I think this is the fourth or fifth series I've read with this start... looks good tho

This kind of start is a full blown trope at this point. It's like if you want to have Otome or Villainess Yuri, this is almost "required".

Like Isekai with that darned truck, or shounen action series having a main lead who screams loudly (dumb happy main hero is almost as common, but occasionally MC can also be sharp).

God all that sexism and heteronormativity in the workplace is so real. It’s slowly getting better but still way too common

It will stay that way.

People kind of have to assume something, and so the default is that everyone can like someone from opposite sex. Combined straight + bi population is vastly larger than homosexual one.

So you need to make it really clear and be outspoken if you want to avoid awkward passes from opposite sex, especially at a company party where people get tipsy. Coming out doesn't end up in one time...

Also, Hiroko's epic failure at boasting her breadwinning capabilities was funny as hell.

last edited at May 24, 2023 2:50PM

Ooffadelic.

Asking advice from a veteran, eh?

Even fate struggles against Hiro-senpai's antics. When will these bar-crossed lovers get together?

oh my god kase's not the only one being stupid. roomie doesnt know that she herself is gay. she said that to mean "as a friend" but she doesnt know that she doesnt like kase as a friend. oh NO

That's a very Japanese way with dealing things, like giving someone a second chance to walk back a statement or hinting you don't want to do something without saying it directly.

Suki is a very convenient word for that, and aishiteiru is not that commonly used.

Kase isn't particularly thrilled about coming out when she's living with another woman in a school dorm, nor does she want to out anyone else.

All boxed in and ready to blow.

Hurray for lesbian bars, I guess?

In lesbian bars, they know all about pussy.

Go to a lesbian bar, and the cat is out of the bag. Reasonable.

Except not really.

Lot of straight girls go to lesbian bars on a dare, or to find a place where obnoxious guys don't hit on them all the time, so they can drink in relative peace.

last edited at May 20, 2023 5:42PM

... well this suddenly got boring, I don't care about any of this clothing stuff but it increasingly seems this is the main focus of this manga

the subtext tag is mocking us right now

... and I'm going to be honest with you, I don't think we even saw subtext yet :P

Subtext would already be something real that you can at least infer from the context. Right now it's just two bitchy sales girls arguing. Not unheard of that turning into love, but it actually would have to happen first.

Friends and rivals don't automatically turn into fuck buddies, even Yuri binoculars don't have such ability. :)

last edited at May 20, 2023 11:52AM

Poor girl is experiencing very intense gayfusion.

Anyone who hasn't yet, do read all the chapters, because otherwise 17 will seem utterly insane, instead of just crazy and Nanase having a brain seizure from overstimulation.

Right now chapters 10 and 11 aren't here, and those have a bunch of context to understand Fuuko and Yuni bit better.

last edited at May 18, 2023 2:43PM

I feel like Volume 4 is going to be the final volume of this series does anyone else think so as well?

Just 3-4 more chapters? Dunno, unless Nanase and Yuni just agree to be Fuuko's meat-slaves for rest of their lives.

See, Nanase hasn't even fucked her blonde runner friend yet, that friend is always slobbering to be able to get in her running pants. That has been hinted at several times.

last edited at May 18, 2023 9:10AM

Okay, I'll bite. What's 'misogynistic lookism'?

Some nonsense a regular commenter here projected on the story during its entire run instead of simply dropping the story like a sensible person would with something they irrationally hate. The misguided idea is that because the girls wanted to be conventionally pretty instead of accepting their natural looks they are somehow gears in the patriarchic system and only do it to appeal to the male gaze.

You should not throw them a bone.

lol whoever said that bs should grow up

Also, such term is far more applicable to some dude who goes off when woman isn't in full set of perfect makeup all the time. Yes, idiots like that do exist, especially among "trad men" who want their wimmin quiet, pretty and servile.

If it's just two women who date and both like makeup and whatever like it was a shared hobby, context is entirely different. Nobody is making demands.

Ema blaming Ayame for the break up because she "did too much" was insane tho
And then Ayame agrees and goes "yeah blabla my ego"

What kind of backwards thinking is this, boyfriend was a pos that left all the housework on her shoulders(like many men do) and its somehow her fault it didn't work out??? What was the mangaka thinking with this bs

Just accept what was actually on the page.

Why is it backwards thinking if that guy didn't want to be obsessively pampered and left her? Not to mention she clearly did that to other people too, and they left as well.

last edited at May 17, 2023 5:11AM

"Yuri is my work" is probably the best yuri serialization running, if you look at it from multiple angles and throw whatever preferences you personally have on the topic away. It's just... comprehensive is the word that comes to mind. It does take a bit of time to get rolling, but once it sticks you can't really stop reading.

It does not play coy with how crushes, sexual attraction and sex is, for example like by scoring third base doesn't automatically mean you have a permanently locked in relationship. It does not go overboard with it either, things work mostly like such affairs are between young adults in real world.

There are players, girls who are too stubborn or possessive, those who don't want to get involved but are forced to, talking sometimes makes things worse and is not universal antidote to problems, various traumas based on bad previous experiences, workplace not meshing well with your romance or fights, women are not really saints nor devils but something more complicated, etc.

last edited at May 16, 2023 7:00AM

-About 5 minutes ago-
Hmm, Gehenna. That’s a biblical expression, isn’t it?
One Google search later…
Ah, it’s Hell. Lovely.

Yeah… I think I’ll wait for all the chapters to be uploaded before trying out this one.

To be exact, Gehenna is a valley in modern day Israel. Place was used to burn children that were sacrificed in religious rituals to deity Moloch.

Which sort of makes this even more creepy.

last edited at May 15, 2023 2:49AM

She reached the fluffzone.

Tomadocking procedure.

This is the manga equivalent of repeatedly swinging a hammer inches from someone's face while they think "They must be trying to hit a nail nearby"

Swinging the hammer
But always missing the nail
Fourth wall stays broken

last edited at May 14, 2023 2:59PM

In this chapter: NTsisteR atacc, Tsukushi Cannae defend like Roman Army.

To be honest, I think this is one of the series that deserves "Parody" tag.

Because it so obviously is parodying the typical misunderstanding-romance tropes at every step, and pushing them to the breaking point and past it. There's no way to take this at face value, and you shouldn't try.

I'll still keep reading to see where this story goes, but I'm really not feeling this Baba inclusion. Wasn't the whole point of the first chapter that you need to leave someone who keeps charming you after hurting you? I understand they've explained that they have a history together and the girl doesn't want to throw it all away. But, to still be THIS close and even have the main character who publicly chewed him out be like "Wow! He's pretty fun to talk to! No wonder he was so popular with the girls he cheated on my crush with. Hyuk-Hyuk!" Like, where are we going?

It's kind of like if male harem protagonist was a side character in a yuri story.

last edited at May 9, 2023 12:23AM

Miorine's ahoge is like Pinocchio's nose, just for being gay instead of lying.

Apparently this has over 20 chapters. I'm kind of interested in how they could possibly drag it out that long after starting where they did.

That's because Hiroko is a true zen master at self-delusion, to a degree that makes even other romantic gag manga protagonists look pretty tame.

This lady knows a thing or two about customer retention.