I hope this won't be every chapter: "almost registered but for some reason didn't do it" ):.

It's not "some reason".

It's because she's such a bottom.

last edited at Sep 1, 2021 4:56PM

Okay, so

I just finished Revolutionary Girl Utena (anime) recently and there were a couple of things that I just had to share somewhere:

1. Why did Anthy people keep getting SLAPPED!? It was so funny that at some point I was watching it just for that XD

2. What IN THE WORLD was Miki doing with that TIMER!?

3. Why were there so many creepy brother-and-sister relationships!?

4. I really liked Utena's (japanese) voice. The way it sounded kind of boy-ish and cool and immature at the same time... Idk, I just couldn't get enough of it.

The show definitely had its share of problems plot-wise (quite a large share, for that matter...), it often got a bit repetitive and there was actually a whole arc where I never really got what was going on... Oh, and the filler episodes were the absolute worst I've ever seen.

But it was GAY enough, and that's what matters :D (jokes aside, I did enjoy it for the most part, I wasn't watching it only for the gay)

I'm actually planning to watch the movie as well, even though I read that it isn't exactly a sequel... Aaaand I've probably already dedicated way too much of my time on this mess of a show..... Oh well

PS. Almost forgot to mention something I really wanted to talk about. I just can't not talk about that line in the last episode, where Himemiya said,
"You can never be my prince. Because you're a girl."

I just burst out laughing when she said that XD
The fact that we had, like, 38 episodes of Utena saying she'll be a prince or whatever and then just... Damn, Himemiya can be pretty savage, huh? lol
Her greatest line by far XD

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I'm fairly sure Kodama wrote in an afterword or something somewhere that she likes writing terrible people

She actually wrote, "The more soap opera-like the better!" once, which is even funnier lol

And it really helped me forgive that manga for its horrible characters that I hated... Not gonna read it again tho XD

Thanks a lot for translating the author's note each time. They seem to be a very likable person and it's always nice to get to know even a little bit about the creator of the work.

Now, as of the manhua itself, it's definitely been interesting so far, looking forward to more~

Huh. So there actually was NSFW content in here. I thought they were just memeing because haha handholding so lewd.

Me too, hahaha

....Thank goodness I was actually alone when I read this

It's cuuuute. I love werewolf-vampire stories.

They kinda gloss over the whole genocide thing tho. "Don't worry, there haven't been vampires for centuries :D (because we killed them all) and we don't hold a grudge :)(because we're confident we won)".

Lol just what I was thinking. How is "Dont worry we slaughtered your whole species so its ok" meant to be reasuring?

And if vampires make more by biting like usual, then even 1 could resurrect the whole race. The witches wouldnt let even 1 live- unless they work different in this story- or things have changed.

Why did the witches wipe out the vampires anyway? Hope we get more back story and lore.

I'm so confused about this??? How can a witch and werewolf nonchalantly tell her like "oh yeah, we slaughtered all of your people into extinction, I know that looks bad for our friendship but fr it's fine I mean all the vampires are dead for centuries so what're ya gonna do!" like whattttt where is the logic

I think what they meant with the comment about vampires was that the war is now over (since they've already slaughtered all of them, but let's skip that XD), so she won't be hunted. And that whatever happened in the past doesn't need to affect their relationship, since they weren't the ones who hunted the vampires; their ancestors yes, but not them as individuals.

Though, I have to say they definitely moved on quite easily....

I had forgotten how the chapter ended and I kept wondering why people talked about training lol

Anyway, this manga definitely has a habit of making a mess of how it handles things, but I'd say this was a pretty solid conclusion to the Sarah issue (even if the arc itself felt a bit rushed). I'm actually kind of relieved that the boyfriend was real and she didn't just dump him to get together with Wakana, it's not often you see people actually moving on in manga... Also, with how abruptly this issue was brought up, I think it would have seemed cheap if she just appeared and they became a couple out of nowhere.

I feel that even if the author has actually thought of all these events beforehand (which seems very likely, since we had Wakana mention regrets way back in chapter... 9, was it?), they have a hard time introducing them properly into the storyline. I got the same feeling with the Mum arc as well: the incompetent parents had been mentioned before, but the timing of her actual appearance was just too plot-convenient to feel natural.

This was far from bad though, and I'm definitely looking forward to the training (now that I remembered about it XD)

On a personal level, still holding out for Shiho x Himari...that chapter cover is just too good and adds too much fuel to the fire.

I'm pretty sure you can let go of that...
But it's good to dream I guess XD

She gay.

