@Nyangomaru

Honestly though, just out of sheer morbid curiosity... what did you think that kiss Kasumi gave Sakurako was about? Trying to lick leftover food off her face?

I just want to add to add to @BugDevil's point here: there was no leftover food on Sakurako's face at the time.

And let's not even mention how many times they interlocked fingers.

Thanks to BugDevil, I deleted my unpleasantly snarky original response and had a beer.

My previous theory that this series constitutes an interdimensional rift so that some panels are inaccessible on the plane of existence inhabited by certain readers remains unrefuted.

Thanks to BugDevil, I deleted my unpleasantly snarky original response and had a beer.

My previous theory that this series constitutes an interdimensional rift so that some panels are inaccessible on the plane of existence inhabited by certain readers remains unrefuted.

The way I read your theory now makes me think that, if it were an interdimensional rift, it would be actually that all panels would be accessible on various different planes of existence.
Because of either my poor reading of the name you gave to the theory or your poor wording of it (depending on how one looks at it), I'm gonna put forward an alternate theory. Some panels have "dissappeared" from some readers' internet because of things like quantum tunnelling: the quantum particles showing the panels simply used tunneling to (and I'm gonna grossly oversimplify it, so all our brains wouldn't fry, melt or evaporate, depending on the person) "teleport" to some location and do something else rather than showing those "missing" panels.

Dammit, BV, I’m not a scientist, I’m a . . . something that’s not a scientist!

All I know is that some readers and I don’t share something.

“Futaribeya is not yuri”? Well, like I said, there are all kinds of idiosyncratic personal criteria out there for what counts as “yuri,” so at this point I’ve decided that if calling this series something else addresses someone’s deep personal need, and there’s no attempt to force their definition on others, I for one shall not stand in anybody’s way.

But “the feelings between Sakurako and Kasumi are one-sided”? That’s a different matter.

Kasu on Saku: “She’s my wife.”
Kasu on Saku: “I can’t imagine my life without Saku.”

Either there’s a cognitive issue in decoding text or a problem in the space-time continuum.

The science I leave to you.

EDIT: BugDevil, I think we’re safe as long as it’s just theorizing and we make sure to keep BV away from the lab.

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Don't leave the science to BV please.

I'm not a scientist myself, but I sometimes just happen to dive deep into a science from time to time (usually astronomy, certain fields of biology or certain fields of physics). And, don't worry, I would leave the labwork for the actual scientists to do.

Blastaar posted:

Kasu on Saku: “She’s my wife.”
Kasu on Saku: “I can’t imagine my life without Saku.”

Some are simply stubborn pedants and unless the phrase "I love you" and/or "Let's go out" is said, they won't register it as anything else other than subtext. After all what if we assume they really are dating, but then author throws some sudden het or something at us?

After all what if we assume they really are dating, but then author throws some sudden het or something at us?

Actually, I cackled imagining a het guy trying to get between Sakurako and Kasumi.

I don’t know which would be a greater threat to the guy’s masculinity: Kasumi’s withering indifference or Sakurako armed with kitchen utensils.

Some are simply stubborn pedants and unless the phrase "I love you" and/or "Let's go out" is said, they won't register it as anything else other than subtext.

Clearly a "I love you" is not enough anymore since we had this a few chapter ago.

After all what if we assume they really are dating, but then author throws some sudden het or something at us?

The moment we avoided any kind of mixer drama, I knew something like that would never happen lol

On the topic of guys, Yukiko-sensei goes absolutely out of her way to make them as un-"threatening" as possible.
Every man that appeared in the story:
-Older bro afraid of girls
-Kawawa bro who resisted Kasumi's beauty, which goes against their very genes, meaning he is aroace
-A burnt out teacher who doesn't give a crap about anything anymore
-A teddybear daddy
-A club member who has less involvement with the "plot" than characters that live in a different school dorm and only visit every few months. Who also asks for more guys in his club full of pretty girls (aka gay)

This is how you do yuri stories that don't forget men exist.

In addition, I remember that, somewhere much earlier, some guys tried hitting on Kasumi, and, as lazy and indifferent as Kasumi is, she declined, saying she was already with someone (I explicitly remember the guys assuming she got a boyfriend, and Kasumi thinking to herself something along the lines of "I never said it was a boyfriend, though"). Looking back on it now, I think it would've been dumb to think Sakurako's love for Kasumi was one-sided even back then, and it would be purely idiotic and delusional to say it still is right now.
Even if a guy who would go for either of the MCs did emerge, he would scarcely count as a threat, as the Sakurako x Kasumi ship is waaaaay too well grounded.
Not to mention that Sakurako is up there with Arisa from "Bright and Cheery Amnesia" as the no.1 gayest character I've seen thus far.

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Mob characters aren't real characters, so I don't count them.

Will this stop updateing now that it is licensed?

Will this stop updateing now that it is licensed?

