I agree with Ciega. Keita turned an insult into her identity which is pretty offensive imho. This is considering she found it offensive when he started using it. I still dislike how the author made Youko basically roll over when she confronted him about it. He's kind of an insensitive twerp about everything.

Pika-Youko all the way!! I dunno, this turned into a kinda sucky story for me =/

I wasn't sure at first but you know how some women toss their hair when someone they like is around?

Ever since you mentioned this I've been very curious if this is really true?

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So that was a flashback chapter??

Shinobu's hairstyle changed. Her bangs are more evident now. (See the first page of chapter 1 for the comparison.)

They really are! Good catch!

I was more caught off guard with the president's declaration of love for Wakatsuki a chapter or so back, with no development of feelings at all for that. Just sort of, OMGERD I love her and now the confession. Though I am sort of hoping for some chapters post confession/bliss kissy feely times.

I really adore this couple.

Could not agree more!

1000 comments and 100,000 views.Kinda awesome. I also thought the roller coaster scene was way too funny.

This thread really went into a different direction...

Lol no kidding!

Duno if I am going to check the rest of the suggested. It's just that to me everything comes out as typical romance stuff, quite bland, feels like cookie cutter stuff... all the same, nothing as fun to read as what I get from yuri...

Eh, no worries. Those were the ones I found that I liked the most. Every time I go looking I end up stumbling into the same experiences as I described in an earlier post. These were the few ones that didn't need the use of sex for the characters to express that they love each other if the romance was actually decent for once. And I also agree about yuri, it's definitely a more enjoyable genre.

Came across this gallery on DeviantArt. Since very few romances taking place in high school don't go very far into college life and adulthood for the couples, it seems this person wanted commissions of the two girls when they're much older.

Girl Friends - Semi-Continuation

403 Forbidden??

Lol I think all of us straight guys here can can easily relate to anyone of the manly men in this little skit ;)

Manly men

AAAAAAAAAAH I LOVE THAT MOVIE!
(can't play the video if you live outside of the US)

Dangit!! It was impossible to find on youtube as it was! ><

I'm a straight male and I also read yuri and some trap (BL doesn't really get my attention but there's something really exciting about trap shrugs).

In my case, I started reading yuri thanks to touhou and then started branching out nowadays I read yuri more for the romance and fluffy stuff (some erotic every now and then is pretty nice though) while I can't really care for normal romance manga since it felt kind of 'soulless'. I don't know how to really explain it.

I am the same for yuri, there tends to be decent character development alongside the romance. So nice.
That's actually a pretty good explanation of het romances. I pretty much stick with yuri for my romances nowadays since het's are just.... the genre in general is just aweful. Not really sure how to say it but... it's U.G.L.Y.

Lol I think all of us straight guys here can can easily relate to anyone of the manly men in this little skit ;)

Manly men

lol

Lumberjack Song

Ah! I totally forgot about that one! Nice!

Lol I think all of us straight guys here can can easily relate to anyone of the manly men in this little skit ;)

Manly men

That, and some parts are sort of funny, aside from the sexual harassment.

Yeah that's been a big issue with it for me but Yuzu seems to try and balance her attraction Mei with actually trying to help her with her problems. (That or I'm looking at the story through yuri-tinted goggles lol.)

Kind of agree with the sentiments here. Yuri seems to be pretty well balanced, BL... not so much, and the others are variably mixed and not mixed. I also tend to venture into the shoujou and josei territory looking for romances.

Thanks for the suggestions of Aki Eda's and Mizutani Fuuka's het romances. Will definitely check those out.

Besides aaaalll of that. My main problem with the romance genre is the stories where the main character is always thinking about getting a girlfriend or sex and that's all that they ever think about. There is no character development outside of that. But what is even much much worse is when the main love interest (usually a guy) sexually assaults the main girl or nearly rapes her and all of a sudden she's like, "OMFGOZH*(#($*H(F*#(OIEH I LOVE HIM!!!" On top of that the main guy is almost always a complete asshole/douche bag and whenever they bully or tease or harass the main girl she runs or pushes them away. Then they spit out, "you're a coward. I did nothing wrong. This is all your fault we are like this." Constantly humiliating and treating the main girl like an object or whatever. The sad part is is that the main girl is usually a pretty good character but ends up becoming some weird love slave who all of a sudden cannot do anything without the douche bag love interest.

Describing almost every hentai and ecchi there... Just add rape and torture, and multiple girls... I wish I could erase all the crap I watched...

I don't even read/watch hentai and stumble through ecchi every once in a while but generally avoid both. It's why I'm still sane in some areas of my brain. But it's all very much true for regular hets as well.

I've had so much trouble finding decent het romances because of this problem.

Heh, I gave up on romance long ago. Then I found yuri with all the sweetness and flirty vibes.
Where sometimes even the porn was so sweet that I squirm on my chair cuz its so overwhelming! (e.g. soon to be on this site, http://yuri-ism.com/2014/05/04/release-257-kyosaya-pillow-talk/ )

Lmao that was the same with me!! XD...

