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ahhh so cute  Hibi Chouchou extra - it's about one of the friends and her boyfriend That tease at the end argh, I'd love to see a spinoff with the two of them living together in college Ytlaya posted:I think this just means you don't like the comedy genre (and prefer the romance genre, which comics like these aren't, really). Rodyle posted:Speaking of dropped romcoms, did Mizutama Honey Boy ever stop the One Gay Panic Joke Per Chapter gimmick?  The gag about him dating the other guy is also still ongoing (but I kinda sorta want to ship them, just be bffs with Sengoku and date the wild man Fujiiii~)
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Everything Burrito posted:ahhh so cute
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D. Ebdrup posted:Is this done? Because baka-updates lists it as completely scanlated, but that seems unlikely it's completely scanlated if there's still extras coming out. the main story is done, there have just been a few extras trickling out after the fact.
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I like Kaguya's brand of Will-They-Won't-They compared to Tomo-chan even though I like both series. I think the setting for the former helps and I think the timing in Kaguya is really good.
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It also helps that a central idea in Kaguya is that they're both total idiots. Also most chapters don't deal directly with their romance and just involve some random funny gag.
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The latest Kaguya chapter was hilarious but also kind of sad for that one page where it says that to Shirogane, test grades are the only that will let him be Kaguya's equal. I forgot that in a school full upper class families, he's just a normal-ish dude.
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New Pygmalio http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/pygmalio-r2957 No this is too much. It's not fair drat it.
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The latest Horimiya is a thing of magic. http://bato.to/reader#6a56ffcd16a09788
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Being Sengoku is suffering.
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The latest Tamen De Gushi is pretty hot.
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Poil posted:The latest Tamen De Gushi is pretty hot. 
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Poil posted:The latest Tamen De Gushi is pretty hot. Definitely just about at kiss/confession now. For sure. Can't convince me otherwise.
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So, BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Aug 28, 2016 |
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I'm pretty sure it's illegal for a manga to tick too many boxes so I'm forced to conclude this series will NOT have an ending
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Chapter two of The Private Report on My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is up. ...  I can't think of a better way to sum it up than with
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Here's a link: http://bato.to/reader#a2398245a8d5afa1 God loving bless that interviewer. Also, why are parents so terrible with mental illness. Why is it so hard to even try to understand what your kids are going through They don't even have to fully understand it, just...I don't know, have some consideration? Tact? VibrantPareidolia fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Aug 28, 2016 |
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They're not omnipotent. Not even mind-readers. It's easy to put oneself behind the eyes of the author and only see what they see. But what if the parents have issues of their own? What if, just like their daughter, they're insecure and scared and don't know how to handle it? All the family can see is that their child is being "lazy" - and because "bad things only happen to other people", they can't see or understand their child's suffering. And that's terrible, but human. Ask friends and families of people who commit suicide - often we're told that there were no signs or that they seemed perfectly happy. And look at what the author says in this very chapter: she always tried to present herself at her best to her parents so that she would receive praise and love from them.
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VibrantPareidolia posted:Here's a link: Knowledge and functional understanding of mental illness is not universal.
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especially in japan
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I really want to know how the experience with the prostitute goes, especially with all of this buildup now.
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Poil posted:Chapter two of The Private Report on My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is up. Title should have been: One Very Depressed Woman's Lengthy Quest for a Hug.
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VibrantPareidolia posted:Here's a link: It's complicated. Mental illness tends to have a greater stigma in Asian countries (don't ask me how I know) and there are fewer resources available. The majority of the manga-ka's family are happy to live in ignorance or denial because It's Just How Things Are In Society. I did feel the pain as the odd gaps in employment usually mean fewer employment offers and repeat. Yep, there are few things more soul-crushing than series of failed interviews for months.
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A very short chapter of Kase http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/kase_san_ch20#1
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If you're interested in more depression + paying for sex I recommend No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
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Pavlov posted:Title should have been: One Very Depressed Woman's Lengthy Quest for a Hug. "My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness" is the Engrish title the author gave to her book. As I understand it, a better translation from the Japanese would be "A report on how I was so lonely I ended up going to a lesbian brothel".
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Mikl posted:"My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness" is the Engrish title the author gave to her book. As I understand it, a better translation from the Japanese would be "A report on how I was so lonely I ended up going to a lesbian brothel". Yeah basically. Though it may also be something their editor gave it, since it wasn't there on the pixiv version she originally posted. Also I bought it yesterday (it was expensive but worth it) and stayed up way too late reading it all. It was good, and they added a lot to it over the pixiv original. It might be worth mentioning the author's pen name is the word for "mold."  As an aside, Tamamusi is also the name of this bug: 
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Mikl posted:"My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness" is the Engrish title the author gave to her book. It's also a much catchier/more poetic title, though. Although "with depression" would have been better.
