Hatomori is having a spiritual experience.

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Love the fact that the prostitute didn't end up falling in love or smth its way more realistic that way

It's almost as if she is a professional who is not morally obligated to fall in love with every client just because the two of them are the leads in a manga. :-)

To be fair, in real life prostitutes always fall in love with their clients if the two of them are the leads in a manga. Or at least, I'm not aware of any counterexamples where a real life prostitute and her client were the leads in a manga but DIDN'T fall in love. ;-)

Is that a veiled rebuttal? :P Because if so, you've missed my point somewhat: my peeve was with the pervasiveness of the sex-worker-falls-in-love-with-the-protagonist trope in recent yuri manga, not with the supposed lack of realism of such an event. Primarily, I am disappointed by the lack of variety in Pay for gay plots, which most often seem to boil down to the Yuri Story A with extra steps.

though i do appreciate that in spite of her determination not to get emotionally involved, she has become somewhat fond of the client, to the point of actively wanting to comfort her. this ambiguity also feels much more real than the usual dichotomy where the sex worker is either just waiting to fall in love and be 'taken away from all that', or on the other hand completely jaded and cynical.

I agree, and I think it's only human to become emotionally attached to someone who spends time and shares their worries with you for months. But Mizaki is still a professional, so she has to balance her emotions and her work, like all professionals, and the depiction of that balancing act is what makes this story stand out.

Great, now make it a series, Noda Nonda-sensei.

Idiot couple is best couple.

Sounds like a great title for a new yuri isekai.

I'm in

I'd read it, too.

This really an interesting one

Love the fact that the prostitute didn't end up falling in love or smth its way more realistic that way

It's almost as if she is a professional who is not morally obligated to fall in love with every client just because the two of them are the leads in a manga. :-)

The exposition around Garth is just so incredibly silly as it's trying to fancily say "he likes yuri stories like you degenerates"

You say that like it's a bad thing. XD

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"A Man of Yuri (100% Purity)"
"Thank the yuri gods for showing me the way"
"The spirit of a Yuri Knight"

I feel seen.

Best part of yuri-bro is that he outright vetoes the stupid trope of "Let's pretend to be lovers to get the other girl jealous".

Yea, that one has so many side effects, it's never worth it. :-/

Ooof, I almost didn't finish the first chapter because it brought up a lot of unprocessed pain from my loved ones dying on me. The ending though has got me just as confused as anyone here.

I love the author and their style, but do I trust them enough to turn Tragedy into Wholesomeness?

I mean, I'm used to being involved in stuff like this, not walk in on it.

it was brewing up either way. but keep gay and crime it on.

Crime? Gay? Pizza and Fire!? Wtf is going on here

That pretty much sums up a regular Sunday on the Dynasty Reader. :-)

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If I had to describe this series I'd say, "boring in a special way". Nothing's happening. It's so bland. But not in the done to death tropes of most slice of life series, or at least the ones I've read. Just a painfully realistic portrayal of life. And that does something to me. It makes me feel something I can't place. I can't tell if it hurts, or warms my heart, or expands or shrinks a void inside me. I can't tell what this series is. But I'm going to keep reading it

I think "authenticity" is a more apt description than "realism" in this case. This story feels like a lived experience, and that's what makes it special.

Ignoring for the moment that manga (and manhwa) character seem to have no emotional gradient between "liking" and "hating", so you unless you like someone, you must surely hate them, Seungha and Chaeyeon seem to operate on the fifth-grade level of relationship awareness, where the only way to express your interest in another person is to pick on them, and the only way to interpret someone picking on you is them declaring themselves your lifelong enemy.

That said, despite my frustrations with the leads' communication skills, I quite like this story.

"No matter how you look at it, it's just two perverts playing with each other!" (c) Looking Up to Magical Girls

You could say she put all her eggs in one basket

This.

I liked that Nagisa said "I am going to treat Mashiro like the best GF ever", rather than "I will be the best GF to her ever". The difference is subtle, but the latter would be ego-driven and self-focused, while the former is clearly focused on Mashiro's needs and well-being.

