Mr director, having your staff make shill 2ch threads of your own series is why you get bad karma.

It's more that her artstyle has changed again in the past few chapters, you can see it in the previous chapter as well when Konatsu tears up at the café table. It looks off because it's happening right at the end, but the author even said on twitter that she put her all into drawing the last two chapters in particular.

I just think it would be funny, obviously it would be like a slap in the face for the reader if it happened.

And then they never met each other again because the author is no homo.

Is she? https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/noshiro_curry_wo_mesiagare#22

Next chapter, Koyuki and Konatsu meet again in Tokyo a few years later and introduce each other to their respective girlfriends: the girl with the same uniform as Konatsu that Koyuki came across on the school trip, and the gloomy girl Konatsu met in class on the first day of senior year.

The earlier "hints" were all Koyuki freaking out over not knowing how to deal with having someone so close to her for the first time, i.e. the sudden hug, thinking their club activity was like a date and so on. Konatsu's behavior never changed. I won't blame anyone for having certain expectations, but saying that the story's development took a weird or sudden turn is just wrong. The story was always based on the Salamander short story, it was never going to be about a fluffy, drama-free relationship. The short story is about a pair of lonely and stubborn creatures who become trapped in a toxic and self-destructive companionship due to their inability to express their feelings. The fluffier earlier stuff in Nettaigyo reflects the time when the two haven't yet confronted the issues that would pop up from them becoming very close to each other. The drama that happens afterwards is all rooted in the author wanting to do a take on the short story where the characters are gradually able to face their issues and grow past them. I do suggest rereading the story in one go once it's over to see how everything flows. If anything I'd say the callbacks are too explicit and overdone with all the frog and salamander imagery showing up at every step of the evolving relationship and visual and discussed flashbacks even when they should already be obvious.

I wasn't expecting that to be Konatsu's decision, but thinking about it, it makes sense. They know they're not alone anymore even if they're apart, and Konatsu wants to be able to stand on her own, plus she finally found a place where she belongs and her belonging isn't only identified with Koyuki. The uniform change, being in a different class from Kaede and Yamagishi and spontaneously talking to the lonely-looking girl she saw herself in all nicely cap off her growth. I felt like the last few chapters had focused mostly on Koyuki, so I'm glad Konatsu got her due before the end.

As for said end, now I'm wondering if the final chapter takes place several years later going by the preview in volume 8. Koyuki muses about who she wants by her side in it and Konatsu essentially expresses the same thing in this chapter when she says she doesn't know if she'll be something for someone else or be Koyuki's frog, and with the talk about heading towards the future at the end of the chapter, maybe the last one might hold the answer they've come to rather than just reiterating this chapter's general feeling of wanting to move forward and be something. Either way, I'm looking forward to it. I'll be sad but also glad to have seen it through.

last edited at Feb 27, 2021 7:28PM

51-page chapter this month.

"次号, 最終回"
Chapter 34 releasing on March 27th will be the last.

^
True, it was all about Haruka and Michiru in that arc, but there was a second nice pair right under everyone's noses.

ISEKAI TRUCK KILLER CONVOY

Finally a good isekai.

Have you watched the first six episodes of Vlad Love? They were released in bulk three days ago. I whole-heartedly recommend it if you like comedy in the style of Urusei Yatsura, Oshii is really harkening back to it. And it does have some cute yuri moments even though it's pure comedy first, romantic comedy second. Great OPs and EDs too.

Too real, probably even a decade into their relationship.

Heh, the Kase-san reference.

What a melancholy chapter, especially towards the end. From Shimamura's realization that she might never see Hino again, to her thoughts about how she will eventually face her own death. Though I guess it's appropriate with the overall context of these chapters being Yashiro reminiscing about events from centuries prior. I wonder if the promise she made to Shimamura and that she might have already fulfilled will be related to those final days.

last edited at Feb 15, 2021 7:38PM

I kinda groaned when I saw we reached this inevitable point in any school-focused manga, but then Nanoha decided to blaze through the expected period of indecisiveness and drama and go straight to the resolution. Nice!

^
Makes sense when you think about it, doesn't it? Poison x garbage.

As a resident mega Layton fan I find this concept very amusing.

