Anyone else surprised by the twist, because they've been reading nothing but love triangles lately, because that's what always gets uploaded to Dynasty, so they read this thinking that the dead girl was one of the trianglets, and was killed off to allow the other two to get together because love triangles are just the worst?

No? Just me? Oh well

Not just you. :-) It did surprise me, as well, though mostly because it depicted grief so believably. Even without the twist, the story would be great IMO.

Damn.... never end up fighting and leave without making up.

I'd go even further: if you have something important to say to someone near you, say it right now. You may not see them tomorrow or ever.

Dat Yumine trollface tho.

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This series is about fluffy slice-of-life-with-swapping stuff. It's never going to have a plot, although Natsuko's increasingly strong blushes whenever the idea of her and Haruko becoming a couple is brought up in some way suggests that romance may not be entirely out of the question. But the point of the series is the lighthearted fluff, not the progression. If you can't enjoy fluff for fluff's sake, this isn't the series for you.

Word.

Moral of the story, kids: Be nice to the nerds in your class, they're gonna be your bosses one day.

No one seems to mind that it's really sexual harassment... There is a reason why companies have policies against relationships between superiors and subordinates. Miyata clearly abused her power, to illustrate why that can be very wrong. Even if she wasn't, that wouldn't have been the place for starting anything.

It's not that we don't mind (well, OK, "that I don't"), but this one-shot uses the classical Kodama technique of pairing up two people who are fucked up in exactly the same way, and so are a match for each other. Miyata abuses her social power in their work environment, just as Nagao had repeatedly abused her social (as one of the "popular clique" in class) and emotional (unwittingly) power over Miyata back in school. Neither is morally acceptable, but is the necessary conceit for the purpose of establishing Kodama's patented messed-up relationship.

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I'm not sure, the story was ment to go, as deep, as to be social commentary. I just think it was a way for a couple of yaoi authors to bring a yaoi flavor to a yuri story.

Actually, I am pretty sure that was exactly the intention. :-) If you want to know what yaoi-flavored yuri minus the social commentary from these authors looks like, just check out their other series here on the Dynasty.

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This is really hard to believe, is some crazy development happening in the untranslated chapters that made she series unlikable?

There is no untranslated chapter. It is weird cancellation.

Not that weird, sadly. It joins the very long list of quirky yuri series that featured something beyond blushing schoolgirls and got axed for its trouble.

I decide that I like the new girl. She is relatable, and not an annoying-youngster stereotype that I initially feared her to be. :)

In a het romance manga where the female MC bonds with her female friends, would you say that's out of place or a waste of time and the artist should stick to her romance? This is the same.

I think there is a idea (that some readers subscribe to) of an "ideally spherical yuri in a vacuum", i.e. a girl-girl coupe who meet, fall in love, and confess to each other, the end, with absolutely zero context regarding the time and place they live in, other relationships in their lives, or anything else that makes fictional characters human. But how is this Platonic ideal of yuri devoid of any actual humanity supposed to elicit an emotional response? That's what I always think when I read complaints about characterization getting in the way of yuri.

This chapter hits way too close to home with the false sense of accomplishment from a game and everything...

The reality is that no sense of accomplishment is false. :-) Anything that pushes you emotionally through the day cannot be "false", and this kind of attitude (expressed by herself and by the society around her) is exactly what prevents Neeko from healing her psychological issues.

I do like the fact that the key to beating Yurine was… relax and stop working herself to death.

It's generally a good policy for reaching long-term goals. This chapter was very real, actually. Ayaka's realization that her parent is just another faulty human being, not unlike herself, is one that I haven't made until much, much later in life.

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Jill should share notes with Tea on dating combat cyborgs. ;-)

subtext? considering one of their fantasies is it really subtext?

Is this the subtext? Is this just fantasy?

I guess there are lots of interpretations of what happens when a magical girl hits a mature age. So they don't age but they can't use magic when they are retired?

Gamma used the same interpretation, but for drama, rather than comedy. I think the whole stop-aging part is a realistic take on whether a sane person would want to go back to the life of an adult Japanese woman (with all that implies) after being exposed to so much personal power as a child or teenager. Having them stop aging after losing their powers is a symbolic "No!" to that question.

Of course, the best answer is still "keep your powers, get a job as a magical combat instructor, and marry your ex-rival magical girl", but Nanoha seems to be the only one who figured out a way to do it.

This was the most twisted incest twist since Shuninta's Milky...

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Is this an actual plot development that I spy? O__o

Man, if a girl I like throws up the exactly moment I confess to her and than runs off like this... I don´t think i would ever be able to recover emotionally! Years and more years of intense therapy ahead for that poor fucker...

I don't think anyone on this site really cares about that. :-(

The author keeps relapsing back into School life, which is great and cute, don't get me wrong, but I get a feeling she doesn't really know how to develop the plot now that they're in college. I'd really like to know how these two's relationship develops in the present/future...

Actually, sexuality blackmailing your boss, because you caught her making explosives, makes much more sense.

... would going out with a bang be the good end or the bad end?

That pun, it hurts.

Did they forget Saki just got stabbed?

This chapter has sealed the fact that Miyoko is a YoRHa android. Holding a huge-ass revolver in the hand that was stabbed, presumably after the adrenaline has worn off, is not something that humans should be capable of...

...unless it is a brilliant foreshadowing that Saki has been slowly turning her into a superpowered vampire thrall, or whatever it is called in this specific setting?

Robert is a national treasure and should be protected at all costs

But... of which nation, if they are only half-Japanese?

Public service announcement: A kiss has landed, I repeat, a kiss has landed.

They are also planning to hold hands at the next festival...

This is the first chapter of this series that has actually managed to strike a balance between admitting that Neeko has a problem with social anxiety and just pointing and laughing at it. What I like about it is that even though Neeko hadn't had any serious success with her video, she did accept Imoko's help and she did upload it. Baby steps is so much better than hitting the reset button after every chapter as the canned laughter track runs...

I am kinda sad that the chapter ultimately reached no resolution regarding Tamaki's attachment to her dad. It kind of played it for laughs and then veered in a completely different direction, even if Seki did try to set the record straight. I would prefer if she just outright said that it's okay to have small personal weaknesses like that in order to function better in the greater scope of everyday (adult) life. This series, for all its CGDCT silliness, has been very real so far, so it just seems like a missed opportunity to me...

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Sequel title: “Even More Social Anxiety Vs Yuri”

Yes, please. Where?

Look at them, running around in high heels like that.

That is some YoRHa level shit, right there...

That censor was not enough, we need a black bar on it

But only on the edge of the wrists, as is good and proper in Japan.