#“tsukiatte agete mo ii kana”

[zhuhongs]

dude miwa is literally taking this rejection the same way i took a breakup in hs. its... eery how similar we are. and thats... hhh self recognition through the other (derogatory) bc miwa... she's got some problems but i do love how multifaceted and flawed she is. bc same here. but man. i get why she's taking shihos rejection so hard but i think Shiho is so real for handling Miwa's feelings the way she did. Given the abusive household she grew up in, Shiho is not equipped to even attempt a relationship with Miwa despite returning her feelings. it so mature on her part. Like she really had the balls to say that she's not brave enough to be open abt her homosexuality and that she'd want to hide it. Not bc of homophobia but hc of her own personal issues and being scrutinzed her entire life and she cant enter a relationship and shrug those real issues off bc it'd impact her and Miwa negatively, thats so mature of her to admit. Like That hurts, its a lot to take in, and Miwa like idolized her so ofc she's taking it badly. but like Shiho was so right for that. she stopped a lot of future heartbreak right there even if it didnt look like it. I love that Shiho wasn't the stereotypical yuri first crush that ended up being straight and homophobic to the MC, she's probably my fav character in all of the manga.

[raleydrew]

Miwa is so relatable and I love her, heh

Just a little update post for those interested. I'm really investing a lot in the characters and honestly I'm fighting back tears right now :'>

The manga is just so real and I can understand everyone's struggles, which I guess is one part of why I'm enjoying it so much.

To try keeping things short (but I apologize if it turns into a rant), I've had terrible and I mean TERRIBLE relationships in the past. I've had to learn things the hard way, and I've gotten so many things wrong. I look back on my past self and I wish I could tell my younger self what I know now. If I could, I'd love to have save myself from dealing with all the heartbreak and trauma and stuff like that.. But y'know, you also have to be grateful for experiencing all the chaos. Like, yeah, it's awful and I've been close to death a few times due to everything, but all that has made me who I am today. Even though I'm still miserable, I'm happier than I was. And I'm glad I have a better understanding as to what I need in life, y'know?

Anyway, just know that I'm loving How Do We Relationship? because yes indeed, how does one relationship?

[raleydrew]

So, Do You Want to Go Out, or...?

^^ Alt name for "How Do We Relationship?"

How Do We Relationship? 🤝 Yuri is My Job!

"There are no actual set rules on relationships, and attempting to force your relationship to conform to an idealized version of 'romance' instead of figuring out what works for you and your partner will cause you both great heartache in the long run"

Alternatively:

"Our writers are going to beat you to death (emotionally) and will not stop no matter how much you beg. You will grow to enjoy the pain before long..."

[yeahivegotanaccount]

I more or less get how Saeko works but pinning down Miwa is like a Dark Souls of characterisation for me.

[doedipus]

Me when other people tolerate my presence

[goldom]

Out: “BUt wE’re BOtH girLS” yuri

In: gay pride yuri

[shacklesburst]

3, 4, 7, 27, 28

73. Favorite worldbuilding

Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou. I love big empty worlds, and Tsukumizu-sensei’s post-apocalyptic cityscape perfectly fits the bill. There’s exactly enough mystery in their worldbuilding to keep it interesting, and enough explanation to understand how it came to be. Whether the explanation makes a lot of sense is another story, but the weirdness-factor is exactly right as well and as such improves the theme rather than taking away from immersion.

Honorable mentions: Shinsekai yori, Sakasama no patema, One Punch Man.

4. Favorite characterization

Yagate kimi ni naru. Now this might come as a huge surprise ... seeing as I’ve been exalting that series above all else for years now, but Nakatani-sensei provides such deeply satisfying little insights into how her characters think and why they act like they do that it’s almost too much at times. Especially when she comes out with an interview and tells us how a certain character was conceived to be read and that being exactly how a majority of readers see them. Yagakimi’s story itself certainly relies on some a little tired tropes and doesn’t revolutionize much in that regard. But the characters make the story stand out nonetheless, by being seemingly living, breathing constructs in a way very, veeery few others manage to convey.

Honorable mentions: Monogatari series, Tsuki ga kirei, Sora yori mo tooi basho, Tsukiatte agete mo ii kana, 34-sai mushoku-san.

7. Favorite ship

Kobayashi-Tooru gives me aaaalll the feels.

MadoHomu will never get old.

TouYuu is a given.

Kanata-Kazuki (14-sai no koi) is just extremely sweet.

Honorable mentions: HoriMiya, Koyomi-Hitagi, Chito-Yuuri, KyouSaya, HinaRei, and of course all The Grumpy One Is Soft For The Sunshine One.

27. Favorite doujin

Kono mama sekai ga owaru made by Rapparu.

