Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the anime.
No remake huh?

Funny thing, The anime almost completely rewrites the novel story. For instance these to run together and not the blue haired girl. Also there are a lot more people competing and it has various events. Even a rescue event on horseback.

god i LOVE the light novels. fifty billion times more fun, and shizuma's writing in it felt a lot more realistic too. plus it had a siscon tomboy that i think a lot of people would appreciate

anyway! this was cute. i kinda laughed at how fast the pacing was, and it's true that the art skill level is pretty low, but the expressions were cute and the premise itself was sweet. plus, i mean, 2006? god damn

Really? I find the novels to be the weakest version of the story. I found Shizuma in it to be pretty bland and the overall development between her and Nagisa was a bit ehhh to me. Also, I much much much prefer the ending of the anime over the novels.

For me it goes anime > manga > novels

i wasn't a fan of the anime's melodrama i guess. everything felt cheapened by it? the "oh we've got to delay the resolution a little longer? okay sudden amnesia (from a horse riding injury) (and she immediately gets back on said horse)" was too much lol. the LNs were dramatic but leaned more into the school politics and interpersonal "history", which to me gave the relationships more depth.

also, as for shizuma herself, in the LNs it's like she's stretching her last bit of freedom before graduating into a much more suffocating world. she knows her status and is actually responsible (just playful and a little eccentric). she's accepted her fate and closed off her heart. this is why nagisa (an outsider to this walled garden) is who she truly falls for, but when nagisa pushes her away, she disappears and resigns herself to it. the scene where nagisa rushes to meet her before she gets onto a flight was so, SO GOOD. peak romance.

tama here is so CUUUUUTE

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the anime.
No remake huh?

Funny thing, The anime almost completely rewrites the novel story. For instance these to run together and not the blue haired girl. Also there are a lot more people competing and it has various events. Even a rescue event on horseback.

god i LOVE the light novels. fifty billion times more fun, and shizuma's writing in it felt a lot more realistic too. plus it had a siscon tomboy that i think a lot of people would appreciate

anyway! this was cute. i kinda laughed at how fast the pacing was, and it's true that the art skill level is pretty low, but the expressions were cute and the premise itself was sweet. plus, i mean, 2006? god damn

i'm not sure i can even continue this, i feel too bad for the protag! it's not even an "i want to change but can't" situation here. she seriously just wants to be left alone to do her thing. it's actually kind of upsetting? deeply unfair? i think i relate too much to actually enjoy it

SO HAPPY i got to read this again!! rokuroichi's art is just unparalleled, it's so, so beautiful and evocative in every single panel. and the story is just as great as ever. i love the realism it has even though it's got that sweet happy ending, like it's totally believable and relatable. masterpiece of a oneshot. 10/10

trying to remember this oneshot i read a while back. it was shoujo-ish in art style (iirc), and the premise was like, girl who's kinda naive sees her classmates joke flirting with each other and gets really excited because she thinks they're like her. and she crushes on one of them and starts like bringing her cookies and stuff, and they're like "oh she's for real here, she's serious about you. how do we break it to her?" which the naive girl overhears? and it's this drama situation, but ends up the one classmate actually liked her back for real so it's a happy ending. i've been digging through the school life etc tags but can't find it

starting to wonder if i hallucinated this or something because nothing i search brings it up. i've gone through millions of pages and tag combinations by now. wtf

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/dream_story#1

are you KIDDING me. rokuroichi is like my all time favorite mangaka. now i have to commit suicide out of shame (thank you)

Well now you've obviously got to write your own manga and be the change.

been meaning to do this for years now lmao

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niji is SO fucked up. everyone else needs therapy but niji needs a restraining order lmao

trying to remember this oneshot i read a while back. it was shoujo-ish in art style (iirc), and the premise was like, girl who's kinda naive sees her classmates joke flirting with each other and gets really excited because she thinks they're like her. and she crushes on one of them and starts like bringing her cookies and stuff, and they're like "oh she's for real here, she's serious about you. how do we break it to her?" which the naive girl overhears? and it's this drama situation, but ends up the one classmate actually liked her back for real so it's a happy ending. i've been digging through the school life etc tags but can't find it

starting to wonder if i hallucinated this or something because nothing i search brings it up. i've gone through millions of pages and tag combinations by now. wtf

damn, this girl reminds me of my teen self. i probably said a lot of the same shit word for word and i've always gotten along well with straight guys. so i guess that means she's definitely a lesbian

(also, loved the bit about squishy girl bodies in tight clothes. me too.)

