juanelric posted:

So many series that look like they'll last long are ending quickly :'(

In case of this one it is actually a good thing.

Started watching Zombieland. This shit is hilarious! I'm laughing entire time.

heimdall posted:

torukoseki posted:

Every chapter they become more and more like a married couple.
Wish homosexual marriage was allowed in Japan.

I thought it's already legal in japan https://youtu.be/9lQL8VDpxiA

I don't remember exact details, but only few districts in Tokyo passed law that allows for same sex couples to enter civil union (or whichever term it was) and those certificates are not honored anywhere else, so if you do go for it, you're pretty much tied only to those few places. So for all intents and purposes, gay marriage still doesn't exist in Japan. I decided to fake a marriage with my junior (♀️) to shut my parents up, actually even uses it as plot point.

That is the exact same thing the video said..

Yea, I only watched entire thing once I posted and was surprised it covered all of this. I thought torukoseki was using it as prove that gay marriage is already a thing in Japan, but if they only meant very limited civil union, then sure I guess.

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torukoseki posted:

Every chapter they become more and more like a married couple.
Wish homosexual marriage was allowed in Japan.

I thought it's already legal in japan https://youtu.be/9lQL8VDpxiA

I don't remember exact details, but only few districts in Tokyo passed law that allows for same sex couples to enter civil union (or whichever term it was) and those certificates are not honored anywhere else, so if you do go for it, you're pretty much tied only to those few places. So for all intents and purposes, gay marriage still doesn't exist in Japan. I decided to fake a marriage with my junior (♀️) to shut my parents up, actually even uses it as plot point.

About subtext. I understand why people want to have clear confirmation and are afraid when things are left ambiguous (anime/manga has really bad track record with this), but to me subtext (ideal) means that there is text, it is just very subtle. That being said there is nothing subtle about those two relationship. You won't convince me that is how friends behave.

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BugDevil posted:

BugDevil posted:

I dunno how it got to naming favorite Greek deities, but alright. Hermes is one swell dude.

Because instead of platonic, johnb wrote plutonic and they went from there.

Yeah I noticed. I was just wondering how one would make that mistake...

It seems to be common misspelling.

Rye posted:

WTF! I just got Ozy with tickets in Jack banner. I have so many mixed feelings right now...and not enough rider exp OOF
I guess I'm never getting Tamamo or Jack on rate ups...reverse EX-luck strikes again.

I feel you. Last year got Zhuge and this year got Mordred on Tamamo's rate up.

BugDevil posted:

I dunno how it got to naming favorite Greek deities, but alright. Hermes is one swell dude.

Because instead of platonic, johnb wrote plutonic and they went from there.

PhoenixWing posted:

Anyone know the one-shot where one girl accidentally tears the other's stuffed rabbit (that she is WAY too fond of) and then dresses as said rabbit and attempts to talk to her? Hmm, actually she may have just dressed as the rabbit in a bid to woo her (and didn't actually mess it up) ... Think it was comedic, I remember reading it quite a while ago and having a laugh, though so I can't be sure.

Pretty sure that is the one.

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I can roll with that explanation.

On the different note. When will manga characters learn that "telling my biggest secrets to someone, when they're asleep" is the worse idea ever? You can't know for sure whatever they sleep or not and you have no guarantee they won't suddenly wake up. Every single time character attempted it, it always failed and doomed everything.

Pyoro posted:

^ they do have a very high rate of unreported sex crimes, though. I don't know whether it's enough to turn those statistics completely around, but it's something (also make the "let's take pictures and she won't say anything" a bit more plausible).

Nya-chan posted:

As for sex crimes, I suspect there are a lot more than actually reported (especially considering the asian culture of "shame"), but on the other hand, it seems there are less "petty" crimes. As in, you can leave your bike without a lock at the train station and you will find it in the evening. But maybe it's just a legend :)

Japan is very safe country. Our professor at university once told us, that you can leave your laptop and there is very high chance it will be still there, when you come back for it. Or that you can go read book at park in the evening and most likely nothing will happen to you. That is why the setting of "was alone at park and got assaulted" is so common in mangas is very funny. Not that it never happens, but going by mangas you would think it happens all the time. I'm willing to agree that not all sexual assaults are reported due to blackmail/shame/purity/all of the above, but I doubt it would be high enough number to suddenly turn Japan into country of rapists. The frequency with which mangas portray rape is still way too unrealistic, but I guess you have to make drama somehow.

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badnat posted:

Going by manga and anime Japan is a den of opportunistic rapists.

Which is funny, since they have the lowest crime rate.

