I'm surprised this is an... intermission chapter? What would you call a .5 chapter?

And shit like this is why idiot couple is one of my favorite tags.

Well, I saw the translations for the Flowers 20 Anniversary thing. Very sweet stuff. I'm glad Rikka has a new trio, despite being separated from Suoh and Mayuri for most of the year.

I struggle to find anything relating to Couleur though as far as translation goes, which is a bummer. I can still enjoy the art at least.

Suoh x Erika is great, and while I'm glad they're in their current relationships I'd be thrilled with a sort of "what if" story where they get together.

It is a shame Couleur is unlikely to get reprinted, I can hope I can find a decent second hand copy but I imagine anyone who picked it up might be unlikely to part with it. And I still won't be able to actually read it unaided. C'mon JAST. foot the bill so we can get it here in the west.

I know they wouldn't, JAST is kinda cheap when it comes to things

edit: i just checked ebay to see if there were any and boy, 360-380 USD. Ow.

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Okay here's a certified Lily Prediction:

New girl has the wrong idea and thinks that Tae needs to be saved from Mai.

And honestly, all this talk about time/coma/whatever shenanigans is kinda dumb. Like. I'm not gonna lie, it feels like y'all are grasping way too hard for outlandish explanations when the intention's pretty clearly "what if the adult looked like the child and vice versa! how wacky!"

Oh man, there's a lot to unpack here. To avoid looking even more like SCP documentation only meant for the top brass, I think I'll just respond in a manner that avoids the spoilers.

I think first off, I'm glad that there are some answers to the questions I wanted answered the most. There is a caveat to this though - While complimentary material is great, as a western fan it's unlikely we'll ever see it translated. Which is a crying shame because it means that for most the questions will go unanswered. Most importantly, however, the fanbooks, Coleur, and the Anniversary book would be wonderful additions to my shelf and I'd love to be able to actually read them without trying to decipher google lens' machine translation.

And I appreciate the correction, I owe Shimizu Hatsumi a lot too in this case. I'm glad they took the chance on Flowers, I can only hope that they grace us again.

begone, ryouji from shiina's past. die monster, you don't belong in this world.

That was half unintelligible but it’s nice to see these two again

Yeah, it was very cute and all but damn it's kinda hard to read.

Consent and real life logic aside, I just find it extremely stupid and annoying how Fuwa's entire concept of love is just sex. This could have been a really great manga if she actually DID try to make the MC fall in love with her, but he entire strategy is forcing a girl to watch lesbian porn, forcing her to have sex, and she thinks that's love.

I'd assume part of it is a working idea that physical attraction could lead into someone becoming a little more... Open-minded? I suppose. I don't completely disagree with that idea. That, coupled with a time limit means that encouraging the other to "listen to their body" as a springboard into intimacy beyond just physical attraction might just be there for efficiency.

Since this thread showed back up and I've finished Hiver, I'm going to put out my wholehearted and earnest recommendation for Flowers once again. Especially now that you can go in to the whole series and experience all of the ups and downs without years of wait.

Of course, there are certain things I'm... Not necessarily unsatisfied with, but they leave an awkward feeling for me, namely... Yuzuriha and Nerine playing an antagonist role. It just seemed strange that they would come back following the events of Automne, and we're not really given much clarity on why. It's ultimately an unanswered question that I would dearly like to know the answer to.

But there is also some very positive stuff, like when Yuzuriha is grilling Erika regarding her crush on Suoh. It's cute to know that before Chidori entered her life, Erika had one-sided feelings for her bookworm buddy. It makes me wonder what a route centered on those feelings would've been like. And yet, it's also endearing to see how her feelings for Chidori have helped her move past that crush. The relief when Chidori came in during that scene was very cute.

Ultimately, 8.5 or 9/10, I hope one day Miki Sugina and Innocent Grey will hurt me once more with a wonderful yuri.

Big fan of awful, irredeemable women and girls. Hope they keep on winning.

Reminiscing about your ex while drowning in a double marshmallow heaven? Being Mei is suffering...

