The Steam Summer Sale may be over, but there is still more good news everyone!

Team ANPIM, the dev team which made several small yuri VNs has released them as a VN collection, this time all themed around adult yuri slice of life!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3601840/Adult_Life_Yuri_Bundle_by_Team_ANPIM/
Four stories with cute/philosophical adult yuri in them.
The best part? It's completely FREE, just like the publisher Quill Yuri's other titles like Lachesis or Atropos and The Final Prize is Soup. Their only paid game is Death Becomes You (another good yuri VN). So while you are at it, may as well add their full library to your account.

Anyway, the compilation's stories are:

My Dream Is To Be a Model, Not a Maid!
An aspiring model spills coffee on a rich lady and instantly gets turned into a maid as compensation. Hijinks ensue.

There’s No Way I’d Fall in Love With a Womanizer, Right?
The kind protagonist helps out a pretty woman on a drunken bender and instantly feels attracted to her. Turns out she is a womanizer though and from here on it's a cat and mouse game about trying not to get swept up by her.

The Moon That Fell for the Star
A convenience store clerk helps out a strange woman and lets her crash at her home. And they became roommates!

Love Goes Toward Love
Cafe worker falls in love with pretty lady from the rival cafe. And on top of that a love triangle? The drama!

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Mr. Jones, you genuinely dont know what hyperbole is? Or is this all just some sort of joke? I'm apalled if this is the latter. I'm out.

Just loaded up the "Recently Added" page - the average number of tags per upload, at this very moment and excusing anything that might be on my very short blacklist, is 7.8

I genuinely don't understand what you are even trying to say with this. Perhaps this conversation has run its course. I leave the rest to the mods.

@Zesc
You didnt understand my points and are poisoning the well wherever you can. Not to mention your penchant for projection of my intentions. You are not worth engaging with. I just wanted you to know that your approach is very unfortunate.

Sigh... there are database sites like Visual Novel database that are enitrely made for the purpose of tagging every aspect of a visual novel. But unsurprisingly on actual storefronts the same VNs do not have the same dozens of tags, because this is an unnecessary distraction, not to mention very easy to spoil content or overinflate perception with irrelevancies. There is a single page with a blonde girl? Add the "blonde side character" tag! The protag is secretly a bad guy? Add the "evil protagonist" tag!

I give up...

@Mr. Jones
Most of those garbage tags are not used. That's why they dont interefere with anything. They are clearly vistigil or gag tags that dont actually get used wherever they (could) apply.
I accused you of inteelectual dishonesty because you replied to my post about hypotheticals and hyperbole with "but where are stories with 100 tags???" as if you were playing dumb. Sigh...

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This could be remedied by improving the search function to search through the synopsis. You must comprehend why giving a story hundreds of tags is inane...

Can you find me a story on here with hundreds of tags?

What a terrible deflection... Please stop being intellectually dishonest. You said that adding a bunch of superfluous tags like the ones I mockingly mentioned would be helpful, so I confronted you with the end result of such overzealous tagging. Are there any stories with the 80s or America tag? No? It is almost as if we had been talking about hypotheticals.

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Genuinely all of the tags you're mentioning have at least the potential to be helpful. When there's a lot of stories updating at once, or when I'm trying to find a specific story that I don't remember the title of, more tags are actually better, they help make series more distinctive in my brain. I've found myself more likely to enjoy manga where a protagonist comes from a fantasy setting to Japan than the reverse, so tags recognizing the difference helps me find what I like! How... awful? I guess?

This could be remedied by improving the search function to search through the synopsis. You must comprehend why giving a story hundreds of tags is inane...

The purpose of tags is not to make etymological or historical sense. Reverse isekai gives me information about the work that Fantasy by itself doesn't. I don't see what's so terrible about that.

I do find it fun that in hindsight I can call Marvel's Thor 1 a reverse-isekai now lmao

Since isekai typically is about a character from our Earth engaging with a world that they are out of context in, such as Alice going to Wonderland. With reverse isekai Thor is going from Asgard to Earth, and a lot of the movie's story focuses on how he's an out of context element that engages with our world in a unique way due to being from another realm. Regardless of whatever pop culture origins isekai as a term started as it's evolved into a very broad term and genre used to describe many different series and scenarios.

This makes even less sense. Thor is not from another world in the sense of Isekai. He is an alien from another planet in the same universe. That is not isekai.

Do people who dont even seem to understand what an isekai story actually is really make the best judges of whether a "reverse isekai" tag makes sense...?

The purpose of tags is not to make etymological or historical sense. Reverse isekai gives me information about the work that Fantasy by itself doesn't. I don't see what's so terrible about that.

