Rye posted:

Pffffft in my main unfinished story I started years ago the main girl is a borderline harem girl with two main ladies love with her, so it'll be interesting to see something like that if I ever actually get to making it a reality by getting rid of this never ending depression and anger
I have 4 somewhat connected stories planned out if anyone is curious. 2 are full yuri, 2 are mainly adventure.

Please, I have ideas for at least 50 mangas. 10 have at least somewhat completed story. I just need to finally learn how to draw...

Megumiaki posted:

It took 92 chapters for the initial premise to finally be resolved. Oh well, at least now the manga can move on to bigger and better things?

It's called Slow Start for a reason.

Hahahahahah xD Look guys! He thinks making a paring canon will stop people from shipping them with someone else stares

I remember once I was considering creating thread to discuss parings or at least start discussion in Love Love thread. Realizing most people wouldn't even attempt to have a civil conversation and it'd immediately turn into uncontrollable mess that'd lead to closing of the thread took me less than 5 seconds, so I never did.

GendoIkari posted:

Does anyone else find it disturbing and creepy how viscerally people react to cheating in manga?

They have been indoctrinated both to see their partners as property and to see property as absolute above even human life. This capitalist indoctrination means that not only is losing this property worse than losing your own life, but that admitting that you may leave your partner not completely fulfilled leading them to want to look elsewhere means your intrinsic value is not absolute and this will leave them destitute in all aspects of life. The destruction of capitalist systems is required for greater romantic and sexual fulfillment.

I know you usually troll, but you also sometimes post serious comments. The way you're talking about it sound serious, but what you're talking about sounds like trolling, so I'm not sure which it is in this case.

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That sounds like a another very smart bot to me.

I suppose Ashley was worth it even if just for that meme xD

Ignoring the male/female, I'd be up for discussing bad tropes in yuri mangas in general. Or even just tropes that we personally don't like.

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I never understood why does it matter if author is male or female. And honestly I find that kind of obsession and stereotyping pretty harmful. Both can be bad writers or use bad tropes. While I understand where the assumption that male writers are worse at writing lesbian stuff comes from, that doesn't mean any female author will be good at it by default. And honestly, it's a very annoying double standard where people blame everything on author being male as soon as they learn it and excuse author's mistakes when they learn they're female. The best example is Mira and Ayanero. They both have very similar fluid heavily, over the top sex, but people never complain about Mira or assume she's a guy, while people constantly criticize Ayanero for being typical "straight guy fetishizing lesbians" and how their sex is totally unrealistic (I read comments saying they're female, Baka Updates says they're male, so I'll refrain from picking 1 side). I feel like because Mira is commonly know to be a girl and her name is easier to read as female, she doesn't nearly get as much criticism.

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I personally like idea of discussing different ships, what works and what doesn't, but what turns me off to it is exactly that majority of people take them way too seriously and any constructive discussion devolves into calling heresy and insulting other people before it even has chance to start.

Right, I also record some gameplay videos of FGO and upload them on my channel. Recently I tried to actually edit them, but to call it a hobby is a bit too much.

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I barely watch YT nowadays (i cut it down significantly cos I was wasting all my time on it). From stuff I'm still following there is this. Videos are 4-5 minutes short, so it's quick to watch and very accessible. They post 2 videos a week on average, but it seems it slowed down to 1 recently thanks to corona-chan.

yyooimu posted:

my only worries rn as I'm reading this is if its incest lmao

Who cares?

They probably act like that, because they think they know everything there's to know.

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Sadly I'm boring and all my passion is anime and manga. I'm trying to learn how to draw, but that also is only so I can draw weeaboo stuff. So unless you count drawing my own chinese porn as being passionate about something else, then no.

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Yes.they even say so there, that because of that wish they found each other. That's pretty much canon.

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riverFlower posted:

On another note, before I knew much about Hinano, I was confused as to why she was the only 2* I owned who already had an unlockable doppel. After I learned more about her, I found out that was probably because she is awesome and getting to see her have a moment of glory in coordinating the magical girls' defense, with even Nanaka deferring to her, is satisfying.

Outside of her just being cool/important character, I think it might also be because she's said to be next oldest magical girl in Kamihama after Yachiyo, Kanagi and Mifuyu (oldest in the sense how long she has been one).

Same. I read 50+ shoujo series and only handful of accidental yuris before I realized the reason I always found guys boring and forgettable was because I wasn't attracted to them.

StarDress posted:

For god sake, i watched that anime YEARS AGO, i WOULDN'T REMEMBER the EXACT minutes they took omg

The issue isn't that you misremembered, the issue is that you gave anime opening with 7 minutes setting explanation as a good example of it, but as soon as I commented about it, you replied with saying that you never told me that's what you want...

And YES, what i remember is: the anime's opening was an explanation of their story and that's it.

And all I told you was that you remembered it wrong, hence example you gave doesn't even exist to begin with...

You're throwing me into the fire pit because i didn't watched it again to post it on a new manga's forum??

I don't. Not my fault your reading with comprehension sucks. No wonder you can't understand what you're reading when you have issues with comprehending very simple sentences. It's a joke that then you're trying to argue with people how this manga is "unrealistic" and "doesn't explain itself". But whatever. Thanks for wasting my time. It was a real displeasure.

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No, no, no, no, no. It need to last at least 50 more chapters. What are you going to do when you can't comedically misunderstood each other anymore!?

Yes.

Then that's not Rika still not being over it and hiding it. That's Rika learning that wish that she pretty much regretted and gave back costed her more than she thought and breaking because now not only she has to be a magical girl, but also she'll inevitably turn into a witch. While it's not like she liked it, overall fighting witches wasn't that bad, cos she met new friends because of it as well as her new love, but now it turned out she sacrificed her soul for pretty much nothing in return. Rather than not being over her wish, it was her losing her will to live this time and Ren comforting her, which was a nice role reversal and callback to Ren's episode story.

