@wooberjig

Where's the Ashita kimi ni Aetara 3 & 4 translations/by who? Seems like great potential but chaossteam has that Manga on very low priority.

@elevown
What 9 pages? Or am I missing a joke

It's crazy how well doujin artists made me love the characters of a mediocre anime/manga.

And I'm the only one who felt this story was a little too by the book?

Young normal girl lives under oppressive parents, is seduced by mysterious transfer hunk of her life, love cannot be (it's a phase, both girls etc.), run off into the night together.

It's a odd mixture of fairy tale and yuri cliches. Kind of reminds of Simpsons episode "Lisa the Drama Queen" which parodies these fairy tale cliches by having a rich girl that is not understood by her parents and tries to run away with Lisa somewhere.

Eh, my interest was pitiqued at first, but all these events are just cheap shock value. When I grew accustomed to the "dark" atmosphere, I found the story to be shallow with barely any character interaction. Also like the other person said, the characters are so far from actual personality that I can't take the doujin's events seriously.

Also slightly bitter that stuff like this and Sugar Sweet Life are tagged yuri but She gets girls everyday is subtext with yuri crush.

Can't even muster feelings of disappointment and yearning for more from Kodama Naoko anymore. Title was good bait tho, I actually thought something would happen.

So good, no wonder it won an award. It's just a one shot but the author was able to garner so much such sympathy for the characters in just a few pages. The story quickly became sad but then shifted to a happy end, I feel satisfied reading this.

I wish the author continued this because I didn't want this one shot to ever end but it was done so well that I think it's good in its current state.

All hail maitake2

For a second I was as sad as everyone here, before the sense of reason hit me. Like sure it was sad, but there was no real reason to let any of what transpired happen. For a genius, how did she think breaking her hands was in any way a better solution than just asking? How did the fact that D.Va would still be put into service not cross her mind, she's not the only doctor capable of high end prosthetics.

Disagreed, I feel that events of the story do make sense.

Tbf, this wasn't just a lover's quarrel, this was going to be a literal war. D.Va strongly answered against the Doctor's ideology (because of her pride) so that the doctor probably believed that D.Va was unmovable in her stance.

Also, D. Va is a pro gamer, her hands are such a giant part of her life. If D.Va lost her hands then she would probably fall into a depression and stay away from the war. Her talents are greatly neutered and she probably wouldn't be drafted into the war, which is what Mercy intended when she broke her hands. The only reason why D.Va ended up fighting anyways was probably to find Mercy again, that's how she was able to cope with the loss of her hands and use obviously inferior mechanical hands.

I uh, don't really get this, can someone explain

Mercy(Doctor Angela) and D.Va (Hana) hung out together and fell in love. There was going to be a civil war of sorts and Mercy and D.Va had ideologies of the opposing sides. Rather than fight D.va, Mercy instead plotted to make sure D.va would not be able to fight in the war by breaking her hands (Mercy also had a way to heal D. Va's hands after the war ended.)

D.Va ended up fighting in the war anyways (probably using the mech as her hands) and the two met on the battlefield. The results of the battlefield are unclear but Mercy wakes up and finds D. Va's lifeless corpse in front of her. In the final panels Mercy tries using her cure (which she intended to use to fix D.Va's hands) to resurrect D.Va. It fails, D.Va is dead forever, sad end.

At first I was like "eww, it's the NTR artist", then I was like "well, this one-shot isn't tagged NTR, so it should be ok, right?"

Funnily enough, Kodama's best works are probably her too short/vague ones. When she goes in depth you get some pretty awful stories like NTR.

With only 4 chapters, I think the problem could be your patience.

Not necessarily. There are some story settings where you can tell from the get-go that there will be no serious yuri development. See manga like Shinozaki. The fact, that the only "yuri" between MC and her wife were really only joke moments, creates some reasonable suspicion.

Anyone wanna spoil the ending for me?

I was somewhat interested during the first chapter but each chapter been pretty ridiculous while not actually being entertaining and I feel no real yuri development will actually occur.