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joined Jan 4, 2014

This is hilarious and adorable and cute and everyone should read it if they haven't already! Much thanks to Helvetica!

Agree. Would love to see a sequel playing some 6 years later when Kubota-san graduates from highschool and reiterates her confession.

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I was thinking it'd be nice to tag the het rape backstory in chapter 5, where the rapist spends an entire chapter in a position of power towards the main characters so that people picking it up can be warned that it has somewhat heavy themes sometimes, but I can't find the right tag for it

Its possible to tag individual chapters.

But we never see it explicitly, it's just told as a backstory, so the rape tag probably doesn't fit

You could always try abuse instead. Certainly fits the theme...

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Well that was super mired in heteronormativity.

I mean, it definitely was, but that was also the entire reason their relationship fell apart, and overcoming those assumptions and dropping their self-enforced masculine/feminine roles is what allowed them to actually see and love each other properly, so... Good?

Good.

Quoting for truth. Good.

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Well that was ... odd. Minako really reminds me of Kuroko from Murcielago though, in particular in the "save the cat from the orange peel" scene.

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oh, if not for the tags i was thinking she was a girl who dressed like a boy when she was a kid, like in prism

It is pretty easy to read it that way. The "cut off" line could be taken as "I never had one to start with" and the end could be read as "Wouldn't you rather have a guy?" with "A woman is what I want" in reply. With the exception of the milk line and the kind of insulting "(?)" in the title, I can see how you'd get that impression.

But I think I like it better this way.

https://twitter.com/garunstudio/status/950667195930955781

There's more, and this one is pretty obvious.
The artist isn't japanese, though.

While that one is cute too, I just saw one of the earlier ones for this series, and now need to try to get rid of the massive grin on my face: https://twitter.com/garunstudio/status/885459770294939648

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joined Jan 4, 2014

This person has a nice artstyle. It kinda reminds me of Homura Subaru.

Thought it was BruelDatria at first.

Me too actually. At least somewhere in the middle of melting from the cuteness.

jtt
Image Comments 02 Jan 17:13
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I can't help but think that Miso-ha may have read Inuzuka Bouru's "The Dog's Desire and the Reality of Discipline"... The cat and dog outfits for Maki and Honoka respectively are pretty much the last five pages of that doujin. :p
(caution - that one is a lot less ... innocent ... than this image)

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Blue Method discussion 30 Dec 10:23
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Spare us your poorly worded and uneducated opinion, please. I've seen really great and bright kids do the worst things to themselves because of bullying.

This.

It requires quite the level of ignorance to seriously think that the reactions of your peer group do not have a massive influence on your behaviour and mental well-being, in particular during your formative years.

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joined Jan 4, 2014

As far as the Pixiv post is concerned, it's only tagged as Yuri, with no mention of futa or trans. KanaMari's sex position and Yoshiko's condom joke can easily be attributed respectively to missionary grinding and Yoshiko being a huge dork. There's nothing in the dialogue that directly hints at there being dicks as far as I can tell.

Agree, I was puzzled what exactly caused the tag after reading it. Just to add that condoms are usually a lot easier to get than dental dams, so if you're going down the safe-sex route (concerns about which are explicitly mentioned in the dialogue), condoms are a seriously useful tool for two women as well*. Hence the presence of a condom does not really point to anything specific.

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.

*cut the tip off, cut along one side, unroll -> pre-lubricated dental dam

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joined Jan 4, 2014

Yonurime strikes again. The soft courtship, them coming to grips with the depth of their mutual feelings, the comfort that goes beyond mere companionship. It all comes together in a quiet and warm blend of fuzzy feelings and fleeting moments of recognition. I really like this one. To me, it conveys a bit of the same feeling as a cup of hot tea while curled up on the sofa with a blanket and a good book.

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This is really cute, I like it. Bottled tea, though... why, author-san, why...

The choice strikes me as very realistic for Japan actually. Not just that, but the stuff is also surprisingly good, contrary to the versions you get in the West.

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While the proportions and limb positions are, at times, somewhat off, the overall story feels very much realistic. No magic scissoring that's "oh so amazing", no odd fetishes, no use of excessive tools; just two young women who are very much into each other and like both giving and receiving.

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Their Story discussion 18 Nov 14:43
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Oh god Sun Jing's hapiness is contagious. Im giggling like a madwoman just because of her joy.

Signing that in a heartbeat. Methinks my neighbours are wondering what the heck I'm alternately giggling and cheering about...

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Image Comments 17 Nov 21:29
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While I have heard of Guilty Crown, I had to look it up to see why this has anything to do with it... My immediate thought was Utena. I'm old. :p

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I will take a different route. The ending you know?... bubble gives off a lot of possibilities.

  1. the husband may not be clueless. He knows what is Seri-chan to Ryouko. Thus, he was intrigued and very curious. His business trips may also entail that he is meeting a same-sex lover as well.
  2. Ryouko plan to move back and bought a house hoping to be with Seri-chan. So, the park meeting was intentional not coincidental. Confirming that Seri-chan felt the same, she resolved to transfer.
  3. It could be that Ryouko entered to an agreement with her husband(already in a same-sex relationship) to lift the stress and interrogation of parents(esp. mother) about settling down and having children with this kind of arrangement and told about Seri-chan.
  4. Part of the agreement is to live away from parents to avoid interrogation from both families. Remember Ryouko's family moved out also because of the father's job. It could be that Ryouko live in the same neighborhood as husband's.

