Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku - Vol. 12 Ch. 66 - We Were Looking Forward to it!

[boboro]

This arc has been the best yet, mostly thanks to the focus on 2 fantastic side characters, Oshizu and Mai. Also I thought to myself how entertaining Erika Oshizu dynamic is and Im pleasantly surprise that it’s a setup for Akebi feeling jealous. Delightful way to create buildup.

 

[MelonManic]

LE GASP

Danta chapter I ain't got many thoughts, the Yuri is merely ramping up

 

[MelonManic]

This manga has never been a romance in the first place and doesn't need to have any love interests at all. I understand that shippers can't think of anything else, but not everything has to be romantic. With your logic, any shonen without romance is BL because there are no female love interests. Secondly, who told you that bait can't use subtext as a tool (actually most bait is subtext because it teases people with the idea of ships and interpretations), or that subtext can be just the usual homoerotic metaphor for platonic things like in many works before and after this manga

I see this and I can't let it slide, this is NOT bait as Yuri Bait would mean the Yuri is manufactured with no intent on following through yes? As for it to be bait it would need to not actually be Yuri, yet at the point of this chapter there is no evidence to the contrary

Note that subtext is not a confirmation on anything, it's merely an interpretation based on the given information, subtext doesn't require anything, the point is nothing is confirmed therefore it sits in limbo
So it could be be merely platonic or it could be more than that, that's the glory of subtext, some can see it as such or not

It is strange your argument against it not being bait appears to just be lumping it together with subtext when that's not how that works as they can exist as separate concepts

Hibike Euphonium literally used homoerotic subtext and metaphors to emphasize the importance and power of Kumiko and Reina's platonic friendship.

Ironic you use this example when it's in basically the same boat as this manga only it introduces actual bait
Like if this is bait then you have acknowledge there are strong vibes yet you also argue the Yuri interpretation is a flawed interpretation which is an odd contradiction
But since through calling it bait you acknowledge strong Yuri connection in this here Yuri which would put it in the same boat as euphonium, see that would mean euphonium is actually bait by your own logic and thus a false equivalence because as the previous person pointed out, akebi has no male love interests unlike euphonium who has the childhood best friend, who is the end game showing a lack of commitment with what's shown in the anime at least

All this doesn't mean there can't be actual romantic development or subplots in manga, just learn to separate the wheat from the chaff.

And so in conclusion the Yuri interpretation is not that far off an interpretation, taking it as it is and reading the subtext

Id say I'm surprised most haven't tried to actually argue yer points since it's been here for so longer
But most people aren't me soooo, Though I'm not currently caught up yet, if it is but delusion and you are caught up yer welcome to lemme know

Hope yer having a nice day

 

[SuperOniichan]

I see this and I can't let it slide, this is NOT bait as Yuri Bait would mean the Yuri is manufactured with no intent on following through yes? As for it to be bait it would need to not actually be Yuri, yet at the point of this chapter there is no evidence to the contrary

Note that subtext is not a confirmation on anything, it's merely an interpretation based on the given information, subtext doesn't require anything, the point is nothing is confirmed therefore it sits in limbo
So it could be be merely platonic or it could be more than that, that's the glory of subtext, some can see it as such or not

It is strange your argument against it not being bait appears to just be lumping it together with subtext when that's not how that works as they can exist as separate concepts


Ironic you use this example when it's in basically the same boat as this manga only it introduces actual bait
Like if this is bait then you have acknowledge there are strong vibes yet you also argue the Yuri interpretation is a flawed interpretation which is an odd contradiction
But since through calling it bait you acknowledge strong Yuri connection in this here Yuri which would put it in the same boat as euphonium, see that would mean euphonium is actually bait by your own logic and thus a false equivalence because as the previous person pointed out, akebi has no male love interests unlike euphonium who has the childhood best friend, who is the end game showing a lack of commitment with what's shown in the anime at least


And so in conclusion the Yuri interpretation is not that far off an interpretation, taking it as it is and reading the subtext

Id say I'm surprised most haven't tried to actually argue yer points since it's been here for so longer
But most people aren't me soooo, Though I'm not currently caught up yet, if it is but delusion and you are caught up yer welcome to lemme know

Hope yer having a nice day

I repeat once again that I deliberately ignore any attempts to create a debates around this retroactively after the author finally chose the yuri route. I have tried too many times to explain the problems of hindsight bias and been insulted too many times by people who pretended to have known it all along, even though they were surprised themselfs. Goodbye.

 

[Ichigo69]

BOTH you guys need to read up to the latest chapter. That would put all this to an end........

 

[MelonManic]

Well I tried and that's what matters

BOTH you guys need to read up to the latest chapter. That would put all this to an end........

And im getting there
I like to pace my consumption