She lost hair elsewhere.

I wondered, how could she never hear the master perform? Or at least practice eh? Pros have to practice several hours a day, she'd definitely have heard that. Maybe she meant attending a performance, that would make sense.

I was wondering about that, too, but I guess it's also possible that maybe this is Youko's first day as a maid? Otherwise... yeah, it would be weird for a professional pianist to not practice in their own home.

Soundproof room she usually isn't allowed to enter while her Mistress practices?

Surprise stalker.

Boobs are true love.

So what are you doing in cat cafes if you don't eat or drink?

Take pictures I guess... secretly.

Said thing is that social media culture almost certainly translates to half of the costumers indeed primarily going to be able to post selfies afterwards (well, the cafe probably won't care).

Yeah, I've recently checked the 12 Kingdoms wiki entry and these days it boasts an "isekai" tag. So all those old style portal fantasies - Escaflowne and whatnot - presumably should count too, these days.

Also, just to be clear, the heroine in Villainess doesn't end up in the game as such. She ends up in a "real" world that's like the game.

There's a bunch of yuri isekai. But I can't say I can think of many I'd really recommend. I Favor the Villainess isn't too bad though; it's not harem and it takes homosexuality mostly seriously. It's even translated, although it's just an edited machine translation (and that shows, but, well, it's readable).

Doesn't sound too different from the Western LGBT fantasy novels then, though. They tend to be pretty grim.

If I don't define my action as breathing, but suck in oygen and expel CO2, am I not breathing?

Apparently, that’s for others to say.

Isn't that what you are doing here? They say they aren't (quite) girlfriends. You say they are.

Be respectful of the characters' opinion of their relationship. ^^

There's certainly been moments in my life when I was an exemplary member of the hole digging club.

I refuse to consider a one-shot displaying the predatory "model" recruitment for porn movies "cute".

^ that's such a tiresome trope in trans fiction. If you have a male character going trans, they have to
a) become frail, meek, easily scared so they can be rescued by more manly people (even if the manlier characters are girls)
b) their favorite color must be something like lavender or pink
c) their must start to love cooking, sewing, or whatever else could pass as feminine activity (and probably become a housewife)
d) more likely than not they must become obsessed with makeup (or clothes, or their looks in general)
e) if there's any hint of sexuality of course they are the bottom / submissive

It's as if transgender actually means transfifties (< yesyes, this doesn't make any sense), because it somehow distorts their views 70 years back to what they think a "woman" is.
I'm reluctant to consider this too much of a critique since a lot of "ownvoice" (pop) fiction I've read does this and if that's their cup of tea, who am I to judge?

But more variety really wouldn't hurt ^^,

Are you sure she's not going to become pregnant?

Transistor Venus is great (despite the unnecessary crush - but I think the implication is that she mostly gets over that. In the beginning, she was after girls to practice, but then she saw the light ... ). Also, Sakura no Sakai by the same author is also pretty neat.

Disclaimer: I might be slightly biased :p

With what we've seen so far it's pretty clear they are both quite capable of getting turned on by the other (remember the goodnight-kissing). So I don't think it'd need any extra gimmicks to go from there.

I also doubt a significant portion of us feel the need to announce that we have definitely already read this elsewhere. It's not exactly the most interesting sort of comment to make ^^;

Even if that'd be more blasphemous, but personally I just don't like this wishy-washy sorta attitude that comes with "it's up to the reader!" I mean, if this were an adventure story that's 95% about defeating a big bad evil and the author for the sake of pacing doesn't go into relationships much, and leaves that sort of thing open - sure. Good even, possibly. But this seems to be 95% about their personal development and their relationship specifically - and then saying "but you can read whatever you want into it" is a cheap cop out of sorts to me. Like a mystery story where the culprit is up to the reader. ^^

Doesn't make the manga worse necessarily, but I still find that pretty bleh.

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Friendship is sailing to Tokyo.

Or maybe it'll go down the "you can watch but don't come any closer" route.

< Read too much about weird hobbies ...

I'm guessing the school mandates it for students due to some liability reason.

In Germany, if you miss classes that are mandatory, you'd usually have to hand in some proof that you were actually ill, and the only proof you get is what a Doctor will give you, so ...

Usually though they don't care (or even more usually classes aren't mandatory in the first place. But still, could be a reason behind this).

...also dearly hoping this lil' girl is not one of Brother Itami's exes for reasons obvious. >_>

I'm kinda expecting her to be the dorm manager; one of those adult-lolis. She's probably just into roleplaying middle schoolers.

Well, if you have KU; there's really no reason not to support an author that does this. Clickclickclick ...

A while back I saw a writing thread with prospective authors (of romance, obviously) discussing whether their character suited each other according to zodiacs, actually taking the entire business very seriously. That was just one more thing about humanity I just friggin' didn't want to know.

I predict you'll soon meet a stranger of some significance ...

Lots of pages still use the distinction. aniDB, mangadex, who knows what else. Personally I'd just get rid of both and tag stuff with lesbian. Really no point in using some type of Japanese terminology to avoid making it sound gay these days (or whatever else the point is...).

Either way, despite what I said in my last post, it's not like anything for this story is confirmed. So if you absolutely definitely only exclusively want to read a lesbian romance manga you have to wait a while longer - we don't yet whether that's where this is going.

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A timely series, what with Bloodlines 2 recently being announced ... :x