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Update: Data receovered from a server on the first floor.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-07-29/kyoto-animation-recovers-data-from-server-after-studio-1-fire/.149489

Somewhat glad it's recovered. But still, it's devastatingly sad that so many people responsible for such quality work are gone... THEY are irreplaceable.

I appreciate the usage of toys here.

Cute but a relationship like this would only deteriorate over time.

What is this, real life?

Get your reality out of my yuri

Art (in this case, works of fiction) tends to imitate reality yet is pretty much subjective (up to the onlooker/beholder to interpret it).

The first sentence is probably just a projection.
The second one is denial-- yes, such lovely teenage relationships exist and yes, such break ups do happen irl.
Third one's a triggered response.

It's a sweet story. I wonder if authors who create such lovely lesbian one-shots are actual lesbians themselves or have interviewed real-life lesbians.

((So it's a cop show about a curvy, middle-aged lesbian crime fighter kicking ass and bedding dames? I'd watch it.))

DITTO...

Fun to read.

Tol x smol is one of my favorite tropes. We need a Tol n' Smol tag. lol

Right on

Oh my, this is pretty exciting.

Fuck the oneshot, every time I read this I feel a mix of good and bad.
I want them together so bad lol.

Kinda like a foreboding? Yikes!

This chapter's intense man.

Maekawa wants to spare Shimizu the wrath of her devil side. But she's also desperate to keep her. How she's gonna make it out of this mess, hard to see.

Maekawa's pushing Shimizu away and pulling her back in, it's crazy. She's crazy. And Shimizu's a saint for keeping on trying to figure Maekawa out. It's no longer just a Manga thing between the two of them... It's manifestation of love. Both of them don't seem to want to give up on each other.

Maekawa's hang ups are a result of deep emotional and mental issues. She is struggling not because she isn't sure if she is attracted to women or not but rather because she realizes how much Shimizu has come to mean to her and she is terrified of the destructive repercussions of falling in love with her.

This, I agree with.

The way I see it, as far as Maekawa's personality is concerned as it unfolds in the story, it is her maniacally-guarded response to falling in love that messes Maekawa up and her tendency to give up on everything. I think it stems from the abandonment she experienced as a child.
She had a lover in the past (a guy) that presumably gave her the romance and the sex she needed and just selfishly dealt with it like it was just routine--nothing special. She was cold towards the relationship. Couple that with the experience of her former editor belittling her skills as a mangaka (for a very good reason tho). It really fucked her pride.

AIN'T ANYBODY GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOW SWEET THAT EAR WHISPERING WAS?

Sweet ans spicy. Touko's gonna get steamy and all hot when she finally gets Yuu for herself alone.

Nanami Touko, you smooth operator.

What's going on?

THIS manga, Yuki and the Authoress, and Still Sick... Blessed be these times of quality Yuri content.

This angsty drama is what I've been waiting for.

In the end maybe a spin off like citrus?

Aside from Sayaka's, yeah.

But I'd rather see Nakatani-sensei venture to new stories outside BiY. And I mean to say, new manga/anime projects/collabs. An anime directorial debut perhaps?

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Lewd. Should've blurred it. What shamelessness!
/s

That last page is sooo yumyum!

There's a sort of 'darkness' in the stories she created which I personally like. She's created characters that are naughty and villainous to the point you ask 'does this happen in real life', 'do they really exist?' But in the realm of literature in general such characters exist. Frankly, I'd rather have that than spice-less almost PC stories (not just in Mangas but in other medium of literature).
Not the best mangaka, but she's not the worst either in my opinion.
Granted, I haven't come across so many Mangakas to actually gauge how 'worse' they are.

such a gentlewoman..she let her walk away without trying to chase her

LOL

Ah fek it, I'm hooked.
I'm taking my time reading this stuff (currently, I'm now in ch. 3). This is so good.

I like this manga, it's heartwarming and comfy. However, I have two main problems which kinda prevent me from fully enjoying it:

1 - God, the writting can be so amateurish. One "cute" is enough, we already know what Yori is thinking when you pan to Kino's smiley face before showing Yori's embarassed face. The writting should convey information we can't derive from just looking at the panels, and honestly, those panels would just be better with no text bubbles.

2 - This is something that always pisses me off about these manga: You have a plot where bands and music are really important, and both of the MCs, including the one who's a vocalist, don't have any interesting things to say about music at all. One of my favorite shoujo stories of all time was a side story on Ouran's manga, in which a girl gets more into rock/punk/metal music after hanging out with a guy who was kinda deliquent-ish, and they bond over it. As basic as it was, that's how it works for most real people. They tend to like some music, at the very least they can mention a genre they like over others! Music isn't my life, I don't know how to play any instruments, I can only take guesses at what makes certain genres different (like, I wouldn't really know how to explain the difference between "house" and other forms of EDM, or what math rock actually is), but I'd sure as hell be able to write better interactions regarding music than these ones. I get it if the author doesn't like music (altho as an artist myself, I'd die without music to listen to while drawing...), but you could at least do the minimal amount of research. Or ask a friend, or something. Idk. It's very frustrating.

Hmm, I see where you're going with this one and I get it. I, too, would love a love story that at least would have a sort of substance instead of mere psychological nuances of love-- a thing which by the way was done masterfully in Bloom Into You, there was never a dull moment. In the story, the elements of the stage play had a crucial role in establishing the foil against the antiheroine Touko Nanami--a weapon which Yuu Koito (the heroine in that moment) wielded against Touko's self-destruction.

So maybe, instead of just singing songs to Himari, Yori could just lure the kouhai further into her romancing by teaching her the basics of guitar, or something like that, something TANGIBLE that they could bond over. A THING that the kouhai could use to discover something about the senpai, and could help Kino in trying to figure out what and how does she really feel for Yori.

On the other hand, I also concur with what everyone else has stated about the matter that Music (probably, for now) isn't the focus of the story, not even music band dynamics (like Revue Starlight, a theater group dynamic, where both the subtext gay romance and theater are obvious).

I think we should just wait and see how their romance unfolds considering that there could be a love "square" among Himari, Yori, Miki, Aki. (Wait, they rhyme huh...???).

Awesome.