having an affair or sex in general is a foreign thing to most people i guess

Oh, please. I've known some very hedonistic, sleep-with-lots-of-people, kind of folks. And they're really nice people. Why? Because while they're open to plenty of sex with plenty of people, they don't deliberately fuck other people up in the process. Their sexuality is open, generous and giving. Remi is not like that, she's a selfish twisted bitch who gets off on seeing people she "likes" suffer.

Well. Right now I'm thinking the title about the "dust that makes up my world" makes Rather More Sense for this story than the title the scanlators went with, good and suffiicient though their reasons may have been.

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Maybe I'm showing my age here, but every time I see the title The Last Uniform it makes me think of this:
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/product/9780451450524-item.html?s_campaign=goo-PLATest&gclid=CL22iMWM8MICFYKUfgodHgoA7w

Showing your age, huh? I hold in my hand a VHS videotape of the movie adaption of The Last Unicorn. I haven't thought of that story in years. Oops, pretend you didn't hear all that. If you ask my age I'll say "I tell people I'm 29."

Hah! i'm an old lady and not afraid to admit it, and CTV here in Canada used to show TLU on Crimmis Day here in Canada when I was a teenager so for me it'll always be a Crimmis movie. Still sad the live-action adaption didn't really go anywhere, the designs for that were super. Too bad they aren't online any more.

Well, a fellow Canadian! Well met. Apparently there's been a stage play done--for some reason I get Peter S. Beagle's email newsletter thing.

This is so damn hilarious I can't even process it.

Y'know, the tag says "Non-moe art". No doubt that's technically true . . . their eyes aren't ginormous, for instance . . . but they're sure as heck moe enough for me.

That credit page just summed up the whole chapter, I love it. I'm probably thinking too far ahead but I can't help but wonder how the characters will handle things like: sex, marriage, or maybe even children. I really can't wait to see where this all goes.

OMG I would love to see them raising kids hahaha

Ye-ess . . . Kind of tough fate to be wishing on the kids though.
I'm imagining their kids talking to other kids . . .
"You mean your mommy doesn't try to kill your other mommy every day? But then, how do you know they love each other?"

Way not to show a kiss :(

On a side note, I really, really want to see a longer series from this author. A bit less cliched and we might have a second Morinaga Milk. But with less high school.

Morinaga Milk's stuff is totally cliched. But it doesn't matter because she does all the little things so well she shows you why it became a cliche in the first place.

That was a lovely chapter ending, but not a manga ending. This needs a few more chapters. Or maybe I just need a few more chapters of this.

Ah, I think I'll read this again. It has to be one of the funniest manga I have ever read, and the funniest yuri hands down. So bizarre, so hilarious. And a bit of sweet added in . . . Morinaga Milk is a goddess of yuri.

Horn: Well, "while keeping it interesting"--sure, I'd agree, but there are a bunch of manga that go on forever about cute girls randomly interacting in some kind of half-assed school club or whatever, doing mild comedy and maybe pursuing yuri relationships which never really get anywhere and are half there as comic relief fodder. The art style here and some of the interactions feels just like them.

On the cliche thing--well, everything is relative. Sure, at some level every story has been told umpteen gazillion times before. But that's talking in a very bare-bones way. Person-meets-person, they fall in love, obstacle, obstacle, they get together the end. God, I've seen that so many times . . . wait, that's why they call it "romance", isn't it?

When we say something is "cliche" usually we mean something a bit more than that. Certain kinds of characters, certain particular elements of setting, certain specific plot points, get used much more often than others. Maybe they fit the general culture very well, maybe someone did it once and sold a billion copies, but in any writing environment (like Japanese shoujo manga or North American fantasy novels or whatever) there are some "bits" that are floating around ready to use because they've been used so much lately. If an author just kind of grabs a bunch of those and doesn't add much to 'em or change anything up or grab any bits from elsewhere, we call the results cliche and I don't think there's too much wrong with that. And it's totally relative to where and when you are. If I tell a shoujo romance and go back to Icelandic sagas and grab one of the bits that's totally overdone in the sagas, that was a cliche in the sagas but it really isn't in shoujo romance (it might not work, but it won't be a cliche).
People know what it means until they overthink it. Then you have to overthink it even more to get the meaning back.

Now personally, I don't mind yuri or shoujo manga cliches much, at least if the mangaka's adding something, making it her own in some way. I like the genres ultimately because I like their cliches. But I think it's just as pretentious to claim it's verboten to call "cliche" as it is to use the term in the first place.

