SpencerSDH posted:

I mean, you can't realistically kill yourself by eating cherry blossom petals, so should the suicide tag even be there? The point might just be that she's trying to do it, but failing.
With sakura trees, the chemicals that convert into cyanide in the body are found in much higher amounts in the seeds, leaves, and bark. Now, you would still have to eat a lot of them very quickly, and in the case of seeds and bark, chew them extremely thoroughly. You would not be able to kill yourself before you began suffering from effects of mild poisoning, which would prevent you from eating enough to reach lethal levels.

She specifically says "leaves", not petals.

Also, if you read the Suicide tag's description, you'll see it also applies to attempts.

Also, you can really tell who in this comment section does or has done drugs/smokes weed. The author made up a fake drug as a thematic device, and ya'll are acting like she personally narced you. There are really bad drugs out there that have horrible effects on the body. Would you have the same response if they were shooting heroin?

They were eating pills with little hearts on them, so it was probably MDMA or similar.

appstore posted:

Well idk about anyone else but what I got from this one-shot is that drug yuri sex is awesome

It's to die for even.

It's just a oneshot guys.

Author just wanted to say "drugs bad" and the oneshot format makes it lack in depth and character building, but it's inherent to most oneshots. It does what it wanted to do and while not groundbreaking, it does an okay job.

RadiosAreObsolete posted:

@Nya-chan What's MMM?

I have no expectations for even a slightly satisfying conclusion. The disappointment I have in how this manga turned out after such a strong first volume is immense.

MMM are Margaret, Marina and Moon, the 3 influencers living in Salem. Figures you forgot about their collective name.

Golden Brown posted:

Am I high or did the translation quality just dip? There were a lot of unnatural word choices and instances of bad phrasing.

I didn't notice anything amiss. Then again, the manga itself is confusing, maybe it comes from that.

It's the penultimate chapter and the rush is palpable.

Looks like Sal Jiang had planned a whole story around Ivet, Mary, Sabbath, the revolutionary organization, Hanako being impervious to magic, Sadako being a "monster" only tamed by Hanako, but the several hiatuses and the introducing of MMM with which both MC had more chemistry than with each other killed all the momentum. Everyone wanted Sadako and Hanako to have a romance, but the romance was with side characters, one of which was totally presenting as a "man".

I guess Sal Jiang had circumstances, or her editor botched their job, but the axe was inevitable here.

What's weird is how it's been licensed in French and in English, when it's not even sure the next volumes will ever come out physically in Japanese. Foreign publishers and readers got scammed.

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deltahalo241 posted:

This honestly seems really tame compared to what the description of the anthology suggests the other stories will be about

Taking creepshots is a crime.

I prefer when stories are an unpredictable mess. Kyoukano, my beloved

Better than high school romance where you just know they're going to end up together anyway and the whole story is just a pile of misunderstandings.

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If you think about it, Kaede isn't really wrong about "fate".

In the first chapter, Ai grabs Kon, thinking it was Kaede, even though they don't look alike at all. But somehow, Kon was actually linked to Kaede, as they had crossed path in a gas station. How fateful is that?

Just when Ai was about to get rid of the necklace, it falls under the bed where she find the business card of the husband, which Kon was sure she had thrown away, but somehow resurfaced. What are these coincidences?

In "Brides of Iberis", fate and "God's will" were already implied themes. Here, Akiyama Haru rekindles it with the recurring theme of "fate". It was even the tag line of the first chapter.

So, what does fate has in stock for these 3 women?

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GNneko posted:

Say, where do you fine folks get update on when you can finally read a series officially?
I missed so many good manga cause I don’t know when and where the read them after scans drop them.

On mangadex, there's usually a link to the official English page.

Okay?

A bit of a nothing burger imo.

Nothing really happened except a couple's spat.

Their couple has issues, and nothing was solved.

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Are we suuure they're trans? /j

The confusion is mostly due to the fact that in manga, the authors rarely address the topic of transness, unless it's a work dedicated to the topic.

Kitano, on our side, can only be interpreted as trans. On the Japanese side, the topic is irrelevant. It's about boys crossdressing, being cute and maybe falling in love with boys(?). It's like Prunus girl. Whether the character is trans or not isn't the point. It's a romance between a boy and another gender-ambiguous character.

Well, to me, Kitano is trans, there's not much debate to have.

Well, if Kitano is trans, then this is not yaoi.

appstore posted:

Looking forward to this one, love the art-style!

For some reason is tagged as shojo on baka updates, but it’s a seinen and all official sites confirms that, as for genre it’s only tagged as SF and Gag manga (no yuri either).
I assume it will be like Magical Girl 201 (or Stupid Woman 26:00) at least, but if it doesn’t I don’t really care, the lolita is all I need.

edit: It’s tagged yuri only on the author pixiv

It's tagged yuri on Takecomic

https://takecomic.jp/series/f6b42b56cc099

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johnb posted:

What's with new series that drop backdated chapters like they've been posting the whole time

Because they aren't newly released.

