Sadism is Misa's hammer and every problem a nail

Taisho era girls talking about Class-S... so meta

All this debate about "density" meanwhile I just think it's funny how Komaki had to eat dirt again because she was too stubborn to resist Matsuri's needling. She is so terrified of showing even a little vulnerability that it makes her do the most absurd things.

Edit: thanks rainbow8 idk what I was smoking

[snip] This manga feels so, so much worse than Arioto. As someone who was a little iffy on arioto, going back and reading it now makes it seem vanilla compared to this shit.

I don't think the comparison on that basis fair. Of course this manga (abbreviated as Ubaware from here) is darker for various reasons, but there has been no proper sex here so far, or even nudity. The level of sexual content in Arioto is erotica, but Ubaware is just suggestive. There are situations that are sexually charged, but even when Komaki made Wakaba strip it went nowhere. (Komaki cuddling a naked Wakaba and ogling her body was weird, but neither party was getting off.) It says plenty that the most sexual bit that you could latch onto was the bellybutton slurping, which was a short lived moment that also didn't escalate further. The fact that Ubaware so far contains no sex scenes also means that Komaki has not had the same "opportunities" to experience pleasure like Marika has.

I don't see why anyone would expect Ubaware to feel similar to AriOto or ShuuKura. This isn't really a romcom (the most important difference probably!), and it involves no casual or compensated dating either. The sexual situations are facilitated by a game, but the relationship is not casual, since the leads have a complicated history that goes back to their childhood. This is not a relationship that started with a game or a monetary transaction, instead the game is a toxic escalation of a pre-existing rivalry, where the formerly innocent stakes of the bets become weirder and more sexual.

When Wakaba loses a bet now, Komaki takes her body as payment. In Arioto and Shuukura the "dating" is the commodity and money is the payment, and in Arioto "dating" also forms the "gameplay" of a bet (if the dating simulation satisfies Marika enough to approve of lesbian relationships, she has to give Aya a "refund"). Sou could say that Arioto and Shuukura are Pay for Gay, but Ubaware is Pay by Gay.

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The feminization will become permanent if the relationship continues, which is an outcome that would be pretty devastating for anyone who doesn't already hate living as a guy, or is at all attached to the idea. I hope for his sake that he isn't very attached to his manhood, 'cause unless he breaks up with Chihaya or takes a vow of celibacy, his balls are not long for this world

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Since page 9-10 were left untranslated... It seems like next chapter there will be a tournament? Natori says she will grant the winner any wish, and Diana says if she wins Lapis has to give Natalie-san to her. Is that right more or less?

Hypocrite :(

It kind of feels like Chihaya is rewriting this boy's brain. Maybe it's not mind control but there is... something going on there. Gender dysphoria can cause dissociation which could explain why Hodaka has apparently no preferences of his own. Or he's actually an ideal boyfriend candidate who was custom made for Chihaya. Or maybe the two met when they were younger and Chihaya accidentally brainwashed him. Or his brain was ravaged by some other trauma. Either way, with how much attention has been drawn to his blank slate nature, I will be surprised if it's never explained

I know this is from 2019 but either way it reads as corny after following the series for 10 volumes. Miwa being horny and Saeko being crass can only be funny as a punchline so many times

It's nice to be able to see a bit more of their environment, as Clarice continues the project of trying to rehabilitate the big bundle of repression that is Frost, by teaching her to think like a Stardew Valley player

Okay - so Megura will turn out to be Yakou's sister, and the girl that Yakou is trying to recreate with her doll will actually turn out to be Azuki's younger self from when she was dating Megura. Pretty much 100% convinced this will happen.

I don't really get you, isn't Azuki trying to recreate Meguru from her perspective

Azuki is trying to recreate Meguru, but I was talking about the doll Yakou wants. The doll that Yakou is dreaming of in the latest chapter looks awfully close to a younger version of Azuki, so my theory is that she somehow met or saw Azuki during the period when Azuki was dating Meguru, and that impression is now starting to mix in with her ideal dream doll.

Remu was adopted into Meguru's family, just one year before the events of the story (ch 2). So she could not have met Azuki through Meguru.

