Some isekais seem to take up an interesting anti-elite critique as a bit of an allegory to real life politics, but the solution always seems to be just institute a meritocracy because the oligarchs were preventing the brilliant people among the disadvantaged from rising up. It's always a little sad when that is the happy ending for the underclass

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(Random side note: aside from being hilarious, one of the reasons I’m a huge fan of the Slayers series/universe is because of its surprisingly detailed magic system.)

When do they get into the magic system in it? I need to go back and do some watching

For any scanlators out there that are interested in breaking the mold for dealing with dialects, i suggest checking out Working by Studs Terkel. The interviews transcribed in it capture regional, class, age, and education based dialects across America, which opens up authentic character voices already usable for written speech. Got an old rural character? The grandmother matriarch from a mining town in Appalachia is your woman! A JK with barely a high school education? Check out the high class escort. Dialogue is the opportunity for a character to be expressive, but character voices in manga are so bland and similar as it is with only canned archetypes as variation. But scanlators aren't professionals and professionals translate safely to keep jobs, so... we should take more risks

Well, all of that is really just leading me up to saying my favorite is that touhou doujin where the oni spoke Welsh. Now that was fun

Can anyone help? I'm new to this fandom. I want to buy the light novel volume 1 in english on amazon but I'm so confused... Is it the same as the manga??? Just a novel??? And I'm guessing the manga isn't out in english yet for purchase?

The English version is on Amazon as an ebook and as a paperback. I believe the digital version of book 2 might be out in January, but the paperback comes out in February. The manga has not yet been announced for localization, and it may be contested as Kadokawa owns the manga rights but Seven Seas is doing the light novel.

Regarding the raws, chapter 5 is out (from the December Yuri Hime), but a new chapter did not come out in the January Yuri Hime. It's probably being worked on but may be lower priority because of the wait for chapter 6. It also may have been sniped? Aoi Shoujo Scans looks like it's been running around sniping works and mentioned they were doing this one, but I'm not sure if they're uploading their works anywhere

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I hope this doesn't deter the author from Crescent Moon and Doughnuts.

Since she's serialized, she doesn't really control her own schedule. Luckily, they both run concurrently in Yuri Hime, so there shouldn't be a problem with inconsistent releases.

I've really gotta re-re-read the series again sometime. I hate the ending (which seemed horribly rushed)

6 years later there are now two new endings and best girl retroactively won. In one of them.

KonoSetsu is pretty much canon

They go out of their way to not confirm it. It drives me kinda nuts that every chance that comes up they leave it open to the best friends but married dudes ending. If the manga wasn't so aggressively het, I'd have some more faith in it in that regard

Did the mystery of their kids ever get solved?

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wow. chapter 1 page 14, last pannel, tsumugi gives off very very VERY strong konoka konoe vibes

The mountain god especially does

Criminally underrepresented yuri. Life needs more konosetsu. Or any, really

Is it normal when someone says 'I'm going to the toilet' to reply 'Have fun'?

It's my usual response.

I thought I was the only one

Which Mei is that? She isn't really in book 10, and she's super expressive in book 8. Or is it just a feature of Citrus+? Book 9 is pretty clutch too. I vaguely remember your concerns at the time, but was that just from waiting on the serialization? 'Cause I noticed serializations and comment sections drastically alter the reading experience.

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Oh yeah, I forgot Matsuri was an edgelord child prostitute. Did that get retconned? The series hit the breaks on the edginess after the forced/extortion prostitution setup

For the record, I love Citrus and all the characters. Even Mei. Stop hating Mei.

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And yes that special in Vol3 with Matsuri meeting Harumin is 100% cannon. Not just a random omake added. At the end of Chapter 13 when Harumin has flashbacks before she grabs her phone and calls Yuzu, the square bubbles have been SEVERELY MISTRANSLATED and it's actually word for word from what Matsuri says to Harumin in Vol 3 special.

Rather than chapter 13, you mean here?

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/citrus_june_30th#27

And here?

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/citrus_vol_3_special#7

Yeah, it's not very clear that it's a flashback here

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HARUMATSU FINALLYYYYYYY!!!! I CAN DIE HAPPY NOW!!!!

Well, I still want a full fleshed out romance arc for harumin x matsuri.... so I hope they get more of a consistent storyline after this :'0

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/an_absurd_relationship_ch08#last

Are you ready for 10 chapters of kiss angst?

I checked, and it seems they put words in bold because that's what the listener focuses on, or to make the core of the message visible at first glance.

Seven Seas bolds and italicizes words to change the way they sound to reflect spoken (American) English. While yes, this is because emphasis is often added while speaking and so a main idea can be made clearer, tone and character voice generally play a bigger role

These emphases also are bound to American speech patterns, so they'll never go emphasizing any old words willy nilly like some kind of William Shatner (most scanlation, with its absurd amount of pauses, can successfully sound like Shatner wrote it)

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“Three Sisters Detective Agency”? That’s straight out of Read or Die/R.O.D the TV.

Cue bass. Cue trumpet. Cue sax.

Quite fun despite the severe lack of world-shattering combat

I've got a few cans of the old government mystery meat myself, but yeah i generally just use it as a breakfast meat. It's really at that level of like canned soup, boxed mac and cheese, and cereal.

I dunno about that spam in there. It got the food manga magical treatment, but...

Would you really eat spam and cream?

It's some sort of a weird heart attached to her head. What's dangerous here is removing her ZUN-imbued head ornament. 2hus die when that happens. Luckily she still has a hair band. Very close call

$900 urban three bedroom apartment!? Belief suspended

Do it!

What absolute degenerate is talking smack about this pairing?

The third story... has screen reader support...?

isnt this the guy on youtube??? i didnt expect him to make yuri omg

He is! He does pretty great drawing tutorials every week where you can basically see him stream the manga he creates. And he does it all by hand. It's very informative. He also doesn't talk at all, so it's all drawing sound effects if anyone needs some background videos.

Might also make for some perfect lofi music videos

Plus it's the teachers who are probably only ten or less years older

just a reminder to not go and message the mangaka on Twitter in English about how much you enjoyed this scanlation. Seriously. I know it seems like a good idea, and that she'll never figure out you read the scanlation as long as you don't mention it specifically, but she knows.

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