oughh i really like this ship, too bad this is ai...

now that you mention it...
it seems like the halftone that's absolutely plastered over every single page is more used as a disguise than a "stylistic choice"
also many panels seem like they could've been individually prompted then formatted together... with styles shifting about slightly (and not in an "author got lazy" kinda way)
oh well.

Yeah, badly deployed clip art or whatever seems pretty common in manhua now.

darn you really cited your sources. personally these are not dealbreakers for me long as the main characters are illustrated in a style I enjoy, but try as I might to not notice them the egregiously done examples do still bother me sometime.

But I think most of the manhua I follow has bad art problems. I think Green Tea Bitch is okay, though.

GTB is my favorite yuri manhua ever and it's not even close :P

the backgrounds definitely have taken some shortcuts (if we were to define shortcut as in not hand-drawn) using models or photos perhaps with filters applied on them, but it never made me groan of just how jarring it looked the way some other webcomics' backgrounds have made me.

also I noticed that in manhuas there seem to be an inclination to draw every single frame of the main character as "sparkly" and as "flawless" as possible, to varying degrees of success (in my opinion). this manhua 'my heart is not a stone' is a pretty good example of it done well. GTB did no such thing but it's still quite easy to tell just how skilled the author is and the style's so ever charming.

Also very half-assed when it comes to 3D elements as usual. Try to make sense of the shadows on page 11, or the little pyramid things.

blatantly bad 3D backgrounds seem to be a common thing among long-strip webcomics (of a certain genre(?) or origin(?)) that I must've chosen to stop paying attention to them completely at some point.

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page 7 bottom panel - the tangent from Jiujin's face to her finger's outline makes it seem like she has a tiny chin that I can' unsee, lol

art is still very pretty and refined as usual & hooray for the kiss! it's not even a trick or anything she just wanted to kiss her (unless...)

...I still stand by what I said, Kitano's the best (yandere or not)

if the catgirl's not a misdirection that WOULD explain all the nervousness and sweating

That lack and the resistance to expressing that a character might be trans is bound to cause some abrasiveness between us.

that's probably the root of it and honestly somewhat understandable judging by just how things in general are going right now. a defensive overcorrection towards the world that on average has been so very hostile.

regardless, I think the one thing we can all agree on is that Kitano is the best and deserves the world regardless of what their/her/his/[...] identity is :P

I'm not shutting people down, I'm literally talking about NOT telling others what to think.

^true, you weren't. maybe people chose to interpret your words differently because they perceived your intentions as unkind, or something, but I didn't get that vibe.

for what it's worth (could be nothing, for all I know) before chapter 32 (the final chapter) is released the author did reply on their social to some reader gushing over femboys saying:

“ありがとうございます！今後も頑張ります！
また男の娘を描く機会があれば見つけてください…！”

[google translated (feel free to correct any errors)]
“Thank you! I'll keep doing my best!
If I ever have another opportunity to draw a cross-dressing boy, please look for me...“

so it seems like the author’s intent could be that it’s mostly just a manga about crossdressing “femboys”, maybe even people who are secure in their assigned gender at birth but do enjoy crossdressing as a hobby. (I seem to get the vibe that many people don’t believe this can happen IRL and more often than not they’d just be trans women repressing but I digress.) or maybe the author’s just being kind to the reader who did use the word “男の娘” first.

at the end of the day though as a reader you are of course welcome to interpret from the story ANYTHING you’d like, even if it’s completely different from what the author has intended. but allowing each other to have differing interpretations without lashing out, ESPECIALLY when those interpretations did not come from malice, over fictional characters, is probably for the best.

epic chapter, epic girly
(also girl(y) help: I can't stop seeing Kitano with hair down as a certain video game character, even with the shadowed face and all)

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yeah no Yuuka's 100% in the wrong.
I was more just being facetious. acting like I was indignant over something in the thread (but it's only about peas).
to each their own tbh, like with cilantro preferences which is literally determined by a traceable gene. so don't force people to eat food they hate, lol, especially not cilantro.

^ thank you so much. reading this thread has made me so angry due to the utter lack of pea defenses.

Kitano being so personally scared when the principal suggested the girl go onstage would also be a weird fake-out if he/she wasn't a girl, but the silhouette calling him "Kagari-kun" when Kitano calls him "Girly" would make no sense if the silhouette was meant to just be Kitano.

"two or more girls who all think they're the one listed by the sheet" is a better interpretation of a potential fake-out than "shadow is just Kitano" for sure. good point!

oh by the way y'all the manga was sorta axed with probably a rushed ending (as in not straight-up incomplete) at chapter 32. it's a shame really, really liking the art style, and the wacky premise is fun for me too.

Also I recommend everyone here read the author's oneshot "Gachikoi Slayer and the Army of Gachikoi Fans." It's on Mangadex and I think you all will like how it ends :)

thanks for the rec, it's pretty cute!

I'm just gonna guess that the best friend is secretly the one girl. That feels like the most obvious route.

that would make the shadow person saying "Thank god... I was saved..." & "So, Kaguri-kun, huh?" a diversion by the author, and a way too clunky one at that.

your point could still stand in a way though, but the best friend is probably not THE one as listed by the enrollment sheet.

YAOI!!(?)!!??(?)!?

oh wow I really like this art style

at least Saya-Carp got a fish

liked ruruka since chapter 3 guess I'm just built different

^^ damn so this is the same artist of 'Erma' fame, LMAO, hell yeah

[chapter 5 page 7] "whoever wins grants a wish to the loser"
[chapter 5 page 10] "whoever loses grants a wish to the winning party"

slight translation error perhaps? unless fujima's deliberately switching-up on her words

^花村まさき per @loveodoro (author's account)

I can't believe it, it's actually yuri

^ searching 'rattakoi' (redirected to the alias 'ezier') on danbooru returned about 82 results

10 years since Barn Mates, y'all

dang, this artist's work has really improved over the years! still retaining that iconic(?) neon hue, too

woag. butch bubblegum