Introduction

The Yuri Works General Election was a survey to find the favourite yuri works (manga, manhua, and/or manhwa) of the English-reading yuri community.

This survey was inspired by the Yuri Manga General Election run by YuriNavi, where Japanese readers vote on their favourite yuri manga, and was timed to coincide with their 6th and latest election. The hope was to use this survey to not only capture what yuri works were most popular in the English-reading yuri community, but also explore how our community's preferences compare to those in Japan.

Respondents to the survey were asked to name their 5 favourite yuri manga, manhua, and/or manhwa that have been translated into English. Responses were not ordered, and all 5 votes had equal weight. Prequels and sequels were considered one "work" (so a vote for Citrus was a vote for Citrus+, and vice versa); and only the manga/manhua/manhwa version of a work was considered (so a vote for Otherside Picnic was a vote for the manga version only, not the light novel or anime). All yuri manga, manhua, and manhwa works translated into English were eligible, whether they were oneshots or series; whether they were completed or currently running; whether they were originally published by an official publisher or were self-published; and whether the work had been translated into English by a scanlator, official publisher, or both.

Finally, for the purposes of this election, yuri was defined broadly as "involving close relationships between girls/women". Thus works that would be considered subtext (as opposed to yuri) by Dynasty tagging definitions were eligible here.

Thanks to everyone who shared their votes for their favourite works! The results will be presented in the next few posts:

Table of contents

1. Category Spotlight -- the top-voted works in a few categories
2. Top Ten -- the top ten highest-voted works
3. Expanded Ranking -- a list of all works that received at least 5 votes
4. Notes -- some notes about the Dynasty results
5. YuriNavi Results -- the results of YuriNavi's 6th Yuri General Election
6. Comparison Notes -- a comparison of the two results

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Expanded Ranking

All 97 works that received at least 5 votes in the election are listed below.

Works originally written in a language other than Japanese are marked with a flag in the final column.

A non-image copy of the table may be found here, on Google Sheets.

Some notes about trends and/or interesting specifics follow in the next post -- we also welcome any other observations or insights you might have!

Notes

The 2024 Dynasty Yuri Election received 369 complete responses, amounting to 1845 votes in total.

• 429 different works received at least 1 vote.
• 49 different works received at least 10 votes, appearing on over 2.5% of ballots.
• 22 different works received at least 19 votes, appearing on over 5% of ballots.
• 8 different works received at least 28 votes, appearing on over 7.5% of ballots.
• 3 different works received at least 37 votes, appearing on over 10% of ballots.

Although oneshots were eligible to receive votes, only a single oneshot received more than 1 vote: Oosawa Yayoi's "Can I Get You To Go?" from the 2DK, G-Pen, Aftertime anthology (2 votes).

There was a definite preference for ongoing works, with 7 of the top 10 (70%) and 16 of the top 25 (64%) currently serialised.

The highest-ranked work without an official English translation was That Time I Was Blackmailed by the Class’s Green Tea Bitch in T-6th.
The highest ranked manga without an official English translation was I See You Aizawa-san in T-14th.

Most of the top 10 (90%) have an official English translation. That percentage diminishes the further down the rankings you go, with 68% of the top 25, 30% of the top 49, and 59% of the top 97 having official English translations.

The highest ranked work without an ongoing scanlation was How Do We Relationship? (on Dynasty as So Do You Want to Go Out, Or?) in 2nd.
The highest ranked work that has never been scanlated into English was She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat in T-58th.

YuriNavi Results

YuriNavi have also just completed their 6th Yuri General Election, and the presentation of the full results can be found here. The full presentation includes quotes from readers on why they loved the works they chose (note that the presentation is in Japanese).

The 6th YuriNavi General Election received 1845 responses, amounting to 8810 votes in total. 737 different works received at least 1 vote.

The rules for the YuriNavi election were the same as the Dynasty election with one exception: only manga were eligible for voting, so only Japanese-language works appear in the results.

