aaaaaaaaaaaaa it hurts

I could get you the raws in Japanese only but just so you know, another individual is releasing an english version and it's up to ch14 right now in MangaDex so yaaay there's hope.

It's actually kind of sad that it's not licensed in English yet.

I have the jp. Raws, just can't translate Japanese sadly ^^' Though i'm hoping to be able to eventually. Yee someone on Nyaa.si is making them, which is great~

Right? licensing works in mysterious ways sometimes. Germany has a comparatively large manga market but it's still rare to see smth get a license here earlier than a US one

What a beautiful story that fills the reader with warm fuzzy feelings! I enjoyed this story very much!

For a second i thought i was in the Talking about Summer discussion thread and was very confused xD

I just found out that this manga is licensed and completely released in German and boy howdy i haven't felt the need to burn 80 bucks i don't have on some manga as strongly as rn in a looong time.

Was actually thinking about doing a (relatively) quick second-hand translation job to get it all out in English but Germany hates torrents so i couldn't find them anywhere on the net

MangaDex has it listed as completed at chapter 14. Did it get cancelled?

The "Completed" on MangaDex means that the Manga itself has finished publication, not the scanlation.

I can definitely still see poly happening. Not sure if it will, but I wouldn't count it out yet.
This point, in my opinion, would be a fairly awkward place to end the series so I assume/hope it's going to go on longer. And if it is then there should definitely be more interactions with and development for Rinna. Which would lend itself well to Mei getting further confused about the love that she's now feeling for Sayo by having her start feeling the same way with Rinna

Yea either that, or she starts realizing her love for Sayo first but then goes "hmmm some thing's still missing / not quite right though" and then that leads to further development with Rinna.

Given how Mei had no idea how feelings do, it would make sense for her to focus on one feeling first before getting to the next one

A princess and Witch.. This reminds me of a strange world war inspired anime called Izetta Chan or something like that, decent anime too. I wouldn't call it a Yuri, maybe subtext with good Yuri goggles.

It's "Izetta: The Last Witch", just watched it not too long ago actually. And odd pseudo-WW2 setting aside, it's really quite good and the yuri is solid too, you honestly don't even need goggles for it. They even have a "spending the night together before the big fight" scene, it's so fucking gay xD

Ah, new glasses day, the most important day of them all.

Should have seen this coming, even the chapter number ad two pairs of glasses... :P

Considering Seven Seas also did Whispered Words

Except, of course, they did not. One Peace Books did.

Well I'll be damned, you are correct. Where in the world did I get the idea that Seven Seas did it? I can literally see the volumes I have on my shelf while sitting at my computer.

One Peace, Seven Seas. Pirates, Oceans. I can kinda imagine a possible underlying thought-process here xD

Oh shit it's (grand)ma!

love how it says "hyper yuri" on the cover but no yuri tag, who's to say what's "yuri" really

The first chapter cover didn't outright state that's a yuri series so ig there was at least the possibility of this (only) being about idol fangirling but now with the second one I think it's safe to assume the series is gonna go there and deserves the yuri tag by that alone~

i always appreciate when a yuri series announces itself as such on the front cover, no room for ambiguity~

Ggrrrrr, YenPress keeps delaying vol.17 and it's getting real annoying. It was supposed to release in august, now the date is 30th of November (if they don't delay it again). That's almost a whole year after vol.16, what's up with that? >.>

This either spells the end of polyam route, or the beginning of a longer-than-we-thought process of getting there, taking its time to establish the romantic connection between all three.
I sincerely hope it's the latter and i guess it all depends on whether the series is ending soon or not~

so much happened in the last two chapters, i'm having whiplash

Youko dies. Just kidding, she's still breathing. Just kidding again, NOW she's dead. Suddenly: timeskip! Oh hey look, they had a kid! Y'know what, PSYCH again, Youko is back, bc fuck you that's why.

What even is this pacing?

I just re-read ouji-sama nante iranai so I'm used to the slow burn and while it seems like nothing has changed I'd definitely call this progress

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There are a few manga long strips. Ouji-sama Nante Iranai and Suimittou wa Shoujo ni Kajira Reru would be two examples.

^^^^ this is exactly the kind of oddly specific yet interesting commentary i visit the forum for

what a well-written manga. also lol at how that one cheek kiss at the very end revitalised the yuri tag for this series. its pretty genius imo, the kiss straddles the line between friendly affection and yuri perfectly so the reader can interpret it either way.

Mhmmm idk, the way Tanaka moves her fingers to her mouth reads to me like Toda kissed her smack dab on the lips~ But i can see how it's not 100% clear due to the perspective

So we have one negligent girlfriend, a manipulative sidepiece and in the middle the other girlfriend who cheats out of frustration.
So far all three are fucked up, wonder if this is gonna be one of those "not a single decent person" stories

Kita was jerking off while fantasizing in case you didn't notice.

Yeah that's not even close to what's going on in the actual panel, so I'm not sure what you're thinking about.

I don't really see anything pointing to that either. What's more likely to me is smth along the lines of wearing her mom's bra or squishing her pecs together to see how it'd be like if/once she has breasts.

OR she's literally just standing there naked staring at herself in the mirror, bc lord knows that's prob. enough for a younger sister to yell at her already xD

I agree with Tanaka's colleagues, nobody can tell me they're not girlfriends at this point. I mean:
Tanaka: "Now that you fulfilled that dream, what do you want to do next?"
Toda: kiss

Also, they totally met up to go on a date right there at the end.

Attention, Attention everyone! The egg is cracked! I repeat: The egg is cracked!

happy squee

unsettled and slightly uncomfortable and i don't even know why

As much as Utena is playing her part as the BBEG (and loves doing it), i'd personally put her squarely in anti-hero territory, in the grand scheme of the series.
It hasn't really been apparent for a while but Utena isn't really Vena's ally at all. They blackmailed her into becoming a villain and I have no doubt that Utena has an evil scheme going to eventually get rid of that little, evil muppet. And to that end Tres Magia naturally have to be strong enough to rise up to the challenge

The real curve ball here would probably Nakano rejecting all of them bc she just has no idea what love really is at this point~
But I definitely hope for a polyam ending here as well, minus the minor