I haven't considered it before, but a flat Momose is good too~~

0-100 real quick in 3 seconds

last edited at Jan 19, 2019 8:37PM

This series just get gayer and gayer. I love it. In the beginning it was so mild that the yuri tag was missing. I still wonder about Kasumi and Sakurako's relationship, they're kissing, wearing matching panties, cups and clothes; they even sleep together every night, but neither of them made it official .-.

Totally platonic.

Also totally asexual.

This guy is fairly obscure; I found them a while back when searching for FliFla stuff but none of their books were scanned. I had trouble even figuring out what their name was in the doujin/booru sites to see if there was anything there.

last edited at Jan 9, 2019 1:30AM

But she seems so stupid...

I don't remember Kasumi being that savage goddamn

Also, regarding CH. 35, it was a mistake of Sakurako to not store her new pictures into a locked folder... or just lock her whole phone.

I guess Yukiko just wanted to make a joke so it doesn't really matter.

last edited at Jan 4, 2019 4:23AM

Actually, I think Japan is MORE enamored with suicide than the west, whether it be in romance or in real life. There's the modern real-life suicide epidemic in Japan, as well as the historical "honorable" Japanese suicides, seppuku/hara-kiri. Just 3 years ago, the big (and really good) romance anime movie Koe no Katachi dropped, and in it both romantic leads were about to kill themselves in some point of the story, but were stopped.

Sure, Touko's probably not actually going to kill herself, but with the signs and symbolism Nakatani dropped, I think she's implying Touko might have killed herself after pulling off the play if Yuu wasn't there to save her or something.

last edited at Jan 3, 2019 5:16PM

I think Afro tried to keep the yuri subtext down throughout the series, but having Rin get so friendly with Sakura was a mistake if he didn't want people to see Yurukyan as a Yuri series.

But just to play devil's advocate here, assume the story was less simplistic than it is. What if at this phase of Touko's life, the drive to be perfect was actually useful no matter the source of it? Maybe without it, she would be just some ordinary girl who doesn't study and is shy and lazy, which would have repercussions for her future. One cannot deny that hating herself has caused her at least two good consequences: she pushed her shyness as a child aside and became a super competent person who is a student council president, and now is also good at acting which is something she genuinely likes.

So I'm not saying Yuu didn't have good intentions, but I separate between intentions, consequences and timing. If Yuu had met Touko earlier, ironically she might well have ruined the awesome person Touko became. We like Yuu because she changed Touko from being self-hating at the right time, but still, I can't help but feel uneasy about the fact she tried to change Touko at all.

Funny thing is, Touko's Onee-chan Mio really was a bit lazy and averse to studying, so the real Touko is closer to the real Mio than she initially thought. And this fake perfect mask Touko put on... well, she didn't know Mio's fake perfect mask was a fake perfect mask, so even though she's faking it and Mio faked it, Touko ended up being like Mio in more ways than she initially knew. I guess it's why the series' Japanese title "Yagate, Kimi ni Naru" can be translated "eventually, you will become yourself".

However! After seeing the last episode, I think Nakatani's implying Touko would've killed herself after the play if Yuu never showed up. I can't be sure about this, but the way she says "I'll finish this play... and then what?" and then the shot of the dead cicada wings, combined with Touko stepping in front of that train and the "to the final destination" sign... I'm not sure Touko successfully becomes awesome and perfect whether Yuu appears or not.

Maybe the manga simply should have been about three teen girls figuring out teen life and then ultimately staying friends as they become adults and their paths diverge ...

Honestly, it's been in the back of my mind for a long time that Touko and Yuu could end up being only friends. Until Yuu's big confession, I really wondered if Yuu really was never in love with Touko. I was poisoned by the ridiculous "asexual" discussion in the early chapters.

Personally, while I do like the main cast and they're all nice and well-written, none of them really captured my imagination like [see my display picture] so I won't feel quite as burned by a "platonic friends" or Touko x Sayaka ending as what happened in that other show. Actually, now that I think about it, a Touko suicide ending would hurt, not that that would actually happen, right?

last edited at Jan 2, 2019 11:12AM

Instant karma lol

Also that fire extinguisher bash reminded me of Shoujo Sect... except this one did exactly 0 damage

Poor girl's about to get a taste of the yuri infirmary trope

friendzone

By God, no less.

And then Homuhomu rebelled. Literally.

lol, just in case you didn't realize Ika-chan was a reference to Ika Musume (Squid Girl)

Natsuki-san

There were no honorifics in the actual VN, and it was originally in English anyway so you'll only see -san in a Japanese fan translation.

It looks like this is a Korean doujin, so this ended up being an Korean-to-English-but-with-Japanese-honorifics translation, huh?

I've totally overanalyzed a silly 4-page doujin...

Uh. Well, this isn't what I expected would be the subject when I came to make a post. If I may add my two cents, I'll just say that part of the problem stems from what any one person thinks tagging is for. There's (at least) two ways to think of tagging, and both are reasonable.

The first way is to tag with descriptions of the content in a more literal way. This generally requires more tagging and can more make it more troublesome to find things similar to what you want, but can potentially give more granularity in categorization.

The second is tagging based on the story and themes. This makes finding certain kinds of stories more flexible, but has the potential to leave out tags that might be important descriptors to some people.

