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HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

AnacondaHL posted:

wtf is a Milka :ughh:

I like to imagine this:

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HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

Mexican Samurai posted:

it is from the same author of Onani Master Kurosawa

It's not.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

Darth Walrus posted:

Sounds fantastic. Just one thing to check first - where does it rank on the shoujo romance rapeometer?

Nowhere, actually. After getting burned on so many shoujo mangas with ever-repeating plots and terrible clichés (i kinda liked them for a while... but all the ones i tried randomly were THE SAME) i was kind of hesitant to give it a try.

Color me surprised that this is actually as fantastic as he or she made it sound. Even though it uses quite some clichés of its own, it does use them and develops them instead of going through the motions. I never expected the usual fish-eyed, lanky, stoic and soooo pretty cool~ main guy to a) have a character and b) grow as a character during the story.
And for once, the strong sporty heroine doesn't immediately forget she has muscles the second a guy grabs her hands.

Definitely give it a try.

/e: Wait, there might be one scene that puts it onto the whatever meter? Nothing like that ever gets dramatic, though, because most or all the characters are surprisingly competent and true to life, if a bit dense sometimes.

HenryEx fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Feb 27, 2013

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

.Clash posted:

Jistu wa watashi wa... (The Truth Is I am...)

A guy with no poker face thus bad at lying stumbles on a secret of the girl he likes. Shes a vampire Plus 3 of the best bros ever.

Only a couple chapters though and the first one is a pretty rough scan.

"Just what did he saw in this cute girl?" sounds like a slasher movie cliffhanger. Goddamn.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

Nate RFB posted:

Not sure if this is the one you're thinking of but they played some sort of dating game in chapter 8 and was actually the chapter where I finally went "I don't think this is actually in English :confused:"



I agree that the translations were a bit stilted and overly simple, but that's really tame. That page is pretty coherent and straight compared to the general quality of scanlations and especially for shoujo, which can get drat near incomprehensible with thought bubbles, ~*deep*~ reflections and panel layout all over the frigging place.

Unless you're reading it from left to right, i can't imagine what could trip you up. The transition from 3rd to 4th panel? It does "show, don't tell" and lets you infer the joke (Dude becomes nerd) at the expense of an abrupt transition and relies on the fact that the reader remembers from a page ago that this is taking place in a conversation with someone.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

Davincie posted:

fair warning: this has the worst translator notes/gags i've ever seen

Are they worse than in Tower of God

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

Kaelan Zero posted:

They are catastrophically bad. One or two of them have a rape 'joke', I think

Davincie: Thanks for remembering to call that out.

Checked it out and while they're really loving terrible, they are at least confined to after-chapter extra pages. Still not as bad as Tower of God.


Manga's good tho

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

Mikl posted:

A gay couple prays at a shrine to always be together. The shrine's god goes "Won't that be difficult since you're both guys?" and turns one of them into a girl, without adjusting their sexuality.

That's kind of rude


edit: in so many ways, now that i think about it

HenryEx fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Aug 21, 2015

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
I debated posting about the new chapter of Sekitou Elergy, because i was hype as gently caress for a second, but then i noticed that the translator:

A. does not intend to pick up the series actually and this is a one-off
B. suuuuucks bad

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
It's a real shame. :(

I made it like two pages in before i said

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
It's like some kind of horror plot twist.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

Truga posted:

Teenage pregnancy is a thing and a very real problem. I'm glad some people don't dismiss it as a "horror story" and "hosed up", and instead draw attention to it in their works for teenage girls and boys.

drat, these jokes are getting too meta for me. :(

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
jfc did none of you even read the chapter, it even says right there




Dezinus posted:

Me after reading 20 posts about Tomogate

I miss Jun's incredibly childish pettiness. He should do it more often.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

Blhue posted:

hmmm yes, rigorous adherence to workplace dating policies is what i want in my romance mangas

Same, actually. It's nice to see some good role models from time to time.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
Oh my god finally, the half-year wait between volumes is literally killing me.

Are there actually any other good gender switch stories out there that aren't played solely for laughs and fanservice? I'm not averse to the funnies and some raunchiness, but i like something a bit substantial. Bitter Change is basically the perfect storm of what i'm looking for, but i need moooore. I've been browsing the "Gender Bender" tag a little, but i've basically only been turning up trash.

