Shimamura, please give Adachi a hug, it'll make her feel better.

Or it might kill her.

One of the two.

Wait, from the tag... Anime adaptation?

Yeah, got announced relatively recently. Still no details on when it's happening or who's making it or anything tho

Why is the other version dead?

Wasn't popular, I guess. It's pretty old, unless I'm very mistaken, ran years ago alongside the LNs.

It started serialisation in 2016, so it's not especially old

Old enough to get one volume in and not sell very well, which is what I assume happened.

Why is the other version dead?

Wasn't popular, I guess. It's pretty old, unless I'm very mistaken, ran years ago alongside the LNs.

It was good but uh.. I'll stay with the other version.

The other version's long dead, unfortunately - that's part of why they restarted.

https://imgur.com/a/gEc4QTo

Raws of the new manga are out. The new art looks fantastic. Hope this gets TL'd.

This marks the end of volume one. Thanks for all the feedback. As for volume two, I've already started working on it. It seems to be paced a little differently (8 chapters instead of 5), so the update schedule might end up slightly different. We'll see.

Thanks so much for your work, enjoying it a lot!

How much is out right now, incidentally?

This sure is a novel for the masochist yuri subtext :v
Adachi almost kill me with that scene UwU

I don't think "subtext" is the right word for when a main character spends a whole chapter going from "...am I gay for my best friend?" to "oh shit I am turbo gay for my best friend oh god oh no gonna explode"

Judge stories by what happens in the stories, IMO

Amanchu and Eupho aren't trash because their authors went in interviews and said "no homo" at one point somewhere maybe, they're trash because the actual stories themselves undermined their core character dynamics in shitty and nonsensical ways. If the actual text of Nettaigyo stays good then I don't really care if the author says "and then 10 years later they were all abducted by aliens" or whatever, and by the same token if the story does something stupid and that doesn't work as we're reading it then I don't really care about how Hagino explains it beyond maybe as a curiosity.

Idle curiosity- does anyone in here actually speak/read Japanese? Because the difference between “this isn’t Yuri, it’s not gay” and “I don’t think ‘Yuri’ is sufficient to fully describe their relationship” or something like that is subtle enough that I don’t at all trust Bing Translate to sort it out for me.

New chapter...so close...unbearable wait...

I've only seen a few pages from chapter 16 on twitter (I'll say to look forward to it).

Teasing is mean

Anybody got raws?

Y'all are overthinking it with Touko IMO. Her epiphany with the play didn't magically make her altogether stop hating herself - it just opened her eyes to the possibility of not having to hate herself. She still isn't entirely convinced that she's worth loving, and she's still terrified that, to paraphrase her own words "saying you love me now just means that if I ever change you'll stop loving me, right?" She still loves Yuu and wants to be with her, but her own immaturity makes it hard for her to really understand that, and her profound fear of rejection in response to change has her too afraid (for the moment) to try and patch things up with Yuu - especially now that Yuu's (understandably) shut herself off and made things harder.

I think/hope Touko'll wind up getting a push from Riko/Miyako. Sayaka's got too much baggage to advise her properly and she knows it, but she might nudge Touko in the adults' direction. I definitely don't think Sayaka would make a move on Touko in this situation - she's gotta be able to tell that Touko isn't happy with this state of affairs and she respects Yuu way too much to do that to her while things are still weird like this.

I'd be stunned if Rei doesn't notice what's going on with Yuu and try to talk to her on that end. Maybe Koyomi too. I don't see Maki having much advice, his whole deal even aside from being aromantic/asexual is that he's much more comfortable spectating on other people's relationships than participating himself - I would think that would extend to advice too. Although I guess I could maybe see him going "hey Yuu I know you're telling yourself that you're aro to make this hurt less and all, but I know what aro is and you're not it." Can't see Doujima or Akari having much to say in this situation either, they're too tertiary, and after that we start really running out of characters that we actually know.

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Touko hasn't stopped loving Yuu you dopes, she's just afraid and still dealing with massive self worth issues and trying to process her feelings for Yuu on top of her recent epiphany.

Feels bad, man. (Mostly in a good way)

Chapter was very much what I expected to be. Our heroines just need some reassurance.

