I just don't know anymore if I want Yuetao to cuck her scumbag husband with Ruby, with Mrs. Yan or with Butterfly Dream. Maybe with all of them, one at a time? (Or together, I'm not picky...)

What about the little girl selling needles and thread? Too young for you?
Lol, kidding. :P

Seriously now, be it Ruby, Mrs. Yan or Butterfly Dream, all seem to have realized something BD states explicitly in the 2nd or 3rd chapter — that is, men can not be relied upon. Yuetao is making quick steps towards the same conclusion — if she isn't already there! Thus it's possible for her to romance some or all of these disillusioned women in the future...
(I say "in the future" because for now BD is the only one she seems to be developing feelings for!)

Mod Edit: A word was substituted with a synonym. Do not use the removed word, or its lineage, on our forums or discord.

You know, the word that starts with META and the word moron are not synonyms at all. They mean completely different things.

You don't have to be stupid to be the kind of person they were talking about. Charles Babbage was like that - and nobody ever accused the creator of the Difference Engine of lacking intelligence. It's about an attitude towards works of art and fiction, not about smarts.

So, like, what attitude are we talking about?
(Sorry but I know nothing about Charles Babbage so I dun get the reference.)

Charles Babbage loved number tables, punched cards and musical scores. He found them pleasant to the eye. Eg, when he looked at a musical score, he would admire the elegant harmony of lines and dots and praise how they connect to each other. Since he liked looking at scores, he claimed to like music. However, if somebody actually started playing music when he was around (on a guitar, a piano, whatever) he would go red with anger and yell: "Stop that infernal racket!"

Some people like manga the way Babbage liked music. They see lines and dots and constructs of tropes, all of which can be measured and tabulated, and then they can analyze and compare the tables and deduct all sorts of little results. However, when they see us immersing ourselves in a story and enjoying ourselves immensely, they start whining: "What are you doing?!? That's just fiction! Those places and people are not real!!"

They really think they're revealing important new information to us when they talk like that. These are some of the posts I've read in this here forum along the years:

"These girls are characters in a story! They can't be your friends! It's pointless to like them!"

"You're saying she should dump her lover and date her bestie? Sorry, mate, she can't hear you: she's made of pixels!"

"Wow, thanks for denouncing all his crimes, loud and clear! Too bad you'll never be able to drag him to your tribunal and judge him, coz he's not human, he's a character!"

"Oh so you love whatshername? You're crazy about her? Well I got news for you: she's not a real woman! She'll never love you back! Hah! Hah!"

Manga comics are like punched cards to these people. Where we see a fascinating, passionating recreation of life, they see tiny holes in a piece of card stock. When asked what the eff is wrong with their heads, they reply they're being META about this 'fiction' stuff. This is why writers in other forums started calling them... exactly that. That word. Plus the "-ard" suffix.

Everyone is entitled to have fun with manga whatever way they want, but it sure would be nice if these guys stopped trying to teach us, again and again, that manga stories are not for realsies. Because it does no good at all, and only pollutes the threads.

The latest Helluva Boss short: MISSION: WEEABOO-BOO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-NrCcr8Bcg

I feel targeted. >_<

Clases de inglés...

Hola gente, ¿cómo va eso? Hacía tiempo que no escribía por acá.

Oh! ese esta bastanta adorable ! me conviene que también la encontre en mangadex para estar mas pendiente de los updates, me recuerda la protagonista de Hitori Bocchi

Mucha gente es fan de Mangadex... pero a mí no me gusta mucho, porque prefiero download los mangas a mi compu para después leerlos tranquilo en mi casa. Y es casi imposible bajar nada del sitio de Mangadex (tenés poco menos que hacerle un siterip).

Hace poco leí un par de historias entretenidas que creo que sólo están traducidas al español, no al inglés. Una es un yuri coreano super ecchi, estilo pwp, sacado de una colección con "sexo en la oficina" como tema; y la otra es una de Mochi au Lait que me hizo mucha gracia porque la prota y su amiga de lentes tienen personalidades que parecen versiones adultas de Toudou y Ruru (las de "Sorry I'm Not Into Yuri"). Les paso los enlaces:

Yuri pwp coreano
Mochi au Lait

Yuri / baihe has become incredibly popular in China lately. If you go to Youtube and search, you'll find literally thousands of short and medium-length movies with yuri stories. Some of them are even series, with dozens of episodes! From what I can tell, historical, fantasy and wuxia settings seem to be the biggest favorites.

And, you know, when I read the words "communist yuri" there's one short movie (six and a half minutes) that immediately came to my mind. This is the Youtube link:

Miss Shen and the Woman Warlord

Please don't read the following words until you've watched the video, ok? Because spoilers.