Hana no aru, aru hi. by Ryuunosuke (and basically all his stuff in that universe).

28. Favorite anituber

Gigguk, because he provides exactly the right mix of personality, snark and content. Then again, I know like three anitubers in total (MB and TAM being the others).

[heroes-never-discourse]

i'm not op of that 'if you read yaoi' post but i'll take some cute bl recs anyway. i literally only just started reading manga this week and i'd love to add some more titles to my to read list

!!!!

absolutely anon, let me tell you I spent three weeks reading nothing but bl and it was Great and now I have Many recs for you

warning! this is Gonna Be Very Long so my recs’ll be under the cut (bolded ones are my favorites!)

1K Apartment no Koi

24 Jikan Eigyouchuu

After Morning Love and its spin-off Before Daylight Love

Ai ga Love Shite You nanosa(this one is as ridiculous as it is adorable, so fucking funny)

Amayadori wa Basu-tei de

Ameiro no Toge

Ameiro Paradox(this one is still ongoing; i usually hate when love interests do nothing but bicker? but the journalist boyfriends just do something right for me. and Natsume Isaku is just one of my favorite mangakas! love most of her work)

Ano Koi no Tsuzuki

Arashi no Ato

Bikkuri suru hodo Doji na Koi

Body Talk Paradox(the second and third stories are the best ones, really love the art style, it’s very crisp, and one of the side characters/one half of the secondary couple has one of the most unique designs I’ve seen in a BL)

Boku no Ano Ko

Boku to Neko to Hatsukoi Kousa

Bokura wa Sore wo Hitei Dekinai

Chiisana Koi no Melody

Chikatetsu no Inu

Colorful Line

Konbini-kun.(I love Junko’s art style it’s very very cute)

Count 0(boy can see a counter above everyone’s heads that counts the number of lies that person has told in their life and is jaded because of it, until he meets another boy whose counter reads 0, very cute)

Doukyuusei and its sequels Sotsugyousei and O.B.

Doushitemo Furetakunai and its spin-off Soredemo, Yasashii Koi o Suru(Doushitemo is top tier okay, it’s one of my absolute favorites, the romance is lowkey and sweet and they’re just so good ;~;)

Doushiyoumo Nai Keredo

Endou-kun no Kansatsu Nikki

Faraway

Gentei Kareshi

Gosan no Heart and its spin-off Owaranai Fukou ni Tsuite no Hanashi

Gunjou no Subete

Hachimitsu Darling

Hana no Mizo Shiru(very very sweet, I’m pretty sure I teared up at one point)

Hanagaya Eigyousho no Kare

Hand Which

Harapeko Usagi to Koisuru Ookami

Hare no Hi

Hatsukoi (Kakine)(very silly, there’s like four different love stories happening in this one boarding house, it’s great)

Hatsukoi (Kazuki)(so this mangaka has a huge list of Haikyuu doujins they’ve done, and I hadn’t watched Haikyuu before I read this but now that I have I can’t unsee the fact that the main characters look like Kageyama and Hinata lmfao)

Hatsukoi no Atosaki

Heart no Kakurega(the secondary couple are hit or miss but the main couple Izumi and Haru are so pure?? they’re so sweet I love them a lot)

Hibi Koikoi

Himegoto Asobi(I’m a goddamn sucker for single dad falls in love stories and this one is one of the best)

The Iberiko Buta series(this manga is so fucking funny?? the initial couple are cute and hilarious idiots, while the second couple are a bit more lowkey and bittersweet, and overall it’s such a funny cute read)

Illumination(this manga is melancholy in book form, I really love this mangakas writing style, the stories are all bittersweet and its some beautiful, beautiful angst)

Kaeru no Prince-sama

Kakugo wo Kimete

Kanemochi-kun to Binbou-kun (“I fell in love when I was sixteen”. great. thanks manga. now i’m crying.)

Kasa no Shita, Futari

Katappashi Kara Zenbu Koi

Kigurumi Planet (the premise for this one??? is so off the wall and ridiculous lmao this manga has no right to be as good as it is, the couple is very sweet and the story is actually pretty good if you can get past how fucking bonkers the premise is)

Kimi to Aruku

Kimi to Date (short and sweet! I love the art style)

Konya mo Nemurenai and its spin-off Kimi to Kore kara(college boy accidentally summons a demon who decides to stick around so he doesn’t have to go home and marry his childhood friend - I fucking love Konya so much, and the love interest Endo is legit one of my favorite characters, I usually hate assholeish semes but he just pulls it off so well; the spin-off features the secondary couple of Konya)

Kimi wa Natsu no Naka

Kiraboshi Dial

Kirakira no Hibi

Kodomo ga Neta Ato de

Koi made Hyakurin and its spin-off Akunin o Nakaseru Houhou (young heir to his grandfather’s yakuza group starts hero-worshiping an ex-yakuza florist (who now hates yakuza) and eventually they fall for each other - listen this manga was made for me, I love yakuza with a heart of gold and ex-yakuza archetypes so fucking much, i love this manga a lot and the main couple is so sweet; the spin-off features ex-yakuza’s older brother)

Koi ni mo Naranai.

