Welp, it looks like I might get run out of town considering most of the reactions here, but here's my take...
I think Momiji's designs are the best choice.
I loved Yun's designs a ton, but I don't think they were the best for the game. In fact, I'd agree that the competition ended up being between Momiji and Aoba's designs.
Yun's would be fantastic for something turn based or maybe 1v1, but the more complicated characters would be too busy to be clearly visible at all times in a fast paced 3v3 competitive game. Furthermore, they suffer from a similar problem as Momiji's mecha designs. Those characters would take more work to texture, model, rig, etc. compared to the simpler more uniform characters of Momiji's and Aoba's pitches.
There's a lot I have to say about this sort of thing. Like A LOT. But that would take a sizable wall of text nobody would want to read. And I wouldn't particularly want to write all of it either. >.>

In the context of the story there's also the fact the none of their names carry the weight Yagami's does, so all three of them are on pretty equal footing there. Aoba's name was only ever made a big deal of by Kou at that launch party for PECO.

Now this isn't all necessarily the reason why the author decided to use Momiji's, and doesn't explain the way they decided. Could just be for the newcomer to stir up some drama. But there's my case for her.

edit: frankly, the entire "hold an internal competition to decide" thing seems bizzare. It has every time it came up.

last edited at Feb 23, 2019 10:03PM

Okay, I loved this, I want more domestic lesbians. But... HOW!? (Scratching my head).

Science Babies

edit: Or I guess if you want an actual real-world reason, iPS Cells would be a good start. From my very limited understanding, they're capable of, essentially, being made into any kind of cell. They've been utilized already to produce viable offspring in mice, so there's a possibility they could be used to make actual, real, human Science Babies.

edit2: Also I was looking forward to this SO MUCH! Kougi Hiroshi's ChikaRiko is my favorite LLS ship, and when I saw that WSDHANScanlations was working on this, I got so hype. Thanks you very much for your work!

I was just humorously pointing out, that the story failed to explain how two women simply jump into bed together, and make a baby. Unless I really missed a lot in health class, that is impossible, even with iPS cell tech. I'm pretty sure you would need trips to a fertility clinic, months , maybe even years of waiting, and lots, and lots of money. It definitely wouldn't be something two women could pull off, by themselves on a whim.

Oh. Right.

I can be pretty dense all the time sometimes.

In this world, marriage between women is normal but one of the wives is referred to as the "spouse" because?

Yeah, that was rather perplexing. I guess it might be related to differences in the way Japanese people refer to others compared to how western cultures do? I'm no expert though.
edit: or maybe translated more literally it would have been more like "husband"? Like it would say "her child and her 'husband'." I can't say though. I don't know any japanese, and even if I did I don't have the raws.

last edited at Feb 23, 2019 5:29PM

Okay, I loved this, I want more domestic lesbians. But... HOW!? (Scratching my head).

Science Babies

edit: Or I guess if you want an actual real-world reason, iPS Cells would be a good start. From my very limited understanding, they're capable of, essentially, being made into any kind of cell. They've been utilized already to produce viable offspring in mice, so there's a possibility they could be used to make actual, real, human Science Babies.

edit2: Also I was looking forward to this SO MUCH! Kougi Hiroshi's ChikaRiko is my favorite LLS ship, and when I saw that WSDHANScanlations was working on this, I got so hype. Thanks you very much for your work!

last edited at Feb 23, 2019 2:22AM

Wait what? Really? That's an amazing subversion if so. I'll have to pick it back up now.

edit: also Dowman Sayman's style is perfect for zombies (and other monsters) so I'm happy to see this from them. Well, I guess I'm always happy to see anything from them.

last edited at Feb 22, 2019 12:19AM

I'm not sure why people keep calling the mixer a "social gathering". Now I might not be too familiar with the Japanese concept of mixers, but aren't they basically group dates?

I can definitely see why Kase is upset that her girlfriend wants to go on a group date, who wouldn't be?

