It's funny how Luxi is a boss in social interactions but slips right into the subspace at the slightest provocation from Tongtong. Is that what they call a "power bottom", or does this term mean something else (honestly curious)?

"Power Bottom" is more about someone who takes on the dominant role while being on the receiving end of a sexual encounter.

This would probably be more similar to "reversal," which is where a normally dominant person takes on the submissive role or vice versa

HololiveEN has been doing a big companywide RPG event on their minecraft server called "ENigmatic Recollection". Gigi and Ame decided to do an extended love story RP storyline on the side where they fell in love but Ame got amnesia and lost her memories of their time together. Then there was a whole arc about Ame regaining her memories and reuniting with Gigi

It was one of the main highlights of the campaign

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I can't quite tell if Hawk girl is confident or not lol
One minute she's flying through windows and facing down Aya in front of Koga, the next she's just awkwardly staring while her friends desperately wingman

As soon as I heard Kiara tell this tale, I knew there would be fanart xD

^^and then Nemo grudgingly went along with it because Matama seemed so excited

@Sistinas - Koshi found a deer in the clubroom, thought it was Shikanoko transformed and tried to pull it away from the plants. For some reason she tried to do this by pulling it by the hips xD

And thus was established the true ultimate meaning of life. To create horny fanart of God and Satan's lesbian antics for their benefit

at this rate I'll literally b dead before she finds out

I'm half expecting to find out that she already knows and is pretending not to because she's a good fan who is committed to supporting her Oshi's desire for privacy

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Yay! We're back!

Can't believe the scanlators didn't want to translate Sukoya's rant xD

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This might be the longest I kept reading a series without enjoying it too much, it's kinda hard to drop if it's only 4 pages at a time but I realized I actually stopped caring about anything that happens in it long ago :P Not sure I can pinpoint why, I think it's partly the author's very chaotic presentation style and heavy reliance on "a character reacted in a funny way, please laugh".

Well, this story is designed to be realistic and relatable, so the focus is less on raw entertainment and more on your investment in the characters and their emotional journeys. The events themselves are less important that how the characters choose to process them

If you aren't relating enough to care about the characters, then you're probably going to have a boring time

By the way, what's the deal with the nun giving Hanako a new name to send her off? It's not remarked on at all, what am I missing here?

I'm guessing this is related to the old Catholic tradition where someone is given a new "christian" name upon joining the church to signify being "born again" as a new creation under Jesus

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Probably nina was crawling forward and her knee accidentally touched Momoka between the legs, stimulating her

I feel like that's the trope they're going for

Should have been a white lion with wings... :P

"my Crush" Dying in Gay Panic

Before you get too excited, the original word was "my Oshi." The scanlators like to translate it to "crush" for this series but Oshi is actually used to refer to an artist you love and support

Yeees, although I've noticed a recurrent theme in stuff with an "Oshi" of how people aren't supposed to actually be in love with their oshi but they are anyway.

Probably intentional
I'm noticing a theme where Aya may be using the term to avoid acknowledging her gay feelings by pretending they are just feelings of admiration for a talented artist

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"my Crush" Dying in Gay Panic

Before you get too excited, the original word was "my Oshi." The scanlators like to translate it to "crush" for this series but Oshi is actually used to refer to an artist you love and support

She's heard of lesbians.

To be fair, due to the Japanese commitment to conformity and appearing "normal," LGBT people have much less visibility in Japan outside of the entertainment industry to the point where many doubt that it's a real thing or just consider it something distant that foreigners and weird people do

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0 self awareness girl

I feel like she has plenty of self-awareness, even if she is probably overthinking things too much

She is aware that she normally doesn't go for girls but that this one is special. Which is fair, sexual preferences, like most things biological, aren't always black and white

^This is the internet. Pedantry is king here xD

Japanese doesn't pluralize any of its words. Closest it comes is the "-tachi" suffix which basically means "and those associated with them."

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Yeah,the snake part of her lore kind of gets forgotten a lot lol

Because they are EXTRAS - not part of the main story.

You act like people are crazy for clicking on something with the YURI TAG and wanting YURI

This is just straight up not yuri past like part of the way through volume 2, and has no sign of going back to that. And if it’s true, apparently the author said herself it’s not a yuri so why does it still have the yuri tag and not subtext or side lesbian couple (forget that one tag)

I understand not everyone enjoys slow burn stories. If you don't like the story anymore that's ok. but asking others not to read this anymore is indeed crazy.

We all have our preferences, what you are considering a blasphemy is for others normal, and realistic. I myself mostly use the "shoujo ai" tag when I'm looking for new things to read because "Yuri" from experience would make all the smut and erotica appear, maybe that's what she meant when she said this wasn't Yuri.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure when she says she doesn't consider it yuri, she means that she isn't pandering to the crowd that wants eroticized gayness with loads of fanservice. She wants to keep it toned down and closer to the way she believes people would actually behave

^they'll probably try something like that untkl Laios realizes the box is a species of clam, pries it open and they feast on chowder while Marcille grumbles in embarrassment

The usual xD

I think that with the success of this work, the gay shenanigans had to take a backseat because the main sponsors of Sumiko have become the music industry (mainly Universal Music Japan) and not the manga industry or the yuri fandom.

She's been enrolled to promote Universal's catalog in Japan, not to promote the gay agenda.

For her sponsors, the gay is secondary. It's cute and it adds some appeal to the manga, but it's not the main theme anymore.

The first part focused on Aya and Mitsuki and the gender misunderstanding, but once it was out of the way, the second part focused mostly on music, because it's what pays the bills for Sumiko. So she toned down the romance (still keeping the rizz moments) and propped up the western music side.

So I wouldn't expect any actual onscreen kiss or definite gay thing, because it's become too big for that unfortunately, even if Sumiko has not shied away from the gay in the past.

That’s disgusting, I hope the yuri fans are smart enough to leave now that it’s seemingly going nowhere

The author said from the beginning that she doesn't consider it a yuri. It was never intended to pander to that fandom. It's a cute story about relatable characters, rock music, and Japanified Americana and I still love tuning in every week

I've been reading on Bookwalker and they're only on volume 13. Didn't realize the last one was already out. I'll need to look around for it

Edit: Ah, official release date for Vol14 in english is July 23, 2024

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The manga is only up to the part where the winged lion is defeated so Falin still needs to be resurrected again for any relationship progression to happen

As far as I can tell, there isn't a light novel. This story began in manga format

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