lol. It's pretty interesting to watch that H-oneshot climb up the popularity rankings. I'm glad Dynasty hosts a lot of yuri smut/outright porn and some het ecchi, but I do think that letting flat-out hentai feature might not be the best thing for Dynasty's public face as a whole. At least Doi Sakazaki's stuff is refreshingly retarded--some of that other stuff stumbled across unexpectedly could be offensive to a lot more of your casual readers.

Yeah, that was a complete shot in the dark for me as well. I pegged Yuzuha for a female name, though--is it actually otherwise?

Wow, that was really good. I checked the artist's name to see if you had anything else on the reader and was surprised to find out she was the same author who did stuff like "The Promised Finger" and "Flowers Dwelling in a Forest Manor". Actually, all of the stuff there is pretty damn good and interesting but it also seems like her artstyle was a bit lighter and more delicate in this piece, to rather pleasing effect I'd say. Anyway yeah, this one was nice, so thanks again for the scanlations.

It was a good first chapter. Will be looking forward to future developments.

lol. What's the story behind this...?

Anonko wrote

[quote=Kokopure][quote=Casusby]

Backroom dealing.

And so, so many sexual favors on the part of his proofreaders D:[/quote]

DDDD:[/quote]

Haha. I always suspected that the underbelly of the scanlation world was a vortex of debauchery and corruption.

Yeah, very much agreed on the reader being more than good enough and one of the best I have ever used already. Here are a couple tentative suggestions which occurred to me, though perhaps they're not already implemented due to technical limitations?

First: although the navigation for all the other categories is very complete and helpful, I recently noticed again that categorizations by scanlation group only show a 'recent' listing. This is probably most sensible seeing as the more prolific groups probably have several hundreds of entries, far more than any single author or series, but I was wondering if complete 'group' listings might be made somewhere available.

Second: the 'recently popular' list on the front page is a pretty nice feature, in terms of what sholum mentioned above, a method of seeing what others think. I agree that something a bit more permanent might be desireable, for example a historical 'most viewed manga' listing.

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As I understood it Dynasty asks (usually significantly in advance to when we leechers think to, right? ;) They've got it under control.), and sometimes the other groups decline. The recent addition of Kawaii-scans is pleasantly surprising, though, since I hadn't expected their position to change.

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Poisons, murder, everybody dies? lol, I thought I'd mistaken Hamlet for Macbeth for a second, but that was Hamlet's ending after all.

...er, well nah; I think I'd prefer brain-melting fluff actually. :P

Anyway, phew; thank god I was wrong about the kidnapping. But damn, does the plot keep thickening. Who staged the attack; what were they after? The convolutions seem nearly endless!

1. Who were the attackers? (staged?) Assassins from Adingala; staged assassins by Sou; an unrelated third party?

2. Who was the shadowy messenger claiming to represent Adingala's King? A legitimate dispatch? Or Sou making use of his knowledge of the King's letter? I interpreted Nina's defense of Shuu as a refusal, but whether it was or it wasn't, what does that mean?

3. What is Sou after? He has the potential to have set up any part of the ambush, but it seems pointless for him to have set up all of it. Were the assassins real? Or was the messenger real? And could they really have unknowingly stepped onto a stage Sou had prepared for them?

Seems like we've got at least two confirmed forces between Nina and Shuu's happiness now: Sou's continued incestuous machinations (this is really starting to manage to creep me out btw, and I am usually okay with this kind of stuff lol), and the King of Adingala's manipulative intentions (pretty clear now that that letter contained some rather incriminating instructions). Oh man, looks like a seriously long way to go. May they thoroughly destroy each other.

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Not quite sure where to put Reader suggestions...I just checked out the latest Amnesian chapter (sooo glad this project is continuing, but that's better said directly to the Payapaya/Kawaii scans' team of course) and, well, was compelled to clicked through to Kawaii-scans' site from Payapaya afterwards. Aside from doing the editing for Amnesian, it seems like they've also got some other interesting stuff asides (I had no idea Kanamemo was by Iwami Shouko; I am slightly more compelled to check out the manga version now) so I was wondering if there was any interest in also hosting their works up on the reader. A bit ashamed asking this though, you guys are my primary yuri aggregate now, I feel like such a leecher >_>.

Discussion thread, I guess? I just wanted to post some minor personal thoughts, but it feels kinda awkward and too loud doing it in an empty forum.

Anyway, I ended up rereading Flower Flower for the first time just now 'cause I was bored. Awesome cute series. I couldn't really keep up with the 'something terrible is gonna happen' foreshadowing and plot stuff originally though cause of the breaks between new chapters. Am glad to say that after this reread I now get it.

So, Sou-sama and Shuu are expected to marry in order to maintain the purity of the royal bloodline (birthmark, dark skin, black eyes and hair). Sou's displeasure with Nina has to do with Nina and Shuu getting carried away in their own world when eventually Shuu is expected to submit and become his wife.

It was difficult to imagine what exactly Sou's "plans" were, though, in the context of backroom court politics or whatever 'cause it didn't seem like he'd be able to do anything to blatantly to persecute her when she is decently well-accepted there. But it seems kinda obvious to me now that a scheme for seperating Shuu and Nina all along would be to kidnap her (Nina) in the middle of the night during the harvest festival, and then blame it on bandits or whatever taking advantage of the occasion and also blaming Shuu for sneaking out without permission. Pretty evil actually, if that actually turned out I'd foresee a long painful wait before a return to fluffy yuri shenanigans.

As such I am kinda hoping it doesn't turn out that way, but anyway Nina's feelings right now are really beautiful and Shuu is just such a likeable protagonist so yeah, really big fan of the series.

Also, maybe this is a kinda vague thing here in that I don't know for sure if it's in Japanese as well but I really have to give the scanlators credit for conveying so well some of the amazing contextuality of some of the lines in this series. The hidden despair/helplessness revealed at the moment of "Hey, Shu. Where are we going next?" and the terrible sense of unknown foreboding evoked when Shu spoke into the nearly pitch black night "It's too late to go today, but if you want, we can go tomorrow" are incredible moments in the manga.

Awesome work. Also, if anybody actually goes through all this, thanks for reading.