This is taking sooooooo long to localize, super excited for this version

Rivals

Rookie mistake!

Tags should just be gone. What people want is full on spoiler summaries for complete series anyway, and tags don't actually serve as in their function as cataloguing content anymore, so better ditch them before further devolvement. People need to be untrained from checklist reading. ^^

Some want to know if this is actually Yuri, which is a genre. It's very normal to want to know what genre you're reading. Yuri lets you know if this involves romance or not (specifically between women). It doesn't say anything about the other outcomes or about spoilers, anymore than knowing that something is in the comedy genre spoils a film or book. I don't see anyone asking for much more beyond that.

Point of clarity! The romance tag lets readers know if it will be romance or not. There is a ton of content on the site that is yuri without being romantic. Anyone concerned with progress, or the (very outdated by this point) focus on whether or not something is yuri based on whether or not there is subtext, just needs to check if there is a romance tag. That's the tag to care about. The yuri tag is not designed to define romance, and the genre of yuri expands way beyond romance, particularly with how the genre has grown explosively in the last decade. Like, for instance, this series.

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Tsurugimine Kiri's big gay bathroom panic strikes again!

Happy Birthday, Junna!

Do we need a tag for the coach and nurse now?

Yes! Or they will be lost among the chapters

it's manga with an irregular publication. The reason why it feels rushed is because the author can't spent too much time building up a story.

so make a good story and don’t make an badly written one if your story is publicated in such an magazine!, like let’s not make excuses for the author!, if they can’t make an good manga for this type of serialization the don’t make one in the first place >.>

it's a filler manga for a magazine that suddenly lost one of its major serialization, what did you expect?

Did they lose My Cute Kitten too? Or was it just Liberty? Or one of the other series? It seems Hakamada Mera is holding down the fort right now, and it's probably not a good sign that they're reprinting Morinaga's The Secret Recipe. I hope all is well at Galette, although you won't see me complaining about Tsubomi stories being republished!

It's probably also helpful to note that Galette is a (regularly published) quarterly magazine, half indie and half commercial, and the editorial staff has little input into what the authors create unlike something like Yuri Hime. It's also the longest running yuri magazine behind Yuri Hime, so it is not a throwaway or bottom tier place to be published. (Not aiming this response at you guys, just getting the info out there)

I think it's pretty clearly a stable time loop

What makes you say stable time loop over route hopping?

Mainly the fact that this time travel part is filling in the previously mentioned blanks in Evie's memory, which would imply that she did not have these memories because the time traveling version of her was in control at the time. That, and as we are seeing right now, she's also laying the groundwork for Elsa going for her instead of any of the original male love interests, explaining this particular already seen change in the story's direction.

Ohhh, that's my mistake on describing the idea. The theory is that the other Elsa is route hopping away from a bad end route to this one and is initiating the time loop in this route to avoid a bad end. And I wasn't sure if that was a common or the running theory

Any chance this demon is the future nun? This at least seems like the setup for the orphanage, so Dorothea might show up if that isn't her

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I haven't checked the older comments, but do we just have two distinct sets of amnesiac commenters? I seem to remember as we were wrapping up the previous arc that the tone of the comments was that the Big Fantasy Plot was getting out of hand, convoluted, and causing tonal whiplash with the fluffy romance elements.

I remember pointing out, with glee, that this arc was just going to be an excuse for fluff and a break from said Big Fantasy Plot. Pertinent at the time was someone pointing out that this whole manhua has always been at odds with itself regarding the plot and the fluff. How are readers not already used to the way this comic is structured?

I think it's pretty clearly a stable time loop

What makes you say stable time loop over route hopping? I'm asking honestly because it isn't something I was ever paying attention to on first read and it's been a while. Since it was from a Chinese reader, I also kinda assumed maybe it was the standard interpretation among people reading the raws.

And an actual catnip plot would be fun! It's a mild hallucinogenic, so cats go kinda nuts on it. Not exactly as portrayed here.

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Ohhhhh damn, we have a half-finished shinoba scan, I wonder where it's at. Let me see if the crew wants to collaborate!

Edit: Lmao, nevermind it was this one. Congrats on the release!

Thank you for your group's past work! I don't think we would've picked this one up if it weren't for The Zärtlichkeit du Yuri's releases.

Woo, that's exciting! Looking forward to all your future work!!

Ohhhhh damn, we have a half-finished shinoba scan, I wonder where it's at. Let me see if the crew wants to collaborate!

Edit: Lmao, nevermind it was this one. Congrats on the release!

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There is no God or Buddha, only Reimari

Apparently, the pose on the final page is known as "Yuri Cosmic Symbol" 百合太極図

Oh, huh. I didn't realize that was a thing, and yet now i realize I've seen it dozens of times. Weird.

The Utena pose, as it's known colloquially

Also for the curious, I think that the box Aya pulled out is a Marshall Emberton II Bluetooth speaker. The grille doesn't quite match, but it's the model with that big fat single button on top.

