@BugDevil I can get sarcastic when I want, I just wasn't in the comments on this fanart. You can see me being sarcastic and satirical with some of my replies in the comment section of Kings & Generals' video on Ottoman Fratricide, tho.
As for jokes... well... you ain't've seen some memes I made, apparently.

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You are lost in wishful thinking. Even the gorge that opened between Yuu and Touko is only them not being able to figure out their BLATANTLY OBVIOUS love for each other and position. The audience is supposed to know what it is, while the characters are in denial...

Chill. I'm not lost in wishful thinking, because I know that Nakatani wouldn't have any other ending except YuuxTouko, otherwise sensitive readers would lose their shit and riot lol

I am convinced that Yuu loves Touko and has for a long time. But I'm not convinced at all that Touko loves Yuu. Maybe we have different definitions of love? For me, love is not infatuation, it's wanting what's best for your partner and taking their feelings into account in your day to day life.

Well, the whole premise of the series is that Touko has always had an incredibly misguided and distorted notion of what "love" is and how it works, so much so that it's remarkable that her behavior hasn't been even more toxic and destructive than we've seen it being--you could easily take the basic premises of this story and turn it into a really dark psychological horror/thriller.

(Cue images of hollow-eyed pyscho-Touko holding a knife, saying "You broke your promise, Yuu . . . You lied to me, and you know I can't stand liars!")

There are probably countless definitions of what "real love" is, but I'd guess that most of them have in common some version of the one thing that this story has disallowed from the beginning: reciprocity. So "not really love" is basically the given of the story: Touko has a distorted idea of what love is, and Yuu starts out with no real idea at all. Getting them both onto the same page with a shared, reality-based understanding of "real love" has always been the ultimate goal of the whole story.

Well thought out comment, with a lot of things I can agree with.

Well...yes? Kisses don't always have to mean "I love you, let's stay together forever" you know. It's not an empty kiss, they have been close friends for all this time and Touko and Yuu are not dating yet.

Now, it's true that a kiss doesn't have to mean anything, but for the protagonists in both "Sakura Trick" and "Girl Friends" it ended up being a slippery slope. And I highly doubt Nakatani Nio would do something similar. There's a non-zero possibility, but that would just shit up this manga. I know I deviated from whatever I wanted to tell and what you actually said, but I'm working on time constraints, since I gotta go for a date within this hour, but this is the shit my comment turned out to be, so I we'd all have to deal with that
-.-
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The part that you put under "" is basically the kind of thing I encountered in most shoujo-ai manga I've read.

Please drop the "Shoujo Ai". This is a yuri community, we actually know what we are reading.

Yuri is just a subset of shoujo-ai.

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No. No it's not. Please BV. I have heard people make the false claim that Shoujo Ai is a subset of Yuri, but you managed to somehow be even more wrong ?
There is only Yuri. Shoujo Ai is a made up term in the West. It doesn't exist. Everything you ever thought was "Shoujo Ai" is labeled Yuri in Japan. Deal with it.

Well, I guess that the saying my father says from time to time holds true here as well: "One learns while one lives.".

Ehh... I wish I was woke enough too read all the posts you made while I was asleep, so I could properly answer... But I only read bits and parts, so I find myself unable of saying anything...

@BugDevil
What? I swear I haven't been sarcastic about any of these comments. May I die tomorrow this time, if I'm lying!

The part that you put under "" is basically the kind of thing I encountered in most shoujo-ai manga I've read.

Please drop the "Shoujo Ai". This is a yuri community, we actually know what we are reading.

Yuri is just a subset of shoujo-ai.

@BugDevil
"Nobody ever saw yuri hentai on this site before.".
I'm glad that's the case. I have put the dirty phase of my life behind me, and I intend NOT to return to it EVER AGAIN. As I said, I consider it a stain in my life.

I have no desire to see those two kiss in the slightest. Maybe in an AU spin-off chapter, but at this point that is basically just like bashing their heads against a wall for a few minutes. A painful dead end.

Queer sidekicks/best friends/third wheels, etc. are shipping catnip to a significant proportion of the yuri manga readership, no matter how loudly and consistently the story as a whole is shouting “IT’S NOT GOING TO BE THEM! NOT EVER! I MEAN IT!”

This seems to be especially the case when the character in question is forthright about their same-sex desires (at least to themselves) while the MCs are doing some sort of “but we’re both girls/I’m not a lesbian, I only love you/how do two girls even have sex?/our love can never be,” etc. song and dance in the main plot.

The part that you put under "" is basically the kind of thing I encountered in most shoujo-ai manga I've read.

All I'm saying is, before the end of this manga we need to at least have a Sakaya x Touko kissing scene. While at the same time not preventing the Yuu x Touko endgame, since Yuu needs to be happy.

