I mean ultimately I don't think that these two women are on opposite sides from Sadako. It's just that Sadako just came down from the mountains after several hundred years and doesnt know what the hell is going on lol

I like this one the most out of the short one shots from Amazaki Suika so far. Swooning for a girl who loves to ramble about her passions is a rite of passage I think

I hope the love interest is transgender

manifesting good communication so that Tongtong learns about Luxi's past and about bdsm

Rye bread is so good. I've been stocking up on proper german rye breads whenever I can because they're hard to find in the usa. It's crazy how nutritious a single slice is compared to white bread.

i came back here again after idk when was the last time i read it. still never gets old. still one of the best one-shot i've ever read.

Misao sure never seems to get old, what kind of sixty year old is that lol

I'm wondering how this "rival" character is going to tie into the main plot where Tong Tong learns about bdsm to please her ultra-sub girlfriend better

I have a feeling I know what an upcoming "twist" will be, and if I'm correct it makes these scenes all the better.

This is an incredibly honest scene from Jing Xiu. She acknowledges the positive change that Ji Youyan has attempted to do, but still says that this alone isn't enough to fix everything between them.

And I'm right there with you, I've read free soul and can't think of many others right now. But I would desperately love to see more black women in yuri manga generally

Absolutely
now that I think about it how could I have forgotten about the 3 stories featuring the Nessa x Sonia ship from a few years ago as well as a handful of images scattered through here, many of which were made by western artists under the....dark skin tag

good point, nessa yuri has been absolutely peak, what little that we get. I love her character design.

Also huge shout out to the rye bread Rachel was eating, I buy loaves of that stuff from Lidl and it's so delicious and has like 7-8 grams of fiber per slice too.

Pg 37

freshly baked bread like what rachel makes would be eaten as it

should probably be "as is"?

Yay I'm excited for this series and the art looks gorgeous. And there's a pretty Black girl in the cover and I can't wait to know more about her

Also based on the title spread it feels like Sal Jiang keeps putting a single black character in their series, and each time the character becomes a little more plot relevant lmao

Wait in what other works has that happened? I thought Black characters in yuri were pretty rare, dare I say almost non existent
Only yuri project I I can think of is Free Soul , and that is a story within a story, the Black character in it is a figment of the main character's imagination, they don't interact with each other.
But I would definitely love to read more yuri works with Black characters in them.

in ayaka and hiroko there was a black woman who briefly showed up in a backstory section about hiroko, so she was basically a one off character but was relatively prominent within that backstory. So maybe this time we'll get a proper reoccurring character.

And I'm right there with you, I've read free soul and can't think of many others right now. But I would desperately love to see more black women in yuri manga generally

New Sal Jiang manga and it's got some supernatural shenanigans? Count me in. Also based on the title spread it feels like Sal Jiang keeps putting a single black character in their series, and each time the character becomes a little more plot relevant lmao

Featured series lets goooo. I love this series, it stands up so well.

"I think I want tits"

You and me sister, you and me.

I'm excited for the potential of the international yuri trend to create more banger language gap stories like this one

That girl is terrifying. Is she flirting really hard, or just an airhead?

I think she's trying really hard to keep in Xin Xin's good graces so she has a place to stay away from her evil bad melodramatic rich person life that shes hiding.

Anyone who doesn't realize Usui's previous themes of asexuality were deeply connected to internalized lesbophobia... I'm envious that y'all didn't go through it. We lesbians not only grow up isolated, but also alienated. The only type of attraction to women we are taught is men's objectification, so a homosexual woman can go her entire life without realizing about her attraction since we just don't know what it's like to experience, we haven't seen attraction to women without dehumanization. And yes, a whole ton of us do feel disgusted towards our own attraction once we do realize. I myself struggled, still sometimes do, for nearly a decade with this. Before someone else told me I'm a lesbian, I didn't even think it was possible that what I felt for certain girls wasn't just deep affection. So, it is extremely possible we are witnessing in real time a lesbian woman finding herself through her works. I know I can absolutely see my own journey through these pages. Usui is, without a doubt, my favorite mangaka.

Edit: I forgot to mention. For five years, I was only comfortable with saying I was asexual than accepting the fact that I feel attraction exclusively to women, and Crescent Moon and Doughnuts did mirror my own thought process back then.

I don't necessarily think we can/should make any assumptions about Usui Shio's personal life, but you make a good point about her works spanning a wide breadth.

Even before this, every series she's done has approached topics of affection and intimacy from a different perspective and angle. It speaks highly of her skill as an author to tackle different aspects of what attraction, desire, and love actually mean to different people.

sibling approval obtained

wish I had someone who would come into my room and shout smartphone addiction at me, then kiss me

Usui Shio has now fully traversed the breadth of sexual identity in yuri with the beginning of this series

omg Konayama Kata yuri!!

This is totally copium but wouldn't it be cool if this indicated that her next serialized work could be trans yuri?

I didn't notice this when reading the webnovel chapter, but is the implication here that Ji Youyan sold a song concept that she got from Jing Xiu??? If so that's insane.

wheres my normie gf who doesnt know about yuri ;-;

wake up babe its time for another moe manga about cute girls eating food and experiencing Yuri Moments