I'm liking the magical switch variety more than the real life transgender stuff, partly because of the "sudden fish out of water" shenanigans, and partly because it's a slightly less depressing matter to think about. Would be nice to see some more female -> male switch, too, the opposite is like sand on the beach, not in the least because it's mostly played for fanservice.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

He's back, with another victim soul saved.


I love this guy. He's so incredibly versatile. He's like a Teen Love Elemental.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
Tomo is good, Jun is back in force


Hot drat, i love the author's incredible knack for entertaining pettiness. :stwoon:

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
Didn't someone here say that the entire manga is based on a recycled premise & characters from a pron book the author did before? Not that i'm defending Richard here



edit: now that i think about it, i probably got that from the comments section of one of the reader sites so take it with a grain of salt

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
Best not to pry.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
Have there been any glasses characters with not-black hair, like, ever

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
Considering what thread this is it was implied that i asked for male love interests


But thanks for trying!

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
Thanks, this is very good, especially


that one.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
Oh man, he is going to love the last dragon dude

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
Hope Yona does some supplementary excercise, most of the work load is on your drawing arm so you end up with lopsided shoulder muscle growth which can gently caress up you entire back musculature


This is definitely a thing thats gonna be relevant in this shoujo manga. Yep.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

Tarezax posted:

New Kaguya

:3: What a (chapter) title drop

This wasn't a flawless execution, but it was pretty drat close. Nice.

That wholly makes up for the somewhat heavy handed tonal shift in the previous chapter.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
It's true, siblings are basically just carbon copies of each other.

This chapter also has some top-grade Kaguya faces, 9/10

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
"How cute..." was good, but i want a full panel version. In the meantime, i'll be content with the other Kaguya face that Shirogane got to make.


Good chapter all around.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
Chapter is titled "Kaguya wants to marry"

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

drat, i was just about to post that.
Yeah, it was a good run. You will be missed. :patriot:


HenryEx fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Apr 1, 2017

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
What are you talking about? This was probably the best axed conclusion chapter i've ever seen. It had everything: Kaguya's arguably best "How cute" face, Ishigami being left out and abused, people finally cottoning on the fact that Fujiwara played them all along, and a last minute secret compartment reveal.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
There were more than enough eyes around them

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

Mors Rattus posted:

I'm not sure if this goes here but it's good so why not.
Seito Kaicho desu ga or whatever, it has one of those long names.
Oh yeah, i've throught about bringing this one up before, too. It's good.

Dude's so hilariously bad at the whole "cross-dress to get closer to your crush" that he basically fucks it up on page one. Then he removes any reasonable doubt about it and even gets through the girl's powerful denial by chapter two. And he somehow keeps getting worse.



There's like 6 pages coming out every month tho, so prepare for kind of a slow burn

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

Hypha posted:

So he is bad at the whole secret identity thing but has the clothes, mannerisms, facial hair and goddamn voice down pat to pass.

Goddamnit, is being Asian easy modo or something?


This isn't talent, it's dedication.

HenryEx fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Apr 30, 2023

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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

Today we learn that Shirogane becomes extremely dangerous when set before a brush and easel, and Kaguya kinda just... deteriorates.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
In this new (very short) Horimiya chapter, Hori can smell the scent of other people on her boyfriend and is not amused




Man, Horimiya sure lost steam. I wish it came out a little faster, feels like i've forgotten everyone and everything every time a new chapter comes out.

HenryEx fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Apr 30, 2023

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
Yeah i just reread the series a lil bit and when her mom shows up for the first time it's like "dad hasn't been home for the last two years" and i just keep thinking; man, that's not very plausible considering the immediate future

I mean i'm glad cuz the dad is one of my favorite characters, but that's still some extremely reckless abandoning of previous story premises.

Speaking of favorite characters, can someone explain to me how the dude how appears like once in chapter 3 and once in chapter ten and is then absent for volumes at a time comes in 3rd place on the popularity polls? Iori, i think, but i'm struggling to remember the name and might be confusing him for the Grand Blue character.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

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



New Kaguya! And today, Kaguya realizes just how shallow she is.

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HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
Man, i really hate the "heart pupils" thing for some reason. Pisses me off every time i see it.

e: good chapter tho

HenryEx fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jun 24, 2017

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