Hasn't stopped Dynasty with any other release (AnoKiss updated for literal years after being licensed), so I doubt it. We just reached the most recent chapter, so now it will take a while.

last edited at Apr 28, 2019 9:42AM

In addition, I remember that, somewhere much earlier, some guys tried hitting on Kasumi, and, as lazy and indifferent as Kasumi is, she declined, saying she was already with someone (I explicitly remember the guys assuming she got a boyfriend, and Kasumi thinking to herself something along the lines of "I never said it was a boyfriend, though"). Looking back on it now, I think it would've been dumb to think Sakurako's love for Kasumi was one-sided even back then, and it would be purely idiotic and delusional to say it still is right now.
Even if a guy who would go for either of the MCs did emerge, he would scarcely count as a threat, as the Sakurako x Kasumi ship is waaaaay too well grounded.
Not to mention that Sakurako is up there with Arisa from "Bright and Cheery Amnesia" as the no.1 gayest character I've seen thus far.

On the side stands "It's a lie"

Will this stop updateing now that it is licensed?

Hasn't stopped Dynasty with any other release (AnoKiss updated for literal years after being licensed), so I doubt it. We just reached the most recent chapter, so not it will take a while.

The general rule is if the scanlators keep supplying chapters, and the publisher (English or Japanese) or artist don't tell us to cease and desist, we'll keep on posting what comes in.

Me to myself after reading Nezchan's latest comment on this thread:
"Don't be tempted. DO. NOT. PUT. VERSES. FROM. PEWDIEPIE'S. "CONGRATULATIONS". HERE."

Huh... two eggs product child XD

Every man that appeared in the story:
-Older bro afraid of girls
-Kawawa bro who resisted Kasumi's beauty, which goes against their very genes, meaning he is aroace
-A burnt out teacher who doesn't give a crap about anything anymore
-A teddybear daddy
-A club member who has less involvement with the "plot" than characters that live in a different school dorm and only visit every few months. Who also asks for more guys in his club full of pretty girls (aka gay)

I'm worried about this universe's population collapse after that... But maybe the girls will make lot of science babies to make up for the difference.

Blastaar posted:

Kasu on Saku: “She’s my wife.”
Kasu on Saku: “I can’t imagine my life without Saku.”

Some are simply stubborn pedants and unless the phrase "I love you" and/or "Let's go out" is said, they won't register it as anything else other than subtext. After all what if we assume they really are dating, but then author throws some sudden het or something at us?

If I recall correctly, there's a chapter where Saku asks Kasu to outright say "I like you," so Kasu starts saying that as a matter of habit.

Kasu on Saku: “She’s my wife.”

Which she says to a little girl who just about proposes to Sakurako. While putting an arm covetously around Sakurako. And if you say that it was just a joke, she didn't really mean it, well, she did bop Sakurako for trying to kiss Seri while drunk at the flower viewing in a burst of anger that surprised even herself.

But what gets me is that once they hit college these start two ship baiting not the readers, but every other character they know in the story. The college friends who blush over Sakurako's bold declarations of a satisfying sex life (not to mention they think the two are a proud, openly a gay couple). Their high school junior, Seri, was partially emboldened to get into a lesbian relationship because she wanted to emulate them (imagine her shock that they didn't cross that line). Kasumi brags about their effortless five year relationship to her boss who wants to know the secret so he can smooth his own 20 year marriage. Sakurako's family seems to accept them as a couple in that they ask them, not just her, to visit more often. Kasumi treated it as a joke, but I get a feeling her mother meant it when she called Sakurako her capable daughter-in-law.

I keep imaging them ending up at some kind of surprise engagement party arranged jointly by their parents (an excuse for the parents to meet each others), where those two go 'who's engaged? nono, we aren't like that' followed by chapters of people's reactions, interrogatives, and essentially a 'you two are a couple' intervention at the end. Isn't it fun to imagine what everyone they know would ask or say to them under those circumstances?

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^ Some people just like to start a fire, and peacefully sit there, watching the World burn.
I swear, if the author goes dow that route, it'd be Macedonia from VoidViper's "Alternate Future of Isolated Europe" all over again.

There are other moments where Kasumi is openly gay for Sakurako too like when she casually joked about marrying Sakurako in front of the mom

She wasn’t joking.

Of course, this was a joke...

"I've longed to have a dear, special friend just like they have".

Then they kiss off-camera. Even the in-story characters are joining the meme.

EDIT: I kinda fear now for Kasumi living under the same roof as the lecherous beast Sakurako has become.

Kasumi has Sakurako basically on leash at this point lol, she has nothing to fear.

There are other moments where Kasumi is openly gay for Sakurako too like when she casually joked about marrying Sakurako in front of the mom

She wasn’t joking.

Strange how people think it's joke when there is nothing indicating this is the case. I guess the scene was supposed to be humourous but Kasumi herself sure was serious. I don't she is the sort of people to joke about theses sort of thing anyway

No indication? She was laughing while she said it..

Strange how people think it's joke when there is nothing indicating this is the case. I guess the scene was supposed to be humourous but Kasumi herself sure was serious. I don't she is the sort of people to joke about theses sort of thing anyway

No indication? She was laughing while she said it..

Smiling is not laughing... And there is no indication she didn't mean it. She never contradicted it any point and is okay with Sakurako talking about their honeymoon.

And again, what is your explanation for Kasumi kissing Sakurako of her own volition?