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A thread about the breakout hit gun-slinging cupid yuri
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I wish I could look half as cool wearing heart-shaped shades.
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>>4298528
Just die without finding love and you too can be reborn as a cupid with sick fashion
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>>4298524
The artstyle reminds me of Alien Nine so much. I was so happy I thought the mangaka made another manga, but turns out it's a different person. Still liked it though.
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Funny how the series went from zero fanart to having enough to fill a thread with in the span of a few days. 99% of it western, but there's a lot of great stuff regardlessly.
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>>4298528
I love Ena's look all straight-laced and stuff but with those goofy-ass heart glasses
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>>4298686
yuri navi wrote about it today so maybe it'll start picking up in JP circles too.
http://yurinavi.com/2024/09/27/love-bullet-pr/
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>>4298524
>>4298686
If Activision/EA wanted to make money, they'd make a game adaptation where instead of shooting terrorists you shoot random lesbians to hook them up
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>>4298742
The whole situation surrounding this manga is incredibly fascinating. The author turning out to be American is some top-tier irony on top of being a rare oddity.
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Looking forward to the inevitable plot point where the cupids somehow manage to fall in love with each other
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>>4298745
it's funny because in this thread from a few days ago there were actually quite a few Japanese readers who thought the art looked like it was done by a foreigner.
>https://tsumanne.net/si/data/2024/09/26/9581775/

Honestly the biggest tell should have her doing a comic about Hololive EN girls.
>https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/what_shall_we_have_for_dinner
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So since the author is American, does that mean people who get mad when non Japanese yuri gets posted aren't allowed to complain anymore?
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>>4298779
That feels like it should be endgame stuff since it would break the rules.
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>>4298847
It's serialized in a Japanese magazine, so it counts weather those people like it or not
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>>4298846
They really like talking about the loose women of the 1920s, huh?
Is there any flapper yuri or is this an untapped market?
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>>4298866
>Is there any flapper yuri or is this an untapped market?
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>>4298847
There's probably hundreds of manga out there written by foreigners/non-Japanese residents who don't say anything about it and no one blinks an eye because they don't know yet (much like this manga before the interview came out). I don't think this case has anything to do with whether or not Western-published media should be allowed on /u/.
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>>4299204
>that was the only piece powerful enough to affect Shimamura
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You're a cupid now.
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>>4298524
>yuri
isn't this bisexual/het love triangle shit?
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>>4299440
No?
Every couple the cupids have paired off so far have been yuri
>>4299427
Deep cut deserved better
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>>4299457
what about the generic self-insert looking guy?
is he gone after chapter 0?
I don't like boys in my yuri
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>>4299475
I don't think there are any named male characters at all
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>>4299510
I will believe you for now and give it a second chance
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>>4299475
>>4299539
Did you really drop it over the loser guy in the love triangle between one-shot characters in the first chapter? Report back once you reach the current point, you'll understand why western yuri fans are championing it.
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>>4299206
no Shimamura needs a love ICBM
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>>4299710
Being Aki is suffering
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>>4299440
Its been yuri sofar, but not by the premise. It could have a non-yuri pairings in the future.
I wouldn't be surprised by more bislut brainworms cropping up in the future.
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>>4299510
The guy in the love triangle was named though.
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>>4299440
It's not guaranteed to be yuri, but it's two for two so far
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the fandom is gonna mald when eventually a love triangle got resolved to het instead of yuri by the cupids
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>>4299961
Obviously. They didn't keep bringing up the possibility for nothing. Its clear the author doesn't see it as "girls loving girls". Its girls could love any number of people of any gender and the cupids settle it down to one among the most compatible ones. Its not a yuri story premise from the start. Its even a step down from "its okay if its you" stories.
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>>4299930
>>4299961
>>4300011
>work gets popular
>time to doompost
we really are /v/'s neighbor
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>>4300026
Thats a problem people already pointed out when the chapters were released, long before the author doomposted on twitter. Let alone before it became "popular".
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>>4300026
>doompost
*shitpost
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>>4299546
I came back to say I was right
too many boys
too much bisexual/het baiting
this shit should have been axed
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Why even bother? Why not just stop consuming yuri altogether? Why does board even exist if apparently all high potential /u/ is doomed to hetfaggotry and bisluts?

