Oh, cool homegirl meets someone who knows her secret but won't try and sabotage her or purposefully get in her way
How new!

Discrimination is certainly not cliche. I can hardly remember any yuri mangas which use the term lgbt. Some people are really offended if it's not a fairy tale world

The bullying part was rather ham but described something basically realistic, but the "you need to be a live in caretaker for an attractive older woman" is more egregiously a trope.

That said, I enjoyed Can't Refuse The Lonely Girl despite the blackmail trope in that being a hella contrived excuse.

Yeah, I'm fine for trope setups if the series can rise above the trope like Can't Refuse or Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl

Hopefully this can rise above

poor komada (or lucky komada) ;)

Most assuredly lucky

I for one really love Octave
Definitely my third favorite yuri series and just one of my fav series in general
A big reason for that was because it had such a flawed protag that made mistakes and did actually learn from them (and paid a price)

A big reason I and many others probably don't like Liberty is how horribly confused it is
When it started out I was hooked on the first couple chapters because of how alluring and mysterious Liz appeared to be and how their relationship escalated in a pretty great way
Then the drama with those fucking earrings happened
Then Liz stopped becoming alluring or mysterious and she morphed into an abusive bitch
Then Maki morphed into either a potted plant or a sponge
Then Liz's ex arrived and Liz jumped on her like she was catching a last minute train
And like, I'm cool with reading a story about shitty characters doing shitty things (if it is done right)
But what I'm not cool with is all the confused messaging about acceptance that the author is trying to cram into the story.
Like, I'm good with the whole acceptance and tolerance thing but this really isn't the story to do it in and these clearly aren't the type of role models to be funneling these messages through.
Also, there is barely any fucking time spent to developing this relationship at all.
We get one slave contract and some riding yo' girl to the bathroom nonsense before the ex shows up and starts slamming Liz like an express train through a concrete barrier.
The author seems to want us to care about his relationship when almost zero work has been done to actually show it.

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When I think of the author this is what I imagine how she must be like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNyseb6EGCA

Yeah, I absolutely love how this is the image she thinks of when she thinks of her and Maki
I'm kinda surprised that they didn't include those times Liz casually hit her

This is a weird thing to say to someone who's sitting right next to you

I think it is worth comparing this sequel series with Kase and Yamada

When you want to wring both characters necks the manga

I just want to say
Anyone who hasn't read Liberty should avoid that shit like the plague

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This seems pretty good but man are there a lot of grammar mistakes
At least in the first couple of chapters

So wait, this is still totally the web comic version right?
And not like the official serialization version

Holy shit! I nearly completely forgot that this series even existed!

Return of the mental 7 year old

That was so cool for cats!

They are gonna need a lot more heavy duty equipment to successfully get rid of that trash

Soap ain't gonna cut it

Yeah, she's not even a sucker for good looks
She's just a plain sucker period

no...NOT THE GRAPES! NOT THE GRAPES! GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!

Oh yeah they finally confessed, well that's cool.

Geez, every time there's an SPB (Strategically Placed Boy) introduced in the story they think the girl will instantly act like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-wWTQ70NKE

I personally blame harems and that one girl in a shonen who suppose to be the main female mc despite getting overshadowed by a cooler female character later on and anime in general, but yeah this manga is way too yuri the dud just smells like a misdirect now if it was a long drama yuri series then I be afraid

Yeah, and just a way too obvious misdirect at that
For a tittle like this there hasn't been that much actual spoiling going on as well

Also, Denny, what kind of drugs? WHAT KIND OF DRUGS DENNY?

This is a real dope start
The journals bleeding into each other was pretty great

Geez, every time there's an SPB (Strategically Placed Boy) introduced in the story they think the girl will instantly act like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-wWTQ70NKE

I don’t really see this as so much an “open ending” as a simple refusal to make the story explicitly yuri. They’re living together, explicitly because they like each other and want to take care of each other; the only thing left open is that elementary school question, “Do they like like each other? Do they like each other that way?”

When it’s done well, I don’t really mind an actual open ending, where we’re not sure where the relationship will ultimately end up, but where the MCs have come to a new understanding of how they feel about each other.

In this case, it seems more like a coy withholding of information, where we could be shown that there’s one double bed with rumpled sheets, but instead we’re shown the toothbrushes and told, “Make of that what you will.”

It’s still been a decent story and I’ve been glad enough to read it, despite its rather evasive ending.

You know what it reminds me a lot of Notes From the Garden of Lilies
Like both of them have endings that don't really confirm a physical display of affection but seem to suggest that there's some sort of relationship going forwards (Notes is more specific on that point but only in the extra)

I probably have just finished reading Citrus for the 6th times. I finally found something that we all probably miss.
In the original series in Chapter 8, Mei was looking at a family photo. Page 15, 16, & 17. Mei's mother is in the photo. (Shou, Mei, and Mei's mother).
That is so unusual because her normal photo is always Shou, Mei, and Grandfather. I wonder why she looks at that photo at that moment as opposed to the one with grandfather in it, instead of her mom.

Interesting. Since you’ve just been through the whole thing, were there any other significant references to Mei’s mother?

To my recollection, she’s a lot like Huck Finn’s mother in Mark Twain’s novel—by definition she must have existed, but we learn next to nothing about her.

I don't want to read it for the 7th time. That are 13+ volumes, maybe some other day. But Mei stated (Chapter 7 Pg 32) that she chose Shou instead of her mom when they divorced. As everyone knows, she worships Shou, because he put the school in front of his own happiness. That was how she accepted the divorce. She decided to take over the school (at the age of 11, 5th year at elementary school!!!), until Shou comes back. Because of that, pg 33 explains that she would do ANYTHING to protect the school, with a background panel of Amamiya and Gramps. She lost her purpose in life. She then wants to have sex with Yuzu, for the first time, and Yuzu did the right thing for refusing it. That sequence also explains it all. But how come the mom was never there except in a photo with a very young Mei for merely 3 pages I have no idea. There was neither direct reference, nor something that maybe you can guess. It is like a black hole. Also, Mei's mom is shown wearing traditional outfit (Yukata) in the photo.
Mei's belief comes from the old Shou. Yuzu's belief is backed up by the current Shou.

You know what I've always wanted to know about her mother because I figured she'd have some kind of plot significance at some point in the story. I thought in like the last few chapters of O.G Citrus she'd make some kind of surprise appearance (shame it didn't happen)

Ending could have been a little better and Christ! The amount of times Aizawa almost mounted Kojima only be interupted made me want a bit of resolution on that front
Still, good series and definitely unique
Solid 8/10 in my book

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/i_wanna_spoil_yoroizuka_san_ch05#2

Is it just me or is anyone else seeing an increase in Frozen references these days?

You should really just let it go