Ch. 173 ends with a substantial scene where Yoshida and Mako have an edgy little encounter. Mako goes full force on her not-quite-clear-why obsession with Yoshida's future plans, angering Yoshida. Yoshida says it's not of Mako's business and stomps off to the rest room. Mako looks seriously stricken and hurt.

Then, when Yoshida tries to make up by saying she will think about the future, Mako asks her whether a boy has seen her naked. Yoshida is incensed and defensive, assuming that Tomoko has been talking about the shower incident.

Mako...says that Yoshida "shouldn't be playing with boys while everyone is studying hard." If you take away the conditional phrase at the end of that sentence, you have her saying that Yoshida shouldn't play with boys.

It's hard to know what's happening for sure, but Mako is not acting in the same kind of meddling way that she does with Minami. This is the Mako who made sure to get through to Yoshida while Yoshida was in detention, at which point she scolds Yoshida for not considering others in her future decision.

My take on this? Setting aside explicit yuri. Mako cares about Yoshida's future. Mako wants to be in Yoshida's future and vice versa. Mako is uneasy about Yoshida's possible involvement with guys. Mako is not worried about saying these things.

It's not hard to draw some conclusions.

last edited at Feb 28, 2020 10:40PM

My blood sugar just blasted through the ceiling.

It's down to this.

Very sad

The title is ironic to the hilt. Just looking at the chapter names makes that clear.

crraaaaacckkk

^Can't remember where, but there is a scene where Tomoko asks Yuri "Are you a pervert?" and Yuri says "Not really."

It would be cool if the heart over the combined soul gems was purple. And this reminds me of a kinder, gentler version of that soul gem porn that was going on for a while (the supplication/licking the soul gem stuff).

IF ONLY

This hurts

Or did something change?

Pain

It's a lot more fun when it's not real.

^^^ No, but strangely close to that

last edited at Feb 4, 2020 8:10AM

Seems to me that looking at the amount of yuri action in Yuru yuri misses the point. As the title indicates, the series is about a situation in which yuri is emerging easily, naturally, organically. There's no rush. Ayano, Kyouko, Chinatsu, are growing into what they are in an edgy but fundamentally tender world they help create. It's not a matter of how much obviously lesbian behavior is happening; it's the fact that it is happening, and happening in a recognizable human way.

Ayano's love for Kyouko, for instance. Ayano's struggle against her own tsundere tendencies, her evolution into someone who can show and accept love, is matched on the other end by Kyouko. I completely disagree with those who see Kyouko as clueless about Ayano's feelings. Through the series, you can see Kyouko playing with Ayano, probing what's happening with her especially in terms of Chitose's obsession and things like Ayano's stated desire to come closer to someone, meeting Ayano in the middle when possible, moving in a dance with her. Kyouko is like someone trying to coax a shy and frightened animal into the open. You don't rush at it; you let it come to you.

This is an example of the series' philosophy about yuri. There's no rush. There's plenty of time. Sexual behavior and openness changes and crystallizes in its own moment. That's why the series is so incredibly sweet.

last edited at Feb 6, 2020 6:42PM

"Let's stick together."

I was just thinking how nice it is that Chizuru, who at least thought she never had friends, ended up with a couple of friends who are total fangirls for her.

Did Toshino Kyoko pop into Ayano's mouth the candy that had partially been in Kyoko's mouth?

last edited at Jan 14, 2020 12:47AM

^ It's more like they're staring into the jaws of doom and are facing it together.

Incredibly dark and anxious story, that.

Not sure what to think of this... The girl looks bullied, to me. But maybe I'm wrong.

What I love about that pair is that there is no secret affection there, just pure hostility. Gunderes. All they have in common is they have it bad for the same woman.

last edited at Jan 10, 2020 9:30PM

The first episode of this was great.

^ It's hard to face the fact that one may be enjoying something vile. It's easier to say it's "just a picture".

^ Yes, but it's worth bearing the definition in mind. It's easy to adapt the image to one's preferred context.

^ NTR involves the third party subjugating the targeted partner, through coercion or outright force or mental duress. This happens so the reader can have a sadistic, contemptuous enjoyment in destroying intimacy and stranding the intimate partner who has lost her or her partner to the offense.

So if you think the girl lying on the bed shaking with her face hidden was hustled into it and subjugated, that's NTR.

Lovely

They fixed it!

Oddly, "Kei" was Sei's college girlfriend whose temperament and attitude was a little like Youko's.