The fact that they're trying so damn hard to make him like dudes (crossdressing or not) and make him feel bad for not liking them made me really uncomfortable, growing in a greatly homophobic environment reminded me of that bigotry, because people would always be like "But what if those girls are actually boys!? See? You're straight!" "Those butchy lesbians look like dudes, so you must like men afterall".

I can't help but feel like if the crossdressers were actually women crossdressing as dudes and the MC was a gay man who was attracted to one of them only for it to turn out to be a woman, who would constantly mock* him and remind him he fell in love with her and that he should feel bad for not romantically liking women in drag, it would be called really homophobic.

Yeah, Chapter 2 really reeked of so much heterophobia (intentional or not) that I almost resolved to drop this entirely after deciding it seemed sufficiently kinda-funny to give it a chance.

Fortunately, Chapter 3 seems to imply that it's not really going for a romantic angle with Ushiwaka and Ryuugasaki (which would be really forced unless something major changes -- and I'm not sure if such a change would be necessarily a good one), but rather the former being a friend in need for the latter to mitigate his popularity-induced social isolation.

I REALLY hope that Ushiwaka realizes he actually likes dudes on his OWN terms, rather than the other characters constantly pushing him towards it and making him feel bad for not liking them romantically. It just feels bad, hopefully he realizes it on his own otherwise I'm gonna have to drop it if it turns out he really does end up accepting his feelings and liking him just because everyone is trying to manipulate him into it, like IE; he analyzes his own feelings and why he carries his pendant and getting his own conclusions, rather than it being on the lines of "oh shit, everyone is telling me that not liking men is wrong, so maybe something really is wrong with me?"
Just my opinion.

Seems to me that he's not gay at all, since he didn't react at all to the other crossdressers, and it's just Ryuugasaki that he reacts to. I'm leaning towards the simple answer of Ushiwaka being still in love with the image that he had of Ryuugasaki back when he thought he was an actual girl, and the fact that Ryuugasaki insists on crossdressing 24/7 and not changing the behavior that he had during that time of ignorance prevented Ushiwaka from getting over his crush.

this is pretty tame yandere compared to others I've seen. I liked it

Her thought processes are shown to be pretty much the same as any yandere. She's only pretty "tame" for a yandere in practice because of one thing: She has a huge amount of self-restraint, something that is typically very low or even non-existent in your average yandere.

Oh, this is the same artist that drew this: https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=17876589

^ It's not Marisa that I'm thinking of when the word "intruders" comes to mind.

^^ Are you for real? Patchy would never leave the comfort of her library and its dusty shelves, where she could relentlessly mess around with Koakuma for funsies.

One-Punch Hana!
She has done 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and 10 km running in order to protect the sacred sister incest yuri.

Bullshit. How come she still has hair on her head?

2 very different approaches.

More like "same approach, different quality of execution."

... Can we please stop bringing arguments about real-life gender politics (including "boy/girl dynamic =/= normal" arguments, which more or less makes little sense to me in spite of me generally sympathizing with feminism and transgender rights) into discussion threads about stories that aren't explicitly about gender politics?! It's fine to comment on the relevance of specific happenings in the story to real-life issues, but I come here to discuss wholesome stories to give my mind some peace from Real Life's toils and misery, not to expose myself to people venting their anger and offense about their subjective presumptions of what the author's beliefs actually are based on arguably quite tenuous evidence. If I wanted to give myself migraines by engaging in arguments on gender politics, I'd go to a thread that's explicitly dedicated to it.

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For the record, "Quijote" is the modern Spanish spelling of "Quixote".

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Can someone merge this thread with the one that was made when this was turned into a series?

https://dynasty-scans.com/forum/topics/15207-i-suspect-my-childhood-friend-to-be-a-lesbian-discussion?page=1

Also, who is Majoccoid? Their art is good.

Someone who until now I've only known them as a maker of porn doujinshi.

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The way sensei's eyes are drawn looks really messed up this chapter, what the hell. Were they always like this?

I don't see the problem. Might be just you.

I lost it when she jumped out the window, like daaamn! lol

She didn't jump, she was blown out by the sheer force of Himura's execution of the flirting technique.

... Something weird is going on with Kogasa's legs.

^ Nope it ISNT lol - I watched the whole series a few days ago. Their breast sizes have been at least doubled, and their bodies made far more voluptuous. I'm not saying they are flat - they are like B (miho) to C cups in the anime. And have regular none curvy school girl bodies.

Did you specifically look at the bath scenes? Because that's when their bust sizes are at their visibly biggest in the show.

And now we have confirmation that the woman who apprehended Rei way back when really is a genuine police officer.

Wait, if Meiling is helping Sakuya with the chores, then who's guarding the gate?

How do you get from "Marika" to "waisei-eigo"? Are the kanji similar looking? And even then, you wouldn't be able to hear the characters. lol

The term "Marriage Blues" is the wasei-eigo (or loan word) in question here. It's basically a term that uses English words, but isn't something typically used in standard English. For example there are phrases like "high touch" and "don't mind", but in typical English you'd probably just use "high five" and "don't worry about it". It just needed to be kept as is here due to the obvious wordplay.

Oh so she actually said it in English. I knew "eigo" meant English, but somehow I didn't connect the dots.

Technically, she said it in Engrish.

Something tells me that Mako is on to Miho and Yukari's relationship, if her reaction in the final page is any indication.

But maybe It needs an Alt reality tag?
This seems to be a reality where they both have huge breasts and the bodies of 30 year old mothers- they clearly dont look anything like the school girls they are in the regular gnp universe.

It's just like Girls und Panzer, except they have huge badonkadonks.

Actually, if you pay attention to the bath scenes in the anime, it's largely faithful to how they're actually depicted in the show.

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This adult-looking Alicia is fine, too. I'm wondering though, who would make the most sense to ship her with?

... How is this textless? There's several pieces of dialogue and sound effects.

... Either the last page has a coloring error (Senpai's shirt is supposed to be all-white, specifically), or this scene takes place on a different day where Senpai decided to wear her coat over the white shirt.

This is why you must never assume which role your love interest wants when they say "I want a romance like X and Y!" without solid, non-circumstantial evidence supporting your assumption. Most importantly, never base such an assumption on their usual appearance and/or behavior; the term persona exists in English for a reason.

... Well, this is a novel ship (pun unintended). There's nothing that really connects any of them to each other beyond being shipgirls of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served during WW2, is there?

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I could've sworn I saw this be uploaded here last year.

We need more of this "Oh, so she's yours now? " trope.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/vacation_maou_to_pet_ch5_5#2

I really want to know more about the mom's relationship with Maou. That blush looks highly suspicious.

Wait, new series? With a Franken-girl? Sign me the fuck up!
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/vacation_maou_to_pet_ch1_5#11

That's Welcome to the Prison Island! (Prison Island e Youkoso!), which recently wrapped up in Yuri-Hime and has two volumes.
There's a couple of chapters scanlated over on Mangadex if you can stomach a SquigglesJP translation, that is.

SquigglesJP isn't horrible. It definitely could use some polishing, but I've seen much worse, and their work is quite tolerable.

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