I should try to find some flirty-sweet het romances... I am under the impression that there isn't any...

I really haven't found any, or at least I haven't found ones that are along those lines. Only good ones I can think of that have decent romances are:
--Hibi Chouchou,
--Kimi Ni Todoke (the manga is good but the anime makes it even better!),
--Orange Yane no Chiisana Ie (Little House with an Orange Roof),
--Horimiya (the most flirtatious of the ones I'm suggesting imho),
--Angel Densetsu (my personal, all time favorite!!),
--Ore Monotogatari (this one is friggen hilarious! Aka, overly macho guy gets the super cute girl),
--Otoyomegatari/A Bride's Story (damned amazing art and story),
--Emma (same author as Otoyomegatari),
--and Sakurasaku Shoukougun (just found this and it looks to be turning into an okay romance, but I'm holding my breath, it's super aaaangsty right now).

I really do not have anything against love triangles, I actually kind of enjoy them as long as they are not overly annoying. Probably because of VVV
I was in a love triangle once or twice in high school. They usually happened unknowingly and the first time ended up with the girl giving me a rejection/hate letter one day out of the blue. She was super friendly to me for months and I considered as a friend. Turned out she had a crush on me while I had a crush on a girl a grade above us. Surprised the hell outta me!! We became good friends later though.

The other time I made the other girl cry unknowingly. I forgot what I said but the girl in the above story punched me (not anime style, in the arm, and it hurt iirc) for it. I had no idea who she was at the time and I suppose I said something about not ever being interested in her or something. Later on we both had this... strange vibe of attraction toward each other but nothing ever came of it, and I'm glad.

So I guess that's why I don't really have any issues with them. (That is not mentioning the numerous times in the past 6 1/2 years where other guys tried to steal my girlfriend away knowing she was with me, and even met and shook my hand!! The nerve!!! And yes, if in the past if I found out the girl I became attracted to had a boyfriend I would totally back off, it's not my place to interfere and because I would not like someone else doing it to me.)

Besides aaaalll of that. My main problem with the romance genre is the stories where the main character is always thinking about getting a girlfriend or sex and that's all that they ever think about. There is no character development outside of that. But what is even much much worse is when the main love interest (usually a guy) sexually assaults the main girl or nearly rapes her and all of a sudden she's like, "OMFGOZH*(#($*H(F*#(OIEH I LOVE HIM!!!" On top of that the main guy is almost always a complete asshole/douche bag and whenever they bully or tease or harass the main girl she runs or pushes them away. Then they spit out, "you're a coward. I did nothing wrong. This is all your fault we are like this." Constantly humiliating and treating the main girl like an object or whatever. The sad part is is that the main girl is usually a pretty good character but ends up becoming some weird love slave who all of a sudden cannot do anything without the douche bag love interest. I've had so much trouble finding decent het romances because of this problem.

It's also a bit of a rant because I just dropped Hana Yori Dango mid way through Vol.26 and went through a few other similar "romances" just before it.

Oh that one!... I thought I read it here...??

Teppu is pretty awesome. Yuri, no yuri, the sociopathic bent that everyone has is a fun change of pace.

I'm still waiting for someone's face to get pummeled.

Oh yeah, and that Renai Idenshi XX story. There was a lot of potential in this one but ended up having too much fail in the end for me. But I still read it from time to time because I enjoy the initial buildup lol. (I kinda do that for Girls the Wild, great build and then endless/pointless bully arcs and fighting and no decent character progression until recently.)

plenty of intense emotional connections between girls

how twisted most everyone's personality is

These are the reasons why I enjoyed it and why I look forward to the main's recovery into someone respectable.

I wanna say Drpepper had been reading this..? But my memory is poor, so I'm probably wrong.
IIRC there was also something like a confession + rejection in one of the latest chapters.
We'll see about it.

Just marathoned this one today. It's main cast is pretty similar to Baggata Way's, meaning the majority are female. It is also veeery different from what is on here and would be a nice change of pace. And there was a confession buuutt, I dunno, didn't feel like a straight up rejection. More like a, "sorry for worrying you" kinda thing. But if you manage to get it on here, I think it'd be a very nice addition to the catalog.

The updates looks slow as hell on that one. Buuut thanks for the heads up about it. We could definitely use some more sports yuri... even if there isn't straight up yuri in it persay.

Heh, reading up on the back story led me to read Densha Otoko which was just really great. But I wonder, anyone here ever come across something similar like that on the internet before?? I've come across quite a few threads. (The most recent was a guy who woke up next to his GF's friend XD.) But yeah, I'm amazed how the internet can really help a person out sometimes.

Thanks for translating, I didn't know this series, I've read 4 chapters, it doesn't looks yuri but is very fun! although I'm a little scared of the release schedule... Like reading berserk

There is a big difference here. Berserk would cause multiple heart attacks and this one would just be annoyance or disappointment.