I say this as both Kouhai's friend and a scanlator myself...

I don't think any scanlator is above criticism, no matter how much effort (or lack thereof) put in to a release. Seriously, there are many times where I wince at poor translations or typesetting, or anything of the sort. I honestly wish more people really would criticise scanlators (and especially myself!) because it's the only way people are going to improve. Kouhai knows well the pedantically high level of quality I hold myself and others to, but I think she appreciates it (mostly).

But there's good ways and bad ways to criticise people. I think everyone can agree that candy is showing us a really terrible way of doing so. And it's unfortunate, because not only is he actually willing to criticise where most aren't, he's causing a defensive reaction from others, including the awful "scanlators are above reproach" type of response.

We should encourage people to get better, not put them down... Or alternatively jack up their egos such that they don't see improvement as necessary.

You wouldn't believe the amount of shit you would get for making this comment on another forum I moderate. I've seen several translation projects dropped because people jumped on a bandwagon and bashed down the translators so hard they quit the project.
Being an ass about translations doesn't do anything good, it just creates an unpleasant atmosphere and is harmful to both parties because you're engaging in non productive discussion based on inflamatory comments. There's better ways to stroke your e-penis. Some people man...

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I didn't know a book could be so "ruined" solely by the title being translated differently.
I'm not saying titles can't be improved, as kouhai proved to me once already, but just saying, even if the title was something retarded like "shitting dick nipples" (don't google that), the content still wouldn't have changed and would have still been enjoyable.
Don't see the need to rage over the title that hard.
And if these are the worst quality scans you've seen and even require the "lots of JPG artifacts" tag, I guess I should be crying in a corner now over how god awful my releases are ヽ(´□｀。)ﾉ

Damn Nico, you tell her!

This was so sweet, I can't even.

Literally crying rainbows.

This series taught me that love comes in many forms, and that human breast milk is just one of those forms.

May this artist release a 4th chapter one day in the near future.

Nothing like buying some underwear for your waifu.

All humans can lactate, including newborn babies.
It's much more rare in men, but it can and has happened, though compared to women, it's typically caused by a disease rather than a physical stimulus.
In case a man does manage to develop mammary glands for whichever reason, he can breastfeed a child normally just like a woman would (Science!).

And no I did not do a thorough research on this topic for the sake of translating this manga. D-Don't get the wrong idea, I-I just knew this stuff from highschool.

But I was wondering, how on earth does Chloe sucked on both of Lillian's breasts?!! Oh nevermind

According to Darwin, all 2D characters evolved to be made out of a really elastic material.

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I... I think you're just thinking too hard about it.
I mean, they live in a world with magic, the last thing I'm going to question is milk coming out of breasts.
Fun fact: humans can lactate without being pregnant, it has to do with hormone releases, not the pregnancy itself, the pregnancy is just the main trigger for said hormones to be produced in larger quantities, but if you have a hormone imbalance, which can be caused by a disease or induced by actual pharmaceuticals, you can lactate without a pregnancy.
And as far as the other girl finding it tasty goes, there's a fetish for everything and she's clearly into her breast milk for one reason or another. Let her be :P
(But if you're really curious you can read about erotic lactation)
And hey if they live in a magic world, maybe it actually tastes good.
Point is, I don't think this is something one should question that much when it's a work of fiction clearly aimed at people with specific fetishes. If you spend most of your time questioning the physical impossibilities in hentai, you're going to have a bad time.

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Same as ever, just your casual blushing and inner fangirling.

Cyan and Retoree are so lovely together. I want some doujins of them now<3

Ooooh another chapter. I didn't think this would get a continuation.

There's a 3rd one as well. (Coming Soon™)

The amount of people turning this into a culture debate is over 9000. I doubt the author had that kind of intent when writing this, but maybe that's just me.

I think the sole problem this manga has is simply that it's kind of poorly written in terms of narrative and the angst comes off forcefully and with little justification.

There's better ways to present this type of "forced" marriage theme, but this one just made the bride seem like a douchebag and the bridesmain was needlessly put under fire at at the wedding cerimony when they could have solved this the moment she decided to get married rather than at the cerimony itself.

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Imo the Bride confess to Fleur so they can both moving on fron their feelings, there's nothing cruel here.

So you're saying the sole way to move on with someone's feelings is to break their heart really hard at a wedding cerimony?
They couldn't have solved it before at any moment, it just had to be this sole moment?

The problem I see with this story is not so much the cruelty in itself, but rather how misplaced and unjustified the cruelty is.
Angst needs to be properly justified and I really feel like this scenario didn't justify it much and it makes me feel like it's just angst for the sake of being angst and that doesn't sit well with me.