My impression from years of watching japanese cartoons is that they're meetups for singles. Which is pretty much just as bad if you're not in an open relationship. Probably worse.
Kase didn't handle it perfectly, but it felt in-character for her. She's astonishingly insecure when it comes to Yamada's love for her. They're both that way, though Yamada's insecurity seems at least a little more well-founded considering Kase's popularity and outgoing nature. You'd think by now they'd be a bit more confident, but I guess it makes for better drama when they continue to be sort of clueless.
I still love these dorks though.

should the comedy tag really be here? should be replaced with drama

My thoughts exactly. In this comedy packed chapter we have a mentally ill girl getting hit by her mother then blaming herself and apologizing for it.

This.

I think Depressing as Fuck is the tag for it.

Re-reading this is always good fun. It proably doesn't have a series in it, but I could see an epilogue happening.
Maybe the next reader poll comes in and Misaki takes 1st with Megumi 2nd. Suddenly the author has to start writing a yuri manga, demoting Protagonist-kun to a supporting role. Misaki becomes the new protagonist, and then has to reconcile her new role with her dissasitisfaction about how the manga's world works. That'd make for an interesting read. She seems to have the most agency of all the characters, including Protagonist-kun, so maybe she'd use her new "powers" to give all the background characters free will, too?

... I think I just wrote the epilgoue myself... Welp, the author can have this one for free I guess!

I really, really wanted to love this series, but the normal idol stuff put me off it after those brilliant first two episodes. They managed to set a bar that came crashing down when the terrible CGI dancing reared its ugly head.

I'm tired of representations of transwomen as 'men in dress'. I read mangas because mangas tend to show transwomen as women and not as disguised men.

So we have a big guy in a dress, tall, big hands (come on ffs, she's like 16...), shy, feminine, dumb but good natured... Typical cliche written by an 'ally'. That annoys the shit out of me.

Also it's always about our transition, as if we were all about that.

Maybe I'm just not paying enough attention, but if it hadn't already been stated that Akira is trans she would have passed as cis to me.

He must be a "Nice Old Guy" by now. That poster has been around for ages.

Yeah, I guess the motivational poster meme has existed for a while, back when "image macro" was the name for it.

(https://lencheando.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/4q6b3hk.jpg)

Uh... wow. Even if that whole thing didn't read like a het dude complaining a lesbian shot him down, "heterosexual females" is one of the most awkward phrases I've read in a while.
(Obviously you didn't make it. It feels like whoever did is probably a very Nice Guy though.)

last edited at Feb 19, 2019 8:03PM by Nezchan

^probably because scars usually aren't seen as moé.
Moé blindness is a symptom of a disease commonly refered to as the "weeabubonic plague". It seems to be caused by prolonged exposure to a particular wavelength of light mostly found in japanese cartoons. There's no known cure, but researchers are hard at work finding ways to treat it.

last edited at Feb 18, 2019 4:29AM

These two need to get married.

tbh all of muse should just get married and be done with the whole dang thing.

I was expecting "you could be my wife" kind of thing but i guess "Nicocchi could have been a mother to me" works too, and it's pretty good

how about "nico could have a daughter with me"? sort of fulfills both criteria at once.

last edited at Feb 18, 2019 3:03AM

tbh I just wanna marry nico.

It’s funny, I always think of Nozomi and/or Eli as the “parental” figures of the group. I rarely consider Nico, but when I think about it, it does make some sense. When she’s not being childish she’s quite a responsible person, and her less mature actions could be attributed in part to her dream of becoming an idol, with the sort of persona that requires. The pieces are there, you just don’t see them first.

Edit: thinking about it a bit more, fanworks set some time after her graduation often depict a less bombastic Nico, particularly when her aspirations of being an idol have either fallen through or been dropped altogether. I guess the community at-large must already have noticed.

last edited at Feb 17, 2019 7:50PM

Mezashi continues to hit home runs every single time.

Oh I'm so glad this didn't get weird and creepy and was just wholesome.

After all of those stories of pets being depicted as humans though, there is some room to speculate further that maybe not all is as it seems. If we want to get degenerate about it, maybe the little girl isn't actually that age at all, but is an adult 'little'? Maybe she's just being portrayed as small, because she is currently in little-space, and is in a relationship with two 'caregivers'. That's one way to ruin the innocence of this story.

man like...shut the fuck up dude. Go outside.

