Thread 283470047

Anons, would you date Hinako? What would be her good and bad points as a girlfriend?

No id only date my waifu

>>283470058
Who is your waifu?

she tickles my sadism with how pathetic she is and Miko would be very sad watching her let me slap her around

>>283470254
Hinako is pathetic?

>>283470502
literally the one job any living creature has is to survive and she's out there begging for any supernatural predator to please come eat her

>>283470047 (OP)
Tanuki hands typed this.

Checked Japanese anime onlys and fish stock is at all time low
All the yurifags who haven't read manga are saying how unlikeable fish is and wishing that fox is the main heroine

>>283470678
Those complains are from men but Watatabe is yuri for women

>>283470751
>>283470678
Ajisai all over again?

>>283470751
Not sure what part of your pic says that

>>283471920
The joke was that there was no reason for that in MGS, wasn't it
But there will be in WataTabe

>>283470047 (OP)
she's depressing as fuck and that's coming from a dysthymic schizoid

>>283472128
So you wouldn't date her?

>>283472139
no I want the foxussy

>>283470678
>the popular opinion is wrong

>>283470678
When the manga was first coming out it was exactly the same here. Everybody was on team foxe.

>>283470047 (OP)
My gf was kinda like that when we met, now she is doing a lot better but that kind of relationship isn't for everyone indeed, healing takes a lot of time and effort from both sides and not many guys want to invest that time into a girl like that.

>>283472427
Is your girlfriend clingy with big boobs?

>>283472453
Very, she abducted me for a month or so, granted, I didn't want to leave but even if I wanted I couldn't.

>>283472462
E-explain?

It's incredible how long it took this useless bitch to try and stop fishcunt from killing her best friend, like what the fuck is there to hesitate over, did you really think "hmm maybe I should just let her die"

>>283472472
She hid my passport.

>>283472492
That's kind of hot...

>>283472473
Maybe because it's an overwhelming situation and this isn't a shounen story where everybody is capable of taking immediate action.
That and pacing is more abstract in the manga.

>>283472473
People with severe depression have troubles standing up anon.

>>283472529
And she's naturally gentle also. Pre-trauma she was deredere, not feisty.

>>283472406
No we weren't.

mangaka is doing signing today
and she draws cartoon fish and fox
https://x.com/yurikichi_shin/status/1984844664768512220
https://x.com/18kbn/status/1984835564760416609

I also heard her other manga (adaptation of an Chinese Harem LN) just ended? I guess she will be focusing on milking yurifags from now on

>now that the anime is airing watatabe threads are all waifushitposting instead of character analysis and discussing the series's themes and imagery

I shouldn't be surprised but i'm still disappointed

>>283473505
Too many spoilers for the anime
It should improve once the last episodes approach

>>283473505
> waifu
I thought this was a yuri anime...

>>283473505
Character analysis of who exactly? The anime hasn't provided enough background or clues for any of them yet to have a basis for a meaningful character analysis.
A lot of anime onlies already guessed that Miko wasn't a human prior to the revelation. That's as deep of a character analysis as there could possibly be from the info they had.

Wouldn't it be fun if Hinako ran in on Azami and her pet doing contact payments (she gets eaten out both literally and figuratively, at the same time)

>>283473683
contact payment?

>strange woman shows up
>"don't kill yourself"
>drags you to community gatherings
>"why do you want to kill yourself?"
Incel fantansy

>>283473674
Who said anything about animeonlies, though?

>>283473606
Anon we have spoiler tags for a reason

>>283473975
Contract. You don't think the loli is doing it for free, do you?
She probably would though

I have 3 wishes for the end of the anime, ranked by realistic expectation from high to low:
>properly showing the full scene of the kiss like in the beginning of chapter 29
>Miko running into the tanuki calling her a man eater
>Ayame working the stall and quitting after serving Erika, while Hinako getting texts from her aunt

>>283474465
>Anon we have spoiler tags for a reason
Ah yes, that's so great for a fruitful discussion.

If they don't animate the scene of fish throwing food at fox at the zoo I'm going to be pissed

>>283475772
Is this anime yuri yet

>>283473505
That totally happened, let alone wasn't just a few autism rambles before the thread died

>>283472406
I still am.

