It's a shame this remains abandoned. It was different and had a nice art style.

I'm glad I stumbled across this one. If you are reading this sentence and haven't read this manga yet you should correct that.

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What a bittersweet little manga. That really was charming and memorable. I think somebody needs to throw a tragedy or aaangst tag on that last chapter, though. Seriously, you don't expect a gut punch like that at the end of something labelled as a comedy.

last edited at Aug 16, 2018 4:37AM

Awwww, super adorable.

This was cute and quite clever.

From what I can tell there is very little yuri this summer season, even just in subtext. I've been waching a large number of shows and the only tidbits of yuri I have come across are in Chio's School Road with brief but explicit encounters with Kabbadi Sensei and some mostly subtext in Dropkick my Devil and Harukana Receive.

I'm I missing any hidden yuri jewels like in seasons past or is this summer really a desert?

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TL note: the title translates to "My Yuri is Work! Sisters in Love!". I left it in Japanese and German, 'cause it sounds derpy in English.

Hope y'all will like it!

Oh hey, are you the translator?

If so, thank you. =)

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.

What kind of noob virgins aren't aware of the fact that girl's boobs inflate to double their original size when they take off their clothes?

Anyway, this was a pretty cute story despite the fact it suffers from one shot syndrome where a relationship goes from zero to having sex in like 20 pages.

"Girl Friends" is not subtext, it never was subtext, it was not written as a subtext work. Gradually falling in love is not subtext.

That's not really what the word "subtext" means, but if you want to use it that way then there's no reason to think this series is "subtext" until it ends.

Under the real meaning of the word, Girl Friends was subtext until chapter 10.

No, it was not. "A hidden or less obvious meaning", according to Cambridge Dictionary, "the implicit or metaphorical meaning", according to Merriam-Webster. There was nothing 'hidden' or 'metaphorical' in "Girl Friends", the romance was not a 'less obvious' theme. If it was, then pray tell, what was the main theme? Seriously, why these discussions always arise when subtext is in question? Just because the characters are not fully aware of everything, or have not yet developed those feelings (love does not just pop out in a vacuum), does not mean the work is subtext. By that logic, I could say the first 20-odd minutes of "Zulu" are not a war film, because they do not feature anything connected to the actual war, since the people are not yet aware the conflict had begun. People seem to confuse how the characters deal with something (not being aware of their feelings, or only just developing them), and how the work (that is to say, the author) deals with it.

As for the series being subtext or not being decided at the end, that does indeed hold water. In these cases, I just presume, personally, that the scanlators have an insight into future chapters. Not the most reliable presumption, I will grant you.

If Girl Friends ended on chapter 8 you are telling me it wouldn't have wound up with a subtext tag on here?

I so wish these chapters were even just a few more pages long. This is actually one of my favorite ongoing yuri manga other than that.

This manga is too cute for its own good.

It's a shame this one wasn't longer. I really liked this story.

Looking East posted:

Hmmm, I misread it. I guess it's not just the clubs that are participating in the festival, although I still fail to see how this is remotely worth getting testy about.

It's worth it, maybe because it'll make some people, including you, think about how unfair this is.

Because everyone, including some women who integrated it in their education, thinks it's normal for women to take on the chores and various burdens boys don't want to do. "Boys do sports, girls do the rest".

No it's not normal. Sewing, cooking or sweeping, etc, are not something girls are, by nature, more prone, more adept or have an obligation to do. And the first persons that can change this are the ones in charge of education: parents and teachers.

This is funny. At first glance, I actually figured you were likely some guy bitching about this as an example of misandry because the author is painting males in such a negative light as slothful, untrustworthy bums. Turns out you are whining about the exact opposite end of the spectrum and are instead pissed off about the author's treatment of women. This is ironic.

Get over yourself. What is written here is harmless observational humor that is neither misandry or misogyny.

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Seriously... Just text? In a manga site? So this means that someone can write a cliche story in ms word, put a couple of draws in it and then it qualifies as manga? We've hit a new low...

It's called a book. People used to read them.

My canon is that they are both transgender. The End

You need to get your eyes checked. Don't you know a pair of alien, zombie robots when you see them?

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Why do the dicks eat watermelon.

Because watermelon is delicious.

The real question is if they spit or swallow the seeds.

Is that the father or a brother?

