Damn I really don't know how to feel, about reading a doomed relationship again...

I'll probably come back to this when it's finished and binge it at once.

i feel like Lillie and Moon never seem to actually kiss in this art, so this is a cute change of pace!

alright ya weirdos

Story's a bit amateur, but what enjoyable art. I can only hope the creator'll be able to improve their writing as time goes on.

Also wow what a design on that nurse. Guess they couldn't ignore the horny factor.

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we need more Okujima on here and in life

oof. once again great art of a toxic relationship

now what is going on here

I don't mind that this is a book as so much, but I do mind that it's not a very well written one. Aw well.

this dialogue is...not good. Even by porn standards.

It's a pretty simple reason, really: noone likes it. The reveal comes in a single line in a dlc that came a month after the original game, a reveal that holds no bearing on the narrative, themes or of any importance to the characters in the story itself, even if Azura was already romanced. Why should people care about something so arbitrary?

I mean I guess technically Corrin isn't related to any of them, but that's really just Fire Emblem having its incest cake and eating it too and smashing all its fans faces in it. But from the jump, the Hoshido family is supposed to be the Related ones, and the Nohr family is the adopted one. But you can romance them all anyway so it's basically playing to the incest fetish no matter how you cut it.

wait no that's just regular incest

I guess it's nice you're that comfortable with your parents. I certainly wouldn't want to be in the same room with my parents and a fan-service anime, but then again we did see Shape of Water together so, YMMV

you play dragons crown with your mom?

this is fuckin weird

Seems like some kind of Diamond Poly situation

You'll note that most of the criticism I made came regarding the physical features of the Marina design, predominantly the hair, and the most any of the detractors have said regarding her skin color in the uncolored pictures was me where I said I don't mind that all that much. If I'm gonna point out issues with the literal skin color I'd point to the colored picture on page 6, and all I'm gonna say about that is it's kinda weird the shade this artist used there is noticeably lighter than the art they used on page 1. That's weird right? What's up with that?

But let's put all that aside for a moment. Whitewashing is not just used for the literal lightening of skin, although that is a large and frequent way it winds up coming up. In this instance, it's because the author's interpretation of Human!Marina winds up removing nearly all the racial coding and characteristics of her regular design. Marina is functionally a black character, in narrative and in appearance, so in creating a design that effectively removes all of that racial basis, presumably out of pure ignorance from the artist using what they already know about character design, is not only kinda shitty, it makes her nearly unrecognizable. And that's bad in a purely artistic sense.

(Also, juan, what the hell are you talking about. Pearl's pointy tooth is a squid beak. Why would a human have a squid beak. And attractiveness is not a metric you can measure objectively but looking at the actual physical characteristics between the two designs there's very little actual deviation.)

Maybe instead of sighing over the injustice of people criticizing art for being too homogeneous in its character design

artists can learn how to-hear me out-

draw black people better.

I mean honestly would half the folk trying to disparage the conversation at hand be nearly as invested if the artist was accused of Same Face Syndrome, or bland and uninteresting backgrounds, or bizarre proportions or uneven linework.

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This is adorable and I love that the Sappholopods are getting the appreciation they deserve, but...

I gotta criticize that design of human!Marina. Look, I give plenty of slack I probably shouldn't to artists who wind up not coloring in her skin in a black-and-white comic, or pick a slightly too light shade when trying to stick to pastels, whatever. But I gotta draw a line here with this Marina, cuz it takes a very black coded character and, well, doesn't depict any of that blackness in the new design. Not just making her skin barely darker than Pearls, which is not good in and of itself, but the hair that's the real problem here. That kind of straight, vaguely messy hair tells me the artist wasn't sure how to translate the tentacle hair into a human, and thus wound up making a vague approximation based on what they already knew about drawing hair.

The problem is, it effectively whitewashes the original design because nothing about the new character exhibits any of the racial characteristics of the original. That's no good. Without context I could not tell you that's supposed to be Marina.

This art is actually astounding like wow.

Best Couple, this comic gives me life

Let's not subject each other to what food's supposedly better than other food now.

I was with you until the end there, don't be a creep you creep.

Or they live in the same home.

Except this one actually works