BWAHAHAHA... good one!

I like this image, is hot, but I still wish both were their canonical loli selves.

Kodama's chapter and stuff like this makes me imagine the two of them having clandestine meetings where they decide how to split the yuri drama market between themselves.

Of course Kodama Naoko's short started with Matsuri sporting the Kodama signature yandere face.

Awesome stuff!

Also, is it just me, or is one of the recurring themes here Mei being assertive, lol? Keep it coming~

Characters communicating with each other, what heresy is this?!

Yeah. I know the scanlators are providing us with these out of their own free time and effort, so I am stressing this is not a complaint, merely an opinion, but I always thought machigai made a mistake by not translating and including the afterword. Like, three quarters of this (rather large) thread have been cheating! Husbands! Are they assholes! Are they nice! Are they gay! Are they dead! Does it even matter! Two ladies finding bliss in a problematic situation! Two ladies heading straight for misery! Etc.!
I somehow can not but think a lot of those musings would have been either cut short, or otherwise different, to a lesser or greater extent, if the afterword had been included.

7-year-old Mercy is super cute, like, what the hell!!

Lol, half the time back in primary school, kids expressed their romantic crushes by bullying their interests. I can totally see where Ririha is coming from. And yes, I even remember the "only one allowed to bully her". Judging by my nephews, things have not changed much over decades, so really, this is just how kids behave. I can see why it would seem psychotic to a grown-up, but like, kids. Primary school kids. Rationality. What even.
Also, kids do not exactly have finely calibrated good-bad scale, it is the period when they are learning this, so you can actually reasonably expect them to be more flexible, shall we say, in this sense, than adults.

Hmmmmmmm, you could look at this 2 ways. The husbands are both dead or they are cheating. It seems to me more likely that they were dead since the children were staying with the mothers. If they all knew about their mother's relationship, then there's no way that one of them didn't spill the beans to one of the husbands if they are living. Plus, she said "regards" and since most Japanese households keep a shrine of loved ones that they pray at then "regards" would make sense.

By Cyfer, two pages and three years ago:

I was told that since I was reading the afterword anyway, I might as well tell you all what is said, so:

It seems I wanted to draw housewives. Also, a flirtatious daily life. The one with white hair is a younger and somewhat of a gyaru, the one with tone hair is older and went to a nice school in the area. The husbands are probably nice in a normal way. During the summer they'll A futile situation is a futile situation, but personally I think it's a problematic relationship. If I were friends with those people, I wonder if I'd be able to say "You need to end this relationship"... I feel like I'd end up saying "You need to be careful...go on vacation and such. As two families!

A futile situation is a futile situation, but personally I think it's a problematic relationship. If I were friends with those people, I wonder if I'd be able to say "You need to end this relationship"... I feel like I'd end up saying "You need to be careful...

That was a quick translation; if you're lucky, NHFH will come out with something more thorough.

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I mean they have mutual feelings in the end (I think?)

No. I am pretty sure you are the only one who read it like that, judging by this thread. I am personally of the opinion there are not even one-sided feelings in play here. The one who raped her friend did not do it because she harboured secret romantic feeling for her, but because she was obsessed with her friend "being left behind", which in terms of this story means "not experienced sex yet". Main character's happiness at the end was because her friend is no longer a virgin, not because she was the one who did it with her. Happiness which she intends to broadcast to everyone. "Look, look, my best friend is no longer a virgin, how awesome is that." Those are not "feelings", that is sheer insanity. And you do not even have to 'read into it' to interpret it this way, since the author literally wrote it like that.
The friend that got raped also did not express any romantic attraction towards the main character, or anyone else, at any point in the story.

I don't know why you guys are making a big deal out of nothing

Rape (and a pretty insanely-motivated, at that) =/= nothing. It is only natural this kind of story would generate discussion on the subject, it would be strange if it did not.

I'm pretty sure a yuri manga that has a het ending is way worse than this *cough Happy End *cough

Personally, I will take a het end over a badly done yuri rape. Emphasis on 'badly done', I am not against rape being used in literature/media, but in this case it was done completely nonsensically.

Also, regarding het, you seem to have missed the fact the main character looks at her het experience as something positive, a social triumph of a sort, and also genuinely thought it does not count between girls.

HARUMIN/MATSURI YES!
ALL THE YES!!
SLIDE THIS INTO THE ACTUAL SERIES, SABUROUTA!!!

While Mei being a troll is my favorite take on Mei.

Also yes. More, please~

A little clarification on selfcest, U-511 was a German WWII submarine, but was eventually sold to Japan, where it was re-commissioned as Ro-500. In the KanColle game Ro-500 is the second upgrade of U-511.

