myrrhmidon posted:

Maria Nearl animated PV

Nice! Can't wait to not drop Blemishine!

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OrangePekoe posted:

...which is all to say, in spite of the newish artist, this is a notable magazine with notable names writing a pretty real trans story. I've no idea what kind of precedent there is for this, but I was really pleased to take note of it, anyway.

It's a male transgender story on top of that. A very rare sight in any media.

Ok, it's getting a bit out of hand...

IAKi100atT posted:

This really says a lot about the society in which we live

IAKi100atT posted:

Every cis weirdo thinks they’re a psychoanalyst whenever trans people are concerned I swear

cyberninjasio posted:

Wow is there ever a lot of people making wild judgment calls and heavily stereotyped reading of this manga in the comments.

Stop condemning one of the very few decent portrayals of someone going through transitioning just because you as a cis person think it needs to somehow be more psychoanalytical or maybe just don’t get it at all. You don’t have to get it! It’s not your story!

SillieHonka posted:

I dont think you want to go around positing that trauma induces dysphoria and laying downg some terfy / agp "rationalizations" for trans people existing (and thus a way for us to not exist is nownon the table).

Deus posted:

Following your critical analysis apparently you're not trans, just traumatized /s

I understand being touchy on the subject and having to deal with people who try to attack or erase you all the time, but don't you think you guys are taking it a bit too far? Nobody from people who expressed their doubts about story said that trauma makes you trans or tried to excuse trans people existing. Those comments were actually very civil and only pointing out story relied heavily on showing Chiaki's dysphoria through social pressure and norms, rather than his own discomfort with his body. I can see where those commenters are coming from, as line between not fitting into stereotypes and not identifying with your assigned gender can be very thin. That's what puberty is for. Having conflicted feelings about one's own identity and the way other perceive you is a common experience when you're still in process of figuring out yourself. Some people go through phase when they think they want to be opposite gender, but over time they come to realize they're actually fine the way they are and might even love being their assigned gender.

My point is, those people clearly just weren't sold on the premise this story sold and had their own interpretation of it, which is completely valid. Just because story is about trans issues it doesn't mean it has to be a good story or even accurate for that matter. Especially when you're unfamiliar or not as knowledge about subject, some things might be easy to miss or not as clear as to other people. When I read it first time I just read it with clear understanding Chiaki is trans and never questioned it, but reading those comments did make me realize, there weren't a lot of examples when Chiaki was experiencing his dysphoria without it being tied to society's perception of what is and isn't allowed for men and women. That doesn't mean he isn't trans, as social norms are one of the biggest source of dysphoria for many trans people, but I can see how to someone that might seem like that was the only case of it and wonder, if had Chiaki not experience it, would he actually still feel the way he feels. It's perfectly normal to question character's consistency and believability.

The proper way to react to it is giving a explanation how their interpretation might be flawed or what they might miss in the story, like those comments:

daydream_dog94 posted:

i think the whole "men hunt and kill things" is a personal thing for Chiaki. by his personal standards and the standards of his father he has to be a man to hunt and has to hunt to be a man. the manga isn't telling the reader "you have to hunt and kill to be a man". but rather it's chiakis's father who is telling him specifically. i mean, chiaki even mentions female hunters so. not to invalidate your offense I just think it's meant to be taken as a personal matter rather than a stereotype in this context.

Lap posted:

I think the main reason for the overly sexist attitude of the father is so that when he finally takes Chiaki hunting, it is proof that he accepts Chiaki as his son.

You can easily do it without jumping to talking/looking down on those people. If they actually wrote straight transphobic things, I can understand being offended, but this is nowhere near requiring such strong reaction.

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Yasako posted:

i thought it was a simoun reference

What's the reference?

Rye posted:

Forgot to mention I did get April...two of her!

I'm not jealous...

YuuMimo posted:

I have to say it works really well because just when I thought I was done with april 1st translations you pulled a fast one on me

My pleasure <3

Norainhere posted:

Readers note: “Nevrilicious” means Nevri + delicious

Yea. It came from me misspelling "nervous" to "nevrious" once and joking that I'm going to call that my scanlation group, if I ever make one and later I misremembered it as "nevrilicious" since "licious" is more common ending.

Also I like how, after all that, you didn’t add a note for takaramono.

Excuse me! I won't stand for such slander of my good name! We at Nevrilicious Scans take releases very seriously and have rigorous quality standards! We didn't forget anything!

Yes. Sorry about late release. I started working on it way too late.

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Mike98 posted:

Super friends? why this changed did i lost something? Cannot say yuri anymore?

Government forced censorship on us. The word has been banned and we can't use it anymore.

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Salinthrous posted:

Is it weird that I find the Super Friends tag very fitting for this series?

They're not super friends though. They're totally normal friends!

avec posted:

So much could be resolved if they just talked before reacting—but then we wouldn't have a story I guess...

Nah. Then we'd have good story and those are actually hard to write.

Serenata posted:

I kinda get people getting upset but the world would be too boring if companies and entertainers couldn't even take a single day a year to have fun, and that applies even more in this site where is just fans for fans.

Yea. To me it's like perfect day, because everyone expects it, so you can get away with it and nobody will be upset, but also because everyone expects it, you can get loose and go crazy with jokes.

Lmao XD That april fools' chapter was good x3

This was great xD

THE CONVICTION IS HERE!

BV posted:

I'm not sure if this is the right thread to report bot sightings, but...

Listen, we've had problems with bots coming to the forums before, but this is the first time I saw a pornbot

It's right thread and... meh, there were already a couple of pornbots on site. Nothing special.

