Not feeling this one so far, bunch of contrived nonsense

It just hit me I've been frequenting these forums for 5 years now (and the website itself probably a bit longer than that), and I dunno how to feel about that :P If I told myself a while back that reading romance stories (never mind yuri specifically) is how I will choose to spend some of my free time, I would probably be pretty surprised.

Anyway, I had fun here, and I hope that will continue :P

oh my god she noticed her PRETTY HANDS

I've just read the first chapters, this series really is a love bullet straight to the fucking heart holy shit

... also, I dunno about you but it makes a lot of sense to me that falling in love is determined by a bunch of stupid ass kids running around with guns unsupervised - if anything, Koharu seems way overqualified for the job.

last edited at Jul 30, 2024 11:26AM

... I just noticed on reread but Annie was right fucking there when Yvonne woke up in chapter 92, did they just completely forget that when drawing that panel or did they quietly change their mind on how to continue the story? :P

last edited at Jul 29, 2024 4:48AM

This chapter felt a bit redundant? Sure, Nekomori backstory was a bit expanded but I think we got the gist of it already, and the rest of the chapter is just her overhearing the argument that alreaedy started in previous chapters :P

Linked by soul or whatever, eh? sounds both demonic and conveniently romantic I guess

I fucking spat out my tea at the last few pages, it's like the author poking fun at the melodrama they themselves created. I'm just not sure it was intentional :P

"Yuri Otaku" had tolerable translation at its best moments and really hard to read for the rest, if this is fine by your standards then we evidently have very different ones :P I kinda wish that series was handled by someone competent because I really liked it.

I understand English not being your first language might be a problem (hell, it isn't my first language, maybe that's why worse quality translation makes it even harder for me to understand anything) and I realize that it's very likely the alternative is no translation at all, and I'm ultimately thankful for what I get, I just find it very weird that Dynasty is fine with this level of quality. I'm not beneath reading some shit tier translations on mangadex if I'm desperate enough.

last edited at Jul 28, 2024 1:31PM

Sorry to be blunt, but Windyfall is easily the worst quality translation that's consistently posted to Dynasty - normally I get the impression that there's some quality control with regards to what is allowed on here, but it's like they're an obvious exception to this. Every time I'm about to read something that was translated by them I brace myself for unreadable mess.

last edited at Jul 28, 2024 10:30AM

... I dunno, this just kinda reinforces to me that I don't like this author's writing- it was more confusing to see than anything that she's now suddenly fine and her closest friend didn't know shit about it.

I liked it :P There is no true love indeed, this is the closest you can get.

The creator isn't a stranger to lesbian romance.

Sure but I feel like if not for the title and the author, this would be just tagged subtext at best (and really I feel like the series is more about the vtubing thing than romance anyway). The collage may feel romantic but it requires some reading between the lines, that seems like textbook subtext to me. (But I do want to reiterate I barely remember most of this series so I may be just wrong :P)

last edited at Jul 26, 2024 6:15PM

Well to be quite honest, did this series have anything explicitly yuri in it? I wasn't too invested in it so maybe I forgot but I always had the impression the most explicit part was the title :P That collage could also work for normal friendship.

I think it's jarring because continuation of Riri and Uda's story felt inevitable, and whatever this particular plotline is going to lead to, I can't see it being nearly as satisfying. We already had a plotline about overcoming insecurities between the main pair and shit, it's not really interesting to see it again no matter how much "logical sense" it makes.

last edited at Jul 24, 2024 1:03PM

... okay, risky prediction but fuck it, Mona and Shion will win the quadrille thing, this seems like some kind of setup to realize that following everything your sister does to the letter isn't all that important :P

last edited at Jul 22, 2024 3:46PM

Minami has cracked the code and doesn't even know it, victory is assured - and I look forward to seeing more of what true best friends really do

Just read this for the first time since it's featured and it was nice but the ending thing is actually a bit weird to me because it's clearly a choice the author made on purpose, it's not like they were afraid jumping straight to love because the sidecouple subplot was about romance in no uncertain terms (it literally said "I love you" :P) so why would the author be afraid to do that with the main pair? I have to conclude they really are just super friends and that's what the author wanted.

... so the script writer somehow came up with a character just like Sakura from scratch (since she never really saw the real one), isn't that very convenient?
Well it leads to a very nice moment even here so I dont mind, I wonder what Sakura is going to think about that when she actually watches the play :P

last edited at Jul 11, 2024 7:59AM

it was all a dream now go back to your class it's maths next

Saw this before on dex but I really like it so far, kinda melodramatic but I guess it's thematically appropriate :P

This might be the longest I kept reading a series without enjoying it too much, it's kinda hard to drop if it's only 4 pages at a time but I realized I actually stopped caring about anything that happens in it long ago :P Not sure I can pinpoint why, I think it's partly the author's very chaotic presentation style and heavy reliance on "a character reacted in a funny way, please laugh".

last edited at Jun 30, 2024 5:14AM

This hat is basically like Clark Kent's glasses in this chapter, all these girls attend the same school so they would surely eventually notice that one of the underclassmen is the little cousin :P

Anyway, can't lose much harder than Kujou does. Suou is just straight up ignoring her and mocking her to her face, she knows she won already.

last edited at Jun 28, 2024 6:58AM

That confusion at the end made no sense, how would one mistake have my way with your body with making you a maid uniform? That was waaaay too big a stretch just to deliver the usual joke, I could have take it if maybe she mistook it with giving her a massage or something, but that just made no sense.

yeah I just assumed after reading this that it's something impossible or very hard to translate, it was very weird

I'd encourage people to check the start of chapter 55 again to see that parents aren't necessarily fully happy with this either :P