While he/she used the most pretentious word possible to explain it (I really do hate the word cliche because of how fucking overused it is)

So you're saying calling things cliche is . . . cliche?

I expect there will be. It certainly doesn't have a one-shot feel to it, more like one of those "pilot for a series" pseudo-oneshots. I mean, there's no real resolution of plot or anything, just introduction of a few characters and their situation. If it gets one the problem for me will likely be a lack of progress; it has that shounen-ish feel to it that says "Lots of stuff will happen but it will be mostly filler and every forward step will be forgotten a couple chapters later so they can do it again". With luck I'm wrong.

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I think it's too late about that. If we're going from the colored pages which are probably a bit in the future, Ayu sees Hii and the teacher kissing.

Am I the only one who thinks the mangaka might be messing with us? That scene is certainly made to look like a kiss, to certainly be something that gives both us and the MC the impression of a kiss. But it's a bad view . . . worse for us because we can't see the contact point past the MC's head. But it strikes me as one of those things that could be angle--like their faces are very close but the impression of contact could be false.

The MC might have seen just the wrong moment that looked like a kiss. Or might have seen something that almost became a kiss, but didn't. Or the sensei might have realized she was there and is deliberately scheming to create jealousy to give those kids a push. She seems like the meddlesome type.
Or maybe not. But the way it was shown just made me feel like the mangaka was maybe deliberately leaving a little wiggle room to go back on our first impression later.

I wonder if the editorial staff privately call ch 9 "Boobs and Kase-san"?
Aw, man, I just had to re-read this again and I'm just squee-ing all over again at how unconquerably cute it is.

That was way more cliche than I expected.

Well, from a Korean point of view it's like the first one. So it can't be cliche, it gets to use all the topoi like they're fresh and new.

What the heck are you guys talking about?!

Awww, her knight in shining armour with a baseball bat! Sooo cute!

This takes me back. Wow, I'd forgotten just how smutty it is.

Toono!!!!! Well, I never wondered but now I know--Toono can be weird even when she's writing a non-bizarre setting. Go figure.
Stuff I've seen by Toono before has been really strange, but oddly upbeat. Like this one where a gift of fish to eat turns out to be a mermaid; it eats earthworms and doesn't talk, but is so beautiful they can't kill it . . . and then the next gift is ordinary looking little fish that all start saying "Don't eat me!" Or another one where Rapunzel, instead of a prince, gets visited by a couple of kids, and then once she gets an interest in the outside world and puts out a ladder, gets calls from a small witch, a yakult salesman, a newspaper salesman, an insurance guy, a bible thumper . . . (those are stories from "Kaoru-san no Kikyou"). You never know what you're going to get from Toono-sensei, but it's usually well worth finding out.

Well I certainly wouldn't mind seeing a sequel, and I've noticed that isn't too uncommon in the yuri publication world. So IMO there's hope for a second story where they take that subtext and bring it up into the light and give us a good solid smooch.

When I saw the male character, my immediate instinct was "Boyfriend". But then when he said "annoying" and the other guy came up, I flashed on this vision of "He's her boyfriend for image's sake but he's actually gay and that other guy is who he's really into and maybe unofficially together with".
This is probably not actually the case given what people are saying above. It just seemed to fit so well . . .

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Maybe I'm showing my age here, but every time I see the title The Last Uniform it makes me think of this:
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/product/9780451450524-item.html?s_campaign=goo-PLATest&gclid=CL22iMWM8MICFYKUfgodHgoA7w

Man. It's always the quiet ones who turn out to be hot as a blowtorch, isn't it?

This is pretty cute. HOWEVER my experience with romance manwhas says me that down the line this will become soul crushing depressing and oh god what did I ever did to Korea for that q_q

Well, yeah, but even though they're both Korean, manhwa and webtoons are different. Webtoons are much less likely to go the drowning in anguish route IMO.

this is quoted because besides me already not liking this i really have to call this out to show that........next to none of our main characters are likeable, at all.
and that was my real killer here, i might enjoy this series if the characters were in some way likeable but they are all horrible people and that isn't played for comedy or anything, no its played straight.

I think this is where we differ. I really like these characters. They're all awfully flawed and selfish (and this manga might be playing it up a little). But really, who's actually not flawed and selfish?

My wife. I mean, since you ask. :p

Well then, time for the endless wait for future chapters. Since the scanlator won't be doing them himself, I doubt anyone would pick this up xD

Also 'Rusalka' is just an alternative name for Mermaid, at least in my language.

I always thought a Rusalka was a sort of deadly ghost of a drowned woman . . . and generally freshwater rather than marine.