Can someone explain what's the reason behind not staying with her in her very last moment? Shizuku got to whisper the words and just left to edit the ending she already wrote.
Wouldn't it have been much better to just do that where Kaori was, give her the story and get her response in person?

Like, she confessed alright, but they didn't exactly get to say goodbye? And I can't understand why you wouldn't want to spend every last minute with the girl you love when you know her every minute could be her last.

... She can't?
Kaori is in a hospital and Shizuku isn't related, so she doesn't have visitation rights.
It's a huge part of why same-sex marriage is such a big issue in Japan.

Also I don't think she had her story saved in cloud storage. Which is... an issue, but the author probably just didn't think about cloud storage, and when they did, that can be justified by "Shizuku is a teenager in Japan, where computer literacy is surprisingly low."

edit: it's kind of insane to me that ergzay thinks every story in which characters fall in love is by necessity a romance; this is definitely a drama before it's anything else

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... come to think of it, maybe Kamejiro is asking for more sales as a way of getting more freedom from editorial oversight without outright saying "My editor is making me add raunchy jokes" lmao
I mean, look at where it's published...

im so sobbing emoji right now. normally I'm so
skibidi, so fanum tax, but damn this hits

I hate that my response to this chapter is living vicariously through Shizuku because I can't really give a (visceral emotional) shit about my loved ones dying for some reason lol, I wish I could connect with all the people in the comments legitimately actually being upset

It's ultimately a story with a purpose and a message, and because I don't personally have that link I can only engage with it in that intellectual manner of "the way this theme was expressed was spot on" and I hate that can I get a lobotomy so less energy goes there and more energy goes to my hypothalamus thanks

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rio getting rejected last minute is so out of pocket I can't help but respect it

As a scanlator, it's a pleasure for me to work on Akiyama Haru's manga. Not only do I like her brand of adult yuri drama, but the art is clean, she uses very little sfx and the Japanese is all grammatically correct and not overly slangy. A pleasure to translate and typeset. It took me only one day and a half to do it, while shorter chapters of other series are sometimes a chore.to typeset.

I look very much forward to the next chapter in February.

I see... this is the gap in education.
I can only translate languages if the text is filled with slang because I understand languages based entirely on vibes LOL

it gave you anxiety?
was it because of the way the dude was drawn?
He just had yaoi face though.
...
Okay, that's still a red flag, but...

The author wished to not be horny anymore

I suggest you to take a look at the release post on my blog.

Link for the lazy

...

clitmas present

ARGH

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omg is the dude gonna go in drag

not a single lesbian on the planet lacks a praise kink

The earring panel LMAOOO that shit had me in hysterics

i dont know why i love age gap stories so much because the thought of dating somone 10+ years younger than me is horrible. 10 years older on the other hand.....

the ability to understand some fiction is just "Lmfao this is funny af bc it won't happen irl" and the experience of watching a 30 something year old woman go from girlboss to girlfailure over Literally Nothing

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I've been noticing a lot more intentional neurodivergent rep in anime/manga/video games lately.
I mean, MyGO episode 3 was THE most autistic episode I've seen. It wasn't even just an episode about an autistic character; the episode itself was autistic, and if you watch it you might see what I mean.

Being a little funkybrained and getting into a same-sex relationship are related, after all. In that neurodivergency makes one less likely to understand the logic behind and thus adhere to societal expectations at-large.

Also, is it just me, or are Temp's essays getting zanier?

last edited at Dec 28, 2023 10:34PM

tomekichi doing something absolutely ridiculous although the base premise isn't that crazy yet again

It's the details that really elevate their work...
Like, this could be a normal(?) time traveling soulmate thing, but instead it's... she becomes God and gets killed by a JRPG party in the future or something but because she was God she made iPS cell pregnancies possible and her corpse was harvested for God Genes and the baby will become the New Messiah or something maybe, I dunno. Just a bit of wild thinking. Teehee

so first Undine, now I'm guessing Ifrit. Wonder if they'll just dump the snake princess' water on her.

No no no no.
In the realm of air, we have Sylph. In the realm of water, we have Undine.
Going by that rule, the fire princess is most likely Salamander.

Question is whether we're going by Tales of rules or not.

I also ordered two physical copies of vol 1. I think I can read enough Japanese nowadays to read it since I already know the contents B)

Sara and Natalia's musings on each other's appearances are actually really relatable?? When I like someone I, too, spend much time contemplating what kind of attractive they are and how much their prettiness annoys me.

last edited at Dec 27, 2023 2:45AM

spiritbird content is in the higher levels of thirsty nijiEN fèmâlé x fèmâlé fanart every time i see it

new girl
unfortunate orientalism though

(she's still a badass, it's just unfortunate that pretty much the only depictions of the region in question in media are like this)

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Damn...
This hits really well, actually, for reasons that I could articulate if there wasn't so much to say, most of which is probably intuitive.

To summarize my thoughts, I guess:
View this from the lens of someone who likely grew up consuming/viewing class S as a young sapphic.
The message is obviously universal, but it has a more thorough impact within the creator's cultural context.

The title of this manga caught my eye due to it using the same Welsh concept in the title as this one:
https://mangadex.org/manga/dbb977c7-c4c2-4c53-b01a-accb76b62e9a/hiraeth-wa-tabiji-no-hate
I wouldn't be surprised if it's a direct line of inspiration, given they're both about suicidal lesbians meeting a tall dark handsome stranger who is also seeking death, although in the case of Kamatani Yuhki's manga instead of a love interest it's an adult mentor. Kamatani's manga also has less of an edgy dark feel to it by comparison, despite the subject matter, there's a beauty to it's mournful emotions, compared to the stark misery this manga is portraying so far.

I have followed up on your recommendation and binge-read the whole thing in an evening. Now I have a lot of complicated feelings about that manga that I don't know where to discuss, since the MD forum is a ghost town. :-(

I decided to binge it too and it's absolutely a wonderful read. I'm surprised it's not on Dynasty, considering the author's other work Shimanami Tasogare is.

Most items on Dynasty are from specific scanlators. I don't think you can just do an upload request as some random person for a random scanlator's work; that would make Dynasty no better than an aggregator.

Perhaps a mildly warm take but I'm hoping Diana x Lapis is endgame and Natori goes home with newfound self respect and bags a tired OL gf

Honestly I’d also appreciate that lol. Happy ending for everyone, eventually

We don't have enough modern isekai that ends similarly to older isekai - where both the isekai setting and the protagonist get lessons out of it.
I don't like the idea of them being permanently cut off from each other afterwards, though; that's too functionally similar to "it was just a dream."

Also like being able to live the fix-it-fic is a greater fantasy than banging a villainess ever could be LOL...

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Wait that's so hashtag relatable lol

akira is back and there was a panel focusing on hand touching.... that's mighty gay of you satsuki

it's so amusing to me how the art from this mangaka has such severe tonal whiplash between porn parts and not porn parts

Perhaps a mildly warm take but I'm hoping Diana x Lapis is endgame and Natori goes home with newfound self respect and bags a tired OL gf

ah... I miss them... im@s leader(red) x downer(blue) pairings are so good

experiencing a new world with ms. miorine in the public restroom

urgh argh my heart