That's actually a shockingly common line of thought in Japan. "I got drunk and hooked up with someone for a one-night stand, but still went home to my partner, so it's not cheating" both happens a lot and is even commonly accepted by the cheated-on partner a lot.

I loooove Battan's art. It's so sad to hear this one isn't doing well, and that the EN release site sucked.

Oh interesting, we might see the full backstory to Sakura here.

I'm glad we got to see what Mao was actually thinking in the epilogue. Because of her trying not to think of Nina as a rebound (and not as a friend to lean on or something), I'm choosing to read it as them being able to have a romantic relationship eventually.

Lily herself recognized in a past chapter that Rae never actually turned her down, just politely brushed her affections off so that Lily could keep being useful to her.

I definitely missed that oops-

But it doesn't take away from my point. Poor girl got strung along so she could be used as a stepping stone

I meant that in support of your point, yeah :3

I spoiler-protected that because I can't remember if Rae's long-term plan has been made explicit yet in the manga. I think so, but I'm playing safe.

I'm pretty sure it was, yeah. Rae can justify everything in the end because her goal isn't "selfish" technically.

Lily herself recognized in a past chapter that Rae never actually turned her down, just politely brushed her affections off so that Lily could keep being useful to her.

It would be nice if we get "I love you as a girl, now gimmie that d-" but given that Japanese media doesn't have a great track record with this kind of stuff (usually boiling it down into "all lesbians really need is to meet the right man", if not something chaser-y), people are understandably still cautious. I have some hope for this one, but we won't know until we get more translated chapters!

Oh wow, this thread really went off the rails. I don't know if it would have helped if I'd found it during Ch1, but I think it might help to understand a bit about how Japan treats trans-ness.

Transpeople in Japan can only change their legal sex after they'd had bottom surgery, and cultural thinking follows suit. Even transwomen who are obviously taking hormones are legally and culturally treated as men if they haven't or aren't planning on getting bottom surgery (and the same is true for transmen). Even though this chapter has now made it explicitly clear that Hikaru thinks about herself the same way we understand transwomen do in the west, she's most likely going to keep considering herself a man in the text.

Personally, I'm also treating this as a trans story, even if it's comedic and not taking more than a few panels to explore concepts like dysphoria. Hopefully this'll help others understand why Hikaru is likely going to keep thinking "...though I'm a man" despite being very much a transwoman as it goes on. I'd also wager that this is why the author called it "not a yuri story" as was mentioned back on page 4; Hikaru is being considered a man, at least for now.

And the chapter after, apparently!

Of course, if they have such nice boobs.

I really liked this one, the long format with the chapter proper and the historical notes after has always appealed to me.

I actually really really like Remu and Azuki as pervert-friends rather than being obligated to be lovers through their hobby/the initial setup, but Remu did still kinda get the short end of the stick (and Niji got no stick at all).

I think what kind of irks me is not even the ending itself, it's really the fact that Meguru seemingly just decided one day that she'll stop being weird, which kind of just resolved everything after that. From this point on the manga unraveled like a ball of yarn and that was it.

I think Meguru just needed the push via perspective from seeing how Remu and Azuki were suffering through her inadvertent actions and once she knew about them, she could unravel that yarn knot on her own.

Banking on the extras to make this better(?) ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I'm hoping we'll see Niji's side of things resolved in a healthy direction, even if she and Remu don't end up dating.

Incidentally. It looks like there's a manga from Ruka's perspective.

Tsuruse's other series (also just called Sakura's World, at least on Pixiv) is a violent gritty crime drama with a much larger cast. I dunno if it'll make it onto Dynasty and if it did, it'd probably get a bad reception.

While I do believe that Mamu already knows the truth, I could just as easily believe that she's so in-tuned in terms of combat that she notices things like the way people move as second nature, and it's nothing special that she'd recognize how Fujiyama runs.

Either way, there's little reason for Futami to say things like "it could come from someone close" besides planting the doubt in Nanakusa, so it's immediately very suspicious.

I do think it's supposed to be "pacifistic" yes.

Atsuko's mad at Yuri for being "stupid" but to be clear, it isn't about video-taping. It's about Yuri slipping into her people-pleaser persona the second some men are involved, acting fake regardless of the situation or consequences.

Yessss another chapter of fluffy slow-burn PEAK!

Hopefully this one gets properly tagged so it gets more eyes on it, it's super cute.

Just to clarify, those two had sex right?

Oh they totally did.

I assume the chapter title is meant to contrast with the fact that we just got Shimazaki's entire story in one chapter and are never going to see him again, unless he appears at the very very end :V

This is a story about relationships in general, not any singular yuri romance. That doesn't mean it isn't a yuri manga given the characters' backgrounds and the flags going around, but it has a lot more to say than it just being a story about how the characters get together or something.

Asumi training arc begins now, with re-visits to her favorite girls over the course of the series? Or is it gonna click for her as soon as she get the urge to attack Nanao?

This chapter was very cute, especially page 12~

I knew Matsuri was best girl!

I always end up dropping these power fantasy isekai series, even when the gimmick is "yuri". So far, I don't feel too differently about this one...

Page 23 is just symbolism, I'm sure. Like Himewari said, Miya is literally "out of the picture" now. The police markers aren't actually pointing out any evidence, they're just labeling Eko and Risa as 1 and 2 as subtext to go along with the literal text on the page ("Now it's just the two of us."). Miya's corpse is drawn on the last panel of page 22 and the first of page 24, so I have a hard time believing that it's anything else.