I reject your doomposting and raise you just pretending the men don't exist
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>>4300250
>consuming yuri
No one who whines like that actually consumes yuri, they're all trolls who come here solely to deny yuri while acting concerned with fake good faith.
It's not a coincidence that we get a surge of posts like these at the same time there's a surge of posts in the general and game threads trying to deny yuri in series like Hina Logi. These people are all from /a/.
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>>4300279
basically this.
It reminds me of when in a general thread I gave the true bases of yuri in Hina Logi, which go beyond the kiss (which is the only thing that some recognize) and basically nobody answered me.

The sad thing is that stupid people actually believe what they say and don't question anything.
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>>4300250
>>4300279
I was just looking for something new to read
why are you people so mad?
if you just told me to fuck off after I posted >>4299440 I wouldn't be here again
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>>4300286
It's because you're poisoning discussion by asserting something this board rejects (hetshipping) that hasn't been confirmed yet in the source material.

We aren't mad at you, but this is /u/, and complaining about things that would make the subject of this thread fall outside /u/'s threshold of acceptability when it hasn't happened yet is retarted.
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>>4300286
My bad, I overestimated your ability to handle the existence of male characters in the background while yuri is happening. You can fuck off now, as you wish.
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>>4300250
>why consume yuri when slop that isn't yuri exists
What makes someone retarded enough to u ironically post this? Especially now, where there is more firmly as yuri marketed and declared stories, with solidly yuri premises on the market than most people can read? No one has any need to read something in the vague hope it stays yuri, when its from the start not presented as a yuri premise to begin with.
Come back when the author says its a yuri manga and stays one, rather rhan limply baiting with "it has yuri in it" and begging people to write about how it hopefully stays yuri like the yuri navi article.
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>>4298866
The center of gay culture in the 1920s was Germany, so it gets depressing to think about.
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>>4300298
don't worry I'm not coming back
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Don't fight, cupids
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>>4300595
can someone translate the moonspeak?
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>>4300606
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>manga is failing due to publisher not promoting it
>Tell mangaka it's gonna get cancelled if volume 1 doesn't meet certain sale numbers
>Mangaka turns to Twitter and screams into the void
>Void actually answers and starts buying the manga
>People start wondering why publisher wasn't promoting manga in the first place
>Turns out mangaka is a foreigner and was getting the classic japanese treatment
Japanese work culture strikes again.
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>>4300620
>try to let a manga get quietly axed because the author is an icky foreigner
>it backfires spectacularly and causes droves of foreign yuri fans to buy up as much stock as possible making it sell out across numerous storefronts
>sales are now too good to justify canning it
>japanese boomer aneurysm.jpg
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>>4299930
all of the author's previous doujinshi have been yuri, it's going to be yuri through and through.
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>>4300640
>>4300620
I mean, her interview says she was contacted by the editor first. The editor was surprised to learn she's american but offered her the opportunity anyways.

