Ai-san may be a weirdo but heck if she ain't an honest and earnest weirdo. Gotta give her credit for being unwilling to start her cohabitation with Misumi and the relationship to her parents under false pretenses even though those would've made things easier for them

It's kinda super wholesome to see how genuinely invested Miho is in helping Satsuki now

Gatekeeping, eh? That is not something I expected to hear in this context haha.
I see you are rather easily incited, so I will try to keep my phrasing more neutral from now on.
I indeed considered gender dysphoria a natural part of transsexuality (is this term acceptable?). It is at least what the entire concept was build on at first. The constant rapid changes in ideas surrounding this topic are hard to keep up with, admittedly.

Some people identify with the term Transsexuality but like its adjective form it's largely fallen out of favor. It's a term coined my clinicians and those tend to be disliked by the ppl who live it bc they're imposed upon us rather than self-chosen. Not to mention the problems with it implying a relation to sexuality like homosexual does.
Transness or transidentity are more commonly used as umbrella terms nowadays.

Also I'm not "easily incited", I just have little patience for cis people who think they know more about transness than the trans people who live it. Especially when they try to lecture said trans people after being corrected as if any amount of "research" could ever outweigh actual lived experience.

Okay, so if that is your stance, do you not get to use the definition of lesbian unless you are a lesbian? Do you not get to use the definition of Caucasian unless you are caucasian?
I am a scientific minded person. I do not believe that people have ownership of definitions. If something cannot be objectively defined at all in any kind of consensus, then it is simply not scientifically defined yet, in which case I also don't have to accept any subjective definition, unless out of respect for the person's logic. I was told several times that the definition for transsexuality has been decided on by now though.

My point is, transness is inherently subjective exactly because it's about gender, one of the most subjective and personal concepts there is. As such the only people who have any kind of expertise or authority over its definition are those who actually live it. I don't give a shit what some dusty college prof decided the definition of transness is, it's completely irrelevant to the lived reality of actual trans people.
Related, stop calling ppl "transsexuals", some might be fine with it but most ppl nowadays dislike it and consider it outdated. Just trans (people) is fine.

This is not actually different from what I said. Unless you believe there are dozens of genders and the like, but that is not related to classical transsexuality. Transsexuality is directly linked between gender and sex. The contradiction of the two is the point. If my sex is female and some doctor accidentally checked the male mark on my certificate, I would not be considered trans just because I was misassigned. There has to be a relation between sex and gender for the term to have any useful application.

Nobody likes gatekeepers, if someone tries to tell a trans person they're not actually trans bc of xy they're full of shit. The contradiction between gender and sex/body aka what most ppl would call body dysphoria is not a requirement for being trans. You can be perfectly fine with the way your body looks, even if it isn't what society would usually define as connected to your gender.
We have a name for people who insist on dysphoria as the requirement for transness (or other bioessentialist crap like that), it's "truescum" and they can fuck right off~

Hermaphrodites, or rather futanari in the case of this discussion, have nothing inherently to do with transsexuality. Neither do intersex people. It is an entirely physical classification. True hermaphroditism is simply not recorded in human biological history, so intersex is the only realistic application of course.
Hermaphrodite is not a porn term, though. The term has existed since ancient Greece and the scientific use has also nothing to do with porn. Hermaphroditism in animals has been classified for a long time and is still used today.

I'm not saying the term itself is obsolete, i'm saying that using it to describe human beings is disrespectful, especially to the people it used to be commonly used for, i.e. intersex people.

This is also the last i'll say about this, I already spent more spoons on this than I intended to.

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Whatever way an actual trans person will go about their lives, in essence the situation is one of sex and gender not aligning. Period. Otherwise the definition doesn't exist, in which case there is no conversation to be had anyway for me.

I don't have the energy to engage this discussion to its full extent but here's some advice from a trans person:

If you're not trans you don't get to decide what defines being trans. Ever. Whatever you think makes sense, textbook definitions or anything else, are irrelevant. Being trans is what a trans person says it is.
As such the most fundamental and simple way to describe what being trans is, is the following: "The gender assigned to a person at birth doesn't match their actual gender." That's it. Literally everything else is optional.

Also, I know "hermaphrodite" is a popular term in porn but as is the case with porn terms related to transness, it is considered highly disrespectful, the proper term for (real) people with sex characteristics that "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies" is "intersexual".

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Personally i'm in the favor to put tags like that on the relevant series. Here i'd prob hold off on it until the series is finished and the supposed tragedy is sure to actually happen or not.

