LGBT manga/anime: "when I get high I can get really emotional about sapphic love"

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GloomMouse: Mar 6, 2007

It is critically acclaimed after all. Wow though, race changing to match? Having to go over all your glams... that's real love

# ? Jul 22, 2023 22:33

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 04:34

Snooze Cruise: Feb 16, 2013; hey look,
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We are nearing the end of the series, so I am once again giving a shout out to I Love Amy

Its an odd duck. The series feels weirdly closer to American teen media than the average high school setting yuri. I mean it is literally set in America, but even beyond that this shares more sensibilities with a Heathers or a Pretty Little Liars, than say a Useless Princesses or something.

Anyway its pretty good. Personally its not going to be one of my favorite GLs of all time, but likely will be for many people. Probably the best HS setting yuri since School Zone.

# ? Aug 3, 2023 06:06

Clarste: Apr 15, 2013; Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Maybe the writer grew up in America and decided to write what they knew?

# ? Aug 3, 2023 13:28

gnome7: Oct 21, 2010; Who's this Little
Spaghetti?? ??

Snooze Cruise posted:

We are nearing the end of the series, so I am once again giving a shout out to I Love Amy

Its an odd duck. The series feels weirdly closer to American teen media than the average high school setting yuri. I mean it is literally set in America, but even beyond that this shares more sensibilities with a Heathers or a Pretty Little Liars, than say a Useless Princesses or something.

Anyway its pretty good. Personally its not going to be one of my favorite GLs of all time, but likely will be for many people. Probably the best HS setting yuri since School Zone.

Thank you for posting this, I'd never heard of it before and it has rapidly become one of my favorites of all time. These girls are so messed up, in such a real and believable way, and I want the best for everyone in this story

# ? Aug 4, 2023 06:13

Ohtori Akio: Jul 15, 2022

Snooze Cruise posted:

We are nearing the end of the series, so I am once again giving a shout out to I Love Amy

Its an odd duck. The series feels weirdly closer to American teen media than the average high school setting yuri. I mean it is literally set in America, but even beyond that this shares more sensibilities with a Heathers or a Pretty Little Liars, than say a Useless Princesses or something.

Anyway its pretty good. Personally its not going to be one of my favorite GLs of all time, but likely will be for many people. Probably the best HS setting yuri since School Zone.

I just caught up. Thank you for posting again, I'm one of the freaks it was made for. Really really good.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 00:51

Nuebot: Feb 18, 2013; The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

Snooze Cruise posted:

We are nearing the end of the series, so I am once again giving a shout out to I Love Amy

Its an odd duck. The series feels weirdly closer to American teen media than the average high school setting yuri. I mean it is literally set in America, but even beyond that this shares more sensibilities with a Heathers or a Pretty Little Liars, than say a Useless Princesses or something.

Anyway its pretty good. Personally its not going to be one of my favorite GLs of all time, but likely will be for many people. Probably the best HS setting yuri since School Zone.

I really enjoyed it, some of the characters are incredibly relatable in different ways and some of the scenes in like, the latest chapter, hit pretty hard.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 03:05

kidcoelacanth: Sep 23, 2009

Snooze Cruise posted:

We are nearing the end of the series, so I am once again giving a shout out to I Love Amy

Its an odd duck. The series feels weirdly closer to American teen media than the average high school setting yuri. I mean it is literally set in America, but even beyond that this shares more sensibilities with a Heathers or a Pretty Little Liars, than say a Useless Princesses or something.

Anyway its pretty good. Personally its not going to be one of my favorite GLs of all time, but likely will be for many people. Probably the best HS setting yuri since School Zone.

i read this today! it's good! the art is extremely my poo poo!

# ? Aug 5, 2023 05:26

Catgirl Al Capone: Dec 15, 2007

its getting better about it as the plot resolves but earlier on I was kinda uncomfortable with how much Amy was made to suffer, it crossed the line a bit for me from funny to upsetting

# ? Aug 5, 2023 13:51

Drakyn: Dec 26, 2012

Related to things wrapping up, Throw Away the Suit Together just finished. I'm sufficiently unsure of myself to make absolute statements on a good day and I've been having a pretty lousy month, but it made me pretty depressed, and in almost an exact mirror of the way I Love Amy just made me feel better. The latter is about to end with two people making the choice to try something new and scary and take a risk because they care about each other, and the former ends with two people that tried something new and scary and took a risk because they cared about each other and they failed and are right back where they started but worse off. At least they STILL care about each other.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 15:03

StupidNameNobody: Aug 12, 2023

I've been reading Adachi and Shimamura lately since a friend recommended it. (the novel)

I have to say it moved me to the core. So beautiful. I've never read anything like this before and I absolutely loved it... My heart was warmed so much it almost hurt. Especially because the story extends far into the future with the two of them still so happily together. Living together 5 years later, 10 years later, even decades later their love and affection only grows deeper. So utterly wonderful that is.

