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.

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Let's hope we're back on track for the sweetness of the first "season." Bullocks to the endless insecure/jealous arcs.

I'm the one who's feeling insecure! My cute baby Yamada is gonna try and cook curry! And it isn't just instant curry, she's gonna make it from scratch!! Will she be okay? She's too nervous and anxious about it, that's a bad omen! And how good was she at cooking to begin with?!? I can't remember!

I have this awful foreboding presentiment that she's gonna mess it up oh noooooo...

I find this extremely funny with the Himemiya pfp like, Kase and Yamada are about to switch bodies

I really don't like the vibe of that guy, I can't seem to bring myself to give a fuck about him

He seems fine but I suspect there's another purpose to him for this arc and maybe that lingering uncertainty is what you're picking up on?

yasss let's act like Saburouta is a writer and thinks about stuff like 'arcs' as if she just doesn't keep introducing new characters and throwing them to the side the second she can't come up with what to do next with them.
sorry, i've been following Citrus since the first chapter and I just grew TIRED of this

Isn’t subaru like 16? Idk about that age gap for all the Fuuka/Subaru shippers out there. I do hope that Fuuka can move on though, she deserves a relationship not based on obligation

Fuuka is almost 18

I don't understand where you got this form. Fuuka was Asahi's classmate, it's said multiple times. They're the same age (29).

the first few pages are almost a carbon copy of Citrus, except being Usui Shio, the only mangaka I've read who captured internalized homophobia perfectly, I trust this will be good. I saw someone saying that it's too cliché so far but sometimes as a writer, starting off with clichés help readers get the gist of stuff much quicker and better so that you can jump into action. I haven't even finished ch01 so this is me just talking.

A comedy manga, at least from feb 2019 or earlier, that has a ''straight'' girl and another woman saying things like ''What is this lesbian (I'm assuming) doing?'' ''Although we're more than friends but not quite fellow lesbians.'' ''There are lesbian feelings even underneath being straight''. I only have screenshots of those panels and I don't even remember what it was about ;_;

That sounds like something that could be said in A Straight Girl Wanders Into a Lesbian Mixer where a (not so straight) girl go to a lesbian mixer.
If that's not it try posting the screenshots you have, someone would probably recognize the art.

yes!!!!!!!!! YES IT IS!!!!!!!! thank you so much oh my god. may your pillow always be cold in summer and warm in winter.

A comedy manga, at least from feb 2019 or earlier, that has a ''straight'' girl and another woman saying things like ''What is this lesbian (I'm assuming) doing?'' ''Although we're more than friends but not quite fellow lesbians.'' ''There are lesbian feelings even underneath being straight''. I only have screenshots of those panels and I don't even remember what it was about ;_;

i love that this artist NEVER forgets about flip flappers day

so much wasted potential tbh

it's been so long i dont even feel anything with this

tf? Girl Friends would be yuri even if they were bisexual bro take your biphobia out of this place. they're both lesbians and the drama isn't het. you didn't understand the real reason why Mari went out with that guy whose name i never bothered to remember and why Akko almost had sexy times with the other guy who i never cared about enough to even remember his face. read the manga again, this time with your eyes open and your brain turned on

Hina enjoys something they do a bit

are we reading the same manga? she clearly doesn't enjoy anything they've done.

ssss gridman isnt subtext at all, the franchise is homophobic so they didnt allow trigger to feed the gays

Just don't close your eyes when you kiss her

How's that for a solution

be like Bruno Mars and the girl he'd catch a grenade for

dude Aeris is the one that saves earth from Meteor she NEEDS to die. i hate that Zack is alive but his death doesn't affect the plot as hard as Aeris'

happy bday tomoe

^ thanks sushio for keeping our ship afloat!

you know it's a guy behind the manga when the vj's have really weird positions. page 8 disturbed me a little

another chapter, another disappointment, another month we'll have to wait ......

what in Saburouta is this ending??????

the massive taboo over homosexuality (past, and even into the present in many places)

wow you clearly arent LGBT+. we are as hated as we were in the 1950's. everywhere.

seeing how everyone's reaction is the same as mine restores my faith in humanity. now i'm even more uncomfortable with this manga but there's only 2 chapters left so...

those nails..... i bet a man drew this

What is even Asagi's "goal" with this manga?
Also @LostGamble your avatar is cursed.

I don't know why I am still here... pls someone save me

Same.

Same

same. this manga just confuses me and even tho i thought about dropping out, i can't help it but click whenever i see a new chapter

that sky looks so much like Kimi no na wa's OST album pic