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Haha. As for me, I recall crying more to episode 9 (their entry for the preliminaries with "Snow Halation"), than episode 12 or 13. The graduation stuff didn't really get me, maybe because I didn't really like the idea of graduation actually being the end for Muse or NicoMaki. Actually, I guess that's why I'm not too fond of the overly sentimental tone of this particular piece... even if it's a lot more bitter and dramatic, I prefer a scenario like Crystal Sugar and Machine Gun which actually addresses their futures.

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after story is here! check it out! XD http://g.e-hentai.org/g/747310/bb02add20d/

http://yuri-ism.com/2014/10/10/release-307-peanut-butter-pussy-time/
Why not post a link to the actual scanlator instead of some third-party rehosting site.

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She is awesome for sure.

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At best, she's an irresponsible spaz who leaves a trail of broken hearts among the teenagers entrusted to her care. That would be bad enough, and I find that a charitable interpretation.

The predator interpretation is retarded because the story very clearly if awkwardly makes clear that the teacher is actually in love with the student. Although she does abuse her power, it's difficult to think of her as malicious because if anything the teacher is more helpless and immature than the target of her affections. It'd be a disaster if a teacher that dumb actually existed but that's why this is fiction. What's the point of getting all uptight and morally righteous about an interpretation that's not even correct?

Yes, the sensei is an irresponsible spaz. So what? The point is that this story isn't any more morally questionable than any other teacher-student story out there (seriously), just more pornographic and comparatively less well-written (big whoop, half of this website is porn), so a minor piece like this really is not worth the blowup in the comments you guys have given it.

(I can't believe some idiot on the last page actually pretended this story was anywhere close to the worst stuff on this site. Redirect all your complaints to Oshikko Sensei please. lol, Jesus Christ.)

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Omg... my dad walked in my room when I was on http://dynasty- scans.com/chapters/in_the_rain_and_cold#12 I didn't exit it because I was too busy eating peanuts. It was so awkward, I was just smiling. SO KIDS, REMEMBER TO CLOSE AND LOCK YOUR DOOR BEFORE READING YURI!!

^ Cracking up imagining this.

Regarding the oneshot itself:
1. Wow, Shizuku is cute
2. Sensei is a bit of a failure of an adult; it's a miracle she wasn't arrested, lol. It just happened this time that Shizuku liked her back but she would've been fukken screwed if it turned out she hadn't, and I have no clue what Shizuku actually sees in her :P.

last edited at Oct 8, 2014 4:22AM

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Manga General Thread 07 Oct 23:38
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I like Yoshiteru in manga, he's a Shogun and that's a lot like a general I guess.

Yoshiteru, huh? Like this?

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Yotsuhara Furiko is great~

I don't believe there'll be a sequel, unless Furiko-sensei does something like Morishima-sensei and continues some of her stories in a different volume, given the description for the volume this was released in.

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I think it's perfectly legit to think of all men as self-absorbed horndogs who're controlled by their dicks to the point that they can't even be accused of "thinking". Guilty until proven innocent, lol. Obviously there are contextual factors one has to keep in mind when talking about human behaviours, but in this case what you have is an allegedly very attractive young woman in an environment where she is forced to be dependent on others with no technical or self-protective skills to speak of. The situation itself is pretty disgusting (unfortunately it strikes me as pretty realistic), but in such scenarios IMO it's actually preferable for women to come to the conclusion that men are absolutely worthless.

I'd say it's basic sense/human nature that given any significant form of desire, human beings have the potential to be pieces of shit. Throw in any structural imbalances of power and what you have is a recipe for violence. That older brother doesn't hold any sympathy from me because no matter what, he sits in an inherent position of power over Rio, and he took advantage of it. What Rio meant when she said that she wouldn't care if all men just fucking disappeared from the world, is that in such a case, she might've had a chance at living an actual life of decency (not being forced to give herself to men in order to protect herself, and then coerced by her body into enjoying it). I can't blame her.

last edited at Oct 6, 2014 2:21AM

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Anime season 05 Oct 06:26
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Cross Ange is going to be the trainwreck of the season.