The dates on Dynasty are the release dates by the group, not the upload dates. Which means these chapters have been released elsewhere before and are uploaded only now (either because a staff suddenly remembered or they just got the group's permission).

So, it's always better to look at the "Recently added" page instead of the front page if you don't want to miss an addition to the site.

Yeah, it looks like some people have reading comprehension problems when a story isn't all about lesbians making out or going "but we're both girls".

True, the release pacing isn't great, but the storyline is pretty clear. It's an action manga. Not a romance manga.

We just got introduced the main baddy witch.

Other people could relate to that very same character and feel uncomfortable being called trans by proxy.

For me, Ren's character is written as being uncomfortable with being assigned a gender, or being expected to act a certain way, wear certain clothes or have a certain voice. And if you read the small character in the pages of chapter 4, you'd see that people keep asking them "do you know the term x-gender?" or "Are you going to get surgery?". Well intentioned people piling up pressure on them to conform to "something". Which is something that some people may relate to and which you are, in my opinion, participating into.

Anyway, I'll stop this conversation, because you're veering into being grossly insulting to someone you know nothing about and seem to be unable to keep this civil. Just ignore me from now on.

Lilification posted:

God you are so fucking insufferable that it's a miracle no one else has called you out on your horseshit. Do you get like this when someone talks about a character not explicitly stated to be a lesbian is called a lesbian? Do you get this pedantic about subtext? Why the fuck is "UM, AKSHUALLY THEY NEVER SAID THEY'RE TRANS OR (whatever fucking label)" your hill to die on?

Keep the ad-hominem off this forum.

girlswhokiss posted:

You may not identify as trans but you are included in it because of your relation to society, and I'm not going to force you to call yourself that because it is a personal preference, and I myself do not use a certain label that does apply to me because it makes me very uncomfortable, but when we are analyzing our relation to society, that's what you'd fall under because you are not cis.

Love being portrayed as the evil mean one in a discussion for clearly seeing someone treating transness as something inherently bad that's forced on a character by people who relate to them!

I never said being trans was bad. Don't distort my thoughts.Trans people are very fine people, I don't have any problem with them.

I just object to put people in little boxes they never asked to be put into.

Some people are averse to the word "trans", it's true. These people should be educated of course, but applying the term to those who didn't ask for it may make them a target.

And I think in a chapter of this very manga, the author made it clear that being labeled was harrowing to Ren.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/pale_blue_green_color_saudade_ch04#12

And if this manga is a bit autobiographical, you can feel the pain of the author when they're told what they should be. A man, a woman, a trans. I'm not even sure they want to identify as non-binary.

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FluffyCow posted:

As someone that identifies in a non-binary leaning and generally gender flexible way I don't personally identify as trans. For my own person I don't want other people to apply terms to me that I don't identify as. There are of course non-binary people that do identify as trans, and I think this character could go either way. That said I want to be supportive of anyone that does identify as trans or otherwise, and I think everyone relating to this series is valid.

People on Dynasty seem to think differently and will call you trans, whether you like it or not.

Lilification posted:

"You're free to think they're trans, but if you express that I'm going to argue with you and be a pedant about it"

I'm going to exercise my right to free speech, yes.

girlswhokiss posted:

Non-binary is trans. What makes someone trans is if they aren't cis, no matter if they're 'binary' or 'non-binary', and it's pretty clear Ren is not a cis woman. I don't understand this reluctance to call a clearly trans character what they are, trans.

"Non-binary is an identity embraced by some people who do not identify exclusively as a man or a woman. Non-binary people may identify as being both a man and a woman, somewhere in between or as falling completely outside of these categories. While many also identify as transgender, not all non-binary people do."

https://www.hrc.org/resources/transgender-and-non-binary-faq

As long as the character (or the author) doesn't clarify, it's unknown.

Forcing a label on them they don't identify as is rude.You're free to think they're trans, but the tag/label shouldn't set it in stone.

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Still not convinced Ren is trans.

They obviously hate their female features (since it seems they're wearing a binder) and speak in a male pattern (boku), which would point to them wishing to be a man. But according to previous chapters, and what I read ahead, they're feeling stuck in the middle and frustrated by society forcing them into one or the other, so I think they're more non-binary.

I'd hold up on the trans tag until we reach the relevant chapters.

ninryu posted:

Chapter 1?? It's not a oneshot???

No. Chapter 2 is up on Pixiv.

Giftnova posted:

At no moment has any character explicitly raised any questions about liking someone of the same gender. Only about being different.

A distinction without a difference. To be queer is to be different/the other. Not every message has to be as subtle as a car crash to be understood.

But being different isn't being queer.

Different taste in music, in clothes, in language, in skin color...