(Ch. 62) Lmao, poor Hino-san wanted to basically make love to Koguma’s foot and turn her into a blushing melty mess, but instead she started laughing! Disappointed much?

Oh my god I'm so fucking pumped!!! I didn't even know this had a manga, I'm excited she's getting recognition!

lmao @ getting your color up about this shit on a backwater yuri internet forum.

There's examples of good community-based policing focused on helping and providing services for people, but not in the US. ACAB.

THEY ARE SO SOFT AND GOOD FOR EACH OTHER HNNNNG

healing from comphet and gendered expectations through the power of lesbian crushes, what a truly excellent manga. I feel refreshed.

There’s no way I can have a lover! Or maybe there is?

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. What is a lover?...-ly story like this doing in my inbox? In fact, what is my inbox? How do I know it even exists? I can’t put papers in it, I can’t touch it, so how do I know that it’s real? Is it a place? Where is it? Well, it’s in my mind—I’m reading it, so my brain puts the pixels into words, and the words into a message—but it‘s also somewhere out there on a server. But if I’m imagining it on a server, it’s also on a server... in my mind. In fact, you might even say I can’t really think of the server it’s on at all, if

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Ange’s voice literally destroys me. She could narrate a story of how she emptied my bank account and I would just smile and nod.

Everyone arguing this way around. Well, what of the opposite direction? This is a prequel, and Nikaido is the child of those two. Which is why she's so freakishly strong.

Oh shit ur right

Ur a hero

Tadokoro-san is the author, it was autobiographical the whole time

Damn I love how the more things are revealed the more context and understanding we get for the character dynamics. I loved how volume 2 explored feelings and relationships more, it’s always incredible when a gag manga has a real moment and starts to progress a bit, it’s a cerntain special feeling that’s hard to describe—like with handsome girl and sheltered girl. Is it just me, or do y’all feel that too?

I understand sooo much what you are saying

Okay yeah, it's not just me. Maybe this is a weird comparison, but it's kind of like how part of what makes Kill la Kill exciting is that it smashes genre expectations? Like we get jaded to a certain style of doing things, and by completely changing it, it's like the first time you read a yuri manga again.

Or maybe not even that--remember the era when (almost) all of yuri was this super platonic "will-they-won't-they," the whole time, or it was a relationship where they never got past maybe kissing, or it was just straight up porn? I feel like recently we've been seeing new yuri where it's like, "will they won't they, messing around with their feelings and wistful glances--and then they figure it out, and they fuck, and now they're in a relationship and it keeps going--or during their flirting they get like massively turned on, and it always feels like, whoa, you can do this? I'm thinking of "it was just once but I regret it" as well; basically, we expect a yuri story is gonna be a certain way, and then it's like, no, the author actually has an actionable artistic vision beyond iterations on this one scenario. Shit really happens, and it's fresh, and exciting, and it feels like real life, like being a teenager and discovering your sexuality, or your orientation, and being like, "oh shit, the scrolls permit this? it can happen?"

Idk, but yeah. I'm loving it.

Okay I'm not able to piece it all together but here's what I was able to find:

The management dude above them gave them something important to work on that was above what they were capable of. It seems like Kuroda is calling in favors and is snooping into what's going on politically behind that decision, or something like that--at this stage, maybe it's blackmail? I don't know enough about Japanese officeworker culture to figure it out exactly. But I'm confident he intended for them to fail for some reason that I'm sure we'll find out more about.

Anyway, Shirakawa notices that Kuroda is doing things on the sly and gets suspicious about her. I think she's also feeling slighted because, though they have the same amount of time in the company and are being compared/implicitly put against one another, Shirakawa is supposed to be the senpai--and yet that position isn't being respected, both by the immediate assignment of difficult work and Kuroda doing things she hasn't been taught. It seems like she thinks Kuroda is doing sketchy/suspicious stuff and maybe trying to get others to do the work for her, or secure her position through office politics so everyone else will take the fall instead of her.

