"I met the sun." Is up there with "I always thought of you as being made of moonlight."

Where is the second line from?

^ I see, thanks a lot for the recap Heavensrun. I did remember about the family situation Xiaoyang, I just couldn't see how that was related to the tension between the other two. It makes sense that Xiaoen wouldn't like Xingyuan taking Xiaoyang's "side", I guess. I also didn't know remember about the mother being sick, at all. Perhaps SrNevik is right and I should reread a bit lol

I don't know if it's because of the somewhat sporadic releases or the fact that I haven't reread this one at all, but lately I have a hard time following the events in the story. Why were they fighting? Were they even? What's going on with Mu Xiaoen? I have no idea. It feels like the author is really trying to say something here and I have no idea what the hell is happening.

cant read doomed yuri if it doesnt hve a happy ending

How would it be doomed yuri and have a happy ending at the same time?

idk what's the problem here, taking too many things on your plate and struggling with priorities is a really common thing to happen. And it was properly set up and everything too.

No, it wasn't. Adding random mass resignations from a florist's shop just to make your main character be the only employee "available" on the one specific day that they requested a day off isn't "properly setting up" anything. It's silly and it's even more silly after the ridiculous previous arc.

Like, what do you even want? Would you rather there'd never be any sort of conflict bc apparently any kinda complications count as "forced drama" now. Is a story devoid of problems where nothing ever happens so there's no "drama" what you want? bc that's how you get "no substance, fluff only" slice of life 4-koma strips.

(which have their place of course but then ppl complain about how there's no "development" and nothing ever happens so, y'know, damned if you do, damned if you don't)

The problem with this manga is that there is never any real development. There is drama, which a lot of the time stems from the characters' shortcomings —i.e. Yamada generally being a doormat— but the characters never seem to have learned much by the end of it. Combine that with an oftentimes unlikely set-up and it ends up feeling contrived.

Kinda confused about this downer-posting? Setting aside the cover art as an indicator, I've read two of their (Teren Mikami's) works and neither of them were harem? They actually made a pretty wholesome 1v1 story IMO. I do know one of their works is harem-like, but I haven't read that one, and I don't think one harem story means more stories are harem.

(But yes they do have a dubcon addiction. You know, fair)

You're right, "all other works" being harem was hyperbolic on my part, it only applies to badly-written (in my opinion). The cover and title do indicate a harem though, I'm just hoping it was a mistake lol.

I know this is "Girls" x Vampire but my enjoyment of this right now is firmly rooted in the dynamic of these two dumbasses and I hope we just get more of them being cute and stupid instead of introducing more girls.

Nevermind I just looked at the author cus I just forgot which author I was dealing with, any possible hope for avoiding the harem tag went out the window unfortunately.

Yeah, that's what saddens me too. This is cute, but all other works of this author I have come across are —in my opinion— badly-written harem series. That's why I don't have hopes for this and I have decided to just enjoy it for as long as I get to.

You should also be aware that some people have had their credulousness taken advantage of or used to mock them, leading to negative emotional associations with this type of joke. This ended up being the thread some people vented about that- or at least I think that's what's going on. If we consider the likely demographics of this type of website, I assume some others have had that experience at least as much as me.

Well, sure, I did consider this to be the case, most likely. But I still think it's rude to vent your general April fool's frustrations to the scanlators.

Why are people so irritated by this prank? To me this attitude comes across as a bit rude to the scanlators. It's not as though they are obligated to deliver us free translated chapters. Plus, this chapter might as well not have been uploaded today in the first place, it's not like there is a fixed release schedule, as far as I'm aware. And even if there was, it's just one day's delay, for a completely free service.

I thought this was funny tbh, but it's not that big a deal regardless. I did fall for it for a moment and then went, oh April fool's day, and that was it. I can just log in again tomorrow or in a couple of days and read the chapter then. There sure are some essays here about not being "REALLY that mad".

Not sure if that whole thing was supposed to imply that the "bystander" is Tsubame's actual "inner self" or not, I guess we'll see.

I understood that part as, Tsubame was a lot more expressive than the director expected from her, showing her "inner self", but she herself wants to completely erase her own person and become the character. I might be misremembering some things a bit, but we have been shown that Tsubame has this weird idea about not being "real" and she basically puts on a persona during her daily life as well. Thus, telling her that she herself shines through during her performance, wouldn't be what Tsubame wants to hear.

I find your reading interesting as well, though, and I believe it would still fit with the whole "real" theme. Is Tsubame a "real" person, or just a bystander watching others' lives? If she's striving to become the first —which I am not sure is the case— she wouldn't want to to be told that the role of the bystander fits her.

It's sad that this one probably won't get the time to develop as the author wanted it to. It has some interesting themes that I would have liked to see fully explored.

Also did I forget someone or that person on the cover of this chapter is completely new? Or just a one-off hybrid of Sakura and Takamine? :P

Isn't it just Takamine with glasses? They probably just wanted to give her a typical "studious" look.

Now kiss, see what the emotional reaction is from that

Of course, it would all be an act.