It's actually a shampoo commercial. ^______^ That's right: baihe is so fucking popular right now that they even make short yuri movies as commercials for all sorts of products. Oh and lemme tell you: I'm totally buying myself some Adolph shampoo now. This commercial was so good it totally won me over. ^_~

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Old ads compilation

Japanese ads are sooo cute.

Bonus: a bar in Kumamoto is now selling an author-approved strawberry milk cocktail named after the manga.

I wonder if this is a sign of the popularity of her manga? I sure hope so, this is one of those series I desperately want to see go on.

I wonder if Ema realizes that every word she says about her plans for the future (both the immediate future and the distant future) spell D-I-V-O-R-C-E to the ears of any unbiased listener.

Heh. This exactly was my first thought as well.
It's amazing that Takara didn't twig it immediately. I chalk it up to her extreme insecurity.

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.

There are a few authors out there who would totally draw a woman of twenty-something and a kid of fourteen having French kisses and sixty-nines and tribbing. They would be very happy to draw it. In extreme detail!

But Kabocha ain't one of them. Her thing is aaaaaangst, not underage explicit sex.

I kinda can’t wait to see what Erika is going to do next Tanabata.

Oh my god, I hadn't considered this.

You really need to ask?

She's going to look for Orihime and Hikoboshi and kick their asses.

@HayaH I wholeheartedly agree with your analysis.

This guy would agree too.

Everybody already assumed the childhood friend is doomed. I would like to see a twist the friend winning for once.

Sometimes the childhood friend character wins...

I concur. Look at the list under the Childhood Friends tag to find heaps of stories with childhood friends who turn into lovers.

Only when there isn't a love triangle. In that case, they always lose.

Is that a Japanese yuri thing? Because in Chinese baihe manhua the childhood friend usually gets the girl, no matter what the competition is. Off the top of my hat I can think of Childhood Sweetheart Liaoliao, The Daughter of Evil and Miss Devil, and My Dearest Nemesis, all series you can find on the Dynasty reader.

Glowing mirror and talking reflection makes me think Fantasy or Supernatural more than Historical

Historical is because it's set in the 1920s

Indeed. But I wasn't expecting magic, spirits and cursed mirrors! That development caught me completely by surprise, heh.

I thought this was going to be like Couple of Mirrors. Know what I mean? A realistic drama set in the 1920s, with a yuri love story between the wife of a cheating rich man and a lowly commoner girl—the main difference being that in CoM the commoner girl was a thief and in this manhua I expected her to be a cabaret singer. It appears I was slightly off beam on some details. :P

I don't know if I would change the tagging, tho. On one hand, adding a tag like "Magic" or "Supernatural" seems reasonable. On the other hand it would totally spoil the big surprise... so maybe leaving it like this is a good idea.

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Yuri writers just love the "ex who returns" subplot to tiny little bits. XDD

Ah icydgi "Zorra-chan" is the generic name Spanish-speaking fans of yuri use for the character of the "ex who returns" in yuri manga. It's such a common trope, there's even a meme where you just have to paste the face of the ex-gf character on a template with a dialogue bubble that reads: 'Hello bitches! Here I am to sink the lead ship and bring conflict and drama to the story! You know you want it!'

Just paste Tianli's face on the vixengirl and you're golden. :-)

Personally i'm so here for chaotic-neutral Naori

Chaotic neutral is best alignment.

well, since when do we have the rule to not talk spoilers in blacked out??? and funny it will be for other readers to have to look through pages to find the translator making the rule…

We don't have any rule against discussing spoilers in blacked out text.

We do have an unwritten rule about requests from the translators. When a translator requests something from us, we honor the request.

You could say it's the least we can do. After all, without the translators, this site wouldn't exist. We owe them this kind of simple politeness.

Who df are those two?
I looked for a pairing tag but there isn't one...

The tag you were looking for is Coach x Nurse. This one:

https://dynasty-scans.com/pairings/coach_x_nurse

My guess is that they probably forgot to add it to the new chapter.

Agradeciendo la info de Mi Querida Enemiga, les comento que la grandísima diosa Kodama Naoko empezó un manga nuevo; y parece que, según sus preferencias, la cosa va de yuri ntr! El título es "La Esposa Mentirosa y la Discusión sobre el Matrimonio entre Personas del Mismo Sexo" y el cap 1 ya está traducido por Uchuujin Projects.

https://lectortmo.com/library/manga/79599/la-esposa-mentirosa-y-la-discusion-sobre-el-matrimonio-entre-personas-del-mismo-sexo

Same but she had a dream about kissing her now. Idk if it can just be friendship anymore after that.

