I have this franchise figured out! GENSOKYO IS MAGICAL GIRL VALHALLA ! It explains everything.

The otaku-gyaru and her gyaru friend are so perfect for each other, it was disappointing to see Subtext . ngl.I mean, her goddess thinks she's cute! When is the wedding?

I'm actually really fond of heartbreak love revenge stories like Roundabout.

"Because I'm not Popular I'll Drink lots of Milk and Let the Raging Psycho Lesbians at my School Rub My Breasts as Much as They Want, And They'll Develop"

BTW Emily Uchi, the cheerleader who's in canon fascinated by Tomoko as a lesbian perv, literally told Shizuku "don't get cocky, bitch!" out of nowhere. It semed to me she was warning her away from Tomoko. So there is a yandere element

On this page https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/girlfriend_limited_to_7_days_ch02#13 in the 2nd panel the dark-haired girl's braid is completely gone and she looks years younger . Then she reverts. Did gettinng hugged by Manatsu trigger a memory for her? Is this one of the sources of her dating idea? And then I read on, and I remember her middle school crush debacle, and that totally is her flashing back to being hugged by the person who said that reminds me you're just a middle school girl.

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The whole series is a cautionary tale about waifus - that was the gateway addiction.

Notice the "Marin" just like in the trash ronin student hard life call-girl series. If your parents actually named you Marin or something that girls at school would shorten to Marin, wouldn't that give you a funny feeling?

I think Nanao is great but somehow Mai is just the romance to me. I like how she's all nervous about what to text Asumi. Yeah, Asumi has become Yurika of Yurika's Campus Life

show of hands, which of them is REALLY the moron here?

Ah yes the totally unique characteristics of an invisible girl named Akari with dango hair lol

who are you talking about? isn't there only one character? Runa Kiyozumi?

Now that I think about it, there is Natsumi something she's someone's aunt.

There's the school nurse - do you think she'll get together with Runa? Oh, wait, she's her sister.

There is some other girl, too, but not sure she's important enough to remember.

ALSO: Omochi is a literal wing woman.

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I just conceptualize it as a Nico x Nozomi relationship and I can understand it.

Kodama Naoko did a number on the MC, I see.

Also, is Hisa already done playing? I can't imagine Kiyosumi winning without her - she's the 2nd best, isn't she? Saki alone can't beat Teru and a strong team, right? Maybe that's the set-up. Shiraitodai wins, but Saki has fun and reconciles or something, so she wins a Rocky-like moral victory.

on edit i guess the sergeants match WAS Hisa's last match. haha. the finals are going to last until their grandchildren graduate I think.

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Good point about Hisa. Agreed, playing mahjong for a year straight before you go to the hospital to have your arm re-broken and straightened is a sign of proper dedication to the sport.

I was excited to learn the dark secrets of the Miyanaga family, but will Ritz live long enough to tell us? I feel like if Twin Peaks had waited a couple of decades to tell us who killed Laura Palmer at this point.

"Most Hikawa Shou lesbians live lives of quiet desperation" - Psychic Thoreau

From reading the webnovel (not farther than the manga) I am rooting for Yui, actually. I think she loves heroinu protagonisto as much as the genki pixie dream girl does.I would be shocked if this wasn't a triangle.

This is going way back, but I saw comments that Hirose was relieved Takamine left volleyball because she didn't have to deal with her feelings of jealousy (which she had gone through in the past). But I think she was partly relieved - and partly disappointed - on behalf of the girl, who wasn't Hirose, the president, who was crushed at losing her position. Both Hirose and Takamine overheard her complaining to her friend about it. Hirose was relieved that that girl got her position back. As was Takamine.

Literally the OTP of Love Live

literally

to use a metric I discussed a long while back, when it was closer, there's about 15% more Maki x Nico chapters and 15% more Maki x Nico images on Dynasty Reader than there are Eli x Nozomi. And on the fanfiction.net site there's about 5% more Maki x Nico than Eli x Nozomi. Because earlier stories didn't use the pairing flag often, just stories with Eli & Nozomi vs those with Maki x Nico, there's about 10% more Maki x Nico stories. The situation is similar on archiveofourown.org with Nico x Maki stories being about 12% more common than Eli x Nozomi. And no other ship besides Eli x Nozomi comes close. Ironically, one of the rivals, though, is Nico x Nozomi, which must make Nico feel special. Google results using Youtube have about only 2% more Maki x Nico videos than Nozmi x Eli/Eri videos. So they are the leading pair but does that make them the OTP???

Also I really like the title. At first glance it appears to refer to Momo, who is the one getting married in a week. But when we see the marriage registration form, the one indicated in the "wife-to-be" column is Kou.

Great catch. Just grinds the pain in more, doesn't it.

I wonder what the angel did to get kicked out of heaven to hell

I think a jealous fellow angel did it.

This is very true to the PV/Drama CDs of NicoMaki that began it all before the series aired.

Assuming for the purposes of this question that series which are yuri or subtext that loop are waiting for one couple to get together, and assuming that stories that don't loop had the one chosen couple get together, which series and which couples spring to mind?

My choices so far:

YuruYuri is waiting on Himawari x Sakurako. Almost without a doubt.
(#2 Ayano x Kyoko #3 Yui x Kyoko)

Virgins Empire is waiting on Ayano x Miyoshi

Love Live! School Idol Project didn't loop
Probably Eli x Nozomi or Hanayo x Rin allowed it to escape
If it ran 2 seasons because it was waiting for the non-loop pair, Maki x Nico

Is Saki looping or simply in a time-slowing bubble of deep gravity? Does it loop individual days instead of years?
If Saki is looping, it probably awaits Nodoka x Saki
#2 is Hisa x Mihoko

K-On! didn't loop (famously)
My guess is that Azusa tried to make it loop waiting for the Azusa x Yui pairing, based on what she said.
But the Mio x Ritsu pairing was simply too powerful for that to work.

Tsundere yuri ? I can't help but think of nicomaki

In the original PVs and drama CDs they were both narcissistic and arrogant, though Maki had more reasons to be. They competed for attention but also looked out for each other. then they started being tsunderes but it was in mock situations specific to the PVs. They kind of agreed to go along with each other's ego stuff. Nico was a chatterbox and Maki was always preening.

Next should be yuri tsundere/yandere.

Suicide girl's expression shows she could go that way, too.

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What makes this great is that neither of them are scheming. In the LNs, it's classic that one of them is more experienced or more sure of themselves so they put the other through the wringer until they admit they are attracted, or even attraction is partly manufactured. Neither the gyaru nor the yūtōsei are doing that, they're both just getting swept away. Which makes it romantic.

Also, she's gone the opposite way from Naoko Kodama - who started with things like Renai Manga - the fluffiest yuri manga in history - got more angsty with Cocytus - got more angsty yet and more gritty about characters in NTR, etc.

This mangaka started out with a lot of red-flag romances and then arrived at this fluffy series that is nonetheless interesting.

Ugh, I'm scared my poor little gyaru baby is gonna have her heart broken.

It's the yūtōsei that's wide awake shocked at how much she likes your little gyaru baby! She is just as much at risk.

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