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Terper posted:A very short chapter of Kase This lack of assertiveness is getting kinda annoying
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z0glin Warchief posted:Yeah basically. Though it may also be something their editor gave it, since it wasn't there on the pixiv version she originally posted. uh that's a unique pen name. The Tamamusi is pretty though btw: Does pixiv have a lot of original manga? Also how do I find it?
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Alder posted:uh that's a unique pen name. The Tamamusi is pretty though I notice that many Japanese will romanize "shi" as "si" like this (the actual word reasonably romanized is "tamamushi"). Is this because the system of romanization they're taught in school translates "shi" as "si"? I feel like one of the earlier romanization systems did that, though it's a mystery why (since it really clearly sounds like what any English speaker would identify as "shi").
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There's several standards for romanization, the first one made by japanese people themselves (in like 1800s, so a long time ago) follows kana very strictly, with no adjustments for pronunciation. I think that's what you're seeing, it's likely most natural to them. Personally, I just mix and match, depending on what's less keystrokes when inputting japanese  Naturally sometimes a habit will spill over.
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Ytlaya posted:I notice that many Japanese will romanize "shi" as "si" like this (the actual word reasonably romanized is "tamamushi"). Is this because the system of romanization they're taught in school translates "shi" as "si"? I feel like one of the earlier romanization systems did that, though it's a mystery why (since it really clearly sounds like what any English speaker would identify as "shi"). The official romanization system they teach in elementary schools is kunrei-shiki, which does the shi->si thing. I believe it uses "si" to fit the general theme of "every kana is a consonant plus a vowel," which is how the language is generally laid out in Japanese; a-i-u-e-o, ka-ki-ku-ke-ko, sa-si-su-se-so, etc. "Chi" is also "ti" in this system, and "tsu" is "tu". I can see it being easier for children to learn, as they can just be like "oh okay 'S' is the letter for さ行('sa' row), 'T' is the letter for た行('ta' row)" etc., but it is a little unfortunate I guess in that it doesn't really match the sounds super well (for English anyway, which is what they are all learning in school anyway). You can can also type it that way; if you type "tu" or "tsu" either will turn into つ, for example. Alder posted:uh that's a unique pen name. The Tamamusi is pretty though Yeah there is a good chunk of original manga on pixiv, though I don't know how you'd go about finding them necessarily . I am Bad At Pixiv.
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z0glin Warchief posted:The official romanization system they teach in elementary schools is kunrei-shiki, which does the shi->si thing. I believe it uses "si" to fit the general theme of "every kana is a consonant plus a vowel," which is how the language is generally laid out in Japanese; a-i-u-e-o, ka-ki-ku-ke-ko, sa-si-su-se-so, etc. "Chi" is also "ti" in this system, and "tsu" is "tu". I can see it being easier for children to learn, as they can just be like "oh okay 'S' is the letter for さ行('sa' row), 'T' is the letter for た行('ta' row)" etc., but it is a little unfortunate I guess in that it doesn't really match the sounds super well (for English anyway, which is what they are all learning in school anyway). That makes sense, I hadn't considered it from the perspective of Japanese people trying to learn English. I just thought it was strange because, unlike, for example, Chinese (which has a bunch of sounds that are genuinely difficult to romanize), Japanese pronunciation is mostly very straightforward to an English speaker (I can only think of a literal handful of things that aren't intuitive) and "shi" unequivocally sounds more like the corresponding Japanese mora than "si". But it makes sense if it was never intended for English speakers in the first place.
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The only thing I can think of re: finding original manga on Pixiv would be searching for the オリジナル 漫画 tags (I checked and you could theoretically find the manga in question this way), but there is absolutely no telling what you'll get and I will warn you that there is a LOT of garbage of Pixiv. Then again, I fairly regularly check the yuri tag with the R-18 option on, which is a loving minefield, and that's how I first discovered the lonely lesbian manga, so. Good luck.
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jellycat posted:The only thing I can think of re: finding original manga on Pixiv would be searching for the オリジナル 漫画 tags (I checked and you could theoretically find the manga in question this way), but there is absolutely no telling what you'll get and I will warn you that there is a LOT of garbage of Pixiv. Then again, I fairly regularly check the yuri tag with the R-18 option on, which is a loving minefield, and that's how I first discovered the lonely lesbian manga, so. Good luck. Good to know about your porn viewing habits.
