Drama~~~~!
I actually thought those parts were quite well done.

And while some (I dare say most) of the loli stuff on this site is far worse than Kodomo no Jikan (and indeed some anime series even), I feel far more uncomfortable seeing the fanservice in this series. Probably because Rin feels more like a real person than a cardboard cutout, watching her explore sexuality with all the awkwardness of a kid is... awkward.

Older people looked it as an abomination and sort of a gateway to homosexuality (?)

This is the kind of thing that makes me think:
When we (generalizing) get old/our time passes, what ways of thinking of ours will be considered full-on ignorant stupidity for future generations?...

I had considered this before, but not for relationships and in reverse.

-> your parents have always looked upon your whining and said something like: "in my day, you were lucky to have more than soya sauce on your rice! When you become a parent, what whining will your children do that will make you say: "in my day..."
-->> A few ideas: -My special coke bottle with a football star embossed on it hasn't arrived after 3 hours! -What do you mean the restaurant isn't open at 1am??? -This job is boring, ima quit

Is it rare for a guy to be a yuri fan? I love yuri romance more than any genre there is. I've read probably every single thing on this site with a romance tag :) Childhood friends/romance is probably my fav combo though, lol

raises hands Guy here. Well, this thread was certainly surprising to read.

Not sure how far out from normal I'm getting down here, but my favourite yuri stories are Aoi Hana (the anime as my first entry into genre) and Chatting at the Amber Teahouse. Especially, Teahouse. With Candy Boy as a close runner up.

-> which is sort of strange, but even the Sono Hanabira games are kinda not very interesting. They just "devolve into an orgy of lust" (got that description of the Hanabira games from somewhere) a bit too fast. If I want porn, there are better places to get it. Never finished any but the first.

That said, there's a ton of slice of life anime with subtext or outright yuri relationships and those series I thought would be aimed at guys (due to the cute girls effect). So I had had the impression that yuri was mainly a guys thing (in the same way that yaoi is mainly a girls thing - or maybe I'm wrong).

And then I came across the Sono Hanabira translators (the ones doing the games) and they're a yuri couple! And then I proceeded to go back to not meeting girls on the internet (except, strangely enough, AnimeOSTs) until this thread...

So... eyeopener I guess. There's alot more yuri out there than I expected then. blinks Or perhaps it's just the filtering effect of the internet where you meet everyone from everywhere who shares the same interest and of course yuri couples in the real world would be interested in yuri stories. Never did quite think of that.

Perhaps I have overestimated the baseline male interest in yuri stories... =/ looks at expectation values and wonders how to recalibrate

Funny series this. Triangles usually have a few one-way arrows.

This one looks like you have a triangle where every edge is two-way except for one (her friend doesn't seem to like her younger sister, although her younger sister does seem to like her friend)

Are you sure this deserves a school life tag? I don't see much school at all.

Seems to me that Nanoha would probably blow them out of the water if the arena was a bit bigger. Nano's generally described as a long-range aerial type while these are all close-ranged fighters.

If you go by the size of Starlight Breaker in the movie, that attack could probably vapourize the entire arena. It was like a tactical nuke and essentially demolished an entire (fake) city. Plus Divine Buster is a penetrative type and would punch holes in the arena walls, it went right through multiple magic-resistant walls of that magic battleship.

Nah, not just the school's property, anyone's. I can totally see my school expelling a student for say, vandalising an unrelated shop. Or drawing graffitti in public areas.

Breaking expensive hearing aids like that (as well as actually causing injury) would more or less have expulsion as a minimum punishment (I'm not sure what else the school can do though).

Wow, 1.7 million yen, wtf.

That's some pretty lax school they have there. My school would have expelled any student who broke anything that cost that much. Seriously, deliberately breaking chairs was almost good enough to get you expelled; my school also gave suspension and required a public apology (which was more like public humiliation) for a bully who didn't even break anything.

Plus general bullying from more than one source wasn't tolerated either. A situation like this would have netted a major investigation and likely anyone even peripherally involved would have been suspended. If deemed necessary, my school probably wouldn't have hesitated to do a mid-year reshuffle of classes and just break up everyone in the trouble class.

EDIT: then again, my school had 1 bullying case in about 4 years, and despite this, also issued combination locks for everyone's lockers. We were quite a well-behaved bunch but my school didn't really trust us, lol.

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