So Yukiko has entered her idol era now that she's freed of the shackles of Futaribeya… I'm here for it. I like how there's a little of the edge from "Cats & Sugar Bowls" without it going all the way out to her darkest stuff.

Two lesbian ships passing in the night…

Nice to see Ranka working on this, even if it was only a commission (once…).

Ranka says that this is a "little heavier" than "Even If It Was Only Once", but I dunno a lot of the themes (functioning in the adult world, poverty) are the same, and that one even had some homophobia and comp het laid over the top… I should look into SAD's commission rates. I'm unemployed but I'd like to see SAD keep going on this one…

This is like the inverse of that manga about the anthropomorphized tuna that wants the girl to eat her that we got exactly one (1) chapter of like a year ago.

I wasn't sure about this one at first, but I've come to really like it. Everything seems like such an effort for Sena, but she keeps trying. It's inspirational.

I just returned from a trip to Japan where I did… uh… a lot of manga shopping (multiple additional suitcases were purchased to get everything home) and I gotta say, this manga is a genuine phenomenon in Japan. It was the only manga I saw that got a whole shelf for a single volume to itself at Animate Ikebukuro (in the unlabeled yuri section lol), and it was featured (sometimes in multiple locations) at pretty much every manga store I visited (although I think I only saw one used copy, at a BOOK-OFF in Kyoto). It was really cool to see something so distinctive and stylish getting such a major push from its publisher.

Also, as other have said, most Kinokuniya locations in the US seem to be carrying this. I picked up my copy back around American Thanksgiving at San Francisco's Kinokuniya and there was a stack of like 20 copies, which almost never happens. Once I got to Japan I kinda wished I'd held off because I found a couple copies that still had bookstore exclusives (at one of the Animates in Tokyo and Shosen Book Tower).

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Somehow this and Tsuruze’s other Twitter series got compiled into two print volumes? I was literally shocked when I saw them on the shelf. I bought them immediately.

"He is?" – a young lesbian

Why are they fucking with they shoes on

Given that practically every Ayane work features this, that must just be one of her things!

Reminds me a little of this, or maybe an AU of Still Not Normal Today. I'll just echo meadows's remark that I love the way U-Temo's stuff takes me back to earlier times in my life and makes things that felt horrible at the time beautiful.

This was lovely and I'm glad these two are still getting along, but I need to know if the cranky lolita and her neurotic friend have gotten together yet. NEED.

I just started watching / reading SHY, and it reminds me a little of this, and being reminded I remembered how much I miss this series. It's cute.

Aw boo that's probably not enough time for Rui to get her own relationship with Inaho going. Just like Subaru in Crescent Moon she's going to be consigned to yuri quantum indeterminacy forever…

–ittai? Not that I'm complaining, but where the heck did this come from? And why now?

Oh, and a lot of the references that Tama-chan makes are to other Hakka-ya projects, whether they're her Saki doujinshi or Bottle Fairy, her weird crowd-sourced manga-ish thing from the 00s.

Yeah, after chasing it down further (and watching the anime yet again for very important research purposes), most of the gal games / VNs / dating sims that might be like what we see in the manga are PC-based (and a lot of them are pret-ty lewd smh Tama-chan). There is a Love Hina game that has a very similar format on the GBA or GBC, tho.

Whatever, this has given me an excuse to try Tokimeki in Japanese (and also the original Sakura Wars, which is a good and very weird game).

Random question: does anybody have a good guess as to what gal game Tama-chan is playing on her GBA SP (or whatever it is)? My best guess is Tokimeki Memorial (and not Girls' Side (obviously)), but it is really hard to find information on Japanese-language non-otome dating sims that aren't primarily pornographic.

NOO BUT ALSO YES BUT ALSO NO BUT ALS-

Perfect combination of avatar and sentiment.

YAAAAAAAY so happy to see this on Dynasty, having had the Japanese tanks for a couple years now.

Why are we being introduced to some random childhood friend guy at this late point in the story ?? With an obviously, perfunctory ''you shold totally marry him in order to save the school Mei '' subplot to boot ? AGAIN ? Haven't we been through this already ? I swear to god, Saburouta will do anything but write about Yuzu and Mei at this point (^^) This is getting dangerously close to fanfic level writing.

If it were fanfic, Sabu would be writing about Yuzu and Mei – just look at the anthologies and doujinshi. Other writers are much more invested in the central relationship than she is.

Abolish monarchy, because it's bad for the royals!

Seriously.

That said, anybody who hasn't picked up on all the foreshadowing that Aki's temporarily embarrassed wolf royalty is reading a different manga than the one I've been reading. And an alliance with the penguin kingdom would be nice and all but the wolf kingdom? Let's be serious.

This one made me clap like a trained seal the whole way through. Yatosaki's stuff is so cute and delicate that I sometimes forget how funny it is.

Reading this I get the sense that Ohsawa-sensei had no intention for it going on as long as it did and was essentially just making it up past a certain point, but I really don't care. The characters are fun, it's about working (semi-)adults, I love the art, and I am reveling in the messiness of it all. Just don't forget Louko! Louko is life.

I see a disturbance to the fluff that this series is and I do not like it but let's see where it goes

I mean, it's Suzuki Senpai, so odds are good that Coworker-san just wants in on that action. And, this being Suzuki Senpai, they might get it.

^^ Not much to add, just, this is a good post and helped me crystallize why this portion of the series hasn't been doing much for me. Thank you for taking the time to set everything out so completely.