>>4298847
Why is no one pointing out that this woman has written the manuscript in english and its being translated into japanese and scanlators are translating it back to english? Its translation inception.
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>>4300640
>>4300727
The publisher's behavior does seem rather odd, going through the trouble of contacting and serializing a western artist only to basically throw her to the wolves without backup. I'm not saying she should be given preferential treatment due to being a foreigner, but it seems like a lot of extra work to set up constant translation for communication, editing and publishing if they weren't going to believe in her work. I guess they were just hoping it would blow up through word of mouth and in a way it did, but ironically with a western audience that only exists thanks to English scans. The funniest part is that people just casually reply to the author's tweets by attaching panels from the scans, which makes me wonder how close the retranslated dialogue is to what she'd originally written.
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>>4300612
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>>4300735
Plot twist the author is responsible for the scanlation
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>>4300794
...... that actually makes sense. It's almost stupidly brilliant.
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>>4300735
What so odd? Most publishers are opening contests recently to scout for gaijin talents. It’s just the usual case of the work not selling/underperforming.
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>>4300885
That is encouraging to hear.
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>>4300735
The publisher's behavior is pretty standard, all things considered. Flapper isn't a well-renowned magazine and they only generally only give love to the manga that are adaptations of anime/LNs. With how quitely the zodiac yuri Canno was serializing there got canned despite it having some fans and her having a lot of followers, I don't think the treatment Love Bullet got was much worse or better than the usual Flapper newcomer. It's just that there's no brand recognition to being serialized in Flapper and it's in a weird spot where it's sort of trying to run some yuri but they don't have any standout/long-running yuri titles yet so they're not known for having some yuri like Dengeki is now.
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>>4298847
It's published in a Japanese magazine so it's true yuri.
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>>4301156
>Canno
>got canned
Duh.
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Today is Kanna's birthday.
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hollywood action adaptation when?
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>>4301434
>Koharu is played by a black actress
>Kanna is now fat and has vitiligo
No thanks.
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>>4301432
Happy birthday to the girl who's probably many centuries old
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If the author is American as alleged, where are all the hamburgers and cowboy hats?
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>>4301504
Kenichi Smith, please
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>>4301650
>cheery green-eyed character clearly hiding something big
Welcome back, daiba nana
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>>4301690
It all makes sense now.
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>>4301690
Isn't this that mountain that SCP-096 used to live on?
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>>4301705
OH SHIT
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Lesbian sex when? Even Bloom Into You got one.
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>>4301926
It will happen when Koharu has a misfiring accident with an Uzi and pumps two girls full of love bullets, making them extremely horny.
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What if Yuu recoiled from Touko suddenly kissing her and got struck by the train in chapter 2 of Yagakimi?
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>>4301926
The cupids will get bored at some point and try having sex together "just for fun"
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The most bizarre crossover I've seen yet
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>>4302290
Which is this?
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>>4301949
How else are they supposed to get their hair so white?
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>>4301504
You can't get more American than militarized cupids. All cupids are bastards.
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>>4302406
Shuake (the persona 5 yaoi pairing) but genderbent
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>>4302473
Can't wait for the series to become so popular we start getting spinoffs with cupids in different countries.
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>>4301949
>pic
I believe in the Koharu/Kanna endgame
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So, is this cupid system a cosmological scam?
1) Cupids are born when someone dies while never being in romantic love.
2) Only source of romantic love are cupids
3) In order to produce cupids you need to choose not to shoot someone.

They deliberately fucking up someone's romantic life in order to get free labour force.

Alternative reading: A group of entities who found a way to cheat death are fucking up this opportunity for everyone else in order to farm second life.
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>>4303041
Oh, and add to that that love in this setting isn't a natural thing, it's just some fucker drugging you.
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>>4303041
Maybe try reading the manga in your native language, ESL-kun
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Chinese himejoshi are starting to draw fanart for Love Bullet, good news since Japan actually gives a shit about the Chinese market.
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Amazon JP is sold out again. Since the author said these were the leftover copies from the publisher's warehouse, the print run may be completely sold out.
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>>4303155
>everyone around the world is supporting LB except for nips themselves
Oh well, hopefully it's enough to keep this series afloat
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>>4303471
Not surprising, considering the huge amount of struggling yuri they support no one else does.
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>>4303471
>everyone around the world is supporting LB except for nips themselves
In general East Asia's been slower to get on the bandwagon for Love Bullet. Koreans are just starting to ask around for scanlations while China and Taiwan are just starting to break out the fanart. Japan's getting increasingly interested and the physical book is reportedly hard for them to find in urban areas of Japan, it's just a question of whether nips will join in fast enough to translate to enough sales for this volume/volume 2.
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I don't understand the coming back to life thing.
They come back to life, but in their young body from when they died X years ago.
How can they continue their life? They have legally died and everyone has moved on and they have no legal documents.

