drhelsing posted:

Oh jeez, a soul-crushing job. She shoulda taken it and toughen up just like everyone else.

If only toughening up was so easy. And why there should be need to toughen up in the first place. Here is a crazy idea. Let's maybe make a world where living a happy, stress-free life is a norm, not exception?

GreenTomato posted:

Is this really trans tag or is it just a girl not understanding that lesbians exist

Genuinely asking cos i kinda didn't get it

It's a bit misleading, but transgender tag actually is here because of MC's mother, not because of MC herself.

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luinthoron posted:

I feel that the reason she wanted to be defeated is less going back to normal and more that she simply saw this as the proper way for a magical girl story to end after all of the Tres Magia got their La Verita power ups.

Och, I mean, it's both. Of course she sees it as a proper way to end it, since she can't imagine magical girls not winning, but she also was blackmailed to do it and being defeated in her mind means being finally set free from her roll as the villain. Something she's not willing to admit, or more likely, isn't aware of is that her approach and goal changed through out the series.

At first she was thrilled to become a magical girl, cos she idolizes them so much. Idea of becoming their antagonist never even crossed her mind. But she instead was blackmailed to become a villain of the story and defeat the very magical girls she looks up to. So reluctantly at first she fought them not knowing what she's doing, but by doing so, she realized she possesses a sadistic side that wants her to see magical girls suffer, but her admiring side was still strong and believed that no matter what she does to magical girls, they'll never give up and win against her in the end.

As time passed, she got better and better at channeling her sadistic side when putting on a act in front of magical girls and she slowly, but surely started to accept her sadistic desires more and more, but never once she crossed the line. Despite all this, she always believed that it won't last forever and eventually magical girls will overcome all the obstacles she throws at them and defeat her just like always. She started to take genuine joy in torturing them, but she also saw it as means to test them and make them grow stronger. Her goal changed from just doing what she was told and hoping she'll be rescued fast, to actively wanting to fight magical girls and seeing how far they'll grow and how much they'll be able to endure, before her inevitable defeat.

So now we get to present time, where all the magical girls grown much stronger, learned to accept themselves and all 3 of them unlocked La Verita. For Utena who admires those magical girls, that couldn't be more perfect ending. In her mind it all started because she was blackmailed to do it and even if somewhere along the line she learned to enjoy it, she always knew it'll end someday and then hopefully she'll be set free of the blackmail and return back to being just able to admire her magical girls. But that's her admiring side, her sadistic side doesn't want to end it yet and wants to continue torturing them. She was able to balance herself, because she was able to justify her actions, but now that that justification ran its natural course, all that's left is pure sadism, which while becoming more comfortable with, Utena is still yet to fully accept and embrace, hence why it was able to overtake her (I assume since their magic power clearly works on their desires, what we saw was sorta a manifestation of Utena's sadism, she is still unconsciously rejecting).

Or idk, I'm overthinking it and it's just something Mascots planted in her, she's the chosen one of the darkness or whatever else crazy thing author came up with.

Kanelel posted:

A team-up against her is entirely possible, but this series has always been very pro- Utena letting loose, so I'd be surprised if this new transformation is treated as being totally a bad thing, and I'd be SHOCKED if she ends up as less of a degenerate after this battle.

While I do agree with that, since it's clear that series has some heavy BDSM themes and symbolism, I think while Utena is clearly a sadist, it's possible what happened to her is example when you go too far. Utena most likely need to accept that she's not that pure, innocent girl that can't hurt a fly. The series started with her denying that part of herself, but slowly and surely she kept growing more and more comfortable with it. I think the reason she went out of control is that, she thinks that once she'll be defeated, everything will go back to normal as if this whole thing never happened and her inner sadist is afraid of being repressed again. So while Utena will be defeated, she'll ultimately learn that it's core part of her and she can't simply try to suppress it again. Basically it'll be about learning where the line of healthy amount of BDSM lies. Or so I think anyway.

Syapaaye posted:

Is this really the end? This chapter feels a bit rushed for me.

No. It's ending, but it's clearly not the last chapter yet.

As for me. Whatever it's Utena's repressed desires or something else that mascot planted in her (why only Utena has it?), I agree that magical girls and Enormeeta will join forces to defeat and rescue Utena.

