I have 4 complaints about this chapter:

1) That wasn't Kirishma's drink that spilled. Whoever left an uncapped drink near the laptop is partially responsible.
2) The owner should've gotten that laptop insured if she was going to leave it out for customers to use.
3) It can almost definitely be fixed, why are they talking about buying her a new one?
4) No sexytimes in the chapter.

ETA: On page 3, did something get lost in translation? The girl is saying it's "sacred" that the island is completely surrounded by water... isn't that just the definition of an island?

As GA said, it's a way of translating "toutoi", which is kind of otaku slang to label something as precious/sacred, that makes your feel something akin to a "religious" experience. A level up beyond "moe". It's sometimes written as てぇてぇ. (tété).

Why she would think that being surrounded by water on all sides is a religious experience is open to interpretation.

She's the swimmer girl who really loves water and swimsuits

Maybe I should buy the game

Just pirate it. It's good but not worth $60

Yay! More yuri harems. I love yuri harems

Double hand holding

I've seen are Zeta (well, about half of it before I dropped it) and The Origin which collectively made me realise "I really hate this setting" (i.e. the general world of the Gundam franchise) so I just don't touch them anymore.

Zeta and The Origin share a setting (the Universal Century), but G-Witch is in it's own continuity

I mean, this is what I meant by "the setting", not the continuity but just something about the general presentation of the Gundams and the action and the sci-fi stuff in general which extends to G-Witch (as demonstrated by the fact that the scene I linked is from G-Witch)
I don't particularly like mechs as a whole but something about Gundam specifically just makes me want to tear my hair out.

DY4Y posted:

Witch of Mercury was one of the most gundam of all times for sure...

For season 2, I'm planning to wait at least 6 episodes to start watching because things will get really hard before we get to see any kind of yuri again, after all, it's war.

i had planned to watch the first cour in one go but now that ep 12 is out i keep seeing all kinds of ominous comments and i'm scared xD

Its a shocker but just remember you ARE watching a gundam show

That's the main reason I never even bothered to try it out. Have not had a good time with Gundam in the past and based on what I've seen of the show from screenshots and discussions I'm glad I skipped it

I found it great even without the yuri, the protagonist can be too much of a scaredy cat sometimes, I'm not sure what you experienced before (well maybe you saw Gundam victory only, then I would understand) but well, if you already spoiled everything before watching then it's ruined one way or another.

I dislike Gundam as a franchise so no amount of yuri would make me want to watch it.
I've seen are Zeta (well, about half of it before I dropped it) and The Origin which collectively made me realise "I really hate this setting" (i.e. the general world of the Gundam franchise) so I just don't touch them anymore.

Witch of Mercury was one of the most gundam of all times for sure...

For season 2, I'm planning to wait at least 6 episodes to start watching because things will get really hard before we get to see any kind of yuri again, after all, it's war.

i had planned to watch the first cour in one go but now that ep 12 is out i keep seeing all kinds of ominous comments and i'm scared xD

Its a shocker but just remember you ARE watching a gundam show

That's the main reason I never even bothered to try it out. Have not had a good time with Gundam in the past and based on what I've seen of the show from screenshots and discussions I'm glad I skipped it

Love me some consent and so does Elsa!

She's getting fed for free so probably.

For me Guitar Loneliness and Blue Planet is their best insert song and Distortion! is the best song as a whole. The choruses in both are incredible. Though all of the songs are amazing including the ones that weren't in the anime

Lilisionnach posted:

Looks to be some controversy around Onimai censoring international releases of the anime. Not sure it bothers me too much but some people seem to be upset about it

What kind of censoring? not releasing at all or steam in the bath?

Steam in the bath, cutting a couple shots from scenes, etc. Like for example, when Mahiro was getting her bra fitted it took out the shot where she was struggling to put it on and just had the dialogue over Mihari watching from outside the fitting room instead.
Overall I actually find the censored version to be an improvement. The manga doesn't have much fanservice so the anime having so much of it felt really off.

Like, stuff the manga has that the censored version doesn't includes: the moaning when Mahiro is trying to play the eroge at the beginning and no steam when Mahiro sees her body in the mirror. That's the end of the list
There's also two things that neither version of the anime don't have: Mahiro groping her breasts when thinking she doesn't have much there (in the anime she just looks down) and Mihari bringing the mirror into Mahiro's room after the skirt twirling (in the anime she already has the mirror in her room)

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I finally started watching the anime. Did they skip the arc where they save the army men? Because right after the arc where they meet them, the anime seems to skip straight to when they party up in Okinawa after helping them.

The anime jumps around with the files here and there. The rescue operation was in the last episode I think. There's also one or two anime original stories

I saw the pre air and it's AWESOME (MagiRevo).... I skipped the whole fake out during the party of course, I don't need to see that again.

