavior from before. The "pet" scene might have been there to remedy the situation somewhat, it's too little, too late, for most readers who despised her from the beginning.

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FYI, YoI sold RIDICUOUSLY well. Literally the only series to my knowledge that have beaten it are Monogatrai, PMMM and one of the Gundam series.

Also, remember that yaoi is never targeted to gay men, but straight women (fujoshi as term exists for a reason). It's less "positive LGBT rep" in many cases and more "disturbed fem-otaku". Really, a lot of the stuff from the 70s is more respectful...

As a friend of mine put it, "Yaoi isn't gay literature, it's porn for girls."

1) Is that true of Yuri to the same extent? If not then why?

2) Wouldn't straight women enjoy more open romance in Yaoi?

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I think what's happening is that Noa has a problem with Suzuki but Fumi doesn't. Like....Fumi only see's Suzuki as a friend and doesn't realize that she's literally moving in and making advances onto her despite them not having any special kind of relationship at all. And it looks like Noa is (maybe) starting to get fed up with her, I mean, In "Warm and Soft" (The doujin where Suzuki was first introduced) Noa literally scolds Fumi for not making it clear that her and Noa were dating when Suzuki started glomping her out of nowhere.

She was angry then. Here she's smiling and cuddling up with her. And Fumi isn't just unaware, based on her reactions she's getting a kick out of Suzuki's antics.

Now don't get me wrong here, this is a weird thing going on. But the idea that Suzuki is a dire strain on their relationship, or that Noa is absolutely miserable, just isn't concretely supported by the story as it's presented here.

It's kinda... Like, at this point, there's no other word for it except polyamory, is there? In prior chapters, Suzuki seemed more annoying and intrusive, but now both of them are so comfortably and casually intimate with Suzuki of their own accord, so... I don't know, I feel like when they get older, Fumi and Noa are going to be notorious among their gay friends as that lifelong lesbian couple who seem super cute and innocently vanilla on the surface, but are constantly flirting with unsuspecting single women and luring them into kinky threesomes.

This is honestly what I'm seeing on the page here. A lot of people are coming to the conclusion that Non-chan is actually super uncomfortable with Suzuki and too afraid or too shy to confront her, but in this particular story I'm simply not getting that impression. I know almost any real life analogue of this scenario would be bad, but IMO the text here is that they both like her and that's why they spend time with her.

The underlying theme here is they both seem to enjoy Suzuki's attention even though she has bad/no boundaries. It's a unique dynamic that would really only work for them, but It's cute and they're implied to spend plenty of alone time.

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I saw a reddit post in Janurary that showed FFlappers sold less than 900 copies. Why must people fail to watch good shows?