Communication is key to a healthy relationship.

The virgin zombie versus the chad jiangshi.

Edelgard: I've only had Aymr for a day and a half, but if anything happens to it, I would kill everyone in every empire and then Rhea.

Reimu: Tell me, O Grand Yokai that has lived for millennia and seen everything there is to see. What is your wisdom?
Yukari: Life hard, tiddy soft.

The lore here is that Miyoshi turned Ayano into a vampire 800 years ago, and now they go out hunting together every night, sip blood from the same glass, live in the same castle and sleep in the same coffin, but Ayano still has no idea whether they're in a relationship and spends each night awake with existential dread knowing that Miyoshi has literally forever left to dodge the question.

Gravity Rush 3: The Quest for the (Zero) G-Spot.

Dracula boutta taste some high-cholesterol Southern blood.

Aya: How did you two get together?
Parsee: She got drunk and suplexed me through a table, and while I was staring up at the ceiling, I knew it was love.

High art.

Crushed between the enormous states of ReiMari and MariAli, the ReiAli fans constitute a tiny, but prodigious nation that has glimpsed the ultimate wisdom. Puppeteer X Miko ftw.

Maya's Groom Unit in Re Live has a finishing move wherein she's basically just chased by a pack of wild lesbian brides who trample over every enemy in the vicinity. The writers get it.

Foreheads are the most attractive parts of the human body. Exhibits B and C- Croix from LWA and Ritsu from K-On.

First Page: An Unexpected Mother End For the Final Chapter!

Yeah, I don't think the author could've possibly been more obvious about the series being cancelled, short of actually drawing all the characters as axes. It always makes me feel weird to see authors with clearly-cancelled works writing optimistic messages and trying to sound upbeat in their final chapters. Like, I get that it'd be a massive contract violation to write rants about dumb consumers and unfair publishers, but it just feels odd to see someone striving to act all chill and calm when something they've poured so much effort into is just hacked short. That's the industry for you, I guess.

EDIT: though I really do wonder what role the editor plays in the story. Like do they just go “we need to add some more anxiety here, so how about 6 pages of monologuing, and end it with them gazing into each other’s eyes in the most heterosexual way possible”

(Very) broadly speaking, there's two types of editors- the stretch it out types that encourage authors who've written successful series to keep churning out popular content for maximum moolah, human conceptions of time and behavior be damned; and the cut it down types, who inform authors that their fifteen act stream-of-consciousness Bildungsromans that approach the lengths of The Odyssey with the writing style of Ulysses might not be comprehensible to yon regular consumer. I can see Nettaigyo's editor being either, or possibly even both- maybe they told Hagino to sprinkle as much ambiguity and longing into the manga as humanly possible to pull readers in with agonized expectations, only to fill the final volume with enough yuri to make Virgin's Empire look, well... virginal (this might be me desperately projecting my hopes and dreams onto reality).

This might be one of the most beautiful Touhou doujins I've come across. One of my favourite aspects of the project is how brilliantly it portrays the otherworldly, inhuman, alien logic of yokai, never presenting them as saints or demons or beasts or gods, but simply as entities that drift across time, occasionally drawing close to human ideas, only to slip away before we can gauge their motives. The existentialist reflections of a yokai who's both incredibly ancient and divorced from the ideas of age are extremely fascinating, especially in contrast to the nature of an ephemeral shrine maiden who takes on an eternal position and puts an end to fantastical beings. The dusky, stained-glass, grim fairytale artstyle really elevates these melancholic themes, and lends the story the impression of pressed flowers- beautiful and vibrant, yet compressed past their lifespans, just like Yuuka when she tries to interact with people.

Everyone gets a turn on the Margatroid-Go-Round.

This was heart-stoppingly cute.

What if this final arc where everything connects actually turns this manga into a yaoi :0

Hagino: Welcome to the official How to Establish that Nettaigyo is Absolutely not a Yuri series Meeting.
Editor: Literally nobody was informed about this.
Hagino: So I'm thinking that we'll put a heterosexual relationship into the manga to convey that it isn't about lesbians.
Editor: But het relationships have girls. That's, like, 50% of a yuri ship right there.
Hagino: Damn it. Okay, forget about the girls. Remove them entirely. Let's make the manga about BL.
Editor: But that shows that you're willing to explore gay relationships. Just like yuri.
Hagino: Screams incomprehensibly

I fear not the lesbian who has kissed 10,000 girls once, but the lesbian who has kissed one girl 10,000 times. - Bruce Lee, probably.

