This is probably peak if i finished AveMuji, but I'm intimately familiar with Eva so good enough.

There's plenty of yaoi on any other website, in greater proportion than female-on-female romance. Destiny's charm lies in the amount of yuri it contains without being overshadowed by yaoi; let it be.

It's not your website so I wonder why you think you can talk like this. You are free to leave any time, everything that gets uploaded here anyway is probably scraped by an aggregator. You can just bookmark the GL tag on any other website and receive the same experience (with worse/more shallow comments).

^ Marcille would go crazy in more ways than one

Yay thank you for putting this here, I had this on my To Read :)

Roka has been spared from the greedy demon Iroha...

Cuz at least I know y'all getting upset and stuff actually care about and are locked in to the story

Even if it bewilders me to read some of the things I do in the threads here, it's refreshing to see people take the story seriously. It's cynical to think everyone has bad intentions with the things they say, sometimes people are truly just bad at wording what they mean. It's just a matter of how much mental gymnastics I'm willing to do on a given day.

Also yeah this is really such a simple story, but it's so popular that it has gone beyond the typical yuri reader crowd, it has even gotten some people to start reading yuri, so I'm not surprised it attracts so much discourse both here and in other places. At least here, nobody is being a doomer about a completely imaginary cheating/breakup arc (other than the jokes).

I really am just watching the slowest car crash ever.

You best start at somebody asking for yuri with construction workers not long ago. Frostbite's protagonist works on an assembly line. Ditto Fumiko's special green. White Angels Have No Rest has a character initially working at a slaughterhouse/meat processing plant.

But I'm honestly not too familiar with the left-pondian "Blue collar" label. Apparently it applies to agriculture work too? A Song by the Loom for the Autumn Storm... though there should be plenty of gay gardeners out there.

Thank you for these, I've added them all to my To Read. I always understood blue collar as anything that required manual physical labor, as opposed to white collar which is usually office work, so agriculture would count! Thanks :)

It's not about realism or not, I generally don't think this manga is interested in social issues as much as it is interested in the relationship between Aya and Mitsuki. In so far as those two are dealing with something, whether that be as individuals or together, then the manga is interested in it. So Aya's anxiety and Mitsuki's bullying were both issues the manga explored, but the greater societal view of their relationship/anxiety/bullying isn't particularly relevant.

That's a fair way to put it, I didn't mean to imply I wanted to see it in the greater context of society as a whole, but rather in how Aya and Mitsuki deal with it. Not everyone understands how butch/femmephobia manifests and how it affects people, so I think it would be really interesting for the mangaka to tackle in the context of their relationship and personal lives. But I'm scratching at the door for more butch and femme supporting characters too, my secret and evil agenda, ehehe

And especially after it didn't show up in the high school years, I'm not sure why it would be more likely to show up in the college years..

I mean, it's not so out of the ordinary. You meet all sorts of people when you enter college, or the workforce in Mitsuki's case.

Anyone have yuri where a love interest is a blue collar worker?

... doing research...

^ truthnuke

I kinda think this is going into "the work I wished it was" rather than a critique of "the work as it is". Which is fine, it's totally valid to look at a story and say "this disappointed me because it didn't delve deeply enough into the femme/masc dynamic in modern day Japan" (I think butch is a more specific term and doesn't necessarily apply to Mitsuki, but it absolutely can I just know that's controversial). That's a different conversation than "this is basically a straight couple except they're both girls".

First of all:

I think butch is a more specific term and doesn't necessarily apply to Mitsuki

This is not up for debate.

https://xcancel.com/agu_knzm/status/1956914456694227047 (ETA: changed the link so you don't need X to view it)

In case you can't view the image, it's official art from Sumiko's twitter that labels Mitsuki as Butch and Aya as Femme. Now that we can put that aside.

going into "the work I wished it was" rather than a critique of "the work as it is"

You'll have to specify what you mean by this, because to me when I see people say this about a critique it usually means the critique-er is expecting the work to completely change its tune or genre to fit their appeal. I only brought up my critique because I don't think it would be out of the ordinary at all for Sumiko Arai to do write it into the story especially when she clearly labels them as butchfemme - again, it is clear she's fine delving into mature topics (such as using sex to avoid communicating) while still fitting the vibe of the story she has created. But if you don't think this would be realistic within the bounds of the work, I'd be interested to hear why.

That's a different conversation than "this is basically a straight couple except they're both girls".

I don't agree 100% with the OP's (Nya-chan's) wording, but this is just not what was said at all.

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It has become my belief that in the green world of Sumiko, homosexuality or heterosexuality don't really exist as concepts.

It has NEVER been mentioned that Mitsuki or Aya are lesbians, or that two girls being together is something odd or to feel guilty about. Aya has never been upset or conflicted that Mitsuki turned out to be a girl, only that she had lied to her.

Sumiko has carefully avoided dipping into the topic of homosexuality. Their classmates have been surprised when Aya and Mitsuki said they were dating, but weirdly, the taste in music was an heavier topic than homosexuality (!)

