How far have we come that we want to protecc the drunkard from bulli?

MAAATE! I was livid he put out a still smokable durry into that full a bottle of vodka, he is the true villain in this manga! Spirits looked gutted afterwards too shakes fist angrily

I guess the national stereotypes this manga associates with the US is moral grandstanding and meddling in other's private vices. :D

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Just out of idle curiosity, is it even possible to speak when your nose and cheeks are sliced open like what Meg does to that dude during the robbery?

If this doesn't end with Kay chasing Meg down an airport runway while wearing rubber masks of former Japanese Prime Ministers I'm going to be very disappointed.

Waiting for the inevitable scene of her shooting her gun in the air.

And yelling, don't forget the yelling.

^ lol. This is like, the fanciest, most roundabout way to say "Ogino Jun rips other stuff off and adds T&A."

Seriously, this isn't that deep. There's nothing complex or layered going on here. That's not a criticism, BTW - for every trend in art or culture there are innovators and imitators, and imitation of itself is not a failure. OJ isn't some savant artiste creating a masterpiece out of a broad swath of inspiration. He's a good mangaka who can spot a trend and who likes to draw tits. Appreciate it for what it is, there's no need to pretend this is high art.

If you only sort creative works into high art and low-brow entertainment, then sure, OJ's manga clearly falls into the latter. I just happen to see a few more categories in-between, ones that can be intellectually engaging without "pretending it is high art". Clearly, the number of posts theorizing about the setting and the story above indicate that this manga is just that kind of geeky entertainment, but you are, of course, entitled to your own opinions on it. :-)

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It is interesting that people keep bringing up so many different older stories this one draws from (Attack on Titan, World Trigger, Bleach, even Pacific Rim and Bokurano, and now Astral Chain), and yet this very number attests to the fact that this Semelparous is not a simple derivative work but a truly post-modernist one that deliberately invokes existing texts to create a new meaning. Gamma was exactly the same way, but its reference pool was an order of magnitude larger, drawing from entire genres (magical girl, super sentai, superhero comics). As an author, Ogino Jun fascinates me by seemingly combining a deep critical and analytical understanding of complex source material and a completely irreverent indulgence of physics-defying boobs and loli hentai.

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I really loved that series, back when it was on going, and it's always been a bit disappointing that the author hasn't really done anything new since finishing it.

I wonder what happened to him. His blog, where he was last spotted posting doujins, has been deleted, apparently...

Plot twist: The original one-shot took place in the parallel world, but Haruka and Youko are partially swapped there. In other words, in the parallel world, Haruka was their sempai and got killed off-screen, while Youko is the childhood friend who survived.

Hina is actually a KGB sleeper agent

I see what you did there. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

New quasi-superhero series from Ogino Jun? Sign me the heck on.

To everyone complaining how the author "ruined" the original doujin, relax. The original doujin is still there for you to enjoy. This is an alternate timeline in the same setting, and the author is free to write it however he likes. From where I am standing, y'all are just miffed that you didn't get a series based on the premise you liked more -- which I am sorry for, but please let us enjoy the new, edgier timeline from now on.

The story is a less over-the-top version of Rooftop Miracle, one of my faves...

This serves as a good reminder that you should ask someone if something is wrong when it looks like there is and listen to what they have to say.

That's a good piece of advice, except that you don't always have the mental energy and capacity to pay attention to others when you are going through serious issues yourself. While it has worked out for the MCs in this case, fellow suicidal individuals are rarely good company when you're contemplating killing yourself. That's why hotlines exist...

I gotta admit, I did not expect the story to take this turn. Not unwelcome, just unexpected.

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I'm just gonna go ahead and add that reporter to the Shy X everyone ship.

I just realized that this series a stealth sequel to Social Anxiety vs Yuri. :o

Damn, forcing your slave to sleep on a Facebook cat emoji pillow. That’s got to be a lot worse than the implied forced coprophagia/piss drinking.

What? Where,why? I thought she just carried her to the toilet and let her do her stuff, if Kaede is "her own body" she'd not need to eat Miss's waste...right?

I think the implication was that Kaede reacted in an instinctive and immediate withdrawal because her previous owners made her do all those things. It took her a moment to realize that Fuuka, with her lack of mobility, has obviously meant it in a different way.

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Is true, this is an action series with super heroes and drama, not a yuri work, is not promoted as yuri, is not structured for romance... if yuri happens it would be a surprise (and maybe at the very end) so if you're here waiting for that you'll be disappointed. Is like reading kimetsu no yaiba and wondering why he hasn't kissed any girl yet.

But... but... why would you even bother having multiple women in a story if they aren't going to make out? It has to be yuri!

Maybe the author just likes writing about women who can both kick ass and talk with other people like adult human beings?

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...nah, can't be. Miki Bukimi just probably hates every user on this website personally. Yeah, that has to be it.

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Does anyone know what the author means by "a safe"? Just curious.

any sort of close mother/daughter interaction happening in a manga
dynasty readers: taiyaki where are you

And if it's a sister/sister interaction, it's Mochi Au Lait.

Yet for some reason

This site is the reason. :-) The readers you mention still cannot internalize the notion that Dynasty is capable of hosting anything but yuri series.

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I know it's a Yuri website but it isn't a Yuri manga to begin with so don't hope for too much. It take more of the classic Shounen so it will probably be just Friendship or comrades.

I'll take it. Human relationships are as varied as humans themselves, and romance isn't the be-all-and-end-all of them. :-)

The uselessness never stops...