Technically, Frost has won the duel. We see on this page that while both she and Shion had their blades at each other's throats, Shion's edge was pointing away from Frost. From that position, she could have wounded her left shoulder, at best, while Frost's sword is double-edged, meaning that she was actually in a position to slice Shion's throat, if not to decapitate her outright, even with a shoulder injury. Shion does flip her blade the right way around on the next page, but a) if Frost wanted her dead, she would have died already and b) her grip is not really suited for up-and-to-the-left slashes from that position, so any such attack would be slowed and weakened by the awkward grip, giving Frost a chance to evade. tl;dr Frost wins in my book.

I'm glad to see someone else was thinking the same. This was clearly Frost's win and Shion would already have her throat cut if this was an actual fight to the death. That being said, I do believe that it only appears this way due to the artist not considering the technicalities and the intended reading is a draw.

^ You can find the rest of the chapters on mangadex

I'm so confused about their jobs. I thought they worked in construction, but then they're mangaka? Should I assume that they do manga as a second job then? I suppose that makes sense, I'm sure a lot of manga artists propably don't make enough to live off of it.

• Yuri is my Job! is the Scandium of Yuri to me: I'm faintly aware it exists, it's probably very important to somebody, but I wouldn't notice it's absence on a yuriodic table

I think the reason why Yuri is My Job! may seem surprising is the fact that it's not hosted on this site. I also forget it exists, because it's not updated here and I thought the anime adaptation was very mediocre and dropped it on episode 2 when I tried it. But I don't doubt it's popular elsewhere.

I'm happy to see that some of the series I really enjoy got very high rankings. I hope that means they will continue to sell well and manage to get a proper conclusion, as the author has planned. Thank you for the effort you put into this Zesc, looking forward to seeing you again for Dynasty rankings.

^ Thanks.

Great work Tong Tong, never forget that you are the ultra dominatrix, blood type D, ready to drag your girlfriend into your own personal pit of lust and all that.

Can you remind me the title of this?

Does anyone have yuri with girls who do pastries?
I'm a pastry cook, that is my job.
I like doing pastries and also girls.
I'm perhaps a bit of a homo
so... is there yuri about pastries or that has girls who do pastries?
It's specific so I don't expect anything but I'm just curious
There was that one yuri about two girls making a bet to marry eachother if they don't find a partner after a couple of years, we follow them after their marriage and see their SOL and one of them in that couple was a pastry cook

That would be Trying Out Marriage With My Female Friend and it's the only one I could think of for your request at the moment. Perhaps you could try the Bread tag? I'm certain I've come across other pastry cooks in yuri before, but I can't remember where at the moment.

I've gone with:

1. The Moon on a Rainy Night, my absolute favorite running series.
2. Sweet Blue Flowers, which I've read so many times that I felt deserved a spot in my all time favorites, even if the story itself doesn't stand out much.
3. Run Away With Me, Girl, simply wonderful.
4. Miss Sunflower, a lovely slice of life series.
5. A Love Yet To Bloom, because it heals my soul every time I read it.

Almost made the last spot: Cirque Arachne, Dark Forest, White Road, Silver Gymnasium and A Tropical Fish Yearns For Snow. The last one was rejected because I found explicitly yuri series more appropriate for my all time favorite and the rest didn't make the cut, because the had left me thinking that they should have been longer and/or the writing seemed inferior compared to A Love Yet To Bloom.
So I was left with a mostly wholesome slice-of-life list :)

To those who have been keeping up with this.

I've been wondering if I should get back to it or not. I enjoyed this series a lot up until volume 8-9, but then I started to lose interest with each chapter and I don't think I ever got around to reading volume 11 at all. To clarify: the reason I dropped it was because we were getting more and more AU/side stories with each volume and I just wasn't very interested in all that. There's only so many "what if" irrelevant scenarios I can handle. I remember feeling that things I expected to see —e.g. first kiss or a conclusion to the Tarumi situation— never happened and instead I was reading it about the 100th parallel universe where they meet. Which I suppose is okay, just not my cup of tea.

So my question is, are there any chapters from the new volumes that would be worthwhile for me to read? And by that I mean chapters that continue the story of the protagonists that we know instead of alternate versions of them in parallel universes. Time skips and glimpses to the future are okay (I actually really enjoyed that one chapter where Shimamura talks with her mother a few years later), just no more parallel universes please

Is Mieruko-chan yuri in the first place? I don't remember anything of the sort up until where I've read it, though its been some time since then. I have to admit that my expectations on this one are rather low. The scenes in the trailer didn't really convey the mood of the manga to me. I hope I'm proven wrong though.

Question: are webtoons valid nominations? I'm thinking of a Korean one at the moment, but would American ones also be acceptable?

Webtoons are completely valid! Specifically webtoons translated from Japanese, Chinese, or Korean are valid. Webtoons natively in English are not valid.

That's what I would have assumed; thanks for the clarification!

Question: are webtoons valid nominations? I'm thinking of a Korean one at the moment, but would American ones also be acceptable?

Lol at the clarification about LN adaptations, it felt like a direct answer to what I was thinking. That does make me wonder if Otherside Picnic should make it on my list...

I'm sure I'll forget about a manga that I really enjoy and then regret it.

The school is not giving you the role you want, but the role you need. That's all.

That's an idea, but does Hanako (or anyone) "need" to be a seductress?