Seven Seas seems to have cancelled volumes 2 and 3. I am very disappointed and wondering how they'll refund all the preorders.

If you follow one of the accounts on Twitter that translates manga sales statistics you'll see that yuri makes up something like 1% at most of sales. Then you make it about old women and it's a niche within a niche. All of the old women manga I see are josei in smaller artsy magazines that our publishers never touch. I wouldn't expect any major publisher to pick this up unfortunately.

Rereading this again now that the full book is translated... I still think this really sweet. I like how they come to emotionally rely on each other.

But this premise is unoriginal, and has been done better elsewhere. Your Cuteness was mentioned, and I felt that manga was a much more original take, and also felt truer to reality. Beauty standards are strict in Japan. Bullying and degendering of women, especially women of color, is common. That is what creates these feelings of "I don't deserve to be like everyone else." Your Cuteness doesn't sugarcoat that.

The prince phenomenon is real, but overtly breaking gender roles is still going to be punished. Instead we have a fantasy land here where women are encouraged to look as masculine as possible. When you look at real people IRL who were called princes in school, they never are actually that masculine, like say Utami Hayashishita.

All that is to say that examining this story in context doesn't have to make it unenjoyable. You can have two different thoughts at once. It's troubling that so many commentors here are completely resistant to thinking critically about media or acknowledging that it exists within the politics of the world around it.

If you want a very original take on tomboys and lolita fashion, and also sweet romance, try Pink Ribbon!

i think these two are also ace because no way an allosexual couple could put up with this

Unfortunately we can and do put up with it. Most queer people I know are in or have been in a long-distance relationship.

That was an interesting portrayal of the prince archetype and very moving.

I really enjoyed this and have read it few times to mull it over. Established relationships with tension over what form the relationship should take in the future and what meaning it has always work for me as a plotline, and this one is very poignant, as both women clearly adore each other but don't want to overstep. Sexual and romantic feelings are so intertwined in our cultural messaging that it does take work to unravel them, but valuable relationships can be created when you do.

My question is whether or not Choroko is really a fujoshi in the show.

The real warlords this is based on sent gifts to each other and had a deep respect for each other above other rivals. Then when one died the other mourned him. You can look this all up online. Anyway when I saw this on Bookwalker I was expecting sukeban gang warfare and I'm a bit disappointed that this is so plotless, at least so far.

Lol at "boku girl boyish-chan" not being tagged tomboy. Big cultural difference in perceptions on display here I guess.

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I couldn't find this romantic at all. Devoting all of your energy to obtain literal seconds of contact at a door frame with a stranger sure is a perfect metaphor for parasocial relationships.

The extreme abruptness is what's supposed to be funny. Made me laugh, anyway.

I want to go to Girl Land...

Honestly I'm mostly here because I saw the artist post old woman yuri.

So grateful to Yuri Project for working on this series!

This manga definitely reads to me as an asexual person imagining their idealized relationship where the person you love wants to prioritize you in most things but has no expectation of sexuality. And the author's other manga explicitly running along those same lines confirms it for me. I'm really loving how much casual teasing and thinking about how to make the other person happy we're seeing from them in these newer chapters.

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This dynamic is so good!!!!

Normally I don't really get the appeal of 4koma, but this is cute, and the translation is so good. I'm looking forward to the pranks becoming flirting.

I love how this asks the question of whether female friends who joke about being in a relationship really have feelings for each other and answers yes

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Ive been in an angsty mood recently. Any1 got some recommendations for some oneshots or short series with drama/angst but a happy ending ?(and i dont mean like bittersweet, i mean a proper happy ending)

This is kind of my favorite thing, so I can find a lot of examples. For a variety of different works on this website there's Your Warmth, Water Depth, I Want to Lock You Up, Kusari wa mou Iranai, I Won't Say I Love You Anymore, The Distance of Love... a real weird one that still perfectly fits your wish is The Amazing Magic Only You Possess.

As much as I admire the author centering the whole manga around their ear cleaning fetish, I sure do not share that fetish. I wish they were just having sex after all! The plausibly deniable cheating here is so strange and interesting. They definitely were both getting off on it without telling each other, and thus they can pretend it's just an intimate friendship while feeling guilty deep down.

I'm not sure how to feel about this yet. I feel like it will definitely have an ending where they convince each other to choose life and start dating. But I hope it gets more fucked up than that...

So excited to see this on Dynasty!!

What a cute art style. I wish there was more manga on here by this artist.

Oh how nice indeed, any more recommendations on shoujo style yuri anybody???

Yuri Espoir!!

TIL a "cotton anniversary" means a second anniversary for married couples, because the traditional gift is cotton. Thus the "cotton wedding" invitation to celebrate the second volume, probably.