So, seems like the long "platonic relationship" interregnum logjam has just been definitively broken.

Anyway they are adorable so they can flex all day as far as I'm concerned.

Tomato juice? Really?! Not that I care, just here for the silly gay hijinx, but come on.

This is cute/silly. I can see it being fun. Given that, I'm willing to ignore a fair amount of realism.

Do the chinese censor all kissing, or just gay kissing?

There is no "The Chinese" doing the censoring, there's individual publishers, so it depends.

I like the TL notes, but speaking as a guy who reads my manga on a laptop and, in fact, does not own a cell phone, these QR code "links" don't do much for me.

On Nadeshiko's name, I imagine one intended resonance is that the character comes off, except when she's actually doing violence, as something of a "Yamato Nadeshiko" -- very ladylike traditional Japanese young lady.

I actually can't recall a single other stepmother/daughter yuri series. I'm kind of hooked for that reason alone, but the drawings are pretty nice too.

Hmmm, no. I've read at least one ACTUAL mother/daughter yuri series, though.

Holy shit, this manhua is GORJ

And intriguing; I feel it's very rare to get a romance anti-hero (or "brat", I suppose) character that is genuinely funny, insane and charming in the right amounts without being too annoying.

May I introduce you to scum bag yuri manga, peak cheating yuri, and not into yuri yuri? (Annoying traits and decision making may vary)

Yeah, see, I actually find the MCs of the ones of those I recognize really annoying (so I stopped reading 'em), so for me they wouldn't count as being "charming", or even very "funny". Don't know what the person you replied to thinks about it.

Hurrah! "Even Slower Start" returns!

Yay, MahiMahi!
Those two will still be ludicrously sweet and innocent as they have actual sex before any of the other characters . . .

Dang if you already know then just confess already.

What I was thinking.

The Endeavour clan seems culturally analogous to the US, not just because of the names and the gun culture. Before the fishing duel, Xeon professed a reverence for personal freedoms within reason, and 'their women' do technically get a much wider choice in their profession compared to the other clans. (We're told Gendo basically exports their girls to the other clans after a mandatory decompa training, and in the novel version Diode tells Terra about how she was treated by two other clans she visited before she found Terra.) This still ends up working as a more gentle flavor of the same repression of women's autonomy, as kinseijoshi explained above.

I loved the way he went seamlessly from "We're great because we respect freedom" to "In other news, no freedom for you!" . . . which is, yes, a pretty American kind of thing.

Congratulations to Terra for realize that lesbian couples are a thing!

It does beg the question: What exactly happened in the past that seemingly erased their existence and installed a strict patriarchy?

So did you know that some of the key leaders in the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381 were women? Up until recently I didn't, and I'm kind of a peasants' revolt fan. But it just didn't seem important to subsequent male commentators and historians, so they kind of disappeared. There's a lot of stuff like that. This is a more extreme case, but then it's a society that's gone through some serious changes and loss, loss of records and stuff. It seems pretty plausible to me even without any major deliberate decision to cover up (not saying there wasn't one, just that it could have happened just by general prejudice and minimization).

Progress? In my gag manga?!

For a minute after her paralysis seal did nothing at all, I was wondering if her whole schtick was fake and she just didn't realize it. Then the fireworks went off . . .

And interesting dynamic. Sayama has very little ego, but also very little willpower, while Mizono has an excess of both.

Hrm. I think there's a distinction between narcissism and ego, as well as between the desire to dominate and willpower. Sayama is comfortable in herself--her ego is solid, secure, but not expansive. She doesn't put herself forward because she isn't driven to by insecurity. She's more averse to conflict than I am, but my read is more that she doesn't think all the social jockeying is important enough to get in fights over, rather than that she's too weak to fight. Less fear, more "this is too much hassle". I think if someone found something she actually cared about and threatened that, they might be in for a rude awakening.

So we have the new tier. Beyond useless lesbians, behold! Counterproductive lesbians.

Nice. Would probably mean more to me if I could remember where the characters appeared (chances are I've read them).

There's something oddly refreshing about her coming right out and saying yeah, she doesn't like this guy but she's going to stay with him just to go along with the crowd. I mean, it's a terrible way to operate, but it's something that she's not lying to herself about it.

OK, I wasn't expecting the balcony thing. That's a nice little touch.

So are stories without the "introspection" tag about EXTROspection?

It's just a hunch but I don't think 5-chan is the final boss here.

Plausible . . . for instance, who killed her?

Maybe I've missed something but this didn't feel like a yuri story. There was no indication she loved her friend in a romantic way. She just said she feels safe with her around all the toxic men in her life. Maybe it could've become yuri but what we were given doesn't suggest it ends with them together.

I have the same feeling, and I feel the same way about calling her Bi. I don't see much there. It's a sweet story, though and I can assume the author must have meant it as yuri but it's not there on the page, while her het stuff is certainly all over the place..

Exactly. It gives more of a "when you're down and in trouble it's good to depend on those who care for you" kind of vibe. Suggesting she should date her friend just because she was the only one she had a good relationship, despite not having any feelings for her prior, wouldn't be something I suggest someone should do.

I would have normally said maybe we're assuming their sexualities based on the author's history but this author has written a lot of Het and that also goes for their currently running series. So, it's mixed. I think at best the author is using an old-school version of yuri (girls interacting, not necessarily romantic, subtlety, ambiguity, etc.). Anything else is not really in the story itself. Interesting read anyway.

Blink and you'll miss it, but there is one line in there that sort of recasts the whole thing as yuri to me: "Because if you were to touch me . . ." My reading of p. 26 is that she's saying that she stayed away because she was crushing on the girl and couldn't bear the idea of letting it get stronger and then having her nose rubbed in the distance/difference between them.

It's a very clever deception. Consider:
"I'm being framed! She's just acting!" "Nice try, buddy, she's an idol. You trying to tell us she can ACT?"

So who's that jerk on the last page giving our cinnamon roll prof grief? So that stuff happened to him, so you got nothing better to do than rake it up?