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Dumshork
joined Mar 19, 2022

not liking lemon cheesecake

How can they be so cute yet so terribly wrong?

I've seen this on the internet in general over the past few years, and there seems to be an unhealthy fixation on judging other people's personal tastes as somehow objectively wrong or correct. Nobody's personal tastes are ever wrong. This is something everyone needs to accept. If this is your idea of a joke, it doesn't come across that way.

DumShork
Dumshork
joined Mar 19, 2022

A school forbids you from going to the arcade on your own free time?

The unnecessarily draconian rules some private Japanese schools have never fail to bring a sigh and an eye roll from me.

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Dumshork
joined Mar 19, 2022

Props to the translators who know it's "Psych" and not "Sike," which is not a word in the first place. The pedant in me is pleased.

I had a grin on my face for the rest of the chapter because of this.

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joined Mar 19, 2022

A Zanka product that actually ends? Not just left in perpetual limbo?!

Immortality would be an actual purgatory-like state, so there's not a huge difference between this and their other series as far as I'm concerned. I do like it, though. Cute fluff as usual.

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Dumshork
joined Mar 19, 2022

Things are kinda getting out of hand here:
https://dynasty-scans.com/images/28159

I believe this needs to be addressed also. Both sides are way over the line here.

last edited at Sep 18, 2023 10:12AM

DumShork
Dumshork
joined Mar 19, 2022

Ponytail Supremacy

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joined Mar 19, 2022

Thx goodness she said this was about fiction not people! rotflmao

That is nothing more than a transparent excuse.

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Dumshork
joined Mar 19, 2022

If someone has a problem with that exceptionally infrequent occurrence, I'm sorry but they're either a homophobe or a misandrist. Either way, they can quite frankly just leave.

OR they could stay and explain to you why your name-calling is wrong, in the hope that one day you'll get it.

Identifying such a visceral reaction of disgust and disdain to the completely benign appearance of a gay couple as either homophobia or misandry is not "name-calling," no matter how much you would like it to be true. I'm well aware that there is a small but vocal subsection of this community who actually hate men, regardless of what they're doing or who they are. They pop up whenever a Het story is released or a man appears in a yuri story. I'm tired of it. They can take their personal problems elsewhere.

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Dumshork
joined Mar 19, 2022

Many yuri fans don't want dicks in their yuri.

Except there's no dicks here. There's two men who love each other doing some silly flirting. If someone has a problem with that exceptionally infrequent occurrence, I'm sorry but they're either a homophobe or a misandrist. Either way, they can quite frankly just leave.

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Dumshork
joined Mar 19, 2022

The whole air pocky sequence with Ed and Ian was uncalled-for, unneeded and superfluous. Yuck. Blegh.

Quite the contrary, it was hilarious. Giant rodent attack!

That should have been Ayano and Miyoshi.

Nobody reads this manga to watch middle-aged gay guys flirting.

I do. And I'm not alone. Think very carefully for a while about what that means.

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joined Mar 19, 2022

Had to let it sink in for a couple days. I still can't believe this is over, but I don't think it could have had a better ending for what it was. Looking forward to the extras.

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Dumshork
joined Mar 19, 2022

One of the first manga series I ever finished was Love Hina. I'd like to see the exact same story with Keiko instead of Keitaro. Change the Seta character to Setsuna or something, and make it full-on yuri harem madness. And make a remake of Dark City with Jane Murdoch as the main character.

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joined Mar 19, 2022

best fucking reactions this chapter xD thanks for the new pfp

I laughed for a solid minute at that single panel alone.

I will be very surprised to find that Dark Magenta's whole schtick was invented whole cloth by Baiser's influence!

Exactly what I was thinking. Knowing this series, it's going to be, "yeah, Baiser added the darkness, but the form it took was based on Magenta's own desires."

last edited at Aug 22, 2023 12:53PM

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Dumshork
joined Mar 19, 2022

While I find the idea of eternal vindictiveness tiring, especially for someone who isn't even real, I find myself agreeing with people who say they can't trust Kaoru. One extremely necessary part of a redemption story is the breakdown of the character to be redeemed. The breakdown moment, where they're at their lowest and realize the way they do things isn't right, is essential for convincing the reader that they've actually learned something. This series has been going on for so long, with such time between chapters, I honestly can't remember if Kaoru even had such a moment. If she did, and people just aren't recalling it, please feel free to link the chapter.

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joined Mar 19, 2022

wait, Magenta just put her hand down and brought it to her mouth to lick it

Free sample just for stopping by.

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joined Mar 19, 2022

...makes me wonder what the author is even thinking.

"I'm serialized and actually getting paid," is probably foremost on their mind. It's extremely difficult to balance that with a working story. While it's understandable, it makes these kinds of situations difficult for the reader as well.

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Dumshork
joined Mar 19, 2022

Is "Misugi" supposed to be the mini-chapter name?

That's how I read it.

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Dumshork
joined Mar 19, 2022

Who knows how things are gonna pan out...

I vote mech battle. But in all seriousness, this chapter got to me. I really hope Maki doesn't end up as an actual antagonist, because she's a victim as well.

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joined Mar 19, 2022

"low key"

Zoomerisms are sometimes simultaneously hilarious, endearing, and infuriating.

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joined Mar 19, 2022

Maybe hoping for poly is too much . . . . eeeeh, I'll hope.

I think maybe a good rule of thumb for such things is that unless there is a clear movement in that direction, such as There's Weird Voices Coming From the Room Next Door!, it's probably best to not waste the energy.

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joined Mar 19, 2022

I can't stop laughing at the human-sized deflated muppet...thing Aizawa turns into on page 31. Haven't seen such hilarious one-panel depictions of characters since School Zone (RIP).

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joined Mar 19, 2022

Over-saturation and scrambling for profit via quantity over quality is the sign of a failure to do the basic job of a talent company - showcasing individual talents' strengths while keeping them happy and feeling that it's worth their while to be a part of it. Nijisanji doesn't care about the talents. They care only about keeping the money rolling in, no matter how many waves they have to roll out, screw over, and graduate to do it. I only hope those still in the company who haven't wised up will do it soon. Kurosanji doesn't deserve the place they have in the v-tuber community.

Dumshork
joined Mar 19, 2022

Darth Vader being Luke's father was a retcon. An author shifting how a character behaves as their series goes on to better tell their story is not. You don't have to like that they felt the need to do that, for whatever reason, but it does not change the context of the previous parts of the work. I, personally, was very unsatisfied with how Mai's character ended up losing her inexplicable adult-isms as the series progressed, but it does not constitute a retcon.

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joined Mar 19, 2022

Mya-nee shows some growth, if only a little.

One step onward, two steps back

I prefer to think of it as a few tentative steps forward, followed by a stagger from a glomping Hinata. All in all, progress.

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joined Mar 19, 2022

Uuuuummmmmm I am so confused

Clearly.