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Nerds and gyarus are found across time and cultures...
What would be the American equivalent of a gyaru? Like a cheerleader a prep? But I don't think that's right because gyaru's are supposed to be a little counter cultural.
That's a little tough. If you go by looks and the counter-culture side, a hip-hop girl wearing loads of bling would be the closest.
But manga, for some reason, also likes to present gyaru girls as school bullies. I have no clue why. Maybe because they're popular with boys, and the other girls get jealous? Or because they don't bother with polite formalities and come off as rude, and the other girls equate rude = bully? Either way, from this perspective, cheerleaders and the popular girl crowd, who are always portrayed as meanies in American media, would be a better match.
When it comes to interesting and hot settings, pandacorya is definitely the goat. That paired with such an amazing and original art-style results in one of the best NSFW/smut yuri artists out there, if not the best.
The best. Definitely. Not "one of." THE best. 
Btw I'm tickled that, this time, the jimiko with long black hair and a plain appearance is the dom partner and makes the gyaru into her conquered sub. Hehe, some variety is nice too. 
Riko, nuevo trabajo de la autora (digo autora porque su nombre es bastante femenino) de I'll cheer on my Yuri Onee san!
Estudiante tsundere x Enfermeraaa seductora aaaaaah no se le puede pedir mas a la vida!
https://mangadex.org/title/a6246828-0577-4aaf-9478-371b52e6634d/sabori-nara-hokenshitsu-de-douzo
Aaah, ¡qué lindo! 
Yo también tengo una recomendación: un manga super dulce por una autora que creo que es nueva, Chiba Raki. La serie se titula "Shy na Ano Ko ni Natsukaretai - Quiero ser apreciada por esa chica tímida" y se publica mensualmente en Dengeki Daioh.
Tumanga link:
https://visortmo.com/library/manga/81979/shynaanokoninatsukaretai
Let's hope there's A LOT OF SEX THIS TIME. 
"Just according to keikaku." OMG rotflmao
This is a Chinese manhua, but it has such a Japanese manga vibe...
I lol'ed at Aya who tries to act all adult like, and even asks Erika for lessons on how to seduce a romantic partner into having sex... and then it turns out that even a hug is too much for her.
And that hug was like, barely a hug in my book.
If Koto had said "Now that we have confirmed our feelings, let's have some French kisses and sixty-nines and tribbing!" I think Aya would have nosebleeded a geyser and died. 
last edited at Mar 11, 2024 6:27PM
If there's one thing he will be remembered for, it's this. Not Dragon Ball. Not Arale. Not the Arale ufo, which is pretty iconic on its own.
No, he will be remembered for a water drop with a smiley face on it. 
Honestly, with AI being where it is right now, the "can robots have feelings" debate is actually pretty important to be having. I mean, people are already in the present day getting deeply emotionally attached to chatbots. Personally, if I started having romantic feelings for a robot it would prompt a deep existential crisis...
Nadeshiko and similar androids have been in fiction forever but we're not really any closer to them being real. The current crop of "AI" isn't remotely like a thinking feeling consciousness, it's all just a bunch of glorified filters, and it takes up way more space than a human body does. State of the art is basically 1% of the thinking and 10,000% of the size, lol. I would be genuinely very surprised if a Nadeshiko could be made within my lifetime. So I don't think the silly sex comedy manga is actually relevant to today's issues lol
I agree with you that today's AI are still shitty. However, unfortunately, there's a very real trend of some people using AI chat bots to replace human contact or even using them to fulfill a boyfriend or a girlfriend function. "Replika" is one AI app that multiple people -- if you can trust the internet -- have reported "falling in love" with. While that doesn't necessarily say much about the quality of the AI, I think it speaks to the human capacity for developing connections with non-humans.
There's also the curious problem of AI bots making up stuff when they don't know the answer to something. There have been hilarious examples, like one lawyer who asked an AI bot to find authoritative precedents to reinforce his position in a certain legal case -- and then discovered that everything the AI found for him was fake information and complete bullshit only after he presented it in court. 
last edited at Mar 9, 2024 12:24AM
SAD started working on volume two?!?
Time to reread volume one since the beginning! ♡
Cute cute.
And she wants to somehow make amends. This matters a lot, by my book. I hate the notion that when you grow up and become an adult you have to forget all the things that happened before because it was just unimportant children silliness. You know, like those assholes were saying in the chat? Thx god Tianli doesn't think like that.
I agree with you and I'm extremely glad that the author is making a point of conscientiously and resolutely rebuke that moronic notion. You find a lot (in comics or films or tv shows) characters who have been hurt or bullied when they were kids and still carry the scars as adults, and everyone tells them "What, you're still sore about that? You pathetic loser. It was just children stuff. Get over it. Grow up." It makes me so mad. It's basic textbook that repressing childhood traumas wrecks you as an adult and takes you straight to the divan of a psychiatrist.
And you thought the author was making a point of it last chapter...
Am I the only one thinking the drama of what happened at the beach felt completely unnecessarily and just some cheap drama cash in?
No, you're not.
And Hinoka's suffering in this chapter is another thing that shouldn't have happened.
To end up crying bitterly and saying "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have kissed you, please don't hate me..." No. Just no. 