THE PLOTLINES HAVE CONVERGED...

This is full of clichés. But they're all my favorite clichés, so I'll probably love it.

Also what's up with "wanting to shine?" Is that a particular Japanese idiom? Because it's used in a ton of yuri or yuri-esque properties with a performance component (Love Live and Revue Starlight off the top of my head)

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I've had sex in a bathroom. It wasn't great. Although maybe having sex in a bathroom at work is the key

Cool Down is just... the best. Give her a girlfriend dammit!!!

This was awful lol

Miriam has to accept the fact that Alice doesn’t like her because of her haircut

TERF bangs

as someone who really likes getting bitten... yes

hey baka-inu, lily is a trans girl, so maybe fuck off :)

They finally got that slow dance!

what

way too rapey

imagine thinking vampires could possibly be straight

Just to clarify--on page 26, Uta doesn't actually say the words in the top left panel, right? So Kaoru is unaware that she's attracted to a woman.

I know that Kousaka is supposed to be mysterious and enchanting but she honestly just seems super predatory... I don't really have nothing against age gap but this is too much for me. I tap out.

the fuck is up with that credits page

What the fuck is anonymus.. Maybe god?

This is just my interpretation, but I think Anonymous is supposed to represent the limits of our ability to understand other people. The point isn't that we have to totally understand everything about everyone, we just have to be able to accept them even if we don't understand them, and not try to force them to be something else. And as shown with Misora and Touma, a lot of the time people don't even really understand themselves. I think that this is a super important theme of this manga, and a really good point to make today when LGBT acceptance is increasing. Some people (e.g. Touma's dad) are just homophobic, but Koyama is an example of a character who wants to support queer people but tries too hard to inject herself into other people's lives. While outright homophobia and transphobia is obviously wrong, a certain kind of misguided progressive attitude can also lead people to treat queer people like trophies. Anonymous doesn't just represent an asexual or agender person, but in a way kind of represents all queer people: she defies others' abilities to try and fit her into a category for their own comfort, but if you accept that, she can be a great friend.

I'm not suggesting that you should never try to understand people. I just think that the pressure to understand people and the pressure to fit an identity can both lead to the exact opposite of their desired outcome. But yeah, I don't really get the whole flying thing.

Koyama reminds me of my mom.

characters who are bad people ≠ characters who are poorly written

As someone who was friends with a lot of male otakus in high school, I can tell you that there are definitely people who take it way too far. I mean, it's true that a percentage of any given fanbase will include creepy guys, but there have been many instances where someone crossed a line. (For instance, opening up to a guy about liking yuri leading to him hitting on me in a creepy and uncomfortable way.)

Regardless, this seems cute. I'm interested to see where it goes.

This gives me Life is Strange vibes

She's not feverish, she's Cavendish (￣ω￣)

@Minutoh DUDE WATCH THE HANDMAIDEN

I'm really loving this so far. Since it hasn't really been mentioned yet, I wanted to touch on the fact that Tsucchi is a great audience stand-in character. She's adorable, but her personality is uncomfortably close to my own feelings about yuri. Plus there's like never realistically overweight characters in manga.

What differentiates this series from so many other similar but worse stories is that the lesbian relationship isn't the point. The story is really about the main character and her growth as a person, not only in the maturation of her views on sexuality, but also becoming more self-aware and positive in her outlook towards others. The fact that they don't end up together is a reflection of reality - queer people don't have the luxury of assuming that their attraction will be requited - but it's also not a tragic outcome, since the protagonist knows that she will be able to learn from her experience and become a better person. This is probably one of my all-time favorites for these reasons. I've been constantly rereading it and it gets better every time. I would love an adaptation of some kind, even though that's not very likely.

Yuusuke is a bro.