Koveras posted:

Spirits's not dead.
I feel so relieved.

I am shocked, shocked to find her basically unharmed!

Called it: Pepesha was back in the fight before it was even over. :-)

Calling her unharmed is a bit too much. She's clearly wounded and because she spend most of the time immediately after getting shot in ice, bleeding was somewhat stopped. She only run at the very end to save Meng Long, but is visibly straining herself. If fight didn't end here and she had to kept moving and fighting, I bet we'd see a seriously drop in her capabilities and maybe even fainting due blood lost. Still, it was far cry from "killing off best character".

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lol that portal feels like Bleach rip-off

Alpaca posted:

Nice that this was a topic up for discussion. I'm surprised the boyfriend let her go so easy. I always thought if you were going to beat anyone to that extent then you'd never let them go unless the abuser was the one to to it

He was only abusing her to "cure" her, but since it didn't seem to work, he had no reason to keep her. As he said it "she isn't worth it".

That was good. They're cute.

ceiimq posted:

I personally get the impression that her proportions are deliberately (if a bit inconsistently) drawn to look different from cis women. To me she looks she looks completely credible as a 28 year old girl who transitioned in her early twenties, just seen through manga vision.

Yea. If you start hormone therapy before 20s you can get pretty good results and as we see in flashback, Makoto looked pretty effeminate to begin with. Also yea, whatever intentional or not, you can see her shoulders are broader and neck is a bit thicker for example. Reality is as there is many people who wouldn't pass well, there's just as many who would and all those in between. Getting fixated on whatever they pass too well or not is just missing the point.

Tatsuki is such precious cinnamon roll. Must protecc.

Koveras posted:

EDIT: Also, as a Russian speaker, I've been wanting to remark on a) how nonsensical the names like "Pepesha" and "Tsiveta".

The mangaka is either an FPS player or a history nerd. Pepesha is a nickname for PPSh-41 submachine gun.

Nice catch. I don't think, however, that any normal parent would name their daughter after a gun, even in Russia. :D (And "Pepesha" does seem to be her birth name, since her superhero name is "Spirits"...)

True, but there's difference between parents naming their children and artists coming up with the names. Names often mean something or are somehow relevant to the character. Names as puns or references to something are very common too. So I wouldn't hold artists to the same standard as normal parents. After all they have imaginary people inside their heads.

Did you just seriously repost your comment after all the off-topic spam you made was deleted?

Shion posted:

Can you really deny that there is a tendency for yuri to be a tad bit too pure (kinda makes you sad or angry at times)?

There's is difference between work not including sex or not showing it (only before and after) and work thinking 2 girls lying next to each other counts as sex. There's nothing wrong with works that only focus on romance and dating and don't go beyond that. A lot of het romance stories don't include sex as well, or if it does, it's not shown.

Also there are plenty of works that are hardly ever subtle yuri but somehow tagged yuri

Not sure exactly how it's relevant to the topic.

I'm just guessing it's coz of... a hunger... community needs moar true yuri!
MORE ASAGI RYUU for example <3 more Kohagura, Mira, Tatakai no Kiseki <333

So true yuri means yuri that have on screen sex scenes?

karp posted:

to take advantage of the fact that it's one of the very few pieces of yuri media that acknowledges women don't have sex by just kind of lying near one another.

How many yuri mangas have you read? Because there's plenty which acknowledge that, but I have hard time thinking about even 1 which does what you say. Are you sure you just happen to not read any NSFW works?

Hollows posted:

effemine Kung-fu fighter

To be fair, he sucks at Kung-fu.

asking someone to undress = rape jokes ???

Koveras posted:

how refreshing Pepesha's positive representation of Russians is in this manga.

I knew that Russians are always drunk!

Don't worry I'm from Slavic country myself, so I can make drinking jokes

Alice Cheshire posted:

Did everyone forget that the third hero they have with them is a medical expert? It's safe to assume that Spirits is probably going to be just fine.

Edit: Oh, Koveras said the same basic thing I did between the time I loaded the thread and the time I posted, lol.

Yea, pretty much. Heroes getting wounded is pretty par for the course, but I doubt they'll kill her off like that. I was confused why people are acting as if they confirmed she's dead already too. They still might, but chances for this are very slim and they're more likely just increasing the stakes and making situation more serious.

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karp posted:

I am really not sure if I get all the significance of what's going on with the sister-in-law. Why would them moving back help a shut-in sister?

To take care of her so she can keep being shut-in and nobody learns about her to disgrace family.

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Serenata posted:

elevown posted:

It's like every chapter is a condensation of a normal romcom chapter of 25+ pages.

And it actually works so well, it makes you wonder why the heck everyone else doesn't do it like this, instead of inflating chapters with what amounts to dozens of filler pages...

At least for the none doujins, that would be because its whole purpose is to sell a magazine its in and make the mangaka money- the longer it can keep running the more money it makes.

Nah but, it can go on for a loooooong time with short chapters, I think the point remains that many mangakas manage the same punchline at the end but they need like 10 more pages to get there... So it just inflates the content in many cases.

Well, again, there's also a page limit required per chapter so they're often forced to pad it with stuff.

Salinthrous posted:

Manga Updates says this series was axed. And it was just getting good too...