EDIT: you forgot the hot and thoughtful dads

We honestly need a spinoff based on the dads. I'm thinking something like- A Tropical Chad Yearns for Bros.

Pack it up, girls. Yuri has peaked. It's only gonna go downhill from here.

Seriously, though, this needs a sequel. I need Minami's Counterattack, Lesbians 0080: Vibrator in the Pocket, The 08th Trip to the Nurse's Office, Mobile Suit Lesbian: Thunderboob, Mobile Fighter G Lesbian (With Shining Finger Swords), and MSL: Iron-Blooded Lesbians. This is just one big franchise waiting to happen.

Man, this is so much more than a friendship

It’s super-friendship.

This summer, witness the beginning of an exciting new story! Confused teenage girls by day, and even more confused teenage girls by night, Konatsu Amano and Koyuki Honami star as Captain Frog and Admiral Salamander in a tale of heroism, friendship, growth, friendship, and also friendship! Watch as they defend their cozy coastal Japanese town from dastardly rogues like Social Anxiety, Mixed Feelings, Obligatory Last-Minute Male Love Interests and the occasional angry Dynasty poster demanding more yuri! Prepare for Feelings, Conversations (Or a Lack Thereof), Vague Amphibian Metaphors, Emotional Swashbuckling and Derring-Do! Coming soon to a bookstore near you (placed under the Shoujo, Aye Section).

Normal People: Nooo, you can't use porn as a guideline to relationships, it promotes unrealistic standards and is completely detached from reality!
This Couple: Joke's on you, we're already in a manga.

CW: Majorly depressing shit, suicide.

There was this one episode of a show called Shigofumi that I watched recently. This one guy blogs on a forum about a guy in his class getting bullied and laughs about it with all the other posters. Then he realizes that the guy being bullied is one of the posters too. The victim recognizes him and asks him to help at school, but the guy just tells him that he can't do anything, and the victim eventually kills himself out of sheer despair.

Then they reveal that the bullies saw the victim talking to the original guy for like five seconds, and decided that since he was the victim's 'friend', he ought to be next in line for bullying. The guy being bullied is handsome, popular, gets good grades and largely well-liked, but nobody wants to piss the bully clique off, so they ostracize him. He starts blogging on the same forum, and realizes that no one on the Internet or in real life cares. Someone's gotta be the scapegoat, and no one wants to take his place.

The episode basically wraps up with the bullies making the original guy walk around on the edge of a roof, which has a high chance of getting him killed. He realizes that there's no way to run, no way to back out, because they'll be hounding him for every second of the rest of his school life. If he complies, they'll keep coming up with new ways to torture him. If he gets used to it, they'll escalate the punishments to get a reaction. The guy realizes that there's no way out, snaps, and stabs one of the bullies with a screwdriver. They put him in juvie and the implication is that his life is ruined, because Japan ostracizes the heck out of anyone with a minor criminal record, so a murderer would never be able to get a job or achieve anything resembling a stable, ordinary life. But even though he's got no future, his actions are presented as justified, because there was no hope for him anyway, so at least he got some catharsis. He realized that relying on logic or negotiation or authority figures wouldn't do anything, because nobody wanted to get involved with him and would just turn a blind eye. He's already seen what happened to the former victim, and decides to kill instead of being killed. Basically, he becomes an animal, because there was no place for him in an apathetic society.

It really drove in how absolutely hellish bullying can be, particularly in Japan, where it seems like ritualised abuse. There's no perfect solution, no ray of hope, no saviors- just a choice between two different kinds of hell. It was pretty bleak, but I honestly couldn't call it unrealistic, because I've seen people in similar situations and read stories about how they just... broke. Bullying is a problem that's pretty hard to solve, seeing as it stems from immature kids channeling the worst parts of human nature, but that's exactly why people need to take every possible effort to keep an eye out and combat it.

All boobs are pretty great.

Even hairy fat man boobs.

By god, I think you've chanced upon the appeal of the 'Ugly Bastard' genre.