If you want it so bad, any story tagged "reverse isekai" is just an isekai story. Use the already well spread tag instead of making up another that doesn't even make sense the longer you think about it?
This site is already critisized for over tagging works and this is a very obvious example of that. I can understand gag tags to a degree, but this is too much. Do you tag any school story with "school"? Do you need a tag for whether a story takes place in the 80s or 2010s? Do you tag it "America" if it takes place in the USA?

I think I listed all the reasons why this tag is a bad idea. I've got nothing more to add.

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Most of the stories that had travel to or from another world were never called isekai in the past. It was simply not a tag. The tag came about with a very specific theme/type of other world exploration in mind and not a good one. Ultimately whether you like isekai or not, there was no reason to invent the dumb term "reverse isekai" which does not make sense etymologically or historically.

By definition all isekai means is "another world". It doesn't even differentiate which direction it goes. Thus there is no "reverse" isekai, unless you literally speak of stories with no other world involved. Then it would be a reverse isekai, but that's just all standard story-telling in existence.
This is why I made the comparison of heterosexuality vs. homosexuality. One is not the reverse of the other and most people would find it offensive if you did call it that.

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Characters coming to our world from another is a standard trope in most supernatural stories

wha

Also yeah I don't think the majority of stuff tagged with Supernatural on here has characters coming over from another world? Usually they just co-exist with humans, that's how pretty much all of our vampire stories are.

Do I have to mention the obvious examples? For Shounen anime you got Bleach. For sci-fi you got basically half of every single TV show having this plot in at least a couple of episodes. Lots of JRPGs love to have characters or invaders from another world as plot points (the other usual one is "ancient civilisation which may or may not have come from space").

Coming from another/parallel/time slipped world or dimension is a very common trope in fiction. Before the dreaded isekai garbage started to be overused, the concept of a protagonist going to another world was also common and didn't need its own stupid tag anyway. Isekai does appeal to a more specific Japanese fantasy of some generic boring male self-insert jumping to another world to get a harem or become super important and amazing, because power fantasy. Isekai is to other world exploration what fast food is to a 5 star meal.

In that light, I am disgusted by the idea of making a concept as simple as characters visiting from another world be associated with this term.

I take this comment as a sign it will get better then. Still haven't managed to get much farther than the very start into it after everything so far just seemed so wrong after the first two parts...

It's not hard to surpass Printemps, the weakest of the 4. And while Ete does engage in some melancholy, Automne revels in it. Usually which one is the "best" for fans comes down to whether they prefer the more light hearted dynamics of Ete or the deep melancholy of Automne.

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Does this really require a tag, let alone one this absurd? Characters coming to our world from another is a standard trope in most supernatural stories. This is not relevant to Isekai. That's like calling homosexuality "reverse heterosexuality". It makes no sense.

the self-harm is necessitated by the whole blood magic deal of the premise but it's definitely not "edgy" in that way. They way ATIB touches on grief, depression and suicidal ideation is stomach churningly well done actually. reading it made me legit uncomfortable at times bc it was more relatable than i'd care to admit

It's always those with real life issues who seem to be drawn to this kind of content... I hope you are doing better now.

It took me about 8-9 hrs to play through it, letting voices play out. It did feel like it was over in a flash but that's mostly because i was glued to the screen and at the edge of my seat the whole time xD The story itself is very well paced imo, doesn't drag or rush at any point.

Brevity is the soul of wit, as they say. It's just strange that I have seen plenty of fanfiction with 100k words plus. Not to mention the enldess word count of Japanese Light Novels. Elan has gone longer and longer as time went on. It's hard to remember that Highway Blossoms was fairly short.

I am not too fond of overdone self-harm and edgey content for the sake of edge, but I assume ATIB has more substance than that. I must add it to the list right away.

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Plan #1: I've been meaning to make a few image upload requests for a while now, because Dynasty is seriously lacking in not just quality FLOWERS art, but pretty much any FLOWERS art.

I have been requesting Flowers art on the image section a lot in the past and my nominations never got uploaded so I gave up. Instead the mods picked the same generic popular non-yuri anime of the week yuri ships every single time. It's quite depressing.

One person even ended up recommending their friend/acquaintance to start with Automne, as the supposedly “best one”, in what seemed to be a hope that they'd just bruteforce their way through the story and manage to piece everything together from clues and hints. Suffices to say that the experience seemed to be rather unsatisfactory, because a great portion of narrative parallels went over the victim's head, while they also kept making incorrect assumptions and coming to incorrect conclusions about various things simply because they lacked necessary context.)

Automne very much is the best individual FLOWERS VN in my opinion and it is not even close. So good taste on this random person. Not so bright ideas though.
Fundamentally I always say that you need to play/watch/read things in order. No exception.

Studio Élan's newest VN, 'A Tithe in Blood' is out now!

-a dark yuri visual novel around 70k words long
-English script with JP & CN translations
- full JP voice acting

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2989270/A_Tithe_in_Blood/

I have been looking forward to this since Please Be Happy. Elan is starting to actually become a powerhouse in the yuri VN scene. Although 70k words is actually rather short. I still have to finish Clover Reset before I can start on this, unfortunately.