Wow, seriously. I just finished watching the first episode myself. If they are actually setting up for a het end I can only describe this series as hilarious(in the "sometimes I actually wish this world would go to hell" sense)ly offensive. The sight of that brown-haired Kira-lookalike faggot makes me feel like I wanna puke.

I'm gonna keep watching, but that's only pretty much because I'm a delusionally optimistic masochist. Do not recommend to yuri fans as of now.

(Also seriously fuck Sunrise. Ahahaha. I started giving them a chance again thanks to Love Live! but most of the stuff they produce is really crap, if this doesn't turn out I think I'll go back to not giving a shit about anything they put out.)

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This just got announced by Seven Seas: http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/2014-10-03/seven-seas-adds-masamune-shirow-and-koushi-rikudou-pandora-of-the-crimson-shell-manga/

Pretty hype, I'll definitely be picking it up! Don't think we can count on scanlations in this case anyway :P.

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Anime season 03 Oct 20:46
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Bumping this because the season is starting and the first episode of selector spread WIXOSS was incredibly gay. Most of the episode is Hitoe taking Ruuko out, including to a "Girl meets Girl festival"(!), Ru is hung up on Tama, Iona continues to be Iona, but with more naked embracing imagery, and the preview is about Akira's feelings towards Iona

Is Wixoss actually worth picking up? As in, starting from the first season. I've basically been avoiding anything Mari Okada-related following the disappointment which was BRS (TV)... the series looked like something I might have picked up for the seiyuu and hopeful subtext otherwise, but my yuri-radar response was to give it a pass. I will admit I'm somewhat curious now, however.

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I don't know I had a hard time following the narrative, I guess it will make more sense when all chapters come out, since the latest one doesn't really seem like it's before 'Inviolable Logic'

'Inviolable Logic' is a flashback to just before Nico's graduation. Chronologically it's (probably?) the first chapter in this doujin compilation, but in placement it comes after the other two chapters which have been scanlated so far.

The progression from 'Setting Sun' -> 'Crystal Sugar and Machine Gun' is pretty straightforward, and the connection to the "reservation" Nico made in 'Inviolable Logic' as well. The one aspect I'm still presently unsure about is the "crystal candy" which has been constantly mentioned throughout all the chapters.

(Incidentally, just a tiny bit of trivia about crystal candy which may or may not be common knowledge, but is presented as such in the story: when broken, crystal candies glow in the dark due to an effect called triboluminescence.)

I'm not sure whether it's something from the School Idol game continuity, earlier doujins in this series, or some other source, but the way it's presented in this story, my assumption is that when the three 3rd years in Muse graduated, all of the group members shared out some crystal candy as a memorial present. Because crystal candy doesn't expire, they'd have the opportunity sometime down the road to get together and enjoy the light effects together.

Together with Maki's crystal candy, Nico gave Maki additionally a "reservation" for a key to their future house, claiming she'd come to sweep her off her feet after she became a super idol. And that's basically where the story starts.

I'll admit that the ending to this latest chapter is kinda ambiguous and doesn't seem yet to be necessarily positive. But presumably that's what the final (chronological) chapter is for. Thus far I gotta say I'm enjoying this series really a freakin' lot, and that's because it's actually tackling a scenario of Nico and Maki as adults, out of highschool (with actually realistic familial, social and professional pressures!), and that's not something you can often get with subtext pairings out of anime series.

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I feel bad for Akira (& Sae, I guess) 'cause it's almost like I can't even conceive of Hitsugi losing... but if Hitsugi doesn't lose, where do Akira and Sae go from here? It's like the story is slowly marching towards the point when they will be inevitably torn from their highest stage (in terms of coolness, screentime, relevance? I dunno). It might be equally likely I'm being too pessimistic? Suffice it to say that I will be highly engaged in the upcoming duel.

