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joined Sep 9, 2023

That's a penis.

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^^^^Mari is also still hanging out with Kirsche last I checked.

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The author's barely disguised fetish.

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^^^Did it take them this long to find this artist? Or was the idea of Pride Month somehow just one step too far?

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Oh no. I know that background.

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^^It's still being TLed on Mangadex, you know.

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Is there a spreadsheet with all 429 works and their vote count available somewhere?

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Hinata is too pure for this world.

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Hard picks after the first two.

Gushing Over Magical Girls (no, not for the memes, I meant it), Kanamemo (my intro to yuri), Working Overtime to Destroy the World (an absolute blast, sadly lost to the BilliBilli app shutdown), Demon Girl Next Door (we all know how good this is), and The Witch, The Broom, and The Black-rimmed Glasses (my choice for best hidden gem). The stuff that didn't make the cut were either too short to realize their potential or were too much on the subtext side for something like this.

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You know, an ending that gives zero answers or any sort of closure is rather apt for a manga like this.

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So we've gone from The Ring to Weekend at Bernie's, huh.

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^^Check Pixiv. Lots of yuri fanart there, and this pair is a pretty common one.

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Really gonna miss Working Overtime to Destroy the World most of all. Lots of interesting characters, good storylines, multiple unambiguous relationships, and great humor, all set in a mythos that is relatively untapped for the genre.

Found an MTL site for it and Saintess Showdown while some others are on the Webcomics app. Does anyone have anything for For Her I'd Give It My All?

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I thought about how reckless of a parent someone would have to be to levitate a toddler up a multi-story building, and realized that's exactly what a parent that took their kid into the past to live with someone they've never met before would do.

Also, spotted a possible story thread with the parents mentioned. Someone who has a kid that young likely doesn't have a healthy home life, and there's a couple ways this plot can turn out like.

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^https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSg_nl7XMAAJfEx.jpg

From a manga called My Secret Affection and yes, it's completely serious.

joined Sep 9, 2023

The HiDive release is fully uncensored, if you can find it. Some anime streaming sites have it and it's great!

https://epicstream.com/article/gushing-over-magical-girls-anime-uncensored-version-release

There's three versions, HiDive has the middle-ground AT-X version. The fully uncensored version is Blu-Ray exclusive and hasn't been released yet.

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Apparently we don't even have the fully uncensored version, as that is being held back for the blu-ray releases. Like, what else there to show? Below-belt nudity? On-screen penetration? Just a shame the best places to discuss it are tearing itself apart over the content matter.

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Never too old for a bit of warm milk.

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^^A couple of reasons, at least for the Western audience. The anime is out during a stacked season, in particular fighting for attention against two high-quality dramedies that have the advantage of going full gay, meaning it doesn't get nearly as much as a visibility boost from it. The meat of the drama also doesn't seem to start until a good deal in, turning off both those that like it (who drop it early) and those who don't. This all compounds the traditional issues works in the genre already have with standing out. I believe a second season in a less crowded field would fare much better, letting it hit its strengths from the start without a divided audience.

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Per the practice of holding class committee elections with Chinese characteristics, I'll appoint each committee member

Please tell me this was in the raws, because that's some expert shade throwing.

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^^^^Didn't the director behind Blue Reflection say that they had a male protagonist for the mobile game because "it was always supposed to be like that"?

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Are their eye colors that of the trans flag?

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That'd take some pretty significant rewriting to make sense, such as how Nagisa was so paranoid she couldn't even trust Hifumi (which was what made the traitor's reveal so tragically ironic), but not impossible. Just doing one volume would also at least allow for enough airtime to actually do the character establishment necessary for non-players that is so often missing from gacha game adaptations.

Volume 2 would likely be the easiest to write sensei out of IMO. I don't think they had any real role that they were irreplaceable in, though it's the relatively weakest volume in terms of story.

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Hope sensei won't appear in the anime and the story will be told from the girls' perspective, like Azur Lane

You'd definitely have to write off adapting the main story in that case, as the theme of the game's entire story revolves around the responsibilities adults have with their powers and sensei is a key plot driver. A slice of life without them appearing could work very well, as evidenced by the full-on OVAs on Youtube, but may not be as effective in marketing the game and doesn't demonstrate the quality of writing behind the main story. Personally, I'm hoping for either F!Sensei ala Girls Frontline or playing up inter-student relationships - assuming it's even possible for Volume 3 to be more subtextually homoerotic (seriously like half the ships stem from characters seen there alone).

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^Hey, I've just seen what happens when people start calling artists immoral just for including specific problematic content, and don't like being called a bigot for trying to prevent it.