Sylent-M posted:

We’ve yet to see Loco & Leber’s La Veritas

I think fighting Utena could actually be perfect moment for them to unlock it in order to save her and also wholly accept themselves. If the reason Utena went out of control is her denial of her true nature, it could also serve as a way to help her accept it. I also agree, or at least hope, that once the fight will end, at least Utena's identity will be finally revealed which most likely will lead to discovery of mascots' betrayal and last final battle against them, but after that I don't really see this series continuing. I think Utena being rescued by the very magical girls she admired would be very fitting way to end it.

Steam is simply anti-VN/Jps games. There's no censorship whatsoever for any sex or violence in western games, but if it's lighthearted visual novel about teens romancing? Nope, it can't have sex. Think of the children! At least it used to be, maybe it changed recently. I remember when I bought Highway Blossoms I was ultra pissed to later learn I bought censored version and I have to patch the game, because developers weren't even allowed to say the game has mature content that was censored on store main page and instead you need to go to community forum and find developer's post there. It gave me paranoia to buy anything from steam without checking if it is censored or not first and if there's a adult patch available.

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Norainhere posted:

Should typically not be paired with the yuri tag unless a there is a relationship involving a yuri couple which is separate from the futanari aspect, or unless the work isn't pornographic in its entirety and thus has a relationship to bother speaking about.

Has this second rule always been here?

I don't think so.

Wow didn't expect it'll get uploaded after I recommended it second time! Loved it. It's one of those futas that are actually good.

UranusAndNeptuneAreJustCousins posted:

That said, we spurred Nevri to provide a decent hentai recommendation (also a somewhat sweet story), so it was not all bad.

I actually already recommend it once in this exact thread, but point stands xP

Gatekeeping who can like dicks was the last thing I expected to see on dynasty.

Anyway, it's not hosted here, but "Priceless" by Nekomata Naomi is great. It was probably first yuri thing I ever read (or at least I think so).

Ok, so can someone explain it to me, because I'm confused. So Yu was clearly interested in MC, she invited her to date, gave her her contact info, but when then (while drunk) MC confessed to Yu, which she also clearly knew MC was interested in her, only then suddenly she realized MC likes her, it started giving her PTSD flashbacks about past relationship and she decided to start acting cold and ignore MC? Like that just doesn't follow. Either you have toxic ex-gf that blackmails you, so you avoid having relationships and when you see cute girl crushing on you, you push her away, or you fuck this shit and date her anyway, consequences be damn. You don't give her hope to then randomly ghost her.

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I guess we could go with general Tomboy for both looks and personality while Butch could only apply to personality? Sounds like best compromise. We could add Handsome lady or maybe just Handsome on top of that separately, while we're at it. And then Short hair could be simply for short hair.

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Licentious Lantern posted:

And I am certain this is because sexuality is actually almost a non-factoer to the couples, believe it or not. They struggle, worry and deal with real issues, but all of them are unrelated to being lesbian.

I noticed that is actually something that can make it less of a issue for me. When majority of drama arises from "b-but we're both girls" or in general is related to being gay, then having everyone in the story be lesbians bothers me, but when characters being gay for each other is treated as matter of fact and their problems come from other things, then I no longer pay as much attention to it. As I said before, I wish we would get more stories like that, because it's great way to normalize homosexuality and make it feel like something natural and common.

DY4Y posted:

I'm pretty sure the first was both Honoka and Hanayo, the second Hanayo (I assume you mean the scene in Maki's house) and the third Honoka.

I don't actually remember Rin and Maki having a single one-on-one conversation in the whole series... I feel like Hanayo was always there whenever those two interacted...

Now that's embarrassing. I guess I was misremembering it then. I suppose I'd be shipping Maki with either Hanayo or Honoka then.

Also remembered that Fiel x Chlammy from No Game, No Life were pretty much a item.