InRainville posted:

More particularly, I'm wondering if there are examples of manga - ideally yuri - that's successfully transitioned from multiple volumes of will they/won't they to multiple follow-up volumes of "yep, we're in a serious relationship, and all that follows." I'm wracking my brain, but the vast majority of yuri I can think of ends almost immediately once the relationship is consummated, whether that's a mutual confession, kiss, or sex. (Morinaga's My Cute Little Kitten is damn near the only exception I can think of, and that featured full-on sex within the first five chapters or so...)

That's actually issue with vast majority of romance stories in general, not just yuri. It's the definition of "the journey is more important than the destination". Most writers are more interested in exploring how couple got together instead of their live as a couple. In fact a lot of romance mangas existence seems to depend on "will they/won't they?" factor as a main gimmick and as soon as it's resolved, manga loses its purpose to exist and is instantly concluded. My personal explanation is that it's much easier to came up with story how 2 characters meet and fall in love with each other concluding in them finally confessing their feelings, while coming up with a realistic, interesting couple life is much harder. Most het mangas I read that didn't end as soon as couple got together never actually focused on their life as a couple. In order to keep manga interesting authors would immediately start introducing incredibly forced drama that almost never happens to any average person. The most common ways to keep manga about couple interesting according to most authors is either introducing reason for couple to break up or split apart (usually through blackmailing), introduce love triangle or just use old fashioned misunderstanding to create friction between main pair. So pretty much most authors don't write them as a normal couple and pretty much find a way to write it as if they weren't dating. At best the relationship becomes incredibly toxic and you pretty much root for them to break up.

I have to give it to the author. Even title is perfect mixture of subtext and vagueness. I did some digging to make sure and from what I can tell the word 焦がれる can mean both "yearning for something strongly" or "falling in love strongly". It expresses a incredibly strong desire of longing for something and which meaning applies depends on context. You could yearn for your old home, or new job, but also could fall head over heels in love with somebody or something. In case of Nettaigyo wa Yuki ni Kogareru both fits since it could be just as easily translated as "A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow " as well as "A Tropical Fish Falls in Love with Snow ". So which meaning makes more sense is left up for interpretation.

Dark_Tzitzimine posted:

She's stopping any creative activities as of today and will delete her Twitter and Pixiv on the 27th. So if you're her fans, better archive anything you like.

Damn. Any reason for it?

kingkhalil001 posted:

One of the best parts about Dynasty is seeing people type entire essays in a one-shots chapter discussions

I feel personally attacked.

Beat all the event stages and all challenges outside of last one. Now that I got a lot of E2s, Masteries and more experience, beating maps is so much easier. Last one is still pretty darn hard. I liked my clear of FA-5 CM, so decided to record it.

I wouldn't mind Surt, but also she isn't must have for me. I was much more interested in April, since she's a fast-rede sniper, so combination of my 2 favorite elements + pseudo-invisibility is great as well. But of course, the guarantee 5 star (which was last) was Istina that would be great if not for the fact, I didn't use her in ages. At least got 2 copies of Arene (from 6 4 stars i dropped in total, so as usually 4 stars are the hardest to get). So overall got the 1 operator I cared about the least. At least it was withing my expectations, as I expected nothing stare

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Norainhere posted:

Also I kinda feel bad that I accidentally read the entire thing on a pirated website; I thought they were done by an actual scanlation group and found out it was an actual official translation after finishing it.

Majority of manhwa on unofficial sites are rips of official scans, though some groups do TL it themselves. I also read a bit of this particular story on mangadex. I had some issues with premise itself, but characters were very likeable.

last edited at Mar 24, 2021 6:35AM

I have no idea what to write for 4444 post.

Finally E2'd my Ch'en. Working on mastering her S2 rn.

I didn't farm 4-8 for grindstone in ages, so decided to redo my old auto and see how many operators I need to do it now. It feels really strange that before I needed entire team, but now I managed to beat it with 3 and half operators. E2s/Masteries and experience really makes a difference.

Norainhere posted:

Finally got around to finishing all of the extra episode 6 levels and 7-18! RIP Patriot. That last fight against him (and the fight against Frostnova in H6-4) were really hard and took me several tries.

Gj! I still didn't beat H6-4. I just hate freeze. I cheesed FN in 6-16 with Apple Pie, so I don't have a lot of practice with dealing with her normally. When I tried H6-4 few times, didn't even figure out a good setup for normal mobs yet and then we got CC etc. so didn't really return to trying it yet.

Vulcan trying to cook for Ceobe

This was funny xD but also feels bad x3

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On Mangadex there was also translation note in description, which not sure where put here, that word home in Japanese, can mean both home and family, so you could understand title as "In a Family Where Lilies Bloom" and last sentence would be "Welcome to our family".

morter posted:

Moms look awfully like I Could Just Tell. Thanks to Rehashed for their work!

Good catch

Actually on Mangadex translator (I think) mentioned the similarity, but considering other work gives no names and there's no mention of them having a kid there, it's unclear w/e it's side-story/spin-off or if author just used very similar designs for parents.

elevown posted:

The only thing im confused about is page 1-2 - why is it obvious they are not her parents when either of them coulda given birth to her?

I think it's working on assumption that 2 women can't have kids and ignores other options. I wouldn't think too deep about it.

myrrhmidon posted:

Also since mangadex is down, I'd like to share this recently translated chapter of the official anthology, which can also be read here via proxy. Just some slice of life in Rhodes Island that just has the right moments of fluff and melancholy.

Nice, though it kinda made Ethan look like a asshole.