Really? Which ones I missed?
1: Watanare
2: This Monster Wants to Eat Me
3: Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games
4: Amayo no Tsuki
5: Gushing over Magical Girls 2nd Season,
6: The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All
7: I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day
8: ?
9: ?

This Monster Wants to Eat Me confirmed for Fall this year, while Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games is confirmed for some point this year. Note that Watanare is already coming out this summer, and it's likely too late to announce your anime will come out in Spring next month, so we are probably getting two yuri anime in a single season.

Also, since there are not one, not two, but FOUR other upcoming yuri anime, I have hopes we will have yuri anime airing continuously for at least a year. We just need two of those to air Winter and Spring next year.

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I'm betting 100 Yuri Dollar that Mai is gonna freak out when she sees Asumi come to the reservation together with Senpai, immediately assuming that Senpai must be Asumi's girlfriend. Then she gets all sad and becomes completely unable to perform in bed, ultimately leading to Asumi aggressively topping her in order to convince her that she was after Mai from the beginning. It's even foreshadowed in this chapter when Mai muses about what Asumi might be doing right now with her girlfriend.

Not sure about her mistaking Senpai for Asumi's girlfriend, but the sentence "Asumi aggressively topping her" caught my attention. Maybe the reason the author made Asumi such a bottom is so that she finally unleash her inner beast at the end of the story when she is in bed with Mai. Maybe it will even turn into a shonen hero moment where Asumi is helped by all the friends she made along the way! And by that I mean, uses every single thing she learned on Mai at once.

Am I the only one disappointed that we didn't get more info about Lilian's project? I want to know what a medieval fantasy version of A Clockwork Orange would be like.

I assume this was drawn because people can't wait for the spin-off to arrive in a few months.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-12-28/gundam-witch-from-mercury-spinoff-manga-imagines-cast-in-japanese-high-school-next-spring/.219570

Yeah, why worry about getting involved in an incestuous love triangle when you can just get yourself a shimaidon?

It's crazy that the anime adaptation will probably end on the reveal that the titular monster does not want to eat the protagonist. I'm more than a little concerned about how that will be received by first timers

Maybe not. They could try ending it at Chapter 14, right before the training camp.

So we are getting a Quidditch arc?

Just don't read it then :)

Not really a fair response when the maybe-incest surprised us after like 40+ chapters. It's different when the incest is an obvious premise from the beginning.

Indeed. That reminds me of Usagi drop. Never felt that betrayed by a manga before (even if after taking a step back, the signs were there).

Incest is weirdly normalized in manga. I was told it's because there are a lot of single child in Japan, so they fantasized having siblings (in a weird way). I don't know if it's true, but it always disturbs me, even if I'm able to look over it when it's minor in the plot.

There is that too, but it goes a bit further: Japan has a real overwork culture that leaves many people living alone with no wife or children (which is why the birth rate is so low). So a big part of Wish Fulfillment relationships in their fiction is to have a lover that will live with you, wait for you, and be nice to you when you are tired. And as a few manga point out, your sister is already your family, and so is already someone that is expected to live with you and all the other things. In sort, making the sister a heroine allows the writer to skip the part where the main characters need to meet and get to know each other and go straight to the lovey-dovey parts that comfort the reader.

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Oh yes, this is what I'm here for. Please, keep the drama coming. More soap opera scenes!

It's also confirmed Hinako will be voiced by Reina Ueda, who also voiced Nagafuji in Adachi and Shimamura, Miyako in Wataten and Momoka in Whisper Me a Love Song.

I think this chapter has further cemented Lapis and Natori as the end pairing while Diana hopefully gets together with someone else (ideally another girl but Gran has proved himself a nice enough fellow so). I think the ending shows a very interesting contrast between Lapis and Diana's the nature of their love for Natori. Diana is somewhat immature and her desire to give Natori up is clear not something that is entirely genuine but more of an obligation she felt while Lapis' is 100% selfless and genuine. She really thinks that the she will only end up hurting Natori if they stay together and this is why she believes she must let her go.

I get you are talking about their relationship with Natori, but it just sounds odd to me to call someone who was planning to commit great atrocities against commoners "100% selfless and genuine". For the matter, "was" is the right word to use here, right? Right?

A leaker has said that this manga will be getting an anime. It seems this info came from the same person who said There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless... is also getting animated and Gushing over Magical Girls is getting a second season, so if any of those three things gets confirmed, the other two will likely happen too.

