Now, this is a nice method of learning a new language. I should seek some lessons in French myself~ Or Russian...

Otsu Hiyori is the best! Well, one of the best. Both of them are so chill about being badmouthed, though, that is not natural for a highschooler...

For some odd reason, glasses are amongst things that usually turn me away from reading a manga, but here the glasses girl is just so damn cute, and they actually look good on her.

Heart crushed in a single panel, thank you very much, sadistic genius of an author.

Rings, plural. Both are wearing them on left hand ring fingers. And yeah, is kind of strange this ship is not more popular, considering it was Kongou who so often saved Bucky, and was her support and shoulder to cry on. I mean, it is more like an onee-sama kind of relationship (if we disregard that Fubuki stopped viewing Kongou as the actual onee-sama type within the first five minutes of being in the same room with her), but that sure as hell never stopped anyone from shipping two characters. So please, artists, make more Kongou/Bucky art... Onegai!

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Holy fuck, since when was Ayumu so fit?! Very, very nice indeed~

I finished Aoi Hana... the ending is like a beginning lol

Told you. It just... stops. Before anything really huge happens.

Koveras, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I also hate you now, because I thought I finally found a Jin work I can legitimately hate, and now you went and took it away from me... because after reading that, I can only look at it as awesome.

Boy, does this series suffer when released periodically...

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Fit girls are really the best. That punch in the gut by the author in the second to last panel was also good. Hurts so good~

You know they are joking, right?

...can I persuade you into deleting your quote, so I can delete my comment? ;_;

I got leaks of the upcoming chapters they will fight for SJ in a basketball match... Could be futbol too! and there won't be a limit of points, the winner will be decided only when one of them admit defeat, SJ won't be able to refuse because she also believes in the heart of the ball

I was all FOR drama, but not like this... this is just... stupid... this is literally a slap to both those who wanted the main couple be all lovey-dovey and those who wanted drama and conflict. Retarded writing was the one thing I did not expect from this series.

Seeing as Pito has no problems tagging stuff as futa if it should be considered as such, it does sort of stand to reason that this one is therefore not in that category.

This. Would be helpful to know on what basis this actually got tagged. If Pito indicated it was futa on Twitter or somewhere, then I am all for it, but not if it is just guess work based on their previous doujins (I agree with Anon on this, it is not a good basis for tagging).

Read the edit...

We are getting side-tracked here, so I suggest we limit this to the bare minimum (as in, this reply, and we stop then). Basically, no, you are misreading me. There is no "actual evidence" to be had here, futa has always been a problematic tag on Dynasty, regardless how it was used on other sites, and there are numerous examples of people opposing or arguing for it on various works, and consensus has never been reached, not on this site. Dpf was basically asking for our opinions, and I provided mine, at no point did I try to pretend I had some "facts". As for you misreading me, granted, it was sort of between-the-lines. I personally would not tag the two examples I provided as futa. Neither would I do so with this doujin. The Kitamura one I would go for the trans tag, same with these two Pito works. I thought I made it clear I was suggesting the futa tag here because of consistency.

Edit: Ah, I think I realised why you are misreading me. Apologies, I did not make it clear, clumsy on my part. Basically, if there is no evidence whatsoever that this indeed contains girls with penises, then I am for tagging it just with Yuri, however, if there is such evidence to be found (obviously not in the work itself, but on Pito's Twitter and similar), then I am for tagging it with everything, for reasons I stated. I thought the third paragraph of my first post made this obvious, but now I am seeing I was actually not that clear in my wording. Apologies.

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Was not suggesting tagging it based on those works because of the author, but because of the type of stories that got tagged. That is why I picked those two examples (and I know "Passionate Gaze" is by Kitamura, that was not my point).

Favourited!!! This was perfect, just perfect. It had the right combination of lewdness, feelings, cuteness, and humour. Awesome stuff!

