yuri really is just light hair girl x dark hair girl

It's just an artifact of how anime/manga art styles visually differentiate characters. If you can't reliably differentiate characters by their outfits because everyone's wearing uniforms, then all you've really got are face, hair, height, and proportions. Height and proportions have immediate consequences for how these characters are perceived by society, so the only two you can freely tweak are face and hair. So you're naturally going to give your leads significantly different hair colors to capitalize on one of your few options for making sure the audience can tell them apart, which is going to tend to result in one of them having significantly brighter hair than the other. Doubly so in manga where most panels are grayscale, or in the rare story with realistic hair colors.

I feel like that face is her taking it as a personal challenge to imply she can't get a girl pregnant size gap or not~

<3

Ultimate showdown?

I am the ultimate third wheel
Of ultimate yuri danshi
Flushed cheeks and doki-dokis
As far as the eye can see
Crack ships showing proudly
Think I spotted my OTP
I am the ultimate third wheel
Of ultimate yuri danshi

yuri day?

Whoa, I didn't know either! Apparently June 25th is Yuri Day in Japan~! ^_^

I know, right? It irked the heck out of me that people did that with my dearest NanoFate. Then in this very game, NanoFate cameo to literally propose to each other...and those people still do it. The only reason it's not gaslighting is how bad they are at it. >_<

Oof. Ouch, ouch, ouch. I still think this manga has all-femme androids for the commodification of women angle, and the imagery can be pretty damn morbid for it. But also sometimes the camera seems pretty horny over the carnage and body horror, which is just plain unnerving. I'm not sure if I should be expecting payoff here, or if this is just how this manga is...

I just can't move on from these girls :(

Then don't! It's been over 15 years, and NanoFate can bring a spring to my step and a warmth to my chest just as easily as when I first met them. A truly good story doesn't need to be something you put away once the initial craze dies down.

Sometimes I wonder whether Kaguya/Yachiyo is secretely super-anxious about Iroha's lifespan. 8 millenia to this point? Just a world record pace GTNH speedrun. But after that, everything is uncertain even to her, and imagine waiting this long for such a short sliver of happiness in relation, just for an eternity of mourning after...

I like to think that if Iroha can spend a decade figuring out android bodies, Yachiyo could've spent eight millennia figuring out brain upload tech. If her bamboo ship's got the processing power for her to pull off mass-duplication shenanigans, surely it has room to spare for an Iroha~

One take I liked on this was in the comic Reunion Again and its sequel 8000 Years Into the Future, which are about Iroha transferring herself into a robotic body like Kaguya/Yachiyo in order to be together forever.

These are fantastic. Thank you for sharing them.

Honestly she should let the other girl go; [vileness snipped]

Pretty sure she was kidnapped, guy. An arranged marriage situation involving a four-letter word is certainly possible, but if so she's not enjoying any of it. I prefer to imagine this not happening though, because the ending is depressingly dark enough as it is.

Ahhhhhh, I thought we were wrapping up, but this is actually going to be a longer manga travelling between various worlds? Excellent.

(Page 7) "A "sea rock serpent type" is making landfall southeas of the branch office!"

Missing a T. (Also, you're awesome and your work is awesome.)

Sometimes I wonder whether Kaguya/Yachiyo is secretely super-anxious about Iroha's lifespan. 8 millenia to this point? Just a world record pace GTNH speedrun. But after that, everything is uncertain even to her, and imagine waiting this long for such a short sliver of happiness in relation, just for an eternity of mourning after...

I like to think that if Iroha can spend a decade figuring out android bodies, Yachiyo could've spent eight millennia figuring out brain upload tech. If her bamboo ship's got the processing power for her to pull off mass-duplication shenanigans, surely it has room to spare for an Iroha~

Why did we have to go the serious hypnosis route and not the funny route?

Author be like, "Why not both?"~

Also, they can just declare death by incantations but they die as well so I suppose that's smart of Beybey to just use an old fashioned knife :P Honestly makes me kind of worried that this detail was even mentioned, because there's always a chance it will come into play at some point...

Assuming she actually understands that her instakill curse is a self-destruct move. If they're treating her like a disposable weapon anyway, there doesn't seem to be any practical reason to tell her what the consequences are. Just feed her a half-truth about it being single-use so she doesn't use it early, spin a yarn about welcoming her as a hero on her return, and now your weapon disposes of itself.

(Also, I wouldn't be too worried. The point of introducing it might be to convince Beybey that even if her tribe were still around, they never cared about her anyway. It's already been a handy way to get the protags involved, raise stakes, and give them an excuse to adopt, so it might've already run its course.)

Oh good, I was hoping the remake would prompt some more art of these two~

Page 6 Yanagi: "Wow! I bet you're the kinda girl who goes to theme all parks by herself!

Should be "theme parks all by herself".