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I tend to ship characters that actually had some chemistry in the series, but I'm not really against "crack" ships where characters never interacted, as long as I could imagine them having interesting interactions or good chemistry. I personally think calling something "crack" and dismissing it only based on that isn't either helpful or constructive.

rudtud posted:

please do i wanna see

Since you asked. Disclaimer: I only watched like first 7 episodes of OG series, planned to watch rest, but never got back around to it, so all I'm saying is based only on my first impressions based on those first episodes. So I feel that the "canon" ships are boring, because they're like the most obvious and cliche parings ever. Nico x Maki, Tsundere and Kuudere. Eli x Nozomi, president and vice-president, Hanayo x Rin childhood friends and Honoka x Kotori x Umi friends/childhood friends again. As for my personal ones: I felt like Maki x Rin had some really good chemistry. From what I remember Rin was first to try to connect with Maki and she was first person Maki opened to about herself and her dream. I think she was the one to convince her to write songs for them? Nico x Nozomi, they seemed to know each other and had some kind of past relationship, also Nozomi casually grabs Nico's boobs. For rest I didn't have strong feelings/didn't get to enough shipping material yet, but i'd go for Eli x Honoka maybe for their hate relationship? which I'm aware is just as cliche + I'm not fan of those in the first place, cos with those people usually just misunderstood a interaction for sexual tension/chemistry, which usually only leads to toxic relationships. So if I'd have to pair rest, I'd go with Kotori x Umi, cos they're only left and Hanayo somehow struck me as someone who wouldn't go for relationship and instead from all the girls would actually keep being idol after the school. Again, those are my feelings from when Love Live was like first airing and I didn't even finish it, but I guess now I'm feeling like giving it a go again.

Also not sure how obscure those are and well, some are pretty much canon, but w/e here we go from stuff I remember rn:

Mai-Hime: Everyone is all about Natsuki x Shizuru, but Mai x Mikoto is pretty much canon too and in fact Mai x Mikoto x Yuuichi seems to be canon OT3.
Mai-Otome: Arika x Mashiro, again pretty much canon. Nina x Nao had pretty good chemistry too.
Ga-Rei: Zero: Kagura x Yomi, again pretty much canon. Sadly the ship is dead. It was first anime ever that I watched where I picked up on Yuri vibes, so you could say, it was my introduction to Yuri. In fact one of side characters was openly gay man that story fully acknowledged and it wasn't really played for laughs, even if it was used in comedic scene.
Talentless Nana: Nana x Michiru, again pretty much canon and sadly also deader than dead.
Teppuu: Natsuo x Kei. They're adorkable together.
A Method to Make the Gentle World: Aoi x Touko. It's full on het, but it had some good yuri tease at the end. I don't really mind, cos the story is great either way.

Would need to go through stuff I read/watched to remember more, cos I don't even remember fraction of stuff I saw.

EDIT/ Right forgot about games, then I only remember 1 rn. From Arknights my totally crack paring is Jessica x Exusiai, because they along with Executor were my 3 default snipers I used for very long time, when I just started playing, so at some point I kinda started low-key shipping them with Executor being a wingman (you get it? cos he's a angel? nevermind, I'll see myself out).

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Meh. I had idea for thread like that for Love Live to discuss different parings, but then realized people take this shit way too seriously and thread would go out of control immediately, so I never really bothered. If you want hell, I can share my personal parrings of Love Live, cos I think the mainstream ones are boring af and completely predictable.

zokoi posted:

However, I just noticed that BL fangirls fight about this much more than GL and het.

Have you never seen people having shipping wars over series like Love Live or Madoka? Believe me, Gl shippers can be just as vicious. It's true that at least yuri fans care less about who is top and bottom (and I personally think it doesn't matter), but more who is with who.

Ramunes posted:

I look forward to more Yachiyo Iroha 2.0.

Yes! That's exactly the vibe I got from them xD Glad I wasn't the only one x3

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Serenata posted:

That's actually really good to know, you know the Mascot character was the one who made it sound really bad at the start, you know with the smug attitude and sassyness saying that there would be cameras everywhere around these teenager groups I was thinking "dude... what the hell are you implying..." really put me off honestly so I'm glad (just like with Aquatope) to be wrong and it didn't go as I expected.

Like, leaving the creepy fan side aside, having cameras all around also made me think that the girls would either embarrass themselves into some controversy or fake being nice in front of the cameras.

Yea. I totally agree with you on that, but no. It turned out they all just acted like themselves and all the drama really did came from their relationships and competition itself. And no girl was really mean for the sake of it or anything. In fact, when I posted I only watched till episode 6, but after that I finished and I was honestly surprised how good this anime was. The company really turned out to be first good idol company to ever exist. It did confirm they indeed had cameras in their bedrooms etc. but as I said, they never had to use footage like that to create drama or interest and in fact, the part of "fans will see their idols true faces without make up etc." really never came up. It was pretty much just normal idol anime.

