Those darn magical girl hormones turning into regular girl hormones

All the schools in my city have school uniforms but its probably like 70% pants among the girls tbh

you cant do this to me im gonna cryyyyyyyy, thank you grandpa for actually being a good person for ur granddaughter.

Im a Kitano x Mikkchan truther

this series really captures the melancholy of adulthood so well, it gets me every time.

all aboard the messy t4t yuri train everyone

I'm so glad she didn't try to play it off, even if it was really awkward after. The amount of times stories pull the "ahaha jk i could neeever do that haha" and cause it to increase the misunderstandings and drag things out is way too high

This isn't even the first chapter is it lol

Maybe they could become a couple after they get out of the time loop

edit: oh its fixed now i think

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Super unpopular opinion probably but the sex scenes, graphic and all, were too focused on penetration. A little boring and not what I personally look for in yuri (I read some het when the fancy strikes and these honestly registered more like sex scenes in het. There are ways to write/draw sex w trans women that don't fall into this btw.) Still, it'd be great to get more NSFW yuri of this quality, w more Rilke quotes please.

yeah agreed. this was something i noticed too. it's hard to explain but the whole thing felt like it was framing ruri as Male(tm) instead of just girl-who-has-a-penis. i don't read this artist for the sex so much as the art and story, so i just kinda overlooked it but... the sex dynamic felt bizarrely het for being ostensibly a yuri love triangle, which is a shame.

Yeah the main thing that distinguishes futa stuff is that having a dick usually gives you a magic sex drive that makes you constantly raring to go. I enjoy my fair share of it, but its definitely not super relatable if you're comparing it to sex with actual trans women haha.

I loved how the story started pretty tame but somewhere around chapter 3 just went fully into high symbolism craziness with the play and the boulder and stuff. On a reread you can tell how much the author's paneling and composition improved throughout the work, as well as how the sex took on a much more narrative role for advancing the character's own states. As other's have said, the crumbling status quo that eventually bursts wide open at the end was really well executed and overall just so much depth and meaning crammed into just 5 chapters.

Run Away With Me, Girl.

Mermaid x mermaid is a fun subversion

You can see Koyomi on page 19 in a car, so she didn't "run away", someone brought her there.

I didn't catch that! she's peaking out of the window on the bridge haha.

the set up feels like "you took the fall and can't get custody, and therefore i don't have to pay child support so here you go"

For the record I have been buying the volumes digitally, but I also wanna say that this work is a modern masterpiece. It's really hard for me to understand how a series like this isn't getting the accolades it's so deserving of.

My point is that for most non-himejin yuri is still just subtext and class S. The only explicit romance between girls they've seen is G Witch and CPK. We need more rep.

Sayonara Lara is just as explicit as CPK is, and I don't think the ending changes or reverses any of that. Lara literally has to reject the concept of true love in the finale to save Mari's life, because "true love" was forced on her by mermaid society just as much as princesshood was.

The story's incredibly strong trans narratives and sapphic narratives are very much fully realized throughout the show, even if I think the pacing of some of the episodes was off.

Horror has never looked so hot before

you know what they say, fear and desire are two sides of the same coin

This manga is so timeless, I tear up every time I read it. ...I say that, but this was actually my first time rereading the story since I first read it back in 2021-22 and at the time I did not pick up on any of the trans theming at all. Coming back to this several years later and more mature than I was back then, it's incredible how much my view of the story changes from realizing Maya is trans.

Of course there's the "evidence", with her looking 'boyish' in high school, getting disowned by her family while 'studying abroad', her breast augmentation surgery, and the role she played in the theater (which I totally missed because I wasn't familiar with the play, thank you for pointing that out @Gabinomicon), the name Maya "not being used by many people", etc.

But on a far more fundamental level, Maya's entire character arc and her fears make a lot more sense in context of her being trans. Feeling like you are fundamentally worthless unless you can be useful to others, and that you'll be thrown away as soon as your use runs out, and the belief that your own desires and wishes are already guaranteed to be destroyed if you actually go after them. Running away and hurting herself because she thinks it's the only way to prevent other people from getting hurt. Feeling like you aren't the protagonist in your own life, and explicitly comparing yourself to kind helper characters like glinda the good witch because you can't imagine yourself as a human who's just as important as those around you.

All these aspects are things I've struggled with myself as a trans woman, and the context that Maya is trans makes everything about her character just click in such a way that it's impossible to see it as coincidental or unintentional. Of course she would try to erase herself from Yuuta's life and view herself only in terms of the liability she might present others, rather than going and trying to seize what she wants from life! She's been denied everything up to this point, whether it was school, her family, or even michiru in the past! The times she did do the things she wanted (ie transition) she lost her whole family! So of course she would have all these hang ups and try to repress her obvious feelings for Michiru, because if she acts on her desires again, she'll lose the new family that she's made! And of course, in the process of doing this she is actually pushing away that same family and resigning herself to a lifetime of repression and loneliness, while telling herself it's all for her family's (michiru and yuuta) sake!

The thematic resonance is too powerful to deny. What an incredible manga.

oh my god kuzushiro how do you do it, so much subtext crammed into just two pages wowowow

Lets all be adults and quit our jobs together yay

Maybe if the landlord realized that they were getting in the way of yuri theyd stop trying to sell the property

I've been thinking about the recent debates on this site over whether to interpret certain manga as being about transness when the manga isn't explicit about it. I agree with this post by @Wiwaxia that these arguments are quite similar to arguments about whether a work is Yuri or Subtext. I think part of the problem here (though certainly not the entirety of it) is that there isn't a widely-agreed upon "Trans Subtext" tag like there is for yuri subtext.

I propose that the recently created Ambiguous gender tag be used for this purpose. Essentially, we should use it for manga where a major character can be plausibly interpreted as trans but this isn't explicitly stated in the narrative, such as Momiji and Kouyou or The Guy She Likes is a #CrossdressingBoy. This is a subjective judgment, of course, but whether or not a work is Yuri or Subtext is also fairly subjective so that's only to be expected. In cases where the manga contains a romance with a clearly female character (like in the above two), I propose that we include neither the Het nor the Yuri tag but just the Romance one. I believe this is a compromise that most users of this site can at least live with.

this seems like a very elegant solution to the issue, i like it

One of my least favorite aspects of crossdressing manga is the typical reliance on wigs and contact lenses (still don't really get this one tbh) for the girlification.

... All that to say, I really wanna see Kouyou/Momiji grow her hair out and look cute with her natural hair

The big sister looks like she could be a character in Con Cafe Jou wa Koi wo Kiru

Oh ny god i totally see it

Also can i just say, incredible art. The paneling, the style, everything is so expressive and emotional

quickly accruing a small fortune by having a penny every time a manga has a character that is a trans woman in all but name

well you see, all media about women, whether its yuri or trans, simply does not exist unless the author includes a personalized youtube video explaining the sexualities and gender identities of every character.

Otherwise they're just good friends/gnc cis people :)))

layer two of the gay chicken game has commenced. I think having sex is perhaps not the most effective form of getting info from someone, but hey what do i know

edit: still hot at the end of the day

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