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.

No scissoring 0/10

Your avatar REALLY emphasizes your disappointment in this regard.

Ten years from now, we are still going to be using mp3 players...

That's when they'll be coming back into cool retro style, kinda like how vinyl is making a comeback.

All I know is, I have only been reading Yuri for about 4 months now. So I do not know, nor do I care, about any old works by this author, nor what tropes she might be reusing from her older works. To me, this story is fun, cute, sweet, fluffy, and romantic. I do not care if it is fresh or stale, it is still an enjoyable read.

You folks who insist on bagging on the story with all the vitriol you can muster are kind of a drag.

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How come you guys are taking this oneshot seriously? Lol

Keeps us off the streets and out of trouble.

You don't make me feel old at all, I promise.

I just turned 49 earlier this month, so that should make you feel young again.

I believe many things get more delicious as they age～

Would you describe yourself as "bitter"?

You don't make me feel old at all, I promise.

I just turned 49 earlier this month, so that should make you feel young again.

Very hentai-ish.

Wanking in the publicly accessible computer lab seems contra-indicated unless you're an exhibitionist.

DAHN-DAHN-DAHN-DAAH-DAHN-DAHN

TEST YOUR MIGHT

Gonna be stuck in my head for days now.

Thanks for the info, ladies and/or gentlemen! Very informative.

Have you ever translated an English comic into Japanese?

Just gonna toss this out there, but what if Hina said what she said to throw off her "ex"?

Like, she knows that her "ex" has the Yurihots for her, but she's only got eyes for Hana, so in order to keep the complications to a minimum, she announces that she's totally hetero omg, with the idea of running off the "ex".

NOT REALIZING OF COURSE that she's shooting down Hana-san as well.

I mean, I dunno if this is how it's going to play out, but it'd be pretty neat if it did.

Also: I think the ex really was being set up to be a legit ex, but Morinaga had to switch boats mid-stream after the cancellation announcement came. The whole explanation about why she's called her "ex" just rang like a tacked-on retcon to me.

So I'm still kind of new at this, having only been seriously reading manga and doujins since this past July. And there's still a lot about the process of translating them to English that is opaque to me. In an effort to clear away the cobwebs of my ignorance, I have a few questions, and this looked like the best place to ask.

-Do the scanlators work from the actual printed books when they come out? Or do they work from a digital copy? Or do they use some other source? I imagine it varies, but I see the term "raws" all over. Where do the raws come from?

-How long does it take to scanlate a comic? Obviously the page count has something to do with it, and I imagine that some scanlator teams are faster than others. But as a pages translated per day, sort of thing, what is "normal"? If the scanlators begin work on a new project, are we looking at a couple of days before it's ready? Couple of weeks? Couple of months?

-How much of a pain in the ass is it to translate the SFX and onomatopoeia? Seems like the speech bubbles would be reasonably straightforward, if a little constrained on space. But I imagine you'd need full-blown artist skills to erase the Japanese SFX and replace them with English SFX. Every time I see a manga with English SFX, I'm always impressed.

That's all I can think of for now. Might have more questions later.

Bring on the drama! Bring it!