For ease of viewing, the top 50 vote-getting manga can also be found in the list below:

1. Whisper Me a Love Song
2. Bloom Into You
3. There Is No Love Wishing Upon a Star
4. I Want to Love You Until You Die
5. The Summer You Were There
6. The Moon on a Rainy Night
7. There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless...
8. The Skirt Sings at the Landing
9. Adachi to Shimamura
10. Anemone Is in Heat
11. The Filthy You Is the Cutest
12. A Love Yet to Bloom
13. My Girlfriend's Not Here Today
14. Yuri Is My Job!
15. Destroy It All and Love Me in Hell!
16. Asumi-chan Is Interested in Lesbian Brothels!
17. A Face You Shouldn't Show
18. [TIE] Citrus + How Do We Relationship?
19. —
20. The Blue Star on That Day
21. I'm in Love With the Villainess
22. Contract Sisters
23. [TIE] A Monster Wants to Eat Me + The Fed up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess
24. —
25. How to Break a Triangle
26. Boys Gilding the Lily Shall Die!
27. Can't Defy the Lonely Girl
28. Subtraction Tautology
29. Fusoroi no Renri
30. Our Yuri Started With Me Getting Rejected in a Dream
31. How Do I Get Together With My Childhood Friend?
32. A Story About Buying a Classmate Once a Week ~ 5,000 Yen for an Excuse to Spend Time Together
33. Pink Candy Kiss
34. [TIE] A Room for Two + Kamiina Botan, Drunk Figure Is Lily Flower
35. —
36. [TIE] My Girlfriend Is Devilishly Sweet + The Magical Revolution of Reincarnation Princess and Genius Young Lady
37. —
38. Looking up to Magical Girls
39. The Helpless Saint and the Powerless Princess
40. [TIE] Maitsuki, Niwatsuki, Ooyatsuki + Yuru Yuri
41. —
42. [TIE] Koharu and Minato: My Partner is a Girl + Yamada to Kase-san
43. —
44. The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All
45. Convenient Semi-Friend
46. Happy Sugar Life
47. [TIE] A Kiss and a White Lily + Vampeerz
48. —
49. [TIE] Akebi-chan's Sailor Uniform + The Yandere Little Sister and the Menhera Big Sister
50. —

(credit to Zesc for typing out all the names)

Some observations can be found in the next post.

Comparison Notes

About half of the works chosen were voted to roughly the same places in both the Dynasty (DS) and YuriNavi (YN) elections:

• 4 works appear in both top 10s (40%)
• 11 works appear in both top 25s (44%)
• 28 works appear in both top 50s (56%)

So maybe it's fair to say readers roughly like about half of the same works.

As the YN election received nearly 5 times as many responses, the increased number of votes created more detail in rankings and resulted in fewer ties. But still, if we compare the percentage of votes received by each work...

The 5 works with the greatest difference in popularity (YN > DS) were:

1. Whisper Me a Love Song (+16.04%)
2. There's No Love Wishing Upon a Star (+14.42%)
3. My Wish is to Fall in Love Until You Die (+12.29%)
4. There's No Way You Can Be My Lover* (+11.68%)
5. The Skirt Sings at the Landing (+11.23%)

The 5 works with the greatest difference in popularity (DS > YN) were:

1. How Do We Relationship? (+8.55%)
2. Bloom Into You (+7.97%) -- even though this was 2nd in the YN results!
3. Otherside Picnic (+7.68%)
4. Girl Friends (+7.32%)
5. The Guy I Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All (+7.11%)

The 5 works with the smallest difference in popularity were:

1. Looking Up to Magical Girls (0.24%)
2. Akebi's Sailor Uniform (0.30%)
3. The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady (0.31%)
4. Vampeerz (0.57%)
5. Happy Sugar Life (0.63%)

Other works that were notably similar by ranking, if not by percentage:

• Bloom Into You (1st in DS, 2nd in YN)
• The Summer You Were There (T-9th in DS, 5th in YN)
• The Moon on a Rainy Night (3rd in DS, 6th in YN)
• The Blue Star on That Day (25th in DS, 20th in YN)
• The Fed Up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess (28th in DS, T-23rd in YN)
• Maitsuki, Niwatsuki, Ooyatsuki (T-34th in DS, 40th in YN -- also would've been #6 on the list above, with a 0.64% difference)

The highest-ranked work in the YN poll to not receive a single vote in the DS poll was Kamiina Botan (T-34th).