On another topic Police in Pod has a lot of potential. Plot summary is gay af and MC comments how her new coworker is beautiful, but even if it won't go anywhere, the comedy is great and I really like both characters.

In the Land of Leadale doesn't really have any potential ships yet (well there's daughter of family working at the tavern MC stays in, but she's more of younger sister character), but so far I'm enjoying it. It has some good comedy and I like MC quite a lot.

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Licentious Lantern posted:

Thank you for your respond and elaboration. I really have nothing to add or argue about, cos I feel like you expressed your opinions very clearly and I'm completely fine with your interpretation of the story. Only thing

But are you so sure you are not imposing your idea of happiness on them?

I'm not doing anything. I specifically said that if they consider themselves happy, then as far as I'm concerned they're happy. My definition of happiness is irrelevant. Whatever I consider them to be happy, unhappy or that their relationship could be improved, it doesn't matter.

Loving it so far. The older girl clearly has some trauma that she cared/loved her previous sister, but she died because of her or something and now she bullies all others, so she won't get attached again. To me it seems like we have nothing to worry and it'll be 100% gay (as if it wasn't already).

Serenata posted:

I was going to give Selection project a chance because it looked pretty nice but then I realized it was a reality show and they would be filmed 24/7... I found that super creepy and dropped the anime asap!

Yea. Reading description I thought it was just like tournament or some kind of normal competition, but then at the end they said it's supposed to be like reality TV where they live together and are being filmed constantly so fans can see their favorite idols real life and I'm really not fan of that stuff and forced drama in those shows, but decided to give it a chance, since it's also first time (I think) idol anime tried to do something like that and turns out... it almost never comes up again. You never see them being filmed during their day to day life. In fact they're actually seeing them as normal people. Later when one of main leads is forced to confess something private other main lead asks crew to stop filming and they did and later the person playing mascot character is seen drinking and genuinely feeling sorry for MC, while complaining how despite that he has to keep acting as if nothing happened and pretend to be cherry mascot. There also wasn't any misleading editing etc done to make show more spicy than it was. Honestly it didn't feel like reality show at all.

PS: GIrl's Frontline and Arknight anime trailer surprised us with female leads, Arknights is 90% confirmed but yeah... there's that for next year

Actually I took it more as them keeping Arknight's lead as being ambiguous, cos even in the game's story their gender is never confirmed in any way, so I think they'll try keep that in the anime as well, which honestly would be amazing in it's own way, even if of course I'd prefer Doctor being a woman.

runrin posted:

Edit: All chapters have been merged. Enjoy yo.

It's great idea and I really appreciate that, but I prefer for chapters to be actually arranged in chronological order. Right now they're all over the place plot progression wise, which makes it hard to read.

OrangePekoe posted:

JasmineTJB posted:

Lol, idk why people are hung up on Sakura being revealed to be 17 and not Saaya falling in love with her when she thought she was in grade school. Either way I support it

Omg that is genuinely hilarious. Didn't even register properly with me either till you pointed it out. Manga does weird things to the brain...

I can't really blame Saaya considering the way Sakura was presented when they first met made me think she's like middle schooler or something...

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zokoi posted:

well, I was talking about this manga. Ofc there are cases when the series you want to read is unable on mangadex, but it's not that common.

It's actually very common, especially considering similar to Dynasty Mangadex follows the scanlators wishes and removes legal stuff when requested, so especially manhwas and manhuas are hard to find there.

Anyway, I read it on mangadex and loved it, but I appreciate efforts to translate it again, since word choices are much more natural. Though mistakes still do slip up.

Anw, I really like this manga, it shines a new light on Franka and Liskarm for me. Here's to hoping there will be more manga about other characters as well!!

Yea, it was a great story to introduce and expand them as characters. It'd be great if we got something like that for other characters as well indeed.

Atlantae posted:

I'm under 4'10 (~147 cm) and am regularly told that I look like a child and this silly one-shot has got me depressed and wishing that literally anyone would take me seriously. Feelsbad :(

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