My apologies for another long post, within the same page even, but I really want to talk about this somewhere. It is also a bit spoilery regarding their personalities, so please be careful!

I love the thing Terra and Diode have going between them.
「ダイさんダイさんほらあれあれ！」
「見えてます、邪魔です、おっぱいどけて」

It's not like there isn't any conflict, a small as it is, between the two of them. Terra is a somewhat anxious girl that gets a little too into (for others, it's painful when she starts rambling so happily about something and everyone looks at her like "wat"...) the things she's interested in, and Diode the sort that often is too embarrassed to be honest about her own feelings. She's more serious in nature compared to Terra, who often has trouble standing her ground and is the kind of individual who will say "thank you" to someone who kept her caged after they free her, but Diode is there to make sure that she's not so amicable towards those that don't deserve it when Terra doesn't really catch the negative implications behind what is being said or happening towards them both, while still respecting Terra's good-natured personality and allowing her to indulge in acts she herself usually wouldn't, for the sake of her partner.
This doesn't mean that Terra is dumb or completely unaware of the intentions some of the characters have, she is quite aware actually and sometimes will notice exactly what is happening before Diode herself does, the thing is how she still treats many that don't deserve it... a little too well for Diode's taste and that's what makes her angry — because really, why would she enjoy seeing her partner get unfairly humiliated and stepped on by those who are unworthy of her? She can't keep quiet about it and that side of hers has already been shown in chapter 8.

Without spoiling anything, this is a good example of what I mean:
申し訳なさそうにうなだれる。そんな泣き顔の演技が彼女にはできないことを、ダイオードは知っている。話は噓に決まっていたが、こんな流れにされたら問い詰められなかった。聞いたらそれこそ、話が痴話げんかに縮退してしまう。
　おそるおそる女が訊く。
「あの……納得してもらえました？」
　──するわけがないでしょうこの超銀河級ごまかしヘタクソ天然爆弾女さん。
「ええ、まあ」
　問答を終わらせるためだけの返事をすると、女が顔を輝かせた。

A little bit of a conflict happens and Diode knows that what Terra said is a lie, but because she is aware of her nature and how she wouldn't be able to put up an act to trick her, and also because Terra is a little bit of what some may call an "airhead"... she doesn't press further so it doesn't escalate into an actual conflict and leaves her be.

Diode too has fears and one of them is that of being abandoned and left completely alone. Again, she has trouble being open about certain feelings and that's where Terra can help her, by giving her an opening to be honest with her and herself:
手首をもって吊るし上げた、眼前の少女に深緑の瞳を据えて、テラは言い聞かせる。
「大丈夫です」
「はいっ？」
「大丈夫です、ダイさん。何も謝ることも、怖がることもないです。──今でも怖いんでしょう？　一人になってしまうことが」
「そ……」
ダイオードが首をすくめる。テラはゆっくりとうなずく。
This tension though doesn't come from them demanding the impossible from the other but rather their own worries and needing a bit of a push to address them more openly like they usually do with other things that aren't ailing them as much on an individual level. They're in this together and they know it.
Diode can be cold, harsh and mean sometimes, even towards Terra, who will shrink when Diode looks at her with cold eyes, that often happens when they're discussing their plans and Diode is set on on doing what she desires and not being chained down or when Terra says something absurd, only to soften up later on whenever they're having their moments. This contrasts nicely with how clingy she gets when it comes to Terra, and a bit prickly when it comes to strangers — I'd say because she doesn't really seem to enjoy the amount of socialization Terra doesn't have much problem with — or even towards Terra herself as I've mentioned in my other the part where she says that she does want to be by herself sometimes and Terra has compared her many times before to the animal known as ノラネコ... stray cat.... she's seen in historical records because of how easily she slips away and comes back whenever she's in the mood for it.
So really they're quite compatible with each other and despite everything know what to prioritize the most, their goal is to stay together and they are going to work towards it together and find something that works for both of them when they have wants and needs they can not sacrifice. Terra can be quite sensitive and Diode quite dry at times (Well she is a bit of a tsuntsun), but they get along well and care deeply for the other.

Their height gap and difference in body structure is really hot BY THE WAY. Skelly short girl x 'Mature' tall girl. Diode's height is either 148cm or 149cm, I forgot but I'll check it later when I reread the novels. Diode despite loving boobs is very respectful about it so I appreciate that. She is also insecure about her own body and unsure if Terra really likes it but Terra is such a horny beast it's almost nonsense for her to be questioning if Terra is actually into her!!! She looked at Diode and her first thought was "Woah. What a pretty girl..." She immediately gayed out!!! I don't think that it ever specified Terra's height, only that she's tall.
Their entire thing very healthy with Diode being really patient with Terra and willing to guide her and stop if she's too scared and, despite her usual embarrassment, talking explicitly about relationship stuff since despite her age she does have a bit more experience and knowledge when it comes to that. She may find Terra's imagination a bit too much sometimes too but ultimately respects it and recognizes its value instead of dismissing her as "Tell-Tale Terra" and really it's just nice.