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I actually talked about both anime and manga and no, in anime it starts just as manga on the school play and nothing is explained. And the short lecture in school is 2 minutes long in middle of episode. In your example of doing it right you said it last 7 minutes. That's way too long and exactly equivalent of giving 5 paragraphs of explanation, so I was going off your own example. Rest I won't even bother cos it's waste of my time. I already wasted more than necessary writing previous and this post.

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Doesn't mean it can't be her just with longer hair. Different personalities usually have some ways to differentiate them. Still I agree author made a poor job on making it clear.

StarDress posted:

On a story, explaining how your world works BEFORE telling your story is extremely important because ppl wouldn't be confused like i did, at least in my opinion of course.
I mean, there's a difference between explaining how your world works and exposing how they work little little(so ppl could create theories). Some rules needs to be said first, so what comes next could be cohevise, working as a base.

It depends, but actually you want usually explaining your rules when something is happening, not in advance and ideally you shouldn't need to explain anything and people should be able to figure out rules on their own just from visuals and short comments. Nobody really wants to read a story that opens with lengthy explanations of the rules, unless it's done really well and/or interesting and not in wall of text info dump. You can set some rules before, but again, the most important thing is feeding those information to your audience naturally and in small doses.

(It's kinda what Centaur no Nayami did at the beggining, they explained the whole prehistory, then the whole history, how all their races are together and how it impacts their social experience as a diverse community... in 7 minutes)

Actually manga starts with the kiss and is more or less slice of life in school with monster people without any real explanation. All the explanation of the world is done in small bonus trivia pages at the end of chapters and the chapter about history of mankind is much later. Even anime don't actually start on that lesson scene, but first you have other slice of life scenes. And honestly, neither in Centaur no Nayami, nor here I found anything so foreign and hard to understand, that you can't comprehend and enjoy it on the first read. Vampire girl is laying on the ground? Plot has to start somehow, but later we actually get a explanation that she lost energy from hunger, because she can't drink normal blood and need to find specific one and she went looking for it exactly because she couldn't feed where she lived, hence her losing conscious and lying on the ground. When girl comes to her she jumps at her and drinks her blood, making her lose conscious and feeling anemic when she wakes up. She explains she's rare breed of vampire. We got explanation in first chapter, exactly what you asked for. And girl believed her because she just drunk her blood and she's actually a monster too, so she knows monsters exists. Girl not getting worried about assault and instead falling for her? Did you ever heard of love at first sight, especially when girl is very cute (which she said)? Also again, she is a monster too, so that explains her not freaking out and being chill. Also vampire girl apologized, explained everything to her and is appearing friendly, so why should she freak out? And lastly... the tone of the story is clearly lighthearted and silly, and it's classic formula of girl meets girl, romance ensues and we just got through how they met. It's really not rocket science. I'm not really sure what there even is to get confused about...

StarDress posted:

Wait wait wait i didn't read everything, ppl are getting mad because i got confused? lmaooo y'all are WILD
I knew that "pretty weird place to look for realism" would come up because ppl says that as a pattern.
Honey, every world you see, created or not, has realism. THEIR OWN realism.
Harry Potter has realism, has "world rules", has logic.
You can't just go there, start making dark arts magic on top of the empire state being a 16 year old who knows nothing about magic. For your world to work you need rules, you NEED realism, you need everything to be cohesive. So when you say "pretty weird place to look for realism" it doesn't makes sense because... every good story has realism on their own way.
(Of course, there are stories that doesn't make a lot of sense at the beggining, but that's the magic of it, like Narnia or even Pan's Labyrinth)

I'm just shocked ppl got so nasty over something so... simplistic haha
Ppl really think that logic is what happens in our world, i mean, created worlds DON'T HAVE THE RIGHTS TO HAVE LOGIC, YOU CAN'T! lmao oh gosh... i find it funny sorry XD

Since you didn't bother reading conversation, at least read my post where I explain realism in fiction. Obviously works need logic (and even then not everything needs to be perfect, as long as it's good enough).

EDIT/ I went and checked, that scene from episode 1 takes 2 minutes in middle of episode.

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JJzo posted:

Unrelated to above, something about this story has been bugging me, besides the obvious. Second comment on this thread (now deleted it seems) mentioned multiple personalities, which would fit in mental illness category. Obviously if that was the aim of this oneshot then it failed to bring it across miserably, however one detail makes me think.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/lovely_mental_illness_distortion#7 the name on the door. She's an adult woman, who lives with her lover, why would she have her own room? If she does, why would she have her name on the door like kids usually do? This might be a nod that the cheating is actually happening in her head between two of her personalities.

I don't know, it's a stretch, and as I said if that was the aim, then the author miserably failed to make the connection clearer, but I think assuming this angle is the only way I can keep myself from almost throwing up when this oneshot pops into my head.

I saw it too and dismissed it at first as them misunderstanding the story, but now that you mention it, the other girl does look very similar to Mihiro (then again it's manga, so same face/body type syndrome) and their dialogue does sound off, so the detail of the door with the name does sound like it might suppose to imply it happening inside Mihiro's head (her mental room or something like that where her subconscious, so her personalities, hang out). That would also explain the lack of cheating tag and what Mahiro's illness is. Because of them talking how Masaki is easy to fool and that she's Mihiro's puppet I assumed it was APD or something like that but if it's instead split personality and we're seeing Mahiro's personalities talking with each other, then I'm not really sure what's the purpose of manipulating Masaki then?