I also saw the onii san is done for (pre air too), is really good and so nicely animated too but is clearly aimed to lolicon fans so be aware of the "fanservice" it provides, I have one question does she really changes to the point that she starts liking boys now? because that's hinted in the very first episode but who knows, I would prefer if she doesn't... or he doesn't, whatever fits better now

No and she does get what could be called a girl love interest later on. I.e. a girl that's interested in her but not quite vice versa because Mahiro isn't a lolicon. But yeah, no interest towards boys, still likes boobs and the like, and gets a girl love interest and is shipped together quite a bit with her by a girl who really loves yuri.
There are a couple scenes after she starts going to school where she interacts with two boys giving them a bit of service such as handing them chocolates on valentines. But she doesn't like them at all, she just remembers what it was like to be a boy and wants to make their youth a little less miserable

But don't worry, the series leans quite a bit into the yuri

My first thought is that this isn't much of a love triangle if Diana can't even get the name of her crush right.

They hadn't interacted that much; seems obvious to me that Diana is hearing "Natori" as a name more familiar to her. Especially with Japan's l/r phoneme.

My point was more that in comparison, Lapis never seemed to need correcting on what to call her and always calls her Natori. Natori has to correct all kinds of people, so Diana just seems like every other person who doesn't get her name right. And more to the point, she doesn't seem to be putting in any effort to get her name right.

Like, in real life, if someone messes up a name and gets corrected it would be pretty rude to keep saying the wrong name.

I mean Natori IS the way a japanese person would pronounce Nataly, considering the manga's original language they are probably just making a joke were they write the name the same way but with katakana and hiragana.

ナタリー na-ta-rii vs ナトリ na-to-ri

Not the same pronunciation, the last two syllables are different

Wait, Lady Lapis is 15? Since Diana is and she's in her same class. Jeez, these high schoolers seem to be getting taller than most of my classmates were...

It's amazing what good nutrition can do to a teenage growth spurt. :-)

I was already around 170 cm by 12 so I can confirm

I wanna see Seika giving Kikuri the strap

Actually no, I wanna see PA-san give Seika and Kikuri the strap

This is Nijika POV I decided

she could just be saying that it'll be far more lewd than she ever thought it could be

... and more importantly, ch27 is up and we got a nice, if short little moment between the pair of main characters... and a whole lot of stuff other than that, as always :P Which I think makes it interesting - this manga does seem to me mostly about the magical revolution itself and the princess, and the relationship with Euphie, while important, doesn't take center stage. Even if repeat myself incessantly about how it would probaby better if they cut the dialogues in half, I still like it.

I am okay with Anise and Euphie's personal relationship being a subplot rather than the main plot, because I am convinced that being the Queen Consort is still Euphie's destiny... just with Anise as her Queen Regnant. :3

Their relationship is the main plot in volumes 1 and 3 of the novels. Volume 2, which is where we're at right now with the manga, has it on the backseat. It'll probably keep alternating so volume 4 will again have it be on the side.
Also, be prepared to be disappointed by volume 3 when the manga or anime get to it. It was bad.

Is this for the web novel or the light novel? I'm about to purchase the translated ones on Amazon to give a read through... is it that bad bad?????

Light novel. It's a "I really didn't like it and this development feels like it came out of nowhere" bad but not complete shit. I could see some people liking it, I just didn't. And Volume 4 might still make it work and Volume 3 does have some good in it like some nice relationship development but the main plot just does not work for me and feels very unsatisfying, made worse thanks to volume 2's ending being fantastic which got me so hyped for 3

... and more importantly, ch27 is up and we got a nice, if short little moment between the pair of main characters... and a whole lot of stuff other than that, as always :P Which I think makes it interesting - this manga does seem to me mostly about the magical revolution itself and the princess, and the relationship with Euphie, while important, doesn't take center stage. Even if repeat myself incessantly about how it would probaby better if they cut the dialogues in half, I still like it.

I am okay with Anise and Euphie's personal relationship being a subplot rather than the main plot, because I am convinced that being the Queen Consort is still Euphie's destiny... just with Anise as her Queen Regnant. :3

Their relationship is the main plot in volumes 1 and 3 of the novels. Volume 2, which is where we're at right now with the manga, has it on the backseat. It'll probably keep alternating so volume 4 will again have it be on the side.
Also, be prepared to be disappointed by volume 3 when the manga or anime get to it. It was bad.

"I'm on the bottom?"
Business as usual

Kinda weird seeing all these very negative comments to this when this is basically what I expected to happen regarding the whole roommate situation. This series has never had the most interesting story so I'm mainly here for the cute and the drama so these kinds of developments are just whatever to me. It's just like... sure? Why not?

It's not a reflection. There's just a small Bocchi rocking out in Kita's eye

Typically LN adaptations take 2 - 4 volumes depending on the pacing. MagiRevo will probably go for three since Volume 3's ending would work perfectly as an anime ending... which is kind of sad because Volume 3's ending is shit... But maybe the anime will make it better...?

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