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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#1: Jul 21st 2022 at 2:32:19 PM

The flag here for SquidOps was sent with the rationale

"hypnotism fetish comic; latest version is sort-of Bleached Underpants and stops short of showing explicit nudity and sex, however it's still hosted on the same site as the previous ones as well as the author's gallery of assorted explicit art along the same theme" by Adannor https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13349331300A11026600&page=475#11861 - Septimus

Edited by SeptimusHeap on Jul 21st 2022 at 11:34:11 AM

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#2: Jul 21st 2022 at 5:48:52 PM

I found a couple of links to various stories from it, and I've seen worse.

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Edited by Willbyr on Oct 9th 2022 at 9:15:33 AM

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#3: Jul 23rd 2022 at 7:43:08 AM

If there's a Bleached Underpants (non-porn and non-pedo) version, it's just another webcomic and it's tropeable. The fact that it's hosted on a site that has skeevy stuff doesn't matter.

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
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#4: Aug 28th 2022 at 2:15:58 AM

The page description says the comic had 4 reboots, and the joke on its site acknowledges the reboots, but there's no indication which chapter goes to what continuity. Only two stories have clear sequels and some names reappear here and there. Also, most of the stories aren't even fully drawn.

Apparently the series was on indefinite hiatus in 2013-2018, then the website was set up for archival purposes and host a future project, and then site went down again in 2020.

    Content 
  • "Chapter 1": The plot revolves elf girls (same height as adults) attending Skyforce's military academy in a World in the Sky. Noticeably, MP3 players produce the same effect as wearing a VR helmet. For some odd reason, adult wear costumes with completely open chest. There's a medical exam (responses to three types of pendulums). Some of the girls get partially undressed when asked, some fully, some display full obedience. Followed by a written test with misson-related and personal questions, noticeably some POV show some test answers disappear on sight or someone going into Too Much Information on what they like about others. Anyone not hypnotized isn't bothered by how others are. One girl gets side-tracked. It turns out the intent of the exam is finding job roles, some would go on missions, while others stay on base and "control them remotely like puppets and do all the thinking", allegedly to reduce stress. The girl has some fuzzy memories, but otherwise excited to work.
  • "Chapter 2": Girls go to the gym class while the girl from earlier "doesn't have to". Here's a training exercise in pairs with helmets and nerf guns, one does the shooting but is completely blindfolded while the other has to come up with ways to describe the environment. Everyone does a deathmatch in a maze with varying performance. Everyone goes to the showers and the teacher shows everyone a symbol card, which freezes everyone in place, tells them the water is extra sensitive today and unfreezes them. The teacher starts groping a student, with a few others finding it rewarding and joining.
  • "Chapter 3": Some weird joke after girls go to sleep on beds, in the morning one tries to lick the teacher, who comments how there was once a monastery with the founder dying regretting to not know love. Teachers behind CCTV describe some passing "intimacy test". The students go train with squid-shaped aircraft.
  • "Elsewhere": Some students go to a maid cafe, surprisingly, the maid is hypnotized to not act weird to the customers. One student gives a passing mention that her friend has proficiency in engineering because she wanted to make sex toys. Out of customer's interest, the owner demonstrates the pendulum trick and the customer can't move their arms if they look at it, then released.
  • "Noodlesex": One girl is playing a MMO and the other goes buy food for her. On returning she undresses, covers herself with pasta and the other gladly eats it.
  • "Grumpy Mui": Some aircraft race and discussion. Then the discussion of it during a shared shower scene. One student is shown to be able to hypnotize another with a touch and get info on "strong rivals", then gropes her.
  • "Cult of Harmony": On an aircraft a girl tries to have a way with another (both explicitly shemale) but is interrupted by an enemy attack. There's some discussion about rainbow crystals, Christmas, and granting wishes. Then it goes into three-way porn. Then they found a music box that is also a Soul Jar and it can be used to spread harmony.
  • Unnamed: A janitor hypnotizes three others to stand in front of a wide window naked until she's done cleaning.
  • "Pervy-Miu 1": A Skyforce spy infiltrates a mansion with a pet squid, but is knocked out by a dart into the neck and the squid flies away, and the lady of the mansion brings out a collar. Two girls in a park play some sort of scoopnet-tennis and discuss school life, then the squid gets hit by a stray shot. The girls feed the squid and adopt it. It sprays ink-like water on one of them, who gets empty-headed and the other asks her to strip for fun, but stops before she has a chance to get naked. Then she has an evil plan... to do a bubble bath like they did when they were younger.
  • "Pervy-Miu 2": The spy is completely brainwashed and spills out that she's investigating the people disappearances. She's made to change clothes, then lead to a torture chair. The agent tries to resist but a priestess slowly wipes her memory.
  • "Pervy-Miu 3": One of two girls wakes up and is really not happy for having no control over what happened yesterday. The other girl goes to a park and trains the squid to make another student to give her her underwear without realizing it. The two discuss recent unrest and ship engineering, but the first one isn't interested and lands the squid on her again and walk. By the time two reach school they are "already best friends". The girl uses a squid to get lunch from the cafeteria for free. The two go to the library and overhear another pair have a career talk, but interrupt them and make them kiss. In a classroom the girl brings her pet flying squid in class and gets scolded, then makes it splash everyone around. A teacher suddenly forgives her and students go along with the suggestion that "if it's warm it's fine to sit in underwear".
  • "Pervy-Miu 4": Schoolgirls have a long talk about school subjects. One offers to put two others in a dream, they ask for a hot spring but are moved to a river and are in swimsuits. They wonder how odd it feels swimming while still being in a classroom. Nothing erotic here.
  • "Pervy-Miu 5": A girl is awaiting the director and a maid-teacher in Naked Apron brings her food. The director asks her what are her "hypnosis limits" and the girl asks to not be put in perverted situations. The director assures her that hypnosis is just a form of therapy... while already trying to make a move, before being interrupted by another student. One complains that "the pervert in question" makes her thoughts scattered while the other argues she makes her relaxed. The director puts the first one to sleep and ask for details and the two get along.
  • "Confidence": A student at the library is passed out mumbling to herself and another one snaps her out, the first one runs away but leaves her phone number in a bookmark. At home she gets a call and agrees to meet there again in private about "confidence lessons". The first girl explains she used hypnosis on herself "to be skilled enough" to hypnotize others without doing anything and undresses her new girlfriend. But the victim snaps out and snaps out the other one as well, because she doesn't want "that kind of relationship", but wants them to be "equally hypnotized". When the two try to make out for real, the mom and sister snap them out and turns out the were home the entire time, then argue that "fair hypnosis isn't fun".
  • "Current": A girl attends hypnosis classes at school, but it's Cut Short.
  • Some assorted story drafts with no dialogue, some NSFW some aren't.

