It's fun to read.

I think it's Work in Progress.

@Deoxyribo0 which group? I’ll contact them and see what I can do maybe

Anyone willing to typset for this series? A group is looking to pick this up but needs one.

really looking forward to a group picking this up

I hope someone would pick this up. I think this have gone to chapter 45 already.

hmm... is this dead?

@monkey123 Asking the real questions here... if anyone decides to reply to monkey plz reply to me along cause I wanna know as well

Hmm I'd appreciate yuri with smut. So to imitate kronix: Do they fuck here? ?

@mikegnesium
Is that Nanashi manga filled with traps?

The story of these two is cute ^^ Please keep on ^^ Love you so much ^^

@CoolOtamegane Bluntly put, I am not going to continue scanlating this. As mentioned in the image, I really do hope that an actual group picks it up.

@apohtem Please continue, I like this of premise

@comedyxtragedy The author specifically does Shoujo Ai stuff, so chances are it'll be there at some point. Except her newest series, which is called "Gyaru x Sexual Harassment Life".

But yeah so far the best one can say is that there's more of an attraction to cuteness and friendship than actual romantic relationships.

I read it and honestly confused because there is no sign of romance between girl? I see a manga almost like this, and that manga definitely shoujo ai but this? All I see is a girl as a hardcore fans of idol. Maybe I'll wait for development.

@Mai88:

Whether it's a problem that shoujo-ai "is used in the first place," depends on how you feel about misappropriated loan-words. I'd personally say that it's fine that it has a completely (even eyebrow-raisingly) different meaning in English; language does that sort of stuff all the time.

However—I completely agree that it would be nice to just move to GL and BL and drop the whole gamut of "yaoi" "yuri" "shounen-ai" and "shoujo-ai" tags. (And for that matter move most of the yaoi and the more explicit yuri over to the R-18 section where all the heterosexual explicit gratuitous sex is.)

The double-standards we currently have embedded in the use of these tags, I find kind of atrocious. That the divide between "shounen-ai" and "yaoi" is sexual, but that (to a certain subset of people) the divide between "shoujo-ai" and "yuri" is basically emotional, ends up being super-sexist, even if it might have happened by historical accident.

_{(Or that "yaoi" tends to be kind of glossed over and rarely lumped in with hentai—nor, for instance, put in the R18 section in mangadex, even if it's got graphic sex galore—kind of as if it's not to be treated as explicit if the intended audience is women?—has weird implications that hurt my brain if I think about it too hard (though I'm not sure whether it's as harmful).)}

The problem about the Shoujo-Ai tag is that readers like these have them in the first place, so their usage will always confuse new readers. As much as I hate it, I still tag our works with Shoujo-Ai on mangadex/mangaupdates, but Yuri doesn't imply it's more mature or anything (you won't find any traces of Shoujo-Ai on our actual website). It's just an unfortunate remnant of ancient history. https://i.imgur.com/RS1xcDn.png, an excerpt from the Yuri Doctor Thesis by Verena Maser (Beautiful and Innocent - Female Same-Sex Intimacy in the Japanese Yuri Genre for people who want to look up the whole thesis), explains what Shoujo-Ai actually means.
To avoid this confusion of the usage of Shoujo-Ai and Yuri, it's better to refer to GL/Girls' Love since that's what is also accepted in Japan.

@apothem

I've seen it written as both, and with the "domo" in kanji more often to be honest.

Also difference is quite easy - shoujo/shounen ai is when there's heavy subtext, hand holding and so on. Yuri/yaoi is when there's kissing, deep romantic love and more adult themes.

This is shoujo ai, and subtle at best. Citrus is yuri. Yagate Kimi ni Naru is borderline yuri (at least for now). Morinaga Milk series are usually yuri. Cheerful Amnesia is yuri.

More or less, the more adult and serious it is, the more likely it's yuri.

Seriously guys, don't engage kronix:

https://mangadex.threeproxy.net/manga/18697/nanashi-no-asterism/comments

That's a good question. You could be right; I never thought of that. I did recently read that 子供 (Kodomo/kid) is generally written as 子ども because the 供 character is more for slaves or something (child slavery). It wouldn't surprise me if the Japanese people (or anyone) prefer to avoid saying things that could make them look bad. Maybe that's why in "Onii-chan wa Oshimai" Mahiro says "yuri" for female-to-female skinship instead of "shoujo ai", as well.

Doesn't Shoujo-ai have a pedophilic connotation in Japan? Same with Shounen-ai.