Yeah it's not the fact that's het, it's that it's both het and a generic self-insert avatar. So there's not even two characters we see interacting with each other, just one character and [YOU, the Reader], which is extremely cringe.

Yeah... does this really belong here? A self-insert het comic?

Just in case someone actually doesn't know, the umas are not literally the horses they're inspired by. They inherit the horse's name and spirit, but it's an abstract thing.

Actually just finished a rewatch yesterday. Still one of my favorite anime overall. Groovin' Magic still stimulates my deep neurons.

I feel this chapter Sal Jiang just got wild, lol. Like... "Imma draw everything that is fun for me... boobs, ass, oozing sex appeal... and let's throw in a ton of cats and Ayaka in a cute outfit too. You can't stop me, series is done." lol

You put my exact thoughts into words. This wasn't just a fanservice chapter, it was Sal Jiang doing author service. Very fun.

I'm still not shipping any of the cupids, personally. I mean, the fact that they explicitly are incapable of falling in romantic love with anyone until their period of service to the goddess of love concludes seems like a helluva obstacle.

That aside, energetic trouble making short girl x stern taller girl who gripes but can (at least mostly) keep up with her is an enjoyable dynamic.

Of course, I only ship couples that are 100% canon compliant. Shipping two people who aren't or can't be together in canon? Heresy. For example, I'd never ship two canonically straight girls together.

What is pacing?

The problem is that good ships grow from good source material. Digimon doesn't have good source material. It's mostly kiddy shounen anime with "default heterosexual" couples when there's any pairing at all, and most of the games are heavily gameplay-oriented with little chance to develop interesting characters or relationships. Cyber Sleuth was some of the best food we ever got, and even that was plagued by shoddy localization.

And we still haven't forgotten the awful post-timeskip pairings from Adventure...

Honestly I just find the plot fundamentally unbelievable. You're telling me someone who can whip up an intelligent, human-passing synthetic with full sapience couldn't get funding from corps? Techbro investors would be dumping money on her faster than you can say "cheap labor." And that's not even getting into the idea that someone smart enough to make a sapient robot would go "oh you're just a robot, let me edit your mind now that you're obsolete."

Just incredibly contrived for the sake of the "disturbing" ending.

Bit of a mistranslation, in the original Marine says "ore no wawachin PIIII," referring to her hypothetical girlpenis.

Incredible selection of guest artists, perfectly appropriate.

Afaik the guest artists are usually friends of the author and they arrange it directly, or coworkers and it gets arranged through the publisher. In this case I'm guessing they know each other through their shared interests.

I see a lot of ships I don't like, and when I do I say nothing and move on, because that's normal. There's nothing wrong with saying "hey this dynamic is toxic" or whatever, but in this case that's literally the whole point, so it feels very weird that you need to say that that's why you don't like this ship. It's like taking a bite of a peanut butter sandwich and saying "I hate the taste of peanuts, this sandwich is not to my tastes." Like, okay??? Why'd you eat the sandwich then, my guy?

More directly, my initial comment was not directed at anyone but the guy who decided to be very brave and sand up for the fans of straight ships, here on this website dedicated to anime lesbians. He's going beyond eating the sandwich, he appears to be trying to live in the walls of the peanut butter factory. If you want to defend the sanctity of straight ships, feel free to do so literally anywhere else on the entire internet. They'll love you. Trying to do it here is a pathetic attempt at trolling that almost demands to be questioned. How badly does your life have to go awry to make a post like that in a place like this?

How can you possibly go through life being that stupid, man?

It's almost like fiction isn't reality, which makes it a safe place to indulge in taboo thoughts!

The worst kind of hypnosis, where she just gets really horny and then they have normal-ass sex. Barely even worth the tag.

I think we all have a moral obligation to be condescending and dismissive towards the emotionally stunted children who try to propagate moral panics over works of fiction violating even the most tame and vanilla of taboos. It's bad behavior and should be discouraged.

I can't imagine how constrained and joyless you must be to be unable to enjoy a few years of agegap in your fictional cartoon lesbians.

debated dropping this series for 5 months because of this chapter

Truly a yuri scanlator, all right

Now that all the players and streamers are arriving at the elite 4, we're going to see a big uptick in Chiri art.

Kankan is one of those artists who LOVES deleting their work all the time for no reason. If you like FGO or Bloodborne you might remember some comics about Abigail Williams in Yarnham. Those were also by kankan. Deleted.

Masina posted:

Should I put in spoilers? I have no idea when the scanlation will be uploaded, but we are now 4 chapters behind.

Don't. At best you're spoiling people who didn't ask (because people being curious will click on black bars), at worst you're misleading them because you misinterpreted something.

Honestly, as a scanlator, I'd loathe people who say "I've read the raws and this is what happens", even when the scanlator is behind, because it's demotivating.

If you really know Japanese, translate and scanlate unreleased series, join a group, whatever. Everyone will thank you.

Here, you're just annoying actual translators.

Incredibly true. People with nothing to do but post half-misunderstood spoilers from manga raws on forums instead of contributing something useful are truly a pox on the community. They damage the motivation of scanlators and enjoyment of readers all for a tiny ego boost leeched off of some barely scraped together ability to understand primary school Japanese. The world would be a better place if they simply stopped posting entirely. Forever.

Does anyone happen to know which RPG is being referred to in the afterword?

A massive fuckton of text, indeed. This is insanely high effort for a Madoka doujin about Homura being sad, holy shit.

Boy I can't wait for this lolicon side plot to end so we can get back to the consenting adult characters.

BlueDsc posted:

It might be cause I'm fried from work and I've accidentally stayed up much later than I intended to, but did anyone else have kind of a hard time reading some of the dialog?

You'll notice that there's no proofreader in the credit page.

If you think you're up to it, you can always volunteer to be a PR for Windyfall, who sorely lack them obviously.

If this is what a TL looks like before proofreading then I've been greatly underestimating the amount of work proofreaders do. That's more than I can handle.