Honestly, as an avid student of history, I don't quite get the hate for bilibili and similar. If they allow authors to depict actual sapphic/gay romances as long as they censor the kisses and avoid explicit r18+...
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If the girl gets the girl in the end, and they get to unambiguously depict them living a happy domestic life together? Censor away.

This may come as a shock to you but gay people kiss and have sex as a part of their happy, domestic lives.

Saying censorship is good because I got baited one time is certainly one of the most opinions I have ever seen I'm honestly astounded.

That's not what I'm saying at all.

Censorship isn't good, and it'd be wonderful if it wasn't a thing, but if self-censoring kisses and sex is the cost of remaining on the platform and giving artists a viable way of making money in order to continue doing their work, then I think that's an OK compromise.

Yes, there's a strong argument for slippery slopes, i.e. "it began with just censoring kisses", and treating sexual minorities as second-class citizens, but the point I wanted to make was that it's far preferable to what has usually been the case in the vast majority of human history.

And regarding "getting baited" - I think you're missing the point. It's a different kind of (self-)censorship, which is imo more insidious; it's essentially conveying that lgbt relationships aren't "real" -- it's "a phase", or "they're just friends". Like it's something you grow out of, or that it's a choice. That's real erasure of sexual identity. Compared to that, censoring kisses but permitting meaningful depictions of lgbt romantic relationships is less harmful imo.

Update: I did some more reading on the topic, and I think my original take was really bad - there are some super worrying signs coming out of China the last few years; prominent lgbt activist groups and NGOs mysteriously getting closed down or de-platformed, and e.g. them forcing edits of famous western media to remove all mentions of LGBT relationships (happened with Friends re-release in 2022...)

Seems like a reasonable stance to have a problem with the state of censorship in China.

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This looks promising!

Edit: yeah no that was a bad take.

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Holy shit, this manhua is GORJ

And intriguing; I feel it's very rare to get a romance anti-hero (or "brat", I suppose) character that is genuinely funny, insane and charming in the right amounts without being too annoying.

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You had me at idiot ghost yuri

Not that either of them seem to be all that dumb, really

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Seriously, thank you so much for translating all of these, Pavane Scans!

Love this author

It’s true if your crush stands too close to you it will make you pregnant

Hate when that happens : /

It's like the first chapter of an Isekai, except truck-kun never showed up...

Stelle trailblazing in the yuri realm too

A warrior's death

lol she even bought the nightgown

Can't wait for Big Hat Herta

Beautiful. Love these two so much. Every event featuring these two just further cements how they're absolutely a canon couple. Good for them.

how come Belle gets to have 3 mommies?? so unfair

Oh my, that's some good, tasty backstory right there

Yeah, this story has slowly become one of my absolute favorites. All the cute and well-characterized side characters, and the realistic pacing with the main characters awkwardly and clumsily navigating their own confused feelings.

It's also in no small part due to the stellar work by knight heron, with the notes pages adding a lot of useful context!

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Seeing such a straightforwardly gay declaration of love in Manga Time Kirara really warms my heart

How far we’ve come

Manga Time Kirara has always been very gay, but in a subdued/subtexy way. It's only in recent years that they started to openly embrace the gayness.

I think the floodgates opened after New Game.

FUXK YES! DUDE New Game was the shit!
Hell yeah! Embrace the gay-s! I wanted it to rhyme. But whatever. Oh this kinda reminds me of that one manga with abandonment issues manga-ka and their assistant. What was it called again? Hmm. Just like the pacing of it kinda and how the characters begin to have an understanding of each other. Also the shy nature of Suuna (MC for this one) ? I'm bad with names in mangas

Maybe you're thinking of "Still Sick"? :)

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Yaaay finally some Sakashima translations! Awesome, thanks a lot to the translation team!

From what I know Yaoi is generally a lot bigger than Yuri

The BL market is still not infinity times as big as the yuri market. That ratio can't be more than an order of magnitude in the all-ages section, so there should have been at least one or two more yuri (or at least non-het and female-centric) titles in the lineup. But regardless of the relative sizes of the markets, 1 (one) yuri title (and one horror title with a female protagonist) against 58 all-ages het and/or male-led titles (incl. at least 2 BL titles in the "for men" tab!), plus 20 adult het and 20 adult BL titles, is something I find more insulting than not including any yuri works in the lineup at all.

The categories reflect the sections of the CMOA store, but that is not an excuse for this (in fact maybe the rigid and outdated store sections are part of the issue). It's not just yuri that gets completely shat on in this lineup, but basically all stories that aren't either extremely het/misogynistic slop or BL. Of course it's basically just an ad campaign (calling it an award is a bad joke) so it shouldn't be too surprising that artistic quality is not a consideration.

Well, that's disappointing. I mean, good for the people and artists that prefer Het/BL; any arts flourishing is good in my eyes... Still. Support your GL artists, folks. Buy translated works via e.g. seven seas entertainment! (Though their new release GL:Other ratio is only very slightly better). Many of the artists also have a fanbox page too.

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Voting link:
https://www.cmoa.jp/comic_prize/boy/?appeal2025=258661

So (after voting) I looked through every other category to see if there was any other yuri comics I could support, and couldn't find a single one. Meanwhile there's like a bajillion BL comics, even outside of the explicit category of BL. I know this is just one site/publisher, but is this really representative of the JP manga market as a whole? : /

Edit: Oh, and this keeps being such a cute and comforting low-stakes read.. 1000 more episodes please thank you.

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Bird wife, happy life

They all look... SO young. ;s

Leaving aside the usual Itou Hachi themes, since they don’t come into play here, do the characters really look all that much younger than in the main series?

Granted, Himari in particular looks rather smaller, but being pretty small and young-looking are her defining physical characteristics anyway.

I suppose it's subjective, but to me she definitely looks to be like.. 5-8yo here. It's a matter of eye-head-body size proportions. Anyway, I'll leave it at that. Don't want to continue party pooping on this very pretty and fluffy art.

Yeah that recipe could really use some vanilla or almond extract, or nuts, or cocoa, or more interesting type of sugar..

Anyway idk about this one; not a fan of Itou Hachis works even if I do try to give them a chance. They all look... SO young. ;s

Oh, jeez no! Please be a mercifully brief dramatic jealously arc...

There are plenty of examples of series that keep being interesting and successful after the couple has moved on to e.g. exploring the nuances of having an actual lesbian romantic relationship while still in high school.

I really wish they'd go there instead of retreading the same tired by-the-numbers drama cliches...

omg they're SO cute together, god please I hope nothing TOO bad happens.........

Anyway, if you wanted to help sensei's work, it never hurt to buy the manga too. Though it speaks Japanese.
Sales always help motivate both the publishing company and the mangaka to continue working on the series.

I'm pretty sure the series is completed already. Still, never hurts to support the author.

Seems it's ended, yes. Final episode of season 3 was published July 2023. Interestingly enough, the mangaka seems aware that people would like an official EN translated version: https://x.com/schwinn_draw/status/1673305296717123586

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