The thing is that none of the endings or anything are true canon, because it's an infinite multiverse franchise now. There's a comic book that has entirely different story line, and it's "canon" as well and the story itself already involved two+ timelines. You also experience different timeline in the original game in one scene where Max goes to see a different future Chloe could experience if things went a little bit differently.

All of those timelines exist simultaneously, nothing disappears or appears from nowhere. It's just that Max, for some unknown reason, gains ability to "unmoor" her consciousness and travel around different timelines and go back and forth in one as well. This is also the reason why her so called choices in end of the first game are actually a pointless moral trap. Max isn't saving anyone by leaving, things still happen as they are.

This latest game is written by a bunch of people who dislike Chloe, so it is what it is. Just take a very negative route based on Chloe's reaction of Max not saving the town and her mother, and there you go. But the other "ending" of the original game will inevitably loop back to start of the first game. Max still has the butterfly photo there, which means there will be many timelines where she goes back to make another choice, not to mention its just a cruel torment for Max to experience like being toyed by some kind of intangible "spirit of universe" that hands her the keys to universe and tells her to struggle until her mind breaks and she gives up.

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Newbie turned into bewbie almost instantly.

Glossary was bit superficial, because it's not only the names and surface level details that seem to have affected this manga.

"Aino" is a character in Kalevala who is promised as a wife to old sage Väinömöinen by his brother, Joukahainen, who lost a spell singing contest to him earlier.

However, Aino does not want to get married to such ancient man, so she eventually ends up drowning herself in a lake instead. There's also another source poem for Kalevala where a maiden instead hangs herself.

This could be seen as a fated death, as even a man as powerful as Väinömöinen was not able to stop this from occurring, giving a bit of a parallel here with the mage knowing her beloved will inevitably die and it seems there's nothing she can do about it. However, very last part of that sequence shows that Aino has changed into a fish instead of drowning and so manages to escape her predicament. So it's not all so dark. I'm getting a feeling this story might do something similar in the end.

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Briefest possible plot synopsis:

17-year old student keeps making moves on a 24-year old teacher, who herself realized having been nursing a romantic crush on her own mentor fairly recently.

Oh my goodness
The love her sis has to her big sis is too extreme..

Speaking of the incest route, I still like Candy Boy the most
Citrus is good too, but for fluffiness, I'll go for Candy Boy

Citrus isn't incest at all. It's just a classic "brand new step-siblings fall in love" setup at its core. Yuri live action version equivalent would be "Transit Girls", and it's a fairly common teen romance trope in general due to many writers themselves having experienced their parents divorce.

Candy Boy is an incest love story, between fully blood-related sisters. It feels quite different in tone, because you can see the sisterly bond in every scene mixed together with romance. Neither of them doubts it that much, it just is how it is.

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Pretty good, but also very gutpunchy.

That's some evil NTR right there. Asuka x Kaori is not only canon, but 4Ever <3!

This just won't do, no sirree! :)

I get the feeling they know there's 0 way for there to be a season 2 at this point, so they're trying to have their cake and eat it by putting some of the series as a manga special on Youtube, while using the anime to rush to the end of the Shiho arc. Which just doesn't work in my opinion, as the anime feels like a rushed mess that ultimately doesn't do justice to any of the material / any of the couples. Especially with YoriHima being thrown under the bus by the anime.

It's a typical manga pusher product with lowest possible budget, regardless how enthusiastic staff and performers are. You stuff in as much of the story in as possible, so you can get more people trapped by the manga continuation, and hope for the best in terms of sales boost.

Pushers almost never get a second season or full adaptation.

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Rena was already shown to fall asleep at strange times in chapter 1. Not sure what to make of it. Could be apartment or could be a health problem.

These two have been together for a long time even before they became lovers, so something has clearly gotten worse after they moved in.

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I am convinced that these manga hotels are eldritch beings that sprout into existence the moment it starts raining around potential couples

If you give it enough time, I'm sure someone will eventually turn that idea into an actual manga.

I mean, there is already Yuri Wall, so why not Eldritch Dimension Hopping Yuri Hotels too?

Yuri wall?

There is a manga called "Yuri Wall", a silly gag one.

I am convinced that these manga hotels are eldritch beings that sprout into existence the moment it starts raining around potential couples

If you give it enough time, I'm sure someone will eventually turn that idea into an actual manga.

I mean, there is already Yuri Wall, so why not Eldritch Dimension Hopping Yuri Hotels too?

I was subconsciously expecting one more page with some kind of horror reveal about that "new thing" she wants to try, to be honest.

