http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2014/jun/22/blazblue-creator-toshimichi-mori-tsubaki-was-originally-conceptualised-lesbian-yuri-character/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ovm1J_AxLQ

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well, sometimes I question even the search function on this site, I probably searched every nook and cranny with NSFW (or I think it was moderate amounds of snu snu which probably was a lot shorter) and there is this one doujinshi that had a genuinly realistic character, a blond (?) tailed girl with glasses that worries that her girlfriend want's to break up with her since she is so busy studying for an test.

I will cheat a little because I actually very rarely read manga and it needs alot to motivate me to read stuff without voice acting, Sounddesign and Soundtrack, which are by far, atleast for me, one of the strongest aspects of how to tell stories.

One Outs: Tokuchi is a gambler. A very good one at that. Basically everything he does is to get the upper hand at everyone and he enjoys every minute of it. Oh, you mean like a poker player? Nope. He gambles in everything imaginable. So, when he loses a bet against Kojima a professionel baseball player he is forced to become the pitcher for the Lycaons who are on the brink of extinction thanks to a ruthless business man/manager who just sees the money in their demise. Tokuchis goal is to bring the Lycaons back to their old fame and make them the number one team.
As every enemy around him tries to one up him Tokuchi just get's back at them and get's one step closer to his goal.
I think the title of the series is fitting:

Nobody wins but I.

Umineko: When the seagulls cry: Now I don't wanna beat around the bush here: the Sound Novel is far superior. Like in every aspect, especially with the voice and sprite patch. In fact, I even hate some of the artist choices they had for entire arcs because they were horribly misproportioned or just a pain to look at when you are used to better things. Some arcs are drawn just fine. The Anime is just better in that it has cemented the cast they used in the PSP/Ps3 remake and actually had some good renditions of the music but it only covers half of the entire story with it's two seasons and that even counts the horrible pacing at parts. Yes, the sound novels can feel like an eternity and I don't expect you to read the 8 arcs which feel like 20 hours per episode but maybe an appetizer like the manga can help you decide that for yourself but I vow to you that when you break the barrier that is hovering you will love every minute of it. Or alternativly read the manga,(for bonus points, play the soundtrack if you want, it's up on youtube!) cuz these are supposed to be manga recommendations I guess.

So, yeah, I got a bit sidetracked anyway: Umineko...Ahhh, Umineko, a series that should be easy to categorize but when you actually try it it gets really hard to pinpoint. Is it a love letter to the mystery/detective genre or a brutal deconstruction with no survivors? Is it Higurashi with a more observing edge or is it just spitting in your face and laughing while you try to entangle this mess the golden witch of Rokkenjima has left you with?

I guess without love it cannot be seen. (<---Take note, this will come on the exam later)

(I guess in extension you could actually take the Higurashi Manga into account as well, because people say good things about it but I never read those because I am still trying to finish the original sound novel.)

last edited at Dec 31, 2014 1:55PM

I think the robbing of the physical abilities relies on the hero system being actually ACTIVE, Sonoko remarks how they only drove the vertexes back, which of course you could still argue is what Yuna and the others PRESUMED to not have done so the Hero System being on stand-by between Tougos memory loss until the next attack and the sorta makes sense to me which makes the robbing more like borrowing to me.

Also the part where Yuna collapses is probably completly symbolic and I expect a new cast for the sequel

Oh, almost forgot, this maybe stretching a bit but here is a theory I have: the Taisha made a deal/used Yuuna as a catalyst for everything the others lost so the Taisha could concentrate on restoring the rest of the crew and Sonoka before starting to recover Yuuna, (you know how self-sacrificing she is and how she remarked how she would find a way out of the situation after the reveal) the bunch of pressed flowers could very well hint on a big amount of time that passed between her first recovery and the recovery of the others

last edited at Dec 28, 2014 8:21AM

Yup, cardiac arrest right here

-* collapses *

last edited at Dec 27, 2014 10:26AM

@Ch 13: That doesn't answer her question BUT PLEASE continue!

last edited at Dec 26, 2014 4:53AM

I'm getting pretty damn convinced that this game may be Yoko Shimomura's best work

Imma let you finish but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elBwam8vXj0 is her best work of ALL TIME...!

just kidding, I just had to do that after I found out about it

last edited at Dec 24, 2014 10:10AM

lol

last edited at Dec 22, 2014 2:17PM

i never had imagined how two yanderes' relationship would be like... not until NOW.. and im lovin it ♫(ღ˘⌣˘ღ)♫

http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/rapunzel_1 ''coughs''

last edited at Dec 21, 2014 10:07AM

I swear I will skin you alive if I find it and it wasn't worth it, because I fucking remember the afterword D:

Edit: went through 80% of Yuri-isms catalogue and still nothing... I give up for today

last edited at Dec 21, 2014 9:58AM

http://i.imgur.com/4gqez3c.gif

I fucking despise Tsubaki

Bonus:

Shut up, I don't care if he is actually a boy, Makoto being gay is a wonderful thing

last edited at Dec 16, 2014 10:45AM

Ahhh, yes, the days after I finished Persona 3, heard there was a PSP Version with a female protagonist and immiedeatly searched for a FemMC + Aigis Social Link videos, living the Yuri dream.

''Here it comes, she already said she wanted to be always at the protagonists side, she will say it, the gayness is off the charts!'' ''Now it, comes, in the male route she openly confessed, any second now!''
Aigis: ''I will always be by your side''
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Screw that, just look at Remilias! http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/love_love_lover_librarian#17

I have a strange relationship with it, it's beating me into submission every chance it gets but then it keeps throwing new jobs into the mix and I can't help but come back like I am in some sorta abusive relationship.

