The pacing on this feels breakneck.

What is it, 2006? There is no such thing as "shoujo ai", it's something Western otaku made up. Yuri is just yuri.

Was this the last chapter? Please tell me there's more

Shoujo Ai is a thing that was made up by puritanical westerns obsessed with 'purity'. This term needs to fucking die already.

Eh? It might not be a term in Japan, but this isn't a site that caters to a Japanese audience and we're communicating in English, so I don't think that really matters very much. The better question is if the term conveys useful information to western readers and in that regard it's a mixed bag. On the one hand, having a term that encapsulates "cute girls being close to each other, but not romantically involved, with a strong focus on their relationship" could be useful. At the same time, we seem to have moved away from hard genres and more towards multiple tags for how we classify stories and in that context there might be a combination of tags that does a better job describing things than a fairly vague and overarching term like shoujo ai.

This feels very emblematic of the Anthology title. technically a bad end, they got separated. But merry bc there's still the hopeful possibility of them reconnecting in the future. Good stuff~

Also, even if they don't meet up again, both of their lives seem to have been improved by the meeting.

The new girl seems fun, but I'm shocked Nagi didn't immediately off her when she suggested Airi should cut ties with her. Good thing she was distracted by those pictures.

As someone who actually works in finance, this one was ... interesting.

Was she just sitting there, playing with herself, while Raiden played with her Switch?

Also what is that tentacle doing there? Did Ina run it under the table?

Oh. I guess Flare isn't blushing just because her fav is holding her smutty fan-fic right in front of her.

Magia_Baiser posted:

Are the paper bags diegetic? I feel like they're probably symbolic, but what if they aren't? (:

They seem to be both. Yes, this is a world where some Japanese school girls go around with paper bags on their head, while hiding behind pillars, and nobody notices them until another school girl comes along and helps them rip it off. At the same time, the entire thing seems to be a metaphor.

Zoro from one piece went to the gay smut expo apparently. He could have invited the rest of the crew, what gives :(

Implying that he's not lost and/or standing in line for Nami.

It really does feel like either I'm missing something or this story is and I'm leaning towards the latter.

Mannic posted:

I don't get it? Lol. Because she commented on the nails and she hates the nurse she refuses to ever do her nails again?

I think—strong emphasis on think—that she took the nurse's questions about her nails as a reprimand and comment on her being a foolish kid, rather than the innocuous small talk and mild curiosity they probably were. There's also the whole thing where she admits that the nurse probably brushed off the whole incident, but she wants it to be more important to her. And I guess her desire for it to be more important resulted in her acting like it was and rejecting what she labeled as childish behavior on her own?

I don't know. Like I said, it feels like it's missing something, but I'm not entirely sure what.

Mannic posted:

Akiba can step on me any day as well. I have a feeling she's gonna be an issue later since it's not known these two are dating she can pursue Saa-chan out in public and they might even try and force them together for a work or something to gain publicity/fans

Counter point: That would be a fantastic opportunity to play even harder into the whole Wicked Witch thing they've got going and do an enemies to lovers bit, which would be way more hype and have room for way more drama than just having Akiba come in and steal Butterfly Cat's heel. I mean, the story arc practically writes itself: Akiba notices the Wicked Witch's potential and offers her a chance at an even bigger spotlight, if only she'd come to her side. Of course, she really only wants her as a shinier rival and has no intention of letting Suda step out of her shadow. Suda, being the awful heel that she is, is tempted by the offer of fame and glory, but Cat realizes she actually cares about the Witch as more than just a rival. They have one, last, climactic fight with Cat putting everything on the line to get her feelings across, but Suda won't here a word of it, until she starts winning and it looks like she might actually break away. At the last minute she refuses to finish the fight and it ends in a draw, allowing them both to move on together, to take on the brightest star.

Mannic posted:

Rea seems a little batshit insane.

Just a little. ...

It's also interesting that the insanity seems to have been a thing before the witch hunts and not just a result of trauma and injury (at least not from the witch hunts). It also seems to be tied to her magic, which looks more instinctive and internal than what we've seen from the other witches.

Soooo... Any more of this or any chance of getting those other two chapters on here?

I know this isn't going to happen, but I can't help but imagine a world where everyone's read on this is 180° backwards. Mao wasn't visiting the guy. She's actually gay and was visiting her girlfriend, who she has a healthy relationship with, but one or both of them isn't out, so she had to keep it a secret. She didn't understand how he could be treating her better, because she's never had feelings for him and they've never been in a relationship.