I had no idea Marshall did Bluetooth speakers, and damn they're expensive

Hang on does Suletta have permet scars on her dick

I wish I could say that was up to interpretation. But I can't. Because it's not, and she does. We'll file that under headcannons I didn't need to see.

前面的篇章中王子，女仆以及艾莎都有这段童年回忆，但是伊芳没有。这个篇章收束了前面的伏笔，并不是伊芳忘记了，而是在这之前，这段经历是不存在的。这段经历并不是幻境，而是黑艾莎用魔法确确实实的将伊芳传送到了过去，改变了过去。黑艾莎是未来的艾莎，之所以要这样做必定是经历了惨痛的未来，因而回到过去，改变这个结局。这个badend大概是因为系统吧。话说回来，王子和艾莎又为什么能够一直记得呢。

Rather than spoilers, I think they're theorizing that the reason Yvonne can't remember these events is because they're being created as she's living them now because the other Elsa appears to be coming from a bad end route. That the events did not exist in our route prior to this point. If Google translate is accurate.

My guess would just be that because this current route is a good end route, then the time travel happened already and was effective? And it's still likely that young Yvonne does not keep her memories from when she was possessed(?) by future Yvonne.

But if other Elsa is route hopping, that makes for interesting possibilities too

I'm also thinking the silver vine gag is going to be silly rather than inappropriate, if it ends up acting like catnip

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Ahhhhh, it's so good! And it has the lines from the revue! This is the sort of post-movie content I'm dying for

The movie glosses over the changes in which schools the characters are going to from their initial surveys in the opening to where they actually end up going, practically begging for doujinshi like this to fill in the blanks

NYC theater kid college life Junna doujinshi when? She's unintentionally inserted herself into a very specific scene/culture/vibe

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We have the hint of Himari's friend and her potential relationship coming up. They could be the next couple whose story we follow for a bit

I'm unironically in it to get the rug pulled out from under me again and get 40 chapters this time of a different couple

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Is that alcohol at the bottom of page 8 defying the laws of physics?

It's just jello

How did you acquire and physically scan a manga before it's release date! Very sneaky, much respect. This was a very interpretable release

the whole “i just like [Name of female MC] because she is [Name of Female MC] not because she is a girl” as being an cope out of the whole gay people exist in japan, weirdly even in yuri manga some author will rather avoid the whole idea of sexuality existing like being an Lesbian and Bisexual and replace it with the not realistic “love doesn’t have gender weird type of thing” to again avoid the whole sexuality idea in an manga

I blame Clamp for this. They started the whole love is whoever you happen to fall in love with trope in manga. To disastrous effect.

I have hope for this manga because this new character that showed up to drive the plot forward and cause drama might be a tired trope, but she does seem to be openly a lesbian and is hopefully here to challenge the MC's belief

And yeah, it's nice that ILTV/Inori openly calls out that bullshit.

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In other news, I got around to typesetting that NEET Blood oneshot where Judas and Miko first appeared.
Not sure how best to go about submitting it to Dynasty since it predates Liberta by a fair few years and is very much a het thing (ie. it's not really suited for the /u/ scanlations credit), but you can read it over on MD: https://mangadex.org/chapter/f521ebd1-bb39-408c-b30f-3a9e997aaabc

You could upload it as anonymous or /a/ and request a het tag. It could just be included in this series or as its own oneshot

This could have been written in Linear B and I'd be no less confused. However, gals in futons requires no Rosetta stone.

It's fun, but yeah it assumes a lot of knowledge from the show itself and not the movie. Pretty surprising how long before the movie it came out considering the made up revue that ends up being a bit similar to the revue of hunting

This is the shit

Why are we defending arranged marriages in the comments are you all fucking bricked in the head.

Your reading comprehension could use some work. The discussion has been about the difference between “arranged marriages” and “forced marriages” (which do happen, where people—almost always women—are abused and given no choice in the matter).

The terms in question are consensual arranged marriages and forced arranged marriages, which focuses the point. Because I mean sure, in a vacuum, consensual arranged marriages are ethically fine, but the implication from those against it here, I'm thinking, is that in practice they might not be so consensual from an outside perspective despite not being a blatantly forced marriage. From what i can tell, it seems that (both kinds of) arranged marriages are more common in countries with weak or no feminist movements and where women are significantly less protected under the law. I understand that marriage as a concept in such places is also totally different from my own concept of it, but I'm also under the impression that concept of it should be dismantled for the same reasons it was here.

I'm saying that I don't see multicultural respect protecting this particular institution and that in practice consensual arranged marriages are dubious at best where the women involved only may have the agency to veto their place in it. Or may not have a clue what they're getting into. I mean, take my generation, we racked up inordinate amounts of college debt because that's just what you do with no idea how it would constrain our daily lives for decades moving forward. That was all consensual, baby.

But hey, i could be wrong and the bulk of them could be 20-somethings with no interest in the dating scene. It could be that modern consensual arranged marriages are neither repressive or regressive

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