My thought when writing this was, "I wanna draw sexual harassment between two girls."

tmfly sensei, I was familiar with your game before, but I am seeking to becoming even more intimately familiar with it.

@TehSlan I'm pretty sure someone's made something like this already that kinda works! went around as a meme video on Twitter some time ago... but it's definitely a very viable project... :eyes:

Funny cause looking at their Live2d models, my first impression was Raika was more stacked.

^ not analog. I believe this is just the artist's style. It's a very good and distinct style... its so lovely

Is Iroha the greedy one for making two bodies for her girlfriend(s)... or is Yaccho the greedy one for innovating a way to split her consciousness in the first place... questions, questions.

I want to see a Ray or Collab live costume 3P instead already!

So true... can't get over how good Iroha looks in her Ray outfit....

Be pissed somewhere else. Imagine if someone came into the comments of a ship you liked and kept unloading their criticisms and hate of the OG work on it. It's not even like I disagree, but it's just annoying. You're preaching to the choir and now just bringing down the vibe on a cute artwork.

I really like these doujins but the implication of leaving behind basically every other friend/family member is halfway terrifying lmao. Basically Iroha's eternal polycule vs Mikado's eternal polycule.

Coming back to this and seeing the simulpub's version of these pages is so interesting. But also learning about the process from the simulpub TL's end. Hope the Twitter post is fine to link here.

Just to say, it really makes me appreciate the work that goes into this. Salute... and may all yuributa rise from the ashes.

I love how everyone's a consenting adult who looks like an adult, and there's actually a plot with substance omg guys

There's no shortage of amazing adult yuri so I'm confused what this comment is implying. You would only need to read your 2nd Amazaki Suika work to shatter this illusion. Free yourself from your shackles. (insert image of dolphin with rainbows jumping out the ocean)

She.... she's just like me!!!!! FOR REAL!!!!!

I understand this is hard for internet users, but if you see ship art of characters you don't like together you should just keep your comments to yourself. I get being bitter about the ending but y'all act like Lara came to life and made these decisions herself, and it wasn't the decisions of a director who was poorly clinging onto an idea of the perfect ending he had.

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Jesus these comments. As if the very essence of this manga is not already dubcon.

I'll say, Shishido being confused by Ruru's reaction made me laugh. Lol, even without the viewer context of the NTR chapter... girl YOU were being felt up by your boo thang in front of her... in public...

Aw, well that was cute. music has brought together another pair, but it's up to the future what their fate will be :)

They also didn’t discuss the fact that Mitsuki sometimes leaves skid marks in the toilet, and Aya sometimes forgets her unwashed menstrual cup on the side of the tub. Oh wait, the author left these details out because they’re not important to the story. Got it.

Lmfao. Thought the reply chain was going to continue the tone of seriousness, but what an opening line. Made me snort.

Never get why people treat Kaguya and Yachiyo as seperate people

Well technically the movie ending did show it was possible. YC/KG body types both exist, Yachiyo can clone herself, all 3 performed together at the end. And even if it wasn't shown... 3P is fun and people would come to that conclusion eventually lol. (Edit: Also tbf, Kaguya is usually treated as pre-8000 years self and Yachiyo as the post-3000 years self. Kind of like inner child vs adult. So they're different but essentially the same.)

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Can't deny Karasuma x Tear is endgame after a meet-cute like that.

Lol, Karasuma just makes me swoon, but ngl the panel directly after that makes me think this was a meet-cute only from Karasuma's POV.

Thank you again for the TL and the useful notes. I barely remembered Michi was the school friend they mentioned.

Meh. You know what, sure. Subscribed.

I think the question is "Do we really WANT to claim this trashfire as trans rep?"
There are other things we can claim instead! Ansatsu Kyoshitsu! Zombieland Saga! Pandora in the Crimson Shell!
Y'know, things that don't suck.

I like this series, so I'm going to take the themes it portrays seriously and discuss it in depth. You can do whatever you want.

Also I can agree with @appstore, a significant part of yuri culture is this exact philosophy mentioned: "Morishima Akiko said that a lesbian is a lesbian on her own but that yuri is what you want it to be." It's part of why I didn't find the ending so jarring, but also why it still left a bad taste in my mouth.

Because it's not queer - it's yuri. It's "different". So you're not bound to any responsibility, any hurt feelings, because it's not as real as the real thing. And it can feel unfair to put these responsibilities onto an author who is trying to portray a story, but I think it's unavoidable. It's a real thing that any artist should consider, because at the end of the day you are trying to portray an experience that will resonate with real people who have those experiences, so some sensitivity around those people's experiences is expected. But especially when that group of people are queer and often subject to the transgressions of a world that does to them what Lara's father did to her.

So I can understand why people are heartbroken, even if the way people lash out sometimes annoys me. Even I can acknowledge I'm being very optimistic about it relatively, but I'm still bummed for similar reasons. I just had such a fun time all the way till right before the finish line. I will never forget the giddiness I felt watching episodes 2 and 3 - when Mari handed Lara the cocoa can, and when the dagger first burst out of the lake. I don't want to think I wasted my time, or that I lead people on by recommending them this series.

They handed out the trans reading for free

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The trans allegory was completely accidental, I don't believe the creators are aware or capable enough for that.

Frankly, I don't care for the intent of the creator in these things. Matters of the body and bodily autonomy are always going to relate back to a trans experience whether intentional or not. It's my truth and my reading.

At the same time, and I know I cannot speak to the creators intentions, are we really going to say this about the same series that has characters like Kota and Luca's younger sibling?

