Thread 4421511

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Previous Thread: >>4413274

>plumeria earrings
good thread

An aunt that loves her niece like no one else.

https://x.com/kuw8ra/status/1924158020134875592
We have a new foreshadowing! This time it foreshadows that the next chapter will be on hiatus, because where does a mangaka working diligently on a serialization have time to complete videogames?

Look who drew Zatsu Tabi. They would pick the less legal pairing.

>>4421653
Is that tsukimizu? A little too clean for him

What's /u/'s general consensus on Netachara-tensei?

>>4421626
I shipped Zammy and Jasmine hardcore desu

>>4421963
>genderswap

Oh look Chisato got jealous. Bad day for a certain guy.

How do you feel about het harem that has actual lesbians that aren't just played for fanservice and have subplots that have nothing to do with MC?

>>4422270
A waste of time in 99.99%. (These 0.01% have not yet been produced). But I'm willing to see your arguments

>>4422274
In what way do you think it's a waste of time?
The characters I'm clearly referring to according to my post have been types like Konoka and Setsuna (Negima!), Katja (Qwaser) and to a lesser degree Maihime (HxEros). Other series that come to mind that have such characters off the top of my head (regardless of whether I've seen or not) are Strike the Blood and Marriage Toxin.

>>4422270
>>4422276
Many years ago I may have been too desperate to watch it. Now, hard no. Got plenty of yuri and yuri-ish shows.

>>4422276
NTA but that's worse than watching one of those shows with all girl casts but dynamics so awful that they don't even look like real friends.

>>4422276
You have a terminal case of bad taste.

>>4422276
I like em because I like standard harems in the first place, yuri is a more than welcome bonus in this case.

>>4422276
>Konoka and Setsuna (Negima!)
Both kiss Negi for pactio and have a whopping one chapter where they're on a date completely disconnected from his going-ons, I wouldn't exactly call it worthwhile.

>>4422270
So horizon, though they did get actual screentime and also an onscreen kiss

>>4422288
This also comes to mind as well

The lesbo character is fairly common in harem genre
The rare part is where they are treated seriously and remain bro types
The rarer part is where they get their own girlfriend and plot

The latter two generally happen if author happens to be a yurifag

>>4422270
Listen man like a lot of elder yurifags I got a Shiznat folder and all that, my tolerance is up there.
You don't have to live like that anymore. We got our shots, we got our innoculations, we got callouses on our hands from the before times. Now we live in a world where yuri anime gets produced on the regular and you can see new yuri manga and art getting scanlated every day.

>>4422276
Rage inducing. auhors doing it should be made fun and disliked.
But we all have ouer resistances to shit, this one just irks me the most.
I just dont have tolerance for this shit.
I agree with that one girl that got made fun of on twitter, we do deserve proper stories where female protag has yuri harem even if, harem genre as a whole is bad.

But yea you dont have to live with accepting this shit just find a proper yuri series and read that.

>>4422299
>we deserve yuri harem
>harem bad
Choose 1: Why would anyone making yuri harem if yuri fans prefer non-harem? There needs to be an audience willing to pay for the yuri harems
That said, Watanare is getting an anime and I feel there has to be more not adapted to anime. That take always came up to me as misinformed
I just don't see yurifags liking harem in the same way hetfags do, so of course yuri harem is gonna be a limited thing if the audience is a niche within a niche

>>4422302
I just want to see less het shit and maybe yuri bit atleast a little into that market even if it just harem stuff. tho i guess you have a point

>>4422302
Watanare is popular among yurifags
And that is an unapologetic harem series

>>4422299
>I agree with that one girl that got made fun of on twitter,
Who?

>>4422302
Yuri harem is inherently different from het harem, or at least it has the potential to be.
The key difference is that yuri harem MCs are not obligated to be empty vessels for the sake of viewers' self-inserting, they can be interesting characters in their own right. This fixes one of the core issues with harem, that a lot of colourful girls are all interested in a boring-ass guy for the lamest of reasons.
Then there's of course how girls in a yuri harem can hook with each other and not feel forced. Het harems are not even romances, they're horse races in which viewers bet on which bitch will win the race. Yuri harems don't need to be like that, since every girl can get her own happy ending, and a polygamous ending is not out of the question either.
All that said, Watanare is not the best example. Yuri ja nai is a better example of how a yuri harem should be.

>>4422302
>yuri fans prefer non-harem?
That's what they say but when they find that the heroines are good characters then most yuri fans become shippers that want their favorite girl to win. They say they don't want to read yuri harem but apparently some of them need to read yuri harem.

>>4422309
Watanare is exactly what you said so how is that not a good example?

>>4422270
That's how I got into yuri

>>4422314
Which couple?

