I think its a waste to make a doujin about characters who dress in elaborate costumes and then have them just wear boring contemporary clothes for the duration.

https://x.com/t_iyodan4989/status/1846516635848643047

At October 16, 3 AM, Azuki Osamitsu died.

RIP.

Meanwhile this artist, in a doujin about the residences of different Touhou characters, portrays Ran as sleeping with a photo of her and Yuuma.

Imagine dressing as a ghost to spook people off your property as some kind of convoluted insurance scam or whatever and then stumbling into two teenage girls banging.

I have kind of mixed feelings about this series; I kinda like it but I'm really not interested in Meiling/Sakuya at all which seeing as its the central ship is obviously a major hampering. Like my favorite chapter by far is the Flandre and Yuuma one but that's really an exception.

I dunno, I feel slightly guilty that I want this manga to be something different than what the author intended.

https://mangadex.org/chapter/fcc42304-73e8-4079-b67a-209665eb2fb9

SEASON 2 ANNOUNCED BITCHES LETS GO

Just finished this and since I don't think there's really anywhere on the internet that cares about this manga I thought I might as well go here. This is one of those series that got officially licensed for an english version but has no fan translations, so if you want to read it you're gonna have to either pay money or commit piracy (yeah I know all scanslations are piracy, you know what I mean).

Honestly, this is a manga that I feel almost could've been great, but had fumbled at several points. I still kind of enjoyed it, but I knew it could have been a lot better.

*Premise: You know exactly what the premise is from the title. Sexy monstergirls wrestling with each other. It delivers on that.

*Plot: The plot is fairly basic and generic. Protagonist trains to be a wrestler, starts out as an underdog (quite literally since she's a cerberus girl) who needs to believe in herself in order to succeed, has several fights then enters the big tournament. Then at the end some big threat comes and she has to defeat it with a final powerup. I'm not really complaining because this isn't the type of story that needs a deep or intricate plot. I suppose my main problem is that the villains who appear at the end just kinda show up and are like "we're evil and gonna destroy everything", so I don't really feel any emotional investment into that conflict at all. Not really enough time to make them feel menacing, or give us an actual reason to want to see them defeated other than "they're the bad guys".

*Characters: The characters are fairly distinctive. The monstergirl premise leads to a lot of unique designs and they tend to have memorable personalities and unique fighting styles too. The unfortunate thing is that since the series is so short (only four volumes long), I don't think anybody other than the protagonist herself really got the character development they needed. I feel like there's a lot more that could have been done with them that is left unexplored.

*Art: This is kind of a mixed bag. I want to say it has great art, because its pretty pleasant to look at. On the other hand, a lot of time during action scenes I had trouble understanding what was going on. I think a lot of it is due to attacks being too flashy. Wrestling is about watching two bodies interlocking with each other, which means its important in a wrestling manga for the choreography to be pretty clear and easily understood.

*Erotica: I mean, this is a fanservice manga, I kind of had to put it here. Characters are pretty sexy looking I suppose. There's times where it ventures into fetishes I dislike (like yeah, I can tolerate tentacles, but I don't want to see girls covered in squirming insects, that's just wrong), but it doesn't do it so often for me to say it ruins the manga. I suppose my biggest problem is for a manga with such an extreme level of fanservice, there's no outright showing of nipples. Which may sound like a weird complaint, but honestly it just kind of feels out of place when there's an extremely lewd situation but they're still hiding the nipple.

*Yuri Factor: Why I posted this review here in the first place. The main character Tirol and her mentor Kayla are obviously in love with each other and really have the hots for each other. I actually really like their dynamic, the whole "wrestling trainer who also sexually dominates their student" thing is pretty unique. Thing is that even though the story itself acknowledges they're in love, I don't feel like there's a proper resolution. They kiss near the end but I dunno, I feel like the ending would've been a lot more satisfying if they outright started dating. There's some other less important yuri stuff (main character's tag team partner also falls in love with her, there's a kind of yandere slime girl, and weird domination relationship between mummy girls) but as I said, since there's not a lot of time to develop characters these aren't really delved into much.

Suffice to say while I wouldn't call this a bad manga, I wouldn't really recommend it either. I would say I would want to follow the creator's careers because I think they could make something better if they improved, neither the author nor the artist appear to have made anything else I would be interested in from what I can see of them. It feels kinda bad because "yuri monster girl wrestling manga" feels like exactly the kind of thing I would be into, and I know that if it weren't for my attachment to this premise I wouldn't really care about this manga at all.

Reading this story feels weird knowing what we do now about Ran's life before becoming a shikigami (also the fact that this artist has drawn Ran cheating on Yukari with Yuuma).

Rules question:

1. No avatars with live-action porn or inflammatory language. Staff may ask you to change your avatar if it is deemed offensive. Failure to do so may result in account removal.

Does this mean that avatars that are hentai are allowed? Like from the specific mention of "live action porn" it seems that way but I can see people not wanting users with NSFW avatars commenting on SFW content.

Just upload all of this artist's comics here.

Wonder how many people were scared off by the netorare, vore and yandere tags.

To be a Idol in inkling society, yuri is mandatory.

I'm amused by how in the Ran/Yuuma ship, Yuuma is always portrayed as either "sad loser who still can't get over her ex-gf after thousands of years" or "gigastacy who effortlessly seduces Ran to cheat on Yukari with her and also probably fucks Chiyari too on the side". And these two portrayals are often done by the same artists.

Meanwhile I don't see any outrage mobs forming over the actual loli artists because the type of people who start them don't go trawling through Baraag.

^I remember the creators were hyping up on twitter "Watch it until Episode 9" like they were so proud of that episode in particular and believed that once people got there they would be hooked until the end. Now from what I've heard it seems like its when the show fell apart.

I just love the "I don't care if I have small breasts because I get to play with my girlfriend's large breasts" dynamic.

Kind of unrelated but this is a personal thing that bugs me.

So you get to see Chun-Li's tits in the shower in Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie. And in the Fatal Fury 2 OVA Mai Shiranui gets like a million nipple slips during the fight scenes, its ridiculous. Yet in the Darkstalkers OVA you never get to see Morrigan Aensland's nipples, even though she's probably the only classic fighting game girl who would actually be okay with doing a full frontal nude scene. Like Morrigan gets a nude bathing scene in the OVA, but you can't see anything.

I'm probably literally the only person on the Earth who finds this weird, but I had to get it off my chest somehow.

Fanon usually portrays Yuuma as Ran's ex-girlfriend with Ran being married to Yukari (either literally or metaphorically), usually going for an either "sad Yuuma gets cucked" or "Yuuma seduces Ran back to her" approach.

i think flan might be a bit confused on the definition of "boyfriend" Also, i wonder what the lightning bolt arrow connecting sakuya and patch is supposed to mean.

It means they listen to ACDC.

Seeing the Yuuma/Flandre pairing seems kind of retro since Touhou 19 made the fandom shift to pairing Yuuma with Chiyari or Ran.

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^If the album is what people are assuming I'm prepared for a wave of the most angsty doomed yuri art ever made. Or a bunch of shitpost Good Ends made to replace it.

I can't believe my current favourite yuri ship comes from fucking Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

Said artbook also shows that Lovely Labrynth eats cookies shaped like Knight-Chan's face, which is like... If a girl ate cookies of my face I wouldn't know if that dedication was cute or creepy.

"Brave knight, I offer you the most precious treasure in my dunge-"

"No stat bonuses, not interested."

Personally tops my list of "ships I adore but has nowhere near enough art".