LOVE this. from the beautiful art style to the execution. absolutely flawless, 10/10, wish that were me

dug this up and it truly never gets old. a shuninta classic

i love yuni's work soooo much, and this is no exception. i really like the way their meeting was portrayed especially? just kind of gravitating toward each other, and hitting it off so well where they can't stop talking and don't want to part ways. it felt really sweet and realistic!

can i play with rudolf next <3

trying to remember this oneshot i read a while back. it was shoujo-ish in art style (iirc), and the premise was like, girl who's kinda naive sees her classmates joke flirting with each other and gets really excited because she thinks they're like her. and she crushes on one of them and starts like bringing her cookies and stuff, and they're like "oh she's for real here, she's serious about you. how do we break it to her?" which the naive girl overhears? and it's this drama situation, but ends up the one classmate actually liked her back for real so it's a happy ending. i've been digging through the school life etc tags but can't find it

i don't know if anyone will get this but komaki/wakaba feels like rudosiri (uma) but with extra steps and conflict. very tasty dynamic. i'm not even a masochist but komaki is hot tbh

i don't know why i put off reading this so long but going through all the chapters so far in a couple hours was a hell of an experience. definitely subscribed now. i love how flawed and multifaceted everyone is, like they truly feel like real people that we get this window to peek in at. current arc with her little... sister, i guess? is very compelling, and i want that kid's dad to get the shit kicked out of him asap.

also very much appreciate how grounded and realistic the age gap dynamic is, and how they're both childish and mature in ways that often clash. i enjoy age gap yuri a LOT but it's rare i read something that portrays it with this much teeth. huge thanks to the scanlators, i'll have to show the author my support too

BOTTOM RUDOLF!!!!! DROOLING

if maria and kaoru are out of the game now, i'm probably gonna drop this. they were the ones i was actually invested in, and riri is my least favorite by far, so... have fun, guys! hope you enjoy it more than i did

something something "adam and steve". i guess the homophobes were wrong even from a theological standpoint, LOL. i saw the ending to the space one coming but god i cringed. great stories all in all, and one very creative author!

wow, i didn't know this anthology was on dynasty!! i have a copy irl :D it's a fun read! something idk if anyone pointed out here is that the yaoi ship's names are "sea" (umi) and "air" (kuu) by the kanji, which makes the arguments funnier imo!

anyway, yuri shippers do have top-bottom debates on the jp side (possibly kr etc as well but i can't read those), especially in fandoms like umamusu which have a lot of ex-fujoshi. i'm very happy to see my otps regardless of who's on top, but i do still have preferences. so like A/B is great and fun, very appreciated, but B/A is so good it knocks me the fuck out

mikurin kiss! yay!! my teen self is very happy right now

You got me curious and I went to check the raws. The original for "perish the thought" is そんなことないよ．．．！

Which isn't formal at all. Literally, word for word, it means "such a thing doesn't exist" and is just a casual way to deny something that was said.

In context, it probably should have been translated as "Of course I have!"

The translator is probably a beginner.

god, that's just plain old between-friends speech! there's no formality whatsoever.

and as for the "there's no standard teen girl talk" thing, sure, there isn't. but contextually soprano is a popular teen model and can act the part, it's not like she's a withdrawn bookworm in present time. "shabby" is really outdated however you look at it. the only explanation would be if the TLer is british, because maybe they still use it there? idk? but otherwise it's a poor choice of phrasing.

i apologize if my tone came off hostile. i guess it hit a nerve somewhere, but i don't mean any ill will toward the TLer. just uh, maybe get someone more experienced to QC?

hey TLer, you're making some seriously bizarre choices. what young child says shit like "perish the thought"??? what teen girl says "not too shabby"? it makes it hard to enjoy the work for what it is. i'm normally very forgiving with this stuff because scanlation is a labor of love, but this is a little ridiculous

i adore this art style. it's beautiful and perfectly unsettling, and the use of contrast is genius

baba is a fantastic character to add to this clusterfuck of a plot. i love it