^Her arms are beneath her.

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Awesome ship! Awesome image~

Rain Spectre
You have it on various hentai sites, such as kisshentai. Personally, I would go here, since most of their ads can be easily blocked, while kiss will demand you disable the block, at which point they will flood you with commercials. However, only 27 out of 38 episodes are subbed. Seems like that on any site, so for episodes 28-38, all you have are raws (you have them on the linked site as well).

I don't think the translation quite gets across a key line: Midori basically says she found herself agreeing with/convinced by Azusa's comment. That's what her look of horror before the slap was about.

I think that message was conveyed rather well, actually. It was my first impression upon seeing her face there. It was an awesome realisation, and it makes her resolve afterwards, and almost immediate crumbling of it, feel all the more real.

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My impression matches the A version, though I do not agree that makes her a Hollywood psychopath. It could be B, though, there is just enough ambiguity for it to go either way, you are correct. I guess it falls on what the preferences of individual readers are when it comes to it.

As for looking conflicted when asked to date Midori, I did not see it that way. She seems too much at ease with the situation, both before and after, for me to read it like that. My take was that it was pity, probably, for Midori, who so hopelessly misread their relationship.
I do agree with one of the previous posters who said they think Azusa would do this only with Midori, rather than being a cheater in general. That impression is not based on much evidence, I admit, other than the very last panel, where both of them stop, indicating that, perhaps, even just as a cheating partner, Midori is somehow special to Azusa too.

People shitting on people who are saying cheating is a shitty thing to do and that both these characters are extremely shitty people for doing it suggests otherwise. If that's not what they're meaning to do then they should be more careful trying to get their point across.

I guess we operate under different definitions of 'defending' and 'encouraging', then. People who did that were of the it-is-not-*that*-bad variety, they were not saying this thing is perfectly alright. Such stances depend on personal views, and can be discussed, but again, no one was trying to defend the cheating itself, much less present it as something worth encouraging.
Also, no one was "shitting" on anyone, unless your definition of the term is 'not agreeing fully'.

Edit: Well, I guess the comment with "pencilling themselves" could be seen as such, though it is a relatively mild example. That is about it.

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I'm quite disgusted with the amount of people in here defending cheating as if it's something to be encouraged.

Except no one did that. People here seem divided between those who liked the characters and the story, those who liked the story but disliked the characters, and those who just flat out disliked the whole thing. But even amongst people who are in the first category, such as myself, no one was defending cheating, much less treated it as something to be encouraged. You are seeing things that are just not present.

two twisted souls condemned to suffer with each other

I am not sure where the suffering is supposed to be. Azusa clearly did not feel bad at any point. Midori felt bad momentarily when her girlfriend called, and later when she was rejected and realised what kind of a relationship this is. Not exactly rising to the level of suffering. If they continue with this, which they probably will, I rather doubt there would be much actual suffering. And if there would be, I imagine it would mostly be centred on Midori, because she is the one who genuinely expressed wanting a relationship with Azusa, even though it is obvious she gets off on the cheating as well.

That is some really smooth operating, Erotica Girl, lmao.
Also, glasses girl loses the glasses when reading in her bed. No idea why that stuck out.

You can't never go wrong with Ohsawa Yayoi.

khm

I liked this a lot. Especially when the main character realises what the actual circumstances are, resolves never to see the other girl, then admits to herself she would probably end up in the same predicament if she were indeed to meet her again. And then does not manage to make two full steps before stopping. Reason I like this is because my experience in life so far has led me to believe people rarely change, and even when they do, it is a slow, gradual process that has little to do with conscious choices. People often have 'epiphanies', and make 'resolute' decisions (much like the main character here), but their resolve often crumbles rather quickly, especially when the driving forces behind their actions are emotions.

The other girl, on the other hand, seems fully aware of the situation from the very beginning, and is quite unambiguously in it for the cheating aspect. I like that too, I like when a character makes no effort to repress a part of their nature, even if said part is awful in some way.

Interesting how a different presentation can make that much of a difference, the last story with cheating I read, I liked the story, but disliked the characters. One was an emotionally idiotic moron who did not seem to comprehend the situation fully, the other was a manipulative bastard (at least it seems so) whose motivations are not explored by the author.
Here, though, I like both the story, and the characters. Cheating done right, lol.

This?

^What kind of a monster are you...

Can't remember there being a time when Darjeeling had moments with everybody in the canon stuff. Or doujin artists really just love to pair her up with everyone?

Probably the latter. I mean, she did not have an actual moment with Kay either (the two were in the same room in the movie, but did not exchange a single word with each other on-screen, and that is about it).

^With Kinuyo, with Rosehip, with Maho, with Assam, with Erika.