The whole interaction with the bottle doesn't really fit that, but I think I can fix that. To keep with the theme of Nina completely misunderstanding things, let's assume he knows about Mao's relationship and helps her out, from time to time, and even acts as a beard. That still leaves the question of who the bottle actually belongs to and the obvious answer would be that he's playing around, but since none of this is going to be correct, let's ignore that and say it's actually his. Or, more accurately, hers, because Mr. Nice Guy, is secretly trans and actually Ms. Nice Gal. She has someone coming over who would react poorly to finding a feminine beauty product (possibly an extremely conservative relative). In a moment of panic, she didn't realize it was hers and grabbed it to return to Nina, before she could get caught.

None of this is going to happen, but it could have.

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cranscape posted:

Wakana so far has picked the other kin. She has that doll thing going on and is fixated on Ruruna as her favorite, but she seems fine with growing the group of kin/dolls on her terms. This complete outsider isn't going to make Wakana's cut at this rate unless she somehow incorporates her into how she wants to play, but it could still work with a bit of effort.

Well, yeah. Ruruna might be the master, but this is Wakana's harem and her show.

LilyBlueCat posted:

Girl dressed like Kim possible :D
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/weve_been_reincarnated_theres_no_way_im_giving_you_my_mana_again_ch08#2

I was getting more Yang vibes, but I'll take KP too.

Oh. I just noticed the picture in the background where the brown haired girl is holding some guy's hand and he's heavily scribbled out. ... That makes her expression hit very differently.

Oh well. Still a pretty pic.

Just looking at her works on here, she seems quite fond of buff girls, in general, regardless of their skin tone. Can't say I blame her.

johnb posted:

Bad timing and a missing tag.

Well that explains why I missed it the first time around. I always really like these conlang and silly translations.

Cornonthekopp posted:

I seriously thought this was an april fools chapter at first

Yeah, it took me a minute to remember that Electric Sheep and Wisteria is the name of the in universe series. With that said, were there any april fool's comics this year? I'm missing my annual dose of conlangs.

Nonna_SoF posted:

So now we have another couple... a yuri digital exhibitionist couple... those two really just need to fuck already.

I'm not sure if you were paying enough attention to this chapter. Clearly the streamer needs to fuck someone else, while her friend watches.

The thing that has them so shocked is that Marissa's hat didn't stay on.

Wasn't it originally a major staple of her comics?

Pyoro posted:

Mh, an actual witch-conflict plot in the background(?). Unexpected, I gotta say. Feels a bit ... lazy to just them die while sitting around? When everyone frequently teleports as they want ...

I think only one character has been shown with the ability to teleport others and she seemed unwilling to send anyone into the fight.

Hm.
Sadako can (at least) travel through devices, and the Fire Witch seems to have wanted to do the teleporting before Sadako ran away (she then teleports herself and her partner to the Sabbath base I'm pretty sure); and yeah Boss Lady can clearly teleport others and herself.

Also; she picked up Sadako and Hanako by remote-viewing, basically; so I was thinking more like doing something to save that witch / people than necessarily going to fight them.

Fair, but I'm not sure any of them could have teleported fast enough to prevent Bruxa from getting attacked, since they were still figuring out what was going on and the attack came as a surprise. After that, either she was already dead (and beyond help) or she wasn't and not in much further danger, Ivet made it sound like she didn't expect to the enemy witches to keep hurting another witch without reason. That just leaves teleporting in to save the humans, but I'm not sure how much Ivet actually cares about that and, even if she does, jumping in to such a chaotic situation, without knowing what's going on, is a good way to get injured and/or create new problems.

I'm sorry, this arc was feeling fast-paced and poorly executed before they introduced a evil organization that murders indiscriminately. Feels like a massive tone shift (yes I know people died in ch 1 but it was a lot sillier).

I'm getting major axe vibes. Love Sal Jiang and the concept but at the rate it's going, I feel like it won't make it another volume...

The entire story has been pretty fast paced and there have been hints of darker elements and more going on behind the scenes, even if you discount Sadoko's introductory murders. Similarly, while the nature of "The Revolutionary Organization" is a bit surprising, I was expecting at least one additional faction to appear. So, overall, this feels like a fairly natural progression to me. I will admit that using a surprise attack to introduce them, rather than following Mone, does feel a bit sudden, but part of that is also the way it slows things down. After all, without their interruption, it's likely that more of Sadako's mysteries would have been discussed and those are much more central to the story and its conclusion.

Ultimately, this could be the result of the axe and an looming early end, but I hope that's not the case.

Pyoro posted:

Mh, an actual witch-conflict plot in the background(?). Unexpected, I gotta say. Feels a bit ... lazy to just them die while sitting around? When everyone frequently teleports as they want ...

I think only one character has been shown with the ability to teleport others and she seemed unwilling to send anyone into the fight.