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copied what it said on the blackboard in my notebook ->
copied what was written on the blackboard into my notebook

I don't got a clue anymore ->
I haven't got a clue anymore / I don't have a clue anymore

At risk of completely outing myself as an old fogey, I intentionally left that phrasing in when I was doing my edit/QC because it seemed to fit how teenagers speak, and I still struggle with trying to keep my own verbal tendencies as a decidedly not-teenage person from blurring that. I can't speak for everyone else though.

Hino isn't Shimamura's little sister, Hino is the smol friend in school (and Nagafuji is the tol friend).

If you don't like the story that's fine, express your opinion and move on. There's no need to muster and bluster and be cringingly condescending, "my sweet summer child".

And yes, it wasn't as obvious in the manga, but Adachi's voice "didn't come out" during that "confession". She states as such in the manga right after she nearly blows it all out of the water, just as she does in the LN, but it seems many missed it. From Shimamura's point of view she asked to sit between her knees, froze up, looked at her funny, then ran away like a startled hen with literally zero explanation, and then both failed to show up to school at all the next day as well as ignored all text messages.

I can't wait to see the "run awayyyyy!" scene depicted in the manga. And for the next chapter, which I think will probably be from Shimamura's POV.

My prediction: "What the actual fuck", Shimamura said, as she watched Adachi leave dust trails in her wake.

lol

This is true. She saw a flash of white light, and everyone knows that if you combine all colors of light, like, I dunno, a rainbow would have, that you get white light...

I mean, in the main story they get down and dirty too. Just perhaps with a bit more subtlety? Most recently, the party they attend together comes to mind, for instance. These two "extra stories" actually fit in canonically.

As for the chapter itself... Dear god, even more so than the manga managed to show, Adachi is so gay for Shimamura, her denial starts crumbling already before she finishes arguing it to herself... :D

I know, right? XD It's pretty hilarious. As I was reading through it the first time I thought to myself "Okay, Shimamura is a total tsun about her attraction to Adachi, but Adachi has moved so way beyond tsun territory with her denial that she's gonna crack under the pressure and explode into rainbows if she's not careful ".

A blind, blonde girl named Lily Blind lol

Also, is that just me or are the novel chapters being released only after the equivalent manga chapters?

I think that's mostly just because the same people are releasing both and the novel chapters take a lot more translation work, but I could be wrong.

Lol, Kasumi looked pretty horrified by the idea of two women being able to have children. I'd be horrified too, not needing birth control is one of the biggest perks of a lesbian relationship lol

I feel like this is worth pointing out now, the manga was canceled really early on compared to the LNs, 3 volumes of manga vs 7 volumes of LN's so don't expect much of any satisfying conclusion from this.

The LN is also being translated and uploaded here by the same translator. Hopefully that will help soothe the sting a little.

What is it parody of?

Jojo`s Bizarre Adventure. Yuri and Ucchi are figthing with stands, which are ghosts that give you superpowers.

Also, am I the only one that thinks that Ucchi`s stand should be called [Poker Face]?

Now I want to see Tomoko going all rero-rero-rero on a piece of candy or something, and Ucchi basically self-immolating from how "disgusting" it is to watch her do that XD

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I like the progress and I see the ‘yuri’ tag but I’m also a little afraid this will turn into not-yuri...if that makes any sense

The manga ends after 3 volumes, so I don't think it covers everything (I never read it myself, but it's not enough to cover the whole story). It's the (currently untranslated) light novels that will pay off.

There's a member here that is translating the LNs, the same person who has done the translation on this manga. So hopefully we'll all get our wish and be able to see it through to the end, heh

You never know, we may get omake of them after Touko has turned 20. There's still a few years for Yuki to research and find a cure for Touko's illness. It would be nice to see them as an adult couple, doing regular old couple stuff like sharing laundry duty, or grocery shopping, or eating in a restaurant, that kinda thing. And it would also be cute AF if we could get the proposal scene. (I bet Yuki will try to beat Touko to it, and propose to her on her birthday. Talk about the perfect gift.)

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I'm enjoying the confusion of having absolutely no idea what the space suit plotline could possibly be about.

What's the last panel of page 15 about? It seems like a mean thing to say that's seemingly motivated by no reason and followed by no reaction.

It's Shimamura trying to give a little bit of a push to get Adachi motivated to start going to classes. It's not malicious.

Shimamura is such a little tsun lol

For example the whole thing with left handedness is one of the original terms for it is "sinistral", because apparently us left handed folk are inherently evil and sinister. Some religious schools (not sure if it's still a thing, but probably somewhere), you'd have left handed people forced to use their right hand and their left hand would be tied down. Sometimes even beaten for it from what I've heard and read.

It's true. My birth father was born a Southpaw, and born in rural Kentucky amidst all the lovely Bible-thumpers in the wonderful Bible Belt. He was beaten and had his arm tied, etc, until he started to use his right hand instead. They told him he had the Devil in him because he was using that left hand, called him a demon, basically pick your favorite stereotype of hillbilly Baptists.

I am technically ambidextrous myself but I choose to use my right hand because of smudging.

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I think the point of this story is that Sato is so damaged, and has done so much damage to others as a result, that it's just not sustainable. There can't really be a happy ending here. She's murdered, she's kidnapped. We the readers, as a witness from the outside looking in, have to accept the flicker of what could have been but never will be that we can see, and the melancholy "happiness" that as twisted as she is, Sato did find some mote of happiness and peace before her inevitable sad end.

You can argue that the anime ending is actually morally worse than a typical ‘happy ending’ though.

For a happy ending that Satou and Shio successfully escape, there is that black spot of Satou escaping her crimes uncharged. The anime ending however, have Shio being implied to be haunted and possessed by Satou’s ideal. She is no longer only physically imprisoned by Satou, her entire mind and soul now is trapped by Satou, forever. And considering we never know why Satou’s aunt that fked up, it’s possible that Shio could end up a twisted version like the aunt is

Still best aunt though

I actually haven't watched the anime, I just know what happened in it from people here discussing it.

I mean, yes, I agree. The story is "Happy Sugar Life". "Satou" means "sugar". It's definitely not an overreach that Sato's influence on Shio ("salt") is just like how it works in the real world--adding sugar to something that is too salty will negate the saltiness... but too much will ruin the dish. Sato has "overriden" Shio, who was already coping poorly with some pretty heavy psychological issues. And in the end, like I said, Sato can't escape from her reality. She was finally able to enjoy a happy, syrupy sweet life for a while, but it has to end and can't end well. The title is quite clever.

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To any of you Canadia yurifans, Takeshima's gonna be attending the Toronto Comics Art Festival in May.
http://www2.torontocomics.com/2019/04/03/tcaf-welcomes-yuri-manga-ka-hiromi-takashima/

I am jealous! I'm close to the Canuckian border but on the way wrong coast so I can't even drive up and make a day of it. Buuuu, buuuu~

I think the artist is trying to depict that they have grown and are maturing, yes. Which can be difficult to do.

I don't think it's a big age gap but Io is definitely older by like at least a couple years. It's kinda implied that Io has already hit puberty/a growth spurt by virtue of the whole "age of marriage" thing, and while in that same time period Kidaha is demonstrably smaller, it's shown she shot up like a weed not too long into their travels.

That said I did a double take too, regarding that image. Mira seems to often have issues with proportion, and not just boobs. lol So I think the proportions are just off a tad too.

Think you're right, lol. It's like a weird kind of rare Easter egg with Mira works.

this was fun, shame i lost track of who every character was

First two are Fana and Yuuri, they are the two seamstresses that had their own arc in Tumugi. Second two are Sato and Eru. They were Kidaha's wives but weren't involved with each other, they both broke up with Kidaha during the Kazitu Zenpen arc, when Kidaha and Io reconciled, in order to force Kidaha to "settle down" with Io.

Or, you know, about 5 months.

Nene posted:

"The character who does bad things, but it's all because bad things happened to her before, so the other characters will understand and forgive."

Lol ok. There's limit to it though. I really doubt anyone would forgive blackmailing and ruining their life, which she does to Gin.

Yeah. There's a difference between "damaged and acting out" and "screwed up and a complete sociopath". lol