Girls' love / Yuri

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So yeah watched it… loved it. This was fucking adorable. Though I'm not sure if Yamada changing her university choice just to be with Kase is really touching or really stupid on her part. Though if said university fits her choice of career it's fine I guess…

Here's hoping it works out, yeah. Apparently the manga also follows them past the OVA, so there's that if you're curious.

I was a bit surprised to find that the manga didn't have numbered chapters… I'll try to take a look though. =]

Yagakimi first PV! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yVedXph7Ig&feature=youtu.be

The animation looks beautiful but the colors might be a bit too… bright. Canno once pointed out that the manga had lots of blank spaces that felt like an integral part of the art, maybe it's to reflect that. Still a little too much…

…bloom. >.>

Edited by Lyendith on Jun 26th 2018 at 10:00:02 AM

Saw the PV for Bloom Into You, and I'm looking forward to seeing the anime. I wonder if the manga will end before the anime overtakes it?

Speaking of manga ending…

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-07-17/saburouta-citrus-manga-ends-on-august-18/.134284

Citrus will end next month.

Neat!

I'm a fair bit behind with though unfortunately, without a TV Tropes thread to remind me, I fall behind on manga a lot.

The website Yurinavi has released its second yearly Yuri manga popularity vote.

Some interesting stuff in this. Here's the top 10:

1. Bloom Into You with 584 votes
2. Kase-san with 382 votes
3. Nettaigyo wa Yuki ni Kogareru with 362 votes
4. Citrus with 359 votes
5. Ano Ko ni Kiss to Shirayuri wo with 277 votes
6. Hana ni Arashi with 262 votes
7. Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto desu with 252 votes
8. Otome no Teikoku with 251 votes
9. 2DK, G-Pen, Mezamashidokei with 218 votes
10. Futaribeya with 192 votes

Nettaigyo has shot straight (?) to 3rd place despite being a relatively new manga apparently. Makes me curious.

Also there's… Wata Mote in 25th place for some reason?

Edited by Lyendith on Aug 10th 2018 at 7:33:02 PM

Good to see Bloom Into You at the top of the list.

Yeah,if the anime's popular it might become the new standard-bearer of modern yuri… I can live with that.

Watamote has gotten extremely gay ever since about chapter 100 when Tomoko started getting a functional social life.

Its been very strongly reflected in the amount of doujinshi/fanart that I've seen around.

Hmm. I've read about 70% of that list, but I'll have to check out the remaining stuff. Especially since manga doesn't take too long to read.

EDIT: To clarify, for Watamote I mean subtext, not actual relationships.

Edited by 32ndfreeze on Aug 10th 2018 at 10:02:47 PM

Any of those not Slice of Life?

I read Ano Ko Ni for a while, and it just felt kind of mean-spirited somehow. The character interactions, I mean. Not that every series' leads need to be soft and fluffy from page 1, but having their early interactions governed by the traumatic need to be top-of-the-class academically made their interactions just feel kind of nasty to me.

Well, their motivations go a little deeper than that with time (they're both looking for self-acknowledgement basically), but that's the Japanese school system for you. >.>

Depends on what you call "slice of life". You mean Yuri that doesn't take place in a school or a house?

Honestly at this point I'd settle for anything that's not primarily set in a high school.

Plenty of good stories to tell there, no question! But it's become overwhelmingly common.

I mean there's plenty of Magical Girl stories but then you gotta settle for suuuuubteeeeext.

That or they are Beta Couple.

I don't mind high school settings, but I do prefer that such settings do something unique or be very, very compelling (like Bloom Into You is).

Speaking of high school settings, I recently picked up a vampire yuri manga called Hungry For You: Endo Yasuko Stalks The Night. Its' set in a private all-girls school and has a girl agreeing to be a vampire's "emergency rations" in exchange for free food. The story does have a bit of a mystery element though, since three students have vanished near the school, and the main heroine does wonder if the vampire girl had something to do with their disappearance.

Reminds me of Seifuku no Vampire Lord, which is fairly similar. It also has a canon couple at the forefront.

I feel I've outgrown the normal Slice of Life high school yuri series. Heck, high school anything just doesn't do it for me. Teenagers just aren't terribly interesting when it comes to romance. It's nice fluff and all that, but there's only so much 16 year olds can do when it comes to dating. I prefer grown-up angsting and domestic stuff.

I can't really think of any slice of life yuri anime about adults, though. Manga? Sure, especially josei. But anime? It seems like an unreached market.

I empathize: I have been concentrating on Shoujo ai and Josei for a while now, almost exclusively college or adult aged manga. I have been relieved to take a walk away from the high school setting and its hideously overused tropes.

I have also found a dearth of anime in those subjects-if you have not already, I recommend Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. Not romance-focused so much as domestic comedy, but excellent on its own merits, and one of the few where I really like both the manga and anime.

Yeah, I'm getting more interested in it as well. I can give you some recommendations, though I'll need some time to track down the name to a particular one I seem to have lost.

The last chapter of Citrus recently got translated, and it ends with Yuzu and Mei actually getting married to each other. Well, that was quite a ride.

It was-and I was late to the party because I only use a couple of sites to keep track of my manga.

I'm not interested in step-sibling melodrama so I've ignored that series, but that's... a much better ending than I was actually expecting.

The latest episodes of Jashin-chan and Yama no Susume are getting into serious stuff.

Wait, Jashin-chan has a plot beyond comedic sociopathy? I kind of find that hard to believe.