Goldengates posted:

Looking for one where a girl breaks up with her girlfriend because her parents set up an arranged marriage for her. After a while she shows back up on her lovers doorstep saying she couldn’t do it.

One of my favorites.

Why did you get scared?

Nezchan posted:

Can anyone tell me what's up with the uniform inside the paper bag on the last page of Ch. 4? Or is it just me overanalyzing that there's something about it? I mean, Haru's aunt gave Midori a paper bag right? Is it connected? Oh gee, lol.

I was wondering about that. I suspect it may be either the uniform from her mom's old school, or perhaps her mom's old uniform that was kept all this time. Either way, leaving it behind with a stated desire to change makes some sense.

It's clearly her mother's uniform she wears here. Also as Serenata mentioned above, it's possible Haru was always compered to her mother so she kinda felt like she wasn't even her own person and maybe even gave into pressure to look/act like her, so now after meeting Midori and seeing her changing, she might felt like trying to distance herself from her mother and become her own person. Or something.

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Nene posted:

What's this? Nobody comments on the new chapter, released just a few days ago?

How can y'all be so cruel as to ignore such a cute manga???

Because most people weren't that impressed with that manga when first 2 chapters came out.

You're insane. You only wasted your time doing something nobody even asked you to do or cared about in the slightest and all you accomplished was spamming thread with useless stuff. Then again I probably shouldn't be surprised, since spamming forum with things nobody gives a fuck about is your main way of spending time.

Also even if someone actually wanted to read Japanese parts translated into English in original Japanese, did it ever occur to you that, they would just read the fucking raws instead of looking for someone translating english translation back to japanese using google translator?

Rotfl. I can't believe someone actually wrote manga about "Schrodinger's dick" joke xD

rgv posted:

Well, Sakurako could have gone to any college, so this is just my own fantasy, but I imagine Sakurako as pre-law -> law -> judge -> politician in her life. Or pre-med -> med -> surgeon -> world class surgeon. So, following Kasumi in college feels like her having her wings clipped. Granted she could still become a minister's aid or the what I fancy, a diplomatic attache, as a social psychologist, but it still feels like wasted potential. And it isn't like they had to go to the same college to live together.

To sum it up, it feels like Kasumi allowed Sakurako to under-perform in college by letting her follow.

She could not be interested in any of those though. Just because you have potential there, it doesn't mean that's the field you yourself want to go into. She might be as well perfectly content and happy with the way things are.

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Fairypixie24 posted:

You're most likely right, Rose, about how to deal with these inconveniences: time if valuable, don't waste it on people who don't want to listen.

Said the person who doesn't even bother to read posts responding to them on the basic of "it's probably boring and wrong". Especially since White Rose's summary is wrong and biased. Now that's one hell of a echo chamber.

johnb posted:

Sweet Christmas it took about ten posts for one of you to simply point out, "You missed the joke writen in the margins" Then you take a victory lap like you got me to give up on something profoundly stupid, like flat earth theory.

I'm sorry, but BugDevil is right.

johnb posted:

I totally missed the bit at the side of the page. I thought people were inferring Hino's stupidity was ending the series prematurely, simply because the title of the chapter was "The End."
Now that I know I missed the actual joke. As in I didn't see it.

No. You did not miss it as in "I didn't see it." You didn't get it at all and made a fool of yourself arguing with everyone. That thing at the margins, with "editorial" telling you to look for author's next work? That part is the least relevant. No. The title of the chapter wasn't "The End". That was the freaking joke. Do you read manga since like yesterday? At the end of the chapter they will usually write "to be continue" or "the end" (or something similar) depending whatever this was the last chapter or not. When the series is ending, they very often also add the title of the series, so "Hino-san no Baka * The End". The joke that went over your head was that, that panel was supposed to look like series has ended. The premise of the manga is "Kogume is trying to get Hino to attend classes, so they are together" therefore "If Hino is held back, they won't be in the same class anymore, so Kogume has to make Hino study in order to not let that happen". It's classic set up for "study session". But then Hino subverts it by flat out stating "there's no way in hell I'll study" meaning series arrived at the dead end and there's no way to progress it anymore, so only logical conclusion is to ending it. Therefore the punchline of the joke was the "Hino-san no Baka * The End". The thing at the margins was just supposed to make it look even more like a last page. It was just a follow up to a joke, not the whole joke itself.

Man, it's not the first time you're acting completely spoiled and demanding everything to be given to you on the silver platter.

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Because of mess that's my real life, I wasn't posting much here in a while. That doesn't mean I wasn't recording stuff. In fact I had a lot videos I didn't need to edit and even uploaded them to my channel as unlisted, but didn't have time and motivation to properly tag them, describe and find thumbnails, so they were waiting like that for months... Anyway, here is the stuff that you all (3 people who watch them) were missing all this time!

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Blastaar posted:

So saying she only did it because of fetish is ignoring the context of the scene.

“Ignoring context” is a way of life around here.

Touche

RPPuzzle posted:

I don't get how she could actually just stand there and not go wait by the sink.