Sadly the thing I want to talk the most about along some comments and complaints that goes more in depth about marriage and what comes after, sexism and such within this work and this one huge thing regarding the two of them, the implications that come from it and the possibilities when it comes to how it works and the things that the author can write about (if he plans to write more) are a massive spoiler from Volume 3 and it will take years for the manga to reach that point, assuming it doesn't get cancelled before then.
So for those that can read it... I really recommend giving it a try, if I don't end up having a moment and translating it myself despite never done so before... I hope that more people get interested in it so a proper group translates at least some of it.

Sometimes misogyny in a society in a story can be way over the top, but I usually buy it in a colonization Sci-Fi setting like this.

When you have a limited number of ships and a limited number of resources, it does make sense that many social norms would be discarded (often too many). I imagine they have very strict regulations on population control, for example.

Agree with this, it sucks for the gays that live in there, but also opens the door to questioning the importance of marriage and if it really is necessary for a couple to be married, the novel does explore Terra's thoughts on marriage and what is it that she really wants later on

I really want to know what all of you think about it! So I'm looking forward for more chapters of the manga so that everyone can discuss more about it and its fun setting of fish in a gas giant called Fat Beach Ball ^__^
That's something that I can't talk about even superficially because for now in the manga it is a complete mystery how Besshu work, but we'll get to see cool creatures and I'm excited for the artist's take on the design of a certain one!
Or really everything else that happens in the novel... It's so good!
So good!!

Also Terra is blonde
軽くひっつめにしたＧ型恒星色の髪

Woof woof

Most disappointing series or oneshot you've read?

Sakura Nadeshiko, "women are stupid and couldn't possibly know what a penis is": the manga

The first yuri work I ever saw was of those two back when there was a considerable amount of smut doujin on youtube lol so it's neat to stumble upon them again

^ the trend is that korean women and japanese women should start dating each other bc of the misogyny of men in their culture. if you look up 日韓百合 on twitter you'll see a lot of this kind of fan art

LOL, as if dating women is different XD women have a way of bullying other women for being a women in a way that ain’t called misogyny, don’t have to time to write an essay here about the subject but it’s kinda ironic.

Big coming from you, who said this:

i hate thous type of stories, i just checked the comments to see if it’s worth reading, i will just jump from first chapter to the last and read from there, cuz i’m not wasting time on an story that tries to hard to send a message, let’s see how much the author is gonna hand-fist the sexism in this story.

In the thread of a manga about two girls trying to survive in a society riddled with sexism, without even reading the novel or putting the time into learning about its setting but the mere mention of misogyny as one of the main themes was enough to make you diminish its worth.
Nothing 'ironic' about women also being misogynistic when we live in a world where it's acceptable and even incentivized to be. Have you ever lived as a woman? Or plan to live as one? Have you ever stopped to read about the reality of women in countries other than yours?

Or do you think this understanding between women from multiple countries, joking about their own oppression, come out of nowhere?
Someone being part of a demographic doesn't mean that they never partake in violence against it. Never seen homophobic gays?

It seems that you have missed the entire point of this trend and, as yourself said, only see its worth being the explicit Yuri it will provide for you. The background is meaningless for you.

Anyway I really liked this one and I love it when an innocent word means something "malicious" in another language LOL

How do we suggest images? Is done through the discord server or can we use the upload request page?

Upload request page.

Okay! Thank you

How do we suggest images? Is done through the discord server or can we use the upload request page?

Amazing

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I love this. Qualé zé

BARBIE?!

@FluffyCow Oh don't worry that wasn't directed at you only! But this is the second time I've seen someone use Butch incorrectly, it should be used to very masculine lesbians (mostly when it comes to style) and not like the body structure itself because it is also a type of identity

That's not butch! She's still clearly feminine (VERY feminine) and you can be both butch and trans fem, for butch think of someone with very short hair and a very masculine dressing style and preferably fat and/or muscular. Now with that image of a masculine lesbian in your head, you are free to imagine a long-haired butch, but this is not it!

This was so cute! Thanks for the upload

Plushie vore... I like her :3 face in this page

I'd keep my hopes low for a translation for now... I do hope that it gets one eventually because it's really good.

I'm honestly tempted to buy and scan the books myself just to machine translate them (not to post, just for myself) but I know how involved that would be and how messy it would be to clean up the translation without social context. But I genuinely struggle to keep interest in a story when there's a long period between updates. At least a lot seems to happen each release. Really wish I'd discovered this story like a year from now when I could at least get a good first arc out of it then abandon the manga until another year later.