>>4422302
Dore ga Koi Ka ga Wakaranai is decently well liked, if only because everyone agrees Maria-sensei is best girl and deserves forbidden love.

>>4422270
It's lame. Even if it's totally platonic (which it almost never is there's usually some teasing and fanservice) it still plays into the same male power fantasy about having tons of women in your orbit. Fundamentally all harem shows are wish fulfillment aimed at straight men. Kill with fire.

>>4422270
Harem implies they are still into the MC as well, no? If so kill it with fire.

This dicussion deserves to get this thread nuked by talking about yuri in with het shit btw.
>>4422306
Just a random female anime fan maybe cosplayer i forgot that was asked about harems and she said that she wants to see yuri harems instead

>>4422329
It's not that bad.

>>4422323
Not necessarily. From the examples given here, I can confirm Katja and her girls and the Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere yuri couple have 0 interest in the male MC
Then again, it's still a rare thing to find and people have already said there's enough yuri that there's no need to seek yuri subplots in het

>>4422336
It's been a while, but Horizon wasn't really harem, was it? The MC and a number of other characters had designated love interests if I recall correctly.

>>4422262
Erika is like the silver lining of the series, if they set her up with Takina I'd even watch S2, but I know they'll just reiterate Chisato's baits instead.

So precious

>>4422339
>t. erika

>>4422262
When do these shorts even happen in the series? After the anime ending or before?

>>4422311
>heroines
>good characters
Not in het harem. Not in het anything, in fact.

What yuri anime have English blu-rays available right now? I ask because I'm irrationally scared of getting a virus from pirating an anime, I don't want to spend money on an anime site subscription and I would also like to support the industry.

>>4422280
That's probably the worst one. Or somehow all their conversations revolve around men when none are present in the series

>>4422354
After Takina retrieved Chisato when Chisato escaped the hospital after getting the new heart but before they go to Hawaii (short 6, the last one., takes place on the day before the cast goes to Hawaii and ends with everyone ready to go)
>>4422357
Reading comprehension. The post is about YURI harem

>>4422365
You'd probably have to go on a case-by-case basis.
I was gonna say maybe some older stuff probably might not but shit Media Blasters got a Stopani Blu Ray but Kannazuki no Miko as far as I can tell only has DVD

>>4422365
I know Maria watched over us does

>>4422338
Iirc multiple of the girls end up professing their love for the mc later. (Not shown in the shown obv). It's not all of them, but still enough to get into harem territory

>>4422365
You'd really have to go out of your way to get a virus from video files. Cute gnomes though.

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Huh, what

Diana is shit.

>>4422415
Rude

>>4422413
Vote for what?

>>4422365
I haven't bought any anime BDs in a while since I've been buying girl band CDs and concert BDs lately, but based on my own collection and a quick search on amazon, these shows are available on BD:
Full yuri:
Adachi and Shimamura, Bloom into You, Fragtime, Kase-san, yuruyuri, MahouAko, Dragon Maid, Valkyrie Drive, Sakura Trick, Vexations of a Shut-in Vampire Princess
Subtext:
Granbelm, Super Cub, Tamayomi, Lycoris Recoil, Edomae Elf, Bocchi, GuP, a whole bunch of Nanoha shows that I've never watched, Jellyfish show, Yuyushiki, Action Heroine Cheer Fruits, K-On, Flip Flappers
Really, about anything that aired within the last three years or so should be available on BD by now; anything newer is probably still in the pipeline. On a side note, I bought a HDR-capable monitor the other day and animated lesbians never looked so good.

>>4422417
This thing
https://tsugimanga.jp/

https://x.com/nekotarou0721/status/1920336481501286879

>>4422420
>https://tsugimanga.jp/
>top 3 are super normie stories
Dont think we stand a chance sister....

Is it still oneeloli if the loli is like 500 years old?

>>4422270
>>4422288
I tried watching horizon because of it's lesbian side couple but even though it was setting that up in the first episode I bounced off of it on the back of the male protagonist walking up and groping a character that had been effectively holding off the rest of the cast for most of the episode. I just couldn't take the narrative seriously anymore. I feel a kinship with this >>4422274 perspective.

>>4422438
Loli is a body type but oneeloli is age gap with the younger girl being a loli. If the loli is younger than the onee, it stands to reason that it's still oneeloli even if the loli is 500 years old.
I think.

>>4422445
I think Ponko is actually older than Yachiyo. I forget, the timeline in that show is kinda fucked up.

>>4422441
It's still a pretty fanservicy series, no doubt about it. But I was fine watching it, there is enough intrigue for me to follow even when the lesbian couple wasnt on screen and of course they delivered not only one of the best onscreen kiss back then but also some really battle scenes

And perhaps more importantly, they were just a nice couple. The class acknowledges them and there isnt any unforced relationbship drama