I am glad to see it updating, I really like it, but I wonder how many people will think it's a Kiss and a White Lily knock-off by now?

For those of you unfamiliar with it, it's like Shiramine had all her worst qualities but Yurine was more of a neko than a tachi.

also this one is older if i recall correctly (maybe im wrong feel free to correct me if i am)

plus the relationship between hinata and noa is freacking cute

i also like miyako and some of her moments with all the kids kind of reminds me of barakamon and the whole adult learning life lesson by spending time with younger people dinamic
but i do find creepy some of the moments that involve hana and miyako, but well whatever it doesn´t bother me that much

No joke, I ordered the raw volumes last week cause I assumed this would never be finished.

I don't know how to feel now

well this is my third favorite yuri manga of all time so even if they finish the translation i´ll be glad to buy it online

2 noroi no aoi chan chapters and now a sougou tovarisch update what a time to be alive

Some people thought that the story was going to be Uta getting over her feelings for Kaoru and falling in love with another girl who she could end up with. But then the heavily implied cheating happened and the most recent chapter has Kaoru's thoughts about Uta implying she may be attracted to her.

But all the initial chapters had strong hints of Kaoru's attraction. Maybe people are confused because of all the nonsense chapters in the middle.

Yeah, the whole initial setup was about how Uta and Reiichi were sort of interchangeable in regard to Kaoru (even literally) and about Kaoru’s unusually strong affection for and emotional dependence on Uta. In fact, I thought the major point of the beginning was that Kaoru’s feelings for Uta were more clearly on display than was Reiichi’s affection for Kaoru.

That didn’t necessarily indicate romance between Kaoru and Uta, but it certainly laid the groundwork for the possibility.

i think that´s reaching, yeah it´s true, the firsts chapters featured a lot of scenes of kaoru and uta but i think it´s pretty clear that the purpose of those secenes is to highlight how hard and painfull is to spend time with kaoru for uta, the first chapters also featured a lot of reichi and kaoru scenes where they have dinner kiss etc wich kaoru describes as true happines so argue that they´re hints of kaorus subconscious love for uta is just insane

is also true that when reichi neglects kaoru she goes to uta but that´s probably because she doesnt want to be alone and uta is right there for her she doesnt choose uta for any particular reason, to me it looks like kaoru just wants to be with someone, there´s also the fact that kaoru feels resposinble for the divorce of utas parents and her later depression i feels like everything she´s doing is out of guilt, i also see kaoru getting attached to anyone that spend time with her whenever reichi rejects her, when kaoru and uta are together it feels more like a mother-daughter relationship than a romantic one

i don´t really know maybe nevri is right maybe i´m just crazy and everything is just keikaku doori, maybe the author
draws manga with her right hand and wirite names with the left and ink with the left,,,, then she takes a potato chip....and EAT IT

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Agree with the above about the mischievous Yuu, probably for the same reason I have a soft spot for Aoba’s mildly-sadistic-senpai streak in New Game. A form of gap moe, I guess.

yeah one of my favorites arcs of new game is actually the spin off where aoba is just having fun teasing nenechi hotarun and chinatsu sensei

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i just love the interactions between kaede and koyuki the chemistry between them is so cute (in a not romantic way) i just love the contrast of the playful and cheery personality of kaede and the shy and introverted personality of koyuki

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I don't want to get in trouble but i don't think this should be tagged as yuri

Like someone said earlier... it's porn. It doesnt have to have deep character motivations and logic. There are ways to critically analyze porn, yeah, but usually one of them is not "the emotional dynamics of this relationship aren't consistent." If you don't want to see some R-rated lesbian sex with a loose framework about cohabiting co-workers, probably not the series for you.

i honestly don't expect this from 99% of yuri. it's not exactly a genre full of woke authors writing about healthy relationships. i just overlook what i can, and enjoy the nice parts. i'll put up with incest, weird power dynamics, etc, etc, if its cute enough. it's just so common for yuri to have at least one thing that bothers me, that i've gotten to the point where i just try to get what i can out of it.

that said there are some authors writing top tier stuff, but its not exactly common. (ie nakatani nio, tmfly)

you´re so full of truth that is actually sad

benja posted:

there´s 40 raw chapters of hanebadoo online yet there´s only 12 chapters translated

39 chapters of hanebado are translated. Not sure what you're talking about.

wow you´re right that´s insane i dropped the manga because i saw the raws like 1 year and half ago and at that moment there were only 12 chapters translated and it looked like the project was dropped
who knew, getting an anime actually make the dream come true

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You're all missing the most important thing: THE BRAIDS ARE GROWING BACK! (ง `ω´)۶

Oh yeah, that’s a good way to tell how muchtime is passing here.

i like sakurakos new haircut more than her old one but yeah the time in this manga pass insaenly fast the two months break passed in one chapter

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(and even then, this manga's side characters are still better written and there are fewer of them).

mmmm i don´t know about that i find the side characters of my unrequited love more grounded and entertaining i think is more about the side characaters of this one being more quirky wacky and funny overall than actually being well written

Actually, benja, to be fair to karp, I now need to halfway disagree with myself, and also with you agreeing with me. What you said absolutely is character development in the sense that I meant it.