>>283476292
Yeah

>>283473674
I can use the words of Miko's song with the additional information that she has to take frequent breaks from being the sun to keep herself from literally eating Hinako and say that's the most disgustingly toxic codependent relationship I've ever seen. Would a man-eating monster normally be such an extrovert that praise and adoration is enough to override their beast instincts? If anything it's just enough for Miko to endure her suffering for the time being, but that status quo was so fragile that left alone something would be bound to happen for Hinako to discover her secret and let her eat her

>>283473505
There's plenty to analyze in the manga but this is a slow-burn series, the vague mystery will eventually take shape into more concepts and plot threads.

This manga is impossible to end satisfyingly, especially for yurifags.

>>283478773
If it doesn't end in someone dying horribly then it isn't good yuri

>>283479447
It's not a manio manga

>>283479447
>>283479741
Either Hinako or Shiori has to die
And the theme would not make sense if they cheat it by making Shiori immortal
And yurifags want to see girl be with girl
hence it is impossible

>>283479860
The story has too much suffering already, just let them have a happy ending.

>>283479860
>And yurifags want to see girl be with girl
Wrong. Tragedy is a staple in yuri. Yurifags want to see anything from double suicide to a happy marriage, as long as it's between girls only.

>>283480529
>anything from double suicide to a happy marriage, as long as it's between girls only
it's true, i'm yurifags

Shiori and Tsubaki should (sexually) buly the domesticed more.

>>283479860
Every single conflict so far has ended with "oh, they're just misunderstood and trying their best". Miko loved Hinako all along and was lying to protect her. Ayame survived even after a really-dead montage and is friends again with Hinako. Tanuki was just a dumb baby who was jealous that everyone else got to be friends with humans. Miko's beads were never what was sealing her bloodlust, they lost their power centuries ago. If you think this isn't going to have a happy ending, or that a happy ending wouldn't be in keeping with the entire rest of the manga, you're just illiterate at this point.

>>283478773
I’d be very satisfied if Hinako has to become immortal and live forever so that Shiori doesn’t sudoku or contract-die.

>>283479860
Shiori is going to die
All of her lies will catch up to her and there will be consequences

>>283482600
She's been pretty honest ever since their first beach confrontation, though?

>>283482600
Except that all of her youkai friends that she made thanks to changing herself to be with Hinako will then use the power of friendship to save the day.

>starts posting spoilers on the open
You guys are not being newfag-friendly.

>>283473505
pretentious tourist post

>>283482746
That would be pretty wholesome to be quite honest

>>283482861
spoilerfag culture is cancer, any good story holds up even if you know how it ends, and the best ones let the reader in on the twist before the characters as a narrative technique to build tension

>>283483134
>any good story holds up even if you know how it ends
Generally true but the ride doesn't feel 1:1 the same compared to always having being on the edge of the seat guessing (by yourself) where it's going.

>>283471797
Watatabe got an article on a magazine with a large female readership and bishies on the cover

Cuck jokes aside Miko is a cool wing woman

>>283470047 (OP)
if we dated there would be a mutual suicide within the first 6 months

>>283482233
>friends again with Hinako
That's a stretch, she just got to say sorry and left.

>>283482862
I started reading Watatabe back in February and I've been on 4chan since 2008

My friend commented that Miko had hundreds of years of sensitivity training and I can't think of a more accurate description of her backstory.

How realistic is a 3P ending? I kinda like the yuri-triangle more than any one-on-one ship.

>>283486423
Zero chance. Miko just doesn't see Hinako that way.

>>283486621
But does Hinako love Miko?

>Fish shows up, guess I have no other choice
>Cute fox girl shows up, upgraded
>Fish can now upgade to loli
Your move, fox

>>283486423
Yes in the sense Fish and Fox develop a cute begruding friendship with Hinako at the center

No in the sense Miko and Hinako are unironically just really good friends

foxes belong to bratty tanukis

>>283486666
She absolutely does, platonically. Sorry friend, there's just no love triangle in this.

>>283486621
Things can change quickly. All it takes is for Hinako to catch Miko off-guard while she's in heat.

