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I'm not sure what exactly was going on between Yuri and Mai at the end.

I can make a guess: Mai was in love with Yuri, but because she was a "Good Girl" who did whatever was expected of her,,she never did anything about it. Yuri seems like the same way. Her marriage seems a bit distant and her husband isn't even seen. It may have been an arranged marriage and she went along with it because a girl her age should be married.

The pregnancy seems to be unplanned, but after discussing it with her family, Yuri decided to continue and keep the child.
This story has a very life sucks, buy a helmet vibe. Sometimes you really do need that one person to tell you that they're glad you're alive. That's what Mai needed and by her reaching out to Yuri, she has a chance to give that to Saki as well.

I was thinking most of that but it was too ambiguous for me to be sure. Although I'm not sure where you got that the pregnancy was an accident.

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I'm not sure what exactly was going on between Yuri and Mai at the end.

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Did they see the mistletoe hanging and decide to strip naked for their kiss, or were they just walking around like that?

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Well that felt step forward-ish.

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What the???
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I like supernatural gender benders like this, where the character's biological sex is actually switched. I also really like yuri. So this story has the potential to make me really happy. I just hope everybody, who claim to have seen where this story is going, are right and it is true yuri. Because if the gender bending turns out just to be a way for yuuri overcome Kyouko's issues with men i'll be sad.

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Let your freak flag fly, ladies!

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What a bunch of rude adults, immediately assuming that she was stealing it when she wasn't doing it on purpose.

I'm with you on that one. Someone who would treat a young child like that shouldn't be a librarian. I mean it's a child! Scaring her like that might scare her away from libraries for life. And maybe even sour her on reading all together. Good work miss librarian you just did the opposite of your job. Jerk!

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Yes author, I feel the same, why didn't you draw the sex scenes!?

Or at least do a better job of implying it. Maybe a panel or two or two with them falling on the bed together. Their lips about to touch. Or simply just showing a pile of their bed clothes lying on the floor next to the bed.

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It was a nice story, but it didn't hit me as that emotionally deep.
Just to clarify, those two had sex right? Honestly I didn't get that impression until I read the little pseudo afterword on the last page.

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Okay why did that ending feel like a goodbye?

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The way I understand this is that once Ruruna turns someone into a kin, even she can't undo it. That kind of creeps me out a little. It's like Rununa is destroying the person and making them into something else.

Judging by the non serialized version, the person’s personality stays in tact (Wakana’s friend is still loyal only to her friend, she’s rebellious against Ruruna) she just can’t cause Ruruna harm due to orders

It’s not like who they are as a person is changing or anything, it’s more likely that Wakana like being ordered around

Yeah I guess you're right. The girls "under her control" never did seemed really under her control lol. Still the whole can't be undone thing feels a little icky. I followed the original girl × vampire despite my reservations. Might as well buckle in and take this ride too.

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The way I understand this is that once Ruruna turns someone into a kin, even she can't undo it. That kind of creeps me out a little. It's like Rununa is destroying the person and making them into something else.

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Perfect. No notes.

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It's been a while sinse I took math, but in the expression 1:(1+sqr(5))/2 what operation is the : sign?

I assumed that it meant “The answer to question 1 is (1+sqrt(5))/2”

How quickly we forget.

Math might be easy as pi,but remembering things is hard.

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It's been a while sinse I took math, but in the expression 1:(1+sqr(5))/2 what operation is the : sign?

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Cool story. But the Yuri tag, seems like a stretch. It's too ambiguous for my teaste.

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There must be some rule that historical yuri can only have bitter-sweet endings.

There isn’t a specific rule, but there was a common trope in yuri literature, maybe around the 1960s in Japan, where yuri stories often had to end tragically. Authors weren’t allowed, or at least weren’t encouraged, to write openly queer happy endings. My information is a bit fuzzy, but I remember watching a few video essays and reading some articles about it. If I find them, I’ll link them. :)

Outside of Japan as well there's a lot of things with same sex relationships where there was push back against them being allowed a happy end

I wonder if it's stuff like this, that give the religious types the basis for their argument, that queer people live in depression and sorrow. I've heard people use this argument as an excuse to force queer people to live a straight life under god.

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That series is hard to find.

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I think I'm going to find this one extremely frustrating. I'm going to eagerly read each chapter hoping this is the one where this pseudo-couple turns serious. Then being totally totally bummed when it's not.
I wish they put series like these under another tag other than yuri, so yuri purest like me don't end up banging our heads against the wall, in frustration, every time a new chapter gets posted.

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Admittedly I know little about how puberty works with girls. But isn't having explain what wetness between a woman's legs means, to highschool girl, roughly the same as having to explain what an erection means to highschool boy. Because I'm pretty sure, that higschool boys would be well acquainted with erections, even if they were somehow so naive they didn't know what they were for.

Sometimes for women getting wet is something like morning wood, or not related to arousal. It could happen as discharge, ovulation process, or just because you're super hydrated on a specific day. In that context though of making out it really does apply to the, but alas they are useless lesbians

Erections in teen boys aren't necessarily linked to arousal either. My point was that a highschool girl should be able, to at least, recognize that it's something that happens to girls her age, without immediately jumping to "pants peeing".

Now that I think about. Shouldn't they have taken at least one sex ed. class by highschool.

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Admittedly I know little about how puberty works with girls. But isn't having explain what wetness between a woman's legs means, to highschool girl, roughly the same as having to explain what an erection means to highschool boy. Because I'm pretty sure, that higschool boys would be well acquainted with erections, even if they were somehow so naive they didn't know what they were for.

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How do they make hard copys of these long strip format series?

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What's that suppose to be , in the upper left corner, of the bottom panel?

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"Have a proper think"??? Since when was the word "think" a noun?