Looks like the anime version is an absolute disaster in animation department, because of the production company.

Not sure how trustworthy this is exactly, but that's probably most outsiders will hear about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1d4guyb/twitter_thread_leaks_info_about_the_current/

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Seems like that dude dodged a bullet, given the speed of flip-flopping. Lol.

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Uwatnao?

I get it how she's been lacking a purpose to even to exist until now, but it was just funny anyway.

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Has this series always had the Yuri tag? I thought for sure it was tagged as Subtext.

Oh my... Did you think Eiko and Enami-sensei are "subtext" somehow? Not to mention Kamuri's romantic puppy love for Eiko or Tamate being a very wholesome raging lesbian?

Subtext is something that turns out to be real, but that you also have to read between the lines and construct from small pieces of information you collect over the runtime of a fictional story. You know, the "sub" part? :)

this is rapidly approaching post-subtext levels of gay, if it wasn't there already

It's just text. She's having dreams about her crush and wanting to get it on, in middle of a school class to boot. Doesn't get any more textual than that.

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However, i have, as I believe many of you have it as well, that nagging thought on the back of my head, that annoying anxious feeling in the pit of my belly, that calls the attention to the (unlikely) chance of this ending up as the so dreaded ultimate subtext and the story finishes displaying Komichi and Erika's relationship as nothing but platonic and ends with both of them older with their respective boyfriends/husbands and remain good friends "as they always were".... Just that... Really, really good..... "friends". Man, if this happens (as it happened before with other works as you all know), it'll be a gut punch by a prime gloveless Mike Tyson.

I know the story is proving this possibility wrong with every passing chapter, but still... I'm sure we all had past experiences of this happening before. Anyway... Great story, great art, great characters. As someone who is not into School life as much nowadays, this is a breath of fresh air into the genre for me. Glad i binged this.

You're not quite talking about subtext there anymore.

Subtext would be something like you knowing Erika and Akebi are dating or will end up dating based on all context that is provided, but it's not directly shown. It would not really be "up to interpretation" U-turns and general silliness like say, Tropical Fish Yearns For Snow.

You're talking about unattainable, unrealized or unrequited love ala Class S or "I missed my chance" thing, or far worse, intentional bait or writer not being able to write what they at least claim intended to do.

For me, Akebi's Sailor Uniform just seems so direct and honest in a way few manga or any other piece of fiction manage to be. It would be tremendously hard to write a bait ending for it, if author keeps opening up their characters feelings and everyday life like this. It's the kind of writing that tends to stay on course, where ever it is heading. I doubt you could experience feeling like "there is no way it would not work out like this" after it is finished, even if the ending wasn't what you'd hope for.

Maybe these are my own famous last words. ^_^

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I've been positively surprised how fun this story is. I was bit doubtful at first, but these two ladies have rather hilarious chemistry together.

This author has been busy lately elsewhere as well. Chigusa Minori has also illustrated a new yuri visual novel, LipTrip.

Looks like one of those omegaverse-lite things, where authors just take the omega-heat-alpha idea and ditch the rest.

The seagull would then go and complain to its friend the seal, who then raise its voice and shout "GGAAAYYYY!!!!!".

All this damned beachiality

So Xingyuan is gay, 100% lesbian, but Xiaoen is bi and only had had crushes on boys till now?
Huh. I wasn't expecting that.
For me it's more surprising than the reveal of Yunduo's feelings.

The thing is that crushing on some distant figure isn't an actual crush. It's a common mistake people make.

You can only really be totally sure when you feel romantically and/or sexually attracted to a person you meet, face to face.

This is especially common for homosexual kids. They want to fit in, and they're being gaslit from every direction about who they should like. So it can get pretty obsessive and weird on that front.

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We're reaching Xena warrior princess riding a freaking rainbow colored unicorn levels of sapphic tension here XD Like, oh my god, they're either the best actors ever or this is totally love and there's zero acting required.

It can't be acting, because Akebi and Erika have admired and been attracted to each other pretty much as long as they've known each other. They're huge stans of each other, really. Acting was just a closet key or match that lit the fuse.

As far as I can see, this is just subtext flowing into plain text, which is a sign of well made subtextual story. Letting actions and context speak for themselves, and then when it happens, it feels like an emotional and natural extension of the plot.

None of this means Akebi and Erika become a couple, of course.

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Manic Hijinksie Girl.

High stakes drama.

Cool that some official publications are coming about, art is always lively and nicely detailed, with lot more natural poses than usual. Definitely deserves more attention.

Kind of like Akebi-san, but more from regular life instead of performance snapshots and sports moves.