Yeah I think that due to the complexity of it using machine translation wouldn't be a good idea... If I had the brainpower to translate I would gladly do so but sadly I do not. It's also got a bunch of physics-related terms in the text and I could see the more descriptive scenes getting confusing. Best choice for now might be to set it aside and wait unless you want to support the author and buy them anyway.
The first novel is also quite dense in how its chapters are divided so I'm glad it's now something in the style of "chapters divided by multiple parts" instead of huge sections with no clear spot you can stop on.

This page reminded me of that one magical girl x plushie oneshot

Reading earlier chapters after this is quite something with all instances of her being called 'manly' and 'cool'... I hope that she's fine now that she's older because whatever happens next is going to be very painful.

Also are they eating ... flowers on page 28 chapter 8?

They are sucking out the sweet nectar, which apparently is a thing kids do in japan (and maybe elsewhere as well? Only ever saw this happen in manga)

Did that while growing up in the US. My mom would tell me not to steal the hummingbirds' food. The honeysuckle would bring a lot of them around.

I've done that too with some flowers the school I went to had for years until 2020, tasty as hell. I'm Brazilian though

And for those who care about the fish there are some cool ones which we'll be seeing later... :)and cool clouds and storms but a good part of the fun atmospheric phenomena is near the end and also in the second volume of the novel so it will be quite a while until then
If I were to complain about something it's that there wasn't enough fish but the cool fishing scenes make up for it

Edit: Can't find any translations of the original novel. Here's to a painful wait over the next year lol

I'd keep my hopes low for a translation for now... I do hope that it gets one eventually because it's really good (I'm currently halfway through the 3rd volume of the novel) and considerably refreshing when it comes to the setting. I'm really excited for when the manga starts showing more of Terra and Diode's personalities and their moments together.
Really not much can be said without spoiling the future events but this deserves so much more attention than it got, it's got a fun setting with an interesting system, the two main characters aren't ashamed of being gay and are going to do whatever they can so they can stay together in a society that wouldn't ever accept them and value them for what they are.
They're runaways for a reason and this will make more sense in the next few chapters to come.

It's leaning a little too hard into sexist stereotypes (that is, stereotypes of sexism) and trivial criticism of the main characters for my suspension of disbelief. Every single time someone else seems reasonable, they have to say something that reverses or undercuts it. The writing feels like it has all the grace, nuance, wisdom, and polish of an angry middle-schooler's rant about how mean and unfair the world is.

I'll keep reading because the main characters are decent enough, the setting is weird and cool, and the artist likes putting them in attractive outfits all the time, but damn is the allegorical technique on display thus far just JV as fuck.

i hate thous type of stories, i just checked the comments to see if it’s worth reading, i will just jump from first chapter to the last and read from there, cuz i’m not wasting time on an story that tries to hard to send a message, let’s see how much the author is gonna hand-fist the sexism in this story.

I can now safely say that this is false. There wasn't a single event that made me think "this is too absurd". The bioessentialism that is rampant in our society plagues theirs just as much and we got the first strong taste of it through Xeon. The insistence that social roles and behaviour are "natural" despite them being violently enforced with limitations based on nothing other than culture, those roles being treated as immutable and those who diverge from it being punished harshly with women being seen as less and only useful to marry, impregnate and keep the cycle going is realistic enough.
And they DO treat marriage like it's the ultimate goal in life and all it does is keep the characters chained down to something futile (The Bow Awow being seen as one of the most important events to happen in their society), they're girls who can't have kids so they're "wasting" resources that someone else could be using by playing around with the tool that was made for a Real Couple, because of course a gay relationship couldn't possibly be genuine and they have nothing worthy to provide if not kids.
Their deck dresses are like that to please their husbands. The sexual harassment Terra's gone through coming from both men and women... Terra's having to learn from 0 the things that she's fine and comfortable with and accepting that she doesn't need to get married... It's not absurd. She was seen as an attractive fertile body and nothing more to most people she interacted with until meeting Diode — not to mention the treatment she gets for having too much of an imagination and being known as "Tell-Tale Terra" against her will.

The misogyny and how the characters try to survive around it is an essential part of this work. It's not being "hand-fisted" into it when the very system of their society is one based entirely on sexism and that's what the characters are running away from. You can't hand-fist what the author wants to be one of the main themes of the work, lol.
The main conflict is that they're not allowed to be together because of how their society works so if you remove it... you're getting rid of the entire story. If what brought them together was the fact that they aren't satisfied with the cage they live in, if you get rid of the cage, what conflict is left?

MASSIVE SPOILERS FROM THE NOVEL
It's hidden away that the two most relevant individuals who first made it possible for them to live in the FBB 300 years ago were a lesbian couple in a very high position in their own fleet who were already exiled themselves for having an ability that was undesirable in the rest of the Galactive Interactive (I may be misremembering this term), that ability being DECOMPRESSING and it's considered a crime to do so anywhere else. Those things are all social and not biological and that they must enforce it if they want it to be seen as the default way of men and women being.

