#Ripe for the Picking

[mxleahaven]

A wonderful group of people with lovely stories!

Uri wo Waru: Issen wo Koeta, Sono Saki ni wa

(Ripe for the Picking on Netflix)

with Kusumi Koharu, Sakai Wakana, Tsuchimura Kaho, Ishikawa Ruka, and Sato Taiki

[damagecompilation-a]

every time sb says they've read omniscient reader my heart like grows ten times

[ferrerofarouche]

[professor-doc-emeritus]

Bought and read all of what's available of ripe for the picking (hate that localization btw) and MAN I'm so mad this amazing series ended up with this god-awful licensing deal. The mangaplaza reader is dogshit, and my God for how much they're charging for this series the quality control is just awful, multiple missing words and grammatical errors every chapter, not to mention that the update schedule is GLACIAL, the English tl is a full 4 volumes behind and appears to have no regularity despite, again, charging a full dollar a chapter, with no option for a physical release. So frustrating that such an interesting and thoughtful manga is gate kept by a horrible publishing platform and a tl team that doesn't give a damn.

[oratokyosaigunda]

Weekly Manga Times cover 2025年5/30 issue

[averinna]

I searched scan of this desperately but it seem that I will have to buy them

It's a story about a 32 years old virgin girl who is ashamed by that and search to date. The guy is a colleague who explain her that he broke up with his gf of three years because they didn't have sex

And then he say the magic word to get me interested

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

"i'm too old to trick-or-treat" what the HELL are u talking about. that is FREE candy. in this economy. "i'm too old to make responsible financial decisions" you sound like a goddamn lunatic

[lt-oblivious]

i cant with this anymore

[makingsenseofwhathappened]

Cut In Half

Cut in half, you stopped eating for a while. Simply forgot. The air was dead with whole families of fruit flies inhaled at once. Your own skin made a lonely noise.

At the back of the bus later staring at your hands. What were these for now? Well, that’s it then, you think. That’s the end of being a person. And the day drives on into weeks anyway.

One morning you eat half a pear standing over the sink. The seeds on the slice make a sad dead face that stares back at you. The not crying at the sunny window. That's not not something. Some words on paper about it.

Just how did you stay on anyway? You cannot imagine. But look here's you pulling down handfuls of life from the trees again. The rotting flesh under your shoes is smelling sweet as you reach up.

The End, you were thinking?

[fiona-fififi]

Call me homophobic, but I don't actually think it's great representation to stick a complex, dynamic, newly-realized bisexual character permanently with a flat, boring, underdeveloped love interest just because that was the first guy who showed interest.

[spkyart]

I am so normal about them

[oratokyosaigunda]

Weekly Manga Times cover 2025年4/11 issue

[kacievvbbbb]

I think Haikyuu makes an effort to be a great example of all the different ways innate talent can manifest, and all the ways it can go unrecognized or under appreciated when we stick to the ridged rules of what it means to be “gifted”

Take Kageyama and Oikawa. Both insanely gifted and innately talented people. But Kageyama’s genius is obvious it’s grounded in an exceptional skill in physics and mathematics anybody with a basic interest in volleyball can tell his sets are basically perfect, he is lauded as a genius because he is one!

And then there’s Oikawa whose innate genius is a little harder to see especially if you’re not paying attention, because he does it so well that you don’t even think to notice it. it’s not very technical or flashy so it’s been overshadowed by the more trained flashier aspects of his playing. But Oikawa’s genius is that he knows people. He knows how to finely tune a set, adjusting the most minute details to fit the spiker like a glove and he does it all in a split second like he doesn’t even need to think about it he just knows. That is actually insane. Hell it’s even pointed out by Iwaizumi, nobody is better than Oikawa at knowing his players and knowing how to set to his players.

But the world they (and by extension we) live in, is so used to seeing genius in only a constrained specific light that Oikawa’s innate talent is woefully underrepresented so much so that it leads to him ( and by extension most of the fandom) believing that he has no innate talent, that he’s not a genius. Oikawa somehow believes that he is less that kageyama because kageyama was “born to do this” but if you think about it so was he!

Even despite his self aggrandizing and petty selfishness Oikawa innately, more than anyone else in the whole show, understands what we all tend to forget (across many sports), Volleyball is a team sport.

It doesn’t matter if you’re the single most best techical player out on the court; there are 5 other people out there as well and like it or not they’re playing too. Who then can say that knowing how to make 7 other people move as if extensions of your self with an ease taken for granted, isn’t a sign of genius?

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

[callmethehunter]

For the love of god, let me crawl up in there

[columboscreens]