There isn't an easy solution that would satisfy everyone. Personally I prefer the second method with exceptions for tags that could be considered warnings. For this particular story I believe Yuri by itself is more appropriate than Bisexual either by itself or together with yuri. Outside of the set-up I don't think we've encountered anything that warrants Bisexual. This doesn't mean that the characters are not bi, but rather that (at least so far) it hasn't been a large element of the story. This is as opposed to, say, Ohana Holoholo which has, and very much deserves, both Yuri and Bisexual tags.

I'm not going to say that I have the best idea or anything because obviously that can't be true for everyone, and there's certainly times that require an exception. Just my two cents.

edit: my original comment was going to be that this has escalated much quicker than most manga out there and I am SO in favor of that.

It's damned if you do, damned if you don't. That's why Dynasty has ridiculous, super-specific one-off tags like "Conspicuous white fluid on page 26", "Imaginary dick on page 9" and "Dicks on page 22-23". Sarcastically, I'm going to suggest to tag it "Bisexual on pages 1-2", even though the whole chapter was just 3 pages... and people would've complained about that anyway!

Touhou Project Doujin?

Uh-oh. Someone is going to get fired for this.

"They don't pay me enough for this"

"Actually, they don't pay me at all"

Now, uhh, I know what I'm about to say will almost certainly be inappropriate, (albeit, not spam), but I'm kinda underwhelmed by the lack of new fanarts. I would've drawn some myself, if I didn't SUCK at drawing something else than countryballs or maps. So I guess I should, in addition to being underwhelmed by what I mentioned in the first sentence, also be disappointed at myself...

Was the post fair enough?

"Serious" yuri like this, or Aoi Hana, or Sasameki Koto, get very little fanart. Much less hentai (I've seen some so far and it's very bad, no I won't post a source).

So instead of fixing the localization problem with using first names in the dubs with this episode that was about them switching to using first names they instead mostly rewrote the dialog.Instead being switching to first names it is making nicknames. While the walking conversation between Yuu and Touko is kind of cute the council room scenes is a mess and makes no sense. They had over a month to fix the localization but instead chose to stick with it and choose this poor way to address it. They could fixed it early and only had a couple episodes to redo but didn't

HIDIVE's subs are particularly bad even by official subs standards and should be avoided. Asenshi fixes 99% of the official sub's problems, and with the honorifics patch 99.9% of the problems are fixed.

...well, I thought you were talking about the official subs. Shit like this is why I don't watch dubs in the first place.

You're only at episode 9? Well, at least you're far ahead of my younger brother...

Where are you guys getting the episodes? I can only find episode 2 and not even from a legit source. Please, I need my yuri fix.

For people not having HiDive or VRV, they either watching it in illegal sites or downloading. There are plenty of it in internet, just google it. Or they just dl it in Horriblesubs that ripping the subs or Asenshi who’re making their own subs. Though I really wish Yagakimi should be in CR, if only they got the license. It’s more easy for me.

Trying to watch anime online legally is kind of a shitshow nowadays with the fragmentation in streaming services. It's basically become cable 2.0 now that you have to buy an increasing number of subscriptions if there's more than a couple of shows you want to watch. For everybody who just refuses to stream illegally or torrent, I guess it's better than nothing, but right now there's no easy "one $10/month subscription for every anime ever" magic bullet.

Meanwhile, I've been waiting for the honorifics patch for the Asenshi release every week.

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Although I find that a vote like that is always biased to more current shows because of emotional investment.

I think there's some truth to that but considering the top 10, that doesn't seem like a major problem here. The only bias is fujos are too stronk lmao

1. Banana Fish
2. idolish7
3. DoriFest! R
4. SoraYori
5. Osomatsu-san S2
6. YagaKimi
7. Houseki no Kuni
8. AOT 3
9. Yowapedal Glory Line
10. Hataraku Saibou

Just missing the top 10 at #11 is Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight

arent these girls the ones that like to pee on each other

i'm ashamed this made me laugh so hard

Well yeah there was one watersports doujin and another one with pee (but they didn't piss on each other so it didn't get the watersports tag) but you know what they say: "You build a thousand bridges but fuck one goat. You know what they'll call you? A goat fucker."

SELF | REMAKE

last edited at Dec 3, 2018 11:13PM

Akane wants that ASSS.

The anime is still over 2 years behind the manga so admittedly I forgot much of the subtlety and fine details. I had to re-read the race: I forgot whether or not Sayaka said anything in her head during the race in the manga (she didn't), but when I watched the anime, the way she said "Touko..." in her head... man. I'm not even cheering for Sayaka to win Touko or anything (she never "struck" me the way Yayaka did) but I felt a little bit of doki-doki there.

And even during Touko's run, where everything's supposed to fall away to white and Yuu can only see Touko, I'm flipping through the manga pages again and again and I feel like I'm almost missing the supposed impact of the scene even AFTER watching it in the anime. As if I can STILL flip through the manga with nothing more than a "hmm, yeah, Yuu's love for Touko grows yet again, by a bit, another brick in the wall". It was so much more vivid and "blown-up" in the anime, I just got swept up with the whole "woohoo! You're gay! Yuri is great!"

Personally I think the "obviousness" of the anime is fine, it's neither better nor worse; imo it serves as a foil almost to the manga. It copies the "big picture" stuff but goes a little above and beyond in animation and audio, which obviously the manga couldn't do anyway.

last edited at Dec 3, 2018 11:00AM

they put this in the waters to make the frog gay

It's the chemtrails!

last edited at Nov 26, 2018 4:29PM

Can I get a doujin where all of them are flat? Pretty please?

last edited at Nov 25, 2018 2:13AM