it's definitely not the type of series for your typical anime viewer and no matter how much you love it I know you can't deny that lol.

I deny it, because there is no such thing as a "typical anime viewer". Even if there was, something being accessible to as wide an audience as possible is not a mark of quality - usually the reverse, in fact.

In any case, thank you Divulge for this release.

I wish...so far the best yuri anime ever released is Inugami To Nekoyama, a short episode series, and Sakura Trick, a series where girls kiss each other literally just to kiss each other...lol
ONE DAY THOUGH, I BELIEVE WE WILL HAVE A FANTASTIC YURI ANIME! A REAL ANIME TOO! No three minute long episodes! IT'LL HAVE A PLOT! AND ROMANCE! WON'T BE OVERDRAMATIC! IT'LL JUST BE GOOD! AND THAT DAY WILL BE BEAUTIFUL DAMMIT!
silently waits for the Girlfriends anime that will never come...

So no I don't think there's ever been a truly great yuri anime.

Except that anime, which was indeed the greatest anime ever made, everything that could've been hoped for, came out nearly ten years ago. Believe me, I'm not surprised to find it has once again been forgotten. Despite its glory, it is strangely seldom ever named or spoken of, even among yuri fans. But truly it does exist, and as long as I live I will love it above all others, never forsaken.

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Excuse me, Takemiya Jin of four years ago...but did you really think you could tease me with just ONE PAGE of oujo-sama/female butler? Only one page, really? You honestly thought that you could get away with that?

;_;

So, not content with being foes of humanity, cockroaches have escalated their atrocities by interfering with yuri as well. As expected of my mortal enemy; they will suffer for this outrage.

This was certainly a flavor from the past, as nostalgic as it is bitter.

Glorious! Although I was sad it was just a fantasy, but then happy again at the end.

Best episode yet. Extremely pleased with how they made Akira such a positive and compassionate character, as well as a badass.

Lack of yuri tag means I was completely ignoring this for its entire run. Having heard some people complaining about its ending elsewhere, I decided to look at the last chapter. I can only say I'm grateful to whomever had the discipline to avoid tagging this yuri without evidence. I was saved from 44 other chapters of wasted time. "Even if we never meet again, we'll always be friends" is a Japanism that never fails to infuriate me. I can only imagine how bad it must've been for the people who were actually invested in this title.

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Not really a fan of this one. Normally I'm as enthusiastic a consumer of yuri incest as anyone, but this particular situation is depicted in a way that made me uneasy. They're identical twins who are taking pains to remain as total mirror images, even though they hate being mistaken for each other and feel a sense of isolation from the rest of the world because of it. If they hate being so alike, they could easily fix it. Get different haircuts. Wear different clothes. Take up different hobbies.

I'm probably sounding a bit harsh with what's just a very short, unambitious one-shot. I'm a little surprised at my own reaction as well, but to me incest is a story dynamic that has to be presented with care in order to keep the attraction both believable and positive. I wouldn't call this attraction, but rather...a type of obsession, and one the story goes out of its way to make clear is unhealthy for them. It also seems to be hinting heavily that they'll eventually grow apart, which would probably be for the best in this particular case, but I felt it was an additional blow against the yuri, which was the only point of this situation to begin with.

Regardless, thank you for your efforts, Fly by Yuri.

Wow, I'm late to this, but it was absolutely wonderful. As unrealistic as it is, I'm a huge sucker for these kinds of "childhood promise, one of them moves back years later and shocks the MC with how hot/cute/pretty she is" stories. Delicious size gap, great art, and they're so cute together...I wish there were a ton more.

Thanks Yuri-ism!

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As usual, the comments here are a disappointment to me. Especially comments to the effect of "this is the industry showing that it thinks yuri is silly!" A lot of yuri IS silly and unrealistic, in many ways. Though there are many exceptions (I pause here to make the holy "Sign of the Morishima"), a lot of yuri in no way reflects the actual lives, experiences, and relationships of women-loving women. That the creators of such types of yuri works do realize that, and can self-deprecatingly lampoon their own delusions, is a good and healthy thing.

I will admit that this premise might have been best left to a short serialization; five volumes of this is probably too much. On the other hand, there was clearly demand, and don't begrudge Kurata Uso or Yuri Hime for making the best of it. Doing so can only help the magazine to continue to produce "real" yuri, although I certainly personally can't escape the feeling that Kurata's great talents are going to waste here. His credentials as a great artist of genuine yuri works are, to my mind, beyond reproach.

Still, I found it funny, topical, and very self-aware. Keisuke is a very relatable figure in many ways, though in his youth and innocence he broke the cardinal rule: "Never bother women, especially by presenting yourself self-importantly as an ally." However, he realized his mistake, and hopefully will guide himself by it in future.

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Oh wow. It's been so long I thought it had just been finished at a weird spot.

Na- the translations stopped like 2 or chapters off the end of the second volume out of 3.

The original group that did the first 28 chapters, Zefiberyl Translations, if i remember, had to leave it there because it gets a bit more loli from there on - (not by a lot imo - nothing explicit) and the laws in their country are very strict and they couldn't risk working on it - something like that.

Stuff like this - and maybe a few more revealing.

http://postimg.org/image/p71v7o385/

Basically this. Zefiris is German, and Germany takes a dim legal view of what they consider child pornography. Quite apart from that, she herself despises loli, and no one can expect scanlators to put forth time and effort on things they dislike.

