(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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@A5PECT no preguntes solo gozalo.jpg

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

is that a motherfucking vampire knight reference?
the unifrom looks a lot like the one from vampire knight

Or maybe you have different values than other people~?
Not everyone has the same idea of what constitutes a fulfilling life-style. Sakurako read the entire library at the school during those 3 years. Sakurako learned dozens of new recipes during those 3 years. Sakurako spent every possible second with the girl she loves for those 3 years. She did a test of courage, went on a school trip, tutored her sister, went to a shrine 100 times, had a flower viewing where she got drunk on chocolates and she watched movies with her classmates.

Those are just some of the things we actually saw. You can bet they did even more during the large timeskips. If you can't see how these things are fulfilling to a person, you ought to broaden your horizons.

maybe you´re right maybe there´s people with hobbies goals interest, etc and people that just wants to be gay at his his home
by the way sakuraro read the entire library and learn the recipes out of boredom for waiting for kasumi

just to be clear im not saying the manga is bad by any meas or that i have a problem with it, i just find weird and kind of lazy that the 3 year of high school pass in 40 chapters compared to stuff like yuru yuri that´s 100+ chapter and the girls are still in the same year (maybe im wrong it´s been a while since i read yuru yuri feel fre to correct)

maybe the author didn´t fell confortable wiritng a story in a school setting i mean the story is about two girls living together and in my opinion that kind of setting works better in a story about adults or young adults like fusoroi no renri maybe that´s why the author move as quick as posible so he could wirte in a setting he´d be more confortable i don´t know man you don´t need to get to defensive

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i know this is a slice of life/comedy manga and im not suposed to think about all of this but at the chapter when they graduate i couldn´t stop thinking "men what a boring school life they had" i mean the didn´t do shit
At that age i used to stay at school 3 or 4 hrs after my classes were over, playing basketball volleyball hanging with friends etc, those were the best years of my life
at least kasumi went to work after class but sakurako decide to waste 3 years of her life doing nothing but cooking and cleaning i mean she didn´t need to, kasumi spent a lot of time working she could use that time to hang with friends geting into a club or anything really and get home in time to make diner and spend the rest of the day with kasumi

maybe im just used to having more subtance in my slice of lice and less fluff

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This reminds me of a series where there's a girl who loves butts, a girls who loves people staring at her butt, and a girl who loves to hear the other two making love. It may sound stupid, but the story is pretty well executed.

maybe your talking about https://dynasty-scans.com/series/is_my_hobby_weird this one

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Now in this case of Kurogane's, I'd say the third wheel girl is quite similar (vouyerism anyone?) but the story is just pure stupidity. Out of nowhere sex scenes is what I'd describe

well is kinda random and the art is mmmm not so good

prays to madoka not to get zucc'd

Your prayer were not answered. See you in a month.

Savage and I love it.

i think that was too much i mean i don´t think the original coment was ill intended but who am i to question the authority

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Gamer40000 posted:

Oh, so her construction boss only reads manga about Mahjong. Pretty obvious which one it is, considering this is a yuri series.

The one with George W. Bush, Kim Jong Il, and Vladimir Putin in it? :^)

for a moment i thought you were talking about grappler baki (a martial arts manga(on of the best IMHO)) where georege bush, donald trump, vladimir putin and el "che" guevara are canon characters

I could not give less of a fuck about this pairing.

Harsh

maybe but undestandable i mean i actually forgot that the manga was still going since for some reason motto hanjuku joshi deals with stuff that the prequel already solve like yae insecurities about being a girl that is in love with another girl the whole thing about her lingering feelings for youko and then sudenly yae is like you know what? forget it everythings is fine now
it´s like the author sundenly remember that the already wrote a 18 chapters manga about all of that and sudenly change the focus of the story to the new couple, that to be hones is kinda boring, i mean is kind of interesting from yae´s perspective for the whole "the girl that rejected me for being a girl is in love with a girl now" deal but at this point of the story is only natural for yae to be ok with it since she already deal withe her lingering feelings for youko and she´s really in love with chitose
the new couple came out of nowhere they literally pop out they weren´t properly intoruced or anything and now they´ll probably be the focus of the story

we literally don´t know anything about them so how are supose to care about them
i love hanjuku joshi is one of my favorite mangas of all time but i think making a sequel was probably a mistake

muda muda muda muda

always nice to see some karuha nico maki

it only took two years to get another chapter well i´ll be waiting the next one

to think that i almost forgot about this masterpiece
it seem like you´re all people of culture as well
maybe an extra chapter or something like that would be nice, not a sequel like motto hajuku joshi sequels always sucks

PD i alway tought that yuuka s hair was blonde

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is that the miko embrace?
(a motherfucking kanazuki no miko reference perhaps?)