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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?

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^ I don't know much about Sailor Moon lore outside of the Cartoon Network Netflix versions.

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^yeah pretty much. But what about the recent Netflix remake. Everybody pretty much treated them like boys.

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I have questions about Selya and their group.

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This one-shot is honestly really sweet more than anything IMO. Yuina was in a desperate position, dealing with some of the most terrifying shit, but Marika is just tender throughout the entire thing. She bites Yuina once, but that's for smexy reasons so its A OK. Otheriwse, Marika is probably just sociopathic, like, clinically. She clearly recognizes how much Yuina hurts, but instead of emotionally mirroring anything, just strictly wanted to cut to getting her out of that bullshit. I like these blorbos :3

Smexy???

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It looks like Carrie's mom didn't die. She just moved to japan and had another daughter.

So... Where should we go.
I'm guessing somewhere that Japan doesn't have an extradition treaty with.

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I know it's just a throwaway gag but I'm intrigued by the concept of vegan blood

Maybe it's blood from a vegan.

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Honestly I should reread this story. I'm betting I've missed a lot of things maybe even lost a chapter or two along the way, and it would be nice to take this sweet journey all over again. But 144 chapters and counting is daunting task, even at only 4 pages per chapter.

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Hey, mangaka, I think you forgot the plot, climax and outcome somewhere - do you want help finding them?

Oh thank goodness, I'm not the only one who felt that way. I absolutely hate it when I read a story, and wonder what the hell was that all about. Then I go to the comments, and everybody is gushing about how good the story was.

You're not alone. I think generally understood what the author was going for but it wasn't my cup of tea really, as it's mostly artsy angst imo.

Still I appreciate the translation, and I enjoy the art so I hope to see more from this mangaka.

That's it exactly.

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It's been so long I don't remember the plot at all, and I don't really want to reread all of the back chapters. I wish there was a quick synopsis on the chapter list page. That at least might spark my memory.

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Hey, mangaka, I think you forgot the plot, climax and outcome somewhere - do you want help finding them?

Oh thank goodness, I'm not the only one who felt that way. I absolutely hate it when I read a story, and wonder what the hell was that all about. Then I go to the comments, and everybody is gushing about how good the story was.

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I can't tell if this chapter was really early for Christmas 2025 or really really late for Christmas 2024 lol.

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I can't remember the last time I got an actual door to door salesperson. I do get religious people and people soliciting donations from time to time. Honestly I just assumed the door to door salesmen went the the way of the milkman or the ice man years ago.

Edit: I thought they were all replaced by the dreaded telemarketer.

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Are door to door salesmen still a thing in Japan?

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I thought the girl in red was gender flipped Inuyasha, for a second

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rrrrrrrrrrrr neeeoooow ratatatatatata.
[over the radio] "Oh god! I'm hit! My plane in on fire! I can't control it! I'm going down! I repeat I'm going down"!
KABOOM!!!

johnb
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If I saw my dietitian shovelling that much fast food into their face, I think I would be looking for a new dietitian.