I'm sort of out of the loop, what's this about them getting married? This is just a "tee tee" thing right? I mean, it'd be great if it wasn't but you know how these things are. I just checked out the shuffle thing and there was the ring exchanging bit, but has anything else happened? Something more "formal"?

(It feels funny to say "But what if that marriage proposal wasn't actually a proposal? They might just be pals!" as if I've become that which I swore to destroy, but vtubers have desensitized me to flirting. There's only like... 3 or 4 members of Hololive that I'd be inclined to believe right away without needing a "serious" announcement.)

I'm terribly confused. Did each person do a single panel or something?

Happy New Year everyone

This is cursed blursed.

FTFY

I don't think I could handle an ending that doesn't include Nanao's love being reciprocated. My heart would break. I don't care what happens as long as Nanao is part of it.

If you wish to learn more about the power of Tanuki ballsacks, I suggest the 1994 Studio Ghibli film Pom Poko. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pom_Poko It's got all the Tanuki balls you could ever wish for. (and stunning animation.)

I can't imagine why Disney didn't localize this one. Truly a mystery for the ages.

The Yuri Manga I Was Interested in Wasn't a Yuri Manga At All

I'm more confident in the yuri here now than I was ten or twenty chapters ago.

The Yuri Manga That Wasn't a Yuri Manga At All That I Was Interested in Was a Yuri Manga After All...

The Yuri Manga That Wasn't a Yuri Manga At All That Was a Yuri Manga After All Wasn't a Yuri Manga At All

Kronii's eyes here remind me of Miko from Mieruko-chan.

That was 120% definitely a confession!

Don't be silly! It's not a real confession unless they turn towards the audience and say "We are now girlfriends." Their feelings are just S U B T E X T, and as we all know subtext is absolutely meaningless and reading between the lines is illegal!

Looks at avatar . . . um, I take it you're a Tara & Beverly fan?

I can't possibly imagine what it could be that made you think that. There's nothing unusual about my avatar, it's perfectly normal and totally unremarkable.

(I do enjoy the comic, but honestly I would have used this no matter what the source was. It just never stops being funny to me.)

Honestly, if I were in Mei's shoes (which, sadly, none of us will ever be :P) I'd choose Kaoru in a heartbeat. She and Maria are the only ones who are appealing as long-term partners. Kaoru has her shit together and already has goals and aspirations she's properly pursuing. She's a really strong person, she's fun, isn't shy or timid, and she cares about others.

Also she's very pretty. That certainly doesn't hurt.

I do wonder what the end will be like. It's set up like Mei is the center of a polycule, but I haven't really seen polyamory done "well" in manga. I can think of two examples that actually tried to go for it and neither one stuck the landing.

(In fact, they both fell flat on their faces, then proceeded to fall down several flights of stairs before rolling out the door, straight into the middle of a busy freeway during rush hour, where they were bounced around like pinballs before rocketing straight into the sun.)

My guess for the next... let's say 5 chapters is that Mitsuki doesn't communicate like the numbskull romance manga character she is and some light drama ensues where Aya freaks herself out thinking that Mitsuki has lost interest and is distancing herself from her.

And then when things are resolved Aya is so overwhelmed with relief she kisses Mitsuki on the lips and proposes to her and they get married on the spot and have the coolest ceremony ever.

And then we get a billion chapters of blissful domestic slice of life happiness because that's what they deserve dammit.

edit: my prediction may have gotten away from me just a bit but I'm sticking by everything I said anyways.

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That was 120% definitely a confession!

Don't be silly! It's not a real confession unless they turn towards the audience and say "We are now girlfriends." Their feelings are just S U B T E X T, and as we all know subtext is absolutely meaningless and reading between the lines is illegal!

Yuri Hime isn't shounen lol. It had a shounen spinoff in the past, Yuri Hime S, but the main mag is sold based on the niche interest, not an age/gender demographic. One of my pet peeves with general manga fandom in the West is how way too much emphasis is put on magazine advertising demographics being cast onto individual manga, especially since the "male" demographics are actually just "default," much like how we tend to see masculine clothes as gender neutral compared to feminine clothes. Shoujo and Josei have basically atrophied to the point of being genres more than general demographics (not that "Josei" really existed as a specific slice of manga publishing to begin with). "Shounen" and "Seinen" mags publish a ton of stuff you'd assume by stereotype should be in those categories, like how one of the big Shounen Jump manga is "young woman pursues a career in traditional Japanese stand up comedy".

Huh, that's news to me. Guess I was wrong. It was a while ago so I may have been misremembering something I had read in the past.

I'm still not so sure that Japanese yuri readers are mostly female, or that most yuri is written with female readers in mind, but I guess that's just a hunch based on nothing concrete.

edit: I did a tiny bit of reading up and as you say it seems like there's no real "target demographic", at least in terms of gender. That does strike me as odd considering the fact that there is such a thing for BL, but I suppose even then it's not so simple.

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^ No clue, but most manga on the reader are "for girls" in Japan.

Actually it's very much the opposite. Yuri manga are frequently labeled as shounen. Yuri Hime, for example, is considered a shounen publication. That's not to say girls don't read them or that all yuri is written for boys, but the target demographic for yuri focused publications is more often than not primarily male.

What that says about yuri as a genre I can't say, and as LGBTQ+ acceptance rises that might change, but as things are yuri manga are "intended" for boys (much like how most BL is, paradoxically, written by and for het women.)