Also: I miss the Chariot from Tactics Ogre.....

7 is great, even though I think Square Enix is just trolling at this point.

Though I am not too fond of the idea of remaking the game just for graphics sake, the game is actually really pretty, the character models look like shit, yes, and the areas can be a bit confusing to navigate through, but the battle sequences, spells and summons are still looking good to this day

last edited at Dec 9, 2014 11:23PM

I fucking hate / I fucking love Final Fantasy Tactics

Yuki Yunas ''problem'' (and I say that with THE greatest of quotation marks) is it's sound and music design dictating it's atmosphere which is strengthened by it's visuals, full of sunset shot and heavy atmosphere feeling scenes, and the story that is playing in it's kinda alien universe but sitll belieavable enough to make the viewer ask himself questions about it. Just listen to the Opening, it's full of mystique and wonder which leaves me in awe everytime I watch it. On the other hand, the SoL scenes are played totally unironically, it's like there are two different anime going on, but I bet it's just the carnal instinct we engraved into our minds after Evangelion went apeshit in it's later episodes and we got our first taste of mind screw and getting picked out of our comfort zone or in other words, we learned that our beloved medium tropes could have serious real life implications.

Long story short, I love it, Superheros, magical girls, loveable and smart characters, this show is one of my suprise hits this year

PS: Togo x Yuna OTP, yo

Edit: watched Episode 8 & 9,.... God damnit

last edited at Dec 7, 2014 3:24PM

You guys are crazy, Mitsuki was the only one that actually tried to make Haruka face reality and actually think about what she wants from Yuu while trying to figure her own problems and being selfish enough to know what she herself wants

Calling it now, the imouto likes Shinobu to make the triangle complete

You see, the one who narrates, and tell the story isn't Izumi, but Hana. It's not line the Author didn't bother to find a name for the boyfriend, but it's a way of showing how little he matters to Hana. This also holds for "So like that, and that happened ...", we experience the story through Hana's perspective, and she does't even listening to what Izumi's tanking about.

Too much information is just as bad as too little. The identity of "Boyfriend-san" clearly isn't relevant to the plot, and Hana wouldn't know who was it, if you asked her a second later, so it would be weird for the reader to know about that.

The story is a very short, but "Boyfriend-san"-'s backstory definitely isn't the thing it's missing.

As I said, I already considered that and that would make sense but it doesn't set her in a good light at all, atleast not in such an short one-shot like this one it makes her sound like the least likeable of all of the three involved. I guess some people can sympathise with this because they experienced it first hand but from a story perspective there is absolutly nothing that gives this one an identity on it's own because you could switch the artist and nobody would notice it. Many stories can be told over and over again like Revenge plots in the form of Moby Dick and Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan or Hamlet and The Lion King or Romeo & Juliet that finds itself in other stories short arcs, those you can't strip of their shell that easily.

Giving the boyfriend a backstory is not really what I want, I want him to have atleast done something that I can either relate to despise, anything that makes gives him just a little more presence, because how I read it, it sounded more like the author just needed things to fall in place, set-piece storytelling: Character C does Character B wrong, Character B goes crying to Character A.

But what the heck, it's a short one-story for something that should have been something in the 2/3 act or something, no use thinking too hard about it.

last edited at Nov 27, 2014 4:49AM

Boyfriend-san? ''So, like this and that happened''?

A + writing, would read again

I'm not a particularly big fan of this one but I think picking on those two details is a bit eh. It might seem lazy but not bothering naming him just shows that his name is entirely irrelevant to the story. Same with that second part. It's implied it's something fairly small and that's all that's really relevant to the story. I think there are far more valid criticisms you could make of it such as some of the stuff others have pointed out.

I was just poking fun at the apathy that I read out of it, which I guess, tainted my experience

Clearly, she either didn't care to remember his name or she forgot entirely which is weird when her Senpai is doing that all the time. Apathy

Clearly Jin didn't want to think about ANY reason why they are fighting again 'cept boyfriend goofed up again, I guess. Apathy

Clearly, I couldn't feel any concern for the Kouhais Situation since she can't even refuse her and has no redeeming qualities in this story except she is pretty good in hiding her feelings and lamenting her situation, making me feel apathy towards this.

Come on, it doesn't need much to please me writers, just give me a little more information, give him atleast some presence in the world other than the foil to the Kouhai because that would be very unfair to him or make the Kouhai go rethink her situation, meta that shit up, it's not hard, really.

last edited at Nov 25, 2014 3:54PM

Maybe first, how about not taking the most raw elements story like those offer and actually give them something resembling a character:
Boyfriend-san? seriously, not even a name? Or should I call him Foil-san?
''This and that?'' What did he do? Did he upset you? Did he flirt with another girl? Or can I take it, that's what the Kouhai is actually experiencing and it's all from her perspective, which is why the script doesn't give two fucks and a corndog?

Maybe it's a little harsh but I will not root for Yuri if it's set-piece storytelling

Boyfriend-san? ''So, like this and that happened''?

A + writing, would read again

last edited at Nov 25, 2014 11:16AM

You know that time, when you find something that just quickly weaves itself into your heart, somthing that just feels so right on all accounts and tells a small story without too many words, then, when you think it's over you find just a little bit more and you imagine a beautiful story woven around the setting, the characters and their trials and tribulations filling in the blanks?

This is one of them.

this would be so perfect if not for one small little detail