SPOILERS FROM DIODE'S ORIGINATING CLAN
It also only gets worse, hers is especially sexist and limits what women can learn in their education programs with her using her stay at Terra's clan as an opportunity to pry into things she wasn't allowed to before. IIRC women are compulsorily made to train as Decompas at some point in their lives and Diode is REALLY bad at decompressing.

My memory is bad so those things probably aren't accurate but it's enough to get the general idea of what is happening in their setting.
Everyone is allowed to dislike things but I find it a bit rude to be diminishing those works that focus on themes like this when you haven't even read it yet nor plan to and immediately assume bad things about it.

Also there's something very romantic about this manga, more romantic than the soppiest yuri rom coms. I can't pinpoint what it is. Maybe it's been a long time since I saw such unquestioned teamwork between the leads. Usually the drama comes from one angstily second guessing the other but either they've skipped all that or it's not the main focus right now, the main focus being fighting against societal bigot baddies.

This remains accurate throughout the work. It's one of the things I love the most about them and an example I can give without spoiling anything much are those two scenes from Volume 3, one where Diode is deep into thought about their future:
あるどころか、こうしてすっぽり抱かれていると、初日に感動していた女に勝るとも劣らない、その一〇〇倍も強い嬉しさと有難みに襲われて、泣き出してしまう。
「テラ、さん」
　──この大きな体の素敵な人が自分を選んで、好いてくれているのは、なんて幸せなんだろう。飽きるとか詰むとか色褪せるとかなんてのは、恐れるべきことでは全然ない。
　──本当に怖いのは、この人に見限られることだ。
「好きです、ほんとに好き、好き、好き……」
「へぁ」
　肌に涙を擦り付けてささやくと、女が間の抜けた鼻息を漏らして、ぽん、ぽん、とダイオードの肩を叩く。
　この人と生きるために全力を尽くそう、とダイオードは心に誓う。

and the other where Diode brings up about wanting to be alone sometimes, Terra mistaking it with her possibly being too horny and that being a bother(lol) for Diode and then understanding that sometimes people need to be by themselves and mentioning that she "didn't know because she had no past experience with that(dating)".
「つまり、その」テラは顔を押さえる。「私が、淫乱だってことですか……？」
「いえ待って待ってそうは言いません絶対そうじゃないです、そのままでいてテラさん」猛烈にあわてた様子でダイオードが言ってから、テラが顔を上げると、決まり悪そうに付け加えた。「ただほんのちょっと、頻度が高いってだけです。これは単なる調整です」
「単なる調整……」
「わかってください、一人になりたい時があるんですよ」
「あ」テラははっと閃く。「そ、そうですね！　一人になりたい……つまり相手に見せたくない時って、あります、私も」
「わかってもらえました？」
「わかりました！　お付き合いしたからって何もかもひとつになるわけじゃないんですよね。すみません私、全然経験がなくて……」
「いちいち煽らなくていいです、じゃあそういうことで、私、出ていくので」

When making a choice they always think of each other and Diode makes a point of being understanding with Terra, incentivizes her to say what's on her mind and to tell her if she's uncomfortable with whatever they're doing at the time and that she will stop if told to. This is Terra's first healthy relationship. They're quite horny if this matters to anyone.
Diode is also a bit of a tsuntsun with quite the vocabulary and gets weirdly clingy at times so I'm really looking forward to when she starts showing more of that side while Terra is like "Hehehe... My aprtner is so atrauctive asfdodiujfszxcbv"

VOLUME 2 NOVEL SPOILERS
She gets mad when エダ calls Terra "Terra-chan", エダ (who is also quite into teasing) then switches to "Terra-kun" and this is how she reacts
『てことでしばらく、相互理解の多いあたしとテラくんで話す。テラくん、説明するが』
「あ、はい！」「くっ……」
ダイオードが歯嚙みしつつも口を閉ざした。

And this Terra said near the end of the Volume 1 remains legendary to me:
「これでしょう！　おっぱいでしょう！　こういうの大好きなんでしょう！」

Two cute illustrations from the comic-growl upload of it if anyone else hasn't seen them yet: 1 2

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This last page is adorable, I hope that she curls on top of her like a cat as a fun harmless prank

This was great nonetheless :P Really liked their dynamic in this

This page sure is intense. Seems interesting though, appreciate the themes Usui Shio is up to write about.

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Mizuki might learn what "jealousy" and "taking for granted" means in a second. Let's see how she takes this. I'm 1000% sure nothing will ever happen with her sister and that, that's just the setup gag. She already started last chapter but maybe this is will create another opportunity to see Mizuki's growing feelings for our MC. Should be comedy either way.

I'm really hoping for this