That switching of focus is really making me confused

ETEEEERNAAAL DAMNAATIOOON!!

Also, what's the social context of referring to someone as "sempai" long after they've both left school? They're not coworkers, so I'm curious.

Once a senpai, always a senpai

it doesn't mind if i lie down while wearing them, i wake up without them
it's a mystery of life, i think

Yeah i've been there

http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/mangetsu_no_yoru_ni_hana#1
^ That cover is pretty nice, makes me feel... nice and relaxed ~~~~

[Insert Dearly Beloved here]

Dat pressing down foot on stairs
Best thing ever

Not wanting to quote Pulp Fiction, but you know you've found true love when you can completely shut up and the silence wouldn't be uncomfortable

Also, i lied, i totally wanted to quote Pulp Fiction

Aww that's cute, the other woman stayed on the train after her stop because she was watching the protagonist... I think?

...Maybe...?

Babyzoned

...Okay...?

I just figured bear was codename for lesbian. But hey, I know nuthing.

Well... For Yaoi the real life/eastern equivalent of Bara would be Bear, mainly to describe some fat hairy dudes, so i imagine that girl could be quite haOH GOD THE MENTAL IMAGE

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Yees
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess

I'll risk being beaten up to death by saying this, but i really hate Morishima Akiko's stuff

No hate, just pity. =D

Morishima has developed a pretty cartoony style which might not appeal to everyone. That's cool, doesn't prevent me from enjoying the hell out of it.

Well not her artstyle actually
I mean it's not exactly my cup of tea, but i'm neutral about it, my problem is the actual stories she writes
Which is why, once again, must be this Ikuhara character that made me enjoy this one

Edit: Did a quick search on this Ikuhara dude... Haha holy crap! I've heard about him just yesterday on /m/, must be fate

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I'll risk being beaten up to death by saying this, but i really hate Morishima Akiko's stuff

...Liked this one quite a lot though, maybe it's thanks to that Ikuhara Kunihiko person?

That Rie is a genius, masturbing in a locker room .-. Anyway, what is the nesso with the concept of normality? I didn't understand it..

She was just over compensating since she's not "normal"

Huh.... Okay....
I paid pretty much no attention to the other girls other than the "main twos" so i'm really not feeling anything now, especially since there was no reason stated or was there a reason mentioned in other chapters but i didn't pay attention?

Hah! Cute

Well that was pretty normal IF YOU CATCH MY DRIFT

Maybe, the 'engagement' couples aren't actually meant to be romantic couples.

Well no, of course no school would promote homosexualism like that, but it's such a yuri bait

how is the rings and necklaces not similar? lol. 2 girls become etoile, they are given matching necklaces, only difference being their color. 2 girls join together in an "engagement" as etoile and chevaliar, and given matching rings. just cause one has rings and the other necklaces doesn't negate the similarity of it.

Well, i drew a line there because the etoiles in Strawberry Panic are only 2, those two people are the only ones in the entire 3 schools that would have that necklace and it represents more their status than anything
This case here is threated more like a personal thing, actually a little more like the rosary thing in Marimite, but even less subtle in the bait

You also forgot about the whole brushing aside the fact that everyone just happens to be a lesbian. While it is nice in some occasions I find that to blatantly ignore such a huge thing like that is flabbergasting. It feels strange and unrealistic without any reason why everyone is okay with it and/or is a lesbian. It is also one of the reasons why Girlfriends and similar mangas are my preferred stories.

That is a similarity that far too many yuris share i'm afraid, for now i'm just glad that it's not on a catholic school

"If she's got a problem , she should settle it with songs."

Quality shonen stuff there

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Kase-san and The Flower And The Star are the best recommendations for starters i can give, they're both fun, cute and has the best facial expressions you'll ever lay eyes on, especially Kase-san (They're not exactly on the mature side though)

http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/kase_san_ch01#3

http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_flower_and_the_star_ch01

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Can we please stop comparing this to Strawberry Panic and look at it on its own individually. First this is supernatural, second Umiyuri looks totally different from Shizuma cause she appears to be evil on that cute innocent adorable body. I saw no damn rings in the anime or at least nagisa owning a ring that was connected to Shizuma. I also dislike some of the concepts in Strawberry panic cause yaya and tamao were left as side characters with no happy ending. I do have to admit that if the author wouldn't have mention etoile this wouldn't have been compare to strawberry panic. Also Yozora appears to have been a lesbian and obviously is dying to kiss Umiyuri when Nagisa has a different personality. Sekai the composer looks nothing like tamao thus is more tomboyish and boy! she capture my attention since in the beginning i didn't like short hair girls to be the protagonist but her personality is amazing , tamao is more girlish and delicate. They even added Kagami as a side character, when there was no kagami in strawberry panic. Towa does remind me of Aname and I am so glad there is no hikari. I like strawberry panic don't get me wrong but I just see a different variety and story in this, can we just give it a chance. Also I hope Yozora stays with Sekai. They are meant to be.

Is this supernatural though? The deal about stealing their abilities may be just a slang for "she f*cked them so hard they can't even speak anymore"
We could even say Strawberry was supernatural since Shizuma has the super power of making fragile girls become paralyzed whenever she wants
And the comparison to the ring thing is the necklace that the etoiles in strawberry uses, kind of forcing the bar there
I mean, at least it's not an engaging system... Jesus Christ
But yeah most of the comparisons are because of the name etoile and that they're predators, Nagisa looks more of a strong protagonist than this one here (Again, most of the "heads over heels" moments Nagisa had at the beginning was because of Shizuma's super power, this one here looks like a fangirl in both body and soul, like the one in Nobara)

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Well, i think we're all in that point where anything goes, after all the amount of avaiable yuris can all be read in a miserable month
I wonder if anything on this reader slipped by under my radar...

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But do you really think Shouko just completely ignored Mana running off and didn't care one damn bit about it? Not only is that unlikely for what we've seen of her character, it's unlikely for any character that hasn't been explicitly made out to be disliked would do that. Maybe she hasn't been committing as much to her new friendship as Mana has, but that's completely understandable in that Mana is attracted to Shouko while Shouko is currently pursuing another woman; she shouldn't be expected to focus as much on their relationship as the person who's pining after her.

Well, that's my main problem with this manga, it's not exactly very well told
One would assume that it's normal for a friend to worry about eachother when they're having problems, but we're simply not shown that
Maybe there could appear another chapter focused on Shouko's point of view and maybe it could show that she was worried all along, maybe even bringing out the subject to the director, but the facts we are given at the moment is that Shouko doesn't show not even a single reaction to what's going on with her friend that they clicked so well at the beginning
Also i like this author's other works a lot, especially Lonely Wolf, Lonely Sheep, so i'm pretty confident that, if she wanted to show that their friendship is more than that, she could, in the end this is a story solely about Mana, with Shouko being nothing more than a plot device

Well that was really... Pompous
Kinda interesting read though... For now... Unfortunately it's reminding me a little of, not Strawberry Panic, but Nobara no Mori no Otometachi, which i labeled as one of the worst yuri i've ever read
Let us wait though
PS: Engagement system...

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