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DisDisDis
Dec 22, 2013
oh wait i got it lol

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HMS Beagle
Feb 13, 2009



I knew Tomo-chan was bad.

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

Wish I was there...

DisDisDis posted:

i looked up the credits of the kaguya and komi san authors to see if i could get a cheap dunk in but it turns out this is not the case
i think they'd be smart enough to use a pseudonym

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

DisDisDis posted:

oh wait i got it lol


hosed up part is that they actually omitted some other doujins Fumita had worked on. The subject matter of a couple is not at all flattering.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

*turns lights down low* so why do so many people in this thread have an encyclopedic knowledge of what hentai people have made

DisDisDis
Dec 22, 2013

Endorph posted:

*turns lights down low* so why do so many people in this thread have an encyclopedic knowledge of what hentai people have made



Endorph posted:

literally every author of every manga discussed in this thread has credits almost exactly like that

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

For all i know a priest journey in an rpg world is a hilarious and heartwarming fantasy romp

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Endorph posted:

For all i know a priest journey in an rpg world is a hilarious and heartwarming fantasy romp
It's tagged as hentai, you know what's up.

Watermelon Daiquiri
Jul 10, 2010
I TRIED TO BAIT THE TXPOL THREAD WITH THE WORLD'S WORST POSSIBLE TAKE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS STUPID AVATAR.
i'd like to believe porn can be heartwarming

Space Flower
Sep 10, 2014

by Games Forum
well its true that many of the tomo-chan's doujins have comments like this



The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
you: tomo-chan is ruined cause the author drew porn once

me: tomo-chan is obsoleted cause the author already drew a comic about a foreign girl loving a tomboy

DisDisDis
Dec 22, 2013

Watermelon Daiquiri posted:

i'd like to believe porn can be heartwarming

time for a maka maka reread thread

Watermelon Daiquiri
Jul 10, 2010
I TRIED TO BAIT THE TXPOL THREAD WITH THE WORLD'S WORST POSSIBLE TAKE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS STUPID AVATAR.

DisDisDis posted:

time for a maka maka reread thread

omg how have I never heard of this

DisDisDis
Dec 22, 2013
*looking up "Kishi Torajirou" on mangaupdates to see what kind of hosed up poo poo a currently popular yuri author used to draw* oh no it's a story about two adult women hooking up and working through the self esteem issues that lead them to seek out unfulfilling relationships with lovely dudes...

he also drew a vampire woman battle shonen thing with lesbian sex i last read when i was 15 so maybe thats actually bad i dont remember

Clitch
Feb 26, 2002

I lived through
Donald Trump's presidency
and all I got was
this lousy virus
Are you talking about Bloody Mary? I read it because it was Kishi, and he definitely wrote one of the better works of that genre and time period. Great art, and Mariko's a good character. It's still late-90s sexualized violence manga, so nobody should go into it with any illusions.

Space Flower
Sep 10, 2014

by Games Forum

DisDisDis posted:

*looking up "Kishi Torajirou" on mangaupdates to see what kind of hosed up poo poo a currently popular yuri author used to draw* oh no it's a story about two adult women hooking up and working through the self esteem issues that lead them to seek out unfulfilling relationships with lovely dudes...

he also drew a vampire woman battle shonen thing with lesbian sex i last read when i was 15 so maybe thats actually bad i dont remember

The Nettaigyo mangaka did some KyouSaya books and one of them ends in an afterword titled A Concluding Report on Kyouko's Butt, Thighs, Thighhighs, and Certain Other Matters. their findings are brave, controversial, possibly true

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

by Pragmatica
Otome no Teikoku has been getting so good. It's even been largely sanitized from the previous ecchi-ness so everyone can enjoy it. So many good characters.

Mentat Radnor
Apr 24, 2008

~Water flowers every day~
What a good time to stumble into the thread. I just binge-read all of Otome no Teikoku over the last few days after a friend told me "it's actually really good, and not just porn". They were right.

I'll have to check out Maka-Maka. It looks like it had an actual English release but might be out of print? I can only find super overpriced used copies.

BlankSystemDaemon
Mar 13, 2009



Maka-Maka is very powerful, let me tell you what.

Also, dynasty-scans has a new tag.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Congratulations to Yuu and Mari and MahiMahi on their marriages.

Sindai fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Aug 15, 2019

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

D. Ebdrup posted:

Maka-Maka is very powerful, let me tell you what.

Also, dynasty-scans has a new tag.
I think I need to go to sleep because I swear I'm seeing things.

UP AND ADAM
Jan 24, 2007

by Pragmatica

Sindai posted:

Congratulations to Yuu and Mari and MahiMahi on their marriages.

I know it's a well-worn trope, but seeing Mari warm up to and want to protect MahiMahi despite her instincts is amazing

Edit: I mean Yuu

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/hamuro_kei/status/1161975198486167553

Tsurezure Biyori's next chapter will be its last. Going by machine TL so I have to take this with a grain of salt, but it sounds like the author just decided that it wasn't successful enough to be worth the effort of continuing. That's really unfortunate IMO, it had some of the best Iyashkei vibes of any yuri stuff I've been reading lately.

Lemon-Lime
Aug 6, 2009
At least it hit a good place to stop. :unsmith:

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

Lemon-Lime posted:

At least it hit a good place to stop. :unsmith:

Yeah. Could be a lot worse, I'm just a little disappointed because I always like it when Iyashkei pieces can just go on and on for ages like Non Non Biyori or YKK or such instead of petering out at 3 volumes.