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"I've always loved you, and I'll make sure to only tell you when I get married to someone else in front of you to make sure it really hurts."

I don't mind angsty stories or bad/sad endings, but this was needlessly cruel on the bride's part. Maybe that's just me though.
Even if it's the whole "I'll tell you so I won't have any regrets", there's better times to do that other than literally at the wedding cerimony...

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While uncommon, Onee-sama can be used to address someone who is like an eledery sister figure, regardless of age.
Much like you can call your co-worker who has worked longer than you at a company "senpai", even if they're younger than you.
In this case, you can infer Miku has been in the business longer than Luka, so it's not odd to imagine Luka looks up to Miku as a superior entity (corroborated by the fact she adds the "sama" suffix which indicates a lot of respect). Even if Miku is younger than Luka.
I know it's uncommon and most fanmade works depict Luka as an elderly sister figure and the general rule is you call someone older "onee-sama" rather than the opposite, but the way this author depicted the relationship isn't inherently wrong.
Though I understand why some people feel like it's weird, but I can't really rewrite what the author wrote so~

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Woah, no NSFW tag? Mods pls.
Look at that hardcore handholding.
That's some 18+ extra lewd action.
My innocence has been tainted.

Well, Dekomori and Nibutani kissed in that Chuunibyou special...so I guess there's a 0.000001% chance of something between these two happening. I know it won't happen but it's not like there's 0 precedent.

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I would also like to have a moment and be truly happy that just recently gay marrige is legal in Japan ^^

Not quite, it's only in Shibuya and it doesn't give them a marriage license so they're not legally bound per se, but it does give them certified recognition as well as the right to hospital visitation and shared rental agreements. It is indeed something praiseworthy as it's the first place in East Asia to even ackowledge same-sex relationships, so it is quite the stepping stone for the future and I believe other places could follow suit, but considering about half of the Japanese population is still opposed or somewhat opposed to it (from a poll held in 2014), there are still ways to go.

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Instant readlist.

Seconding this, gaming manga sounds really good.

Also, I'm calling future subtext.

Just look at that ultra lewd hand holding + ear teasing combination.

Ugghh my innocence!

A 4-koma manga about cute girls and worklife? I approve.

I don't know where Doki finds these but praise them.

Can I ask something irrelevant here because I want to know how she made that cake with little figures that look like them... and the plush toy too. How or where can I have a mini plush toy made to look like me?

Become a super school idol
Have merchandise made out of you
??????????
Profit

Seriously, and nobody noticed that Maki was wearing Nico-chan character goods the entire day?

Oh wow she did, I didn't even notice and I spent a couple hours on this.
I guess those are the perks of marrying an idol, lots of free stuff with your waifu's face on it.

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Can I ask something irrelevant here because I want to know how she made that cake with little figures that look like them... and the plush toy too. How or where can I have a mini plush toy made to look like me?

Become a super school idol
Have merchandise made out of you
??????????
Profit

Nice, Doki coming back with more 4-koma fluff.
I just hope this turns out as awesome as Majyo to Houki.

This was insanely adorable.

Er, regarding your first line.

The hentai vs. non-hentai was what I had intended for "pure" to represent... In that case, mind clarifying what you interpreted "pure" as? I don't want to be the one confused or confusing people, lol.

Pureness here is relative to morals, therefore there's only a loose definition of it one can apply. You can say it means untainted, usually by things of a sexual nature, but by some standards just the yuri itself is considered immoral, much similarly to yaoi being considered "rotten". For example would you say yuri incest is pure? It's certainly considered immoral by quite a lot of standards, so even if there wasn't anything sexual going on, do you call it shoujo ai? And this type of loose arbitrary terminology is what i really dislike.
If you're just saying pure as not involving sex, then it goes back to the redundancy of it all.
Also by loose definition, yuri, which means lily, can symbolize purity as well as most of the symbolism attached to lilies is related to chastity and whatnot. And we all here know yuri is the purest love there is~

And we're on page 3 because circlejerk!

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Shoujo Ai is just yuri without sex, it has nothing to do with pure.
The term was coined to separate hentai content from non hentai content, but it really is redundant because the whole goal of the word yuri is to say there's lesbians in it, you can just use a hentai tag afterwards if there's sex or ecchi if it's slightly more explicit, but to use the word shoujo ai which is just girls love is completely redundant.
And if you're going to say it's for those more undertone things, well that's called yuri subtext or undertone. You don't go around inventing different romance genres depending on the amount of romance do you?
Shoujo Ai is a redundant genre that really needs to stop being used, just use yuri if there's two girls in love or don't if there's not, there can be varying degrees of yuri but there's certainly not some point where you have to call it shoujo ai instead.

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