Just a small start with a handful of untranslated Japanese/Chinese yuri VNs played by yours truly (except for those I didn't).

Japanese

• Class Zen'in Maji de Yuri?! ~Watashi-tachi no Lez Oppai wa Anata no Mono Joshi Zen'in Shiofuki Keikaku~
  This one was brought up before in this thread and my opinion has not changed. While it has its downsides, this is one of the rare yuri harem eroge out there of actual quality. It's nothing deep and I would say even lacking in the romance department, but it's sheer boldness somehow makes up for that.
  Just for the love of yuri NEVER press the "mysterious white liquid" button during sex scenes. It's quite revolting, as expected of MBS Truth. They just can't help themselves.
  https://vndb.org/v12404

• Evermaiden
  Mind you I have only played this a little, as a translation was announced (and probably will never actually be finished), but what I played was great. The art is one of a kind. It's a high production yuri VN with a strong mystery focus. It reminds me a little of games like F/SN or DIVIdead, if not in plot, then it atmosphere. It is an eroge, but I didn't reach any of the sex scenes, so who knows how cringe they are?
  As I can't speak for how well the mystery is resolved I will just have to go by the very positive reception to recommend it.
  https://vndb.org/v31427

• Solfege
  A VN/rhythm game hybrid and one I never played because I am horrid at the latter. However, the art/music/voice acting have always attracted me to solfege. @coolsnail can probably say more about it.
  https://vndb.org/v2113

• Sugar,sugar,sugarcoat
  A very new small indie VN. Finished it just recently and it really oozes that unique charm only indie VNs can. The plot is a bit unconventional, but in summary it's about our protagonist having to woo girls to feed the demoness she is actually in love with. Technically that would make this a harem VN, but there are some twists and turns I dare not spoil... Very cute comfy artstyle though.
  https://vndb.org/v50883

• YumeUtsutsu Re:Idol
  Short stories spin-off to the main Yumeutsutsu games, but lacking an English translation for some reason. This is an outrage! If you like the main games, you will like this.
  https://vndb.org/v28201

Chinese

• Eternal Love & Unwavering Love

Sequels in the ahem... Love series? They build on the titles Symbiotic Love and Melancholy Love, however, unlike those two they haven't been translated yet. I fear they might never get one either. It is not my place to make assumptions, but it is most likely related to costs.
The first two VNs set up an incredibly shocking cliffhanger which will be resolved in these sequels. It is pure torture to be denied this conclusion. Please play this if you have any means to at all. This series is probably some of the best Chinese yuri (or tangerine as they call it I think?) out there. With the insane censorship that country experiences in recent years we should value the few explicit yuri games that get released all the more.
https://vndb.org/v29663
https://vndb.org/v49516

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imo it's worth it! the audience is smaller, but not nonexistent, and i've been wanting more JP yuri games to play anyway lol. even when i find titles there's no indication of how good/worth my time they are. it'd be helpful

Very well. That section might fluctuate with potential translations coming out (oh how I yearn for thee Evermaiden TL), but with some older VNs hope is very dim.

Perhaps someone could also recommend translation software, so I may add it to the opening post for more accessibility.

This art is actually a reference to the 3rd anniversary event which (spoiler) is about a robot who is simulating the past while self-inserting as Yuina to be close to Ruka. You can see the robot floating in the air in the background.

This picture is only part 1 of a 3 part series though. In the continuation Charlotta forces herself into Yuina's role. lol
https://x.com/RINKI_ohen21/status/1924427698400887264

To anyone asking about how canon HBR's yuri is, there is a lot more shipping than explicit couples about, but several characters are openly lesbians and in some cases there are expressed feelings.
However the game features no kisses yet and it is a slowburn, so most pairings have no made it into canon territory by this point. Not to mention that this is not a romance VN, this game is a nakige (crying game) which focuses on character development, war and trauma. It is very tragic and sad in many places, counterbalanced by irreverant comedy. It is not a yuri game, even if all romance in it is yuri.

@ActaEstFabulaMuse
In response to the uh... "paizuri" thing... Tsukasa has never said anything of the sort.
However, awakened Tsukasa has said in no uncertain terms that she is into Karerin and also wants to kiss her. The sexual tension is completely maintext between them.

It is an absolute non-pairing in the game for sure. And I would argue it doesn't deserve to be one. This is just pairing the spares.

Tama: Megumin-san.... will you do the... biri biri for me...?

Awakened Tsukasa is such a power top...

This is a stealth pair style.

Aoi is wearing her 3rd anniversary outfit and Ichigo her latest style. What an interesting AU this must be.
Byakko is drawn in the style of the official 4koma artist which always draws this egg-like cute Byakko lol