this is insanely romantic. i'm sold. like, i'm already a sucker for class S-inspired stories (marimite, anyone?) as well as the rose/candy yuri dynamic (rose being the older girl who's mature, reserved, probably has some kind of emotional baggage that closes her off, and candy being the younger girl who's naive and sincere). huge thank you to the scanlator, i'm bookmarking this one
Im hearing all sorts of terms for the first time. Ive been reading yuri for a few years but am unfamiliar with "class s" if anyone could fill me in!
Also my first experience with rose/candy pairing was the anime Strawberry Panic lol. We rarely get the slow burn that amounts to very little anymore, since queerness can be more openly displayed rather than settling for subversive undertones, but I appreciated it for its place being it came out in 2006. Had the aesthetic of clear older-younger girl pairings but all subtext.
Edit: wow! Just educated myself a little on the history of shoujo/yuri manga, the creation of "Class S" tied to all girls schools and arranged marriages, and lesbian authors and activists who kept it alive after it was banned in Japan in 1936. Right on! I love lesbians. This tumblr post was an easy read: https://www.tumblr.com/ani-mentation/121601661502/the-history-of-yuri-part-1-before-there-was
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