Did the author just decide to use orange or is the manga getting more color the gayer it becomes? Short but lovely read so far.

increasingly citrus-colored

Wait, who are these girls? The MCs? Surely not, haven't seen them for chapters! :p

Well Makino isn't an adult and even then that wouldn't be a Yuri element

The manga start near the end of high school, with college entrance exams. And then we have people wondering if Makino is taking a 'gap year', and I recall no mention of school or classes outside cram school, so I think Makino is 18 now.

I don't think that this arc is that bad at all.

You think Kase putting her long-term relationship up for a bet isn't bad?

I took it as a little origami good-luck charm.

Rich parents' rich friends trying to get their daughter (Seri) to be a sugar baby... O_O

If that's the case then the author has done a bad job showing it. Like, even one short scene of Diana trying and failing to say it right and apologizing would at least go some way for that. I can be sympathetic to the idea that it is more difficult for those with less education to a point, but there's a difference between someone finding something difficult and someone not putting in any effort at all.

It's possible Diana can't even hear the difference, without wider linguistic training.

Woo, Soara gets to use her training for once!

Takes special talent to be useless lesbians after having sex...

4：Aya is 21 in law now so the legal guardian is out of the question.

Oh, huh.

Did not expect this to be a series! Subscribed.

But as for real life smoking... my father died of lung cancer, and the walls of our house were stained to medium brown with tobacco smoke and tar, thanks to chain smoking parents. I wonder what it all did to my health, as a scrawny low-stamina kid.

Hmm.
Did Aya inherit anything from her dead relative? Even if she had, the state probably took it since she was presumed dead.
Were there no other relatives?
Is she economically dependent on Koto?
Who's her legal guardian?

Those first three pages really don't belong into a scanlation release ...

what are you talking about? they were great

Cat girl takes her job seriously and works hard . . . wait, what?! Has Zanka ever met a cat?

That's the 'girl' part shining through.

Does this really earn lolicon based on its content?

Suu-chan is going to have not just her body but also her mind and soul be tainted by Hijiri

Not to mention her lungs.

No, this is clearly an AU where Chinese genetics include white and pink hair.

:p

Please do not annoy the translator.

Those kinds of responses are always funny. 361 chapters in: "what, this is what I was reading?!"

"they put age gap in my age gap! how dare they"

Seagull: Ashima, the dark-hair sister? She wasn't that bad, considering circumstances. "Terrible personality" is the MC's 'friend', the one the MC was getting away from. Tall glass of utter toxicity there.

This discussion has made it abundantly clear that the vast majority of yuri is created for girls by girls. Men can read it if they feel so inclined, but they're not the target segment.

It made it clear the vast majority seems to be made by women, yes. Saying the vast majority is for women is a very different claim, and not substantiated. When there are literally as many men as women reading, it would behoove mangaka or their editors to consider tapping that audience.

"Yuri is only made for male gaze" is false, but "men are rarely the target audience" seems unlikely too.

cishet men not the target

Yuri Hime S was an obvious exception. Wiki mentions 'moe' rather than 'smut'

I recognize only one of the titles mentioned in it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Yuri_Hime_S
(Wife and Wife)

An old forum comment says "I have to say most of the plots found in Yuri Hime S tend to be a mixture of cutesy moe antics with schoolgirl crushes that may or may not go anywhere"

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Author just really wanted to write a ghost mystery story but without starting a new series lol

Hey, it worked.

Seagull Villa also had the incest sisters side plot. I dunno if that's a recurrent theme.

https://floatingintobliss.wordpress.com/2017/11/27/yuri-isnt-made-for-men-an-analysis-of-the-demographics-of-yuri-mangaka-and-fans/

Authors:

I found that out of the 150 mangaka, 91 were female, 20 were male, and 39 did not have a listed gender. This means that 60.66% of mangaka were female, 13.33% were male, and 26% were unknown. Of those with known genders, 81.98% were female and 18.01% were male. This means that at least 60% of these mangaka were female as a whole, and at most 87% of these mangaka were female as a whole, depending on the genders of those not listed.

Readers:

The first is the Comic Yuri Hime survey. According to a 2007 poll by the magazine, 70% of Comic Yuri Hime readers were female. This poll has a response bias and it’s worth noting that this was before the magazine merged with the more male-oriented Comic Yuri Hime S, but it is notable. According to The File on Yuri Works, only 62% of Yuri Hime S readers were male in 2008, before the merging of the magazines.

And:

In her unscientific survey of Japanese yuri fans online she found very interesting results. According to this survey of 1352 people, 52.4% identified as female, 46.1% identified as male, and 1.6% identified as other.

According to her survey, 30.0% of respondents were non-heterosexual women, while only 15.2% were heterosexual women(a significant number of people chose ‘don’t know’ for this section.) As a result, we can conclude that roughly 66% of women taking this survey were women who are attracted to other women. In this survey, non-heterosexual women outnumbered every group other than heterosexual men. Non-heterosexual men accounted for around 2-3% of the total survey.

I note that the 'unscientific' survey of Japanese fans has results fairly similar to the equally unscientific Dynasty survey, at least in M/F ratio. She notes an English-language survey also with similar M/F, though much higher 'other' gender and non-straight (male and female) percentages.

Exact numbers are unknowable but it seems pretty likely that male/female is roughly even, in and out of Japan.

It would be interesting to know if Yuri Hime and Yuri Hime S had a notable difference in their types of yuri, like soft romance vs. "tribbing by page 3" smut, or something.

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