Incidentally, Ayana + Yukari's contest as well. Considering that this is somewhat of a subtext series, I'm kinda curious: how many people out there do actually ship Kuro x Ayana? Maybe it's just my aesthetics or something but I'm personally pretty attached to Ayana x Yukari, and do want to see them rekindling their old connection at some point. Is that going against the author's own feelings, I wonder. Anyway, these last couple chapters have been pretty hype.

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The usage of dreams in this story made me think of this, another one of Morishima's oneshots. I think the emotional content of Lala's feelings as portrayed here is very similar to the gist of that story.

One thing I kinda want to point out though, is that even if Lala isn't aware of it, I don't even think that the 'motherly' aspect of her relationship with Shinobu is actually all gone just yet. If you reread the first chapter in this continuity, which was also linked earlier in this thread, the main gist of that episode was actually that Shinobu was pushing herself a bit too hard to "be an adult" and "become mature". In the end, Lala's dedication and acceptance of who Shinobu really was was what saved her.

Of course, it's also a wonderful thing for Shinobu to be able to give back to Lala and interact with her as an equal. But my feeling is that there's no need to be in a rush. And from that perspective, Lala's feelings in this chapter are not necessarily bad. Perhaps Lala's nostalgia for a Shinobu who freely and openly depended on her will disappear once they've both truly matured.

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Ayame 14 discussion 03 Oct 00:03
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I have no words for this chapter... just one thing I'm not even sure I want to point out, the Japanese usage/definition of "bitch" is not the same as in English, and Shinobu's parents' advice was correct as fuck in saying Shinobu shouldn't tell others about it...

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Gunjo discussion 02 Oct 00:53
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This manga is madness, homofobitch as fuck
you guys will explode of rage

Or not? Maybe you shouldn't just take everything you read at /u/ at face value. Anybody who genuinely thinks this manga is homophobic is retarded.

Anyway, I'd been planning on reading this for some time; the series popping up here was a good opportunity to do so. Definitely a pretty intense and engaging story for sure. Actually I realized just now that the characters are never even revealed to have names, that is pretty fucking impressive for the emotional impact I've now associated with each character. Apparently the mangaka refers to them as "Les-san" (the blonde) and "Megane-san" (the dark-haired).

That aside, I have to comment that (for me anyway) the series isn't as depressing or tragic as it probably seems. Although there are definitely consequences Les-san (and possibly Megane-san) will have to face down for murder, and I don't know how extreme they will be, for now I confess I'm basically seeing the development set up for Megane-san to eventually reciprocate Les-san's feelings. In which case a happy end is not entirely impossible/out of reach.

Maybe it's kind of twisted or even rude that I'm reducing even a story like this to the simplistic, stereotypical question of "omg kya, when will these two get together?", and enjoying it as such. Basically not particularly taking it seriously as art. I basically consider the story pretty good reading though. Will be looking forward to future chapters.

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lol, one of the funniest chapters, for sure. The anime does it even better.
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=218585 <- first 6-minute OVA produced in 2010, not that good, included for completeness
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=294057 <- regular length OVA from 2012, brilliant, a 10/10 masterpiece.

Although the series has 'yuri' in its name, the titular Naoko-san is played off as a general pervert moreso than a lesbian, IMO. It's not particularly satisfying if you're looking for romance. On the other hand, this series really deserves it's comedy tag, so I'd definitely encourage more people to watch it (and of course, will be looking forward to any further scanlations too).

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Haha, love Happy Flame Time's stuff. This was great.

About the first 4koma, I'm just inferring here but I assume the joke is a pun on "sou" which by itself (i.e. as a full sentence/phrase) expresses a meaning of "So it seems" (translated as "yeah" in Marisa's dialogue). The various homonyms of "sou" mentioned in the translator's note were what originally appeared in Marisa's speech bubbles.

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Mama Mama discussion 28 Sep 02:34
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If the wives were perfectly happy in their lives with their husbands, one of them would not have been moved to tears while commenting "This is happiness, isn't it?" based on their mutual domestic intimacy. Not to mention the pervasive Japanese stereotype of sexless, emotionless marriages which is practically invoked automatically by any mention of the role/occupation, "housewife". You have to be truly clueless to not be able to see that this story is playing with the 'unsatisfying Japanese marriage' theme.

