Haha. This story is too short, but hilarious. Love the way the cell phone girl just starts undressing her, and the MC's reaction.

Interesting to see Sakamoto Mano's stuff being bumped today...her stuff is definitely amazing in both story and art. I think this particular story is the one that hits me the most...it's just too poignant and tragic. The intensity of the emotions sometimes blows me away. However, even if the effect of the story is to say that Eriko does move on or find happiness with a new girlfriend, I don't think I could bring myself to consider it a happy ending.

Ah, haha, nah, of course I saw it as a friendly joke too. It's just that I still haven't actually watched or read K-On yet (although I do enjoy the doujins) so I wasn't precisely sure if I was missing something.

Ah. Myself speaking as a guy, of course. Dunno if that was clear. I'm all for acceptance and tolerance and stuff like that (largely thanks to yuri, it really widened my sense and awareness of prejudice and stuff) but still don't think I'll ever be particularly inclined towards actually practicing male homosexuality.

Harems are kinda just a symptom of a general orientation towards male-centric garbage escapism in anime/light novels/a lot of manga in general. It's definitely kinda disgusting when I see it. At the same time, I did try out a number of shoujo mangas in the past but eventually began to get disgusted with the weak and emotionally immature/dense/useless main characters. I still keep up with a few, but het has definitely lost its sparkle for me.

I think the basic appeal of yuri is cute girls. You can just never have enough of cute girls being together. Also, for guys, the sexual aspect of yuri is a bit like porn without the feelings of exploitation or guilt. You can appreciate the girls without feeling like you're objectifying them.

There's also the emotional intimacy. Het romance is so boring. It's always so reductionist. Rather than personalities, they are fantasies about roles: 'men are like this, and women are like this'. Father and mother, dick and vagina, the biological connection just boils down to that. What is the meaning in a man and a woman being joined together? Fundamentally they are different, can never understand each other; once their roles are finished, the connection falls apart.

That was a bit of an exaggeration, its not like men and women cannot have a meaningful relationship together. However it's the real irony of het that in the consummation of a relationship is when it becomes the most cliche, the most personality-less, the most role-defined, black and white. The endpoint of het is to destroy precisely anything beautiful which came before. The closer it gets, the more impure.

In a yuri relationship, sex is neither the endpoint of the relationship, nor something which has to be denied. Once/if love is established, it can be indulged in fully without undermining the underlying emotional connection. And neither does indulging in that emotional connection turn someone inwards, away from the world. While a heterosexual relationship protects itself by becoming more defined, by closing off parts of oneself, more fully embracing the roles--in yuri the couples' growth must be fundamentally different, with each partner expanding to reach new boundaries.

Yuri is hope. And het is gravitas, despair, the weight of being bound to things like flesh and our degenerating physical bodies. Anyway, the main idea is that yuri is the only vanilla I can believe in nowadays. Not that I plan on turning gay anytime soon.

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what happened to part 1?

Yeah, pretty bizarre/unintuitive. Seems this was another collaborative doujin between Minakata Sunao and Banpei Akira. You can find the chapters posted together on the Recently Added page, but other than that it'll be pretty tough to find/ link the chapters together.

Hmm, I definitely want to see more. It's a very cute relationship, and their development just doesn't feel finished at this point. Also, Miu's attitude in general gave me very complicated feelings. Morinaga's a real artist. While the development towards a proper yuri relationship would from this point seem pretty straightforward, I am fascinated to see how she would actually handle it.

Thanks to Fly by Yuri for this great release! It's a really engaging selection of stuff you've put out so far.

Creepy as fuck. The final twist as kinda predictable though. I would've been happier/more impressed if they stuck with the dream ending.

As a Reimari fan, the horror struck me right in the gut when Reimu got eaten midway through the story though. They totally got me good.

yuri based on close relationships from early childhood, and yuri based on long-lasting secret/unrequited love.

when you say yuri based long-lasting secret/unrequited love, you prefer it to stay unrequited till the very end or begins with it then in the very end their a little bit of hope of the female?

Ah, of course happy endings are better when I can get one. The main idea is just that the love might be carried for a long time, so that it has a chance to sink into the person's existence.

lol, lewd... This was pretty fun.

Hmm, it's pretty tough to try to categorize what types of yuri I'm addicted to. Well first, I guess you can see that my moniker is Sol. As for types of yuri, I guess I like incest and pseudo-incest, yuri where the participants neatly match and contrast with each other, yuri where both partners are really feminine, yuri based on close relationships from early childhood, and yuri based on long-lasting secret/unrequited love.

Haha, a rather specific list, yet I still don't think it's comprehensive. There's just too much yuri I really enjoy, I probably could never capture all of it.

