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  "description": "In which I recommend some yuri manga titles of note.",
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  "publishedAt": "2023-01-25T01:12:13.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "manga",
    "yuri",
    "yuri manga",
    "Bloom into You",
    "Goodbye My Rose Garden",
    "Yuri Is My Job!",
    "How Do We Relationship?",
    "I Can’t Believe I Slept with You!",
    "She Her Camera and Her Seasons",
    "Otherside Picnic",
    "After Hours",
    "Cohost"
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  "textContent": "[](/assets/images/more-yuri-manga-recs.jpg)\n\n\\I originally published this post on [Cohost as a follow-up to a Cohost post by @saralily, but I thought it was worth publishing on its own.\\]\n\nI’ve read all of the ones @saralily recommends that have been released in English, except for _A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow_, and agree with her comments. Here are some of my own recommendations, in no particular order:\n\n_Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka_ light novels. This takes a character who was given somewhat short shrift in the main _Bloom Into You_ manga, and tells her story in her own voice. It may be blasphemous of me, but I prefer this to the manga.\n\n_Goodbye, My Rose Garden_. A story set in the late Victorian era that is realistic about the barriers society placed in the way of lesbian relationships.\n\n_Yuri Is My Job!_ Starts out as an affectionate parody of yuri schoolgirl tropes as exemplified by _Maria Watches Over Us_, but then gets increasingly serious (and lesbian) in later volumes. (Some people apparently hate this change; I think it’s great.)\n\n_How Do We Relationship?_ This reverses the usual course of yuri stories: the protagonists meet and sleep with each other, then figure out what to do after that.\n\n_I Can’t Believe I Slept with You!_ A dubious (consent) premise redeemed as the story evolves. (And now that I think of it, it also reverses the usual yuri plot sequence.)\n\n_She, Her Camera, and Her Seasons_. This features a love triangle in which one of the vertices is a high-school boy, and some yuri fans may reject it for that reason. But it’s really well-done, and the way photography is woven into the story and the characters’ lives is quite interesting: it‘s so important to the two main protagonists that they take pictures of each other even in---really, _especially in_---their most intimate and vulnerable moments.\n\n_Otherside Picnic_ light novels. I’m not generally a fan of horror, but I love these. Like the _Regarding Saeki Sayaka_ light novels, they benefit tremendously from being told in the first-person. It’s worth noting that this is one of several works that trace their heritage back to the Strugatsky Brothers’ SF novel _Roadside Picnic_, a group that famously includes Andrei Tarkovsky’s film _Stalker_ as well as the video game _S.T.A.L.K.E.R._\n\n_After Hours_. Another adult yuri work, about an interesting subject, namely DJing. (It even has a couple of panels that name-check contemporary Japanese bands and DJs.) Like _How Do We Relationship?_ and _I Can’t Believe I Slept with You!_, it starts with sex and then moves on to more interesting things.",
  "title": "A few more yuri manga recommendations"
}