I will never understand how the lack of STDs in (fictional)porn is something that people care about, or the lack of hygiene-condoms, etc. lol

it's not that i care exactly. more like it occurred to me while reading and i thought it was funny, because with her body count it's not that out there? and in a very much porn manga it would never ever be addressed. like the realism adds an absurdity, i guess

I will never understand how the lack of STDs in (fictional)porn is something that people care about, or the lack of hygiene-condoms, etc. lol

it's not that i care exactly. more like it occurred to me while reading and i thought it was funny, because with her body count it's not that out there? and in a very much porn manga it would never ever be addressed. like the realism adds an absurdity, i guess

Maybe I’m just a unnuanced categorical thinker, but I guess I’ve always assumed that once you say “isekai” (not to mention “elf”) most elements of realism are pretty much fading in the rear-view mirror.

I will never understand how the lack of STDs in (fictional)porn is something that people care about, or the lack of hygiene-condoms, etc. lol

it's not that i care exactly. more like it occurred to me while reading and i thought it was funny, because with her body count it's not that out there? and in a very much porn manga it would never ever be addressed. like the realism adds an absurdity, i guess

Maybe I’m just a unnuanced categorical thinker, but I guess I’ve always assumed that once you say “isekai” (not to mention “elf”) most elements of realism are pretty much fading in the rear-view mirror.

Also with fantasy in general, which is what I mentioned with my previous comment. If I remember correctly in the Witcher the witchers can't have kids and don't have to deal with STDs either, so sex with varied partners is fully viable. With fantasy a person can explain anything with magic, fantasy race traits, potions, everything and anything. Plus a pornographic work is generally meant to have a narrative of "sex is fun", it's usually not meant to portray the complications of sex.

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There is some het in this "yuri", but everyone is completely calm about this fact, since it is mentioned only on a few pages. It's like there's a little bit of crap in your dinner, but you don't mind because there's only a little bit of it.

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personally,I can't accept this type,especially the setting of the elf.

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her being bi doesn't bother me so much as the way the whole thing is framed. it's just Too porn lens for my taste, i think. feels like the artist is a straight dude who washes a lot of irl porn videos (the sex scenes were totally referenced from stuff like that, it's so obvious). i liked the art up until the porn started, too, because although the bodies looked nice, the expressions were so exaggerated i couldn't take it seriously. and outside of the abrupt sex, there doesn't feel like there's any chemistry whatsoever between the leads. main girl was also reading horny shoujo manga, which... is statistically likely to be het, but not guaranteed i suppose, or maybe she's reading it for the boobs and we just don't know it. without further context, it just feels like "sure i'll fuck girls too, i'll fuck anyone" x Normal Girl(tm) who's a little confused and inexperienced. and that's... the thing? we have little to no context, and what does exist isn't that good. i'm definitely not continuing this, and i wish anyone who does lots of luck. (honestly, seeing that it was lazy lily that TL'd it explained everything lmfao)

Yeah, when I saw "mostly does het" on the artist's Dynasty profile, I thought "that tracks". It has nothing to do with the elf being described as bisexual and everything with...everything else. Instead of "male gaze" yuri, I propose the term "this artist has not read a single yuri manga in their life" yuri.

There is no attraction, no connection, no sexual tension, nothing, even with 20 pages of setup. Then when the sex occurs, the human character being a girl is completely incidental, maybe even irrelevant other than her anatomy. Oh, and the elf being a girl is also irrelevant to the human girl, also except for her anatomy. Yes, the elf is an "expert" at cunnilingus, but we don't get to know how she feels about doing all of that to the human girl. The same way, we don't get to know how the human girl feels about getting all that done to her by a girl. It's like the idea of two women being attracted to each other is so alien to the creator that they can only imagine lesbian sex that emerges from a sort of gender-blind libido where "anyone will do". They leave even the most basic yuri tropes like "her eyelashes are so long", "she's so damn soft", and "she smells so good" on the table.

Even in porn, questions like "why would a human girl not kick out her house guest who just walked in on her masturbating and starts insisting to 'help' her" can have a more interesting answer than "well, she's just really horny and her roommate is a foreign sex worker who is never off the clock". Or at least one that's a bit more life-like, such as "because she is attracted to her house guest". Some of the drawings are pretty good, but there is such a gaping void instead of a story here that they might have been better as loosely connected illustrations without dialogue.

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I am utterly unconvinced by the above criticism. Yuri doesn't have to stick to standard tropes, and I found the progression relatively natural.

I'm still not sure if this is meant to be a series or not, but the last pages give extraneous details like Ayano's childhood friend (never seen or mentioned in this chapter), Ayano wondering about her sexuality, and Alice being fully bi. So maybe there's meant to be more development.

Well, this is ironic as I chat with an 'Elf' on Twitter who managed to get her 'Dancer' class adapted by Troll Lord Games for Castles & Crusades. Still, seemed like an interesting read. Still don't get the 1 partner is clothed deal in a lot of hentai (its worse in Het cause 9 times out of 10 the dude should be getting his junk caught in his zipper which HURTS). Plus there is something to skin-to-skin contact that is heightened in physical intimacy.