Unless the cupids have some sort of cherubic witness protection program?
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>>4303628
>cherubic witness protection program?
Either that or this is a hint to the whole extra life thing being a huge scam.
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>>4303628
>cherubic witness protection program
We already saw that the Cupids can use persuasive magic through Charm, it wouldn't surprise me if the Goddess could just scramble memories to make friends/family think the returned Cupids either survived their deaths or never got in their accidents in the first place. Making that time desync cause less memory scrambling or just generally wanting to return to loved ones faster would be a good additional incentive for Cupids to not loaf around. There would also be extra angst potential for "older" Cupids like Chiyo who have outlived everyone they used to know.
Or it could be something a lot goofier where the Goddess can split herself up and moonlight as foster moms for all the Cupids who've come back to life.
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>>4303616
If there is still demand for the physical volume 1, nips might have to wait for a reprint.
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>>4303628
>>4303663
They're fucking magic, so personally I just assumed that said magic will basically rewrite the world upon revival such that the revived Cupid has always been where she is in time. Perhaps even recontextualizing existing relationships. Like, maybe Aki comes to view her relationship with Koharu as more of a "Big Sister" thing. Imagine how awkward it would be if still remembered her, now ~6 years younger than her, as the girl she was in love with at one point in time?

>>4303635
Or this. I've also got a whole crazy theory about Kanna specifically being much shadier than she lets on.
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>>4303628
>>4303663
it'd be really fucked up if the twist is that the cupids are able to come back but with all the memories of their previous life wiped
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>>4303628
The twist is that this series will crossover with "How to break a Triangle," revealing that the girl who disappeared was actually working as a cupid.
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>>4303044
Damn, sounds like my college days.
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What a sweetheart
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>>4301690
>>4301693
Plot twist, someone IS inspired by Nana, but it isn't Kanna: https://x.com/inee/status/1842459184606101552

Maybe Ena? Otherwise someone who hasn't been introduced yet.
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Love Bullet is my favorite Yuri manga in a really long time.
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>>4303471
Why is this series so unpopular in Japan and needed twitter to save it? Why don't nip yuri fans like it?
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I saw a half joking theory earlier that kanna has an american idiot motif going on with her using heart shaped grenades and her birthday being october 1st (wake me up when september ends)
>>4304670
It could genuinely just be bad happenstance with a lack of promotion, but based on a 2chan thread i saw i suspect nips had a feeling inee was a foreigner from the way her art looked (before she admitted it in that interview) and chose to reject the manga as a way of saying they won't support foreigners because of stupid nationalism
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>>4304670
>Why is this series so unpopular
It's worse than average in pretty much every aspect, I could smell the early axe since chapter 1.
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>>4304800
We told the axe to kindly fuck off this time, so hopefully that works out.
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>>4304800
I thought you said you weren't coming back here
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>>4304670
>Why is this series so unpopular in Japan and needed twitter to save it?
It had no audience. No one knew it was supposed to be yuri I suspect originally it wasn't and romcoms are a unbelievably saturated market.
Its cute and all, but it has no real nieche.
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>>4305059
The author was noticed by Comic Flapper for her textless 4-page comics on pixiv, and they're all yuri.
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>>4305061
That may be the case, but nobody going into this had any guarantee it would be 100% yuri
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>>4305061
People who find it on the website, who are most of the people randomly exposed to it at first, aren't gonna check that. And its not exactly unheard of for people to tone down the yuri for the serialised works to chase broader appeal.

The fact the author doesn't seem to advertise it as such, wherever I looked, doesn't help either.
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>>4304670
>Why is this series so unpopular in Japan and needed twitter to save it?
Most manga need Twitter if it's not from a well known publication or a favorite of the higher ups, period.
>>4304713
>2chan thread i saw
2chan nips were throwing that around as a possible justification because the thread itself was talking about the sudden increase in international buzz after her Twitter blowup. It's not much different than them saying the same about Kagurabachi when that started blowing up in the West (calling it a foreigner's imitation of Naruto).
>>4305059
You're probably the same anon as the first text but it was tagged as yuri on her pixiv as early as late 2023, so it was likely the publisher's influence on the tags in the beginning. Beyond the tags it's a case of mismarketing overall, but by the way Comic Flapper tags/runs their yuri, it seems to be a common occurance with them.
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