Thoughts

  • Plot: There's some unique world-building, however all stories are unfinished, so there's not much to tell what's it going for. Half of them appear to be in draft state.
  • Porn: Varies between non-erotic, erotic and non-detialed pornography. Also varies between fully clothed, underwear-only, topless, fully naked and explicit.
  • Plot-Porn: About the equal importance and can't be separated. Leans on storytelling more.
  • Pedo: Yuri and nudity is only for consenting (against all odds) highschoolers or adults.
  • Fetish Fuel: Definitely. It tries to do a in-universe excuse how it's as important as geography, but comes off as a way to show different ideas with the theme.
  • It no longer being officially available doesn't do it favors, though it's cloned to pirate sites and can be found on Web Archive.

I'm for 20% cutting and 80% keeping it. I don't think it sufficiently hits 5P criteria at least.

Edited by Amonimus on Aug 28th 2022 at 12:41:02 PM

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#5: Aug 28th 2022 at 2:30:17 AM

Alright I think that's pretty thorough. Seems like theirs enough here for us to keep. As it seems to have more than enough plot for what's asked for.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#6: Sep 12th 2022 at 10:21:42 PM

Bumping to get this out of the stack of locked threads.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#7: Sep 13th 2022 at 1:05:12 AM

The Hypnotoad commands me to vote Keep. zzzzz

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#9: Sep 26th 2022 at 12:41:12 AM

Bumping to get it out of the stack of locked threads.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#10: Oct 2nd 2022 at 2:18:40 AM

Bumping to get it out of the stack of locked threads, and to get everything on the same page.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#11: Oct 8th 2022 at 2:06:01 AM

Bumping to get it out of the stack of locked threads.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
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#12: Oct 8th 2022 at 7:36:27 AM

Seems like it has enough plot to keep so I'll vote for that.

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#13: Oct 9th 2022 at 7:16:03 PM

Changing my vote to a keep, it's skeevy AF but it's not pure porn.

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#14: Oct 9th 2022 at 7:25:11 PM

I kind of feel like this falls under the same "not porn but pure fetish" area that on fat fetish webcomic did, and we cut that. Anyone else have any other opinions?

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#15: Oct 9th 2022 at 7:39:19 PM

Sounds like a keep to me.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#16: Oct 10th 2022 at 12:54:51 AM

Seems like we have consensus to keep. I'll do the record-keeping; closing in the meantime.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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