That's... really unintuitive. science babies for magic babies, with no science behind it? That's the silliest thing I've ever seen. non-science babies for regular children? that's even sillier. These tags need revision. Easy solution: adoption/adopted, step-child tags. Calling those "non-science babies" is the most ridiculous tagging thing I've seen in a long time.

I don't even see why we keep arguing over this when this all is already explained in the tag description. Although, thinking about it a bit more, it may be easier to understand if it had a slightly different wording as not science babies.

In any case, I think this discussion has come far enough away from reasons the chapter was tagged as such to discussion about the meaning of the tag itself that it would be better to stop derailing this thread any more and, if there's still something someone wants to say about the tag itself, any further discussion should be taken to the tag's own thread.

Took a bit for them to get used to ComiFe without a proficient otaku ninja to guide them, but in the end it all went well, they made a new friend in Paola, got Kano-chan her souvenir, and Kano-chan herself didn't have to go without the ero-doujins our couple was too shy to buy for her as she did make it there herself as well. ^_^

I've just always seen it as simply the somewhat tongue-in-cheek opposite of science babies, making the meaning rather obvious to me.

To me the opposite of science babies isn't natural babies (who IMO should just be tagged as plain children or suchlike if indicating their presence in the story is now deemed necessary) but supernatural babies of whatever specific flavour. Tagging for the presence of perfectly regular offspring seems as redundant to me (in the overwhelming majority of scenarios I can think of) as tagging for regular human characters would be.

Simply children or babies would also encompass science babies, though, so this would still be necessary for clarity. As for tagging for "perfectly regular offspring", it may seem redundant in most places, but it's actually a pretty big deal on a site that mostly focuses on yuri - not really a genre known for the characters having children.

It's interesting how I went from thinking I couldn't possibly like this series much with all these creeps around to realizing with the discussion of the darkness around and inside the people here how much they actually fit the theme of the series.

This probably doesn't have that many volumes, so I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

3 volumes according to MAL.

Why natural children should even need such an oddly phrased tag is quite beyond me.

To differentiate them from science babies, I guess. It actually never felt not intuitive for me, but I guess it depends on how you look at it. I've just always seen it as simply the somewhat tongue-in-cheek opposite of science babies, making the meaning rather obvious to me. (Although it also may have helped that I'd already seen a discussion on the use of science babies for magic in another chapter.)

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Faerilyn posted:

Not sure why this was tagged "non-science babies" when they talk about her being adopted right at the beginning. Or implied it at least. Garun does some great stuff. Love them since the Childhood Yuri story

I'm sorta confused by your comment. The kid is adopted, so it's tagged Non-science babies. That sounds right to me...?

How are they non-science babies? lmao. Maybe that tag needs to be changed, because adopting is perfectly normal, and "non-science babies" implies that there is something unnatural about the way they were brought into the world. The science is there: adoption

Quite the opposite - science babies implies unnatural ways (and is also used for magical equivalents), while non-science babies is for normal kids, including those adopted.

^ I actually went and compared this with that series before noticing the glasses and even the uniforms are very similar, with only some small differences.

Round two coming up.

Interesting to see that these two are still "together", would have expected that to be just a one-time mistake. Well, considering their situations, I can see why they'd keep this up, though.

It's super effective.

Well, that sure was a party.

Very nice. ^_^

Cute. :D

Nice.

Could almost mistake this for Koisuru Asteroid, especially with the glasses a bit hard to notice.

In any case, beautiful. ^_^

Adorable.

Nice. :D

Very cute. ^_^

That's not what we usually mean by being wet... :P

Nice.

Cute.

When will this update...?

One would assume, as is usually the case, when it's ready.

I mean, creativity isn't just black and white either, though. There can be excellent characterizations, and there can be disaster's like what Viz did to Nettaigyo...

Wait, what did Viz do? I'm unfortunately out of the loop, but I'm prepared to fetch my pitchfork if need be.

I honestly haven't even managed to bring myself to read more after the first volume. The worst case of localization I've seen in a while, with the quiet Japanese loner Koyuki sounding like the stereotypical popular American cheerleader, to the point that I can physically hear the bubblegum.

I mean, creativity isn't just black and white either, though. There can be excellent characterizations, and there can be disaster's like what Viz did to Nettaigyo...

And then Fujishiro came and lifted you to her place already in this life, even if you still have trouble accepting this...

Has the subtext really been that strong until recent chapters though?

Strong enough that I can't even joke that Ritsuko was saying what we all want, since most of us already thought Shino was seeing Nozomi as a woman anyway, even if she may not have realized this herself quite yet.