As for dpf's question, I am personally most in favour of tagging it as Transgender and Yuri. I would also add Futanari, although not so much because of the tag itself (I tend to associate it with the fetishized porny stuff which, although I enjoy it, I do not really consider trans-related - think classical dickgirls who also happen to have a vagina, and no attention actually spent on explaining their state, or identity issues). I would add futa here because it has already been used on examples such as Pito's previous work (where the penis is, like here, never actually visible), and this (where it is clearly visible, but is also all feely, and romantic, and even physically Honoka could pass for a pre-op trans girl who is on hormones; in any case, she is clearly not the classical huge-penis-and-a-vagina kind of futa girl). Because the futa tag is used on examples such as these, I would add it here as well, for the sake of consistency.

But the question is, is this even hinted at as being futa (in whichever way you personally use the word)? Some posters above are saying there is no evidence in the Pixiv post, and what we are shown in the doujin itself could be well explained by what Goggled Anon said. It could be that Pito tagged it as such on Twitter (I believe that was the reason for their other work getting the tag), but dpf did not say.

This was so bloody cute!!

I... didn't know I needed more werewolf yuri but now I do! awooo!

Amen to that.

(forget you saw that)

Done and done.

Lol, I said all that I possibly could on the subject, Nez. Whether he accepts my arguments, or tries to go for an alternative interpretation, is entirely up to him, but in either of those two cases, I have pretty much nothing else to say about it. Also, the subject here is nothing like the train-wreck in the Yuzumori thread, in which I had no part whatsoever, so, eh... quick on the draw these days, I guess.

@Cannibal Lol, I knew what your response would be, so I stayed away from this thread until I mustered the energy (do not take this the wrong way, I like doing this, but it is exhausting). Well, here we go, I guess.

The theory that the crystal shortens your life is just that, a theory. They don't have any evidence that it shortens your life, only that it's painful to use.

"To win the battle, she stole a stone of power that the first witch had: the Magic Stone. It devours the life of a witch to overturn the laws of power." (Izetta's grandmother, in a memory, talking about the first Sophie, in episode 10.)

"The White Witch, the real Sophie, once said that the Magic Stone draws out the power of the witch by shortening their life. If you use it too much, you won't have long to live." (Said by Müller to Izetta, based on the diary written by his ancestors who were members of the court in Sophie's time, and were involved in the plot against her, episode 11.)

"If she crystallises all that magic at once, she'll die for sure." (Sophie's internal monologue, episode 12. This also indicates it is not just the duration of the usage, but the intensity as well, that drains the life from the user.)

You have no idea that Sophie was actually even killed. She just falls after failing to match Izetta's spirit bomb. Not once do we get a confirmation of her death, especially whether or not it was the crystal's life draining that caused it.

She unambiguously thought Izetta's move was suicidal, and given what we know about the Stone, this is indeed correct. Nevertheless, she tried to match it, given all the factors (nature of the Stone, the suicidal levels of energy being used, her previous usage of the Stone, and her cloned body (no, I did not forget her body was deteriorating more rapidly on account of the cloning)), the scene of her losing hold of her magic, her staff, and her falling down with that drained look on her face, can only be interpreted as her dying.
The only way you can take it as anything else is if you disregard several canon facts, and look at the scene with selective obliviousness. Not to mention the fall alone from that height (and they were above open water, in the middle of the North Sea, at that) would have killed her.

She only could have survived if, as I said, we disregard canon information, and then assume Izetta swooped in and caught her before she hit the surface (and just to be clear, I am not talking about drowning here, a fall from that height would be the same as hitting concrete pavement), and that is quite a scene to be completely left out and never mentioned in any way, shape, or form. Your argument is almost primary school level of 'not dead, we have not seen it'.
The state of her cloned body was a factor that made her weaker than Izetta, and quickened her demise, but it was the life-draining effect of the stone that killed her (again, given the above quotes, I really do not see another way to interpret this).

The original Sophie used the stone much longer than the clone and Izetta and lived for decades until she was betrayed and executed.