But I should have remembered that “character development” actually has two sometimes overlapping meanings:

One is something that authors do—a character is depicted in such a way that readers have a sense of who that person is and why they do the things they do. That may involve a lot of attention given to the character, or just a few well-chosen strokes that give insight into the fictional person.

The second is what we were talking about—something that characters themselves do. They learn and change because of their experiences (not necessarily for the better, of course). Kuroe is an excellent example of that, but readers are able to perceive that partly because she’s also given development in the first sense.

So everybody’s right, which means we all get lollipops. Lol

yaaaay lollipops

yeah i get what you´re triying to say you´re referring to character development in a more descriptive way (wich exists and is hard to do without being in your face but exists nonetheless ) than a "progressing the story" way

after reading my unrequited love last chapter i thought that maybe just maybe this one could also improve to maybe be readable but well you can´t win them all

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People are saying Kaoru hasn't gotten development?

This is very strange to me. She's gotten more development than anyone else.

Seeing her do things is not the same as “development.” She has been consistently passive, obtuse (“So when you say you “like” me after building up to it by talking about your unrequited love, does that mean . . .?”), and conflict-avoidant (allowing her single attempt to confront Reiichi to be deflected by a weak excuse).

...why doesn't this count as development? Her tendency is to slap a band-aid on a problem, usually by feigning ignorance. This is an extremely unhelpful strategy, and she knows it, but she's also kind of given up.

She's pretty clearly depressed, but she's been rewarded by like everyone she knows (including by both Reiichi AND Uta) for being the cute, charming, cheerful airhead. She hoped that 'love' would like magically cause someone to understand her, and she has no idea what to do when that didn't happen.

And Uta tries HARDEST to understand her, because she's worked on "I mustn't idealize her just because I have a crush on her!" Which Kaoru really appreciates and is scared to lose.

This sure looks like development to me.

well actually no development involves a character changing the way he/she acts or sees the world and kaoru has been the same character through all the manga, well not exactly since at the last chapter she actually stop avoiding issues and finally took action, but saying that kaoru is the most developed character is just delusional

to me the most developed character by far is kuroe, she starts as this shut in girl wich is friends with uta, then later we learn about her family issues and why she´s so unwilling to engage in a relationship, she resolves her problems and starts a relationship with miyabe, she starts being more friendly towards this girl wich i don´t remember her name
if you compare kuroe from chapter 1 to the actual kuroe is pretty obvios that she´s not the same character

it´s so sad that the author puts so much effort in a secondary character instead of focusing on the main story and characters

well finally
this chapter was actually pretty good that doesn´t change the fact that the rest of the manga is a mess but i´m willing to give it a second chance if the story keeps going foward maybe there´s redemption to this manga

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Am I the only one who likes Kaoru x Uta? lol

probably

gork5 posted:

ch 3 should come out in another 2 years

Well you were right about the "2" part at least.

Since all Mebae issues (all five of them) are on the net now, I'm sure the last two chapters will get there soon.

all the sougou tovarisch chapters were realeased long ago yet chapters 9-12 never got translated
there´s 40 raw chapters of hanebadoo online yet there´s only 12 chapters translated
i´ve seen countless mangas getting it´s first chapters translated only to get abandoned

unless it gets an anime adaptation it´s rare for not so popular mangas to get fully transalted

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how can a manga be so good??

because was wrote by arara iri

future is now zura

i miss sakurako s long hair

A pity indeed. =[ I wouldn't mind a sequel about their adult life, but I'm not sure of what direction it could take.

That would be awesome but that usually doesn't happen

hey citrus got a sequel ? prequel? don´t really know or care, but that means everything is posible

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In what world is 40 chapters lazy?
K-on did three years in 4 volumes with a total of 56 chapters, then it moved on to college.
A Room For Two has done three years in 4 volumes with a total of 40 chapters + 5 bonus chapters.
These two series are very similar, and it would be difficult to find someone who thinks K-on was "lazy" because there weren't 100+ chapters.

mmm well the k-on manga is indeed 4 volumes long but to be honest the k-on manga is not that good i think the thing that makes k.on great is all stuff that yamada naoko and the kyoani staff put on the show wich is a lot a there´s a pretty good video that talks about it by digibro

If we could decide if something is lazy or poorly made by looking at its size, I would actually insist that Yuru Yuri's author isn't trying very hard if that many chapters have passed without any significant changes. But that's not how things work. The quantity of a work isn't proportional to its quality. It can only have a subjective impact on someone's opinion.

yeah i wasn´t triying to say that the manga is bad because of it i just find werid the way the manga handles the high school topic a lot of manga and anime depicts high school as this amazing, fun , random and exicitng stage of your life when you can do and be whatever you want and the end of it as this sad melancholic time where the chatarcters stop being kids and pass to the next part of his life that is young adulhood (wich i know is a lie because even though i almost finish my carrer im still inmature and a child at heart)
but a room for two is so casual about it the characters just pass through high school like it was nothing and when they finish the school doesn´t seem like they really care about it

again im not saying that the manga is bad is just so different from other mangas that´s why i find it kind of weird surely im just looking at it the wrong way this is clearly not traditional school manga

sometimes i froget that if you critize or point out something about a manga is clearly because you hate it to death there´s no way that you can enjoy something if you don´t think of it as a 10/10