@Chicken
I was squinting SO hard reading your comments.

@Chicken
I was squinting SO hard reading your comments.

Why?

@Chicken
I was squinting SO hard reading your comments.

Why?

last edited at Mar 5, 2019 4:53AM

@Chicken
I was squinting SO hard reading your comments.

Why?

You're just a part of the crowd. I give this series a year tops after it ends. After a year everyone's gonna realize it was crap. This is not the yuri masterpiece we're looking for.

You're just a part of the crowd.

Well aren't you the edgy hipster.

You're just a part of the crowd.

Well aren't you the edgy hipster.

I don't hate it just because it's popular. It just seems to me like this manga is nothing special, and it got popular because people think it's deep. Newsflash, it's not.

Nez, can we please just nip this nonsense, well, it’s a little late for “in the bud,” but ASAP?

Nez, can we please just nip this nonsense, well, it’s a little late for “in the bud,” but ASAP?

Ok ok I'm leaving.

Obvious troll account is obvious, yea. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In yuri, the important thing is the mental aspects of a relationship, more so than carnal desires.
Precisely because those in yuri relationships cannot bind themselves together naturally, they truly yearn to become one...
Like the people who yearn to look exactly like those models in magazines... in the end they completely identify with each other...
If it were possible, they'd have their heart and bodies both become one.
"i am you and you are me..." Yes... almost like reflecting mirrors!

@Chicken
I was squinting SO hard reading your comments.

Why?

Let's just summarize it thusly: IF your were trolling, and the goal of trolling is getting someone to get a negative reaction, you succeeded in ticking me off.

People, say it after me "If I don't reply, the troll loses his power. If he keeps spamming because we ignore him, he will be banned."
There problem solved.

In yuri, the important thing is the mental aspects of a relationship, more so than carnal desires.
Precisely because those in yuri relationships cannot bind themselves together naturally, they truly yearn to become one...
Like the people who yearn to look exactly like those models in magazines... in the end they completely identify with each other...
If it were possible, they'd have their heart and bodies both become one.
"i am you and you are me..." Yes... almost like reflecting mirrors!

Heh. I like this sentiment, albeit a bit too poetic. It truly only can exist in a world of fiction.

In yuri, the important thing is the mental aspects of a relationship, more so than carnal desires.
Precisely because those in yuri relationships cannot bind themselves together naturally, they truly yearn to become one...
Like the people who yearn to look exactly like those models in magazines... in the end they completely identify with each other...
If it were possible, they'd have their heart and bodies both become one.
"i am you and you are me..." Yes... almost like reflecting mirrors!

Quoting Yurika Campus Life i see.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/yurikas_campus_life_ch09#10

In yuri, the important thing is the mental aspects of a relationship, more so than carnal desires.
Precisely because those in yuri relationships cannot bind themselves together naturally, they truly yearn to become one...
Like the people who yearn to look exactly like those models in magazines... in the end they completely identify with each other...
If it were possible, they'd have their heart and bodies both become one.
"i am you and you are me..." Yes... almost like reflecting mirrors!

Quoting Yurika Campus Life i see.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/yurikas_campus_life_ch09#10

Kinda forgot were it was from to be honest (i just had it written on a note in my phone) But i felt it was fitting so why not post it? :P

In yuri, the important thing is the mental aspects of a relationship, more so than carnal desires.
Precisely because those in yuri relationships cannot bind themselves together naturally, they truly yearn to become one...
Like the people who yearn to look exactly like those models in magazines... in the end they completely identify with each other...
If it were possible, they'd have their heart and bodies both become one.
"i am you and you are me..." Yes... almost like reflecting mirrors!

Quoting Yurika Campus Life i see.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/yurikas_campus_life_ch09#10

That series is kind of the anti-thesis of that statement. Poor Saori. Luckily she isn't that much into yuri anyway.

last edited at Mar 5, 2019 12:56PM

Saori married Yurika even though she's not into yuri. She just has an account on Dynasty Reader because she wants to understand her wife's unnatural, yuri lifestyle.

Come on, Maki, you're a spectator, you're not supposed to give direction to the actors on stage. :þ

But man, that was a good transition… Here's what I was hearing during the last few pages…

Come on, Maki, you're a spectator, you're not supposed to give direction to the actors on stage. :þ

I took that as more like Maki disabusing Yuu of the delusion that she was a member of the love-watching guild.

He wasn’t telling her how to act or what her lines were, just clarifying that she was already part of the cast.

By the way, the final panels of this chapter made me think of https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/sasameki_koto_ch32#6

Right… I suppose he wants to see their show to the end after all. Yuu just giving up would be the worst anticlimax to him (and us).

On another note, I'm bothered by how weirdly… unparallel the last two pages are. Knowing Nakatani, I can't imagine that's not deliberate, but I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean.

(Maybe it's been discussed in some of the bazillion pages since the chap came out…)

^ Huh, it is similar…

last edited at Mar 5, 2019 5:12PM

@Chicken
I was squinting SO hard reading your comments.

Why?

(The answer is "Yes".)

On another note, I'm bothered by how weirdly… unparallel the last two pages are. Knowing Nakatani, I can't imagine that's not deliberate, but I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean.

What do you mean?

I mean that Yuu's running sideways, while Touko is running towards the reader. The jump between the two pages was a bit strange.

I mean that Yuu's running sideways, while Touko is running towards the reader. The jump between the two pages was a bit strange.

I don’t really get what you mean...

Anyway, I think about when Touko’s running scene, the background in the train station seems dark already, and there’s look like a stars around, while in Yuu’s scene, still bright. Yuu probably wait a long time. Or it’s just because the autumn season, that it quickly gets dark. Lol

last edited at Mar 5, 2019 8:41PM

My read of the final two pages is that the cut from one to the other was literally the kind of subtext that comics can do.

It looks at first glance like the two of them are just about to encounter each other—that if the chapter went on for a page or two more they’d run into each other on the street.

But, as @shojie07 says, the different lighting suggests that the two scenes are not quite simultaneous—broad daylight for Yuu, early evening for Touko.

But staging potential suggests that their meeting won’t be on the street but in the student council room Where It All Began. Still, Nakatani is a quite structural writer, but also subtle enough to maybe first foreshadow a stuco room meeting only to have them meet earlier.

But I suspect not, and so the running-toward-each-other-but-not-quite feel of that faux-crosscut will end up with us all back in the Tabernacle of Love/Not-Love Student Council Room for the big showdown.