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It's still just a leak, there has been no official announcement yet.

Once it's official, I do hope they keep the VAs from the PVs. I thought they were a good match for the cast.

No you won't, silly girls. Because you are actually Miranda and Ferdinand.

On different news, the latest chapter also comes with a small interview with the anime cast about what they think of the characters they voice. It's cute.

I wonder why studios have to wait until the anime premieres to draw. For example, an anime that premieres in April is only drawn 2-3 eps in advance, then shows and draws the remaining eps at the same time. Why don't they draw it in advance from January, then just check it again, dub it, and show it in April?

Because with so many anime being made nowadays studios are booked years in advance and genuinely don't have enough time to finish animating the entire thing before episode 1 premieres. They are that busy.

Exceptions do exist though. My Next Life as a Villainess didn't get delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic because the studio managed to finish the entire season before it started airing.

2.5 Dimensional Seduction also has an actual lesbian couple among the supporting characters, but they didn't get an arc focused on them until very recently in the manga (as in, the arc ended literally last week), so it's obviously not going to be in the anime, even if it's already confirmed to be 24 episodes long.

On the other hand, it's shockingly easy to ship the girls together even though this is a harem title. There were times while I was reading the manga where I seriously started to think the MC was a bait and the main female lead was the real harem protagonist all along, because she has a very harem-esque power of making everyone love her. And she manages to be even more blatantly bi than Marin from the similar title Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru.

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There is still a chance they are simply changing the order of events and will come back to the stuff they skipped later on.

Though even if they do this, it will probably be only at the end. Next episode will cover chapter 25, and the bet happens right after. It would be weird to have Himari and Yori go on a happy date between that and the festival since Yori is meant to be super worried during that time. So it would have to be after that.

Also, assuming the last 4 episodes don't slow down or go back to adapt the skipped stuff and keep adapting half a volume each, the anime would end... in chapter 34. Which would be an awkward cutting point to say the least.

Shiho has made an early debut in the anime, and I've got to say, my god, her voice is much cuter than I expected! If I didn't know better I would say they picked her VA based entirely on Chapter 47.5.

So glad this wasn't dragged on more than necessary. I was afraid it would go the annoying route of keeping Diana from talking with Natori so she would remain a pawn for the villain, but nope. They talk things through at first opportunity.

Now it's a matter of preventing Lapis from reverting back to her villainous ways to separate Diana and Natori.

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Episode 2 is out and Volume 1 has been fully adapted. Does this means every episode will adapt half a volume and the anime will end at Volume 6? Not necessarily.

Remember that Chapter 2 was Chapter 1, but from Yori's POV. Since the anime can freely switch the point of view, it adapted the two chapters together, which took less time than the amount of pages suggests. So I don't think we should conclude already that every volume will only take 2 episodes to be adapted. And personally, I don't want to see them trying to do that, not only because of the usual concerns about rushing the plot, but also because doing so may mean we will have less time to see them performing.

Also, I just noticed the festival mini-arc doesn't even end in Volume 6, it ends in the first chapter of Volume 7. More pages to rush through!

My current guess is that the anime will cover the first 5 volumes and finish at the start of the sixth, after the bet is made. People here already pointed out that there is no good stopping point since Shiho's arc is so long. So if there is no "things have ended for now" moment we could go for a "things are heating up" moment to build hype for the manga and a possible season 2.

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Going back to the discussion about how much the anime is adapting for a minute, the opening (which played as the ending for the first episode) more or less confirmed we are at least reaching Volume 4.

I just discovered this series, or rather the original novel, has a PV with voice acting. And the VAs are... Ayumu and Yuu from Nijigasaki?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrZzzvziWkw

But how... I mean... this is cool but, disturbing but, sexy but... too much to be a coincidence... why would anyone...

Someone tell me how to feel about this!

Do we know until what part the anime will cover?

No, but I believe we will arrive at Shiho's introduction at the very least, because of the order of announced VAs. First they announced who would be voicing Himari and Yori, obviously enough, and after that came the SS Girls and Shiho.

https://myanimelist.net/news/68834561

By my own experience, VAs are usually revealed by order of relevance, so it would be very weird for the staff to reveal who voices Shiho so early if she is only going to be in a short flashback. So I'm pretty sure we will at least get to see her in the flesh.