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Oct 31, 2012

kidcoelacanth posted:

clearly y'all don't browse r/manga to see all the bottom of the barrel poo poo that surfaces every day

might be a me problem

It isn't like I dont' see your position and I am aware of a lot of the absolute trash that gets translated. I just personally don't pay them much mind and again, I know the artist for the Childhood friend's story from past and current works. He's a horny guy, but he values family and wholesome endings above all else. (Probably owing to the fact that he's married with a toddler himself but he's been at this even before his son was born)


kidcoelacanth posted:

allow me to share some absolute trash, just so you know i'm not making things up

https://mangadex.org/title/17447693-cb65-493d-8e21-dafb22d8340f/azadarake-no-classmate-ga-shinpai

Funny enough I was going to just drop a link to that manga's comment section in the appropriate thread because of how it exploded in just an hour. There's cheap drama for the sake of drama and there's whatever that last page is supposed to be.

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BlankSystemDaemon
Mar 13, 2009



kidcoelacanth posted:

clearly y'all don't browse r/manga to see all the bottom of the barrel poo poo that surfaces every day

might be a me problem
Yeah, I've gone out of my way to block that site, by NXDOMAIN'ing it in my zone file for my network name resolution, because it took SA getting CNNs Anderson Cooper involved, before the admins stopped defending the nastiest poo poo on the website.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
zyugoya loves two things- giant tiddies and healthy, fulfilling relationships.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Hell

sb hermit
Dec 13, 2016






:same:

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

zyugoya loves two things- giant tiddies and healthy, fulfilling relationships.

Yup. As far as romance mangas go, it's fairly wholesome.

kidcoelacanth posted:

allow me to share some absolute trash, just so you know i'm not making things up

https://mangadex.org/title/17447693-cb65-493d-8e21-dafb22d8340f/azadarake-no-classmate-ga-shinpai

Yeah I've seen this one and it's dark as gently caress, not great.

Tabletops
Jan 27, 2014

anime
What if I’m a sick puppy and just wanna see the world burn

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Tabletops posted:

What if I’m a sick puppy and just wanna see the world burn

Well you can mosey on over to the Isekai threads and we'll find you something suitably terrible.

Electric Phantasm
Apr 7, 2011

YOSPOS

Checked out the childhood friend manga and Zyugoya's other work with the divorcee. I kinda love this guy's artstyle, especially the big toothy grins the main dudes get.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Electric Phantasm posted:

Checked out the childhood friend manga and Zyugoya's other work with the divorcee. I kinda love this guy's artstyle, especially the big toothy grins the main dudes get.

His male mcs tend to be sweet, yet rather dense although well meaning. Probably some of the nicest in the genre.

Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

you and i are polar opposites chapter 37, from reflection to inflection

yamada/nishi chapter

Tabletops
Jan 27, 2014

anime
last chapter of Kimi to Shiranai Natsu ni Naru came out the other day.

ended kinda how i expected, not sure if that's disappointing or not

Tabletops fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Aug 8, 2023

lunar detritus
May 6, 2009


lunar detritus posted:

Any good long manga that has finished in the last two years? I tend to skip manga still ongoing so I wonder if I have missed anything lately.

Time to ask this again :pray:

I feel all the popular stuff never ends, and when they end I never find out because they went too long and everyone lost interest.
Related to that, I can't believe nozaki-kun is still on-going, 12 years later.

Tabletops
Jan 27, 2014

anime

lunar detritus posted:

Time to ask this again :pray:

I feel all the popular stuff never ends, and when they end I never find out because they went too long and everyone lost interest.
Related to that, I can't believe nozaki-kun is still on-going, 12 years later.

i've been posting a bunch of stuff in the last few pages that I've read. most of it's done, some of it's not but I think i specified if they aren't. some of them finished in the last 2 years.

BlankSystemDaemon
Mar 13, 2009



lunar detritus posted:

Time to ask this again :pray:

I feel all the popular stuff never ends, and when they end I never find out because they went too long and everyone lost interest.
Related to that, I can't believe nozaki-kun is still on-going, 12 years later.
The advanced search on baka-updates allows you to filter things that're completely scanlated:

Only registered members can see post attachments!