No!
I call bs on that.
They have confessed their love to each other, and confirmed it. They have started going out. They have kissed, many times. They have made out. And they have had sex.

Call them whatever you want, but not useless.

Useless, my sweet babies Kase and Yamada sure ain't.

What you said. The two of them are that preciously rare case of a not useless, but still hopelessly dense pairing. :-)

It's interesting that until now, the author has avoided drawing Pesha and Sveta standing side by side, because otherwise we'd realize that the daughter is a full head taller than her mom. Perhaps symbolic of children outgrowing their parents, physically as well as spiritually?

Still, I wonder how many fights will be resolved through kind words instead of, you know, fighting.

Most that involve Shy, most likely. That's been rather clear ever since she impressed the other heroes by rescuing Koishikawa through solving her inner conflict instead of destroying the corrupted parts.

It slowly dawns on me that Shy is actually a magical girl with the guise of a Western superhero. :-)

Y'know, for a porn manga, this one's pretty deep. Especially the exploration of the relationship between the person and the body -- so far, we've seen three entities "wear" Shion's body: Shion herself, Tycho, and the ghost eater thing. The AIs are pretty chill with distinguishing between them, but Ayame keeps conflating Shion with her body, especially once Tycho starts copying her mannerisms. All that boils down to one of sci-fi's (and especially cyberpunk's) favorite big questions: can human identities exist independently of our life-supporting meat bags?

in the second chapter, does that count as necrophilia? i mean, the android's dead

Not dead, just functionally in a coma. So no, not necrophilia, but pretty much rape. :-)

I am appalled that this chapter isn't tagged Lots of hand-holding. We need to protect the (22 y.o.) children from such lewd imagery!

Wow, what a bitch. Paying for the hotel room and stuff.

Judging by the posted title translation, it's the blonde who seems to be the "bitch", since she's obviously in love and doesn't seem that taciturn. :-/

I want to see yuri......

I heard there have been some series tagged with Yuri around here. This one isn't among them, as far as I know, so you must have been reading the wrong manga, friend. :-)

I've heard similar theories before. Mostly that branding wise women as witches and heretics is the catholic church's way of limiting women's power in society. although the part about it being a capitalist and nationalist sceme, is new to me.

Problem is that witch hunts were afaik more prominent in protestant societies. And they were never that big and bad. Yes women died but it was not like a Continent wide frenzy and plan to limit womens rights.

It wasn't a "scheme", either, pardon me if my original post sounded conspiratorial. According to those feminist scholars I cited, It's was rather a part of a larger process by which the European/Western society adapted to the new proto-capitalist realities of wage labor and work-home separation. There wasn't any plot behind it, just different people sharing the same values arriving at the idea that the best way to make society adopt this values was public violence. Unfortunately, this has happened many more times throughout history.

How is groupie girl able to keep her powers then? Maybe she's not really in love but merely just infatuated? Or maybe she's already losing her powers. That would explain why she can't fly her broom.

The idea of love coming in many forms/variants is common in western philosophy and eventually got introduced to Japan in the early 1900s, so it would make sense if the "love" here refers to a specific form of love or the side effects of that form. [snip]

Are you referring to the old Greek storge, philia, eros, and agape or to one of the later theories? Just curious.

The theory sounds like a very...creative interpretation of history.

Indeed. I am not a scholar of history myself, but I enjoy reading different perspectives on historical events, especially if they result in creative fiction. :-)

Hm...I like the art and the characters are cute, but the story seems a bit pointless to me. Why take revenge if the people who burned witches lived hundreds of years ago?

According to some feminist scholars, the European witch hunts were a symptom and a manifestation of the new capitalist and nationalist societal order's drive to re-subjugate women and to confine them to the homemaker role that was viewed by this new order as necessary to support the man as bread-winner. (Of course, history showed that this idea fell apart as soon as the demands of the growing industry forced women (and children) to work alongside men, but even then, they were still expected to pull a double shift at work and as homemakers.) Anyway, this subjugation was carried out using terror tactics, such as public executions of the most educated and thus powerful women of society, referred as "wise women" or "witches", and when they ran out of those, they continued with random girls until European women were effectively beaten into silence and submission (for a while, at least).

With this in mind, it would be interesting to see if the "revenge" the teachers speak of in this manga is actually aimed at upending the modern nation-states and the global capitalist elite, both of whom ended up profiting the most from witch-burning. The fact that the witches' surreptitious survival is explicitly linked to them entering the service of future nation states gives me some hope, but then again, I don't really expect a Japanese manga artist to express a radical left agenda in a story about magical lesbians.

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Lilliwyt posted:

Can i be the kill joy about the orphanage's name ? Just remember that Yurii has not the same meaning in Russia that it had in Japan.

If you're going to nitpick, at least say it's yurii, not yuri.

My read is that this was done for the cheap pun, since, again, I cannot think of any original Russian name for "Yurii Orphanage" that would make linguistic sense. Yuri is a given name, and orphanages and other institutions named after people typically have surnames attached to them. E.g. an orphanage dedicated to Yuri Gagarin would be "the Gagarin Orphanage", but never just "Yuri Orphanage"...

Also nobody is going to comment that it's implied that Pepesha always drinks before meeting Teru to the point, Teru wouldn't recognize her when she's sober?

Theory: Her regular sober personality is as grumpy as her orphanage days, but drinking makes her more sociable and open (a real-life side effect of moderate alcohol consumption), which is the side of her she wants to project for Teru.