Really hoping, if by some chance, this gets picked up as anime. Usually it would be some sort out there request, but with the state of Yuri being consistently picked one by one recently, I have hopes this one will too. It’s relatively popular, plus the bittersweetness of it all will provide a good enough draw for people to take with it. I just truly want another way we can immortalize Kaori, not just in the novel Shizuku is writing, or in this manga, but also her voice in an anime. I feel like even as a fictional character, Kaori is one of those special ones you don’t want to forget.

I want (demand...) Narcissu 2 anime first. :)

This story is fine too, but is of lower impact because it focuses more on the girlfriend of the patient than the patient herself.

social anxiety
antisocial
stoical
lost

Ffs, if this is another one of those "protagonist's love reincarnates as a child and they now live happily taking care of them, because their feelings are more than just romantic love" endings i'm gonna be sooo mad.

They'll both reincarnate into cute school boys and we get a happy yaoi ending.

I only brought up WataYuri because its the only yuri airing in spring -- unless you want to count Birdie Wing S2.

Birdie Wing is obviously yuri, it's just that it's an action comedy as well. There's nothing vague or plausibly deniable about it. Eve is a chick-magnetic Casanovette, but she also can't keep herself off from touching and egregiously flirting with her rival, who in turn has a ginormous crush on Eve and gets a brain meltdown every two minutes about it.

Thankfully it is an original story, so writers can (hopefully) just go all the way there.

Problem with adaptations is that they can struggle where to end the last episode. Many serials don't have convenient dropoff points, and don't want to give up final resolution to ongoing story, which might affect sales of manga or LN negatively.

Mother's suggestion to use sex appeal turned Hinoka into a true degenerate in one go.

Four volumes is average for a manga adaptation, but I guess it's possible to go into volume five before ending the season. As for the stopping point, well, Bloom Into You had no issues ending in the middle of an arc, remember?

This second part is super hard to adapt because it has a lot of almost unresolvable sticky angst (kind where you aren't even sure what the problem is at times), so you will most definitely just get "from start to confession singing scene" + maybe some little bit extra adaptation. That part is quite simple and straightforward, sparkly and just vanilla musical romance everyone can understand. 12 episodes is more than enough for that and will boost sales of LN/manga for sure.

After that?

No, I don't think it is a good idea. You know, if they actually want people to watch it without dropping it because their heads hurt too much.

wholegrainsome

So a perfect summary for this series would be
insane amounts of idiot trouble
unintentional player
dumbdere

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Anyway, Yuzu should just have said it: "'CauseI really wanna stay at yo~~ur house!"

I don't think that particular moon is very beautiful. :)

Student-teacher relationship! Truly outrageous! Jem it all the way in.

Hey, White Rose.

Don't you realize how ironic your post is? Don't talk about other posters, just their opinions that have been expressed directly in a particular thread. It's very easy rule to follow and makes for much better reading overall.

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am I the only one who was completely oblivious to this "suspicious/malicious" behavior of Midori because I thought this was just cute romcom yuri manga vibes???

Maybe people just aren't used to seeing a type of storyline and personalities that are not that uncommon in straight romcoms? Lot of yuri is almost overly soft and kind of self-censoring, even.

Dunno? Most manga serials have at least one oddball in the cast, if not several. Old classics like Urusei Yatsura have entire casts full of misfits, perverts and idiots. Toradora begins with crazy (eventual) love interest trying to murder the MC back in his home with a bokken.

This one? It's bit rowdy, but it's hardly over the top unusual story so far.

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I like how age is what more matters her than gender.*v*

I like the implications that even the concept of homophobia might simply not exist in this village. Xiaoen opened up so nonchalantly about her relationship with Xingyuan, like she never had to consider that outing her might be a problem, and everyone just rolls with it.

It's a small town, after all. Places like that tend to either be horrible bigot cauldrons, or surprisingly nice places where you can be as you are and you will be welcomed. Big cities go into middle of that spectrum, there people don't often even know who lives next door.

Also, their boss is bit weird, so I think everyone in the company is just happy that she found herself a lover. Xiaoen has a fairly high position in local hierarcy given her age, so she also has a lot more freedom to date anyone she likes, despite all the "I'm totally a teen chaser" whining she is throwing out.

ASMR hugumulation was too much for the dilettante lesbian.

It's weird to see a one-shot where the best part was bullying and reactions to it.

Usually you see bully getting slapped around to submission or "learning their lesson", but not here. Which is exactly how it goes in 99% of the cases. When target becomes too hard to go after, they just whine, drop it and bully someone else, with little to no introspection on why they're even doing it in the first place.