Another striking thing is... this was my life several years ago. It's nuts how similar it really is. I have the same kind of personality as Shimamura, the same problems. It was kinda freaky at times reading practically my own thoughts from a first person perspective knowing them all too well. Never seen anything like that. That everything turns out so beautifully brought me a familiar kind of joy I've never experienced before when reading a story.

Years ago, I also had an 'Adachi' that sat with me and told me lovely things while I remained completely oblivious to her extremely obvious feelings. As the kids say, I guess you could call me painfully "useless". It seems insane but you really can have someone sit in your lap telling you how nice you smell, with them staring into your eyes, holding your hand almost every day, and think... what a nice friend, even if she's a little weird, how cool, and just leave it at that. She also had an eventual meltdown - except she wrote me her thoughts in a letter - and eventually told me things that led to a certain awakening in me which I imagine you can guess the nature of. I said yes to that, and one day on a trip to the beach a couple of years later I said yes to her once again. And here we are now.

One thing that absolutely killed me reading this series was the 4th extra story that comes with the blurays where it's 70 years later and Shimamura has outlived everyone else... including Adachi. Oh god. It broke my heart to see her imagining Adachi with her there, talking to her even though she knows she's gone forever. I've sometimes thought of the same thing, hoping I'd be the first to go, because I know I could never take it the other way around. To be honest I cried. I full on sobbed. When I reached the end I ran to my wife and told her how much I love her in so many ways, and stayed there hugging her for for quite a while. It hit me really hard.

Long story short, I guess I'm a serious sucker for romance stories and I had no idea lmao :love:

# ? Aug 12, 2023 04:26

RuBisCO: May 1, 2009; This is definitely not a lie

StupidNameNobody posted:

I've been reading Adachi and Shimamura lately since a friend recommended it. (the novel)

I have to say it moved me to the core. So beautiful. I've never read anything like this before and I absolutely loved it... My heart was warmed so much it almost hurt. Especially because the story extends far into the future with the two of them still so happily together. Living together 5 years later, 10 years later, even decades later their love and affection only grows deeper. So utterly wonderful that is.

Another striking thing is... this was my life several years ago. It's nuts how similar it really is. I have the same kind of personality as Shimamura, the same problems. It was kinda freaky at times reading practically my own thoughts from a first person perspective knowing them all too well. Never seen anything like that. That everything turns out so beautifully brought me a familiar kind of joy I've never experienced before when reading a story.

Years ago, I also had an 'Adachi' that sat with me and told me lovely things while I remained completely oblivious to her extremely obvious feelings. As the kids say, I guess you could call me painfully "useless". It seems insane but you really can have someone sit in your lap telling you how nice you smell, with them staring into your eyes, holding your hand almost every day, and think... what a nice friend, even if she's a little weird, how cool, and just leave it at that. She also had an eventual meltdown - except she wrote me her thoughts in a letter - and eventually told me things that led to a certain awakening in me which I imagine you can guess the nature of. I said yes to that, and one day on a trip to the beach a couple of years later I said yes to her once again. And here we are now.

One thing that absolutely killed me reading this series was the 4th extra story that comes with the blurays where it's 70 years later and Shimamura has outlived everyone else... including Adachi. Oh god. It broke my heart to see her imagining Adachi with her there, talking to her even though she knows she's gone forever. I've sometimes thought of the same thing, hoping I'd be the first to go, because I know I could never take it the other way around. To be honest I cried. I full on sobbed. When I reached the end I ran to my wife and told her how much I love her in so many ways, and stayed there hugging her for for quite a while. It hit me really hard.

Long story short, I guess I'm a serious sucker for romance stories and I had no idea lmao

I wish the manga version (the only version I've read) was more caught up, because I feel like it'll be a long time before I get the whole story. As someone who relates more to Adachi, it's all a bit too painful and I just want the poor girl to find her own happiness, whatever that may be. The chapter "Shimamura's Sword" was one of the most heart-breaking, uncomfortable things I've read, and the fallout from it made me physically anxious.