But in general I think being able to make an informed decision whether or not to read a certain series is more important than protecting the twist of the story, especially with themes like this that can be upsetting and/or triggering to people

It's the majority because I have experience it's the same do all straight men like gay porn? How about straight girls do they like lesbian porn? Its a small number most don't.

Your whole Argumentation is horseshit.
A) your "evidence" is purely anecdotal and can't be extrapolated to all or even most people.
B) women who have a penis also exist, they can be lesbians and be with other lesbians.
C) a penis is just a body part, it doesn't indicate gender. A woman's penis is a female body part bc it is that of a woman, that's all there is to it.

Know that your whole argument is rooted in transphobic rhetoric and bioessentialism and I don't care for it one bit.

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Argh it hurts T.T

Creative license for nonsensical/impractical things is much easier to get over when the reason is just "bc it's cool" and not sexism :D

Ah shit, totally didn't think about that ^^' Thanks for doing the edit

I did get a glimpse of the sequel. Although honesty you do not even need the sequel to know rhe answre. It is obviouus.
In any case the two of them started dating in the sequel.

You've literally just been banned for a day bc you keep putting up spoilers without warning or view blocking them and you're already doing it again?

Mod edit: Whoops, meant to edit spoiler tags into this post and then quote it, not inexplicably edit my response into it...

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So is she still in denial after that confession? That would be neutron star levels of dense.

That's exactly what I've thought: if she keeps denying the Yvonne route, she's gonna gravitationally collapse into a stellar-mass black hole very soon...

EDIT: Also: Yvonne used "But we are both girls!". It had no effect!

I think it's not so much Yvonne being dense but rather a) her insistence on following the games intended routes as much as possible and b) her conviction that she's not good for her to be around bc she only brings her misfortune.

so she tries her damnedest to give her a "proper" happy end she deserves which in her mind has to involve the male love interests bc as the villain of the story she can't provide that herself

if there wasn't enough meat on that subtext to warrant a tag, then there's def some now with that knight & princess scene in Ch. 7 xD

If I could wish any single dormant series into life, it would be this one.

I concur

unless it was ending next chapter.

Maybe? I think that's what this tweet from the artist is saying

https://twitter.com/nanaji_774/status/1479363570110722052

I can't read Japanese, and all google translate is telling me is that the author wants people to read it. Nothing about it ending.

it's the reply tweet right after that one that alludes to ch. 15 being the last one, i think. Google translate is wonky~

https://twitter.com/nanaji_774/status/1479364609589276676

I'm not unhappy about this but it isn't over for the polyam goal until it's over, that's where i am rn

She may be useless but it's okay bc she's cute

Ah how sweet, they're total buddies now (:

I mean, is “no return” even on the table, where “Sasaski,” Seto, and Past Nanasawa just continue in the timeline they’re presently in?

Why not?

Theoretically it can happen, of course, but there are reasons why that’s probably the least-common time-travel variant (the traveler staying in the future may be slightly more common).

• In this case, as has been suggested, that eliminates present-day Seto as a character.

• It fails to resolve the “one person/two identities” conundrum.

• It fails to exploit the traditional climactic reveal of time-travel stories that shows how the narrative present has been changed by the traveler’s experiences.

(Or perhaps only the traveler has been changed—it could be like Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, only instead of saying, “Merry Christmas, one and all!”, MC comes back and says, “Seto-senpai, I want to fuck you!”)

Your reasoning makes sense and I personally do want to see adult Seto again. But also, this manga is handwavy enough with its time travel setup that I can totally see it just going the "Fuck it, "Sasaki" is happy here, so why return?" route. And if that gives me more polyam triad shenanigans, i'm all for it :D

This one really drives home what a sweet summer child Makino from Scummy Gap Student is~ Now this here Yurika? she's a good and true, bonafide scumbag xD

I'm looking for a onshot about two school friends where one keeps declaring her love for the other whom never takes her seriously bc she says it all the time.
And the former trying to figure out what she had to do to finally make it click for the latter

I can't believe how long it took me to find it... Lip-Service Woman and the Impregnable Maiden

Yesss that's it, thank you very much!

I'm looking for a onshot about two school friends where one keeps declaring her love for the other whom never takes her seriously bc she says it all the time.
And the former trying to figure out what she had to do to finally make it click for the latter

I thought Hinako and Fuji were already dating...

it's funny how this prob has already been said about every single pairing in this manga several times, bc they all have these "how are these two not dating (yet)?" moments

Before i saw the tags I thought this was Kukuru and Fuuka from Aquatope on White Sand

Argh, my heart T.T