TFW you realize that the gal-pal's looking to be the frog to your salamander

Any idea when the next chapter will be up?

You'd have to track down somebody on the scan team and ask them. They're usually out within a couple days but you never know for sure with fanslations.

http://yurinavi.com/2018/09/22/nakataninio-interview/

Nakatani did another interview. Hope somebody can translate this at some point - google translate's doing juuuuuuust enough for me to tell when she's gesturing at some interesting ideas, but not quite enough for me to say precisely what those ideas are, lol.

YagaKimi is getting an anthology. Participating authors include Canno, Itoh Hachi, tMnR, & Mekimeki Oukoku. More authors will be announced later. No release date yet. Source

Ahem

W a n t

^ except for the fact that Nettaigyo was promoted as girlship by its editor while Futaribeya was promoted as yuri by its creator and publisher?

...What made you think that I knew anything about how this manga's being marketed? lol

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Sorry Nettaigyo, A Room For Two is the ultimate girlship. The level of super friendship is too strong in this one and can't be defeated.

That’s a very reasonable position. I would say only this in response:

When a shark and a turtle understand the nature of the feelings the main characters have for each other far more clearly than the protagonists do themselves, that’s a pretty high “friendship” standard to try to achieve.

Pretty darned high indeed.

I'm just gonna say that if you put a gun to my head and demanded that I choose which story, between this and Nettaigyo, was more likely to go No Homo at the end, I know which one I'd choose. It wouldn't be Nettaigyo.

Edit: In my defense, I posted this before I saw the spoilers.

Nettaigyo's still hella gay tho

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Yuu dashed off in tears almost two months ago!! What if she’s been lying in a ditch somewhere all this time? Or she fell and hit her head and is wandering around with amnesia?

Rumors say that she's still running till this day

Some say she’s run all the way past the moon and is flying her way to the star...

When is the next ch of Bloom Into You out? I want Yuu to be happy.

Chapter releases in Japan on the 23rd, I believe, so hopefully gets scanlated soon after. Then the anime hits on the 5th.

Kiena posted:

I'm not too happy to see (presumably) a man being the first (and maybe last) to try capitalizing on the success of Nakatani Nio's work and talent. (Not long after hearing about the latest outrage – mostly among women, of course – because of sexism in Japan.)

What are you talking about?

The spin-off:

https://twitter.com/bunko_dengeki/status/1037899792725073920

Sayaka is getting a spin-off novel written by Hitoma Iruma, author of Adachi to Shimamura. Nakatani will do some illustrations for it.

A manga about her from Nakatani Nio could be better. I have no information whatsoever about it, but it isn't clear if she didn't want to do it, or the spin-off of a very popular title was given to Iruma Hitoma who isn't exactly known for his yuri works and at least according to Wikipadia is a male.

The outrage I was referring to is the one that started after the manipulation of women's test scores came to light. It made people talk more about sexism in Japan, and I have to try very hard no to take whom the spin-off was given to as "this is a hit, it's a miracle a woman pulled it off, now let's give the spin-off to that guy at our company, it's a given he'll do a better job than a woman would." I hope it's just me being too negative, at least when it comes to half of that, but I don't have too high hopes for how good it'll be...

I think it's more like Nakatani missed the chance to make an arc/flashback for Sayaka and it's difficult to make one now in the middle of Yuu's struggles... This might be the last volume of the manga (meaning we have 5 or 6 chapters left) so there might not be room to focus on other characters, and Nakatani wouldn't have the time to make a spin off right now. Yeah the sexism is real and gross over there but I believe she has proved herself more than worthy of praised above a lot of other authors at this point with the anime coming too. It's only natural to have an spin off or even an anthology.
Also, I think the spin off won't be long, maybe one or two chapters while the manga is still very popular... So yeah, I think you're being too negative.

Granted, I'm relying on Bing Translate which is lol, but Nakatani's tweets seemed pretty enthusiastic about the author doing the Sayaka spinoff.

I just hope the spinoff doesn't just recap what we already know, like Sayaka's backstory or her perspective on the manga. Give Sayaka an actual girlfriend!!