EDIT: I was thinking, maybe I should have added this page...?
But then I realised I could have taken pretty much any page and my statement would still stand

last edited at Aug 28, 2021 7:56PM

Yesss...!
Shiho is doing exactly what we should expect of her to do hehe

And even though at first I got disappointed and thought she was regressing back to her superficial villain mode, thinking back on what we have seen from her, and especially the awesomelygreatsatisfyingspicy reveal of her past last chapter, I realised this wasn't true.
@yuri n wine and @anim8tur have already made a couple of very nice contributions on this subject, to which I'd like to add... Hehe, nice one author

Like I said last chapter, I like where this is going....
I finally like where this is going!

Shiho seriously needed to raise the stakes. And even though her condition is utterly ridiculous and pointless, it aligns with her pettiness perfectly and, well, let's be honest here, it really didn't make sense for her to be in this competition when she had nothing to gain, did it? It's just that, she's a bitter person, so instead of trying to get what she wants, she goes about stealing what other people have/want. She's done it before and she's doing it now. And that's fine, as long as we get a solid conclusion –whatever that may be.

I just hope the author will deliver a nice pay-off after all this.

Edit: Also, what did you expect Hima...? Of course this wouldn't go well!

last edited at Aug 24, 2021 8:29AM

Yep, that about sums it up

^ I couldn't have imagined how true this is, until I read your comment and took off my glasses.

Excuse me... what?

...I was joking.

Though my appreciation for the elbow bending was real, ngl XD
I just find it cute, cause it accentuates the difference in height... Obviously, it's not mandatory-main-point-of-focus cute, but cute nonetheless.
Yeah, I'm weird like that...

Edit: Also, it's something I wouldn't have paid attention to myself, so it's cool to see artists take note of details like that.

last edited at Aug 21, 2021 3:27PM

She stole milk! Is there no boundry this girl is unwilling to cross?!

Thankfully, she left money in exchange. If she had actually stolen that, I would have immediately dropped this; some boundaries are n e v e r to be crossed, not even in fiction.

I don't know if I'll continue reading this....

The best part in height gap couples is *obviously* the difference in the bending of the elbow when holding hands (example). I mean, there are other benefits too, but the bending of the elbow should, without a doubt, be one of the main points of focus. And then the author just goes and adds these yukata sleeves, concealing all the elbow action...!

Authors who don't appreciate the things that need to be appreciated frustrate me.

text lol
This is why I love Dynasty

I really want to read more yuri manga with girls with wavy hair, like Kawaruokoto, Mizuno & Chayama, or Witch Meets Knight. Thanks!

The only one that came to my mind was Dark Forest, White Road
Though I suppose her hair is more... floofy, rather than wavy
That, aaannd it's not really the kind of lighthearted story that you would normally read for the hairstyle lol
(emphasis on "normally" here, cause, admittedly, I did actually read it once just because I liked the characters' designs lol)

Sato did nothing wrong

Except, like, killing a couple of people and kidnapping a child and stuff lol

Jokes aside, I agree that her friend wasn't really that good of a friend. But it's better to, you know, cut ties with them or something rather than kill them XD
(though, that is quite an effective way to cut ties...)

To be honest, this series wasn't really my cup of tea. I don't usually enjoy stories where literally everyone turns out to be mentally unstable for some reason lol. I've read and even enjoyed other series with a bunch of crazy characters (Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii being a good example) but somehow this one just didn't work for me, it felt too exaggerated.

The one thing I reaaaally liked though, was the ending. It was the most perfect ending the author could give for me. I really appreciated the fact that Shio didn't go back with her brother, even after Sato's death. For the greater part of the series she was more confused and helpless than anything (which makes sense given that she was a kid), but I liked that she chose to stay with Sato, even after her memory cleared up. She had moved on and she had already found love in someone else. Also, I should mention here, it was pretty cool how we saw Shio grow up in the duration of the series, both physically and mentally: she started as an innocent and naive little girl and grew to be a person capable of thinking and deciding for herself.

last edited at Aug 12, 2021 9:58AM

This comment section crossed the boundary of funny to mildly disturbing for me.
And I could probably say the same about the manga (and a couple more I've stumbled upon by this author). Soo..
Goodbye people, and goodbye author...?

I guess I should have expected it, considering other discussions I've come across (and especially those with even the slightest amount of het and/or bisexual content) but somehow I still wasn't prepared. Just what is with people always dismissing bisexuality as a phase, or a conversion process? With people getting a hundred times angrier when the mc cheats on her gf with a man, or with guys saying they wouldn't mind getting cheated on if it was with a woman? I get that the story wasn't supposed to be taken seriously, but the comments here definitely point to some serious issues.....

