Youmu and Reisen are both making possessive faces. Reisen giving the common "she's mine" look to the camera, but Youmu giving a "you're mine" look at Reisen. That definitely suggests an interesting dynamic between the two.

When did Nozomi ever refer to Nico as anything but "Niccochi"? "You're one to talk" would definitely suggest the student council in my mind, so that just leaves Eli(especially given the calm nature of the comment).

It really seems to me like the artist drew what they thought was hawt instead of actually shipping the characters. It's not an unforgivable sin, but it's something categorically different.

Why is it that every doujin of these two is smut? It's not that I have anything against smut, but why does it seem like nothing all ages has been put out for these two?

You've just got to make a little poetic abuse:

Do the impossible
Flirt the unflirtable
Row Row
Get the girl!

Fire trucks don't spray straight water at a fire because it'll just evaporate before it can do anything; instead they add a special foam to raise the boiling point enough that it can smother the flames. I'd imagine the same principle applies here.

It's amazing all the little details here: Maki just want to get the job done, Hanayo seems to be concerned(perhaps thinking she's distracted and might get herself killed), Kotori's ready to draw at a moment's notice, Eli's prepping wire and Honoka's making an offer they can't refuse.

I really hope there's more to this than just the one picture. I NEED MOAR!!!!

These books are so old that letting light into the room could damage them, however lesbian sex right next to them? That's fine, go ahead!

Books so old they could easily be damaged doesn't sound like something you'd find in a high school library. Books so old that they're out of print and the library just can't get a hold of more would seem more likely and more lesbian couch friendly.

People are calling this "messed up" and "a complex" because this isn't a healthy relationship. If it's not obvious enough on the first readthrough, "Only one person in the world was 'family' to me" appears smack dab in the middle of the page where she falls in love. As I said, this is right as she finds something permanent; the story makes a point of taking everything else away and "A Love Smeared In Ashes" shows us just how much abuse she'll take without complaint, with her only "snapping" out of pure possessiveness.

Now, the author clearly presents it as a sugary-sweet explanation of what set Sunako's heart aflutter. However, this isn't some sort of death-of-the-author analysis that's going on: we're not seeing blue curtains and reading endless amounts of imagery into them. What we're doing is quite literally looking at it literally, looking at the pieces the author presents us with and figuring out how they fit together, which isn't as happy as the story presents itself as. (I will float the idea, however, that the story is deliberately multilayered and what we're seeing on further analysis was put there intentionally)

Hmm....

Patience!

Consent!

Equality!

<Enemy> knows none!

It really does sound like a war poster.

Yun has body image issues. I don't remember Hajime ever actively rubbing them in her face(as much as Yun might love that), but there's been a time or two when she's noticed Yun being jelly and made it clear she knows.

In my headcannon, Aoba found the unsent message on the phone when she was waking Hifumi up and sent it

The one Hifumi had and the one Aoba held have different designs.

Though we all know Tsubasa gave Honoka extra special bread.

It's too bad the source for this is a Twitter post. Given that Japanese kids regularly walk to school by themselves on public transportation, I'd say it's pretty clear that their other children walked in on them on the way home, but I'd like to know why the artist has Eli using formula(did they just adopt or is there a reason she can't breastfeed a child she squeezed out?). And, of course, there's the question of them running around in their underwear, but I suppose juniorette threw up a fit in the middle of the festivities(which would be doubly embarrassing for the older ones).

Reading just the title, I thought it was going to be one of those shrunken-and-injected stories. But then, I came through the forum and didn't see it was only a single chapter until I was already reading it. My idea would probably need at least two.

I saw backpacks? Was this about elementary schoolers? O3o

They're standard briefcase things. Occasionally they're worn in backpack mode(not sure how often this happens in real life, but it's common enough in manga).

If Shio bites it, somehow I think it'll be in Onii-chan's arms just as he finds her.

It just seemed important because Umi and Nozomi are organized with Rin(with no clear connect between them - not to mention Rin's twotiming) and Honoka appears on it alone(maybe a reporter?).

That chart at the end looks important. Does anybody have a translation for it?

Poor Utsuho. She just wanted to make everybody smile. Instead she loses everything trying to protect Shitori, even being kicked while she's down by Orin coming back just to let her know she hates her.

Dark and edgy usually means "badly written", but this is one tale that manages to be a work of art.

I'm not sure why you'd want to, the the size of the images is below what the reader downsizes to, so the button has no effect(though I suppose this might not be the most obvious thing at first glance).

Are there any happy examples of this pairing? Don't get me wrong: they seem to have the best dynamic for bittersweet tales, but don't they deserve a happily ever after now and again?

Yay, more KyoukoMami! I kinda miss this type of post-series but pre-Rebellion domestic fluff setting for Puella Magi, and I was surprised to see it come back especially considering this was published just last December.

When Mami mentioned Walpurgisnacht, I was expecting Madoka and Homura to not be there(eg, a timeline that continued without her). The other option is that it somehow exists in the Rebellion universe, but there's no indication of them being there. This is clearly Homuhomu's original happy place, but there's next to no attention given to anyone but Kyouko and Mami. I can only conclude that this is Kyouko's last regrets before becoming a witch, perhaps just as Walpurgisnacht is defeated. She'd have no time to know that Madoka's dead and Homura's gone, so the idea of them burying the hatchet with Mami's friends still seems doable. This is also why there's such an emphasis on the concept of future: she won't have one, but she hopes Mami will go on to live a full life.

If you haven't given the third season a shot, you probably should. It's pretty different from the first two and the Himawari x Sakurako ship gets a bit more steam.

I don't know a thing about Nakaimo, but a cursory glance at the Wikipedia page shows "harem" and "not really his sister," so I'm not planning on watching that either. In my opinion, if you're going to insert something as dumb as het incest, at least make it actual incest!

I put Nakaimo there because otherwise I'd have to write a novel to be more specific about what I hadn't seen that might be relevant.

(Though I think you might have misread that description a tad: Nakaimo is about avoiding incest since it could cause a major scandal, if nothing else. It's one of the better excuses why MC-kun can't just pick a girl I've seen.)

As for Kinmoza... it's pretty debatable how yuri it is, but the subtext level is high enough for me to consider it yuri (On a side note, the Wikipedia page for Kinmoza lists its genre as "yuri" even though I've never seen any other site place it in the yuri genre... I wonder why)

The closest it comes to firm yuri is the fact that Aya wants Yoko bad. There are other ships teased, but nothing comes of them. Unless Aya finally works up the nerve or Yoko gets a clue, it's just subtext.

This was based on the School Idol Diaries that came out before the anime(which wrote its own continuity). In SID, Nico has twin sisters and that's it.