Koveras posted...
So... Rachel is a child by rape? Sheesh, just give this woman a break, man.

From a mother that very much would have preferred an abortion, no less. Which consequently means Rachel's "warrior slave with a fancy title" situation was her entire life prior to transmigrating. No wonder she has such trouble with intimacy, geez.

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Nice two chapters, also those two boys sicking their dogs on two girls and their small dogs...what the fuck

You might be underestimating how awful kids are in general

There are abuses men routinely partake in that boys that age cannot even conceive of. It's less a matter of kids being awful and more a matter of most kids acting how they are taught to act, as they lack an adult's ability to either reflect and better themselves or else be awful in subtler ways.

This story is very much a parody. If Sono had any conscious intent behind the absurdly buff girl being dark skinned (aside from the aforementioned "damn she hot"), I would assume they were specifically making fun of the stereotype by having such an unrealistic contrast. Reality ensues just long enough for that contrast to cause trouble, and the solution is that they should just toss out the frail light-skinned waif stereotype and both be muscular. And so Sono gets to draw what they obviously like to draw, while at the same time mocking unhealthy stereotypes. Everybody wins.

A spectre is haunting Dynasty...

It's the spectre of capitalism.

AFAIK Japan doesn't use 'shoujo ai' for this stuff at all, and that's a Western formation, which to Japanese has pedophilic connotation ("little-girl love").

That's what I'd heard as well. I wouldn't be too surprised if influence from the western usage of "girls' love" causes the pedophilic connotations to drop off, but I've yet to hear of that happening from a reliable source, either.

People acting like stealing is not a big deal is insane to me. Go back to kindergarten.

I'm going to shoplift something in honor of this post.

I appreciate your efforts in reclaiming the working class' stolen labor.

Hey guys look up what surimi baby eels are

Surimi the paste is not made from surimi baby eels, also known as juvenile angula eels. I know this because this is obvious bait, so I took it, and one google later wow. Rich people are stupid.

responded to the survey, but i'll put my take here as well: GL is a publishing genre and refers pretty exclusively to original works. yuri is the base concept and encompasses all of that plus doujin etc works. so all GL is yuri, but not all yuri meets the criteria of GL. this as far as i know is how it's used in japan

"Girls' love" may have its roots in the term "shoujo ai", but they're not synonymous terms. Most notably, "yuri" and "shoujo ai" both refer to Japanese genre / sensibilities, while girls' love is region-neutral. Neither category fully encompasses the other. Most yuri is girls' love, but yuri also includes intimate platonic or ambiguous relationships that may not qualify for GL. Most GL on Dynasty is yuri, but GL would also include stories from around the world, such as baihe and presumably even western comics. I would believe that "yuri" and "shoujo ai" are mostly interchangeable in Japan, because GL in Japan is naturally going to be Japanese by default and so the distinction isn't useful.

Would shoplifting a (opens calculator) 70¢ eraser really be a big deal, or does that just emphasize how neurotic she is? Is this one of those cultural things, like how kissing in public is a Big Deal in Japan?

My understanding is that shoplifting carries wildly disproportionate penalties in Japan independent of the value of the item stolen. It absolutely shouldn't be a big deal, but it is.

Oh, you're definitely jealous. And finally starting to realize your own feelings as well. ^_^

hmm if only that was the case fr

Laughs hollowly, stares into distance

What. How could things possibly not escalate from here. What are you even doing, Miyagi.

I realized two pages after the fact that "curl" sfx didn't say what I thought it said and had to stare at it for like ten seconds to realize it actually said "curl". There was an "ahhhhh" right nearby, so at first I was like "damn, our protag is fast, okay".

Are there women who even like this kind of body?

As far as I know, every time they crunch the numbers on dating site data, physical attractiveness consistently ranks fairly low in importance with women. Plus butch lesbians are a whole thing. So however you look, you're within someone's strike zone, and even if you weren't it wouldn't sink your romantic prospects anyway.

Do you criticize Batman stories for normalizing being a creepy vigilante billionaire?

Yes? Not really enthused with Superman upholding corrupt systems, either, he's kind of a cop. I see no relation between this and Kasane, who has never done anything wrong~

Honestly though, I do enjoy a story that can revel in what would be an obviously bad idea IRL while also being self-aware about it. Kasane being a kindhearted goober who's also a little gross from time to time must be a tricky tightrope to write for.

