Does someone know a gl manga like “ the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all “. Manga without smut about teenagers with good drawing style

Thank y’all (sorry for my English it isn’t my first language)

The Moon on a Rainy Night by Kuzushiro

^Doesnt have much in common with The Green Manga but The Moon on a Rainy Night is maybe the best currently releasing yuri manga. Absolutely a must read for any yuri fan.

^i started reading it and I love it!
Do you have more recommendations? Just to be clear, the manga doesn’t have to include music or something like that
I would like to get some gl manga recommendations in general.

Thank u!

^For more yuri manga recommendations you may want to make a post in the recommendation thread: https://dynasty-scans.com/forum/topics/15680-yuri-manga-recommendations

I won't pass up a chance to recommend my other favorite, The Blue Star On That Day: https://dynasty-scans.com/series/the_blue_star_on_that_day_ano_koro_no_aoi_hoshi

Once again it doesn't have much in common with The Green Manga, but in my opinion it's right up there with The Moon on a Rainy Night for the best currently releasing yuri manga.

I won't pass up a chance to recommend my other favorite, The Blue Star On That Day: https://dynasty-scans.com/series/the_blue_star_on_that_day_ano_koro_no_aoi_hoshi

Hah, as the local obsessive analyst of that manga, I can hardly disagree!

It does have a couple similarities with Green. A couple of teen girls figuring out love in a mundane world. (Rather faster at it, too.) More unusually, a high degree of visual background detail that rewards careful re-reading, possibly even more so than Green. You can read it easily for the main story, then read it again and notice what other characters are doing or emoting on the side.

They also move at about the same rate! So...very...slowly.

Kidding. Blue Star, being self-published, may release irregularly but it certainly isn't slow. And each chapter is about the equivalent of up to 7 chapters worth of Green Manga.

To be honest I haven't really read Green Manga in like 20ish chapters. I tend to skim chapters here and there but I'm waiting awhile to let them build up because 4 pages at a time is just far too little for me.

They also move at about the same rate! So...very...slowly.

Hmm. In sheer page count... Green does 4 pages a week, so about 200 pages a year. That's slow compared to pro mangaka ruining their health, but 16 pages a month is pretty good for a Western webcomic. 91 chapters so far, so 364 pages.

Blue Star the past couple years has been doing about 3 chapters a year, of like 35-45 page lengths. Some of the earlier chapters were more like 20 pages, though... One could say 17*30 = 510 pages as a lower bound, huh.

For major event timing, (Blue Star spoilers): one-way confession by the end of chapter 7, so like 210 pages, Green hasn't gotten there, hell Green hasn't had 100% confirmation of romantic feelings even. Blue Star took under 30 pages for Umi to be lustfully gaaaaaay. 19 pages for her to freak out at seeing Shou's bra.

So, Blue Star feels slow because we get 3 big chapters over winter and then have to waiiit. And it is slower than a weekly manga or even a 20-page monthly one. Greenie has modest regular output, but we're at the equivalent of 9-18 longer chapters (40-20 pages), and we're arguably still in the subtext zone. Which, I dunno, maybe isn't that slow. Definitely slower than some, though.

Ok! Thank you very much!

Manga without smut about teenagers with good drawing style

I should say that Blue Star's art style isn't nearly as dramatic as Greenie, and a bunch of the characters are only subtly different visually -- I can tell them apart now, but I paid attention. (I also posted character guides and summaries in the comment thread for the manga.)

Another nice teen non-smut story is https://dynasty-scans.com/series/anemone_is_in_heat

Thinking not about similar elements or plot points but rather similar feeling, this semi-official Touhou comic fits the first half of Green Manga, back when the main characters had more drama between them wrt identity and secrets. I don't think it requires much if any familiarity with Touhou beyond the basics of "Gensokyo is a closed off space where the supernatural can still exist even after people stop believing in it. There's a relatively normal Edo period-esque human village but also many different factions of yokai, fairies, etc. All coexisting within their shared confined world. The main characters of Touhou tends to be two human girls, a shrine maiden named Reimu and a witch named Marisa, and they solve problems together to safeguard the peace and safety of Gensokyo. Basically everyone sees them as almost an official yuri couple." This manga is about them in their early years when they still had a lot of unanswered questions about each other and themselves.
https://dynasty-scans.com/series/the_magician_who_loved_a_fake
(beyond any comparison to anything else, it's well worth getting into Touhou's basics just for the yuri. The Magician Who Loved A Fake, Wild and Horned Hermit, and especially Ladies of Scarlet Devil Mansion are three of the very best manga on this site imo)

Edit: rereading to double check, this recommendation isn't gonna really make sense until chapter 3, where they establish the interpersonal tension. The overarching story about witches isn't the thing like Green Manga, it's the relationship between Reimu and Marisa and how that's shaped by uncertainties about identity.

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