Good thing she didn't have a dream about confessing and being rejected, hm?

The only tag for this work is the "Yuri" tag? How lazy! You're gonna make it feel lonely and unloved!

Quick, find a dozen more tags for this lovely piece of fluff!

School life Romance Blushing

All of Nanase’s fumbles could’ve easily be solved is Yuni just freakin TALKED to her and not bottle everything up and let herself fester and get easily enabled by Yuuko.

I understand the argument for communication and I know many who just like you think that talking to your partner and telling them your needs is the panacea for everything.

But I hope you understand that having to constantly beg for sex to a partner who is cold like a block of ice and has absolutely no desire for your body can become very humiliating—and will in time turn your feelings sour.

You might no like the story because you're uncomfortable with the themes, but it doesn't mean the author is bad at what she does. On the contrary, she's very good. She call it herself "kuzu yuri", ie, "trash yuri" and everything is done on purpose to be the most infuriating possible.

Somehow the manga I like the most these days are either kuzu yuri or prostitution yuri, sometimes both... Sorry but I'm Not Into Yuri, My Girlfriend's Not Here Today, A Scummy Gap Student With a Hard Life Calls Upon a Lady of the Night, Asumi-chan Is Interested In Lesbian Brothels...

Nothing better than smashing moral correctness into smithereens, yessir.

Nice title: "Scumbag's Child"

Are we supposed to understand that Makino, being a child of such parents, is not only a scumbag but also a scumbag's child?

I do believe that's what the words imply, yes.

In a nutshell, this title is Kosuzume's way of telling the readers: 'In case you hadn't noticed, Makino's papa and mama are scum too!'

Chapter 19 in Spanish is out.

For those who can read Spanish, here's the link:

https://lectortmo.com/viewer/a2def2e5d9e7f5170453e5fa9e28597e/cascade

A very sweet, innocent, wholesome chapter; no making out, no kissing, no romantic shenanigans, just Mei and the girls being cute.

So... the formula is making the readers angry?

Kind of. ^_^

But not willingly. Let me give you an analogy. You know the Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne? This a short comic about them:

When it comes to romantic literature for women by women, one of the oldest plot devices in the book is making the heroine's love interest an extremely problematic person: a violent man, an alcoholic, an outcast, a social climber who won't marry the heroine because she's poor, an emotionally-scarred wretch, etc. etc. The story then tells us how the heroine, through great pain and effort, redeems this person's wrongs with the power of her love and wins herself a happy romantic end. Emily and Charlotte Brontë were very fond of this sort of problematic characters, while Anne was NOT; that's why she and her sisters bicker in the comic, as their reactions to the men they see (who by coincidence happen to be the mcs of some novels by Charlotte and Emily) are completely different.

This manga follows that old and tested plot, giving the heroine Ayaka a majorly problematic love interest in Hiroko. Normally, all the readers should react like Charlotte and Emily Brontë would... that is, they should be rooting for Ayaka to break Hiroko's defenses, make her see the errors of her ways, and finally win her heart! Trouble is, 90% of the readers are reacting like Anne would... that is, they think Hiroko is a slimeball and Ayaka needs to find herself a better lover. Ooops. This is not what Sal Jiang had in mind when she created Hiroko.

In the past, there have been many series with similar premises that made the readers in Dynasty forum react the way the author expected. This manga failed to accomplish that. I won't attempt to explain why. Let's just say that Hiroko doesn't have what it takes to charm the readers (whatever this elusive quality may be) and leave it at that.

What I would like to know is: are there really so many otome games where a scene like this happens? All these details seem so precise and definite: the hall full of nobles, the finger-pointing, the yell "So-and-so! Our engagement is cancelled!" and so on and so forth. Is it a trope that you expect to find in every otome game? Or is it a parody of one particular famous work? Or a combination of both?

As far as my knowledge goes... that scene, with that precise sequence of events, comes from the Bakarina universe. :)

The game Fortune Lover (where the unnamed mc reincarnates as "Bakarina") has many possible happy endings, and all of them include the scene where Katarina Claes is publicly accused by Prince Geordo of harassing the heroine Maria Campbell. It starts with him pointing his finger at her and announcing the end of their engagement, then a few characters step forward and read the list of her wrongdoings, then Katarina is declared a criminal, stripped of her social status and exiled.

This scene doesn't parody any preexistent otome game, it was an original scene completely invented by the author of the books... but it became so popular it turned epigonic; and it's now a staple of Villainess Yuri.

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