More that author abandoned it I think, since they didn't update it in long time.

h3x posted:

^Where did you get the idea of this story as a prequel to "My Master & Furry-eared Girl Mel"?

Em, mankind waging war at beastkins and conquering them? Explaining why they're treated like slaves?

AkinomaHNU posted:

Lilliwyt posted:

Quiescent-Rose posted:

Why does this have so many pages of comments for just two chapters

Because people love to comment about series they think are bad, while good stories have almost no comments.

Look at Yagate thread Sure thing

Of course I meant in general.

Glances at Citrus and Citrus+ threads Right. In general...

In general as in "usually". Bloom and Citrus are the rare exceptions. Then again Citrus isn't the best example. While it's indeed popular and a lot of people like it, there's just as much people who hate it and think it's utter garbage and most of discussion in Citrus thread was between people criticizing it rather than people praising it.

Also it's funny how people always said how all Itou's work have dark undertones, but Itou was carefully avoiding them and focusing on all the sweetness, but the implications of slavery and beastkin being inferior race to humans was there, but people simply didn't think too much about it and now they pretty much wrote a prequel series explaining how all of it started and pretty much confirming what everyone was thinking. Now you can't read any other of their works and see it as just sweet age gap relationship, without thinking about the dark world they live in. They had to have some real guts to write it. It really proves that Itou doesn't try to please anyone and just write whatever they feel like. I can't help but applaud them for it.

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Lilliwyt posted:

Quiescent-Rose posted:

Why does this have so many pages of comments for just two chapters

Because people love to comment about series they think are bad, while good stories have almost no comments.

Look at Yagate thread Sure thing

Of course I meant in general.

Quiescent-Rose posted:

Why does this have so many pages of comments for just two chapters

Because people love to comment about series they think are bad, while good stories have almost no comments.

kittey posted:

No, the world in this series obviously has heterosexual relationships but I can’t remember any instance of same-sex relationships being treated as anything out of the ordinary. That’s the kind of utopian world I like. :D

Isn't it kinda the norm in yuri at this point? I mean, one recurring criticism against yuri is that it doesn't tackle issues like homophobia.

I agree that external homophobia is rarely tackled in yuri, i.e., discrimination by other characters.

You sure we read the same genre? Sure there's plenty of yuri where either everyone is gay or nobody even bats a eye at dating another girl, but there's also plenty of works where characters are afraid of expressing their feelings or dating, because it's not universally accepted and a lot people are homophobic and also when they do date, they keep it secret from fear of people treating them badly. Wanting to stay in closet and asking your partner the same thing is often vital to being able to have any semblance of peaceful life. Sure open homophobia isn't always shown (but it's also not as uncommon as you make it to be), but that doesn't mean character wasn't treated badly before or didn't see examples of open homophobia in their life, that were simply never shown to us, which could be the reason why now they prefer to keep low profile. Japan is openly homophobic country after all, where being gay is treated as just a phase between girls and is acceptable as long as they grow up out of it and become proper adults and get married.

And no. It's not internalized homophobia. It's called facing reality. Even article you linked says the true source is homophobia and forced heteronormativity all around us and internalized homophobia is only side effect of it. It's normal to not fit in and fear treated and rejected when you don't fit in and people treat and reject you. Avoiding coming out and similar behavior is understandable effect of being surrounded by such hostility. What we should be focusing on is fight the external homophobia and forced heteronormativity and once being gay become something normal, then people naturally will stop fearing about their safety and like they don't belong. Until we deal with that, being openly gay and doing a lot of thing is simply not a option in a lot of parts of world and putting blame on people for not living freely and telling them to fix their environment on their own is not realistic.

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Zexalfan posted:

a couple has a bad ending and for a reason or another don't get together, many many years past and each one has a daughter and then the daughters on their own meet each other a fall in love.

Not exactly that, but The Structural Formula of First Love is about daughter of girl mc loved that falls in love with her.

Teacher x Mother of their student? or just single mother meeting someone or on the other side of the coin. a Teacher meeting someone that it's not their student?

Was going to suggest Ikenai Hito.

usual highschool yuri story but where both girls are from different schools?

Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry-Blossom Pink has different stories, but 2 focus on 1 pair that goes to different school and second volume actually focused only on them. Very underrated manga. I personally prefer it over Girl Friends.

Right. There was also story with eerily similar plot like first story about that couple from Morinaga manga.

Gyaru Yuri??? (if possible Gyaru x Delinquent but it's fine if not)

This (I mean, it's in the title), but translation is atrocious. Also when I searched for it on mangadex, I saw this, probably fits what you want.

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BV posted:

What is the chronology of the anime episodes and the movies?
Is it, like, first the anime season, and then the 3 movies consecutively (as how I understood from Wikipedia) or is it even slightly different?

First 2 movies are a recap, so watch anime and then jump to third movie.

Goggled Anon posted:

Okay this latest chapter is a little too on-the-nose for me - fighting an ice victim with fire.

I mean, Ice was Fire's weakness in Mega Man 1. And we have yet to see how well Teru has mastered her abilities.

Also there's high chance it more depends on who's will is stronger etc. Or they might be based on those crystals that rings create. Either way it's probably magic ice not inherently weaker compare to fire.

That's fair, but few people did specifically said they didn't want people to find about them using this site, so as I said, it seems reasons vary greatly from person to person.