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
Got another sweet one:
'Daily Report about my Witch Senpai', its an office romance: https://mangadex.org/title/60de2707-2a4a-4fa6-92fa-0b534898cd4d/majo-senpai-nippou

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Speaking of office romances, Misato-san is a Bit Cold Towards Her Boss Who Pampers (which is a mouthful of a title but fairly accurate) updated recently. I've been enjoying it.

The latest chapter contains important information.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
The raws for the next chapter of "The Dangers In My Heart" dropped (Chapter 127)



Squee!


EDIT: Chapter hit Mangadex: https://mangadex.org/chapter/ea526fdf-0aea-4d50-ad66-97422a46939f

New Chapter of 'My Dress Up Darling' also dropped: https://mangadex.org/title/aa6c76f7-5f5f-46b6-a800-911145f81b9b/sono-bisque-doll-wa-koi-wo-suru

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Aug 17, 2023

Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

last chapter of ayaka is in love with hiroko has been released
dynasty
mangadex

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my dearest nemesis chapter 10, i want to get to know her better
extremely cute chapter

Toalpaz
Mar 20, 2012

Peace through overwhelming determination
:sigh: My own mental illness recovery yuri arc was cut short by breaking up. I'm reading manga again. Sorry I'm replying to some comments last page but thank you for your recommendations.

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012


So glad to see his smile after the fugue state he's been in.

It's pages like this that really get me wanting this artist to do maybe a thriller series after this.

Rody One Half
Feb 18, 2011

looking forward to finding out if hiroko is in love with ayaka

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider

CommieGIR posted:

The raws for the next chapter of "The Dangers In My Heart" dropped (Chapter 127)



Squee!


EDIT: Chapter hit Mangadex: https://mangadex.org/chapter/ea526fdf-0aea-4d50-ad66-97422a46939f

This was lethal :blush:

e: I'm honestly super impressed with the job the translators did on the lyrics.

KOGAHAZAN!! fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Aug 18, 2023

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

KOGAHAZAN!! posted:

This was lethal :blush:

e: I'm honestly super impressed with the job the translators did on the lyrics.

I just loved her realizing where the lyrics originated from, and then slowly realizing that all she wanted was to just see him :blush:

RuBisCO
May 1, 2009

This is definitely not a lie




I got a delivery!

So, in the spirit of Tabletops, I would like to do some small write-ups on the works of a GL/Yuri Managaka I really adore: Tokuwotsumu.


Ise-san to Shina-san
(Ise-san and Shima-san)
Their first work I happened upon and I think my favourite. Our two main characters are coworkers/roommates in their mid-20s and the story involves their daily lives as they challenge themselves to new experiences, self-improvement, and living together as two people of fairly opposite personalities and interests. The story is a fairly normal slice-of-life/comedy that's super charming and funny, with cute and stylized art and it genuinely brightens my mood in my reads and subsequent rereads (they're just so cute together). The yuri is mostly just capital S Subtext. Late spoilers: the cute, fluffy presentation makes the sudden gut punch in the middle of volume 2 all the more surprising and never fails to get me emotional. Not that it ever gets outright tragic or anything, but it's so tonally disparate compared to everything else before it that it catches you so completely off guard. I love it. More than anything else, this is the work I recommend.


Shuuden de Kaesanai, Tatta Hitotsu Houhou
(Only One Way to Keep Her From Taking the Last Train Home)
Involves an older office lady who, after announcing her resignation from work, is suddenly confessed to by her cute kouhai. Despite, having never dating women before, she decides to give it a shot and the chapters mostly involve their awkward new relationship together. I'm not sure what went on with the publication of this series, as it seems it was intended to be a loosely connected anthology with multiple pairings, but then mostly drops the others in favour of the main two. In any case, it's a pretty light series with the two main characters just being impossibly sweet together. There are some slight themes of what it means for two women to date each other and how to present/hide to general society, but it doesn't necessarily dig into it that deeply and never really loses itself from its overly sweet presentation.