Personally I'm glad to see someone continuing Choir. I think there are people who think working on four-panels is easy, and from an editing standpoint perhaps, but they tend to be packed with tons of obscure and difficult cultural and old-school otaku references, puns and wordplay that are troublesome to translate, and so on. That's certainly how I remember working on Choir. It taught me a lot about both Japan and scanlation, and I'll always have a great affection for it.

Best of luck in this effort, Binbou.

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Damn, I really want more from this author. Such wonderful art. Thanks Binbou.

Amano Shuninta doing Ran/Sora? The amount of YES cannot be contained within the observable universe. I've loved this pair ever since the movie-making episode, which was one of the best and yuri-est Aikatsu episodes ever.

Incidentally, for those not familiar with the episode, I have a few screenshot collages I made at the time that should show you everything you need to see.

http://imgur.com/a/zaNnC

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Well, I liked it. Seeing a harem set-up played absolutely by the book, except yuri, is something I'm definitely interested to watch unfold. I hope Yoriko and Yuu are or become a thing...

My my...things are really beginning to move in earnest. Thank you so much for your efforts, Halmoni. I hope you won't let the hecklers get you down. For you to be keeping up with a weekly manhwa is incredible.

It's a hopeful end, and the comments here puzzle me. I think people are seriously underselling Shiina as a character. Understandable, since Kuroneko is quite a remarkable one herself. Remember though that it was Shiina who first kissed and came onto Kuroneko, and then again, was the one who was irresistibly drawn back to her. For all that people keep remarking on Shiina's fear of social consequences, she made quite a few bold and reckless moves out of raw fascination with Kuroneko.

In addition to that, she's actually quite an introspective girl who clearly sees her own hypocrisy, and understands and feels guilty about her own role and responsibility in what's taken place. In short, there's not a chance that she won't cling tightly to Kuroneko, regardless of the consequences. The ending and future of these characters together is clear.

^pls where could I possible see the raws?

I saw them too ,but I understood nooothing. So i'm eager to see why what happens.

http://yurivn.net/showthread.php?t=27389

What a circus. Oh well, at least I can now wait for the rest with tempered expectations. At least it has the ultimate outcome I wanted, though ironically the final romantic resolution lacks the kissing so liberally and gratuitously employed everywhere else in the manga. :P

I was amused at the rather prominent Toyota logo on the car on the last page. They should send you a check for that product placement, Ratana. After all, Toyota has positioned itself as the lesbian car brand of choice before.

Thank you for another glorious chapter, Ratana and 3M. As always I appreciate the lack of drama. Seasoned yuri fans feel no need for it to intrude on such an uplifting story. The important thing is that you continue writing what you want to write, and if that's endless chapters of loving cuteness, all the better. Personally I'd like Donut and Mew to continue being blissfully happy forever. That's definitely "interesting" to me.

Ratana, I want to compliment specifically your skill with body proportions, which are superb. This has always been true of Lily Love - I don't think I've ever yet had a moment where I thought "that looks odd", "this body part is too long/thin/wide/short", etc. - but I was particularly struck by it this chapter. Keeping it as consistent as you have is very difficult; you must've practiced a great deal. The effort does not go unnoticed. Thanks again for all your work, and to 3M for bringing it to us so regularly.

Girl A: "Are you a lesbian?"
Girl B: "Looks that way, I guess!"
Me: "A girl actually takes positive ownership of her attraction to women in a yuri story! Wonderful! In the past it would've been depicted as nothing but akogare, but here we have a girl cheerfully accepting her lesbianism! What happy times we're living in!"
Dynasty comments: "She's not a lesbian guys, it's just akogare."
Me: ಠ_ಠ

Oh the irony.

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Yeah, I find it hard to connect anything in Kashimashi with real-life trans people. It's a comedy that plays with gender and is good for what it is, but to call it a good portrayal of trans experience is reaching quite a bit too far.

As a real-life trans person, I identified very strongly with Kashimashi. It was blindingly obvious that, although never allowed by the writers to actually come out and say so, Hazumu was much happier and more comfortable as a woman. The change allowed her to really bloom into the person she was meant to be, and had wanted to be all along. It is not a real-life trans experience, certainly - if only it was - but it is absolutely an MtF wish-fulfillment fantasy.

As for the rest of this discussion, it makes me sad that people are exerting this much effort trying to categorize and psychoanalyze the main character based on very little evidence. Leaving aside the problem of deciding a character is incapable of romance or sexual attraction simply because she doesn't obviously display the signals of it (yet), this is a yuri manga, and the ultimate result seems eminently predictable.

This is something I've been noticing quite a bit in recent years: unless a character gives a blatant showing of desire or yearning, her very capacity to experience them is called into question. This is not a sound way to make assumptions about fictional characters, whose emotions and motivations are usually hidden from the reader for narrative reasons, let alone real people.

Another wonderful chapter. I for one am happy that Donut and Mew's relationship is deepening smoothly and happily. Thank you so much, Ratana and 3M.

Surprisingly tame ending; I was expecting dismemberment at least, if not death. Well played, Kuzushiro. You win this round.

As always, Asagi Ryuu remains a great weakness of mine. I like how this is developing. Comparatively speaking, it's been a pretty tame, relationship-focused beginning, and I look forward to more.