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@girlswhokiss:

Your comment is long so I won't quote it to make this forum easier to scroll lol, but I also share your same frustrations. I had my own criticisms of how they handled the ending, but some people on Twitter (yeah yeah, Twitter being Twitter) will make you think they retconned everything in the epilogue. I am seriously concerned at the large amount of people who continue to want Mari to be Lara's true love, as if the entire point wasn't that the pressure on young women to find "true love" to save their kingdom was unsustainable and the root cause of a lot of the female mermaid's suffering. It's like being frustrated that Utena wasn't the prince that saved Anthy.

Isn't it better that Lara still chooses to love Mari, even if it isn't "true" love?

The trans reading is also very dear to me. Watching her father strike Lara's legs from her was sickening. It's also why I grew to like the ending as I let myself think about it. She's still stumbling and her legs are still painful but she wants to keep walking. I can't hate that, good for her.

It's my problem with Cosmic Princess Kaguya as well. Physical intimacy let alone sexual intimacy is seen as something that introduces conflict to a pure relationship. It's the kind of thing where these girls mean more to each other than friends, but they can never call themselves girlfriends or explicit romantic partners. As much as I enjoy them, I won't defend SayoLara, CPK, or really even any original anime yuri-adjacent work from this.

The whole ending of CPK was about getting Yachiyo a touchable and touch-capable body again. (Followed by a consuming body, given the photo of NeoKaguya drinking something.) It doesn't go as far as "they're a couple, smooch" but it doesn't pull the rug out, either.

I mean yes, but that's the problem. It's only ever implications, it's never explicit. The problem is when they treat this implicitness as something ground breaking or genre bending. A lot of young homosexual girls and women feel the need to hide their relationship, so what mountains are we moving exactly by refusing to be explicit with showing this in media, either on the scale of CPK/SayoLara or not? It puts the homosexual reading of these girls in a state of existence and non-existence, the best of both worlds -- they can be the best of friends or they can be lovers, you decide. In a world where homosexual love is not given the same support or protections as heterosexual love, that's a cowardly decision.

And it is only ever homosexual couples in fiction that get this treatment. Heterosexual couples are allowed to go the full nine yards, to be in a relationship, married, acknowledged by everyone as romantically involved. I don't need it said to my face that, say, IroKaguYachi, or UtenAnthy, or LaraMari are yuri or romantically involved. But it would be a nice, it would be a GREAT change of pace even to have the confirmation be explicit. To have it acknowledged in the world by other characters, by the story telling, etc.

Edit to add: BTW I'm saying all this and I still like the whole series, and the ending. I'd give the entire series a 10/10, and the last bit of the finale a 8.5/10. Overall, 9/10. If numbers mean anything to anyone lol.

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My feelings on this series are complicated, because I like how it's done basically all the way till the last 5 minutes, so I've been grappling with myself on whether I let those 5 minutes determine how I feel for it or if I take it and try to negotiate what I take away from it.

Because I could go on about how I think it's important Lara's bodily autonomy became a focus in the plot over the fairy tale idea of true love, kind of like a plot twist scenario that wasn't really a plot twist if you thought about how her father has been treating her up to this point, and the fate of her mother and Grace as well was because they both had to be forced into finding true love while young. In that perspective, the ending to me is Lara breaking away from all those expectations to build a life for herself completely separate from those things. I think people who say she could build independence while staying in Shiga are missing the point a bit. Her sister is there, her slumbering family members are there. Even if Mari and her friends help her establish a life there, there are markers everywhere of the mermaid she used to be and the true love she was trying to achieve that was hurting both herself and her relationship to the people that meant the most to her. I think the fact that Mari and herself talked about wanting to live together in the future shows Lara isn't abandoning her love for Mari or her found family and friends. Realistic or not, this is after all the story of mermaid turned human, Lara had to leave to get a fresh start. I myself think 6 months is too soon, but after thinking about it more, the exact time frame is more a nitpick than anything.

However, I am also sick to bastard death of yuri and the relationship between young girls being treated as this pure and untouchable thing that transcends "love". It's my problem with Cosmic Princess Kaguya as well. Physical intimacy let alone sexual intimacy is seen as something that introduces conflict to a pure relationship. It's the kind of thing where these girls mean more to each other than friends, but they can never call themselves girlfriends or explicit romantic partners. As much as I enjoy them, I won't defend SayoLara, CPK, or really even any original anime yuri-adjacent work from this.

So we've dismantled the fairy tale and the need for young women to find true love, instead valuing independence and living for the sake of living -- which is fair, I don't hate this -- but Lara still loves Mari, and Mari still loves Lara, and they're definitely still going to live with each other as adults.... sooo, what's the word for that? Are we ever going to be allowed to say it? Let alone, will they be allowed to say "I love you" to each other? I'm okay with beating around the bush for the sake of building intrigue, but doing it so much only for them to never acknowledge it to each other is just cowardly.

That is a very welcoming Volume cover to open this to lol.

The other student and teacher seem ripe for potential too... but at 15 chapters, may not have the pages to cover them as well...

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^ Lol. same.

Jirai-chan is so cute. Wanting to be the chosen one, then when you're finally chosen it's just out of convenience. Lol.

Shu... your time will come. There's a beautiful girl with big eyebrows who has yet to realize something yet.

Aww. Yazawa Yay is back, I'm so happy. And she's got a cute senpai crush (does she even know it's a crush? lol).

Wait, someone seriously doxxed the previous scanlator over this?

Yeah. The way I heard it was some weird little vigilante got mad that the scanlator was undermining the official translation and wanted to make them stop.

wow I didn't know it got that serious. All I heard of it was some stupid twitter drama, as someone had made a post shit talking scanlators.