Tsuki to Koi wa Michireba Kakeru
(The Moon and Love Wax and Wane)
A story about a group of four friends and the relationship between two of them as it changes and evolves over ten years. The presentation of this one is interesting as each chapter alternates between their lives in high school and then their lives as mid-20s working adults (with some occasional chapters as 20 year old college students). A bit more angsty than the previous two works, the high school timeline focuses on coming to terms with being in love with someone (particularly someone of the same gender) and the adult timeline deals with themes of hiding a relationship between your coworkers and society as a whole. Noticeably, across the ten years, the two main characters sort of do a 180 in personality and you're left wondering just exactly what happened in the years you don't get to witness. Last chapter impression spoilers: the last chapter abruptly answers this question in a somewhat predictably heart-breaking manner, but the execution and resolution is done well enough that it has continued to stay with me.


Haru Tsuzuru, Sakura Saku Kono Heya de
(Composing Spring in This Room Where Cherry Blossoms Bloom)
The author's most recent work and only just finished getting fantranslations. Our main character is a woman in her 30s, Haru, whose partner Sakura abruptly passed away in an accident 5 years ago. After Haru suddenly finds her partner's diary, Sakura reappears as if she never died. Haru, unsure if she's dreaming or seeing a ghost, decides to relive her partner's diary day by day with Sakura once again by her side.
It's just heart-breaking. It is genuinely just so awful to read (in a good way). What presents itself as a somewhat supernatural story about lovers reuniting very quickly turns into an ugly, naked story about processing grief and revisiting someone long lost to you. You definitely have to be in the right headspace to read this, but if that headspace is "tragic yuri" then by all means give this a shot.
Appropriately, Tokuwotsumu's artstyle has noticeably changed between this work and Ise-san and Shima-san. Characters are no longer super stylized, small and cute, but now have long, tall, flowing silhouettes. There's a fair amount of focus on Haru's hands, with her skinny, visibly boney and almost gangly fingers. It's another knife twist to the gut when you read that she has spent the last 5 years drifting in a semi-fugue and every year around the time of Sakura's death, she shuts down for an entire month. Her hands show just how much weight she's lost over the years.

Sadly, I don't think any of their works will get an official English release, but at least they have enough of a following online for there to be fantranslations for the works I've posted about. I encourage you to read whatever catches your interest!

Der-Wreck
Feb 13, 2006
Friday nights are for Wapner!

Brought To You By posted:


So glad to see his smile after the fugue state he's been in.

It's pages like this that really get me wanting this artist to do maybe a thriller series after this.

Frig I loved this chapter. I made the mistake of reading the comments about it though lol. Lots of “FILLEEEEEER” but I’m like, “y’all never been to that point in an artistic/personal endeavor when that breakthrough finally hits?!” I felt for Gojo so much there.

Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

you and i are polar opposites chapter 38, new years eve
this might be the best chapter yet

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Oh that's a super cute one. Added.

BearDrivingTruck
Oct 15, 2011

You see the most shocking sights sometimes

Tani's grandmother has appeared in a grand total of like seven or eight panels over the course of the series and she's put in incredible work in nearly all of them

Tabletops
Jan 27, 2014

anime

RuBisCO posted:


I got a delivery!

So, in the spirit of Tabletops, I would like to do some small write-ups on the works of a GL/Yuri Managaka I really adore: Tokuwotsumu.


Ise-san to Shina-san
(Ise-san and Shima-san)
Their first work I happened upon and I think my favourite. Our two main characters are coworkers/roommates in their mid-20s and the story involves their daily lives as they challenge themselves to new experiences, self-improvement, and living together as two people of fairly opposite personalities and interests. The story is a fairly normal slice-of-life/comedy that's super charming and funny, with cute and stylized art and it genuinely brightens my mood in my reads and subsequent rereads (they're just so cute together). The yuri is mostly just capital S Subtext. Late spoilers: the cute, fluffy presentation makes the sudden gut punch in the middle of volume 2 all the more surprising and never fails to get me emotional. Not that it ever gets outright tragic or anything, but it's so tonally disparate compared to everything else before it that it catches you so completely off guard. I love it. More than anything else, this is the work I recommend.