I wouldn't be surprised if the western audience leaned more towards female than in Japan, but I don't have any information to base that on.

edit: We should do another dynasty demographic poll. Would be interesting to see if thats changed over the last few years, especially with covid having happened after the previous one was conducted.

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Big sis: "Taking care of your crush when they're sick: check. Only a few romcom tropes left to hit before they get to the misunderstood confession."

Alternately: "Well played, me. Now she's someone else's problem!"

Soo... Are they in danger or something? Or is Hinata just worried that Naori will be surrounded by hot babes and guys? Is it the usual "Family introduction" that's supposed to make her act that way? The ending to that (21) chapter felt very tense but I'm not sure if I'm missing something.

I'm guessing relations between humans and ogres don't turn out well at all. Maybe the family is making a special acception, since Naori is Hinata's bartender. Then again, some may not be so reserved and try to eat her anyway.

I suspect the idea here is that big bro wants Naori to work for the family and Hinata doesn't want to share her girlfriend bartender with other people.

I honestly have no idea where things are going to go. It looks like Rin and Itsumi are going to be a couple from here on out, but it's difficult to say for sure.

Well, whatever happens I'll be here for the ride.

You guys are overthinking it, I said it was bland, boring and a waste of time of as a manga. From my point of view it gave nothing and accomplished nothing. And I actually enjoyed Miss Sunflower because it is not bland, not boring and not a waste of time. The main characters in futaribeya to me make no progression, themselves and their relationship is the same at the end of volume one up to the final volume, which is a loving best friendship. Another work that I dropped because of this reason is Hana ni Arashi in which they are dating, kiss and all that, but nothing has happened recently, I'm not talking about sex here, just their lives as human beings; they are exactly the same as chapter one.

If you wonder why did I finish, it was out of habit, because I also started reading it years ago. And I leave a comment saying what I think because it took it so many years to do nothing in the end.

If you like it and think I'm a idiot that's fine, I won't miss anything never reading another manga like this.

That's a lot of words used just to say the manga didn't do what you wanted, but okay.

Naori: Time to mix drinks and change lives.

I know it literally doesn't matter, but I'm kinda curious if this drug

A. Just makes you temporarily horny towards your normal sexual orientation

B. Makes you temporarily horny towards the same sex

C. Makes you temporarily horny towards the same sex and also permanently gay.

C would be kinda fucked up, like you just changed the course of someone's life on a whim without consent. It would be unMochi to write that, I think. The drugged male teacher chapter kinda implied B, but it would also be consistent with events if that teacher was in fact actually gay the entire time.

I think the implication is that it just makes you super horny and open to sexual offers without being too picky about things like orientation and gender

As a counterpoint, the male teacher was immediately horny for the other male teacher, but not for any of his female students or coworkers. We're probably not having any straight reappearing characters, so it's an academic question.

The teacher is gay.

I don't have any evidence to back that up whatsoever, but I can feel it in my bones.

On a more serious note, I haven't thought too much about it but I always figured it just made you horny towards the nearest person. The "fall in love with the first person you see" kind of love potion, but horny. So it just makes you horny towards anyone regardless of gender.

This must be why Chisato was so excited about the SUUUUUPA CAR in the anime. She was horny for Takina and knew this was the best car to do it in.

What kind of perfume is Naori wearing? And where can I get some?

I believe it's called Eau de Protagoniste.

I am confused. Is it very mochi to have an incest plotline, or is it very unmochi to not follow through with it?

both

Okay I know we're all joking about how it makes sense that they're family with how scummy they are. But I wonder how much of Itsumi's actions are from her sisters isolation driving her to being desperate. Her sister even said it herself, Itsumi was about to be driven to the deepend.

Itsumi isn't really good at anything and she's kinda dumb, but I think being a scumbag comes from being desperate for someone's attention. Even going so far to drugging her teacher to have someone. She only wants positive attention because she's only ever received negative harsh reactions from everyone around her. That's why she's calmed down since bonding with the other girls. She's gone from a scumbag to a pevert now tbh.

In conclusion, I'm a Itsumi apologist. Rin best girl

Yeah, that part really stuck out this chapter (as well as the conversation with Rin, of course). It was a lot of info that we didn't really know about before, and it explains a lot about how she got to this point. She wasn't the black sheep of the family for being a scumbag (at least, not initially), she was made the black sheep by her sister's manipulation.

I can't recall if Mochi au Lait has ever had a work quite like this one. It's the kind of comedy we've come to expect from them, but with actual character arcs and real growth alongside it. It's nice to see how they've matured as artists.

Also Itsumi's sister sucks big time. I've never been happier to see a ship sink before even leaving the harbor, and I really hope it stays sunk. I wonder if it was a deliberate choice to do that for the incest pairing.

Kabedon't fuck with me, senpai!

lmao that's excellent.

Why does Risa kinda look like the tiny Keanu Reeves meme when she says she’ll take Ayaka home lol

Oh my god she does, doesn't she?

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You people do realize this doesn't have to be written specifically to match your tastes, right? Not everyone likes the same types of stories as you. What you consider yuri heresy may be someone else's cup of tea.

Besides, you're not even paying to read here. Chill, please.

Oh and @randm this was answering the other comments, not yours. Yours is fine.

Let me hate read in peace. Thx

You can deliberately make yourself angry all you want, but it would be nice if you didn't make your anger into everyone else's problem, too.