Serenata

Who was the evil mastermind behind the plan of releasing this with 3 parts? when previous chapters had 6 or 10 ?

Wasn't whoever was compiling them for upload here trying to upload them in batches that'd approximately make up where a chapter would end? Cause as annoying a point that is for it to stop that's a pretty common place for one chapter to end and the next to begin.

Norainhere

Most of us don't actually care about the child porn claims (we have a Lolicon tag after all). Those of us that do care will just avoid it, like a normal person, as opposed to spamming forums about how much we hate it.

I honestly had a bit of trouble following his claims on that anyways. He was talking about some 4chan moderator named Troid which isn't someone I've ever personally seen on the forums at all so I really don't get where he was going with that at all.

Also in my personal opinion lolicon and child porn are two totally separate concepts altogether but that's really not a discussion to have in the site's meta-discussion thread.

meteor2

she never heard of that thing called police.

Police? What's that? Is that the thin slices of pig meat you can buy at the grocery store?

Nevri

Cheshire meant age of account.

Yup, this is exactly what I meant. Sorry if that wasn't clear enough.

Nevri

I know that is pain for mods, but man, for once I understand bullies urge to tease people who gets angry easily xD

He actually made my day x3

This sort of thing makes me think that maybe whoever programmed the site should add in a new account deal where accounts younger than X age/fewer than X posts need to have their posts approved by a moderator. It'd make a fair amount more work for moderators on a daily basis but it would make occurrences such as this a lot easier for them to handle too.

Edit:

The reason posts have to spammed is because they refuse to let people speak.

Going to just bite the bait on this one on the very slim chance it gets through to you. Whether their actions are childish or not is completely irrelevant. They police the site so what they say goes. If they refuse to let you speak then that is indication that you are not welcome here and need to find yourself a community that will let you say what you want.

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Nevri

I only read the part dedicated for me.

I read the part directed at me and tried to respond to it but the post was deleted by the time I clicked the quote button and it probably would have been deleted anyways so it'd just be a waste of my time, lol. Kinda hilarious being called braindead by someone acting like a complete child though.

none

Wouldn't work too, even assuming he read it. If we could convince delirious people that they're "wrong" just with arguments, there would be no need to mental health care...

I can't tell if he has actually seen the few responses I've made to him or not since the mods deleting the post has the exact same end result as him reading it from what I've seen.

Well that was a new one. There was a second page to the thread and when I clicked the link it actually loaded as if there were a page, just it only had the reply box and nothing else since there was no posts for that page.

Nevri

Idk which part of "they are not cannon, shipping is by definition making-up a relationship between characters that doesn't actually have one" you don't understand. I'd argue with you but 1. you clearly seems not to care about others opinions 2. they delete your post before I have chance anyway ;x

You are on edge, go somewhere and chill out, repeating the same thing that pisses you off is not good for you.

I stopped bothering trying to respond to him, lol. The few times my posts have managed to go through before a thread getting locked or his post getting deleted (often as I'm trying to quote it) they got deleted shortly after so it's really just a waste of time to bother.

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Nevri

Making a 1 spelling mistake makes me "fucking retarded" Gotta write it down.

I didn't bother comprehensively reading through his massive wall of text but it'd be hilariously ironic if he made any typos there.

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KcaT

Lol, love the avatar! Angry god-aka right? ^_^

Yup from this page.

none

That's not how mental issues work =x

Well yeah, repeating the exact same thing over and over again expecting different results is a common definition of insanity after all and is clearly his mindset here, lol. He should honestly seriously consider seeing a therapist or something to work through whatever issues he's having in his life. He's clearly very stressed out and that is only causing problems for everyone else and more problems for him.

Nevri

He thinks only cannon parings can exist (cannon as supposedly it is confirmed within series as being official) and any "non-cannon" one is going against characters and making them "worse". Basically ship wars turn to eleven ;x

Sigh and I hated ship wars idea to begin with...

I dislike X pairing so I'm going to go completely ballistic rather than just ignore it. :(

Ku-7f9vb

Why are you deleting my posts that do not break the rules?

Last I checked spamming dozens upon dozens of posts constitutes rule breaking on like 99% of all forums everywhere on the internet, lol.

Nezchan

We know. He pulls the same shit any time he doesn't like a doujin or image, usually concerning Madoka.

You'd think he'd eventually realize that it'd be far less stressful (for everyone including himself, especially you mods that have to clean up after him) to just ignore the stuff he dislikes rather than getting so absurdly worked up over it, lol.

Thiron

Is pointless spam meant to prove he shouldn't be banned?

Talk about hypocricy...

Some people seem to be completely unable to realize that doing stuff like this isn't going to convince anyone at all to let them back and will just turn the entire community, even those who might otherwise agree with them, against them.

I dunno how someone can be quite this angry about a simple disagreement over the opinions of some fictional characters, lol.

robblu

This utterly ruins the character of Sakuya because she did not have any friends before the sakurai sisters in the shorts. I am sorry I just do not like this spin off.