>>283486944
Do Shiori and Hinako love each other?

this thread is too dangerous for me i'm going to have to read it aren't i

Can Miko keep eating her own tails forever, or will she have to do something about that eventually?

>>283487157
Shiori loves Hinako more than anything. Hinako... can't quite put a label on what her relationship with Shiori is yet. She cares for her and the story is most likely headed towards some sort of realization, but who knows.

>>283487363
when the time comes, fish will mercifully do what needs to be done for hinako's sake.

You guys are acting as if Miko wouldn't shove her giant fox tongue down Hinako's throat if the latter was okay with it but is holding herself back out of fear of literally eating her.

>>283470047 (OP)
My favorite slideshow of the season

>>283480909
Why is Miko surrounded by low IQ yokai?

>>283487417
I don't think Shiori necessarily loves Hinako in a romantic way, if only because she doesn't have a concept of romantic love

I personally still think Shiori "loves" Hinako as a object, to a degree. She's moved past wanting her as she existed in her memory as a shining beacon of "the other side", and now wants Hinako to be able to change and grow rather then to be her kid self again, but as evidenced by her reaction to Hinako's family photo, she still doesn't quite respect Hinako's agency or boundaries: She wants Hinako to be as obsessed with her as she is with Hinako

Maybe I'm underestimating the progress Shiori has made at picking up on human emotions and concepts, in fact you could probably argue she always understood them from early on based on some dialog, like even a few chapters after Miko being a Yokai was revealed, she chasitises Hinako behind her back for assuming Yokai wouldn't get lonely, but I think the photo moment is enough to establish that the relationship is still toxic and dysfunctional from Shirori's end, not just because Hinako is still suicidal and from the promise being in place.

Shiori also still seems to be a compulsive liar to a degree, even when there's zero reason to be dishonest or indirect she can't help but put a facade up most moments

>>283487363
>>283488102
I assume that each tail will give her decades of energy, and by the time she runs out of juice from the two she ate, Hinako will probably be dead anyways

I guess if it's an issue depends on if you think the main problem was just Miko being unable to resist Hinako's blood while starving herself, or if starving herself period was causing problems that she'd eventually have to deal with

>>283487157
That would imply that Shiori knows what human love is.

miko miko mikoko miko miko

>>283489115
When will they release the Shiori equivalent of this ED?

>>283489718
Hopefully never

>>283488943
>She wants Hinako to be as obsessed with her as she is with Hinako

Not really? She wants to become the most important person to Hinako; you can't throw a stone in the yuri section of the bookstore without hitting a progagonist declaring that they want to become their beloved's most important person. That's not the same thing as "obsessed". If anything, she's started giving up too early now, accepting her pain merely being Hinako's one regret as she dies and returns to her family, even as Hinako herself actually has started to change.

>>283470678
Why would anyone root for a fish?

How would you even fuck a fish?

>>283490867
I'm not into Yuri or even more broadly Romance as a genre, so if that's a common phrasing then that went over my head: I saw that much more informed by Shiori's prior difficulties with understanding interpersonal communication and bonds, and how her wanting Hinako to live was, at least initially, born from her glorifying the attitude of Child Hinako in her mind and selfishly wanting that back regardless of current Hinako's feelings or agency.

So is that just a normal Yuri line? if so I think that's way less interesting then my reading.

>>283491644
Other yuri reader here, while it's a standard line and a level of toxicity/possessiveness is expected, if not welcome, I read that line mostly your way (her inhumanity is what makes Shiori interesting as character), but I think that's the whole point of bringing her "ex" back for the latest arc to start addressing her selfishness and disregard for others

>>283491141
I saw a movie about fucking a fish once. It was directed by Guillermo del Toro.

>>283492786
Was the fish in the movie a 30 ft. mermaid?

>>283492366
She's getting there.

>>283493393
Shiori, no! Don't eat the delicious human! You'll lose all the progress you've made with Hinako!

>>283494945
cinema

>>283470047 (OP)
Ugh no, Hinako is a fag. And I am a fag too. And she also has like three faggot monsters protecting her. I don't know how Azami will deal with her, I'm excited to see the next chapters.

Hopefully Azami finishes Shiori for good.

