Saw this on the cover of Machikado Mapoze - Dancing Phantasmagoria, which arranges Touhou songs in various dance styles from tango to swing to mambo and bon-odori. Highly recommended. The rest of Machikado Mapoze (and Ringing Volcano)'s discography is lovely too.

edit: dropped my link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLz7HVK7pqc

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Kinda relieved the new girl has something going on with someone other than the main duo.
I mean, there's basically two ways a love triangle can go. Either one of the characters sucks and has weak chemistry and they just take time away from the couple I'm into, or they're all cool so the ending's gonna be unsatisfying either way. Ban love triangles.

On a different note, I'm curious if the author's definition of Yuri is common in Japan. Cause this is way broader than "lesbian romance".

It's the whole focus on the passing of the torch. Modelling a lesbian relationship as sisterhood is, eh, I guess, but the way graduation plays into it kills the yuri dead.

Look, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with Nirvana or Foo Fighters, but

lmao Yuri Yuriyuri
I never really questioned the internal logic of these types of pairs, but that's exactly what it is.

Wait, so if Samus just turns into a ball of flesh and Lucina mistakes her for Kirby, does that mean Kirby also just feels like a ball of flesh?
I don't want that.

Surprisingly rare ship tbh.

We really could up the dere on Watanabe just a notch or two sometime soon. The premise is fun I'm not in a rush to unravel it, but Yoshioka deserves a little bit better in the meanwhile.

I like how oblivious the gyaru is to the otaku's "you're not supposed to BE the lesbian" mindset. She doesn't even actively disagree, she's just not dumb enough to think of that.

Had to google this and now I'm reading about knotted dicks. What even...

Nothing yet, she just says "Ano ne", which is something like "Hey, so...".
Her speech bubble is upside down though lol.

I can't get over seeing "I love eating when I'm hungry" tagged with "alternate reality", like nah that's normal actually.

EDIT:

The title's "おなかがすくから、愛をたべるの" meaning is actually closer to "I'm hungry, so I eat love" or "I eat love because I'm hungry".

Woha, that was nice! Such an intense buildup, but then it just stops.... Feels rather like a movie trailer

Oh, okay then. Also yeah, it really would work as a trailer.

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Considering the SDM girls' popularity, I'm surprised that not every permutation of them has been done to death. Like, if you ship Meiling with Sakuya and Remi with Patche, you're left with these two. And honestly, it works.

As for the plan of improving her delicate emotional descriptions using real life romance, the first thought she had from crushing on the train attendant was 50 bodybuilders.
Mr. editor, this is never gonna work.

Yuri enough I guess, but I like that it also works ok if you read it as more of a friendship. Usually my grief with subtext stories is that they not only won't commit to romance, they also systematically ruin any other interpretation until the story's just unsatisfying any way you look at it. This one's more like the opposite. I could see Toda and Tanaka being happy together either way.

I am SO sold on this one holy shit keep going

Eh, could work. Lovely pic, anyway.

Honestly, this was the one manga where I thought I'd be fine without any explicit romance because the early part did such a good job of showing how valuable their relationship was to them either way. But the more clearly I could see that, the more all their meandering annoyed me.

^ I think we've got about 10 seconds to leave her alone with Alice.

I actually visited this town when I was in Japan 2 years ago and man, is it a load of nothing. Not even quaint nothing, just nothing. I could maybe understand choosing it over Tokyo if there was a really cute senpai around, otherwise nah.

Hmm, i went into the show expecting to ship all the girls but since Momoe's episode I feel like I'm just pidgeonholing a cast that deserves better. At the same time if any of them really are into each other, I'd love to see how this show handles it. It's just been so fucking good so far.

I think I'm done with this one. I could deal with such an utterly adorable manga getting formulaic if the formula didn't specifically undercut the cute part.
The formula of "Girl gets adorably insecure, but everything's actually great" can make for a really nice and fluffy short story, but it doesn't bear to repeat. When no amount of reassurance that a relationship is working out is ever enough, then it probably isn't.

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There's gotta be a galge out there where you just ship the heroines. Anyone?

I wonder if this was just a transitional thing, or if Suika's permanently associated with shadows now. Cause if so, maybe ~Shadow Mistress Yuuko~ can do something about her. I mean, her full title seems completely irrelevant and you know that means around here.

This 4-koma plotline seriously has no business being this interesting.

Kurumi-san sure seems ~friendly~. I'd honestly be more interested in a manga about genuinely just a pair of friends trying out marriage rather than one of them already being serious from the start.
Oh well. Usui Shio's always great. I'll take anything.

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