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"? :)

last edited at Oct 19, 2024 6:40AM

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The categories reflect the sections of the CMOA store, but that is not an excuse for this (in fact maybe the rigid and outdated store sections are part of the issue).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.

last edited at Oct 13, 2024 3:50PM

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

last edited at Jul 29, 2024 5:48PM

I cannot adequately describe how much I adore this manga... What a unique, charming and cathartic story

Aww, what a cute het couple! How nice, feels like a rarity in yuri manga.

OK, so I've got an idea for how the plot can be veered into something a bit nicer!

Maybe in the next chapter, Uda-chan and glasses-girl meet in some way, and they hit it off based on some commonality (unrequited senpai feels)? It's love at first sight; can't be explained. They get some chapters to explore and contrast their feelings... Possibly making glasses more sympathetic somehow.

Then we could get some Whisper me a Love Song-like tension where Uda has to choose between her new high-spec bespectacled tsundere gf, and her good old pals Nagisa & Mashiro... :)

last edited at Jun 4, 2024 4:00AM

so cute

I really like how the author has thought out the anatomy here. Like, the placement of the gills makes a lot of sense. Haven't see this before, usually people just place them on the throat or some shit...

Damn, nice. Ch14 could have been an amazing intro chapter to this series... I wonder, are these chapters new, or has the translation just lagged behind? If they are new, it'd seem to me like the author has improved a lot as a storyteller.

Ahhh, wonderful! I love this couple so much. They feel like one of those couples that have been married for like 25 years and are still in love... Gives their scenes this calming domestic vibe

So the author posted on their fanbox a few days ago. From what I can tell via machine translation, the commercial series will be cancelled due to poor sales. Last chapter will be ch. 17.

However, it seems like they are planning to continue working on the series. Their editorial department has given them permission to publish new chapters on their fanbox instead. They also mention that they've been considering creating an official english translation of the series, though who knows if that'd get approval after already seeing poor sales with the JP version.

Source: https://www.fanbox.cc/@kamejiroro/posts/7810811

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Hyped for furinarle vape. It's gonna be great.

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So, my yuri goggles say the two teachers planning a weekend sleepover are an item. Any disagreement?

Yea, I also see it. Those are some pretty knowing squints, too.

god dang what a banger of an ep tho

I'll honestly read anything Yodokawa makes, but this chapter (11) felt like the first interesting one. Some pretty solid subtext... First time visiting her apartment, and they're already getting into domestic bickering like they've been dating for a few months.. <3
And the powerful gap moe of a dependable and diligent senior that is secretly a bit of a slob at home... Getting to stay over at her apartment in exchange for helping her with housework is such a good trope. Hopefully there'll be more of this and less about the high end clothing industry.

I actually find the whole series kind of weirdly nostalgic. My parents ran a fashion clothing store when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time scampering around the back rooms while employees were doing all this stuff. But it is nice to have the author actually spend some time exploring the chemistry between the two leads.

That sounds really nice. There is something about the 'textile' smell in a clothing store that is very soothing to me as well. I have the same thing with stables, lol. The smell of a warm, dusty hayloft is a powerful nostalgia trigger.

Anyway, when reflecting on what I wrote previously, it came across as a bit harsh. It actually is a pretty interesting setting for a love story; kind of OL adjacent. Much more interesting (and less problematic) than another high-schooler romance at least. So that's neat.

last edited at Mar 10, 2024 4:00PM