Now, this is actual, pure conjecture on your part. We are only told Sophie saved Eylstadt in a single war (and only one battle was actually mentioned), so we have no idea how long or how much she actually used the stone. Plus, those were medieval times. It stands to reason you do not need an awful lot of energy (again, levels of usage also play a part) to overpower mobs of barely armed serfs and a few hundred professional soldiers and knights (as was the standard for armies of the period), as opposed to going against tanks and fighter planes armed with rapid-firing cannons.
We also have no idea whatsoever how long Sophie lived before being betrayed, so I have no idea where did you pull these "decades" from. She still looked young when they seized her, plus, the whole reason for the betrayal in the first place was the Vatican, and the Inquisition. It is highly unlikely she would be allowed to live for decades in those times. Eylstadt would have been invaded into oblivion, as a heretic country, which was exactly the point King Matthias brought up when he signed off on the plot (episode 12).

No, it's set several years later. Not immediately after.

I was wrong on this one, I will grant you. Several years (and it could not have been more, given how young Lotte still is in that last scene) are still not the same as decades, though, so my original point stands.

Now, I understand why people do not like all of this, but still, the only way you can give Izetta and Fine a happily-ever-after for a long, long time is if you deliberately disregard canon information. There is just no way around this. And the thing is, Fine knows this. Remember the scene after the broomride, when they were on that mountaintop (episode 12)?

F: "What? But that magic stone eats away at your life, right? If you do that..."

I: "It'll be fine."

F: "You're lying. I can tell right away when you're lying! Especially when you're lying because you're about to do something crazy for me."

I:"I'm sorry. It's true that I might die. But there's something I want enough to do it anyway. A world where everyone can choose their tomorrow. A world where you can smile. Morecheesystuffbutfortheloveofgodsmyfingersaretired.
So give me the order to fight as your witch, Archduchess, no, Fine... And to end it all."

F: "No!"

I: "I've given it a lot of thought, but I couldn't think of anything else. So..."

F: "Izetta... Izetta... My witch... I order you... you..."

And the scene cuts to Fine breaking down and yelling at the representatives of the warring powers, and from her grief it is obvious she does not expect Izetta to make it back.

It is Reimu, here and here are images of this same pair, from the same author, with Reimu wearing her hair thingies. As you can clearly see, heir hair is arranged exactly like it is in the uploaded picture, and if you removed the red whatever-they-are-called (and the clothes), you would get the look of the image that is on the reader. It is just how this author draws Reimu.

That being said, I agree she looks basically the same as Kaguya in these artworks. Still nice, though, and hot.

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Facebook won't let me see more than the first page. And no, I'm not going to join facebook.

Click on the very edge (towards the edge of the screen) of the black area on the right side to go to the next page.

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Also, lol, the fan girl did not play any part in QT having her realisation moment. All that foreshadowing, for literally nothing. I mean, I can not see in what way she could get involved now, even as a mere tool for one of the mains to get in touch with their feelings. Though, the sadist in me is somewhat disappointed we did not see her reaction when SJ displayed the obviously-in-love-with-someone-else, while brushing off the girl in a way that made it clear she is something of an afterthought in SJ's mind, at best.

Nothing sweeter than a chapter making me swallow my own words.

Also, yey, finally a character I can hate here~ Because I sure do hate her now, as short an appearance as it was. And to think I had written her off previously, lol.

Also also, DRAMA, thank you, lmao!

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I absolutely adore this, it was a really sweet sendoff for the series. Also, this might be the only time I saw manga characters discussing how that initial excitement fades away with time, bonus points for that.

Short, and really, really sweet! To my favourite poly stories it goes!

It looks like I can start with the anime and jump to the manga later, right?

Pretty much, yes. No skipping or original endings, and is a nice enough anime. Main flaw is that, as I said, only adapts the early chapters, and then just stops.

Well, I would not say "instead", rather, "both", in whichever order you prefer. The anime does not really go far, it adapts early chapters, and is not really a stand-alone work, at least not if you are into completed stories, for that you will need the manga.

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