Happy birthday, Madoka!

I felt like we were hitting a lull, and then along comes comes chapter 80. This series keeps hitting those moments of tension like nothing else can. The gay chicken continues onwards.

I love that Sendai doesn't actually like the necklace that much lol. It wouldn't feel right for their relationship if she picked up the pendant and everything was perfect.

Everyday Lily fits the bill here. It’s a romance between two lesbians, one of whom has been actively dating women for years, and the other of which has been in the closet since high school and is obsessed with yuri manga to cope.

You know, isn't it funny that Miyagi has more close friends than Sendai? It depends on how you count 'close friend' of course, but I think you need some level of emotional intimacy for it to count.

So, I'm caught up on the Amawashi translation, but question for the MTL readers- have they started calling each other by their given name yet?

Nmi does it again.

Lesbian prostitute training arc is such an inspired concept

Mizuki reminds me a lot of Haruki from Warikitta Kankei Desukara. Ambiguously masc girl who realizes her feelings for her childhood friend and alternates between sabotaging and supporting her other relationships. This story is a bit less intense, though.

Oh man, that really sucks. Hopefully it still sticks the landing, this is good enough that I reread all the previous chapters every time a new chapter was translated.

This is cute, but I have no idea what that "F..." at the end means.

Really glad there’s something of these two. Fantastic pairing.

It's really tiring how unwilling people are to engage with this story on its own terms. Arisa literally spells out the point for us in the narration on the last page! She's not stuck on it anymore, this extra is about her accepting her friendship with Fuwako as it is instead of being hung up on her romantically forever!

"That's all it was. But even this love had its value."

That's how it goes sometimes. Don't tell me you guys have never had straight friends you've crushed on :p

I don't enjoy reading about truly one-sided love very much (I got enough of that in high school), but the hurt feels good sometimes. And it's Usui Shio, I've never read anything from her that was bad.

This is so cute! What a way to find out your best friend was in love with you.

As an aside, I appreciate that Takemiya Jin really likes writing follow-ups to her one-shots. It makes the stories feel more concrete when we get another look at the couples.

Okay with that last bet it’s starting to feel like God himself wants Wakaba to keep losing these bets lol

This is one of those one-shots that would be more effective as a series, but it’s still really good regardless. I enjoyed the reflection on ‘normality’ a lot.

I really liked that twist lol. Cute and to the point.

It feels like every time this kind of yuri comes up you get five pages of people who don't know what yuri is, although admittedly the 'yuri' and 'subtext' tags are very inconsistent in usage from what I've seen. I'm not sure what the difference between this and say, A Tropical Fish Yearns For Snow is.

That being said, I didn't enjoy this very much. This has the same style of humor that was in Still Sick, and that part was good, but there wasn't a strong enough emotional core for me to enjoy the drama. The characters feel like cardboard cutouts, the MC is way too passive, and I could barely care about the story when there's a twist every 5 minutes. It could have used less wacky hijinks and dramatic twists, and more conflict and emotional moments between the leads.

This is great! Really glad to see more MyGO doujinshi translated.

Oh, that's what you meant! No, I had no idea lol, I'll get on that right away. I have to get used to checking other websites for incomplete stuff, this isn't the first time this has happened.

I'm not sure if the implication in Looking to Tomorrow is that Mayu and Saki got together, but I'd like to think it's just regular embarrassment, because I think the ending to the main story is great. Mika and Mayu ending up together would've been a perfectly fine conventional ending, Saki and Mayu ending up together would've been fine if a bit surprising (how often does the third wheel end up winning?), but I never would've expected an ending where they all stay as friends. I was disappointed for a minute, but after thinking it over for a bit, I decided I really liked it. This ending isn't even bittersweet, all the main characters end up happy. They all grow as people, they grow as friends, and they grow to understand their sexuality better.

The side story is a bit wacky, and I probably wouldn't have it enjoyed it that much if it was presented on its own, but it gives a nice contrast to the (by comparison) more cerebral main story. I really don't like Yui, but I understand where she's coming from, y'know? I assume she's the straight* (possibly) character mentioned in the first volume's author's note.

I was kind of surprised to see this much negativity on the story coming in, because I thought this was a really effective character piece about two adults falling in love. Definitely going to keep this one in my back pocket for the next time someone asks me for a short yuri manga.

You probably know already but just in case: the series isn't 12 chapters. It's 32. But yeah it's great and they're great. Ends in a really lovely place for them. From the looks of it most of these comments seem to be from the first volume (which was already good) but some of them seem to assume that was the whole story, so maybe that's what you're seeing. Koveras had a good summary of the beginning chapters though.

Yeah, I realized that a minute after posting this when I went to go put it in my MAL and saw it listed 32 chapters. Still, I'm not disappointed with what I read at all.

This is cute. Short, sweet, to the point. I love the lizard metaphor that keeps popping up throughout.

I was kind of surprised to see this much negativity on the story coming in, because I thought this was a really effective character piece about two adults falling in love. Definitely going to keep this one in my back pocket for the next time someone asks me for a short yuri manga.