There was no real "gay panic", just "crush panic" that happens all the time in manga to characters attracted to each other.

Homosexuality is the elephant in the room for the readers, but it's like it doesn't exist in-universe.

So the relationship between Aya and Mitsuki, as written by Sumiko, isn't queer or straight.

It's a relationship, period. With its ups and downs as we can see in this arc.

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Mitsuki is butch coded. Aya is femme coded. But they're not "lesbians" in the "real world" sense. Which is why so many people see them not as a lesbian couple, but as a typical straight couple with a twist.

I think I can understand your frustration a little bit. Correct me if I'm wrong but I wanted to summarize: their homosexuality is "floaty", where every other element in the story has a sense of realism and friction - the drama, characters' ideals, how Sumiko depicts the indie music scene, etc, it's only their sexuality and the nature of their relationship that doesn't carry that "reality".

I think this is what makes the series have such widespread appeal. Because lesbian and butch are not said explicitly in the story except for a specific illustration where the words are there (correct me if I'm wrong on this - I don't feel like going through all 100 chapters), it's easy for people to project onto Mitsuki or Aya. (Or they even erase Mitsuki's masculinity.)

Honestly, it's a frustration I feel too. I do believe Sumiko's intention with this story through and through was to depict a wholesome butch/femme lesbian relationship without the difficulties of homophobia, I think it's a tad cynical to speculate otherwise. I think if every queer creative had to factor in bigotry to their work to make it realistic or serious that would be an unfair expectation and limitation.

But I also think an arc that explicitly depicts the realities of a butchfemme relationship in Japan would do wonders for this work especially because of the audience it has created. Maybe if we never went into an adult arc, it would be a critique I hand waved away because Green Yuri was just a wholesome schoolgirl romance, but it's clear Sumiko is fine with delving into more mature topics with these two. So I think it's a fair critique.

NGL, very inflammatory way to word what you said but I absolutely understand considering my own feelings.

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I didn't even realize Yoroizuka-san had the same author. I just got memory flashbanged by the different artstyle lol. Technically this isn't age gap but there is definitely a gap, and as usual it's working quite well at least for me.

The face of a totally non-chalant womanizer who definitely has the upper hand here:

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/ill_take_this_love_home_with_me_for_now_ch04#33

Mashiro is so cute lol

Cute....

Opening a bet: 1000 dynasty coins that Mashiro falls first.

Thank you for the TL!

"You don't get it? If you don't get it, then fine."

Spoken like a true miscommunicating yuri protagonist. Those pages where they paralleled gushing over each other were so sweet, only to end on such a heartbreaking expression from Hinata. If you lot don't just talk earnestly to each other once and for all, I swear...

It really doesn't seem like either option so far (Ogre/Human) are such a bad thing... Hinata has more than enough reason to want to become Human, but learning to find a new fate as an Ogre (which she is already kind of doing) also has benefit. I can't wait to see how they resolve this, both with how it affects Hinata/Naori's relationship but also the other ogre/human pairs...

There's also that both girls know Aya and Mitsuki are taken anyway. They've both seen them with their significant other. Shu specifically knows for a fact that Aya is dating Mitsuki and the other friend had her melancholic realization a few chapters ago when Mitsuki ran to Aya in the rain. Neither girl seems like the nasty type. The connection could also refer to them.

Oh yeah. I also like to see that train panel as a "can't believe I got myself into this mess" type moment. They both had painful realizations in the past few chapters about the natures of their crushes lol. I think it would be sweet, and probably likely, to have a moment where they all meet each other and the girls realize how close/compatible MitsuAya are.

I knew it'd be too soon for an intimate scene (you know, a good one with feeling) but DAMN Rachel.... that rejection.... you do deserve the couch after all.

^ agreed.

Regardless of how this arc turns out (i suspect koga crush and aya crush will get together, that panel on the train is so poetic lol), I really like Shu.... grumpy girl who can't help but have a crush.

Oh wow.... this next update is about to be something once we can all read it.

It was a somewhat inconsistent chapter. The focus should have been on one girl but its kind of unfocused and know we don’t even know why Mao shave her nape. I hope at least they fuck AND we see it, not the typical cut-off sex scene.

You want a sex scene?? After that?!?!

What a funny thread to read because that wasn't even the most ridiculous part of the comment for me haha.

we don’t even know why Mao shave her nape

Many women fixate on and do strange things to fit the beauty standard, even if it's not something 99% of people will ever notice. Maybe in this case, a certain someone Mao goes to for physical validation sees the back of her neck more on average.

Anyway, however this ends next chapter I'm going to wish this was a full fledged series. I really like the way Mao is portrayed and Nina's position as the naive yet obvious voice of reason. If I had any complaints, it's that it was 7 chapters instead of 70.

Thank you for TL'ing this, i'd been wondering about it since i saw the original teasers on twitter...

Age gap yuri with a much older woman.... Oh my... oh me oh my....!!!

Teto's just bound to be the sub in every ship she gets herself into... poor chimera.. one day you'll get your chance to shine!