"Mom. What are we exactly making?"
"Your sister."

BugDevil posted:

Are you quoting something or is that your interpretation of the situation?

You disappoint me.

The argument about definitions and labels reminded me of it and it fit perfectly.

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BugDevil posted:

If I don't define my action as breathing, but suck in oygen and expel CO2, am I not breathing?

Apparently, that’s for others to say.

Isn't that what you are doing here? They say they aren't (quite) girlfriends. You say they are.

Be respectful of the characters' opinion of their relationship. ^^

Sakurako simply said they are more than just girlfriends. Their relationship cannot be defined easily because they are all these things at once.

That doesn't change the fact that they are dating. It's something that doesn't need to be named, because it happens in front of our eyes. The "inhaling" and "expelling" is there. Therefore they are "breathing" even if they don't call it that.

"We have a certain way of how we want to convey our relationship, but that doesn't apply to the onlookers. People should have freedom of expression which applies to both us and others. We don't intend to define our relationship as dating, but the onlookers are free to see our relationship how they want. Rather than denying the onlookers' interpretation, we want to keep doing what we want to do, believing someday our opinions/ideas and worldview will be accepted"

Those bots get more and more obnoxious lately

malibus88 posted:

it's such a sad writing of someone meaning the author who has zero knowledge about the issues than something he found on internet or from other manga at best.

Or because LGBT people are pitiable and sad and full of drama, they'll make for perfect protagonists to write a interesting story about people with issues and angst. You know. Because there's nothing more to them outside of having drama over their identity. LGBT people are not actually people after all.

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TheLastWall posted:

Been trawling through the site as a guest and couldn't find it, so here I am.

Basically, all I remember about this particular manga was that a girl needed 'material' for a story - can't remember if it was a manga or an out and out novel - and so she decides to go up to another girl to 'observe' her for the material. It turns out that what Girl A wrote was basically an unrequited love story with her as the protagonist and Girl B as the SO. Help would be appreciated.

This?

Firefly Fanatic posted:

Please remove this april fools thing from the series.

I second this motion

Just rename it "April Fools' version" or something and keep it for posterity, because it's too good to be removed.

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In Japan, schools and parents used to force you to write with right hand, because nail that sticks out etc. Thankfully they apparently don't do it anymore, but of course it's not completely gone, because social norms and all that crap.

h3x posted:

Is it really okay to scanlate this manga, when offcial english version is published on manga.club? It's at chapter 17 right now.

It's not ok to scanlate any manga.

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S91 posted:

I'm looking for a manga about a girl who lives with different types of yokais and takes care of them. Later in the manga the girl helps a cat yokai. That's all I can remember about the manga . I don't think a read it on this site.

First thing that comes to mind.

KawaiiSuika posted:

True, but saying being trans isn't a mental illness isn't a slight against mentally ill ppl. In fact I'd argue the opposite, that erroneously labeling certain groups mentally ill, actually harms ppl with legitimate illnesses.

Good thing then I wasn't suggesting either of those things. Whatever you're diagnosed as mentally ill or not should be irrelevant to how other treats you.

Ignoring everything else, I agree with Looking East, that people's perception of mental illness is what should change first. Too many people still think of it as simply being "sick in the head" and refuse to go to psychologist, psychiatrist or attend any therapy in general to avoid being branded as crazy, even when they clearly need it. It's time people understand that there are all kind of disorders and plenty of people live just fine with them. For example, actual depression (not the, "I feel sad" kind) is considered mental illness, yet nobody is afraid of calling themselves depressed.

shadesofgreymoon posted:

Yeah. There's a difference between "damaged and acting out" and "screwed up and a complete sociopath". lol

Yea, especially since people suggested she might be the one who tipped rapists off in the first place, most likely to gain the blackmailing material, so if that's true, nothing can redeem her.

That was brilliant xD I laughed my ass off. Gj!

Hazukish posted:

I didn't get why this series was tagged lolicon, but it's starting to make sense now. Is it unusual that school animes and what not that take place in middle school are ecchi, I thought it happend a lot or are they usualy always in high school?

Lolicon tag on dynasty is used more to mark there is loli in story rather than actual lolicon. It can mean other, but it's more of a umbrella term.

BlairYi posted:

It is non-moe art.

What is moe.

EDIT/ Also it seems it was in different video, but for example Nausicaä was consider a "moe character" at her time.

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Nene posted:

"The character who does bad things, but it's all because bad things happened to her before, so the other characters will understand and forgive."

Lol ok. There's limit to it though. I really doubt anyone would forgive blackmailing and ruining their life, which she does to Gin.

Nene posted:

She really went all-out with the villainous act this time... but, somehow, it only made even more obvious that it's just a show.

How exactly? And even if she's bluffing, for all intents and purposes she's still blackmailing Gin, because he does exactly what she says and has no guts to check if she is bluffing (and I don't blame him for that). Even if she has some good reason to do it, no matter what it is, it doesn't justify it in any way, shape, or form.

RuneHex posted:

that was straight up blackmail, threatening to ruin his whole reputation and life. holy moly

I'm not sure if people forgot about it or didn't realize it, but she already blackmailed him in chapter 3. In fact from the very beginning entire premise was based on blackmail. So I don't understand why people still took it seriously and why only now think it got shitty "because Asa is a dick". She was always a dick.

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White Rose posted:

It was completed in Japan at two volumes, but never completely scanlated. (The scanlators reached the beginning of volume 2 and stopped... and it's been years since.)

Someone finished it though.

She uses it to move around and throw stuff so I'd say not really. It might be at the beginning but at this point it's very well trained muscle.

She had to discover it somehow. And she discovered it by wanting so badly to be like people she was obsessed with, she started drinking their blood. She just happened to have exact quirk she wanted totally not because author gave her quirk that would make no sense on anyone else. She even says she prefers to drink blood directly.

It actually probably wouldn't make much sense even with context.

She has fetish of drinking the blood of her victims, so it make sense she would bite her tongue. Also almost exact same thing happened in show, just she cut her tongue with knife and pinned her to a tree and was about to do some yandere stuff.

Make sense in context

Heavensrun posted:

Eh, that's because Shoujo Ai -isn't- really a term made up by westerners. It's a term used in japan, but it just refers to the girl's love genre in general, as does Yuri.

I recommend reading my original post and then deleting yours.

BlairYi posted:

Is Fragtime a good manga? So many people have been telling me to avoid it, but getting a lil curious now.

It's good. Just tells different kind of story.