The manga has been licensed by Kodansha.
https://x.com/KodanshaManga/status/1848069987602145517

There may be hope for the series.

To me it looks like a sign that a series has been axed. When licensing niche, unproven series, publishers generally prefer short series because it means less commitment from them. Seven Seas picked up a bunch of axe fodders, including the 2 volumes long Scarlet and the practically abandoned Chasing Spica. In any case, Kodansha picking this up should has no immediate effect on the manga's situation, since it would take some time for they to release it in English.

The other officers must have stopped coming because they don't want to see the idiot couple flirting all day.

There's a lot of people I'm seeing saying they're buying the volume that I'm seeing, although almost all in English, not Japanese. I wonder if there's a reason this concept works better for us in the West lol

Probably because Japanese fans already bought their copies without being asked.

The manga of Shuukura is released finally. There is a lot of hype for the light novel so let's see if this adaptation can live up to it.

Mm, the significance of her introducing herself as Bai Yuetao - she's completely abandoned the Lu name there, yeah? That's her maiden name?

Edit: yes, it's as I thought! Wow, I love that for her :O

Not quite. Chinese women don't change their surname upon marriage. She's simultaneously Bai Yuetao and Mrs. Lu. Just stating her name doesn't imply renouncing her husband's household.

I thought this was a prequel to https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/what_i_want_to_do_now_that_im_no_longer_an_idol but the characters have different names.

Another manga series from Usui Shio, hopefully this series can be adapted into an anime. I mean, this is an award-winning author, so there should be a series that many people know

What award did she win?

Here

If she won that early on in her career then it was most likely one of those magazine rookie awards for aspiring artists. You submit a draft to the magazine and if you win, it'll get published as an oneshot and you'll get opportunity to work with that magazine in the future. She would need to do a lot better than that to gain widespread recognition.

Another manga series from Usui Shio, hopefully this series can be adapted into an anime. I mean, this is an award-winning author, so there should be a series that many people know

What award did she win?

Wait, is this the sequel to this oneshot on Mangadex? But their names don't match.

Anyway, the story reminds me of the girls who left their idol group to be together.

This is Shou-nee and Sayo-sensei from Tsurezure Biyori from the same mangaka. Shouko becomes an apartment building manager that works partime and Sayo(Saya) becomes an art teacher.

This one shot came out before Tsurezure Biyori.
Surprised no one has mentioned that.

Probably because Tsurezure Biyori ended more than four years ago. Thank you for bringing this up. I love Hamuro Kei's style. Too bad they haven't made anything since then.

Here are Shouko and Sayo in Tsurezure Biyori.

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I know this reply is rather late, but the link is wrong

In that post, I was talking about two separate mistakes in the official translation. The first one is in chapter 26 when the Viz translation has Konatsu addressing Koyuki by two different ways in that many pages. The mistake is obvious so I didn't link to the fan translation.

The second mistake is in chapter 28 when Koyuki tells Konatsu to look outside, but the Viz translator has it switched around (see below). The Dynasty link was meant for comparison with this one. Somehow I forgot to post the Viz page, so it became confusing. Thank you for pointing that out.

There's no excuse for Tsukishi. The way she is acting, Honoka might as well think Tsukishi is disgusted by the kiss.

…well that’s embarrassing. Pardon the American moment. For some reason, I thought the little Korean flag was a Japanese one, and I didn’t notice the characters were different.

Mangadex never host original language version in the first place because it would be straight up pirating and not just in the grey area of translation.

although it's hard to have faith in any series with SFF ambitions surviving long in Yuri Hime.

I don't think this series is supposed to be long anyway. All of the previous adaptations of Yuri Literary award winners are either oneshots or one volume manga.

Considering this is from back in 2018, is there any more of these two?

Wait, one of the creators is the author of Audience with Her Majesty the Queen, which I read years ago.

Hmm, whatever happened to that series? I vaguely remember reading the last chapter where the protagonist leaves her school and friends behind, but haven't heard anything about a continuation since.

Series was complete ages ago, just no translation for the second part.

Wait, one of the creators is the author of Audience with Her Majesty the Queen, which I read years ago.

And apparently this series is also released in Japanese with traditional manga format?

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this felt more like a oneshot to me because of how fast it moved tbh

It IS a oneshot- not sure why it says ch1 at top. The mangaka does say they want to do a ecchi followon set years later but its not in the works yet.

You can see the table of content in page 4. The mangaka said this series was supposed to be just an oneshot, but an editor contacted them so they made a couple more chapters to fill out a short volume.

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What are the others?

Fall In Love With The Empress is another one, I don't know what the other one that's referenced would be.

I know of Female General and Eldest Princess although it is the general who is cross-dressing here (also has a dynasty tag). Else I only know of (het) otome games with that premise.

The other one I spoke of is 贵妃今天也要以身饲敌 (Today the Imperial Concubine Is Also Using Herself to Raise the Enemy.) Though in this one, the main characters is not the crossdressing emperor, but two concubines in her harem.
https://manga.bilibili.com/detail/mc32928

I regret peeking at the ending of this.

There are open endings and there is this. I have to give it to the author for not even attempting to resolve any of the plot threads.

This is the third yuri manhua involving a crossdressing female emperor that I know of. I wonder if there are any more of them.

I'd honestly say Manhua : actors, murderers.

The number of really weird Chinese comics about Yuri killers is staggering.

Just off the top of my head:
Savior
Kill Me Now
Killing Mr. Park
Let's Kill My Husband
Killing You

If you add in webnovels, it skyrockets way beyond that list too.

Uh what? All of those series are Korean.

Surprisingly no one has brought up this author's previous series, Koi to Uso/ Love and Lies, which managed to have an anime but got mixed reception. That series is het, but does have a gay character.
The premise reminds me of this oneshot called Trans Star which is one of the better genderbender works I've read, though I doubt the change is permanent in this case, since it's still published in a traditional shounen magazine and all.

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I know nothing about Chinese language so... Xiao Lan and Xiao Yao... Do they happen to share last name or something?

Xiao (小) literally means 'little'. It's usually prefixed to a person's name to create a diminutive version of that name, not unlike adding -ie or -y to names in English. In this context of two close female friends referring to each other, it's the equivalent of -chan in Japanese.

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Series to end in next month issue, with chapter 7 being the last one.