Well, the point was that Hino had to go in with her because they agreed to hold hands until getting to the classroom. If they separate for Hino to wait by the sink, at this point there was no reason for her to go with Koguma to the toilet in the first place. So saying she only did it because of fetish is ignoring the context of the scene.

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BugDevil posted:

Well I think the issue would be somewhat lessened if everyone was immortal, not just you. When I think about immortality, I think about one we all would reach with science, not just individual person.

Thing is that stories barely ever go that direction. Like this one, vampires are usually the exception.

I meant when people discuss how being immortal would suck, they think about only them being immortal. I think about it in context of entire mankind reaching immortality or at least eternal youth, Only death by accident or murder. Then the whole "constantly losing everyone and feeling like I don't belong" is no longer a issue.

Well I think the issue would be somewhat lessened if everyone was immortal, not just you. When I think about immortality, I think about one we all would reach with science, not just individual person.

Pyoro posted:

But it's not that vampire = night creature is an outrageous thought before then. They are in many mythologies corpses that return from the grave to do whatever it is they are doing (bloodsucking, frightening people, sexually harassing their surviving spouses... ^^) specifically at night; or creatures that basically pass as normal humans during the day or are otherwise absent/harmless during the day but not at night.

Also; there's plenty of other mythological creatures that either are weakened by sunlight or can't appear during the day or whatnot.

So from there it was never a far step to "sunlight somehow harms them".

Nobody argues that it's wrong or doesn't make sense for them to be weak to sunlight. We're simply saying they originally did not have that weakness. So even though now most people associate that trait with them, it wasn't always the case and isn't as weird and against their nature, as people tend to think.

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Alice Cheshire posted:

Pyoro posted:

Also, why don't these vampire manga never have proper vampires? Walking around in daylight? Eating?! Come on ...

I don't recall about eating but in Carmilla, which predates Dracula by 20 years, the eponymous vampire can handle sunlight just fine, she merely doesn't like it. And from what I recall, crosses and religious imagery were much the same. (And religious hymns hurt her ears but didn't actually harm her.)

From what I know original Dracula wasn't affected by sunlight as well. It was something that was added later.

Probably Jeanne?

grinseb posted:

The trope’s general idea is that “badness” is attractive and the sentient of “I will change her” (sensei literally think this - check her thought bubbles to see) is appealing. In other works, this is glorified or resulted in Stockholm syndrome, or end terribly with the mc failing to change their love interest. We never consider what happen when one succeed?

Em, what? This trope is all over Hollywood and it always ends with girl changing guy for the better. Which is totally unrealistic and instead what should happen is exactly what you wrote.

runrin posted:

The major character death tag in particular seems like it would be an absolutely massive spoiler in any applicable story.

I think tags for suicide are just a bit too specific and will spoil the story to some degree.

it's my opinion that the inconvenience of having a story spoiled is significantly less difficult than the pain of reading a story with something that could cause a mental break down.

kind of annoyed vs. potentially dangerous mental health situation

there are tags like this on ao3 and no one seems to mind. maybe just a nsfl tag would do? marking it as something that could potentially bring up some real bad stuff?

i'm not trying to ruin anyone's story. nor am i saying "you have to change this!" i just know a few people who might have read this if i didn't do so first, and that this could cause some serious pain for. throwing out a few ideas to see if people might agree/want this too.

Trigger Warning

I'm not making fun of you. That's pretty much what you're asking for. I do agree with Looking East, angst + drama should be enough already though. Only other way is just avoiding reading anything really. Also spoilers and what ruin story for someone and what not is really subjective, so there's no universal line that works for everyone.

I guess, Depressing as fuck could work as alternative as well? I remembered in one chapter of Neeko there was a warning, but it was made by scanlators.

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BugDevil posted:

When Citrus was good? Maybe it's me that's from a parallel universe...

Well, let's be fair. Citrus had potential. First 2 volumes or so were good. It just went downhill really fast.

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It's not hard when you disable all the annoying debuffs. Try it without KP or just with WHIP and then try to say it's easy. I did it with Zhuge, Bride and Tamamo.

Well I guess it's true Tomoko doesn't have balls...

I'm seriously lost what "Me and other people find some elements of this story uncomfortable and our feelings shouldn't be dismissed" (which I agree with) have to do with "They don't exist, therefore my hurt feelings are more important than theirs" bs.

majere posted:

Koguma is not a real person therefore her feelings have no bearing on ethical considerations outside the text.

Not everyone consumes fiction this way, nor are they obligated to or should do so in this way.

Prioritizing the feelings of fictional characters that do not in fact have feelings over those of real people is delusional. Empathizing with them within the context of their stories? Perfectly reasonable and part of the point of stories. Thinking they have the same ethical standing as actual people in a real world context? Psychologically unwell.

I actually agree with your arguments in general, but then you go and write this sort of crap...

AnAsianBrony posted:

Wow, I didn't know there was a Discord until I saw this post haha. You'd think they would put up a sticky or some--

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Yea. You would.