Fuck me, literally first time ever Kodama Naoko actually starts fleshing out a plot and then this happens

And honestly it makes no sense, it should end with both going their separate ways: Blondie returning to her loveless, but socially aceptable, marriage and brunette moving on with her life, I mean that's realistic and human after all

Not really sure why it should end that way. Doesn't seem like an issue and that's exactly the opposite of what she'd do based on what's been presented about her character. Divorce is not unrealistic.

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I just mentioned this in another thread and here we go.

I re-read this again.
It's a sugar overload manga. I really like the interaction between Suiren sama and Suzu san.
It's a little disappointed that the manga just hang in midair.
Is the story discontinued already? Or is the manga , by accident picked up by any publisher that it has now been licensed by some publications?
Would love to know about the current updates on this manga and when it will start update again.

Pretty sure she just stopped writing it.

I adore Nagori Yu’s work—a powerful older woman cupping the chin of a naive younger girl while flirting outrageously, both of them totally smitten, is my purest yuri narrative catnip. (And it’s a lovely and distinctive art style as well.)

But while the author’s themes are nothing if not consistent, her series (when they are series) are nothing if not intermittent, and usually incomplete. If I heard that they didn’t do manga at all anymore I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. Massively disappointed, yes. But not surprised.

She's working on something still it seems. She posts stuff to Twitter still and those are part of different connected series but no one seems to translate them.

last edited at Apr 13, 2025 3:05PM

I re-read this again.
It's a sugar overload manga. I really like the interaction between Suiren sama and Suzu san.
It's a little disappointed that the manga just hang in midair.
Is the story discontinued already? Or is the manga , by accident picked up by any publisher that it has now been licensed by some publications?
Would love to know about the current updates on this manga and when it will start update again.

Pretty sure she just stopped writing it.

Fucking someone gay only works in hentai girl, luckily you're in an ecchi so there's a high chance.

Piggybacking off my first comment, I know people dislike NTR but why is everyone losing it so hard over a dumb soft core porn manga being dumb soft core porn?
She's not even together with the guy yet everyone in the comments is going completely insane.

As I said in my last comment, "Which the comments turned into a more serious situation than the series it's self I think lol"

Which includes myself. I think the discussion got serious in varied regards, and so it's been going back and fourth for awhile now. We're at a point where the discussion is more about the discussion than the series. You're saying we're all insane, and so now I'm responding to that lol

Which also "She's not even together with the guy yet", there's also been a lot of back and fourth on that. Which the series still has NTR theming at the very least, if the author didn't want that in there they shouldn't have put it in there.

I just don't think the author expects anyone to take it seriously for the reasons I put in my original comment. The character uses the words NTR but we can see in the chapter what the situation actually is and how naive and silly she and her friend are. The whole thing just seems tongue in cheek, so the response has been something (especially after only a chapter).

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It's kind of an outlier. This manga (link broken when quoting), for example, is actually cheating (and even has dubcon) but it didn't get nearly this amount of negative reaction. I'm honestly not sure why it might just be the people who happened to comment first set the tone. Either that or people just have an extremely strong negative reaction to the term "NTR" specifically (fully possible).

I think I have an easier time seeing where that manga goes because it immediately states that she's dating her boyfriend as a social obligation. So it's her trying to figure out if she wants to be with her social obligation partner, or a partner that's really into her. It feels comphet meets idiot couple more than anything

Imo "I'm in love with him because he picked up my money" also carries strong comphet overtones and the protagonist of this manga is certainly an idiot lol.

That's fair. For me I got a worse impression from this I think due to the framing and NTR angle being so specifically stated in this story. If she simply went, wait don't date that guy, I love you and I can prove I can be a good partner!, or something along those lines it would be fine. However it's off putting that this story at the very end had her go oh yeah it's cucking time and then she cucked all over the place...I apologize for the incredibly stupid Morbius joke but I couldn't help myself lol

But the friend isn't dating anyone at the moment. We don't even know if this guy likes her or even knows her. He just helped out once. No one is being cucked. At the moment the MC is just using random stuff she saw online (in a magazine) to try and get her friend to like her. The MC seems just as silly.

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Seems interesting. I'll read a few chapters before I make any accusations about what kind of series this will be. I didn't know this was the author of the other recently released LN. That's cool.

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Like, what do you even want? Would you rather there'd never be any sort of conflict bc apparently any kinda complications count as "forced drama" now. Is a story devoid of problems where nothing ever happens so there's no "drama" what you want? bc that's how you get "no substance, fluff only" slice of life 4-koma strips.

Often when people say "forced drama," what they mean is "bad drama." This series has a lot of bad drama, as others have explained. I would love some good drama, instead. This isn't it.

last edited at Apr 7, 2025 3:32PM

Nice story but the curse was weird. Even if you find a lover, they become disfigured at the very least?

I guess if their first contact were a kiss, no disfigurement would take place. But either way, if scarring is the price of being with Bella, I think Anna is more than happy to pay it. No one ever said that relationships are easy.