EmilyJ posted:

EmilyJ posted:

the title of the manga got me interested as seeing "no genders" is always fun lol

Sorry to disappoint you, but in this case it doesn't mean "no". The title actually is (since again I see they didn't bother to tl it or at least I don't see it anywhere) "Silver Genders" or "Silver Colored Genders" (whatever the hell that means).

i was aware though ty for replying anyway, i was jusr making bad jokes :)

Np. Always ready to ruin the joke 8D

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EmilyJ posted:

the title of the manga got me interested as seeing "no genders" is always fun lol

Sorry to disappoint you, but in this case it doesn't mean "no". The title actually is (since again I see they didn't bother to tl it or at least I don't see it anywhere) "Silver Genders" or "Silver Colored Genders" (whatever the hell that means).

Well, that escalated quickly. I guess it really feels like end of story is near. I really can't see it continued whatever the resolution of it will be.

Yuri-chin posted:

Started giving this one a try, cause I'm usually quite conservative when it comes to monster girls. Not really judging anyone but it's never been my sort of thing. Though so far, looking very interesting, and it's hilarious.

Try checking anime as well. Adaptation is very good and ups gay even more.

Nezchan posted:

romantic attraction and sexual attraction.

Those 2 things were always separate for me, so I really can't understand the issue. You can love someone romantically, while not being sexually attracted to them, the same way you can be attracted to someone sexually, while not having any romantic feelings whatsoever. I'm not inherently against calling it platonic love instead, but most people associate it more with admiration and strong, deep friendship than love, so I feel like using this term more often than not, actually does more harm than good. Let's face it, word romance is very heavy integrated into our culture, so trying to use different word to describe the same feeling, just make people confuse and think there is some difference between two.

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risingstar3110 posted:

Read a manga recently called Nemuru Baka, but couldn’t find a general manga discussion thread

The power of google.

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onyxpanda posted:

Also Konatsu's story is actually way worse than Uta's since she was taken advantage of and raped and then left traumatized without any support and nurse wasn't properly punished for her crime. So it's actually very tragic ending for Konatsu, while nurse got away scot free.

Felt like dub-con, but without getting into it, I agree--- the nurse should've owned up to her actions. It was incredibly terrible of her to just ghost Konatsu, especially after taking advantage of her.

I was actually half trolling with it, but nobody took the bait. When Konatsu thing was mentioned first time, a lot people in comments shouted rape and how Konatsu was 100% victim. I tried to defend nurse and argue it might be consensual or even that it sounds more that Konatsu was the one to tempted her, but I was quickly told I'm out of the touch with reality (more or less ). And now we finally got explanation what happened and... nobody says anything. I guess most of those people stopped reading long ago since releases are not that frequent. Anyway, I have to agree it was pretty much rape. Nurse acted on instinct when drunk. And worse thing, it is pretty clear she had no feelings for Konatsu so there weren't really a chance they would date if she didn't disappear. Konatsu might not resist because of her relationship with nurse, but she wasn't really given a choice either. Nurse clearly didn't want that kind of relationship with Konatsu, but after what happened, she understood that thier relationship will become awkward and she can't work there anymore. So it does feel like Konatsu had it worse than Uta, but since everyone has different level of suffering they can handle, you can't really compare someone's misery.

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Whoever scans it. Name pages 01, 02, 03 etc. instead of 1, 2, 3. They are out of order.

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Blastaar posted:

And you know, you usually don't fuck your hamster.

Wait, what now? Where does it say that?

Asking for . . .um, intellectual curiosity, is all.

Well do you fuck your hamster? I know they're adorable, but...

Seriously though, I was referring to how there is law against romance between bestkin which might have similar reasoning. They are similar to humans and have human characteristic, but they still aren't human and just animals/part animals so sexual interactions with them is seen as "animal" abuse and forbidden.

Jess posted:

It's a shame really. I have bought manga after reading it here, even if the one I buy is in japanese, I can come and read it here and learn. I understand author being upset but he's being short sighted

Yea, that is how I always look at it. It isn't like most people here would buy it anyway, since they don't read japanese and actual japanese won't go online to read something in english so it isn't really hurting author's sells since it wasn't taking into account foreign audience in the first place. I do understand it's more complicated issue than that, but in general people who wouldn't buy something in the first place, won't suddenly buy it just because it isn't available for free and most people who really enjoyed something will go out of their way to buy it when it's available for them or even in japanese, just to support stuff they like.

Maybe they are like animals you breed to sell? They are pretty much described like a cute pets waiting to be adopted. And you know, you usually don't fuck your hamster.

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獣人 (Juujin) literally means animal/best person/people as 獣 stands for best/animal (kemono) and 人 (hito) means human and is commonly used as suffix in making names of nationalities and races. Like Nihon - Nihonjin. So as schuyguy said it is umbrella term which is pretty vague and can be used in variety of scenarios and proper translation usually depends on context. Still, what we should take from it is that using it implies some connection to animals.

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bubbleteabird posted:

sighs i knew i should have downloaded this
btw this whole incident makes me wonder if any other yuri authors featured on here know about this site

Probably not. If they did, they all would requested removing their work from site.