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They're so goofy God bless

We are so back!!

Flirting and jokes - it's an old formula but it checks out

Bro looks like a giraffe

This is a woman who tries to eat healthy is tempted by a younger girl to eat unhealthy but tasty food. So this is not erotic just because of the facial expressions, but because she succumbs to pleasure, so to speak. Runa is presented with an opportunity to feel good, tries to resist the temptation, then she caves in and does it anyway, which is the basic structure of smut.

The above isn't unheard of in gourmet manga, but this one does take it a few steps further. There's a brief moment of dubious consent when Ichika shoves a takoyaki into Runa's mouth without asking. The thought bubbles are full of suspicious lines like "If you cram that much in all at once, I won't be able to think straight" and "my hands are moving on their own". Finally there is a 'climax' (with an optional afterglow) shortly followed by embarrassment and regret.

I would say it's more funny than hot so far. but I won't complain if they make the jump to the other kind of pleasure.

So they're both living punching bags, one in the sexual and the other in the literal sense :(

If you're surprised by a dominant Madoka, watch Homura's trailer for Walpurgisnacht. There was a cut where for a hot second I thought Madoka was going to shove her thumb in Homu's mouth

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She was a baker, she was a miller, can I make it any more obvious?

Yes, because I don't get it.

Thanks for giving me company. Read that comment a few times wondering how I was missing something so "obvious".

A miller in the sense of grinding grains, and since you need grains for bread they're the perfect combination, a miller and a baker.

Yeah. And I was referecing the Avril Lavigne lyric:

"He was a boy
She was a girl
Can I make it any more obvious?
He was a punk
She did ballet
What more can I say?"

I really dated myself with this, huh

so you're telling me this manga is filled with despicable people only huh

like mother like daughter, she learn to be a bitch to the people she hates cuz i do not believe she actually gives a fuck about our MC, let alone love her, because when a cheater tells you they love you they do not nor do they care! they action of cheating is the opposite of love and care, I’m always not gonna buy the garbage excuse her mother give her the right to be a bitch and play with her like a god damn fucking toy

I think some people on Dynasty should not be reading anything other than wholesome slice of life. I find tuning into a series only to be enraged about fictional teen girls kind of a weird hobby.

I also think some of you are a bit too comfortable throwing "bitch" around as an insult. I don't know if you're a guy but if you are then I'm even more suspicious of you.

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She was a baker, she was a miller, can I make it any more obvious?

I'm not your "dude"! I don't know how some of you people still haven't internalized the fact that Dynasty is not a boys' club. And I don't know why I bother to say anything, if I'm immediately going to get condescended to and made to look crazy. I deleted it, screw this whole thing.

Great, you made me check again, and... I don't know, maybe you have premium and blocked the right tags, or a mysterious psychic ability to not recognize dicks and ejaculate. Let's say the warning was for those without such abilities or pixiv premium.

Y'all, do not click the source link if you don't want to see the same girls in very graphic het porn

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I think this is another case where you're a lot more bitter than I am. I'm just saying that the Yaoi scene is usually far bigger than the Yuri scene, that's all lol

And all I did was expand on the topic with facts and expressed some feelings about it. What's your point?

If it's still not clear why "yaoi bigger than yuri lol" was not helpful but potentially misleading, I'll specify the numbers. In 2020, the BL market was estimated to be about four times the size of the yuri market. Even if we conservatively assume that the BL manga market grew as fast in the last 3-4 years as the total global manga market did (probably no more than 200%, if the graphs google showed me are worth anything), while the yuri manga market stagnated, the ratio would not be more than 10. Not twenty-two, like the two markets are represented in CMOA's "award" lineup.

This only matters if we assume the most cynical selection process for this voting lineup, where only gross market size matters and artistic quality or diversity do not. So 1 yuri title out of 100 (20 of which is the softcore BL porn category) is like cynicism multiplied.

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If I'm reading this right, Asako gave up on finding the hairpin because she had been frustrated with her sister and the hairpin has not proved to be useful as a good luck charm in catching up to her. But the lost hairpin was an opportunity for Nagi to show that she cares, so maybe it worked after all?