So this is a thing:

https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Relationshipping

Kinda useful. Sorta.

So much onomatopoeia. I just imagine the scanlators looking through the doujin, making the Picard Facepalm, and thinking "MANGA Y R U LIEK DIS?"

I am interested in this thread, because I have been trying to get into Touhou since I started reading this stuff back in October, and I have yet to really get a good grasp on it. I can never keep the characters straight and have no idea why I should care. And it seems like every time I read a new TP doujin, they introduce some new character or pairing I've never heard of.

I guess...Reimu x Yukari is one of the main ships? And Keine x Mokou? And the vampire chick and her maid? (Remila x Alice, I think?) After that it gets REALLY fuzzy for me.

I did like that "End of the Universe" comic, but that wasn't really romantic as much as it was someone showing off their astrophysics classes in comic form.

New chapter is certainly NSFW. Very hot.

Well, so much for my hopes of Kase-san and Yamada actually having sex in Yamada's hotel room after the exams.

wish there were more yuri mangas with this kind of play

I'm working on it.

Yeah, I eventually figured it out.

If you click on the author's name/link, that "Lover" comic doesn't show up. Had to search for it. FYI, since you're a mod.

I just felt like the things they were saying (Maki in particular) seemed very...Sex For Dummies or something.

"You get a lot more sensitivity than doing it over your skirt..."

"Move your pelvis like that and stroke your clitoris..."

"It's proof that your body is reaching climax..."

Just sounds so Sex-Ed 101. Doesn't sound like what real people say when they're having sex unless they've got a Doctor/Sex-Ed Instructor fetish.

So . . . did anyone else see her imagined scenario where she's domming her GF and think "I'd be fine if it went this way"?

Dat martini, tho.

So romantic.

I may be wired a little differently.

My lewd senses are tingling, we just need to see a little lower ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

They're clearly not holding hands, so it can't be that lewd.

Mari was her first girlfriend? Never kissed anybody before that? Never saw anybody being kissed before she kissed Mari? Never saw a movie with kissing in it before her amnesia?

Like I say, it defies rational analysis. Which is why I don't bother trying to rationally analyze it.

She's also forgetting stuff that she did before the three-year window. Like, seriously, how do you forget how to kiss?

BUT! That's needless nitpicking, and as I pointed out earlier in the thread, this is "comedy amnesia", not anything approaching real amnesia. So I just roll with all the fluffy happiness instead of trying to figure out exactly how her amnesia is supposed to work. Because that way lies madness.

In case you missed it, they touched a lot.

JESUS STICKBALLING CHRIST, MEZASHI! I AM AN OLD MAN! MY HEART CANNOT TAKE THIS!

SEND HELP.

Man. It was like reading an episode of Dr. Ruth.

Kase-san?

Yes. My God yes.

I dunno who is or isn't a great yuri artist.

But I do know that this...

...is the best representation of unbridled lust and desire on someone's face in any yuri I've read yet.

Having worked on this manga for over half a year, I must say that even if we are not the ones writing the actual manga, it is definitely disheartening to come to the forum when the majority of comments are negative. We'll finish what we started, of course, but damn am I glad we have other projects too... (Though people seem to hate on the Himitsu, Hitotsu anthology too...)

Speaking of which, no offense, but Chinese people are, on average, not very tall, so when it says that these dudes are crazy tall, how tall are we actually talking here?

I think the main issue people here have about Morinaga specyficall, is not whatevere she does those cliches or not, but that she repeats them in every of her work. Ok all her works are well done etc, but so what? When you pick another manga you want to read new story, not rehash of old one.

So don't pick up anything else from Morinaga?

I mean, if I want to eat something new and innovative, I'm not going to order a Quarter Pounder at McDonald's and then bitch about it.

Just seems like there's a great deal of self-inflicted pain here. Some of the people I see complaining about chapter 13 of this story have been bitching about the story for the 12 previous chapters. Did they really think they would suddenly like this chapter after hating all the rest?

At some point the burden is on you to not expose yourself to things you know you won't like.

That being said, I won't disagree that morinaga's characters could try and google "homosexuality in the 21st century" once in a while

That seems to be true for lots of characters in lots of yuri, one-shot and otherwise.

I mean, look at Yamada in Kase-san. Not only does she seem to be completely oblivious to girl-on-girl sex at the age of 17, she seems to have never been exposed to any kind of sexuality whatsoever. You get the feeling that she has never been sexually aroused in her life, and that she has somehow managed to totally avoid any and all depictions of sexuality in media for 17 years. And yet Kase-san is widely loved. (I think it helps that Kase-san herself is just straight up and unapologetically gay as shit.)

She's not the only one, but she's the one who comes to mind first for me. I've only been reading yuri since October, but I have already seen the "but we're both girls!" trope a few dozen times already.

As long as the cliches are done well, I don't mind them. Just like I occasionally want a cheeseburger despite there being absolutely nothing innovative or revolutionary about a cheeseburger. And I think Morinaga does these cliches well. I really do feel like Hana and Hina are in love with each other, because of all the details Morinaga puts in to sell it.

I mean, contrast this with Out of the Blue! Now, OotB! is one of my favorite stories here because of its emotional resolution in chapter 3. I really do like it a great deal. But before the emotional resolution in chapter 3, I wasn't sold on the notion that Risa really loved Kazumi. It was all tell, no show. Risa loves Kazumi. How do we know? Because Risa says so. And I'm not at all sold on the idea that Kazumi loves Risa. Not because I disbelieve the author when she puts those words in Kazumi's mouth, but again it's all tell, no show.

Morinaga sells it. And that's why I like this series so much.

Yes, but it seems that Dynasty Scans doesn't add tags to a work if those tags would ruin the surprise.

I tried to take a friend of mine to one of those gourmet burger joints.

"What's the point?", he asked. "A burger's a burger, right? Doesn't matter if it's some kind of frozen disc that they just reheat, like at McDonald's, or if it uses freshly ground kobe beef and artisanal buns. All burgers are the same!"

I left him at home. I went and grabbed a burger at the gourmet burger joint.

He ordered pizza. Pepperoni and mushroom.