Ah, I remember this one! Good taste, whoever recommended it for featured.

It baffles me that after all this, some still don't understand why Yuni feels so neglected. I really hope you people don't treat your partners this way, geez.

(Page 3) Fuuko: "You're just taking out your frustrations one me and I hate that."

Should be "on".

I'd actually be curious to hear your take on the visual language of misery porn in film, since it's not something I think I'm particularly adept at recognizing, myself.

I feel it mainly comes down to a lot of little tricks they use to emphasize the negative. More use of shadows to prime your mind to expect uncertainty or hiddenness, a more muted color palette and uglier environments to avoid giving any reprieve, characters' default expressions trending towards moody so the viewer mirrors their negative outlook, expressions of grief or pain being carefully not exaggerated so they read as more genuine, the camera lingering longer on people suffering or dying, a sort of reverse-bathos where any genuinely positive moment needs to be negged somehow...I suppose I said "visual", but there's audio cues as well. More scenes have subdued music or ambient tracks, characters bellowing or shouting are given the same dynamic range usually reserved for gunshots and explosions, music swells to emphasize moments of violence or revenge rather than any uplifting moments that come after. Not that all of these are exclusive to misery porn, but seeing several of them in the same shot is usually enough to turn me off something.

Either way, this is a very nice comment, thank you. I'm delighted to hear that me sharing my thoughts was able to help you better understand your own.

^_^

Ts garbage

what

See it's funny, because for the longest I was used to prejudice representing itself as people ignoring the existence of queer people in fiction even when there was no heterosexual explanation for characters' behavior. Now, we're in a brave new age of transmisics being among the first to propose a queer interpretation of any given text. I'm not sure I like this overcorrection, but if there's a culture war, they've definitely lost it already.

I think if anything, my main criticism of this author is that she doesn't know how to write actual happiness. Whenever there's a moment during the story where things are supposed to seem truly alright, it just feels incredibly fake, like you're just waiting for the other shoe to drop. And those parts also end up feeling obviously rushed, like you can tell the author doesn't really like writing them, and is just eager to "get back to the good stuff". It makes it a little hard to get invested, because a tragic ending feels utterly inevitable. I don't think this author even knows how to write a truly happy story, so I can't believe she'd write a happy ending for this (and for the record, I know she's written non-angsty manga, but my opinion is that they all feel similarly empty and "off").

I kept struggling to put my finger on what was making this story so unsatisfying and stressful to read when I've enjoyed far messier stories, and now I see that it's this. And that feels weird to me, because I'm keenly aware how much I don't enjoy misery porn. I have an easy time recognizing misery porn in film because I know the visual language they use to accentuate it, but I guess it just doesn't crop up in yuri often enough for me to get a good sense of it. Thank you for sharing.

Oh no, Kyouko is a terf.

It hits uncomfortably close to home, but I wouldn't interpret her as transmisic yet. Currently, Yuuri is not in a female body on purpose, and still has the option of regaining their old body. It's up in the air as to whether Yuuri is actually a girl or just a temporarily embarrassed boy, so until they come down one way or another it's fair for Kyouko to draw the same boundaries she would with a cis boy. If Yuuri were to affirm a desire to keep living as a girl and Kyouko still rejects them, then I'd interpret Kyouko as a bigot.

I have never felt more American than when I realized I was annoyed that Ruka had charged the knife rather than draw her gun.

It takes more time to draw a gun than to thrust with a knife, and bullets tend not to disable their targets as instantly as is often portrayed. And given this is a criminal endeavor, drawing undue attention is itself a risky decision. The American impulse to git yer gun is practically suicidal here, martial arts is the correct choice.

...Why do I get the impression Zai has been nursing a crush on the demon lord for two lifetimes now?

Ohhhhhhh, so then Zai could have floated the flower field not as a wingman trying to get his useless straight man boss to finally make a move, but because he himself wanted to go flower viewing with his Maou-sama? I can see it, and that crush would be as doomed as hilariously chaotic to introduce now, so I hope you're right~

Fun fact: I originally watched Frontier because I heard What About My Star? out of context and thought they were singing to each other rather than competing. I was very disappointed when I got to that song and realized they were not going to dump the selfish guy and get together.

Yeah...The only 'most' ethical method and way that MC and her worm-waifu could even have a happy ending together is 'if' there was like 45-50 total different morally acceptable targets that worm-chan could use for the next 85-99 years till MC dies...2-3 year per skin-suit body before getting a new one. EDIT: Even then that means getting MC's hands dirty a bit.

That, or find a better way to make skin suits. If there's a shapeshifter that can slough off their forms for other monsters to use, or some way to steal the shapeshifting ability off a monster that needs to die anyway, then Takahashi could live without needing to kill anymore. Neither is necessarily likely, but we could hope...