Shuuden de Kaesanai, Tatta Hitotsu Houhou
(Only One Way to Keep Her From Taking the Last Train Home)
Involves an older office lady who, after announcing her resignation from work, is suddenly confessed to by her cute kouhai. Despite, having never dating women before, she decides to give it a shot and the chapters mostly involve their awkward new relationship together. I'm not sure what went on with the publication of this series, as it seems it was intended to be a loosely connected anthology with multiple pairings, but then mostly drops the others in favour of the main two. In any case, it's a pretty light series with the two main characters just being impossibly sweet together. There are some slight themes of what it means for two women to date each other and how to present/hide to general society, but it doesn't necessarily dig into it that deeply and never really loses itself from its overly sweet presentation.


Tsuki to Koi wa Michireba Kakeru
(The Moon and Love Wax and Wane)
A story about a group of four friends and the relationship between two of them as it changes and evolves over ten years. The presentation of this one is interesting as each chapter alternates between their lives in high school and then their lives as mid-20s working adults (with some occasional chapters as 20 year old college students). A bit more angsty than the previous two works, the high school timeline focuses on coming to terms with being in love with someone (particularly someone of the same gender) and the adult timeline deals with themes of hiding a relationship between your coworkers and society as a whole. Noticeably, across the ten years, the two main characters sort of do a 180 in personality and you're left wondering just exactly what happened in the years you don't get to witness. Last chapter impression spoilers: the last chapter abruptly answers this question in a somewhat predictably heart-breaking manner, but the execution and resolution is done well enough that it has continued to stay with me.


Haru Tsuzuru, Sakura Saku Kono Heya de
(Composing Spring in This Room Where Cherry Blossoms Bloom)
The author's most recent work and only just finished getting fantranslations. Our main character is a woman in her 30s, Haru, whose partner Sakura abruptly passed away in an accident 5 years ago. After Haru suddenly finds her partner's diary, Sakura reappears as if she never died. Haru, unsure if she's dreaming or seeing a ghost, decides to relive her partner's diary day by day with Sakura once again by her side.
It's just heart-breaking. It is genuinely just so awful to read (in a good way). What presents itself as a somewhat supernatural story about lovers reuniting very quickly turns into an ugly, naked story about processing grief and revisiting someone long lost to you. You definitely have to be in the right headspace to read this, but if that headspace is "tragic yuri" then by all means give this a shot.
Appropriately, Tokuwotsumu's artstyle has noticeably changed between this work and Ise-san and Shima-san. Characters are no longer super stylized, small and cute, but now have long, tall, flowing silhouettes. There's a fair amount of focus on Haru's hands, with her skinny, visibly boney and almost gangly fingers. It's another knife twist to the gut when you read that she has spent the last 5 years drifting in a semi-fugue and every year around the time of Sakura's death, she shuts down for an entire month. Her hands show just how much weight she's lost over the years.

Sadly, I don't think any of their works will get an official English release, but at least they have enough of a following online for there to be fantranslations for the works I've posted about. I encourage you to read whatever catches your interest!

added these to my read list, thanks!

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
New chapter of "The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses" dropped, and Kaeda and Ai are playing love guru for their friend: https://mangadex.org/title/6d6d9fda-5cd3-40ac-948b-776b1a1a0eb1/suki-na-ko-ga-megane-wo-wasureta

New chapter of "Don't Toy with me, Miss Nagatoro" dropped as well: https://mangadex.org/chapter/bc6c4208-28fa-475b-8462-6735d7e38261

Mirage
Oct 27, 2000

All is for the best, in this, the best of all possible worlds

CommieGIR posted:

New chapter of "Don't Toy with me, Miss Nagatoro" dropped as well: https://mangadex.org/chapter/bc6c4208-28fa-475b-8462-6735d7e38261

Comments are split about 50/50 between "Wait, what was Senpai's name again?" and "Who TF is 'Aihara'?"

Aihara is one of the guys they had lunch with, with the straight hair.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Mirage posted:

Comments are split about 50/50 between "Wait, what was Senpai's name again?" and "Who TF is 'Aihara'?"