Also: I hate the original ending for Little Mermaid... so sad and depressing. That incest-yuri version on here was much better. :)

Hah! True dat.

I am into Reimari and Terumoko pretty heavily by now. Even started doing a bit of raw reading of Terumoko stuff. I like Keinemoko fine, but Kaguya and Mokou feel like they have a more equal relationship. As for Reimari--since I went and read all the canon mangas before getting seriously into Touhou doujin, Reimari just feels so natural to me.

I'll probably pick up the games this summer to get a full overview of the canon material. There's still way too many characters I'm not sufficiently familiar with. Really enjoying all the doujins being uploaded on here nonetheless.

Really enjoyed ch. 2 too. That class introduction was great. Haru's whole "Iruka Club" reminds me of Madoka's Jersey-bu from Rinne no Lagrange; wonder how it will play into the story. I assume the club means there will be other members/characters but will also be looking forward to Haru and Riko's romance.

Big thanks to Yuri Project for the new chapter! Will be looking forward to more.

All these vanilla lovers in here, tsk tsk tsk.

what's vanilla lovers? or vanilla ending? ^^)>

Vanilla means pure, sweet, plain happy romance. Like vanilla ice cream. That is in contrast to things like drama, tragedy, sadism, hate, and other less idealistic things in a story.

At least she helped other people, rather than destroying the money.

I'm of the kind that 'even if it was gained from something unethical, use it so we don't waste the sacrifice of those who were trampled to get there'... For example, the data gained from human experimentation during WWII.

In this situation, she got to cut loose her past with a very obvious gesture, giving her closure, and it didn't go to waste! Win-win, IMHO.

These are mostly my feelings on the matter, except that I don't really consider random people on the street the most constructive choice if you're trying to help somebody. A lot more could probably be done if any screening was done to target it towards an actual need somewhere. Of course, that kind of awareness might be unrealistic to expect from a teenage girl of that age (particularly one who was participating in enjo kousai for "fun"...) but then again I don't have to find a symbolic display marred by immaturity all that touching.

I believe this is what you are looking for my good man.....or woman.

http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/her_desire#1

Ohshi-! Natsuneko. Been too long since I've seen her stuff.

This story was pretty fucked up, I guess, but now that the bully has made her move "Sachiko" kinda has a lot more power. I wonder if you have to be in those unstable teenage years to be able to take words like "you're worthless" or "you're gonna be stepped on all your life" seriously. To me, this kind of behaviour really says a lot more about the aggressor than the recipient. I just wonder if it's possible the victim would ever get a grip on reality and be able to realize that. Not to say Sachiko's situation isn't terrible/brutal, of course, but the world portrayed doesn't seem so dark yet as to be impossible to recover from.

In the long term, I do feel like it's Yuna's game to lose. She said it herself, after all, that power and money are the forces of the adult world, and she doesn't seem that much to be able to control Sachiko forever. That's why, I would be interested in a sequel, I guess. It'd be great if Sachiko realizes that her sexuality is a power she has over Yuna and manages to turn the tables on her. At the same time, I guess I'm just dumb/hopelessly idealistic 'cause from there I wish it'd proceed into a vanilla ending.

Poprication's ReiMari is the freakin' best. So expressive. This is a pretty amazing story for so few pages.

Well just looking at last year there would be one proper yuri romance (altough it isn't very good) in the kuttsukiboshi OVA. Also easy too mention but non really romance focused like Simoun would be Moretsu pirates, Black rock shooter and Symphogear. Then there's a sea of more subtexty stuff like Saki A-Hen, Rinne no lagrange etc. Altough still nothing really like Marimite.

Also would recommend the currently ongoing Yuyushiki, altough its in similar style to yuruyuri/A channel.

Redun's post does manage to capture a lot of it. Of course Maria-sama and Simoun are classics for a lot more reasons than just their yuri content which means I wouldn't put that many shows on the same level (in fact, Marimite remains my favourite yuri-related series of all time, although that in large part leans towards the novels more than the anime). However, that's in terms of overall "objective" quality of the anime. In terms of plain yuri content, as an anime watcher whose consumption is at least 60% driven strictly by an interest in yuri, I've been satisfied every season for approximately 2 years.

Some general very reliable categories for subtext every season are magical girl series and slice of life. Starting from Madoka, you can get into Precure (Smile, Heartcatch, DokiDoki, Suite are the ones I`ve watched, but pretty much every season has at least some subtext, and the pair from Futari wa is an iconic couple), and also Nanoha, which had its movies come out recently.