I'm not sure there's anything in this that implies otherwise? The other girls are her classmates so she'd obviously end up becoming friends with them over time and she's already friends with the Sakurais by the beginning of this.

Fuzzypuff

Kind'a obvious…. one could say that Naming Ploy Ploy is a ploy to let you know that Ploy is the type of character that would not only be a ploy but Ploy's very porpoise is a ploy...

Your avatar seems pretty relevant to this post, lol.

Nya-chan

And then, now, he makes Inu Yashiki, which is quite good, if a bit dark.

The art on that looks magnitudes better. Sounds like a vaguely interesting story too actually.

OriginalGengar

It's just all around really bad. Pretty much everything about it.
Also, look at those bodies.

I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at here. Is this some kind of alien abduction?

Nezchan

Didn't Tsubomi generally use cover images unrelated to the actual manga, but with a frontspiece with "Bud No. 5 will begin now" and maybe another piece of art to go with it?

Oh, I think you're right. I actually overlooked the fact it was Tsubomi, lol.

killerguy4ru

Any idea which manga does this illustration belong to??
http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/girls_ride_ch04#5

https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=5096

Might want to try checking out the mangas on that list but I've never read any of them so I couldn't say myself. Might just be a random illustration.

telamon

Why question the decision when it's clear it's the same characters, in the same environment? There are probably a few 'one-shots' that are in the same boat as this one, but are not grouped, and I bet people would want them to be in one group because they're relevant to each other. I certainly would.

I question the decision because it makes things feel far more disjointed and detracts from the overall story in my view due to that fact.

I really don't get what's disjointed about it. I probably edited it too late when you wrote your reply but I'll just quote what I said

And even if it was a thought out two-shot, the intended development was never the talk, it was a confrontation of their feelings. What transpired in the second chapter is more than enough to see that they will indeed talk after Nanako comes back.

It seems like you're never going to get why it's disjointed then because I've already explained why it feels that way.

telamon

If you see where the two chapters are published, it's clear that it was not made to be a two-shot, hence why it's not addressed here. It reads as a one-shot. Both read as separate one-shots with the same continuity. If they weren't grouped I bet that you'd never even guess that there was another 'chapter'.

I hadn't noticed that. It does go right along with what I first said about the two chapters seeming really disjointed though. If they hadn't been labelled chapter 1 and chapter 2 I would have questioned whether they were even the same characters despite the same names and such because the two chapters are so completely different.

At the very least I question the decision to label them as chapter 1 and chapter 2 when, as you said, they're more like two separate one-shots with the same characters. That label is especially an issue when the reader sees that there's two chapters and moves on from chapter 1 with certain expectations from its developments only to not only see those expectations lived up to but not even so much as mentioned. I don't know whether that one is a fault of the author or just how it's handled on the site but with the way it's handled it ends up marring the entire thing overall in my opinion. (Looks like it may just be something on the site's side though judging by the title pages of each chapter. Neither of them mention chapters and they both seem to have the exact same name too, though that bit is a confusing choice on its own, lol.)

Nezchan

It couldn't be several years or Yui would have graduated already. I'm guessing a few weeks, maybe a few months at the outside.

Oh, I completely misinterpreted that now that I went back and compared it to her school uniform earlier (as well as her hair). It looked to me at first like she was older (longer hair which actually wasn't the case, it was just longer than I realized) and not wearing the school's uniform which would imply she graduated and came back as a staff member or something.

telamon

I'm not referring to the flashbacks. I'm just saying that Nanako just got scared and chose not to tell her ultimately. It's not that big a deal. To me at least, it's understandable considering the situation.

It's still not addressed at all after it being a fairly major point in the first chapter. Deciding not to tell her would be understandable but the story should address that choice since it was intended to be the next major development after the end of the first chapter.

telamon

It does touch upon the past thing, it's just that she chooses to not address it, after Yui asks her about it.

I think you misunderstood what I meant. (Or I'm not on the same page as you here.) I know that it showed some flashbacks of her memories of living but in chapter one she resolved that she was going to tell Yui the truth about remembering her past when she got home then that never happened. It's not even implied that it happened off-screen or anything either. Since that was kinda a fairly major detail in the first chapter it really results in the second chapter feeling really disjointed.

If you go by what is widely accepted when dealing with ghosts or read this then her disappearing isn't weird, her having a physical body can be attributed to strong emotional feelings

Fair enough point, I do think it's something that shouldn't just happen with zero explanation though.

and she does come back. Look at the last page again.

Yeah, I know. That's not what I meant though. Even ignoring the part where chapter 1 is almost completely disconnected from the events of chapter 2 they both confess their feelings to the other, Yui falls asleep, then when she wakes up Nanako is gone without any explanation at all and is clearly gone for many years judging by the last page.

Is it just me or did the story seem to kinda derail itself there? Chapter 1 ends with Nanako vowing to tell Yui that she remembers her past then chapter 2 doesn't even touch on that and instead she suddenly inexplicably has a physical body long enough for a sex scene after which she just completely disappears without explanation.