The highest-ranked work in the DS poll to not receive a single vote in the YN poll was Beauty and the Beast Girl (T-29th).

JP Himejin have such a good taste.

Wow, thanks for this! Lot's to digest here.
It seems to me older works fared a bit better on DS?

The TOC links need updating. Clicking on them takes me to page I don't have access to.

Psst, your Navigation quicklinks at the top don't work. e.g. "Category Spotlight" takes me to Post with the ID 642119 in the (inaccessible) topic 17763 instead of post 941479. Similarily with the rest. EDIT: Ninja'd.

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It seems to me older works fared a bit better on DS?

By amount, not really. If you account for the scanlation delay (2024 has only 2 entries on DS!) those missing placements will obviously end up with something older. However, by placement, there is more representation in the top cut.

(Note: this was extemporized and is slightly inaccurate because of different ties. I'll try to get some proper analysis going till next weekend.)

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shadesan posted:

The TOC links need updating. Clicking on them takes me to page I don't have access to.

Zesc posted:

Psst, your Navigation quicklinks at the top don't work. e.g. "Category Spotlight" takes me to Post with the ID 642119 in the (inaccessible) topic 17763 instead of post 941479. Similarily with the rest.

Thank you both!

Cool to see Comprehensive Tovarisch relatively high on the DS poll and Subtraction Tautology pretty high on the YN poll. Wasn't expecting that for either of those.

ILA is literally scientifically the best Manhwa OP you are legally obligated to read it

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I See You Aizawa-san in top 15 I'm so happy!!!

ILA is literally scientifically the best Manhwa OP you are legally obligated to read it

i only recently read I Love Amy, and it was soooooooo good. Legit one of the best trope subversions in a long time

I’m in Love with the Villainess seems much higher on our ranking, positionally at least. I wasn’t sure if I should vote for it given differences between media… Manga - ok. LNs - yes please. Anime - not the best anime. Anime English dub - national treasure, criterion collection need an edition.

Is there a spreadsheet with all 429 works and their vote count available somewhere?

I was curious to see why SasaKoi won #1 on Yuri Navi's poll. I have it #2 personally, but as the Dynasty poll shows, most disagreed.

I've read/caught up on 4 of Yuri Navi's top 5 lol

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As one of the two people who voted for "Can I Get You To Go?", who's my new best friend?

Missed this by a hair, but I'm pleasantly surprised to see Collectors on here. I guess it's just one of those quiet favourites (rightfully so!).

Thank you for you great work! I was so excited to participate and even more to research the results. Great job! The only title I was really rooting for was Girlfriend. Regardless its ancientness, it's still kicking. I guess it was foundation of yuri manga journey not only for me.

I think it would be great to make a different vote for This-year-only. Or maybe separate the data from original results as you did with other sub-themes.

I'm so happy that Masatsuka Chii's Subtraction Tautology ranked so well in the YN survey. Very proud of them. Probably the most-voted indie long strip by far... they've come so far...

I'm also happy and surprised that ILTV still ranked pretty high on YN, given Inori-sensei has attributed a lot of its popularity to overseas fans.

Finally, the YN results appear to align pretty well with manga getting anime, which is interesting. I think you could easily see the YN-ranking anime adaptations not having Crunchyroll on production vs. DS-ranking anime adaptations tending more towards having CR producers. Although CR-produced anime still tend to drive interest on the JP side, which is cool.

ps the difference in popularity for Asumi-chan is kinda funny. and Girl Friends is conspicuously missing from the JP side, though I suspect that's because it was published in Comic High, which is, iirc, gone, and also the overlap in readers between Kodomo no Jikan and the average Yuri Navi respondent is probably near zero LOL

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Wow, So, How Do We Relationship? is a fan favorite here!

Also, this is really cool, Dynasty is the only manga website I know that would do something like this. ^_^

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