This was completely preventable though, so the disfigurement seems more like punishment than a price. A price is something one pays to gain another valueable thing, but nothing was gained from Anna and Bella hugging before they kissed. The true love's kiss was the price to lift the curse, the hug before that caused only harm.

It does not make the story bad, in fact I think it's pretty metal. I just don't think it should be swept under the rug with a "relationships are hard lol". It's toxic yuri, literally.

I don't see that as toxic. They were overcome with emotion and she fell into her arms. Most of the scar came from that embrace and their faces touching. Nothing there seems purposeful or as punishment. They just hold each other lovingly and seem lost in that moment. If anything it seems like the scarring was meant to showcase how into each other they were there that they didn't immediately notice.

last edited at Apr 6, 2025 3:55PM

who is this? is this a new character or was she established a while ago

She's the Kouhai who was just part of the story very recently--the one who invited Koga to the music party in the first place and created the opportunity for the prom surprise. She's been there since about chapter 100 or slightly earlier and was important for this last "arc."

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I think it’s interesting and a bit funny that Yuni makes a bunch of manga about cheating and/or toxic relationships even though she’s in a happy relationship. I’ve started looking for yuri on MangaDex recently, and I found an autobiographical manga called Manga de Tsudzuru Yuri na Hibi on that site. Apparently, Yuni is one of the writers along with her partner. Someone in the comments said they’re still together after 11 years, so it’s interesting she’s going with this dark stuff.

I wonder if she had to deal with this kind of stuff in the past… or she could just like writing about it. I guess “write what you know” doesn’t always apply.

Her stuff isn't ordinarily dark, though. I feel like she always thinks it's all cute and fun. To me, it seems like because she enjoys office worker yuri (which she says a lot), that naturally implies some unique situations and relationship dynamics to have fun with.

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The title reminds me of this song :D.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvUTu716rU

On another note, I always felt Yuni's work always conveys this strong sense of female intimacy that I rarely feel in other yuri works, with the exception of Sal Jiang’s. It feels both realistic and mature, (yet when viewed more logically, not really all that realistic if that makes sense) (^^') It captures the deep, emotional connection that forms in a lesbian relationship, feeling both sexy and seductive, yet also bittersweet. I’m not even sure if I’m using the right word to describe it. haha :D

Funny you mention Sal Jiang, since Yuni was/is part of a writing circle with Sal Jiang, Tamifull and Kuwabara Tamotsu (author of "Destroy It All and Love Me in Hell!"). I agree. They all have a certain similar feel to them, especially Yuni, Sal and Tamifull. "Destroy it all," is quickly rising up the ranks too.

Oh, I see! That makes sense now. No wonder all of them have released such well-written, realistic, and emotional yuri mangas. you just name-dropped the "Big Four" of the yuri manga world! Haha :D (also can't forget about Takemiya Jin tho that'll make it 5). Since they’re in a writing circle together, have they ever released any project? I’d love to read it,I bet it would be really well-written! :)

I only know of "I Don't Love Her, but I Love Her," described as "An anthology by 4 artists of the circle Monophobia (that's their circle name), themed around 'yuri' and 'women at the height of rudeness." I don't think anyone has TLd the full thing but some chapters are out. The one shot "An undesirable Relationship," from Tamifull was posted here and that's from the anthology.

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The title reminds me of this song :D.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvUTu716rU

On another note, I always felt Yuni's work always conveys this strong sense of female intimacy that I rarely feel in other yuri works, with the exception of Sal Jiang’s. It feels both realistic and mature, (yet when viewed more logically, not really all that realistic if that makes sense) (^^') It captures the deep, emotional connection that forms in a lesbian relationship, feeling both sexy and seductive, yet also bittersweet. I’m not even sure if I’m using the right word to describe it. haha :D

Funny you mention Sal Jiang, since Yuni was/is part of a writing circle with Sal Jiang, Tamifull and Kuwabara Tamotsu (author of "Destroy It All and Love Me in Hell!"). I agree. They all have a certain similar feel to them, especially Yuni, Sal and Tamifull. "Destroy it all," is quickly rising up the ranks too.

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I HOPE they start dating soon— hope they realize that “nothing has changed” was completely wrong lol. I hope they kiss again Oml.

I mean, the "nothing has changed" was a positive thing in this case, realizing that they didn't have to worry about things getting awkward between them after the kiss...

Yeah it's also noting that they have similar chemistry to their initial spark at the start of the series. So while they're closer now there was always a connection between them.

Yeah. They were worried that they couldn't act natural around each other after the kiss. It's good that their chemistry is still intact and it only needed one good interaction to remind them.

What other longer series have a similar setup? Two students meeting back up years after separating in HS and falling for each other. I can't think of others right now but I know they're out there.

Everything is ending nowadays!!! Another favorite bites the dust. Maybe we'll see an extra chapter eventually. Thanks for TLing this.

Just realized this isn't complete here. Just needs the last chapter.

last edited at Mar 29, 2025 7:49AM

So like did Mei and Sensei actually fuck or was it just a makeout session

If you look at page 0168 when Mei has a flashback, you can see that she and Sensei were naked and panting while they were kissing. Also, for what it's worth, the first page of the chapter is a splash page of Sensei naked under the sheets looking at the viewer is the sort of image you'd see for a typical "Morning After" scene.

