Gunbured is looking really promising

Ah, yeah, I totally forgot about that, since it's more recent.

Also, to explain the ending of chapter 10 in case anyone missed it (I did my first time through): the protagonist has just realized that while she accuses her father of trying to replace her mother by jumping into another relationship, she is guilty of doing something very similar by getting into a relationship (of sorts) with the vampire girl.

Ever since killing me!! I've been trying to find a good vampire yuri it was so good and I was sad when they announced it was canceled but vampeerz is saving me at the moment!

I absolutely love vampire yuri as well. Besides this one, there's not a ton.

Vampeerz
Killing Me
Seifuku no Vampiress Lord
Kyuuketsuki-chan to Kouhai-chan
Scarlet
Gunbured x Sisters
are the biggest vampire yuri (two of which were axed).

There's another one I forget the name of where the protagonist is a vampire without a distinct gender or something and has to pick a gender at the end. I think it was classified as yuri because the protagonist pretends to be female while genderless and gets in a relationship with a girl. If you are willing to slightly fudge the definition of vampire, there's a few borderline ones like Mare, but those would be better classified as witch yuri (which thankfully there is loads of).

There's also a couple western series of similar concept. Lesbiampires is the first one that springs to mind, though strangely I didn't like it that much. Maybe it's the weird way the protagonists stay really upbeat while slaughtering loads of humans for food, but it just always felt off to me. Or maybe I only really like vampire yuri when only one of them is a vampire.

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Nice, I've always liked the author's stuff, but it seems like not that much of it has been translated (unless they literally just stopped creating content some years ago, but it seems far more likely that there weren't enough interested translators).

This was surprisingly fantastic.

I'm honestly surprised somebody disagreed. Do you seriously hold up the medium of manga as infallible and believe that the average shounen manga sold is a fundamentally compelling product?

I enjoy manga greatly, but I don't glorify it as some kind of ultimate final destination of creativity, like art was a giant puzzle and manga was the missing piece. As is everything, it's riddled with tropes; things that become popular spawn clones of imitators until the mainstream is clogged with derivatives (thanks Sword Art Online). It's got great stuff, too, and very unique concepts, but it has lots of shortcomings as well. For example, I can't stand the entire concept of 'fanservice', and it utterly ruins most mainstream manga for me (thankfully this is not super common in Yuri). Fanservice to me feels like an author is talking down to the audience saying "this is probably too complex for the average reader, so here have a panty shot instead". It's essentially a bad fourth wall break about as subtle as a slap in the face.

I mean, I'm here precisely because I've become tired of my culture's tropes and want to indulge in a different culture's creativity. But after doing that for several years, it's hard not to see those tropes instead. I especially enjoy things like this manga, which appears to be doing something different from the norm (though honestly, I still love the Yuri norm for the most part because I have a soft spot for Yuri).

Edit: And whether or not you reply isn't really relevant; I'm not trying to pressure you to do that (just think of the initial question as rhetorical). I'm just trying to elaborate on the point I was trying to make in my first post because it apparently didn't come across very well.

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In an amecomi, Kisaki would don spandex and use her powers to fight crime.

In a manga, she works at a shop using her extra limbs to better multitask, and then meets a cute coworker and finds yuri love.

This is why I adore manga. And don't like amecomi.

I showed this chapter to a friend and she said: "Disease my ass. She's not sick. She's a muthafuckin' Marvel mutant!"
I couldn't find any good argument to disagree with that, haha.

So we're pretending shonen manga don't exist today, are we?

Name twenty shonen protagonists who wear spandex bodysuits.

I could name 200 manga where her only role would be to be a pair of breasts for the protagonist teenage boy to accidentally fall into.

Seriously, attacking American comics as being trope-ridden is accurate and fine, but from the perspective of manga? Holy moly, what a hypocritical argument.

I mean everyone here should know this. Yuri occupies <1% of the manga market, and Yuri series are axed left and right. What does make it through is usually because it has a high enough quantity of breasts to attract male readers or because the manga is posted directly to the internet so nobody can stop it.

Mainstream manga (consisting primarily of the same 2 isekai plots and some high school harem life plots) is just as horrific and trope-ridden. I shouldn't even have to go on.

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They're different, it looks like.

This is used for general prostitution, and the other when money is being used to bypass somebody's normal sexual preferences.

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This table of contents: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/you_are_my_angela_ch0_5#4

It has a prologue, chapter 1, chapter 2, and an epilogue.

The people complaining about how amoral they feel the topic is after specifically clicking on a story tagged 'gay for pay' are causing the discord in these comments. I hope they know that.

It's literally looking for a fight, like that one person who would click on every single BDSM story to whine about how evil BDSM is.

If the only reason you're clicking on a tag is to complain how much you hate it, you can probably skip that story.

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I wish acting awkward in waiting rooms could land you a great girlfriend like that.

another great cliff hanger! cant wait for the next chapter!

Same, I REALLY want to see her response to that question, considering when we've seen her internal monologue recently it seems to be the question she is avoiding asking herself.

For what it is worth, the phrase "I don't want this" is used repeatedly as a suggested phrase by the M in this situation. It is never explicitly stated that this is a safe phrase, but I think it is fairly obvious that the M would stop given that phrase, so it functions as one.

The beginning reminds me strongly of one of the lesbian couples from Kindred Spirits on the Roof (which, if anyone hasn't seen it, is the single greatest lesbian visual novel ever).