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jellycat posted:The only thing I can think of re: finding original manga on Pixiv would be searching for the オリジナル 漫画 tags (I checked and you could theoretically find the manga in question this way), but there is absolutely no telling what you'll get and I will warn you that there is a LOT of garbage of Pixiv. Then again, I fairly regularly check the yuri tag with the R-18 option on, which is a loving minefield, and that's how I first discovered the lonely lesbian manga, so. Good luck. Welp, I was hoping they'd have a separate tab for original work but oh well Sigh, not sure if I want to try searching Pixiv via tags since there's a lot of rubbish to sort through. Thanks, anyways.
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Alder posted:Welp, I was hoping they'd have a separate tab for original work but oh well At least on mobile, there IS a separate tab for manga, but I believe the way it works is that it pulls anything with the manga tab. I'm guessing when you upload something on Pixiv, you need to put an illustration, manga, or short story tag, and I'm almost 100% sure that My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness was uploaded like this, with the original tag in addition to the manga tag. IIRC, Otaku ni Koi ha Muzukashii also started this way, so there is definitely stuff worth reading and I'd like to think that if someone is going to go to the trouble of making their own manga, that it'd meet some bare minimum of quality higher than a lot of original illustrations, but I've never actually tried looking through the tags myself, so.
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Oh boy, the gay chef in yandere kanojo. Is this one of those "just endure the badly written stereotype for a couple chapters and he'll be gone" or is he going to show up later/get better, from word go he's soliciting anyone with a y chromosome. Edit: yeahhhhh I'll just pretend chapter 23.05 didn't happen and move on Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 12:11 on Aug 30, 2016 |
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Captain Invictus posted:Oh boy, the gay chef in yandere kanojo. Is this one of those "just endure the badly written stereotype for a couple chapters and he'll be gone" or is he going to show up later/get better, from word go he's soliciting anyone with a y chromosome. he shows up every now and then, but it's not often.
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Like to read long-running bromancey fantasy manga but getting tired of the boys never kissing? Yami no Koudou might be just what you need. Bamboo Feathers describe it as "Freaky dark supernatural psychological impending-doom mystery full of reincarnated bad-asses"  Nine years ago, Kouichi Amano was attacked at the park with his brother, Jun, who lost his memory of that event as well as the second sight he’d possessed. Now in high school, Kouichi is plagued by nightmares and bloody visions. Dark creatures stalk the streets as the appearance of the Harbinger heralds the coming of the Dark Millennium. The clans are spurred once more into action as Touya and Kamio are inexorably drawn toward the Amano brothers. How can the coming darkness be stopped, and what role will the Amano brothers, both ignorant of their fate, play in it…? It's an ongoing series that's been running since 1997 and has some of the same feel, at least initially, as something like X/1999 with an impending apocalypse looming and a bunch of clans trying to hold it back while some upstart with mysterious powers shows up and starts loving up all their poo poo. The main thing that really got me hooked (blacking this out because it's a plot spoiler) is that all the apocalypse stuff ends up being the clans playing a game of telephone with extradimensional knowledge, and rather than bringing an apocalypse down on their heads the leads are dismantling a calcified and corrupt system built around empty reverence for a misunderstood (and tragic) figure. The trigger warning on Bamboo Feathers' project page is no joke, there is a plot relevant rape scene and one additional moderately-graphic sex scene later on if that's a thing that bothers you, but for the most part most of the action is implied and never drawn in detail. The main relationship later on also features a lot of making out but other than their first big bedroom scene everything else they do is offscreen so for the most part it's pretty non-explicit. What you're more likely to see are blood and guts, there are a few scenes where people get gibbed so heads up on that front as well. The art is very distinctive and stylized and at its best in the big spreads when the linework is very brushy and dynamic. It does some neat stuff with panel layout and use of patterns too, but the anatomy can be a little sketchy (I crack up a little when somebody's lumpy butt is shown and realize that was probably fanservice). The dialogue is occasionally hard to follow from panel to panel but for the most part it has good scanslation so it's not like Silver Diamond or The Ice-Cold Demon's Tale where you have to struggle through early scans to get to the more readable stuff. The series is ongoing at 26 volumes but the scans are only up to 22 or so, but they come out on a regular schedule every 2 weeks so it's also not like you'll get caught up and have to wait years for another update (or never get one) so that's definitely a plus. Overall it took me a bit to get into it but once I got past the introductory stuff and learned who everyone was and what their relationships were it was easy to get hooked on the story. I like that most of the antagonists aren't straight-up evil and are mostly just flawed people who are following what they think is right.
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