Awwwww, what a cute horror story~ (Get that bomb collar off the child you horrible, horrible creature.)

So... those corpses are notably not eaten. Is it really snake things killing everyone?

The snakes hunt by heat. If the warriors managed to escape but then succumbed to their injuries, their fading body heat might not have been enough to draw in the snakes. Other scavengers are going to avoid this area for fear of snakes, leaving the bodies to freeze to the point of becoming inedible. What I'd be concerned about is that the only visible signs of injury are copious amounts of blood and what looks like bandaged snake bites, which reads like a nasty sort of poison to me.

An attenpted genocide would force the commoners to overthrow the nobles as a matter of survival, so no amount of commoners' resignation or nobles' scheming could stop the revolution. There might normally be some wiggle room based on how the genocide's architect spins their misdeeds, but if that architect is the one conspiring towards a commoner uprising, then they can be sure to die in whatever way is required for maximum unrest. It's a far more reliable strategy than orchestrating a rebellion directly, as powerful, charismatic leaders create a single point of failure that only require a poisoned wine glass to break. The only problem is that you'd have to be an absolute villain to kill a bunch of the people you're trying to save just to shake them out of complacency, and no one born into that much privilege would seriously consider this plan.

...Which is to say that I'm fairly confident Aurora didn't need Natori's "foresight" to know her genocide's going to fail, and was rather reassured if anything. It must hurt her to drag her sister's name through the mud, but she probably counted the dying part as a plus until Natori came along and complicated things. She's not angry at Natori for supporting commoners' rights, she's angry at Natori for making her second-guess her suicide plan by making life worth living.

Alternately, we're looking at the iterative model of time travel, and this is the very first loop. The original time travel creates a paradox threshold that puts future events on hold until the paradox is resolved. Future self 1 meets her own past self 1, who is a virgin as remembered. Both selves lose their virginity, older-1 returns to the future, and in doing so passes the threshold and functionally ceases to exist. The intervention causes younger-1 to grow into older-2 who travels to the past†, encountering her younger-2 self. This intervention creates older-3, and so on.

This process repeats an unknowable amount of times until older-n and older-(n+1) are identical, at which point a stable time loop is formed. The potential paradox having been resolved, the threshold created by the original time travel ceases to be, and time continues normally. All previous loops have been overwritten, erasing all evidence there was ever more than one loop. A time traveler may have academic knowledge that other loops existed, but no being in existence will ever remember anything other than the final, stable time loop.‡ It's only our privileged position from outside of time that allows us to see this moment that the universe itself forgot.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a paradox scope and yuri goggles, and I intend to use them.

†: Or doesn't, in which case a paradox occurs and you need to break out the magical girls.

‡: Except for things which can exist within time paradoxes, in which case you really need to be calling the magical girls already. Sonic screwdrivers are all well and good, but they just don't have the same oomph as swords and lasers powered by the light of an unyielding soul.

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Which armored core are those characters from?

They're apparently the player character (cyborg) and mission control (ghost girl) from Fires of Rubicon. I don't think either of them have official character designs.

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That...but it...lewd x-rays are really not supposed to look this way.

This was picked up by someone on MangaDex!

Home karaoke machines? With Japanese thin walls???

Maybe a change in building standards was also involved in them gaining popularity? But then they're using one without immediately getting a knock on the wall, so...Maybe it's got magic high-tech noise suppression to go along with its resizing trick.

me when i go to the assassin factory but end up adopting a daughter

Welp, guess I was wrong, we did actually get to see a little of The Facility (TM). I feel like I remember Sakura playing a shooting game at a summer festival, but now I can't find it? Not sure if foreshadowing or figments of a tired brain's imagination.

Heatth posted...
God I wish people would stop translating the Sanzu River with River Styx. Yes, they are very similar, but there is a world of difference between a character making a foreign mythology reference and mentioning something from their own cultural background.

Ohhhhhh, is that what happened? That did seem weirdly out of place, it would certainly explain things if that was a liberal translation.

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On the one hand, this does feel like the natural comedic escalation, and a suitably irresponsible reaction from the older sister. On the other hand, I'm still holding out hope the story won't entirely abandon the themes it started with. In the hands of a good author, Riko existing in a totally different genre than everyone else can be a comedic setup and a genuine character analysis, and nmi seems like they may be such a writer.