As for slice of life, both Yuyushiki and Hidamari Sketch are both very high quality, strong subtext shows (Yuyushiki in particular is singlehandedly carrying the current season for me, and is pretty mindblowingly gay for the genre) amongst a handful of others. Teekyuu is a recent insane, quite yuri, extremely short but enjoyable comedy as well.

Then you have the miscellaneous works every season which you might have to do a bit of digging to discover. Mouretsu Pirates, Symphogear, Sasami-san@gambaranai are a couple worthwhile ones in terms of overall satisfaction (Rinne no Lagrange and Black Rock Shooter as works which have decent yuri content, but don't end well.). Strike Witches and VividRed Operation are very fanservice heavy but also pretty much exclusively yuri-friendly. Saki also remains my second-most favourite yuri fandom, for both the yuri and the mahjong.

Pretty much all these shows have unmistakably blatant yuri subtext within the main cast. There's a lot more which have just the occasional yuri subtext, or strictly focus on a female cast. There's also a ton of shows I skipped out on which have het or male main characters as the central romance, but canon or blatant yuri within the side cast, like Horizon or Psycho-pass. For just yuri, I would recommend the shows above, but a lot does open up if you have wider taste.

We have a lot more series, oneshots, doujins, porn, visual novels and even anime appearances now than we had just 5 years back. And, to get back to my original point, most of those have a happy end. Read some of the earlier oneshots or series here and see how unusual that was.

Well...I'm not just being contrary for the sake of it...Aoi Hana is excellent throughout but that's just my opinion and it's been around since... 2004? Blue Drop...2004?...i think the maria sama anime dates back to 2004?....Strawberry panic anime...2006? Simoun came out in 2006?...five years ago...2008..there was octave, girl friends, hanjuku joshi, sasameki koto,...

...well...i'm sure i could go on and there's much more that i'm certain to have missed....
...it seems to me that yuri wasn't quite so barren 5 years ago...as for now...but hey...just my opinion...if i think a genre i love is winding down and maybe say something about it on a forum...maybe i'm being out of line...maybe i'm spoiled...i hope your right...there's a few manga series i'm interested in right now ...Girl's ride is one....that's probably not finished...maybe that will continue for a while yet...developing the characters further, introducing new ones...:P

While Notes coming to such an early end is certainly a disappointment, it is freakin' ridiculous to generalize that to an overall "winding down" of yuri. You must hardly be keeping up with new anime at all, nor actually trying to follow manga releases, to think that we're experiencing a decline in yuri content.

Anime-wise, there are few recent shows focusing exclusively/explicitly on yuri romance/drama in the way works like Strawberry Panic did. However, works with subtext/sideplot-focus at or above the level of shows like Marimite or Simoun are freakin' overflowing and you simply must not be watching them. I pretty regularly manage to find 5-6 shows focusing exclusively on yuri subtext (i.e. no het, strong focus on female relationships) at least every season, and that's not counting the frequent side-characters/stories which even manage to show up in mainstream shit like shounen or harem anime.

As for manga, certainly it's true that we have been getting fewer long series lately. This, combined with the rising wave of good-to-decent shorter series we've been getting lately, probably results in an effect where fewer individual series stand out as memorable. One thing you should probably consider as to why series like Sasameki Koto or Aoi Hana are so long is that they take a shitton of time getting around to the romantic development. While longer series are good for getting more invested in the characters, it is probably for the better that that kind of pacing is not being emphasized anymore. One of your own examples, Hanjuku Joshi, is a masterpiece that managed to tell its story in 2 volumes and there are still plenty of great series coming out on this very reader which surpass that volume count.

Haha. Now this was an interesting concept/pairing. I liked it; wonder if the artist plans to draw more.

Okay, yeah, I do feel pretty negative about just throwing money off a bridge like that (if you just want to get rid of it, why not to a charity or something) but the crowd's reaction was pretty hilarious. "Holy crap!", "It's raining money!", etc. I think the plotline/subject matter as a whole could have been handled better but overall it's still a nice yuri work. Thanks to Lililicious for the trans/scans and respect to Shuninta-sensei.

Hmm, curious that this says completed. In the last chapter of volume 4, the author comments that one more volume is needed to complete the story, though I wouldn't know anything as to whether that was actually published. As the last chapter was released in 2012, perhaps there really is no expectation for further releases? I like the story as is, but especially after the comments in volume 4, would be quite curious to see a conclusion.

Dunno if it's just me, but page 7 seems to be corrupted here:
http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/gap_demon#7

I managed to hear somewhere that there does seem to be a third volume coming out/which has come out, so I can take back my earlier comments about assuming the series was ending. Very happy about that. Hopefully the scanlation will continue too, although I imagine the situation with JManga might make the resumption of it a bit more complicated.