I found reading all your votes really interesting, so here are mine:

Virgin's Empire
On a Leash
Oddman 11
So, Do You Wanna Go Out, Or?
What Does the Fox Say?

Can't wait for the results. Thanks for all your hard work!

It was really hard to narrow it down to only 5 works. I wanted to give some love to some Chinese manga like My Dear Lass and Please Bully Miss Villainess too but i couldn't make them fit :-(

The Blue Star on That Day sweep! let's go, people!!!!

Did my civic duty!

1. Murcielago (Which desperately needs an anime! Preferably with the group that made Hellsing Ultimate.)
2. Opapagoto (Which could also do with, and would more likely be turned into, an anime.)
3. Saki
4. Notes From the Garden of Lillies (This was finished too quickly! I wished the mangaka wasn't cut short and could have let the story build and flow more.)
5. The Princess of Sylph

Honorable mentions:
On a Leash
Oddman 11
My Dearest Nemesis

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The Blue Star on That Day
Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii
My Wish is to Fall In Love Until You Die
Sekai de Ichiban Oppai ga Suki!
Yuugai Shitei Doukyuusei

Honorable mention to Hino-san no Baka

All in all a wholesome list

Let's go with these - two incomplete works on this list so hopefully they don't let me down.

1. Catch These Hands! // Watashi no Kobushi wo Uketomete!
2. How Do We Relationship? // Tsukiatte Agete mo Ii ka na
3. Alcohol and Ogre-girls // Sake to Oni wa Ni-gou made
4. Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl // Ikemen Girl to Hakoiri Musume
5. Cheerful Amnesia // Akarui Kioku Soushitsu

Tempted to call Girls' Last Tour // Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou a yuri and give that a rank, but I'll leave it off.

ARGH I FORGOT ABOUT THE SUMMER YOU WERE THERE BECAUSE I WAS TOO EXCITED TO SHILL CIRQUE ARACHNE

^ I get the feeling it's barely budged from last time but with like, no gay men, instead of like three. I'm pretty sure the mlm guys here are bi

Edit: Also I answered Cirque Arachne, Mermaid Line, Bloom Into You, Girl Friends, and one other that I forgot because it was honestly spur of the moment and my brain function continues to deteriorate as the inexorable march of time soldiers on

Cirque Aracne is a gem. It's a shame it doesn't get enough recognition. I love your choices by the way.

I'm trying to figure out if I can accurately name a top 5 without spending half a day compiling a list of everything I've ever read. Probably not.

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I love these kinds of polls but I always struggle to fill them out because there are too many good answers and I'm indecisive af.

I went with

Octave
Even though we're adults
How do we relationship
Kaguhara's fetish notebook
Gushing over Magical Girls

I really wanted to put Ikoku Nikki in there but I wasn't sure if it was "yuri" enough so I chose to be a degenerate instead.

I went with

Octave
Even though we're adults
How do we relationship
Kaguhara's fetish notebook
Gushing over Magical Girls

I really wanted to put Ikoku Nikki in there but I wasn't sure if it was "yuri" enough so I chose to be a degenerate instead.

Agg I forgot about Octave, good one!

I've gone with:

1. The Moon on a Rainy Night, my absolute favorite running series.
2. Sweet Blue Flowers, which I've read so many times that I felt deserved a spot in my all time favorites, even if the story itself doesn't stand out much.
3. Run Away With Me, Girl, simply wonderful.
4. Miss Sunflower, a lovely slice of life series.
5. A Love Yet To Bloom, because it heals my soul every time I read it.

Almost made the last spot: Cirque Arachne, Dark Forest, White Road, Silver Gymnasium and A Tropical Fish Yearns For Snow. The last one was rejected because I found explicitly yuri series more appropriate for my all time favorite and the rest didn't make the cut, because the had left me thinking that they should have been longer and/or the writing seemed inferior compared to A Love Yet To Bloom.
So I was left with a mostly wholesome slice-of-life list :)

Would Ikoku Nikki qualify for this poll? It's not exactly Yuri or Subtext. Even with the Lesbian sidecouple, that's not exactly the main focus.

Would Ikoku Nikki qualify for this poll? It's not exactly Yuri or Subtext. Even with the Lesbian sidecouple, that's not exactly the main focus.

For fringe cases like this, I'd say it's up to the voter. If it's "yuri" enough to be in your top 5, go for it.

I too had a mental meltdown contemplating my top 5 ("Do I even like yuri or are the lesbians in all the media I enjoy mere happenstance?") but after accepting that there's no total well-ordering, I just picked favourites for different kinds of yuri :

• Platonic ideal of yuri romance: Bloom into You (Main stream for a reason, it's basically the reference implementation of yuri at this point)
• Comfort yuri fluff: My Food Seems to Be Very Cute
• Comedy with a side dish of yuri: Maria✝Holic
• Yuri Action-adventure with solid plot: The Executioner And Her Way of Life (The one exception to my execration of the isekai genre; I can see this being a suitable first contact with yuri to your usual shounen fan)
• Unapologetic gay wish fulfilment: Iono the Fanatics

Extra shout-outs to one-shots I omitted in favour of having all series: I Don’t Need Promises and Schrödinger's Confession. And finally goated Scape-God, which I can't even tell why I love it so much.

I pretty much just picked the first 5 I thought of, this being

New Game! (not that good specifically as yuri imo but it's important to me personally)
Hana ni Arashi
School Zone
Ladies of the Scarlet Devil Mansion
Sister and Giant

Sadly I completely forgot about Sorry but I'm Not Into Yuri because otherwise I would probably have switched that with one of them (but at least this saved me from having to think). Probably not the only series like that either but what I don't remember can't hurt me. Honorable mention to Kiss and White Lily, which I also didn't remember in time but which wouldn't have made it in regardless yet which I like enough that I want to mention it anyway.

Is the vote over?! Either way, top 5 (in no order) would be:

I Can't Tell Which One is Love
Not So Shoujo Love Story (webtoons)
My Dear Lass
Virgin's Empire
Asumi-chan Is Interested in Lesbian Brothels

Honorable mentions:

Even If It Was Just Once I Regret It
Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko!
Hino-san no Baka
A Face You Shouldn't Show

Since we're all doing honorable mentions here as well, I do have to add Kase-san as one, as well as the series that eventually replaced it in my MAL top 10, Yumeguri Yurimeguri.

1. Bloom into You ("boring" favorite but I'm not gonna lie)
2. Otherside Picnic (novels)
3. Adachi and Shimamura (novels)
4. Yuri Espoir (this one hits so hard and it's so underrated, please read it!)
5. The Moon on a Rainy Night

Honorable mentions: the green yuri, I Love Amy, Cheerful Amnesia, Girl Friends, Prism, Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon.

(Yes, I know the poll says no novels, but it feels so wrong to leave them out!)

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Yuri Espoir

Haven't we been waiting a while for the new volume for a while or have I missed it?

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Yuri Espoir

Haven't we been waiting a while for the new volume for a while or have I missed it?

Yes, there have only been 2 or 3 new chapters since the most recent volume came out in late 2022 TwT

Aw, I didn't see this in time. In no particular order:
1. Bloom Into You
2. Girl Friends
3. Octave
4. Poor Poor Lips
5. Aqua Blue Cinema

Nice to see other people's choices & remind me of other things I love.