Mikoto's evil parallel negaverse doppelganger.

A sweet 50-pages chapter! Honami sensei seemed to struggle quite a bit to keep Koyuki distracted throughuot the morning. Wasn't expecting that. :D

I absolutely love it when a series comes in a long chapter format even if it means very infrequent updates.

Looking East posted:

"We are not the marrying type".

"Boys don't want to help out, so let's, we girls, shoulder everything and say "boys will be boys""

Oh damn... that ticked me off.

And this is why, people, we can't have nice things. It's the type of self-harm women do all the time, because they've been educated to do what the boys don't want to bother to do. And they end up thinking it's natural. And even manga authors perpetuate those mindsets.

When I saw the guys running away and the girls only vaguely complaining and doing nothing, I got angry on their behalf. I would have called a teacher and asked them to set things right.

Boys have to learn to be responsible and do their share too. It's part of education.

The boys were not a member of their club and thus had no obligation to help. They were all apparently in sports clubs that weren't participating in the cultural festival.

No. You didn't read it and you are trying to find them excuses : it was for the class's project not for the club. They are doing a kind of maid café.

Sports clubs are not doing anything (contrary to cultural clubs) and so should have participated, at least to their class project.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/nettaigyo_wa_yuki_ni_kogareru_ch12#30

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/nettaigyo_wa_yuki_ni_kogareru_ch12#22

The girls in the class call them but they sneaked out.

Hmmm, I misread it. I guess it's not just the clubs that are participating in the festival, although I still fail to see how this is remotely worth getting testy about.

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"We are not the marrying type".

"Boys don't want to help out, so let's, we girls, shoulder everything and say "boys will be boys""

Oh damn... that ticked me off.

And this is why, people, we can't have nice things. It's the type of self-harm women do all the time, because they've been educated to do what the boys don't want to bother to do. And they end up thinking it's natural. And even manga authors perpetuate those mindsets.

When I saw the guys running away and the girls only vaguely complaining and doing nothing, I got angry on their behalf. I would have called a teacher and asked them to set things right.

Boys have to learn to be responsible and do their share too. It's part of education.

The boys were not a member of their club and thus had no obligation to help. They were all apparently in sports clubs that weren't participating in the cultural festival.

Almost tripped right over that "NSFW, Futanary" landmine. Note to self, don't just click on the link at the top of a forum post and start reading without checking the tags first.

guys it's just romantic friendship.

Exactly, the punchline is going to be that they are both asexual and just enjoy emotionally intimate friendships.

Edit: I was just joking, but come to think of it, I'm not sure I would actually be upset with the author if they went that route. It would actually make for a very original story.

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In the Japanese convoluted way, it was worded and acted like a proposal. They rarely say directly "marry me!". They hint at it (so, in manga, it became a standard source of misunderstanding)

"I will make sweets for you for the rest of our lives" is a classic marriage proposal stance and "Please take care of me" is the standard acceptation.

That was obviously the goal of the author.

Yeah, that was the joke. It was a spoof and perversion of a marriage proposal. The punchline was the juxtaposition of the ideal marriage proposal which is supposed to be a beautiful moment where they swear to take care of each other for the rest of their lives and instead she leaves with the hollow revelation that "I have just reduced myself to becoming her sweets making slave for life and that's all she will ever value me for."

Edit: I've always found Japanese style marriage proposals really beautiful. They are so much more romantic than the standard western proposals.

Also, these last few chapters have really been on point and adorably funny.

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I miss this manga. It was perfect to me. It deserves an anime but isn't lewd or controversial enough to get one.

Yeah, yuri manga don't really get anime unless A) they're aimed at straight men, or B) they portray a clearly deviant or unhealthy relationship to implicitly support the cultural belief that sapphic romance is deviant and unhealthy.

Mimika is far too dedicated to making sure her interactions with Yuzumori never cross the line into ones that would be inappropriate for a child of her age to be sufficiently melodramatic.

About half of all anime with yuri elements fall outside those criteria. The simple fact is the vast majority of ALL anime are aimed at strait teenage boys and young men and a large portion of all dramatic romance anime showcase some form of unhealthy relationship. This is hardly a problem that exists only for the yuri genre.

Chapter 20 was a proposal isn't it? And Hana-chan basically accepted.

Marriage proposal, no.
Proposal to become her sweets making slave for life, yes.