Do you talk to strangers this way when you're not on the internet? Or is it just when you're anonymous and they're faceless?

whose sleep outfit includes thigh highs anyway

I was thinking the same thing.
...Maybe she was hoping not-so-straight girl would help her... take them off.

I'm still a little bit annoyed that Kasumi NEVER shows any affection for Sakurako even after all this time.

And I still have to wonder what people like you have been reading to say stuff like this. Has everyone forgotten this chapter: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/a_room_for_two_ch29 ? That's not the only example either, although it's probably the most concentrated one. Kasumi displays her affection in a very low-key laid back kind of way, because she's a low-key laid back kind of girl. But she still DOES display it.

I think the problem people have really stems from years and years of "will they/won't they" writing in yuri. There's been a conditioning to require an exchange of the exact words "I love you" for anything to be certain, and even then people have been burned by series that build up a relationship which gets thrown away in the last few chapters, often ending with the girls getting boyfriends because they've "grown up". (thanks, class S)

So, while I agree that Kasumi certainly loves Sakurako as much as Sakurako loves her, I can understand why people are uncomfortable or skeptical about it.

I think in many cases it's just a misunderstanding as to what some people mean when they say "showing affection." I believe it's pretty evident to the vast majority of readers that Kasumi loves Sakurako, but what they are actually referring to is the apparent lack of reciprocated romantic attraction and physical affection. Kasumi is so chill it's hard to tell if she even experiences sexual attraction let alone acts upon it. But you certainly don't need sexual attraction in order to love someone. There are plenty of happy couples out there, some even married, where one or more of the partners is ACE.

Yeah for sure. I only meant to illustrate a reason someone might not be happy with the level of affection Kasumi displays. I'm sorry I was unclear. (also Kasumi is my favorite character by a mile and tbh if she were confirmed as ace I might die of happiness)

No to sound judgemental but it really threw me off in the latest chapter where Moka was found to be very uninhibited. Not that its a problem to love people even in a sexual manner but the whole manga up till now has more or less avoided touching the topic (even with our apex lesbian Sakurako).

It feels a bit like relationships have been turned up to 11 now that we've gotten to a college setting.

So now we have an official couple as per the bonus... Come on Kasumi, even your Kouhai is moving faster than you. Don't take Sakurako for granted.

Considering Seri's motivation here was Kasumi and Sakurako's relationship I think it would be hard for this be considered moving faster.

last edited at Feb 14, 2019 1:32AM

Seems like a sketch that was never really fleshed out. I don't hate it though, that sort of thing has its merits.

edit: On reflection, the first page is pretty neatly drawn, and it only shows Emoji-chan's dream, the other two are after she wakes up and only two of their panels are particularly clean. The first is right after she begins to recall the dream (on page 2) and the other is when she decides to go back to sleep. I wonder if it might be intentional?

last edited at Feb 14, 2019 1:09AM

Half of MCs are non-moe art

There's nothing more moe than a face that doubles as a bottle opener.

last edited at Feb 14, 2019 12:54AM

I'm still a little bit annoyed that Kasumi NEVER shows any affection for Sakurako even after all this time.

And I still have to wonder what people like you have been reading to say stuff like this. Has everyone forgotten this chapter: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/a_room_for_two_ch29 ? That's not the only example either, although it's probably the most concentrated one. Kasumi displays her affection in a very low-key laid back kind of way, because she's a low-key laid back kind of girl. But she still DOES display it.

I think the problem people have really stems from years and years of "will they/won't they" writing in yuri. There's been a conditioning to require an exchange of the exact words "I love you" for anything to be certain, and even then people have been burned by series that build up a relationship which gets thrown away in the last few chapters, often ending with the girls getting boyfriends because they've "grown up". (thanks, class S)

So, while I agree that Kasumi certainly loves Sakurako as much as Sakurako loves her, I can understand why people are uncomfortable or skeptical about it.

The perfect reply doesn't exist.

Edit: Also, wtf does "not lizard" mean?

https://sciencing.com/tell-difference-between-salamander-lizard-2158569.html

I stand corrected.

This was probably hilarious to someone, but it sure aint me.

...favorite deputy!