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Adulting is hard hmkay?

If I ever get a family crest, that saying will be on it.

Editor: "Zanka-sensei, your work needs to grow, to evolve. You've married your maid fetish to every other kink on the market already. You need to move on to bigger things."
Zanka: "Watch me."

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You must all be psychic! I was just thinking she should do a maid story sometime. I sense she'd do a great job. Let's ask Itou Hachi if that's a good idea!

Nah, Itou Hachi would just make it all about two adult fully-human women again, like they always do.

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Huh, Zanka's style has certainly evolved.

...wait.

I think Azul is perfect because she can for example, in case Utena loses control, take all the damage until she comes back to her senses and manages to control her full power.

Story structure-wise, I do not think Baiser will ever lose control like that ever again in this story. Chapter 35 was her personal nadir, and while she is still reeling from it, things should start getting better for her from here on out. At least if the author remains as consistently good at plotting as they've been so far.

But that's only when they're transformed, right now they'll be just girls so she's gonna have to come up with the mother of all Pep talks to help her.

They have pretty good chemistry already, so I am confident in those two. :-)

Poor Utena. What began as a fun hobby quickly became a grind. Well that is growing up for you. BTW did Utena come to Azul's temple? For what exactly. To confess some sin perhaps?

She just needs some peace and quiet to sort out her thoughts and feelings IMO. Losing control in a way that hurts her loved ones can be devastating to a domme's psyche, and she needs time to come to terms with what she's done. Which is why I am hoping that Azul is there, as well, to give her a pep talk.

Bentoki posted:

Maid is destroying again

https://seiga.nicovideo.jp/watch/mg649743?track=ct_episode

I can't see the votes but if she's winning by a lot I'll lose interest in this real quick, I'll always prefer a fun and spicy dynamic for romance, but if the maid always win then what's the point... can't beat a gang of maid otakus

I'm the same. I liked the idea of a harem romance where the votes decide which girl did best every chapter, but if the fans of the most popular girl just steamroller the opposition every single time regardless of what actually happened in the chapter... then this is going to get boring fast.

Wouldn't be the first time tribalism had displaced merit-based competition. :-)

...those were definitely words. :'D

Its fine if you dont understand... Also dont trust google translation

I don't trust anything Google does, and I'm used to not understanding other people, so don't mind me. :D

So, Sulphur suddenly has feelings that aren't anger and doesn't know how to deal with them.

Pantano Pesca is a meddling jerk who pretends to care for others' relationships but in reality simply objectifies them for their fantasies. I realize that my anger at her probably stems from the fact that she is a critique of a certain type of yuri fan that I partially recognize in myself. :-/

And Baiser is finally getting some one-on-one time with Azul in the next chapter. It will be good.

La xuxa OH MY DIOS OH SANTISIMO CIELO ME MUERO ME MUEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH me Moriiiiiiiiiiiii Kyaaaaaaaaaa esto es demasiado estimulante aahhh

Relajate XD aunque concuerdo ESTO FUE RE LOCO LE PUSIERON LA MERCANCIA DE LA MAGENTA EN LA CARA FULGUR XD SI YA DE PORSI QUEDO AMARRADA CON EL BESO AHORA CON ESTO ESA TIPA NO DUERME EN PAZ ESTA NOCHE

...those were definitely words. :'D

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Can someone be simultaneously this smooth and useless?

Happens way too often...

The smoother moves are done by instinct

Ah, and the uselessness starts when the brain takes over?

Judging by the heart rate alone, it would bet the Maid, but based on chemistry, it has to be the Brave.

I said this on reddit as well, but Rocker girl is an incredibly good flirt without knowing it. That's top energy right there. First the casual way she put gyaru's earbud in that one time in class, now just switching to first names. It's absolutely swoonworthy.

Can someone be simultaneously this smooth and useless? Only one way to find out...