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Opapagoto discussion 20 Aug 18:06
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Do raws exist for that?

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Opapagoto discussion 20 Aug 15:53
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Man, sucks the series was axed. There was so much potential.

What has the author done since?

More yuri I hope.

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Huh
I never knew someone translated the first VD interview
https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20150514-valkyriedrive-interview

Interestingly, the entire concept was developed by Kaneko and Kuroda, with Takaki being brought aboard later when it was decided a game would me made as well.

last edited at Aug 20, 2018 1:51PM

Dark_Tzitzimine
Citrus discussion 17 Aug 15:10
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https://twitter.com/glidesloe/status/1030480728121700352

Hmm, is this implying she was Saburota the entire time?

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Citrus discussion 17 Aug 11:19
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Korean Raws

http://wasabisyrup.com/archives/FncVqZ0QtqU

It warms my heart.

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Citrus discussion 17 Aug 00:19
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Sabu's wild ride isn't over

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No, it's not a good manga.

It's a hentai that doesn't want to admit it's one, or that's been watered down in order to barely pass censorship.

It is Valkyrie Drive, the series being very overt with the fanservice is a given. If Breakout! and Bhikkhunism aren't as overt as Mermaid is because they were published in Famitsu. The Mermaid manga, being published in a magazine focused on more mature audiences could be as explicit as the anime itself.

It's just intended as fap material for male teens. The story is almost irrelevant.

If you don't like it that's fine, but that doesn't mean the story isn't good. In fact, it gives a good amount of characterization to both the main couple and the villain of the setting.

I know of 3. Siren (this one) being a mobage + continuation manga, Bhikkhuni being beat-em-up game + manga, And Mermaid being the anime.All of them sharing the same premise of girls being incarcerated on an island for being infected by a virus that turns them into weapons (and does other things) when they get excited. They also share the yuri-ish ecchi tone and general character design guidelines.

Something I really liked was the fact that the three series (with its respective supplementary material) elaborated different aspects about the setting, so the more you read/watched/played the richer the entire premise became.

Though, those I know something about, Siren and Mermaid have non-yuri distractions often enough to bother me. Siren's player character being explicitly male (though if manga is anything to go by, he doesn't get romantically involved with main girls) invokes old "only guy in a strictly female environment" trope I dislike. Mermaid had Mamori's crush on Governer (I know), tentacle + faceless sand guys "fanservice", and the whole ending debacle with non-relationship main girls ended up in.

Siren having a male self-insert as the protagonist was a huge misstep that badly hurt the game and likely, influenced its early demise. They tried to right the course once the fanbase expressed its disappointment (like the manga dropping him entirely and upping the yuri tenfold and the game reducing his role and making sure Setsuna and Urara would be a couple in the final event of the game) but the damage was already done.

As for Mermaid, Mirei and Mamori did end up becoming a formal couple, that was the entire reason they could achieve the Valkyrie Drive, it was just not stated in words but their actions made that abundantly clear.

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Is August 1st in Japan
And that is Rinka's Birthday!
https://twitter.com/kasii623/status/1024309581592154112

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Pretty well thought and informative review about Mermaid
https://kusokawa.blogspot.com/2018/07/valkyrie-drive-mermaid-thoughts.html

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Ok, so I got the raws for the volume releases of the three Valkyrie Drive manga series

Mermaid

http://www.mediafire.com/file/02p06ktu0xt1rlh/VDM_Manga_Vol_1_Raws.rar/file

http://www.mediafire.com/file/f9ozoeu0dzed626/VDM_Manga_Vol_2_Raws.rar/file

Bhikkhunism

http://www.mediafire.com/file/4sn1dl3suj78s54/Valkyrie_Drive_Bhikkhunism_Vol_Raws.rar/file

Siren

http://www.mediafire.com/file/1inqb90l18jwb8o/Valkyrie_Drive_Siren_Breakout_Vol_Raws.rar/file

Bhikkhunism is completely scanlated and available on Dynasty Reader but these releases include a few 4komas and small gag panels.

Hopefully, I will find someone willing to translate them so the manga can be fully complete.

I'm working on typesetting the Siren one and hopefully I will be done soon and it will be added to the reader as well. It has the same detail of new bonus pages as Bhikkhunism though.

The Mermaid manga on the other hand, never had available raws so there's no translation for it. Although if a translation ever happens, I'll typeset it . In the meantime, Zunta's art is always a treat.

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And today is Yuka Iguchi's (Mirei's Seiyuu) Birthday!

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Could Kaneko's new avatar be a tease for more VD?

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To be fair, Kaneko actually designed women that were on the plump side thanks to their huge breasts.

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YESSSSSS

More Valkyrie Drive!

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Image Comments 25 Jun 02:05
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Drive

They aren't twins, Ranka is a year younger than Rinka. But they were originally conceptualized as twins.

And no, they don't have much fanart on their own. I have a bunch of pictures but unfortunately not the source for all of them.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avIQ5aTA_tU
The German release has the character bios translated on their "Booblet"
Now I'm really curious to know what it says.

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Good and bad news.

The Mirei Figure from Proovy is coming out in September.

The bad news

She's $95.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/o/ASIN/B07DCZRG11/pick-item-22

EDIT:

The final volume of VD's German release will be out in August.
https://www.anime2you.de/news/221488/valkyrie-drive-mermaid-finale-details-zum-dritten-volume/

last edited at Jun 1, 2018 3:06PM

Dark_Tzitzimine
Opapagoto discussion 22 May 02:28
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This manga deserved to run much longer.

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Happy Birthday Echigoya!

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From what I've seen, part of the blame is also on Steam's side that either for lack of manpower or laziness take any report as gospel without bothering to actually check the veracity and accuracy of the report itself.

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Couldn't find the proper thread so I'll post it here.

Recently Valve has started to target different VN and threatening to remove them from steam over allegations of having pornographic content and Mangagamer just got such notice about Kindred Spirits.

https://twitter.com/ListeninGarden/status/997392026147721216

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Professor? discussion 15 May 10:43
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Anyone knows why the final two stories on the compilation will be skipped?

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It might be just me but pages 24 to 27 doesn't feel as fluid as the rest of the chapter, with the off-screen voices making a little difficult to follow the narrative. And is not a translation issue, is just the layout what makes it read oddly.