And Aquarium has been a rock-solid yuri performer for many, many years.

The Lots of animals tag has started trying to do this work. Which is probably not good because it's not going to be applied to/be able to collect all aquarium releases and at the same time basically makes it so a given release doesn't actually need a lot of animals in it to get tagged.

Might be worth pinging Orange Pekoe on, I know the tag has been requested for a long time and it would be about as much work to get going as setting up the Theater tag was. (But I wouldn't be surprised if there are bigger plans for tagging and categorization in the works.)

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I love match soooooo much, but damn this is weirdly autobiographical for one of those official fan fiction anthologies, huh?

And PSA - if anyone can find any of the match FE - Three Houses or Sailor Moon doujinshi digital or physical please give me a shout so we can get them scanlated!

Google, find, acquire, print at Staples

Weird to draw all these conclusions about a prequel story

The dazzling lead!

I do feel for Tianli. She's genuinely remorseful and I'd like to see her character grow more. The promise was to "stop talking about her" and she kept that by leaving the chat. So I wonder if she'll show up again next year.

(Not forgiving something doesn't have to mean cutting someone out of your life forever. It'd be interesting to see the nuance of moving forward under a different kind of relationship explored after they've had more time to grow apart.)

And unless i missed something, Tianli doesn't know the severity of what she did because Xingyuan didn't mention anything about her father. Which is understandable, but Tianli might realize how trivial her hangups are in the face of that info and understand the Xingyuan's response better. When that flashbacks were happening, the interactions with her father seemed to be the bigger deal, so I was pretty surprised he didn't come up at all in panels dealing with Tianli and that (even just like, a note about Xingyuan intentionally not mentioning him)

Has Loretta always been this shredded? I don't remember it being mentioned in the LN...

Not that I mind, she's HOT!

Wildly enough, this came from when Coastal, a western fan pretty involved in the fan community, drew a muscular Loretta and then asked Aonoshima on Twitter if Loretta was muscular. (At this point she was probably always intended to be fit what with her family's position, but it's when she went from fit to shredded, just before the beach episodes were released in yuri hime.)

Overnight, Aonoshima drew a muscular Loretta and from then on her cut abs were canon. The second light novel for she's so cheeky was announced right around that day too, so the web novel descriptions predate the event quite a bit.

Here's roughly the tweet chain:
Original joke
https://twitter.com/CoastalService3/status/1590471608871047168
Sketching the joke
https://twitter.com/CoastalService3/status/1596380891952971777
Aonoshima previewing the upcoming chapter
https://twitter.com/aonoesu/status/1603240864184008704
Coastal "inquiring"about Loretta, somewhere here or elsewhere Coastal asks if Loretta's abs are ripped because Aonoshima refers to such a question later
https://twitter.com/CoastalService3/status/1603246683147489280
A quick response
https://twitter.com/aonoesu/status/1603248865326804992
A tweet about needing to check with Inori
https://twitter.com/aonoesu/status/1603251521776685056?s=20&t=3n9ZsOKobAzoCEj529iq9g
Then, ta da! Loretta's debut.
https://twitter.com/aonoesu/status/1603343068681613313
Google translate seems to say Aonoshima had to ask Inori if Loretta's abs were cut, then provides a lore response from Inori, then Aonoshima's interpretation. Thus the exact moment her abs became this cut with official canon blessing

I hope all these links are still live.

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I feel like Chuck Tingle would tacitly approve

Elsa's Frozen connection confirmed!

Suddenly, fear. Time to fire up the angst machine!

Whatever I expected from this series, mentioning Itou Hachi by name wasn't it. :D

My job is done. The reference was understood. XD

In the top ten TLs of 2024 to date

The premise is a bit cliched at first glance- seemingly perfect girl struggles with living up to expectations and falls for someone her family wouldn't approve of- but the series could have more to it than that. I'm interested in finding out more about Asako's sister and what she did to disappoint their grandfather.

From what we've seen so far, there's really only one conclusion to draw. The grandfather is disappointed that the older sister, like in a shoujo manga, fell in love and left the life of a strong, independent woman to become a traditional wife in a het relationship. The grandfather, a true man of culture, knew to ban frivolous shoujo manga as it has no place in a yuri story.

We must prevent the extinction

One step closer to yuritopia

Made the non-alcoholic version of Mozart's Afternoon from the valentine's twitter bonus, its really good.

It seems good! But it's a bit late, time to hunt some discount chocolate liqueur

Star yuri best yuri! And Junnana is always so soft with a hint of existential dread from the time loops always at the edge (only in one panel this time?)

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Sometimes i forget we're in the land of Oz and Dorothy is here. So who's the lion, tin man, scarecrow, witch, etc.?

All in all, while the art is quite nice, and there's a conveyance of emotion, I don't like this much. There's no point in this ambiguity--it's fairly clear that there is some actual state of affairs that all the characters come to be aware of, so why should the audience be the only ones in the dark?

These particular anthologies (same set as the Avalon ones) tend to be like that. The only rule is to stick to the theme and a number of the authors will aim to evoke the theme in the forefront and have the plot take the backseat. The envy is resolved, and that's what matters for the story. This style of resolving thematic tension while, frustratingly, leaving the particulars out has been common in short story anthologies over the past few years too.

Not Yuri

TRUE! can we get that tag on this story?

This is a friendly reminder that you're thinking of the romance tag and not the yuri tag. Works which fit the genre will have the yuri tag and works with romantic content will have the romance tag. Always be sure to mind the tags to avoid disappointment

All complaints about what constitutes yuri can be forwarded to Comic Yuri Hime for consideration

last edited at Jan 30, 2024 5:12PM

I think there are a handful of older big collaborations out there. If anyone finds, remembers, or was in one, please suggest the tag! They may end up under the "groupings" tab

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My only problem with this is that there isn't more epilogue stuff.

Don't worry, the epilogue will probably have more epilogue stuff. Have faith!

Thanks so much to the scanlators for doing this and keeping the project alive across both groups! Such a great series

Again some great additional detail. And what I appreciate the most is this version making it explicitly clear that the ring is guiding Evie back to this exact future in a stable loop, there are too many comments doubting this obvious fact on the manhua side.

So true

Here's a translation by 0mniessence of the accompanying fanfic, it's the adorable circumstances of Claudine going missing the morning of their wedding.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51644032

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The following fic was in this doujinshi as a companion piece and translated by 0mniessence as well:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/51730753

Ah yes, Rosemary's Baby. The Bible Black of film studies