Oof. I was doubtful that the highschool crush would return, but now I’m convinced she’s definitely coming back later.
Actually, I bet that’s gonna be the endgame. Mei either abandons these weirdos to be with her crush, or she’ll turn down the crush to date all 5 of her weirdos.

Or she'll end up dating those 5 and her crush. Can't discount that possibility

The crush actually represents a secret sixth sense.

Time?

Nah, the sixth sense is seeing dead people, like Bruce Willis in the end of Sixth Sense.

I never understand why so many people want poly relationships I don't like those or harems or anything like that they always feel less genuine even if everyone is in love and happy. I guess I'm just a person that loves a normal two person relationship everything else just feels complicated.

Calling monogamy normal to imply polyamory/polygamy being abnormal is probably part of the problem. It's the same kind of narrowmindedness that encourages other bigotry.

But, that aside, polyamory isn't for everyone, and it must not be for you either. However, there's nothing less genuine about a poly relationship than a two person relationship. You'd probably do well to work on not thinking about it like that and that might help you understand why others might want it.

whoa whoa wait... I have NOTHING against it at all if everyone is happy please be happy that's all I want for people. I guess I might have phrased what I said wrong please do not take it that way and if I offended you or anyone else I deeply apologize. My thought was mainly people just thinking "yay lesbian threesome" and not more outside of that.

I also never implied that poly of any kind was abnormal or anything like that when I said a normal two person relationship I legit meant just two people I just don't get where I implied it was abnormal for poly or anything like that.

You might not have done it intentionally, but the way your statement is presented you are implying that polyamory isn't normal, only the two-person relationship is. Additionally, even if you didn't mean it intentionally, by even making a statement about it in such a way "why do people want x thing and not a normal thing" you're further pushing the idea that polyamory is abnormal and people are abnormal for wanting it

I never understand why so many people want poly relationships I don't like those or harems or anything like that they always feel less genuine even if everyone is in love and happy. I guess I'm just a person that loves a normal two person relationship everything else just feels complicated.

Calling monogamy normal to imply polyamory/polygamy being abnormal is probably part of the problem. It's the same kind of narrowmindedness that encourages other bigotry.

But, that aside, polyamory isn't for everyone, and it must not be for you either. However, there's nothing less genuine about a poly relationship than a two person relationship. You'd probably do well to work on not thinking about it like that and that might help you understand why others might want it.

Anyways, I'd have to wager Manaria's declaration is bait to make Rei take her own happiness into consideration as well as Claire's. That's generally just how these things go.

I have looked into the authors doujins and they are like scat.

I double checked this but all of the scat content's like. milder than mild. it's basically a page of inclusion at most, and it's not in many of their works anyways so I don't think there's anything to worry about.

Ah, bittersweetness. You were by my side all along.

I have a feeling Nanoha is going to choose a school in Tokyo anyways though, the agonizing over the choices in the meantime is going to be deliciously bittersweet.

Tasked failed successfully?

That feeling that things aren't right, just lurking in the background like a TV turned to static in another room, slowly, gradually growing louder. Love it.

Hm. I guess I was a little off the mark in my guess, though even through all the philosophy I was still expecting something to happen. All things considered, I think the ending might've been more exciting if it ended with Tokiko, it feels more like it dragged out after that.

Oh well, overall I enjoyed my time. 7.5/10

On the plus side, it's easier to see where this is going now.

Weren't y'all asked to stop.

It's pretty insulting to conflate us talking about a fictional matter as if we're somehow condoning an awful act in reality.

Couple more chapters out on MD, and they're real doozies.
I'm starting to question if bodies really explode into pieces when hit by trains

Oh man, you weren't kidding.
It looks like my theory that Ai will be the last one standing holds some water still.

It's clear this is not a manga for you since you're reacting this viscerally to the new chapter's plot hook, I think it'd be better for you and the rest of us if you simply dropped the series and went on to something else.

Nah I am good.

It certainly does not seem that way.

It's clear this is not a manga for you since you're reacting this viscerally to the new chapter's plot hook, I think it'd be better for you and the rest of us if you simply dropped the series and went on to something else.