So signs are pointing to "Yes, Mei and Sensei did actually sleep together."

As for the endgame, we'll have to wait and see, but looking at Tamamusi-sensei's Twitter page, there's at least one more official artwork there of Mei and Sensei naked together and another artwork of them both together in wedding dresses. Granted, that could just be fan service and isn't a smoking gun, but IMO I'd say the most likely MeiBowl winners from the harem are either Sensei or Riri, followed by Mei's old senpai from high school.

My gut is leaning towards Mei ending up with Sensei though, with with the other four harem girls all being paired together (Riri/Karin, Kaoru/Minato) and Mei finally getting a love confession from her senpai, but having to reject her after moving on and falling for Sensei.

I highly doubt they slept together. The biggest indication is the fact that Mei didn't go crazy over about it. She solely mentions them kissing. Her and Maria would put Maria too far ahead of the others. Plus if they did sleep together their would be no point in making that promise, since they would've already crosses that student/teacher line.

They already way crossed that line by kissing, hiding away together for a getaway, sleeping with each other naked, etc. I'm pretty sure they had sex. The distinction is prob that they can't have a full relationship where they're constantly sneaking around. Maria wants something more stable. One time is fine though. Plus Maria is already ahead of the other girls right now because Mei says she loves only her and rejected the thought of other girls in this chapter. So she does "know which one is love," at the moment.

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That last scene feels weirdly dark for a reunion sex moment... but I liked the happy ending I guess.

Exactly what I thought. I really loved this, but the last scene portraied it so weirdly. Maybe it was just supposed to show her "dark" side. Since it was kinda a role reversal. Or it was a unfortunate artistic choice to portray nighttime.

Also, I wish there was a lesbian bar where I live -.-

She was just being sexy. They both revealed their hidden thoughts from High School and realized they were always down bad for each other. Meanwhile, she's unbuttoning her shirt--it worked as dirty talk. Nothing dark about that, I don't think.

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A Yuri Story About How My Classmate Whose Only Good Trait Is Her Excessively Pretty Face Leaves Me Alone for a Day Respectfully (God I Miss Her) So I Buy Her Pancakes and Want to Check In But Get Super Jelly That She Is Hanging Out with My Gay Sister’s Girlfriend. Wow I’m Pretty Gay.

If that doesn't become the new official title, we riot.

BTW: Her Kiss - Infectious Lust (renamed: “Her kiss, my libido twinkles”") just finished its second Kickstarter for physical versions of volume 2 (official English). Smashed it again like volume 1. I know it's late notice but that came to mind. We'll likely have one for the other volumes too.

Sort of off-topic, but that series lost its fan translators and never got new ones, right? I think it's up to like 17 releases on JP but only 12 or 13 in English and last updated years and years ago, yeah?

Yeah, pretty much. These official releases should eventually cover those chapters though. It also had a short live action adaptation.

last edited at Mar 27, 2025 11:09AM

Black women

Like the other commenter said: not much here. I would however recommend "Dom & Mor." It's not on here but is a great series, currently running, that stars an interracial couple (black and asian). That series might simultaneously satisfy some of your other requests, depending on how you see things.

last edited at Mar 26, 2025 7:41AM

Lips cancel out swords.

Didn't the duel end on a draw? Why is Shion saying that she lost?

They both wanted to beat the other, so a draw is like losing. They're both super beat up as well. Might as well be twins.

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I think if we saw some of those 3 months where Ami was being ignored and getting the cold shoulder from Rei it would make this a bit more satisfying. Since we're just told it happened, we don't get the uh... "Satisfaction" of seeing that kind of "justice"(?) happen to her. But we're just told that it happened due to time (space?) limit and it can feel unsatisfying in that regard.

Agreed. I would've appreciated just two more chapters to let things breathe.
1 chapter for the "cold war" so we could feel Ami's remorse as she struggles through being ignored by Rei.
1 chapter that highlights them navigating the period before the time skip. Of course, this could be expanded to multiple chapters, but it'd be nice to get a chapter's worth of insight into what kind of effort they put into making their future together become reality.

That would have been a nice addition. I don't think it would need multiple chapters but I agree with that.

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C6H12O6 posted:

I'm amazed this series reached a happy ending
My only problem is that it was so short, they wrapped things up and mended their relationship in the span of a few pages, which is probably unavoidable because it got axed or something.

Why are people insisting it was axed? Do you have reading comprehension problems?

It's been repeated here several times that IT'S A STANDALONE VOLUME that was published as is.

So no, there was no ax, the author told the story they wanted to, in the constraints of one volume. That's all.

The "I didn't like the ending, so it must have been axed," has become pretty common. Rarely is there evidence before the assumption. I like the idea of releasing a full story as a single volume though (graphic novel style). I wonder why they went that route with this one. Does anyone know if that's relatively common and maybe I've just not been paying attention?

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