These are all possibilities inspired by real life journey of a Chinese woman who is in a same-sex relationship. She helped young Chinese generations because of non-acceptance of same-sex relationships. The article was part of a documentation on LGBTQ.

I like this take on it. While the younger generation is slowly changing things, I've met quite a few women (and men) who are in this sort of situation / relationship. One should also not forget that some women marry to be able to have children, even if they are not really interested in men. Even in more tolerant societies, it can be very difficult indeed for women to find donors if they are not married (+ doctors who will help in these cases -- not everyone is a big fan of turkey basters).

That being said, I have also met young women who were in relationships with older married women with children. This included one case in Japan that was pretty darn dark, with the older woman basically outright abusing the younger one, both physically as well as mentally (wealthy married woman meets rather young adult who ran away from home...).

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Their Story discussion 11 Nov 11:00
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I screamed 'Yes, finally' when I saw the tumblr post. And just knew, despite only 3 strips since the last update, Dynasty was going to post this.

P.S.
143 is somewhat out of order.
Correct order is, I believe:
- Sun Jing grabes the chair
- Pulles it away from Qui Tong
- Puts her foot on the chair
- Wideshot of her sitting next to Qui Tong

Seconding the issue with the order. Was getting confused until I looked it up on tumblr again.

But goodness do I love those two...

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42 kilogrammes? Is this girl even alive?

Well... Let us assume that she is rocking a BMI of 18.5 or so at her age*. In that case she would be 1.51 metres tall (just shy of 5 feet). While that's not very tall by western standards, it's nothing too rare for Japan.

The 44.2 kg at the beginning would have pushed her BMI to 19.5.

* talking from personal experience, I was running at 18.2 from late puberty until around 24/25, and I was nothing exceptional

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So, they only legalized gay marriage for women? That's some massive bias right there.

Didn't think about that, but it'd actually be weirdly plausible. In Germany, for example, homosexuality between men was illegal for quite long, but homosexuality between women somehow wasn't. Even the Nazis didn't specifically persecute lesbians. How weird is that?

No need to go back in history actually... Welcome to current day Singapore:

Same-sex sexual activity legal:

  • No: For male (Penalty: Up to 2 years imprisonment; not enforced)
  • Yes: For female
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I'm confused, so Yu was lying about having sisters? So where did he get the bra and the clothes from.

Somehow it feels like the gap between the translations for chapters 1-3 vs. chapter 4 might be a slightly delayed reflection of when the individual chapters were written, i.e. there may indeed be a significant real-world gap between the writing of the first three chapters and the fourth one. In which case the author may have simply opted for some changes to the history in order to make it a decent one-shot, but neglected to consider that anyone reading it in chronological order might end up rather confused...

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Image Comments 04 Sep 18:31
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It would seem she managed to get one of the original Nimbus 2000 versions...
(yup, that was a vibrating broom toy: https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1927306_1927313_1927329,00.html)

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xxx discussion 03 Sep 12:17
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All the"yes"es... One of those rare stories that pretty much gets everything right (designating Akko as "straight" might be a tad hard to argue though ;-p ). Love it.

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Well that was depressing... Somehow I blame the success of NTR (and, to a lesser extent, Citrus) for dragging all of the psychotic and rather disturbing characters back out from the past, where the psychotic variants of "kill your lesbians" plagued us to the point of being 95% of the stuff you could find.

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Japanese societal mores move about as fast as molasses in winter.

Not to mention, Abe himself hates the idea.

I get a generational last-gasp feeling around the current government, tbh. And I used to live in a part of Japan that probably supported LDP last election. (Though my part of that conservative prefecture actually voted Socialist, FWIW).

On the bright side, once it's seen as shameful and backwards to not have gay marriage, internationally, Japan will come around.

Considering that Taiwan recently became the very first nation in Asia to allow same-sex marriage, with even Australia remaining on the fence, I fear it may still be a while before we see Japan coming round due to external pressures. Maybe, just maybe, the younger generations will be able to exert enough pressure from within though to drive change; but seeing as we are talking about Japan here, this may end up being somewhat harder than in most other places.

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TL note: the title translates to "My Yuri is Work! Sisters in Love!". I left it in Japanese and German, 'cause it sounds derpy in English.

Hope y'all will like it!

Sounds akward in German too. ^^ "sisters in love" would be "Verliebte Schwestern"

I failed to notice until you pointed it out.

Somehow I think it was supposed to be "Schwestern in der Liebe" (or "Schwestern der Liebe" as a shorter form), so basically interpreting "Sisters in Love" not as literal sisters in love with each other, but as two independent girls feeling similar to sisters due to their experiences with love (i.e. they are like sisters when it comes to their experiences on the topic of love; similar to "brothers in arms" not usually referring to two siblings walking down the street with linked arms...).

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Probably too late now anyway. You wanna make the artist happy, buy the graphic novel when it comes out in a week, and encourage others to do the same.

...living under a rock and all that*; but seeing those images a. made me aware that this is coming, and b. has me excited enough to be preordering it on Amazon on a 2nd browser tab (both books actually). :)

Still sucks to see unwanted leaks, but one or two pages do tend to work as an excellent teaser.

*although I've seen the cover art in an announcement, but somehow it didn't really register as anything other than "oh, a Korra image"...