^ You know, I had been misreading the title as "Accept My First Love" (for months, even after reading it twice), which... didn't really seem odd since Takebe was Soramori's first love, right? So yeah, these comments were how I noticed that it was actually "Accept my Fist of Love", which is, like, a hundred times better and funnier as a title? How did I even not notice? I get the "fist" turned to "first" but I just went and omitted a whole word there?! lol

Anyway, this was a pretty nice manga, even with the wrong title lol. I couldn't get enough of Takebe's scowls.
And yes, I did feel like I understood asexual people a little bit better, so that was neat.

the original was an ok anime the plot was poorly developed and the bad guys were subpar but the relationship was solid. There was this will they-won´t they feeling about them , there was some hints of himeko being in love wih chikane but since chikane didn´t have the raw strenght nor the mecha (like souma) it felt like she was being left behind despite her efforts to support himeko .So the end was a rollercoaester of emotions
without the context the characters feel a bit empy and now that their relationship seems to be set in stone the story feels kind of boring

I actually decided to watch the anime after all, and I'd say I pretty much agree with you. The original was still quite lacking in terms of plot, the villains were indeed completely unconvincing, it really didn't need a "long lost brother" (like, seriously...?) and, heck, even if I liked mecha (which I don't), the battles were excruciatingly repetitive. But the relationship between the main leads felt way more real in that one, I think. Also, I kinda enjoyed the whole love triangle with Souma. Even though triangles aren't my thing, and Souma annoyed the hell out of me with all his shouting, I felt that it kinda worked and gave greater justification for Chikane's angst and denial.

I love Chikane and Himeko but I wish the author didn’t just solely rely on the fact that we(some of us not all) love the two girls from the original anime. The plot, the progression, the character development is just not there. This could be so much better than it is.

That's the feeling I got too: before watching the original, I just couldn't get a feel for the characters, it was as though the author was expecting me to already know them. And now I can clearly see how they decided to remove a lot of the crap that had been crammed into the original (mecha), only there doesn't seem to be anything left. Also, changing the perspective to Chikane was a fresh idea on its own, since it's not often we get the cool black-haired girl's perspective, rather than the bubbly useless light-haired one's, but this unfortunately removed the benefit of being the protagonist from Himeko, thus reducing her to simply being bubbly and useless....

Is the diary a ploy to convince Chikane to kill Himeko in order to fulfill their purpose and serve as an inversion of THAT scene/plan in Kannazuki?

That does seem very plausible. Though, on the matter of THAT scene, may I say, why the heck was Chikane simply excused after doing something like that?! Yes, obviously Himeko also liked her, and I get that the writer probably just wanted to have the plot twist of the plot twist with "oh, she wasn't actually evil, she just needed to make Himeko hate her", which... no.

PS. Sorry for writing an essay

Umm... What...? I'm confused..
What happened here? Did Himeko really answer...? No, right? I'll assume it was only her imagination, since it didn't seem like she was really there, but...

The next panel shows an empty doorway.

True, I just thought, maybe she came and left real quickly...? lol

...Please forget you ever read this, it's embarrassing
This is why I should pay more attention to what I write before commenting, geez...!

I think the fact that I'm not very invested in this story played a great part in how easily I accepted such a stupid thought as a possibility...

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Everyone has light colored long hair so I keep getting confused on who’s who. But I remember Yozora is sleeping bag chan who was low key a mega hottie underneath that sleeping bag. And I feel tricked into reading this chapter lol I wanted to see Nekozaki and Mikoto make up.

Yeah, I kind of understand that feeling... It's like we were promised a closure on this issue in the previous chapter, but then got some random side story... which wouldn't necessarily be bad, if it was done in a way so that the change of focus didn't feel so out of place. I mean, it wasn't a terrible chapter or anything, was it? But it was terribly placed in the story.

Also, about the hottie, Yozora, I actually liked her better with short hair, as she was in Todo no Tsumari no Uchouten. It was just cuter, idk. Short and fluffy. But that might just be me.

Short hair Yozora appreciation.

Umm... What...? I'm confused..
What happened here? Did Himeko really answer...? No, right? I'll assume it was only her imagination, since it didn't seem like she was really there, but...

All of this feels kind of disjointed. And I'm referring to the series as a whole, not this chapter alone. The author is jumping from one thing to another and the progression of the plot is way too rushed. Btw, was the previous chapter an extra? Cause it certainly gave that impression and, if it wasn't, it really wasn't a good idea to just.. randomly throw that in there...
I haven't read the original (or how many other remakes of their story have been made, I've no idea XD), so I wouldn't know if it was any better. But this isn't very good...? I'm having a hard time following the plot, which... is a bit ironic since there doesn't seem to be much plot....

Whatever, I just wanna see them kill each other, *ahem*, see how it ends.

me, completely focusing on the wrong thing: why she sleepin with her accessories on

Gotta have the drip while sleeping

I really was thinking, "what kind of psychopath sleeps wearing dangling earrings?" while reading these chapters.

I know someone who does that! And they most likely (though it's not confirmed) aren't a psychopath!
So... It happens I guess.
Now if we're talking about the hairclips tho..That's a whole other level of insanity

(Actually the person I know says the clasp is a bit hard to open and close, so they avoid removing them)