Your thoughts do make me feel quite a bit more optimistic on the series. I suppose I'm just impatient, but the manga release is dreadfully slow and the official English release is slower still. Out of curiosity, how much has the manga adapted if the latest chapter is when Adachi finally realizes she loves Shimamura?

# ? Aug 12, 2023 05:01

Julias: Jun 24, 2012; Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild

That's a sweet story StupidNameNobody

# ? Aug 12, 2023 05:33

StupidNameNobody: Aug 12, 2023

RuBisCO posted:

I wish the manga version (the only version I've read) was more caught up, because I feel like it'll be a long time before I get the whole story. As someone who relates more to Adachi, it's all a bit too painful and I just want the poor girl to find her own happiness, whatever that may be. The chapter "Shimamura's Sword" was one of the most heart-breaking, uncomfortable things I've read, and the fallout from it made me physically anxious.

I can imagine. I found that outburst really powerful myself as you can probably guess. It's raw as hell and it feels real, just losing it at that point. There's only so much someone can take and at that time in your life you can't possibly know any better or what to do with those feelings... especially such a solitary person with no support at all. It's no surprise she's unstable.

That being said, I can't recommend the novels enough. While I've never read romance before, I have read plenty of other genres and yet this really stuck out to me. That introspective first person viewpoint of the characters is quite something - it switches perspective often between Adachi and Shimamura, and even their parents and friends at times, and it's cool to see things from all sides like that. I have to find more stuff like this

e: Oops, forgot to answer the question lol

quote:

Your thoughts do make me feel quite a bit more optimistic on the series. I suppose I'm just impatient, but the manga release is dreadfully slow and the official English release is slower still. Out of curiosity, how much has the manga adapted if the latest chapter is when Adachi finally realizes she loves Shimamura?

When Adachi had her multi-page meltdown that was volume 5 in the novels, though she has some realisations even earlier than that. When she comes straight out and says it to her? That was volume 6, although barely. In chapter 7 she straight up says it multiple times and Shimamura enters a relationship with Adachi.

It's very cute. Shimamura, already knowing how she feels, encourages and persues her herself. Ha! Currently there are 11 volumes.

StupidNameNobody fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Sep 17, 2023

# ? Aug 12, 2023 06:37

skaianDestiny: Jan 13, 2017; beep boop

StupidNameNobody posted:

I've been reading Adachi and Shimamura lately since a friend recommended it. (the novel)

I have to say it moved me to the core. So beautiful. I've never read anything like this before and I absolutely loved it... My heart was warmed so much it almost hurt. Especially because the story extends far into the future with the two of them still so happily together. Living together 5 years later, 10 years later, even decades later their love and affection only grows deeper. So utterly wonderful that is.

Another striking thing is... this was my life several years ago. It's nuts how similar it really is. I have the same kind of personality as Shimamura, the same problems. It was kinda freaky at times reading practically my own thoughts from a first person perspective knowing them all too well. Never seen anything like that. That everything turns out so beautifully brought me a familiar kind of joy I've never experienced before when reading a story.

Years ago, I also had an 'Adachi' that sat with me and told me lovely things while I remained completely oblivious to her extremely obvious feelings. As the kids say, I guess you could call me painfully "useless". It seems insane but you really can have someone sit in your lap telling you how nice you smell, with them staring into your eyes, holding your hand almost every day, and think... what a nice friend, even if she's a little weird, how cool, and just leave it at that. She also had an eventual meltdown - except she wrote me her thoughts in a letter - and eventually told me things that led to a certain awakening in me which I imagine you can guess the nature of. I said yes to that, and one day on a trip to the beach a couple of years later I said yes to her once again. And here we are now.

One thing that absolutely killed me reading this series was the 4th extra story that comes with the blurays where it's 70 years later and Shimamura has outlived everyone else... including Adachi. Oh god. It broke my heart to see her imagining Adachi with her there, talking to her even though she knows she's gone forever. I've sometimes thought of the same thing, hoping I'd be the first to go, because I know I could never take it the other way around. To be honest I cried. I full on sobbed. When I reached the end I ran to my wife and told her how much I love her in so many ways, and stayed there hugging her for for quite a while. It hit me really hard.

Long story short, I guess I'm a serious sucker for romance stories and I had no idea lmao

This is such an adorable story! I'm happy for the both of you!

# ? Aug 12, 2023 07:20

StupidNameNobody: Aug 12, 2023

Thank you. Nobody is happer about it than me, believe me.

