Especially after reading the post from Thiaguinho-sama, I'm reminded of a scene from Video Girl Ai, when Moemi confides that she wishes she had fallen in love with Yota (the MC). The point being, I really can't view this as a het v. yuri thing. It's just that, sometimes the heart goes where it will.

A wistful story that leaves me feeling a little sad, but I'm glad to have read it.

Still a better love story than Citrus.

Oh, come on. That bar's so low it's a tripping hazard.

I can't say I have ever seen a doujin of any kind where characters have sex in a snowhut/igloo. I can't say I'm not ok with this. Although, cold does a really good job of numbing your nerves, and would probably make it hard to get off if one stayed exposed for more than a few minutes.

That's what the kotatsu is for! Also body warmth. The entire point of a snow hut is it insulates you from the outside air and keeps the people inside nice and toasty.

Yes but with the kotatsu and everything wouldn't the snow/ice start smelting way too fast? I'm not an igloo/icehut expert but I mean, it didn't look that strong of a build. They didn't use separate blocks as it is usually done, which makes it weaker from the start, and tbh it was tiny as f.ck. it's like they minimized when they entered the hut. But as is fiction so i'm gonna stop applying logic haha

Jimiko pulled out a random door that just happened to perfectly fit the opening Tae had created. If you're still looking for logic beyond that point, good luck to you.

meh... every chapter lives up to its title. Yeah author we can see it's unrequited alright, please stawp with the aaaaaangst. Tbh I look forward to the extra chapter more than the main story now ha ha ha sigh

And it's not just one unrequited love. It's more like every pairing is unrequited:
* Uta > Kaoru
* Kaoru > Reiichi
* Miyabi > Kuro
* Mother > Children
Even off page, we know the mother's marriages haven't exactly worked out. Is there a single happy, healthy couple in this series? I think that's a large part of makes it so onerous to consume, even if it's good in small bites.

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This series is suffering from Abandonment issues. T_T

OMG, it's a 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother reference! Has anyone under 40 even heard of that series?

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I keep coming back to that cover image, where Satsuki looks like she about to dig her claws into Chitose's neck.

I like this setup very much.
As for the dialect translation is she supposed to be from a rural area of Kansai or something?
I mean I get that they have a strong accent but still I wouldn’t translate a manga like this.

Why rural? The accent keeps making me think she's an engineer. (And no, that is not a Star Trek reference.)

The boobs kinda bother me.

The character design is good, but the boobs are just "hentai boobs": oversized and too round. It feels out of place to me, if only because the story is kinda sweet.

But to each his own.

Thank god I wasn't the only one thinking that xD

All the more so because their "melons" appear to occupy a distortion in space, where they shrink precipitously when clothed (or expand when unclothed, take your pick). It's like the author selected body doubles for the H scenes.

1. Most unrealistic thing about this manga: dicks landing outside the urinal guillotines. How can the dick and the person end up on the same side of the chopper? The absurdity of everything else I can take.
2. Most uncomfortable moment: dicks (balls) in the drier getting tumbled around. Wince. Cringe.

I'm really uncomfortable with the sight of dicks, generally, but I found this oddly entertaining as well as thought-provoking. There is a lot going on here that's deeper than the page, from objectification to the overemphasis of sex (and, I assume, procreation) in a relationship.

Edit: Also, the comments are golden. "Banana." Lol.

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While I root for the yuri ending, this one struck me as too much of a "false dilemma." Cute, but not very satisfying.

So confused... Which one's the "sub" in this relationship? Or is it because they do it underwater and off panel (so we only see the text)?

Was it the author who referred to it as "Girls-ship" at the end of volume 1, or a translation option? Seems a pretty appropriate description at this point.

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Holy cow! How have I not started reading this before now?!?

Also, when did they start writing subtext in 28pt font?

Edit: ... as I see has already been remarked upon a time or two.

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I think the author tried to make it clear that the "trial was over," meaning that the decision had been made. Not so sure it was conveyed successfully (or it was lost in translation, but I'm doubtful). Overall, not displeased with the concept, but I feel like it missed the mark a little.

Juri worries me, though. It's like she doesn't hold a single opinion of her own. With her, it's always about what others like. "I'll buy whatever you buy. I'll eat whatever you eat. I'll watch whatever you watch." I can think of some overbearing men who'd love to date someone so compliant. I couldn't stand being in a relationship like that.

That was a double-barrel one-shot. Fun.

Why does this feel like it must be the school Chio-chan attends?

Sun Jing leaving the class reps stuff laying in the street and then mocking him in class over it was the end of my appreciation for her character.

I don't think she was mocking him at all and her reason to leave them was pretty valid i thought.

I'm still puzzled where Mo Qiaonan found his student ID when Sun Jing and Mop Head only found an empty sleeve.

Back for my six-month reading (or maybe less). Never fails to fill me with warm fuzzies.

Definitely not tragedy. Would a Feels Train tag give too much away?

What the fuck did I just read? More importantly: Why?

C'mon, the whole point of going yuri is that guys don't take enough time. There's no need to compete to see who finishes first. ;-)

How have I not previously noticed this little gem? It feels like each chapter is about a totally different MC with Touma-kun as a secondary character connecting them all.

"If we had to resign for something like that, this room would have been empty a long time ago." -- And Touma-kun is so dense, she probably has no idea.

I don't think it's just that she was "accommodating." Yotsuba looked downright excited to be parting ways. I can see why Yume might have felt like she wasn't wanted, or like there was someone else in Yotsuba's life. In a sense, there was. Just another story of drama resulting from lack of communication.

Although, for Takemiya Jin, this was unusually low on angst and high on sweet. I'll take a half-dozen more of these, thank you.

not lizard

Beat me to it. XD

Just to toss in another idea here-- When I saw the "pure yuri" comment, I wasn't thinking in terms of "lesbian relationship" but rather Yuri as a genre. I feel like the goal of yuri stories is often to represent girl-girl relationships as something pure or chaste...at least, in some publications. Which, as others have pointed out, could well be a holdover from an earlier era, where stories that stepped over that line always seemed to end in tragedy.