I find page 18 a particularly compelling depiction of dysphoria, really looking forward to where this goes

Thank you to the gender-affirming care isekai truck.

Good luck girl, hope you get some smuggled in hrt or something

And Sumi-chan's reasoning is also something that bothers me a bit. Of course, she's been shown to be "insecure" and not feeling enough before, but to think she's doesn't deserve her Onee-sama and that she should rather hand her to someone else?? Why would she think that? Mental gymnastics at its finest. Haruyo's shown to have a deep appreciation for her, even if I don't think Sumire's love and Haruyo's love are "the same". But why would she go so far as to distance herself from her? It doesn't make sense to me

I think the pacing was perhaps a little fast, but the reasons are clear: Kasumi hates herself, has since the beginning, and thinks she doesn't deserve Haruyo and Haruyo would be better off without her.

I think there could be another layer to this as well. On some level, she might even view this as preferable for her to be the one to "end the relationship" of her own volition before Haruyo (in Kasumi's mind) gets bored with her and leaves.

It's bad. Hurry. Have to hurry. Have to find who sent the letter. Before I melt away.

^This line on page 26 and Kasumi's behavior on the pages before feel like she's trying to preventatively "wean herself off" of Haruyo, in order to protect herself from the supposedly inevitable parting they're going to have soon. She wants to end the relationship before it's too late for her to go back to what life was like before Haruyo.

this is insanely romantic. i'm sold. like, i'm already a sucker for class S-inspired stories (marimite, anyone?) as well as the rose/candy yuri dynamic (rose being the older girl who's mature, reserved, probably has some kind of emotional baggage that closes her off, and candy being the younger girl who's naive and sincere). huge thank you to the scanlator, i'm bookmarking this one

I am more or less familiar with class S, but I hadn't heard of the rose/candy dynamic. That's a good label for part of the depth and nuance in their relationship. Kasumi is essentially a rose who plays at being a candy as a form of escapism while Haruyo is the opposite, a candy playing as a rose.

It ties really well into their underlying reasons behind seeking out this class S relationship. Haruyo is infantilized by being the youngest sibling and casually by the way her friends treat her and sought to become more mature, being in control and relied on by others was her fantasy when writing these letters. Kasumi is burdened by the death of her friend, and feels an acute lack of support, probably tied into her identity as the eldest sibling in her family. She seeks out the class S relationship because she wants a space where she doesn't have to be the strong/resilient person, she desperately needs a place to be openly weak and express all those emotions she's been bottling up.

Let's not pretend none of us old men here reading yuri wouldn't switch in a heart beat if it was real possibility haha

dysphoria hydrogen bomb

oh my god they made labubu yuri

blessed day for miosule enjoyers

The panel of Haruyo's hand in Kasumi's hair made me feel intense emotions

there's a pretty deep insecurity pervading the way michiru interprets shino's actions. Definitely feels like something they'll have to work through, although given that this is a high school fling I doubt either of them are thinking about the long term.

The depictions of those lizards seemed way too realistic to actual species and hobby keeping for itsuki kuro to not be into reptile pet keeping irl. That's so fun, I love that the lesbian brothel mangaka is also a big fan of herpetology

starting to think becoming a vampire thrall might be a metaphor or something

Well I sure hope that Ms. Newpaper Lady has a secret loading dock to get Bai Yuetao tf out of here

This is so fucking funny lmao. It's scumbags all the way down

Ningiyau is back, today is a great day

@Temp incredible comment, I'm really touched by the ease with which you've showed the place of this story within the wider yuri genre, effortlessly weaving in historical context and international fandom culture.

I really need to read some of Yoshiya Nobuko's works.

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Really interesting one shot about the implications of a global "genderbend" disease. The trans woman who had just gotten bottom surgery, who then got turned into a man and had to start all over again has to be going through true hell right now, I do not envy her in the slightest.

Looking back at the number of series mentioning hormonal therapy and trans themes in yuri manga, I'm struck by the way that transgender topics seem to be a big part of the conversation about what yuri was in the late 2000s, but this same level of transgender understanding and visibility is almost entirely absent from yuri in the 2020s. I would love to see more explicitly transgender characters in yurihime

It feels weird to me that yurihime is ony 20 years old. Sure there was yuri shimai before but to think that the modern form of the magazine, a juggernaut of the yuri genre, has only existed for 20 years is still really crazy.

mutual puppygirlification

No one else is doing it like Sal Jiang. I'm obsessed

People complaining about "too many poly endings" should check the poly tag vs the love triangle tag and see just how common poly endings actually are lmao.

That said, I instantly got my hopes up for a poly ending only to be immediately crushed by the knowledge that there's no more chapters ever lmao. I just keep doing this to myself

This series just keeps getting better and better. The layers of onee-sama vs senpai kouhai basically start to delve into the core of japanese linguistic power dynamics and how those shape relationships between people

Honestly this is so real. Also boyfriend stuff aside this whole dynamic reads as really trans girl coded, like the small tits and having the complex over them, not knowing what bra size ur supposed to have cuz no one ever taught u, etc

The chapter almost feels like a soft reboot with an entirely different premise

The Gyarufication begins...

It's the gyaru-otaku synthesis really if you think about it