Edit: I was totally oversharing lol

StupidNameNobody fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Aug 16, 2023

# ? Aug 12, 2023 07:39

Meowywitch: Jan 14, 2010; Fight for all that is beautiful in the world

What a lovely story

# ? Aug 12, 2023 07:47

BlitznBurst: Feb 28, 2019

the way volume 7 suddenly ties all of the silly little AU stories into an actual emotionally resonant conclusion is insane

# ? Aug 12, 2023 09:45

Nitrousoxide: May 30, 2011; do not buy a oneplus phone

https://mangadex.org/title/9c910afe-86b5-42eb-b387-5ed10b219e69/those-who-long-for-yuri

# ? Aug 15, 2023 18:32

Rody One Half: Feb 18, 2011

we've all been there

# ? Aug 16, 2023 06:01

Ranzear: Jul 25, 2013

Rody One Half posted:

we've all been there

# ? Aug 16, 2023 06:16

kirbysuperstar: Nov 11, 2012; Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Rody One Half posted:

we've all been there

# ? Aug 16, 2023 09:39

Cephas: May 11, 2009; Humanity's real enemy is me!
Hya hya foowah!

Rody One Half posted:

we've all been there

# ? Aug 16, 2023 13:45

chrome line: Oct 13, 2022

Rody One Half posted:

we've all been there

# ? Aug 16, 2023 17:14

StupidNameNobody: Aug 12, 2023

Why thirst when you can pour your own drink :hmmyes:

# ? Aug 17, 2023 12:42

Catgirl Al Capone: Dec 15, 2007

Rody One Half posted:

we've all been there

# ? Aug 17, 2023 12:58

Elissia: Dec 28, 2012

Rody One Half posted:

we've all been there

# ? Aug 18, 2023 08:34

Ohtori Akio: Jul 15, 2022

Rody One Half posted:

we've all been there

# ? Aug 18, 2023 08:48

Snooze Cruise: Feb 16, 2013; hey look,
a post

Sal Jiang's Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko is finally all uploaded if anyone is in the mood for something OL related. Ultimately I prefer my Sal Jiang more deranged but all in all I think this wrap up in a satisfactorily conclusion, even if it meander a bit to get there.

# ? Aug 18, 2023 08:52

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Rody One Half posted:

we've all been there

# ? Aug 18, 2023 09:04

Snooze Cruise: Feb 16, 2013; hey look,
a post

# ? Aug 18, 2023 20:18

Snooze Cruise: Feb 16, 2013; hey look,
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Out of topic for the thread's typical purview, but I Love Amy has me thinking about good teen movies and did anyone here watched Do Revenge? I love that film.

# ? Aug 18, 2023 20:27

Ohtori Akio: Jul 15, 2022

Upon witnessing that screenshot, I guess I need to.

# ? Aug 18, 2023 21:24

RuBisCO: May 1, 2009; This is definitely not a lie

Cross-posting from the general romance thread cause I think it may be relevant here!, I wrote up some thoughts on a GL author I adore:

RuBisCO posted:

I got a delivery!

So, in the spirit of Tabletops, I would like to do some small write-ups on the works of a GL/Yuri Managaka I really adore: Tokuwotsumu.

Ise-san to Shina-san
(Ise-san and Shima-san)
Their first work I happened upon and I think my favourite. Our two main characters are coworkers/roommates in their mid-20s and the story involves their daily lives as they challenge themselves to new experiences, self-improvement, and living together as two people of fairly opposite personalities and interests. The story is a fairly normal slice-of-life/comedy that's super charming and funny, with cute and stylized art and it genuinely brightens my mood in my reads and subsequent rereads (they're just so cute together). The yuri is mostly just capital S Subtext. Late spoilers: the cute, fluffy presentation makes the sudden gut punch in the middle of volume 2 all the more surprising and never fails to get me emotional. Not that it ever gets outright tragic or anything, but it's so tonally disparate compared to everything else before it that it catches you so completely off guard. I love it. More than anything else, this is the work I recommend.

Shuuden de Kaesanai, Tatta Hitotsu Houhou
(Only One Way to Keep Her From Taking the Last Train Home)
Involves an older office lady who, after announcing her resignation from work, is suddenly confessed to by her cute kouhai. Despite, having never dating women before, she decides to give it a shot and the chapters mostly involve their awkward new relationship together. I'm not sure what went on with the publication of this series, as it seems it was intended to be a loosely connected anthology with multiple pairings, but then mostly drops the others in favour of the main two. In any case, it's a pretty light series with the two main characters just being impossibly sweet together. There are some slight themes of what it means for two women to date each other and how to present/hide to general society, but it doesn't necessarily dig into it that deeply and never really loses itself from its overly sweet presentation.

