Gabinomicon posted:

My main thing about arioto I didn't like was the child predator bartender lady. Same reason I don't like wataten.

Ironically, I kind of wish the story had actually been about that but it would have had to take a massively different tone and wouldn't have meshed with the more jejune "actually gay people are just like everyone else" thesis it seems to have been exploring, especially in the context of the lesbian bar scenes. It makes the earlier parts of the story worse by association; just kind of paints everything else before it that could be interpreted as coercive in the worst possible light, Aya pushing this stuff onto Marika because this was how she learned about it all.

Granted, "gay people really are just like everyone else, which means that they also, like everyone else, have communities that include predatory people; those predators will try to find ways to project an air of respectability and make themselves impossible to remove from their base of power" is a significantly harder story to tell well.

I guess I should be clear that it's not the wager per se that annoys me about arioto (I mean, that would be more like a laundry list of complaints) but that the nature of the wager seems based on the idea that Marika isn't gay and the story (at least in the manga) doesn't do a good job of establishing otherwise up until that point, so the whole thing feels off. Here, though, I can come up with no other reason for actually initiating such a wager rather than just, like, studying harder and getting better scores and then bragging about them against her; none of this makes sense unless both of our main characters are gay as heck.

I'd say this is definitely closer to Kiss and a White Lilly than Arioto, mainly because the whole wagering sexual favors for academic accomplishments makes me buy into the belief both these girls are actually gay and not just being coerced into it for financial reasons.

Man arioto is so fuckin weird

I've had that exact diet conversation with my wife....it's true though...her cooking is too good

Does anyone know the author's pixiv or twitter account?

Gotcha fam

https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/169854

I like that the character isn't being treated as a joke so far. It's admittedly a personality type that not everyone is going to fit well with but I appreciate that she gets to be complex and sympathetic.

I on the other hand am so elevated as a yuri reader that I know that playing strip hanafuda on a holiday is just what any pair of girls who are roomates would do. "Subtext". Bah. [garth_marenghi_subtext.jpg]!()

rphjas posted:

Noto is still creating Aikatsu!!

sucks in air through teeth mmmmmmm....

I thought the baby was supposed to be more a couple months old at this point but I suppose that's the part of the storyline I paid the least attention to

shanks posted:

This plot line has rocketed straight into “Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko” levels of bullshit. Hopefully it won’t take 20 chapters to explain the reasoning

I gotta level with you, I think this post presumes that our heroine is capable of reasoning -- and I'm not so sure about that

White Rose posted:

Poor Hinoka. I wonder if Tsukushi realizes she has just hurt her horribly.

I wonder if she realizes Hinoka can only take her attitude as cold rejection.

Probably not.

I think the funniest thing that could happen is if the next chapter opens with Hinoka having a dream where Tsukushi returns her kiss and then gets really depressed and anxious about it

I maintain that with its focus on the sea the title should have been rendered as "*blue planet*" but that's getting a bit far from here. It's certainly more explicitly a romance story and thus something that people complaining in here will probably enjoy reading

ChikyuuNeko posted:

Oh it's a featured series, I recommend this for anyone wondering if it is good or not.

I'm kinda put off by the subtext tag as I often find subtext series incredibly frustrating, how is it in this case?

I say read it anyway and if you're frustrated at the end go read ano koro no aoi hoshi for closure

Claymore Gaby posted:

All this talk about childhood friends made me wonder, y'all reading Asumi-chan?
Because that's one series were the childhood friend is endgame and it's been set in stone from the very beginning! Asumi goes through dozens of girls and has all kinds of relationships, while all the time looking for her childhood friend, and the moment they meet and get together is when the manga will end.

This post might be really fun to come back to in a couple years; we'll have to see.

I'm going to say it's something like no job and no social life, just sort of living a life of apparent meaninglessness, unmoored from the society she otherwise exists in. her growth comes by way of helping Kazura, because in the process they become socially tied to each other, even though Kinka's motives are at least partly self-serving

17hunter00 posted:

mr o goodness was the best character in this one shot

"feeling old yet? we caught up with charlie brown and now he's a salaryman"

This is fun! I find the idea that Kita's enough of a malcontent to write those songs interesting, given that even in the real series she's basically the archetype of the idol performer.

OK this one is pretty funny. I doubt that it's going to become one of my favorites but I'm having an OK time with it so far

You typoed I know exactly what the fuck I'm reading. I fear nothing.

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god this story is so fuckin cooked lmao

DschingisKhan posted:

Skipped a step there, Tsukushi. (⁠づ⁠｡⁠◕⁠‿⁠‿⁠◕⁠｡⁠)⁠づ

I was confused until I remembered the order: sex, kissing, h*lding hands, feeding each other sweets

Given the people I know who talk about listening to Car Seat Headrest, this manga is where I'd most expect to find a reference to their music, frankly

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Junior1210 posted:

It was a little irritating how the story was beating around the bush, but at the same time, I like characters that have enough humility to not just ASSUME that they are the target of a persons affections. No matter how romantic it might be to have your favorite person read your mind and just know they are your soulmate or whatever, NOTHING beats a straight out face to face, in person, confession. Anything less (without extenuating circumstances) is just cowardice.

shout out to both the characters and the magazine imprint for being forward

Lizstar posted:

Why there are many writers here criticizing an ecchi manga lol. Just enjoy the cute kissing and art.

Because that's what a comment section thread in a forum is for. Why would this forum even be here if the only thing that can and should be posted is "I liked this girls kissing makes my brain meat go doki doki"

I am once again asking for 2 entire volumes of kase-san where they do nothing but lounge around in the nude and feed each other sweets. Makes my brain meat go doki doki

everybody says student x teacher but muromaki, in her brilliance, knows that it's all about teacher x principal