Ruri no Houseki - Vol. 6 Ch. 31 - Kept Hidden are Light and Heat

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[Gold_Scale]

Nagi panicked for a moment there thinking Ruri joining Paleontology Lab.

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[xanon]

I imagine Professor Nagi's courses would be well attended.

 

[Lamiapits]

Gayest chapter yet goddaaaaaaaaaamn. From both of them too. Nagi both wanting to be professional and mature and wanting to guide Ruri into the proper direction, and that conflicting with the part of her that wants her to keep Ruri for herself. . . It's kinda crazy.

 

[Serenata]

If you think about it, they were planning their future together that's almost like...Oh right is all about science,humu humu.

But really I am glad she finally said it

 

[SuperOniichan]

Never underestimate the power of chemistry between women to make shippers super horny.

 

[lowarctic]

it may not be yuri but sure as hell produces some of the same feelings

 

[YurbyDevourer]

What’s up with the sudden love confession scene? And did Seto just 'friendzone' Imari? Choice of profession being used as a metaphor for romance/yuri this time is cracking me up. Quite unexpected.

 

[SuperOniichan]

What’s up with the sudden love confession scene? And did Seto just 'friendzone' Imari? Choice of profession being used as a metaphor for romance/yuri this time is cracking me up. Quite unexpected.

She just too attached to Ruri and so be afraid, that she can interfere with her career developing because of some spoiled purposes. What you get here as metaphor, in fact just melodramatic bonding moment. This is another shipping goggles thing, especially given cgdct format of this manga.

 

[Superbacon]

A walk off into the sunset ending, such a awesome story.

 

[Dealka97]

Lol, Seto (Shouko) is finally breaking her habit of calling people by their family names, only for Ruri.

 

[SuperOniichan]

Lol, Seto (Shouko) is finally breaking her habit of calling people by their family names, only for Ruri.

It's not habit, it Japanese language tradition. Given names only for close people.

 

[NilnisNilneef]

Yeah why are people are saying this is yuri, it's just two women exchanging gemstones and then walking side by side pledging to spend their futures together with one of them wearing a frilly white translucent thing.

 

[jet_wro]

an earthquake, huh... how nice, in the baltic you need to wake up on a freezing cold winter morning with the right wave pattern and be faster than the pros to get a nicer piece...

 

[SuperOniichan]

Yeah why are people are saying this is yuri, it's just two women exchanging gemstones and then walking side by side pledging to spend their futures together with one of them wearing a frilly white translucent thing.

Because sometimes cigar is just cigar. Especially if you don't try to find double meaning in things so hard on purpose out of context. Or even get any possible subtext or metaphors as direct text.

 

[fight2live]

dinosaur!!!!

 

[Riedone]

So Beautiful

 

[YurbyDevourer]

She just too attached to Ruri and so be afraid, that she can interfere with her career developing because of some spoiled purposes. What you get here as metaphor, in fact just melodramatic bonding moment. This is another shipping goggles thing, especially given cgdct format of this manga.

Not at all, it's too obvious they were going for yuri bait this time. The fact is they structured Ruri's "confession" moment so much like a love confession, having them both blush and look away from each other afterwards too, it felt pretty off.

In fact, everything was playing out pretty naturally until that very scene. It's specially strange, since Ruri is likely 15 or 16 and Nagi is about 24 years old. (this probably means it's just bait and that this kind of development is going to get dropped soon, unless we're looking at a somewhat shocking story. Actually, I wonder if the author will rather just play it as an innocent crush that doesn't get acted on?)

You don't need to be a shipper to notice how the story is deliberately applying some very typical romance tropes. Otherwise, that moment should have played out very differently.

 

[SuperOniichan]

Not at all, it's too obvious they were going for yuri bait this time. The fact is they structured Ruri's "confession" moment so much like a love confession, having them both blush and look away from each other afterwards too, it felt pretty off.

In fact, everything was playing out pretty naturally until that very scene. It's specially strange, since Ruri is likely 15 or 16 and Nagi is about 24 years old. (this probably means it's just bait and that this kind of development is going to get dropped soon, unless we're looking at a somewhat shocking story. Actually, I wonder if the author will rather just play it as an innocent crush that doesn't get acted on?)

You don't need to be a shipper to notice how the story is deliberately applying some very typical romance tropes. Otherwise, that moment should have played out very differently.

Blushing, shyness and good chemistry so on isn't exclusively romantic tropes. People, especially young girls doesn't feel shy only in romantic moments. And of course, love confession isn't only way, when people told others that they're important for them. Especially when we talk about cute girls fiction, not realistic real live setting. You just bring things, that can be read differently without context and argue, that only romantic POV could be the only one possible. While when something in the chapter or arc directly contradict this even for you, you just ignore this with "this is strange" remark.

So, no, this is a archetypal moment in all female moe manga, when author show that bond between girls become so deep and strong, that no one can separate them now. Of course, no one is stopping you from interpreting it differently, and you have every right to do so, but that shouldn't become dogma, especially when there is a clear logical context for it. I don't know how things will develop from here, as far as I understand, only half the available manga has been translated. But right now, this whole mess doesn't even qualify as bait (and of course, not all unsuccessful yuri expectations are deliberate bait, sometimes it's just cope). It’s essentially just an attempt to make things sound ambiguous by deliberately seeking out strictly romantic interpretations and descriptions of the girls' bonding moments. Atleast for now.

 

[Beregorn]

Gayest chapter yet goddaaaaaaaaaamn. From both of them too. Nagi both wanting to be professional and mature and wanting to guide Ruri into the proper direction, and that conflicting with the part of her that wants her to keep Ruri for herself. . . It's kinda crazy.

I don't know about that, ch. 6 was also pretty gay...