Tsuki to Koi wa Michireba Kakeru
(The Moon and Love Wax and Wane)
A story about a group of four friends and the relationship between two of them as it changes and evolves over ten years. The presentation of this one is interesting as each chapter alternates between their lives in high school and then their lives as mid-20s working adults (with some occasional chapters as 20 year old college students). A bit more angsty than the previous two works, the high school timeline focuses on coming to terms with being in love with someone (particularly someone of the same gender) and the adult timeline deals with themes of hiding a relationship between your coworkers and society as a whole. Noticeably, across the ten years, the two main characters sort of do a 180 in personality and you're left wondering just exactly what happened in the years you don't get to witness. Last chapter impression spoilers: the last chapter abruptly answers this question in a somewhat predictably heart-breaking manner, but the execution and resolution is done well enough that it has continued to stay with me.

Haru Tsuzuru, Sakura Saku Kono Heya de
(Composing Spring in This Room Where Cherry Blossoms Bloom)
The author's most recent work and only just finished getting fantranslations. Our main character is a woman in her 30s, Haru, whose partner Sakura abruptly passed away in an accident 5 years ago. After Haru suddenly finds her partner's diary, Sakura reappears as if she never died. Haru, unsure if she's dreaming or seeing a ghost, decides to relive her partner's diary day by day with Sakura once again by her side.
It's just heart-breaking. It is genuinely just so awful to read (in a good way). What presents itself as a somewhat supernatural story about lovers reuniting very quickly turns into an ugly, naked story about processing grief and revisiting someone long lost to you. You definitely have to be in the right headspace to read this, but if that headspace is "tragic yuri" then by all means give this a shot.
Appropriately, Tokuwotsumu's artstyle has noticeably changed between this work and Ise-san and Shima-san. Characters are no longer super stylized, small and cute, but now have long, tall, flowing silhouettes. There's a fair amount of focus on Haru's hands, with her skinny, visibly boney and almost gangly fingers. It's another knife twist to the gut when you read that she has spent the last 5 years drifting in a semi-fugue and every year around the time of Sakura's death, she shuts down for an entire month. Her hands show just how much weight she's lost over the years.

Sadly, I don't think any of their works will get an official English release, but at least they have enough of a following online for there to be fantranslations for the works I've posted about. I encourage you to read whatever catches your interest!

# ? Aug 18, 2023 21:40

Snooze Cruise: Feb 16, 2013; hey look,
a post

finally i have an excuse to post this again
https://twitter.com/TOK_info_kousin/status/1429084720441151489

# ? Aug 18, 2023 21:53

StupidNameNobody: Aug 12, 2023

Snooze Cruise posted:

Sal Jiang's Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko is finally all uploaded if anyone is in the mood for something OL related. Ultimately I prefer my Sal Jiang more deranged but all in all I think this wrap up in a satisfactorily conclusion, even if it meander a bit to get there.

Ooh, I liked this quite a bit. Cute, funny, touching. The lesbian bar scenes have a fun dynamic in particular, and the whole generational difference with coming out is also pretty interesting as well. And that confession! Wowowowww!

Also, yeahhhhh

# ? Aug 19, 2023 01:52

StupidNameNobody: Aug 12, 2023

RuBisCO posted:

Cross-posting from the general romance thread cause I think it may be relevant here!, I wrote up some thoughts on a GL author I adore:

Thanks for the recommends.

I don't think my heart can take that last one though. Holy crap...

# ? Aug 19, 2023 01:54

kidcoelacanth: Sep 23, 2009

i desperately need someone to translate all their ise and shima twitter bits. i love that series and i wish it was longer

kidcoelacanth fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Aug 19, 2023

# ? Aug 19, 2023 01:58

Snooze Cruise: Feb 16, 2013; hey look,
a post

i low key wish it was one of those endless series like room for two (well, that is about to be no longer endless lol)
its GOAT

# ? Aug 19, 2023 02:00

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

StupidNameNobody posted:

And that confession! Wowowowww!

Yeah, that one was powerful.

# ? Aug 19, 2023 12:08

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 04:34

SyntheticPolygon: Dec 20, 2013

Snooze Cruise posted:

i low key wish it was one of those endless series like room for two (well, that is about to be no longer endless lol)

Oh no.

Its felt like an ending has been on the horizon for a while but a part of me thought it would just keep on going.

# ? Aug 19, 2023 12:50

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