That was the funniest chapter so far.

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It kinda bothers me after the cheating she's still so Casual with her ex "Baba-kun" lol. It all feels so contrived and non sensical, I assume this is nothing more than a stupid gag Yuri Comedy?

I mean, it is a rom-com. So having silly gags, weird personality quirks and odd situations is a given.

Might put that Bisexual tag before we get complaints

Too early. There's just a young lesbian(?) pining after her best friend, and that best friend is dating a guy they both know.

Also, we don't know how that friend actually is either. Her orientation can be just about anything. This entire thing could just be a test to see if main girl is actually in love with her or not. Maybe she herself is afraid to confess to the MC, in case MC was not into her that way and would just cut off relations.

Bi label would require entirely different set of context. Right now there's nothing much on that front.

Not even gonna try to unpack this.
Just tear out my heart and stomp to pieces why don't you?

But that's also the reason why it will feel extra good later. This isn't set up in a way to be a soul-grinding tragedy, but more like a purgatory.

Fluffy stories usually have that air of inauthenticity to them, no matter how cute. Too much handweaving, or characters feel like they've been boxed in instead of being allowed to live and breathe, just so author doesn't need to adress a whole bunch of stuff.

I'm really digging that in here, other people outside of the relationship aren't the only source of problems, or even worst problem. Even the most benign relationship possible and wanting the absolutely best for each other isn't a guarantee of just acing your romantic life for decades. Yuri or not.

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Throw away the suit....yet she wears a suit to an interview. Sigh.

Interview suit is just a sticky habit/tradition. Interviewees try to balance between being seen from the crowd, but not standing out from it. Kind of hard to do sincerely.

If you're wearing a suit, at least you're not sending any negative signals to those who are asking the questions.

I always feel very... odd when I see a plotline where a woman settles for marrying a man after having been rejected or the like. I could understand if she genuinely loved him, bisexual people exist after all, but I don't see that being the case here... Feels like it reinforces the idea that you absolutely need someone else to be happy, even if they aren't someone you love, and that is just... sad.

Aoi wasn't just rejected. She had lost hope after getting burned with Kaede and then finding another girl she liked was into Kaede as well. She was even disappointed in her own motivations as well. Not because she couldn't get a girl in bed with her, she was quite capable of doing that and good at spotting girls who liked her. But for whatever reason, none of them were either truly available or she wasn't really into them.

It didn't seem to be about men or anything, she's just tired. Her describing how most of her relationships are shallow and convenient was pretty telling. Japan has oodles of women who married someone who was maybe sort of ok, but not exactly their heart-throb. Marriages come with improved public image and legal conveniences as well. Some polls I've seen indicated many women were profoundly unhappy with these marriages as well in their 40's and 50's.

There are also women who wanted a couple of children, without really liking the father candidate they had at hand. It was just that they had to deal with him, because single parenting can be bit hellish in Japan, especially in the past. You'd get dirty looks because people would think you have intolerable personality or some other severe flaw to have gone through a divorce while already having had children.

I think she's a decent fictional version of how that happens to a hopeful 20-something. It's sort of dramatic, but also not at all. Depressingly banal might be a good way to describe it. Just being worn down with the world and other people, and lying down under some tree completely exhausted. It's very, very common. Everyone either is one, or knows few like her.

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Shun is so nice, just casually forgives nasty bullying plus murder attempt by a delusional damsel who inhaled too much shipnium.

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For some reason this series manages to juggle with the hard art of "convenient seduction/confession blocks" quite well. You can't be mad because everything is so pretty, cute or just funny.

I can't believe the mangaka has a regular job and uses her free time to draw manga. And she even has to squeeze work into her commute time?

Someone tell her to take a break before she dies of overwork.

That's what a lot of mangaka have to do, sadly. Maybe do part-time jobs to supplemt income, or draw when they have time while commuting or doing a full-time job.

Also, this story has relatively simple art style compared to something like Berserk, so it's not quite as daunting of a task.

Is it just me, or Chinese artists are producing new yuri series every other week? That, or they are being picked up for translation than before.

Bunch of different factors in play. Like usable [not good] translation is becoming easier with AI tools, but biggest one is explosion of colored digital comics and accessibility of tools to draw them and distribute them has introduced a lot of new creators on the field.

So of course, since overall amount of comic makers has gone up, so has amount of yuri stories. Just wait once everyone can also use art AI to speed things up radically for finishing up panels from sketch state. You'll not be left wanting of any genre.

China is also the place that just churns out webnovels. Most are bad, but with that volume, it's practically quaranteed some good ones pop up constantly as well.

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