>>283479860
This, Kimishinu and Aizawa-san will likely have bittersweet endings. But sometimes the stories that leave you with an empty feeling in your tummy are the best.
>>283488943
I think she's developing the concept of romantic love, like when a robot falls for a human. One anon claimed Shiori's more or less around Hinako's mental age to excuse her being a pedophile but on a second thought he might be right.

>>283489022
It's actually well established that youkai don't actually need to eat humans. In fact, modern foodstuff is so energy dense that youkai can live quite well off it.

>>283496963
Zoomer yokai have no taste.

>>283496963
Eating humans isn't about nutrients; it's about seeing the look on that husband's face when he saw his pregnant wife get eaten lmao

>>283497326
Fox posting where Hinako can't see her.

These sure are big

>>283483502
https://www.zasshi-ad.com/media/game/animedia.html

No, it is just a general anime magazine with 5:5 reader split
It just happens to have m*les on the cover that issue

Shiori isn't that interesting desu. Not really predatory enough to be a menacing antagonist.

>>283498146
Why does it look like Miko is going to cast a geass on Hinako?

>>283498241
Fish...

>>283486733
Fox can do it too, in fact Fox did it first

Fox and Tanuki once they start dating.

>>283498172
Why can't Shiori be this cute?

>>283498387
You an animeonly?

I think she's legitimately one of the most fascinating characters I've seen in media, but a lot of that is in content that hasn't been animated yet and admittedly a lot of it happens to be relevant to my personal life experiences

>>283498696
I'm an animeonly

Uhh emergency fishsisters meeting, we're on episode 6 and the anime's still going down on Miko, how do we respond??

https://x.com/Kame_maru_15/status/1985173163844788500

The magazine PR account reports that 80% of people who came to the mangaka signing likes Miko more.
Fox in heat soon. Poly ending confirmed.

Tell me something that fish has going for her that the fox doesn't have.

>>283498696
To be fair, as someone who was following the manga from the very start, and one of my initial complaints was that the author had succeeded too well in making Shiori appear monstrous that I wasn't particularly fond of her as a love interest character and the dynamics she created. That did change based on certain revelations but ultimately Miko was cemented as best girl.

>>283499152
large breasts
kurokami
not a womanlet
Miko is still better

>>283499218
How well Shiori is written as being something fundamentally not human and being unable to relate to normal concepts and emotions is what makes her so interesting though

>>283498387
What makes you think Shiori is meant to be an antagonist?

>>283499876
I couldn't think of the right word, but at least at the beginning she's meant to come across as creepy and predatory and unsafe.

>>283498672
Tanuki doesn't have the ovaries to be in either position.

How masculine or tomboyish is Hinako?

>>283480529
Depending on the circumstances around it, a double suicide could probably count as a happy ending for this series since it would allow Hinako to be with her family and Shiori to be with Hinako after death.

>>283499152
Can actually prevent Hinako's sudoku
Manically obsessive over Hinako to the point of self destruction
Complex, layered character, not just muh genki girl

>>283499969
Moderately. 6-7. Most tomboyish in series by a wide margin.

>>283502147
Imagine thinking that Miko is just muh genki girl.
Fish-brained take.

>>283502147
>Can actually prevent Hinako's sudoku
By lying and letting Miko do the heavy lifting?

>>283498798
>ep6: wrap up fox arc
>ep7: Shiori x Hinako beach date
>ep8: summer camp, ends on Ayame reveal
>ep9: Ayame fight, ends on Ayame revealing Shiori's secret
>ep10: depressed Hinako
>ep11: Shiori x Miko date
>ep12: flashback
>ep13: more depressed Hinako
>ep14: that scene, fishsisters win

>>283503164
But doesn't the anime only have 13 episodes?

>>283503073
Miko can't even lift Hinako out of her bed to go to a summer festival.

>>283503816
with current pacing we will end right at start of chapter 28 with 13 episodes
maybe they can skip some prototype omake and those one off 4koma

>>283478773
>>283479860
Not at all, if Hinako save a little girl the same way Shiori saved her, then all pieces would fall together into a perfect happy end.

Yuribros, our response?