Cuntellectual
Aug 6, 2010

Watermelon Daiquiri posted:

i'd like to believe porn can be heartwarming

I think there's a subreddit for that.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Cuntellectual posted:

I think there's a subreddit for that.
There's at least 3 authors that pretty much only do that.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
What about the opposite, where like, the love interest dies of cancer immediately afterwards


asking for a friend

Clitch
Feb 26, 2002

I lived through
Donald Trump's presidency
and all I got was
this lousy virus

HenryEx posted:

What about the opposite, where like, the love interest dies of cancer immediately afterwards


asking for a friend

Melancholia just pissed me off, but YMMV.

Everything Burrito
Jun 2, 2011

I Failed At Anime 2022
I've been reading Boku no Yasashii Onii-san because the family drama is wild but I hate the way this manga does scene transitions. In the most recent chapter, the older son has gone missing and everyone thinks he's out with a woman; this is a problem because they're having a funeral ceremony for the father that day and he's supposed to be there. The step-brother retraces the older son's steps the previous night uncovering an impersonation scheme the oldest son did plus multiple women he spent time with overnight (this kinda loses some of the comedy in the telling but it was fairly funny in context because it's so ridiculous); they eventually start checking morgues thinking he might be dead. The youngest son looks at his phone like he just got a call, then suddenly the scene is somewhere else??? and the oldest son is tied up, he's been kidnapped, and the youngest son is now outside planning a rescue. Like what the gently caress even happened to get from point A to point B other than maybe a phone call that happened off-screen.

I've read some other stuff by this mangaka and I think it is a stylistic choice to some degree because I remember some confusing transitions in Hyakki Yakoushou but nothing this egregious. The manga's paneling is very loose to begin with so it's sometimes hard to follow the action on the page as it is, it's bound more by dialogue bubbles than panel boundaries so things sort of sprawl around the page and it's also quite dense at times like there will be a lot of people talking and several actions happening on a single page and only dialogue clues to help you keep it straight because there might be only minimal background detail to provide any sort of context to the setting.

Overall it's a frustrating manga to read and I keep thinking I'm going to drop it but I genuinely like the characters and all the weird fractures and connections this family has made. It's full of divorced parents and blended families with new relatives coming out of the woodwork (now there's a grandma that everyone thought was dead but has suddenly shown up) and I think if it was maybe paced a little better and the artwork was more clear it would be a fun manga about a really complex family but as it is, it's hard to recommend since I'm not sure I'm even going to make it to the end.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer

Clitch posted:

Melancholia just pissed me off, but YMMV.



Melancholia owns, but i'm not sure i see the connection to my request

HenryEx fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Apr 29, 2023

Clitch
Feb 26, 2002

I lived through
Donald Trump's presidency
and all I got was
this lousy virus

HenryEx posted:

Melancholia owns, but i'm not sure i see the connection to my request

The connection is that I'm dumb, like the ending to Philosophia.

gnome7
Oct 21, 2010

Who's this Little
Spaghetti?? ??
I was also confused because Melancholia owns, its one of my favorite things I've ever read, but yeah no Philosophia's ending is stupid. I was really mad when I finished reading Philosophia. Your reward for finally finding love after years of hardship is a tragic accident that was probably suicide! The moral your lover-who-you-never-actually-got-together-with learns from your death is to never move on or try to find love again! She spends the rest of her days regretting what could have been and somehow this is noble of her. Just terrible.

BlankSystemDaemon
Mar 13, 2009



Wark Say posted:

There's at least 3 authors that pretty much only do that.
I'm gonna need these names.

HenryEx posted:

What about the opposite, where like, the love interest dies of cancer immediately afterwards


asking for a friend
There's plenty of romance tagged as tragedy and there's even a tag for it. Weirdly, though, there's not a distinct nakige genre like there is with visual novels.

Having said that, I can't speak to the quality - because I've got too much experience with cancer, so I generally go for slice of life, mono no aware, or iyashkei.
Not that I don't like crying - I like a good happy-cry, like the one I got just from reading chapter 0 of Kimi ni Todoke just yesterday.

BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Aug 15, 2019

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

HenryEx posted:

What about the opposite, where like, the love interest dies of cancer immediately afterwards


asking for a friend

that one comic tsukumizu did while they were insanely depressed that uses some character designs that reappear in shimeji simulation

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant

The Colonel posted:

that one comic tsukumizu did while they were insanely depressed that uses some character designs that reappear in shimeji simulation

Oh is tsukumizu not insanely depressed anymore? 'Cos that'd be good.

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
i mean

i dunno?

i mostly just mean they make less art about suicide now, in referring to the time they made a comic about two lesbians fingering each other and then one of them committing suicide off-screen

you can chart out a progression from their art before they started making stuff like girls' last tour and shimeji but all that'll really tell you is that they probably found better ways to cope since the themes of girls' last tour and shimeji are a lot more reassuring than like, the original shimeji simulation picture book they made years earlier

The Colonel fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Aug 15, 2019

Clitch
Feb 26, 2002

I lived through
Donald Trump's presidency
and all I got was
this lousy virus

The Colonel posted:

i mean

i dunno?

i mostly just mean they make less art about suicide now, in referring to the time they made a comic about two lesbians fingering each other and then one of them committing suicide off-screen

you can chart out a progression from their art before they started making stuff like girls' last tour and shimeji but all that'll really tell you is that they probably found better ways to cope since the themes of girls' last tour and shimeji are a lot more reassuring than like, the original shimeji simulation picture book they made years earlier

One of her old pixiv posts belongs in the DSM next to a description of suicide ideation in the severely depressed.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
four new tamen de gushi!!!

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Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry
It's too bright! They're blinding!

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