I'm so happy to learn that Tama-chan is the way she is because her mother is a woman of culture too.

Has kind of a similar vibe to Usagi wa Kaku Katariki, with androids instead of lagomorphic girls with big uh hammers. I like this enough to tag a copy onto my next physical order, but it's not clear that the mangaka is in control of their material enough to pull it off.

I bought like five of those furry doujins from Takemiya-sensei at the last winter Comiket, and I will say I like them a lot more than the omegaverse stuff she was doing for a while. I hadn't realized that she'd been taking a break from non-doujin work!

I'm glad this got serialized so I could get it in print and support the author, but I prefer the simplicity of the original Twitter version of almost all of these comics. I liked the mystery of Sakura's background and the lack of an overarching narrative.

I'm not sure where that COMITIA was meant to be held

Oh duh, the end page is a drawing of Tokyo Big Sight (I mean, I don't think there are that many conference venues in Japan with ceilings that high, but COMITIA is held all over the place, so I didn't want to assume).

I have to admit too that the page about Ren didn't know what to choose to go for a bathroom is quite depressing..

Usually there will be a third toilet that allows for the disabled or unisex. It's in the middle.

I'm not sure where that COMITIA was meant to be held, but that's not how it works at Tokyo Big Sight – there are women's and men's bathrooms, and that's it. Also, using the bathrooms at Tokyo Big Sight sucks for everybody. The bathrooms are in weird locations, they're not particularly large given the scale of the event, and I've never found one that's accessible that's not a portapotty outside. It is a hope of mine that this will be fixed by the renovations that the complex is going through now. And that they add some of the "family" restrooms that are now ubiquitous in urban train stations. Both unisex accessible bathrooms and family bathrooms are so much more common than they were when I first went to Japan, and they've been a lifesaver for me.

I will say that Ren's struggles in this chapter instantly made them far more relatable to me, as I have had to spend far too much time at Comiket thinking about bathrooms and generally not feeling good about my choices. I've definitely ended up walking most of the way around the East Hall looking for a bathroom that doesn't have a line of dudes running out of it (as I lack the courage, as a balding enby, to even attempt a women's bathroom in Japan).

I don't want to engage in Discourse™ too much, but I will say that while we haven't been given a clear or final indication as to how Ren thinks about gender labels and what labels do or do not apply to them, I feel very comfortable labeling Ren as trans. When it comes down to it, "trans" just means a more expansive conception of gender that encompasses more than the cisheteronormative framework most of us were raised within. Ren may think of Ren as a boy, a girl, a nonbinary entity, agender, or simply refuse to be bound by gender at all, but regardless, Ren is clearly uncomfortable just inhabiting the space that other people assume or assign Ren into.

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It's also worth keeping in mind that as more Japanese comic publishing moves to web-first (or web-only) publishing, sites like KadoKomi and even Jump+ don't really seem to be as beholden to demographic-based classification (although it's still relatively uncommon to intermingle seinen / shonen with shojosei series). And for ongoing series, especially those with subtext, they may or may not get the 百合 tag.

All I know is that this is an Ohsawa Yayoi series with her up to the tricks she got up to in the back half of 2DK G-Pen without the fluff and I'm here for it.

The Moon On A Rainy Night

Kuzushiro seems pretty allergic to having any of her major works tagged as yuri, for whatever reason. Living With My Brother's Wife stayed squarely in the subtext zone (while at the same time having an explicitly lesbian side character), and A Workplace Where You Can't Help But Smile is basically Fuzuroi no Renri if you filtered all the really gay stuff out and just left the subtext.

Run Away With Me Girl

Battan seems to be comfortable mostly being published in josei magazines and just happening to include a lot of queer themes in her work, in the same way that Tomoko Yamashita mostly publishes in josei magazines while also publishing a decent amount of BL (and when she does write queer female characters, they tend to be more grounded depictions of bisexuality or lesbianism than is typical in most yuri).

I think in general it's probably easier on your heart to just read a work and see where it goes and not worry about whether it's going to have a yuri ending by reading the tags. But I'm sorta rooting for Pinky Candy Kiss to go a poly route, so I suppose that renders my judgment suspect.

Neat to finally see something from CAUSTICSODA here. They / she (?) have a story in serialization in Japan that has really great art and has a pretty different vibe from other manga / manhwa I read. Most of it is not as heavy a bummer as this.

