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Yup! It was on break last month. Next chapter is Dec 17 (February 2025 issue).

Thanks so much! It's hard to keep all the Yuri Hime series sorted/tagged nowadays with a bunch only being on mangadex

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Excited for gay death note

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Was this latest one from the latest Yuri Hime? (January 2025?)

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Yesssssss!! I was hoping to see this one come here. Hate going to sketchy sites to see Chinese (and a lot of Korean) content. I absolutely adore the art in this one.

ouah, what are you doing on sketchy sites?!?!? don't get a virus man. I wasn't planning on uploading this series here but yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

It is very much appreciated

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Citrus + discussion 19 Nov 16:56
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There's a new chapter out this month!!!

Oh damn, the official English release almost caught entirely up today

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Kashikaze discussion 11 Nov 12:53
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It's currently on mangadex!

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Always keep your blackmail folder stocked

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The gym teacher was just named, so we're halfway there!

I'm all for adding a new coach x nurse tag tho

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It looks like that one character's name changes back and forth, but i do wonder how translators decide to TL Emi vs Amy. And to that how people in Japan actually treat/handle the name. Like for Ayakashiko, we went with Emi but the character was blonde and probably meant to be foreign-ish. I think this is also an issue that has plagued for instance Virgins Empire.

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Not trying to jinx it or anything, but this feels like a prime moment for the villainess system to pop back up again.

I feel like there's a symbiotic future for the villainess system here

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Yep, it's doom metal

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Just a note, I think this was published earlier this year and there's a pretty good chance it wasn't published in the magazine. Yuri Project/boke got the raws from the Yuri Hime online reader thing, but any info anyone might have is appreciated! On the chance it was published physically as well

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Honestly the thing that stuck out to me the most as being "this is a surface level look at Medieval Europe" is that the MC's name is Rachel but everyone treats her relatively normally. At that time, it would have been a VERY Jewish name and the only reason I can think of why a Christian would have it is her parents or grandparents converting. And even then, the name should totally be cited as part of why the villagers are suspicious of her, but it's not mentioned.

There's times and places where Jews were tolerated in Europe

Except for a few very specific cities, the black plague was not such a time. Like was mentioned earlier, survivors were looking for scapegoats and Jewish people were the targets almost unilaterally

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Considering even the big publishers usually don't rewrite sfx (other than Viz), sometimes i forgot just how much SOUND there is in manga! Especially when the effects mimic the originals instead of just loosely state them, it really makes the work come alive and capture the original in a way we usually don't get from translations and localizations. Thanks so much!

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What anthology is this a part of?

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two panels to have AkiShiho make up must be a jab at how long the actual story took to reach that xD

I think it's funnier when YoriHima realized they weren't the main characters

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The meanest train conductor

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Kitbashing is an insanely expensive hobby that makes me glad I collect knives and trading cards instead

I kitbash because collecting trading cards is an insanely expensive hobby. Well, and that it's an all consuming hobby to keep up with any meta. But kitbashing is great and can be done with any cheap models, no need to buy and combine the massive $300 ones. Although, I don't think it's super comparable to commissioning figures, I'd imagine that's pretty expensive

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I did not expect a random rape scene to happen pretty much in the background / two panels aside of this story, without any real tie to the plot... Huh. Eww...

Yeah, and it's set up to make it seem like succubi casually whipping people up into a rape frenzy is a regular occurrence and is also not treated as very serious. It kinda feels like Ascendance of the Bookworm where the main story is usually light and low stakes but the world just around it is absolutely brutal

That is not a comparison that would have occurred to me. Maybe because Ascendance of a Bookworm is, um, good. And the thing is, when the brutality of that world gets put in front of the MC, it BOTHERS her; the contrasts aren't ignored, they're used.

Yeah that's largely true, the disturbing aspects of the Bookworm world are treated as such by the MC (and portrayed as such, which is kind of missing here). The comparison I was going for was more about the tonal whiplash between the project manager wish fulfillment content on the one hand and the mustache twirling villains that want to confine the MC and breed her for magic children, the public executions, etc. on the other. I do need to catch up on Bookworm, but it's always a stressful read.

Not many other similarities here of course, this one still kinda feels like it's trying to come into its own? I'm not totally sure what it's trying to be, might take a number of chapters or require an all at once read

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It'll be a difficult pick-up because the series has already been cancelled at 3 volumes

I mean, if Killing Me! got licensed after being cancelled with one volume and no proper ending, anything is possible...

Exactly! The precedents are there, seven seas isn't shy about picking up finished series. And a reminder that all series that aren't wildly popular get axed. That's just how series end in the manga serialization biz

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If you follow one of the accounts on Twitter that translates manga sales statistics you'll see that yuri makes up something like 1% at most of sales. Then you make it about old women and it's a niche within a niche. All of the old women manga I see are josei in smaller artsy magazines that our publishers never touch. I wouldn't expect any major publisher to pick this up unfortunately.

That's largely true, but Seven Seas does quite a lot of yuri manga, much more than 1% of their sales. There's a decent enough chance that they'd pick it up, especially something like this that went viral last year outside of Japan and is more likely to do better with an international audience. Not to mention, Seven Seas had a very large hand in getting I'm in Love with the Villainess enough notoriety (being the first of anyone to publish the light novels) to get it published in Japan. Regarding genre, this isn't a manga for old women in a josei mag but rather manga about old women for a larger audience.

I'm not sure who published this originally, but it could be slightly more complicated by having Kadokawa or a publisher other than Kodansha being the ones with the license because they have their own English publishers (and Seven Seas works with Kodansha on a lot of YH titles). Basically, just wanted to say that it's more than viable that Seven Seas or Yen Press pick this up, less so that Kadokawa would and next to impossible that Viz would.

Something I think that would be trickier about this is that the story is not shy about being a feminist tale (not unlike All My Darling Daughters). Yoshiko seems to pretty clearly be a 70s-era feminist guiding a woman dealing with intentionally portrayed compulsory heterosexuality. Hmmm, might be worth the josei tag...
(tricky because detractors are kinda nuts and supporters are very critical of representation being perfect)

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Stars in their eyes, we're hitting peak Rose of Versailles

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ancient otaku

Isn't Lucky Star getting a manga reboot or something?

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Could you add SagaTympana to the QC for chapter 3 when you get a chance? Valence or whomever? I'll pop in the YP thread too or maybe the discord just in case

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Unfortunately I can't say this is not yuri, because it's technically a story that focuses on a relationship between two women that involves a lesbian attraction, and it was published in a yuri anthology, but it's just so miserably pointless.

It's also kind of funny for a artist with a serialized non-yuri manga to make their debut into yuri with a oneshot like this. But maybe she has her finger on the yuri fandom's pulse in a way I don't? Are we witnessing the birth of the next Nakatani Nio?

Which anthology?