This has been a meme with the Pripara fans on /a/ for a long time, it's surreal to see it translated.

Just found out it was already scanlated (but not posted outside the threads) by the people involved with the s3, idoltime, and movie subs, ahaha... oops.

Yeah, but I'd only saw a page here and there when it got randomly posted so this was my first time reading it all, and your version has nicer typesetting.

This has been a meme with the Pripara fans on /a/ for a long time, it's surreal to see it translated.

seriously tho i loved this series so much. it really was an easy introduction. sign me up. im sold. bring on the poly yuri.

inb4 sequel titled "An In-depth Manual to Advanced Love Triangles (To Get into College!)"

Somewhat rushed for sure but it did what it set out to do. Though after the amazingly hot kisses in some of the previous chapters, the pretty anemic ones in the last two felt very underwhelming, especially now that all three were together. If volume 2 gets extra pages, they should be all about fixing that, lol.

Also, page 19 in chapter 11 is missing.

last edited at Feb 2, 2021 3:14PM

@othiym23 You beat me by a few minutes and you expressed a lot of the same things I feel. For all intents and purposes I think it's safe to say this chapter was the confession. It was never about them saying "I love you".

This kind of relationship is definitely something the author has been trying to express throughout the whole series and why she said she'd rather not give it a label and let the work speak for itself. There's the infamous 'girlship' but that's just a marketing term rather than something that comes up in the context of the story. I wonder if she's come to her own answer considering both this chapter and the volume 9 preview at the end of volume 8 have been setting up Koyuki figuring out what Konatsu is to her and how to call that.

Honestly I'd almost see it as a bit of a cop-out at this point if they simply agreed to become girlfriends and start dating as the note to end the series on. They are definitely soulmates and both have expressed their desire and need to always be with each other, but the series went so deeply into their rawest feelings and insecurities that they managed to reach this conclusion without going through the usual motions of discovering a physical attraction to each other, which to me is a necessary part of a romantic love story. We've had things like Koyuki hugging Konatsu, Konatsu later hugging her back and stroking her hair while she was asleep, but they were always actions that punctuated specific emotional developments rather than being the point of the developments themselves, such as one hugging the other because she felt the desire for physical contact. It's telling that their most climactic instance of physical contact thus far has been them simply touching their palms while agreeing to use a first-name basis from then on, to signify that the distance between them had been finally closed. It's the most basic and stripped-down form of connection two people can have, through the full extension and contact of the body part a person uses to interact with the outside world, without any of the cultural and emotional baggage a hug, a kiss or even holding hands comes with.

In this context, I feel like making a kiss the big climax of the last two chapters would be out of place to me. If I've understood anything about the author in these past three years, is that her personal view of this relationship is one where romantic expression is off to the side and almost irrelevant. Of course people will come to the conclusion that they love each other that way, but their love is one that runs way deeper.

last edited at Jan 31, 2021 7:25PM

^
Konatsu does describe the aquarium club room as cave-like in the first chapter.

Fine, my main hope for the ending is that they go on an aquarium date in Tokyo.

I have my own set of hopes for the ending, but the one thing I really want is for the last or last two chapters to have both names in the title.

To me, the clear implication is that she’s supposed to be the prototypical “dyke”, and she’s the male author’s idea of what that would be. Basically a man trapped in a woman’s body.

The author is a woman. You're trying to apply to her a thought process she obviously doesn't follow. I myself am not a huge fan of Kase's overbearing jealousy, but it's clearly just meant to be a part of the dynamic that the author finds cute/appealing. And Yamada herself has explicitly noted that Kase is not simply "cool" in the way a guy would be and that she has feminine qualities too.

As for the rest, I don't know how you would think this story is meant to appeal more to male readers. Have you seen how any male character has been treated up to this point? This is the first time one (that's not an old man like one of the teachers) has ever been drawn with an actual face rather than a henohenomoheji and treated like a proper character rather than a prop for Kase to "rescue" Yamada from. If anything, it's been a series that's shown nothing but dismissal if not slight contempt towards the male gender. Specifying you're just talking about this arc is a cop out since the story so far clearly shows that the context is different.

last edited at Jan 30, 2021 1:56PM