"we need" Bold claim there.

@BugDevil
What I'm about to say is something that I'm actually very very ashamed for, but 10-ish months ago, I found some much much more lewd things in yuri than handholding or kissing. Now, I consider it a stain in my life. sigh
Why is it so much easier for me to open up to strangers on the Internet than to people who I see every day?

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"Wholesome"
Damn, now you reminded me of something unrelated, but nice.
The meme community has created this trinity of wholesomeness concept. The 3 parts of it are Rogers, Irwin and Ross. All of these teach something. Rogers: "Be kind to other people.". Irwin: "Be kind to animals.". Ross: "Be kind to yourself."

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Dis is kyut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJm9BnJQsic

Why do I agree?

Damn, that sure was enjoyable to watch. Too bad I'm either not observing enough or not memorizing enough to get into the very scant few ever so slight deviations. But, I still gotta say that I'm glad they've been sticking to the manga thus far.
Now, the question is: will they get to a certain point in the manga and then wait for the manga to finish for a season 2, or if they'll skip a lot of events (some of which we don't even know now) to just show how the manga will end? The latter is something that I really frown upon, as I can say from my earlier experience with anime...

Well, guess I was right when I predicted that I'm gonna watch episode 4 on the computer, and not the phone. cracks nuckles Time to google that!

I just remembered that someone noticed that, near the end of episode 3, a guy saw how Touko hugged Yuu from the rear and then whispered something. That someone thought that the guy in question already has started getting suspicious about it. Now, even though I did watch episode 3 last week, my brother didn't. For several days, we struggled to find episode 3 again, so we only watched it today. Guess what? The guy in question was Maki! And to realize that only on the day the following episode is released. That's what I call "inefficient timing".

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And by the way, BV, you sound like a great onee-sama.

More like onii-san, but thanks.

Sorry—I grew up with brothers, and could not imagine that as brother behavior.

Unless it would be reading manga, listening to music, and practicing WWF body slams with the younger brother.

My brother and I tend to be on good terms, but we can get into arguments or even fights every now and then over the most banal of things. For example, recently, because a scene from an Italian comedy film, where the main character says "Qui e ultimo e una pirla", which both of, as well as both our parents, find funny, he started combining the sentence with many other things, but one of those combos really triggers the hell out, "Säkkijärven Pirla", because I find as him ruining one of my favourite songs, and the only Finnish song that I've actually like, capled "Säkkijärven Polkka". We ended up fighting both yesterday evening and today morning over that shit.

In a lot of ways, it's kind of like the relations between Egypt and Sudan, tbh.

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And by the way, BV, you sound like a great onee-sama.

More like onii-san, but thanks.

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I’m a fan here, and I’d like to keep it that way. But studying how comics work is (part of) what I do for a living, and has been for a very long time. Manga has been some part of that since the beginning, but others around here are far more knowledgeable about manga than I am.

Blastaar, I kinda miss your long disputes with AozKTM (guess that was their name) in the Citrus forums! It was nuts lmao I think AozKTM also works as an art critic of sorts. It's hard to keep up with y'all.

Are you trying to lure the rest of us to read that discussion thread as well?

If you want to keep your sanity, I'd advise against it. Otherwise, go for it.

Considering the fact that I watched both "Happy Sugar Life" and Wonderwaffle's "Alternate Future of Canada Remastered - The Movie", I am actually questioning whether I'm still sane or not. Nevertheless, I think I won't go for it.

I’m a fan here, and I’d like to keep it that way. But studying how comics work is (part of) what I do for a living, and has been for a very long time. Manga has been some part of that since the beginning, but others around here are far more knowledgeable about manga than I am.

Blastaar, I kinda miss your long disputes with AozKTM (guess that was their name) in the Citrus forums! It was nuts lmao I think AozKTM also works as an art critic of sorts. It's hard to keep up with y'all.

Are you trying to lure the rest of us to read that discussion thread as well?

I have a tendency to read some manga I like with my younger brother, and every day he accepts, we read one chapter, and then follow it up with listening to some music of his choice. It just so happens that we read chapter 9 yesterday.

oh sweet, what music did you end up listening to for chapter 9? :)

Just because we listen to music, doesn't mean its related with the manga or anime, and in the overwhelming majority of cases, it isn't. For example, yesteday, my brother asked for "Escape From the Temple" by MachinimaSound (which also happens to be my favorite music of all time. It is really good and epic, but if you expected us sticking with the mood from Bloom Into You, I'm sorry to dissapoint you.

Gah, when will there be a chapter that will actually be happier than the last two?

@Bowser Wowser
@yuri n wine
LMFAO

@Prince_Anime How the fuck is that lewd?