I don't know what feelings are going on with them, but I know internalized misogyny and repressed lesbianism mixing within high-strung, high-achieving prideful women is a really common driving factor in Sal Jiang's work, so there's a number of directions this could be going. I feel like the snipes back and forth they make after getting told off are important, but I can't figure out all the emotional context.

I can't tell if Sal Jiang was just focusing on the twisted feelings here and didn't intend for us to understand the politics at all, if they're mishandled, or if we'll find out more later, but I look forward to finding out!

Sal Jiang is my goddess. I'm so glad we're getting a series.

I'll see if I can't figure out what happened.

Bottom Gudako is real. Also this artist is fucking amazing

I think it seems like they ended up with their top/bottom dynamic like out of obligation or something, somehow not “the right way.” They had a rigid sexual dynamic, and the designated top was too tired to top, so they found a new solution, which I think is great.

I miss big Da Vinci, this made me cry!

Lesbian Titty Bar is gonna be my band name

Man, every chapter just reminds me more and more of Bleach when Bleach was still good.

And by still good I mean literally just season 1 when it was just high school kids fighting the monster of the week and none of the soul society crap mattered.

I think you nailed it. Fuck later bleach, all my homies hate later bleach. Kubo should have stuck to deeply human ghost stories not shounen power escalation.

(Ch. 13) I hope we don’t get into a holding pattern of rom-com hijinx now. Or actually, maybe that would be a good thing: I think the author is trying to re-establish the new state of their relationship as familiar, but this time with a lot more sexual tension, so when the next Big Thing really does happen, we’ll get some really hot payoff again.

(Ch. 12) Drunk Ookuma is hot as fuck, oh my god.

(Ch 16) oh man this is so fucked up, it’s like a car crash but it’s so interesting. This is why boundaries are important people, even if part of you wants an ambiguous relationship it can be really unhealthy for you and the other person, so telling people when you’re not interested in them is kinder than letting them hold their feelings.

That said—it makes for some damn good fiction, doesn’t it?

I can’t wait to see how this confrontation goes—is it going to be an emotional explosion, or will they talk it out? If everything resolves emotionally, how could Sei even get out of the hole she’s put herself in w/only blackmail keeping her safe?

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Damn I love how the more things are revealed the more context and understanding we get for the character dynamics. I loved how volume 2 explored feelings and relationships more, it’s always incredible when a gag manga has a real moment and starts to progress a bit, it’s a cerntain special feeling that’s hard to describe—like with handsome girl and sheltered girl. Is it just me, or do y’all feel that too?

(Ch. 16) I knew this manga was something special, and it has transcended. This is the coolest fucking thing, i am so hype right now I feel like exploding, this is literally everything I’ve ever wanted. She’s using her BDSM powers to heal the girls through love and emotional/sexual release, opposite to that evil girl who just hurts them. Subjugation vs submission.

Also our girl has really grown throughout this manga. She’s like a good-aligned version of Sessyoin Kiara, if any of y’all knows CCC

So I just did a big old re-read of everything, and there are some things I noticed that bear theorizing.

I think this is really insightful and probably exactly it. I love that the new reveal of the plot taking this direction is revealing more of the conceit. Every new plot beat reframes the whole story, and it’s all both compelling and interesting. I think this is truly one of the best-written yuris I’ve encountered, it is so richly layered and the presentation is amazing, on top of the author having a really good understanding of BDSM, fantasy, and desire. I pity anybody that isn’t reading this month by month with the time to re-digest and understand the plot between every sitting, because I feel like that’s how this was designed.

I actually can’t wait for the next chapter to come out; between this, Introduction to Love Triangles, and Do You Want To Go Out Or..., it’s a wonderful time to be on Dynasty.

This is probably based on CCC, so yeah definitely tragic

Cool to look back from 2020 and be like yes korrasami is real