Battan has had a couple volumes of (quite varied) one-shots along with the two other series she's had since Kakeochi Girl came out. She's also been steadily working as an illustrator and has had at least one gallery show in Tokyo that I know about. Also, she's never claimed to be a yuri mangaka. It's a little weird to see people extrapolating things about male characters and whatnot based on her other stories, especially given how those stories have ended.

As for this one, I am locked all the way in. A pushy, manipulative editor who uses her wiles on her stable? With black, unknowable eyes? I am enchanted.

It's really hard to read manga from between the fingers over my face.

This story is serialized both on the web and in Comics EXE, an eromanga magazine, and all I can figure is that an editor saw a preserialization of it and couldn't understand why nobody had picked it up. I bought the first volume of this immediately when it was published, and it's one of my favorite manga of recent years. College art students, immaculate vibes, and that tattoo! Also I really like the art style.

Anyone confused about what makes this yuri, or indeed what the difference is between BL / yaoi and yuri, should (re)read this one-shot: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/this_is_bl_not_yuri

That's a Tanjiu-level gag.

Pandacorya manages to make her stories completely predictable (at least for her) without them ever getting stale. This was fun.

Whoah, Arai mentions Clueless!

So, is there an actual CD with licensed music? Or just a liner of song titles for you to seek out on your own?

It's an official soundtrack for the manga you can get on vinyl or cd. Released in Japan, but also found imported in the US at Kinokuniya bookstores. Both versions come with the same booklet content. Considering they had to get license for each of them not a bad selection.

There is also an official streaming playlist that has more songs. https://umj.lnk.to/TheGuySheWasMP

There is also a vinyl LP that I think is only available in Japan, which I have a copy of. Because I used to be a (techno / drum'n'bass) DJ, I have a fair amount of vinyl, including some pretty exotic things, and this is still easily the goofiest record I own.

It is kind of funny that this is the first time that "Heart-Shaped Box" has been included on a compilation.

Did the scanslating team drop this?

Dunno, but there's a physical volume now, and it's marked 上, which implies that it's intended for either a 2- or 3-volume release when it's finished.

For those who aren't aware, Yuri Hime and Kashikaze put out a whole-ass volume of one-shots and bonus material for the series called "Flowers for Lonely Girl" / ロンリーガールに花束を on December 17th. Some of it's stuff we've already seen, like "marking", but some of it, like these two chapters is new. It's a pretty thick volume and I just got home from Japan with my copy, but I'm interested to see if there's anything else in there I haven't read already.

I'd almost managed to forget about these cursed things, which are apparently a Costco Japan exclusive. I have read several posts and even seen a couple videos about them, and nobody seems to know why they exist. I wonder if Costco in Japan got started after Japanese people got experience with it in Hawaii…

Also someone should get Kuran a FACELESS TECHNO BOLLOCKS T-shirt. As a DJ and producer, I feel both seen and attacked by her takedown of DJ culture.

Seriously – seriously – what is it about the Japanese and the Red Hot Chili Peppers??

A sequel to my favorite yatosaking one-shot? Straight (um, you know what I mean) into the favorites with you!

I am 95% sure I've seen this artist's H account because their art style is immediately recognizable, and given their interests there (largely various Magia Record ships) this is not what I would have figured their non-lewd account would be like.

There actually have been two more doujinshi published that continue this story. They are extremely horny and also pretty cute.

I am fully recharged now, thank you little lesbians in my phone.

This, only for the latest chapter. Seeing Eiko so flustered by Enami-sensei is healing for my soul.

This really is a palette swap for Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games, only in that the competitive tension between the leads emerges naturally from the text of the story, and here it feels incredibly forced. There is absolutely no way for a guitarist in a duo or trio to wrest control of the flow of a song away from the drummer, who is there to act as the timekeeper and tempo regulator for the music. It kind of blows my mind that 15 years on K-ON is still somehow the manga / anime gold standard for more or less accurately depicting the intraband dynamics of a high school band, especially given how much time HTT spends doing anything but working on music.

Those screwtails are ridiculous and remind me more of Souryu's Machimaho (the magical girl parody where the a yankee is made a magical girl) than I Favor the Villainess or Marimite.