This isn't to say that saddling a seemingly wonderful, perfect picture of lesbian domestic bliss with that is particularly novel. Rather, the depiction of a fantasy of gay domestic happiness set in modern Japan was pretty hollow material in the first place. I don't particularly mean to make the case that the message of this piece was well-conceived or executed, but that's a different thing from not even grasping the message in the first place.

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Akaga Manga discussion 27 Sep 03:24
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Mosquito saliva isn't actually poisonous or anything, it just generates an allergic reaction due to its contact with your blood stream (the proteins and stuff). Same way your immune system tries to fight off anything foreign in your system. I'm pretty sure your body wouldn't have any problem digesting it.

Which does beg the question, I wonder if sucking the mosquito saliva wouldn't actually work? I think the primary obstacles would be: 1) it's usually too late by the time you notice (the inflammatory response has already started/the wound by the mosquito has already closed up), and 2) you couldn't suck up all of the saliva in the first place so the reaction would happen anyway. I'm not that familiar with medicine/human immune systems but a third issue might be that even if someone sucks up the mosquito saliva, since another human's saliva is still just as much of a foreign substance anyway you'd still have an allergic reaction just the same.

Anyway, as for the manga itself, haha yeah I really love Nekomura's Akaga. On the one hand, Kaga's just so in love with Akagi that these kind of teases are freakin' amazing. I dunno whether to be jealous or feel sorry for her, lol.

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New chapter of Tomodachi Login seems to have been overlooked? In the same release post as Murcielago 12, here: http://cxcscans.com/?p=47

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That'd be like, impossible... this series does need more Chiaki-chan though. MOAR Chiaki!1!!

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Haha, this is one of the most epic doujins ever, though. I read it before it showed up on this site, but it's still awesome.

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The question really is did she back out because it was overwhelming, or because she wasn't a lesbian or bi in the first place? The story doesn't make the question clear, although the fact that she kept comparing the older girl to a guy ("boyfriend", looks like a guy, husky voice, sounds like a male singer she likes, etc.) suggests the latter.

Even if Miya was straight prior to meeting sensei, I think this experience probably made her at least bi. The reason I'm pretty impressed with this one-shot is precisely because (and I don't mean this in any derogatory way) of Miya's self-awareness of being a 'brat'.

Like, the thing is that a 14 year old really doesn't have a solid idea of everything that exists in the world or all the possibilities of their life. Jumping into a relationship based just on emotions at that point is a pretty near-sighted thing to do, and a relationship with an older person who was supposed to be your teacher and is even a woman could have even more drastic consequences. A young person who is aware of and accepting of their immaturity (even while taking their feelings and experiences seriously) is something which I admire, 'cause I think that's the most responsible way to go about living that stage of life.

As for the emotions Miya felt themselves, however, they were certainly genuine/non-trivial, which is the key to why I think she'd take the possibility of female-female relationships in the future more seriously. You don't forget your first love, and this was certainly an event Miya will hold onto preciously even if she had to give up on it. The main idea is that realistically, 5 years or so from now, we really have no idea whether Miya and sensei would still be a good fit for each other, what kind of people they will be. However, there's no doubt that this event would've been part of what shaped them both, and in a positive way.

For my part, in any case, I feel pretty positive that most of Miya's relationships in the future would be with girls.

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Anime season 21 Sep 04:33
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I'll pretty much just be looking into the series Hylarn mentioned, plus Mushishi S2 part 2 (and also keeping up with Sailor Moon Crystal and Yama no Susume). Glancing through the charts, though, there was one other title which caught my eye which sounds fucking stupid and looks like it could be a bit of fun: Ore, Twintails ni Narimashita.

Not precisely yuri, 'cause the protagonist is a guy who transforms into a girl. Glancing through the cast it looks like there could also be developments between the other characters, however, so hopefully the show will also have some yuri without the MC.