>>283504072
Telling a lesbian to stop grooming children is like telling a bird to stop flying.
-Confucius, 1970.

>>283504423
The lily does not concern itself with the opinion of MALfags.

>>283504423
I only trust yuri navy.

>>283504423
At least 3 AI dashes validate "thank you ChatGPT" response.

Fattening up Hinako like a turkey for the month of November~~~

>>283505435
It's more likely that they got ChatGPT to edit their review rather than outright creating it.

>>283502147
You know what a mermaids power is in Japanese mythology, right?

yap yap yap but all i hear is fish fish fish

>>283504423
Yuribros need to pay more respect to BL stacies
After all Yuri was born from BL culture

>>283504072
Possible ending
A powerful enough yokai finally gets to Hinako. Shiori feeds herself to Hinako to revive her, and then sacrifies herself to defeat the big boss. Immortal Hinako travels around to find the pieces of coral that are all that left from Shiori and grooms her back up.

>>283487363
>>283489022
Shiori says Miko gets Divinity from being worshipped which offsets her yokai nature , so if she keeps doing good deeds eventually she shouldn't need to do that anymore.

>>283470254
You're fucked up

>>283499102
80% of the people were men? That was expected from a yuri event

>>283506810
No she doesn't, she says the opposite, that despite that it doesn't actually give her any godly power because she's just a Yokai

>>283507849
I can't read moonrunes

Maybe the scans I read mistranslated it

>>283508409
Looks like it.
妖力を失った分、神気が増して比名子の血の匂いに対しての耐性も少々上がったようですし
MTL:
>As he lost his supernatural power, his divine aura increased, and his tolerance to the smell of Hinako's blood also increased a little.

Had Shiori not shown up, do you think Miko would have eventually eaten Hinako?

>>283508634
Just to add, the 妖 (You) in 妖力 (Youryoku) is the same You in Youkai. So with context, a rough translation of the first part is "As she lost her youkai power"
Thankfully, the official English version translated that part correctly

>>283508634
I always figured this line seemed nonsensical.

>>283510469
>>283509950
>>283508634
>>283511395
Is she actually saying she got "divine power", or just that her yokai cravings have gone down so Shiori is making a jab by sarcastically saying she's more good/"divine" now? That would also fit with the offended reaction on Imko's part

Considering how much emphasis the preceding chapters placed on Miko ultimately being a yokai and not actually having the abilities of a god it seems odd it'd go on to say this

>get bullied by fishes
>get bullied by tanukis
foxes really cant catch a break, huh

>>283511678
That's what she gets for giving up her pride

>>283470047 (OP)
She just needs to get dicked like all depressed lesbians
I can fix her

Would Hinako's parents be okay with their daughter dating a fish woman? I understand she's working with what she's got, but I think Miko really needs to reconsider if she's doing right by the Yaotose legacy.

>>283512565
They're dead so they can't feel any possible way about it.

>>283511595
She literally says "divine nature has increased". Shiroi tends to be blunt so even if she's being sarcastic there's likely a grain of truth. Consider picrel.

>>283513481
Oop

>>283505391
Then why doesn't Admiral Yuri show up on /u/, unlike General Yuri?

>>283498498
LIVE

Reminder Hinako thinks Shiori is prettier than her mom.

And then tanuki will tell fox. "why do you close your eyes when we make love?!"

>>283520317
What's worse: the cuck shrine or the tanuki?

>>283470047 (OP)
Will it have swimsuit ep as Ishiba has fallen?

>>283521440
No swimsuits in this series since Hinako has a body that only a monster could love

>>283522124
I forgot how that looked.

>>283522124
It's okay, the babies won't have scars.

>>283522124
That monster being me
I want to touch her arm with a bic lighter to see if she still has any feeling there then rub salt into it then lick the salt off her

Hinako seems like the kind of girl who would cuck you.

Humans were the true monsters

>>283504030
They'll probably skip the prototype omake
I'm personally hoping they reach Ch. 29 (minus the last page) so that the season ends on a more hopeful note

>>283522534
But they'll have scales! Would that be any better?

>>283496963
Is this why youkai related incidents went down? Not because there are less youkai, but because lazy zoomer youkai found it easier to get fast food than to hunt humans?