Holy shit I am so so ready for this to absolutely emotionally destroy me.

I hope that the way this story goes is the granddaughter slowly goes through grandma’s books and discovers whatever history Itou and Mitsu have together, and her thoughts and perspectives mixed in with the main narrative of Itou retelling her story. What would be even cooler is if granddaughter’s “friend” she was moving in with was a girlfriend and snippets of their lives together in modern Japan raising children were juxtaposed against grandma’s story. (And it would be nice to have some lighter happy domestic interludes).

I just can’t get enough of queer historical dramas, and stories focusing on older queer people. It’s so refreshing to have a protagonist who isn’t a moe high schooler or a 25 year old office worker.

I’m so excited for the potential of this series.

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Thank goodness that's only chapter 1. I wasn't really paying attention when I clicked this and thought it was a one shot with a really dramatic ending.

I'm already afraid of my own inevitable demise, I don't need this. In fact, I think we should have a tag for stuff like this on the site. As someone who is absolutely terrified of the finality of my own death, and by extension, growing old, I would rather not read stuff like this if I can avoid it.

What, like an "old people" tag? Natural death tag?

Well we know this doesn’t end well but seems gripping regardless

Isn’t there something about sending a pinky finger to someone in Japanese culture? I can’t remember the meaning, but if I remember correctly a bunch of people sent them to the emperor of the time after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, begging for them to surrender to avoid more tragedies.

That's showbiz baby!

This seems like something that'll be well-written, emotional, artsy, and unique, but also... we're being told right from the start that the couple doesn't get together in the end, one gets married to a man, and the other one dies. That's like, a whole pile of "not a lesbian romance story I'm interested in reading" red flags all at the same time.
Well, hopefully it turns out good regardless, I suppose

This looks like a cut above.

"I lived a good, long life. Why can't I remember any of it?"
This looks like it's going to be a wild ride.

A SUDOU YUMI SERIES??? WOOOO-

Aaand it’s depressing, oh boy. I might actually be a masochist, strapping in for this series right after reading the story of suffering™ Houseki no Kuni was.

Though I’m all for crushing drama and angst that will probably be present in Itou and Mitsu’s story, I hope the granddaughter and her kid will provide some levity and happiness to the story, kinda like Cornonthekopp’s envisioning. However, this is the same author who wrote Please so I don’t expect much in the way of that.

In any case, this is gonna be great.

Old gays that could never get together is always so heart breaking

That finger is probably one of those things where a girl gives her finger to the person she loves but can't be with. I think there was another one shot with that premise on here.

Whoa okay, that ending was...different

Only sadness await us in here ? I will until the scanlation it's complete to read it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

HOLY FUCK

that ending was wild

This is interesting, I love old stories of yuri and secrets behind grandma’s past. It somehow resembles to the movie, “Snapshots”. How sad it is for lesbians back then, hiding and never gets happiness with the one they truly love.

Too real

Much too real, i cant read this right now

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I'm not crying, you are crying.

Oh shit! The gal who wrote please got put in charge of a whole story????

Haha oh man! I'm going to be in for some pain

Wtf I'm crying and I just realized this isnt a one shot. Wth is this gonna be

Oh shit this is Yume no Hashibashi!! Have been waiting for someone to scanlate this since I read its review by Okazu's Erica Friedman. The series will have 2 volumes (edit: not chapters) I think, and if you want to know what's ahead (spoilers!!) check out Erica's review.

Also, I have read almost every scanlated work by Sudou Yumi, including her non-yuri Josei (Midnight Blue) and Seinen (Miyako's Night Tales). She is incredibly talented in evoking deep, dark, and angsty emotions and feelings with her stories, and there's always some sort of surreal Murakami-ish atmosphere to them. I hope to see more of her work in the future.

last edited at Jul 28, 2021 6:26AM

ouch….

CompHet?
flips few pages
CompHet.

I'm already afraid of my own inevitable demise, I don't need this. In fact, I think we should have a tag for stuff like this on the site. As someone who is absolutely terrified of the finality of my own death, and by extension, growing old, I would rather not read stuff like this if I can avoid it.

What, like an "old people" tag? Natural death tag?

For a start the Angst tag would probably be good. Perhaps a dementia tag? I’ve lived going through someone slowly declining with dementia. Really don’t need to go through it again in something I’m reading for entertainment. It wasn’t fun in RL and digging all that back up was a whole nother dose of not fun.