luinthoron posted:

Could someone please explain what she's talking about on page 26?

Editor here… had a rough time with that one lmao. We concluded it’s not supposed to make sense.

It makes little sense when talking about hair, of course, but it does use an actual Japanese expression

So maybe saying something like "I wish I had hair like yours," but in a slightly weird way?

Could someone please explain what she's talking about on page 26?

Pyoro posted:

As a German, I've never felt so insulted in my life as while reading this chapter, and there's a lot I get to hear about my home country. Finally I understand why people waste time on stuff like "sensitivity reading" ...

The idea that a German baker would be impressed be the flavorless sawdust pressed into vague bread shapes over freshly baked(!) real bread defies any reasonable belief. It's like suggestion to an Italian that frozen pizza is just as good, or to a French that processed cheese is perfectly acceptable, or to an American that ... well, forget Americans, they are hopeless, but otherwise!

(also how on earth is she slicing bread? Well, I'll not pretend I'm infinitely knowledgeable about how people do it; but I've never seen anyone cut a bread horizontally into some sort of pizza-shaped thing ^^; )

(also southern Germany - at least in parts - had notoriously bad soil. At the very least it's not particularly rich soil. That's why you get these sorta frugal-simple meals/lifestyles ^^)

I mostly agree that pitting actual artisanal bread against store bought confections was ... an interesting choice, I could also see someone from the past being temporarily mistaken about the quality. A lot of things we take for granted, some of which aren't even good, would have been viewed very differently back then.

The manga specifically mentions the texture, which makes sense, because achieving a relatively consistent and fluffy texture would have been difficult if you're dealing with poorly refined flower, questionable yeast, and inconsistent tools. The other big thing would be the sugar content, especially with the sort of desert breads she was offering. I'm pretty sure that much sugar would have been very expensive for a lot of history and people often like sweet things, so it could be a quick and dirty way of making something appear better than it is, even if we'd recognize it as a sign of low quality now.

doughnatsu posted:

They're BOTH foxes?? Oh I'm very in now! I think it's super cool both of them are mythical creatures. Now I want to know if this is gonna be a story of constant misinformation, or of trickery one-upsmanship, or something else completely. Now that the dynamic isn't human/monster, I don't know where we're going, but I'm excited!

Are they? From the way she was talking, I got the impression that she wasn't a fox, so maybe a wolf?

The squirrel jumping up at the end, to grab some stray flowers, is the cherry on top.

Ticcy hitting it out of the park with Sailor Moon yuri, yet again.

"G.S.H"?

It seems like this was part of a Promare AU.

The first two chapters seem to be out of order.

Other than that, this seems like it could be interesting and I wasn't expecting Frost to have an full on henshin sequence. With that said, she's a bit—extremely—incompetent.

I know Christmas isn't as big of a thing in Japan, but inviting her over to, presumably, talk to her dad about music on that day still seems like a bit much. Even without the prom that was just announced, isn't it still something of an event where you'd expect people to be making plans with their families, friends, or loved ones?

Although, with that said, the prom seems to start at 6:00pm, and a lot of romantic activity tends to happen in the evening, or later. It seems unlikely her dad would want to talk business that late, so unless Aya had plans to spend the whole day with Koga, it realistically shouldn't cause that much of a scheduling conflict.

Still awful timing and a bit rude.

I kind of love how she went from "I've never been excited by girls either" to "isn't one week too short" over the course of less than a day.

I've been meaning to ask this for a while, but was the entire start of this show an extended lesbian joke, complete with a not!Uhaul?

I think I'm going to need a spinoff series based on this group of side characters. The dynamic seems like it could be entertaining.

^Maybe I'm looking at something different from y'all? I'm on desktop, no premium and not signed in, so no block on tags. 271 images and maybe 5 have a male in them, and none of them show the male's body: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/6210083/illustrations

There are a handful of het pics on that first page, though not all of them are obvious from the thumbnails.

Ah fanfics, the world of shipping never had a better blessing.

Is this based on a specific fanfic, or do you just mean in general?

I can't help but notice how, for most of this chapter, Koga is mostly under the umbrella and Aya is just completely out in the rain

I can help but notice that the first account that followed her is named 8ha7na5ko3san and I can't help but wonder if a certain ghost might make an appearance. I also wonder if those numbers have any significance I'm missing.

I have a suspicion this isn't Precure

...

I did notice that tag, but I just saw the "Something"-heart names and jumped to Precure, which is extra silly, because that's not even the naming format Precure uses.

Good job me.

... Are the Precures Hollows this season?

Why are there so many Touhou characters with similar sounding names that start with Y? Off the top of my head there's Yukari, Yuuka, Yuuma, Yuyuko, and Youmu and I'm pretty sure there are more.

Ok. I'm familiar with Lovely Labyrinth and her Knight, but what's the backstory with these two?

This aged so badly with the school shooting part :X

I haven't actually played the game, but considering the first episode came out in 2023, I don't think it "aged poorly" so much as it's commenting on an ongoing issue for the US.

Is there some event going on where they all lost their memories?

kittey posted:

Bugger me, Chapter 100 is right around the corner. Also, does Kei's getup meet school regulations? Given how strict Japanese Schools can be, I reckon Mitsuki's attire is pushing it. Even though she looks so boss.

I vaguely remember a manga from a while back where one of the characters wore the opposite gender’s school uniform by abusing the loophole that their school’s regulations only required the students to wear “the” school uniform, but didn’t specify if it had to be the boys’ or girls’ one.

A few years ago I read an article about some Japanese schools intentionally changing their regulations like that in order to become more accommodating for trans students. Some schools went even further by only requiring students’ school uniforms to consist of the approved items, so students were free to mix and match as they wanted. Apparently, the girls’ blouse and blazer with the boys’ pants became a popular combination for girls in winter, to the surprise of absolutely no-one.

Revolutionary Girl Utena?

I just realized, her demon form at the end looks incredibly similar to the demon Sulleta design from this artist: