Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku - Vol. 12 Ch. 69 - The Sounds Playing

[silverpetricof]

Akebi and Eirka should just kiss in my opinion.

Thanks for the translation.

 

[yuyugw]

Poor Oshizu, shes dumbfounded and cant say anything lol
thats what happened when u are surrounded by genius ppl lmao

 

[SveNo]

It is pretty clear the author wants a yuri route though, I just don't want it to be Akebi. She's for everyone.

PHRASING!!!

 

[requipknight]

What the hell Hiro making Erika look so handsome suddenly. I'm so weak, ikemen Erika...

 

[fearlesschicken]

WHAT A YURIFUL CHAPTER MY YURI HEART IS SATISFIED!!!

 

[Hanryuu]

Erika looks so much better in this hairstyle

 

[IbnAurum]

This chapter is peak, I wanna highlight an underrated part that is the gloomy girls drawing Komichi, virtually the sweetest Madoka ahh character, as devil Homura

 

[weleasewodger]

Yuri coming in appropriately enough in Chapter 69

 

[tabedetam]

Someone leaves comments with a different opinion about the manga than me, it hurts me and I will add them to the ignore list! - Classic. Glad to see that even after years the forum has not changed.

while I agree with a number of your points in your comments, it feels like you're trying too hard to be the "calm, collected, level-headed thinker" despite your username and pfp.

It's true that people here often see some wholesome interactions then automatically convert them into "ohh they so in love, kiss already". I don't like that when it's spammed in every comment section.
It's true that there's no yuri/romance tags for this manga (publicly) because that's the job of distributors/reviewers. Catergorations are mainly based on the general subjective opinions, so if most people say "gay romance", then it's gay romance for the majority, excluding ones like you. And that's fine.

While you may argue "it doesn't have to be romantic, it's female youth's nostalgic depiction". Nevertheless, I naturally find so many, too many details that seem WAY more romantic than actual romantic stories. So do many here. The majority doesn't have to be correct, but so doesn't contrarians.

 

[SuperOniichan]

while I agree with a number of your points in your comments, it feels like you're trying too hard to be the "calm, collected, level-headed thinker" despite your username and pfp.

It's true that people here often see some wholesome interactions then automatically convert them into "ohh they so in love, kiss already". I don't like that when it's spammed in every comment section.
It's true that there's no yuri/romance tags for this manga (publicly) because that's the job of distributors/reviewers. Catergorations are mainly based on the general subjective opinions, so if most people say "gay romance", then it's gay romance for the majority, excluding ones like you. And that's fine.

While you may argue "it doesn't have to be romantic, it's female youth's nostalgic depiction". Nevertheless, I naturally find so many, too many details that seem WAY more romantic than actual romantic stories. So do many here. The majority doesn't have to be correct, but so doesn't contrarians.

I never said that it would never be romantic, that title was originally quite yuri bait-ish. So there was always some possibility and I was open about it. The problem is that a lot of people who always called it yuri in advance due to shipping goggles (people were trying to take every moment as romantic long before Erica even started getting significant focus) are now trying to pretend that they knew it was yuri from the start because it was supposedly obvious etc., even though when that chapter came out they were literally surprised themselves that the author decided to move from bait to real development. Just look at the surge in comments that was in the discussion of that chapter. Not to mention media reviews or what people wrote during the anime.

This is a classic hindsight situation, where people think that a situation was much more obvious and predictable than it actually was in hindsight. This is a typical psychological mechanism and there is no problem with it as such. But because of this, people have tried to attack me for comments from many years ago, pretending that I'm the only one didn't know the author's intentions at the time. For the same reason, the manga never had tags yuri or romance, since the transformation into yuri is already the third change in the story's direction. By the author's own admission, it was originally supposed to be an episodic SoL. Just compare the current manga format with the first chapters.

There's no problem with shipping per se. I've seen this "just kiss already" thing so much that I've gotten used to it. Even with people who get so strong yuri goggles that they see every moment of friendship as yuri bait. This shit just shouldn't get so agonistic and toxic. If you want to continue this topic, write to me in PM. I do not want to relive this topic here again for the reasons described above.

 

[tabedetam]

I never said that it would never be romantic, that title was originally quite yuri bait-ish. So there was always some possibility and I was open about it. The problem is that a lot of people who always called it yuri in advance due to shipping goggles (people were trying to take every moment as romantic long before Erica even started getting significant focus) are now trying to pretend that they knew it was yuri from the start because it was supposedly obvious etc., even though when that chapter came out they were literally surprised themselves that the author decided to move from bait to real development. Just look at the surge in comments that was in the discussion of that chapter. Not to mention media reviews or what people wrote during the anime.

This is a classic hindsight situation, where people think that a situation was much more obvious and predictable than it actually was in hindsight. This is a typical psychological mechanism and there is no problem with it as such. But because of this, people have tried to attack me for comments from many years ago, pretending that I'm the only one didn't know the author's intentions at the time. For the same reason, the manga never had tags yuri or romance, since the transformation into yuri is already the third change in the story's direction. By the author's own admission, it was originally supposed to be an episodic SoL. Just compare the current manga format with the first chapters.

There's no problem with shipping per se. I've seen this "just kiss already" thing so much that I've gotten used to it. Even with people who get so strong yuri goggles that they see every moment of friendship as yuri bait. This shit just shouldn't get so agonistic and toxic. If you want to continue this topic, write to me in PM. I do not want to relive this topic here again for the reasons described above.

nah it's alright. I see your points clearly now. It's true that the story's intentions really changed over the time, and only after chapter 39 do we really something more concrete of a romance subtext, which now is almost full blown. On the other hand, I can understand people who gasp for straws of romance/yuri hints (intentional or not) from the start. GL is a pretty deprived genre compared to BL and it's almost like "Is that a Jojo referrence?" whenever something remotely related comes up.

 

[SuperOniichan]

nah it's alright. I see your points clearly now. It's true that the story's intentions really changed over the time, and only after chapter 39 do we really something more concrete of a romance subtext, which now is almost full blown. On the other hand, I can understand people who gasp for straws of romance/yuri hints (intentional or not) from the start. GL is a pretty deprived genre compared to BL and it's almost like "Is that a Jojo referrence?" whenever something remotely related comes up.

I think the idea of queercoding has "spoiled" people a bit in this regard. Because many people understand the idea of coding in general, but due to a lack of literary experience and knowledge, they don't quite understand how it works in fiction. For example, the most common case of queercoding is a way to emphasize the emotional tension and strength of bonds between rivals or friends through homoerotic subtext, and not "secretly say they're gay." Some even miss the subtext moment itself and think that the author throws yuri bait even just by stipulating that the characters are best friends, lmao. But that's another question.

Otherwise, yes, this is one of the reasons why the manga audience is much more overwhelmed by slash shippers. Most of the GL available to us is simply in manga, while the amount of anime is seriously limited. Plus, don't forget the people who watch and read only yuri on principle, so this moment is literally a matter of life and death for them. I still remember how passionately people fought over a completely formal yuri tag for Gushing Over Magical Girls on MAL, although it was obvious to anyone that it was a gay show. Simply because people wanted to convince others that it was "their show".