@FluffyCow You must be thinking of a different author (there's several who fit your description). Takemiya Jin's manga are almost all romance-based with light to moderate drama and happy endings. The amount of stories from her that don't fit that mold is extremely low. If one of her works has a bad ending, it is usually because it's a 2 part work (which is why people were asking if it was truly complete).

Vampire Yuri is my favorite thing in all of life (some day when I get rich I'm just going to hire mangaka to write vampire Yuri all day), and Neji is one of my favorite authors.

@Mods: Could you change the 'Extra' listed before Chapter 1 to instead be after Chapter 5 and named 'Chapter 5.5'? This would be in line with the naming of everything else.

"Cancelled and Completed"? So, does it have an Ending?

Yes. It was cancelled after the first two volumes but the author was already contracted to write the third, so he had an entire volume to finish the story. He planned it to be seven volumes, so it does feel rushed, but he helped things by making the third volume waaaayyyy larger than the first two.

Fuck I'm depressed this got cancelled. It had such a good premise and was actually interesting and funny. Everything good never lasts long and then we get garbage like nanashi no asterism lasting 5 volumes and getting localized. God dammittt

Joke on you, Vampiress Lord get localized in France. I actually own the 3 volumes.

i mean i'm not surprised, france is the western culture that loves anime/manga the most lol but also it doesn't change how disappointing the fact that it got cancelled. we'll never know how the story was really supposed to go.

You will be surprise that there is not that much Yuri out there in France. Even if i combine both "Shojo-ai" and Yuri, i should be at nearly 60 works and most of them where late 2000-early 2010. Althought it's seem that got a good list published lately, Even though we ara adult and Luminous=Blue just to name a few.

Edit : Just to compare Yaoi in France count 265 works.

That's the Yaoi vs Yuri breakdown everywhere. There are 6x more Yaoi titles on Amazon in the US than Yuri. There's 10x more Yaoi entries on Mangadex vs Yuri last I checked. Looking at Webtoons or Tapas or other sources of global stories, their front pages are plastered with BL in all their popular lists. GL never makes it there except for insanely rare exceptions like Mage & Demon Queen (and it is mostly because it has broad appeal as a comedy work).

Heck, just look at this series as proof. A proven author of a popular Yaoi series (Prunus Girl) branched out into Yuri and despite the success of his previous Yaoi work, his Yuri series gets cancelled immediately, while his Yaoi series gets to finish.

It makes me really salty knowing how niche Yuri is compared to Yaoi, especially when I love the first so much and don't understand the appeal of the latter (though for me sexuality is obviously part of this).

But... that's a bit off-topic. I'm really happy this got uploaded here. I absolutely love this series, and I will re-read it over and over in the years to come, I'm sure.

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Why, "please misinterpret it," though? That's such a weird sentence. It's like asking not to understand your intentions. I know I should be focusing on the Yuri but this is distracting.

She's just throwing the sentence that was just said ("I guess I misinterpreted it") back at her. It is a pretty common response type, especially when panicked (well, at least it is in fiction).

Wait a sec though... Natsuki has been posing as a boy when she hung out with Kanae, so short hair.
At school, she wore a wig, so it's like she's posing as different people. There's her actual persona, and then there's her boy identity, that she uses to go out with Kanae.
How did the girls at her school discover her haircut and not only not question why she wears a wig at school, but confront Kanae about it? That part really confused me.
Maybe there's nothing to be confused about, but it just seemed really weird to me

The haircut thing confused me too at first. Here's what happened:
* Natsuki had long hair to begin with.
* In order to present herself as a boy, she cut her hair to be short and purchased a very long wig identical to her previous haircut. Apparently, it was so good that the girls at her school didn't notice. (This is hard to believe but I guess we're supposed to suspend our disbelief.)
* The girls at her school confronted Kanae about spending time with Natsuki, not about her hair.
* This causes Natsuki to remove her wig and reveal her secret to Kanae.

Honestly, I was most impressed that Natsuki was willing to confess everything in front of girls from her school in addition to Kanae.

An independent person posted a translated fourth chapter on Mangadex today. From there, a person in the original translation group (which abandoned this 9 months ago) posted, revealing the reason that it was abandoned was because Takemiya Jin included a relatively generic "do not reprint" message that usually only appears in Japanese text in English text as well. They interpreted this to indicate that Takemiya Jin did not want English fan translations available for her work.

Personally, I think that is a pretty big logic leap. It's not like Takemiya Jin is losing sales because of English fan-translations being available. The series is not licensed, so without the fan translation, it is literally unreadable for English fans.

I came to this thread with the same question. Seems like most of her stuff was in the 2010-2015 period, and that she hasn't published anything recently.

Edit: Ah, Itoshi Koishi is her latest series, derp. I'd actually read it multiple times before (the first three chapters anyway) and simply didn't realize it was her work. Now it makes sense why I liked that series so much.

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Yuri crush is the most appropriate tag here. It didn't exist at the time this story was posted I think.

Was this really republished in Yuri Hime 15 years later? Is that an accident on their part or something?

I hope Dynasty Reader have a "good ending" and "bad ending" tag. So I know which one to skip. =_=

Sometimes I wish for it too, but they don't want to spoil every story before you read it. "Drama" and "Angst" are usually the best tells that the ending -could- be bad.

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