Aihara is one of the guys they had lunch with, with the straight hair.

Its a mystery if Nagatoro will actually ever call Naota anything but Senpai, but she hasn't yet. They'll get married and he'll be 'Husband Senpai' forever.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Aug 22, 2023

Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

Wish I was there...
Anyone post the final Insomniacs chapter?

Big spoilers: I'm not sure I'd go as far as super pessimistic reddit comment, but I do feel like they're distant from each other and haven't been together for a while which is :( but also normal to real life. So I guess I'm whelmed by the ending.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Coaaab posted:

Anyone post the final Insomniacs chapter?

Big spoilers: I'm not sure I'd go as far as super pessimistic reddit comment, but I do feel like they're distant from each other and haven't been together for a while which is :( but also normal to real life. So I guess I'm whelmed by the ending.

Yeah its a little.....less than I expected? They don't appear to be married yet given they are still calling each other by their last names....

Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry
The Dreaded Whelmed ending...

ZeusCannon
Nov 5, 2009

BLAAAAAARGH PLEASE KILL ME BLAAAAAAAARGH
Grimey Drawer
That feels rushed after mentioning the bridge thing so many times. Felt very "gotta end this now"

StupidNameNobody
Aug 12, 2023

RuBisCO posted:


Haru Tsuzuru, Sakura Saku Kono Heya de
(Composing Spring in This Room Where Cherry Blossoms Bloom)
The author's most recent work and only just finished getting fantranslations. Our main character is a woman in her 30s, Haru, whose partner Sakura abruptly passed away in an accident 5 years ago. After Haru suddenly finds her partner's diary, Sakura reappears as if she never died. Haru, unsure if she's dreaming or seeing a ghost, decides to relive her partner's diary day by day with Sakura once again by her side.
It's just heart-breaking. It is genuinely just so awful to read (in a good way). What presents itself as a somewhat supernatural story about lovers reuniting very quickly turns into an ugly, naked story about processing grief and revisiting someone long lost to you. You definitely have to be in the right headspace to read this, but if that headspace is "tragic yuri" then by all means give this a shot.
Appropriately, Tokuwotsumu's artstyle has noticeably changed between this work and Ise-san and Shima-san. Characters are no longer super stylized, small and cute, but now have long, tall, flowing silhouettes. There's a fair amount of focus on Haru's hands, with her skinny, visibly boney and almost gangly fingers. It's another knife twist to the gut when you read that she has spent the last 5 years drifting in a semi-fugue and every year around the time of Sakura's death, she shuts down for an entire month. Her hands show just how much weight she's lost over the years.
I told myself I wouldn't read this, but I couldn't help myself and my soul has now been crushed into a fine paste. Rung me like a goddamn bell. God drat... That hurts.

These kinds of thoughts genuinely keep me awake at night and are the reason I have to stop, hold my breath and listen for my wife's breathing sometimes. It was cathartic to explore that awful terror through this story.

StupidNameNobody
Aug 12, 2023

Sorry for killing the thread. 😊

I'm dumb and accidentally closed a private tab I was reading something in... And I totally forgot the name of it. Can anyone help me find this again:

It's an easygoing lesbian romance manga where the protagonist moves in with an author who's in love with the protagonist's older sister. The author is facially inexpressive but communicates well verbally and is a huge gift giver. The unfortunate protagonist is constantly being harassed by trash men and even has a stalker, but gets defended by the author.

pls 🙏

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RuBisCO
May 1, 2009

This is definitely not a lie



StupidNameNobody posted:

Sorry for killing the thread. 😊

I'm dumb and accidentally closed a private tab I was reading something in... And I totally forgot the name of it. Can anyone help me find this again:

It's an easygoing lesbian romance manga where the protagonist moves in with an author who's in love with the protagonist's older sister. The author is facially inexpressive but communicates well verbally and is a huge gift giver. The unfortunate protagonist is constantly being harassed by trash men and even has a stalker, but gets defended by the author.

pls 🙏

Got you fam

https://mangadex.org/title/30c2633b-80bf-4298-80e9-53a600804678/with-her-who-likes-my-sister

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