Not like I hate Prez any less now that I know how he got there but still, that teacher had it coming, I get it. If that was all he ever did, i'd applaud him.

Also, YES! BEST GIRL AKIRA TO THE RESCUE! :sob:

UH OH

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/snow_thaw_love_letter_ch01#20
"It's written with character for spring (haru) but pronounced Shun"

...I don't get it, someone explain

Shun is the onyomi reading for the 春 kanji used in her name, aka it's derived from the Chinese pronunciation for the character. Haru is a kunyomi, aka a reading that's original to Japanese.

Management of Novice Alchemist is cuuuute, just watched the first episode and i'm into it. Basically "Atelier Series: The Anime" in all but name, including subtly gay undertones, what's not to love?

This manga has been licensed

But... All the chapters are still here and readable. Why is that notice still here when nothing's been removed? And who/what licensed it anyway, if it's even true?

The series has been licensed by Seven Seas. First volume is slated for November.
https://sevenseasentertainment.com/series/asumi-chan-is-interested-in-lesbian-brothels/

kinda feels like the author is procrastinating with all these "maybe in the future they'll be like this teehee" rather than continuing the plot

the fact that we get 4 pages with that level of polish (almost) every week is already pretty fucking generous imho

The conflicting joy and despair of not getting a proper new chapter for the music Shop gays but getting to see them being cute and domestic instead

I really love how Nao is Asumi's mirror in almost every way.

Asumi: Knows she's gay, looking for long lost childhood friend who's a sex worker, has fun along the way having sex
Nanao: only now realizing she's gay, looking for new crush who's a customer, flustered and mostly focused on asumi along the way

Also interesting that this chapter basically confirmed that while she's a bit weird she's actually surprisingly competent at her job

Right? That surprised me too. Love me some subverted expectations

Do love that Hana actually imagined it xD naughty naughty

So with that in mind I find it perfectly in character for her to not feel like dealing with a hysteric, blubbering Adachi in that moment.

If you can't be bothered when a friend is clearly in pain then you're not much of a friend. So realistically things would be pretty much over at this point, and rightfully so.

Well yea, it was a dick move on her part for sure, never said it wasn't. Not the point I was making though

For anyone that wonder why Shimamura sound quite cold in the end, some says that Adachi ranting are quite incomprehensible because of she was crying. The blue board usually showed this image

That makes it even worse. For all Shimamura knows Adachi could have been upset because something bad happened to her. Just think of talking to someone on the phone, and crying emotionally because your mom was involved in a severe car crash, and the person on the other side just goes "what a pain!" and hangs up. Really, I maintain that it is still not very Shimamura-esque to do that, and she could at least have Adachi calm down to explain what is going on.

I feel those who say this was very out of character for Shimamura are forgetting a very important trait about her:

Even if she's started to change a little since meeting Adachi, Shimamura is still notoriously apathetic about maintaining relationship and can barely be arsed to put a bare minimum of effort into them.
She herself even wonders why she's putting up with Adachi's weirdness several times, but just kinda shrugs it off bc it's to troublesome too think harder/deeper about it.

So with that in mind I find it perfectly in character for her to not feel like dealing with a hysteric, blubbering Adachi in that moment.

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So Luoluo and Song Li have finally kissed in chapter 63. I honestly haven't seen a burn this slow since Sasameki Koto, and that one was in the 2000s. :'D

Ever heard of Ouji-sama nante iranai? :D

No, but having looked it up, it sure looks intimidating, by sheer size alone. O__o

It's the slowest of burns, a smoldering, if you may. But it's also really good imo ^^

So Luoluo and Song Li have finally kissed in chapter 63. I honestly haven't seen a burn this slow since Sasameki Koto, and that one was in the 2000s. :'D

Ever heard of Ouji-sama nante iranai? :D

If my checking on jisho isn't wrong then the Kanji used for "farewell letter" here can also mean suicide note, soooooo

To go into this a bit more, on page 13 we see Sayaka use the term 遺書 (with furigana いしょ). Which, according to jisho, can mean "note left by a dead person; suicide note; testamentary letter; will; testament", and is also the wikipedia definition of a suicide note.

Compare that to 遺言 (ゆいごん) which is defined as "will; testament; last request; dying wish" and is also the wikipedia definition for a Will in legal terms.

I don't anything about the cultural side of things but just going off of possible interpretative meanings, i feel like if Sayaka just wanted to have Yunimaru read a regular Last Will kinda testament, she would've said Yuigon, not Isho.

If my checking on jisho isn't wrong then the Kanji used for "farewell letter" here can also mean suicide note, soooooo

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Oh. Oh my.

<-- me reading ch.28

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Oooohhh it's here!! I was just talking about it recently, niiiice!

Has this been on Manga Dex for a while? I swear it seems familiar.

Yep, has been on Dex for a couple months. The series currently has 20 episodes in raw but has been on hiatus since August due to poor health of the author :c Hope Suzuki-sensei gets better soon

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Sounds like a shitpost, reads like a shitpost and yet, here we are. With this being an absolutely legit, properly serialized series. That's the kinda world we live in xD

I ended up liking Extreme Hearts quite a bit but it didn't seem particularly gay to me at all.

Extreme Hearts was def pretty light on the subtext, though I did think that Hiyori and Saki had a nice thing going that could easily be expanded upon (as i pointed out back when ep.10 aired xD

Extreme Hearts Ep.10 was pretty hecking gay, ngl. Nobody can tell me that Saki doesn't have the doki for Hiyori now
with all that blush

(relevant screenshots)
https://imgur.com/a/fdgyL9n

Title Drop, roll credits!

that just felt fucking gross. they're better not gonna go deep into the shitty shoujo tropes and make Yoh waver ala "ugh i fucking hate him but why can't i stop thinking about that kiss" or "Oh no I kissed her crush. I can't date her after breaking her trust like that"

Honami and Chizuru: "Wait how are we the ONLY STRAIGHT GIRLS IN OUR FRIEND GROUP?"

the eternal question for some characters in yuri manga lol

if the hets can have their quota gay friend in their het romances then by god we can have our quota hets in our yuri manga too xD

So close, yet so far