Koi no Hanashi ga Shitai

Koko ni Aru, Kimi no Oto

Konya, Mister de

Kuchizuke wa Niji no Ue de (the premise for this is so cute and unique! a man who’s followed by sunny weather and a man who’s followed by stormy weather meet and decide to go mountain climbing! very cute)

Kurayami ni Strobe

Life, Love (okay listen this one! i did enjoy this one How. Ever. it’s a story where a seemingly not so smart man is made to guard the man that he and his boss kidnapped, and then they maybe??? fall in love over the course of the kidnapping and that’s the first half of the story, and the relationships are very weird and complex and the characters are also weird and complex? and it’s very unsatisfying as a romance but still somehow satisfying? except the ending which left me just shocked laughing like ‘that’s it?????’ and i’m still not sure how i feel about it but i’m pretty sure i liked it and yeah disclaimer over)

Link: Boku to Kimi no Aida

Lotus Eater

Lucky Number 13(okay no this one is so sweet and cute, a huge baseball otaku falls for a boy who is plagued with bad luck unless he’s dating someone, in which case his bad luck transfers to his partner, they’re such a pure couple and it’s a very sweet and funny story and I love it)

Mad Cinderella(this one isn’t totally scanlated :( but there’s still a lot of it scanned and it’s all very cute and worth)

Mahoutsukai no Koi

The Mainichi Seiten Series; Mainichi Seiten, Kodomo wa Tomaranai, Children’s Time, Kodomo no Iibun, Aki-chan no Iibun, Isoganaide, Hanaya no Nikai de(very very slice of life, three couples in all, the first volume is kind of slow and the art is kinda rough and the couple is very chaste but still cute and the art gets better through the series, and the other two relationships are top tier and overall this series is one of my absolute favorites)

Mayoke no Darling

Mazu wa, Hitokuchi.(okay but the premise is a farm that secretly raises flying pigs how amazing is that)

Me wo Tojite 3-Byou

Merry Checker

Motto Aishiaimasho

Nakanai Hotaru

Nee Senpai, Oshiete yo

Negative-kun to Positive-kun

Neko no Koi (I really love young masters who are in love with their less well-off childhood friend/keeper that’s some good shit)

Nennen Saisai

Nichijousahan Bi - Beautiful Life

No Color

Number Call

Okujou no Bye-Bye

Omamori Shimasu, Dokomademo

Ringo ni Hachimitsu and its sequel Kare no Barairo no Jinsei (i really love this mangakas art style and way of writing, very good)

Rutta to Kodama (listen these boys will be the death of me, I love delinquents especially delinquents with hearts of gold, and Rutta is the epitome of that, he and Kodama are so fucking sweet and I just love them so so much, one of my absolute favorites)

Saiyaku wa Boku wo Suki Sugiru(this one is still ongoing! it’s basically a soul mate au where if one half gets injured the other is the one who sustains the injury, turned into a family curse that lasts a year upon the younger one’s 17th birthday, so very very good)

Sannin Gurashi (i love this one it’s so sweet ;~;)

Sawattemo Ii kana (also not completely scanlated and I cry every day because of it)

Sayonara, Heron

Sayonara, Itoshi no My Friend

Seinen wa Ai o Kou

Sense of Love

Seven Days

Shitteru yo.

Shuuden Elegy

Signal

Soko ni Suwaru na

Sonna Me de Mitekure (this one??? is fUCKing ridiculous, I laughed through the entire thing it’s fucking ridiculous omg)

Sono Koi ni wa Wake ga Aru(love!!!! i love this one! so much! stoic but gentle semes are my fucking kryptonite okay and Azuma is that in spades, he and Aoi are just so fucking cute)

Sono Mama de

Sore wa Isshun no Hikari, dewa Naku

Sore o Koigokoro to Yobu no Nara

Sorenari ni Shinken Nan desu.(this is basically a sick fic featuring an overworked single dad and his playboy regular who’s in love with him, literally one of my absolute favorites and I think the first yaoi I ever read? Oosawa and Yoshioka are top tier and it’s just so sweet and feel-good, ugh I love)

Spotlight Lover

Star-like Words

Sugar Code(mix competent yakuza with useless gay and you get Oodoi, it’s beautiful; I love Oodoi and Akira a lot)

Suteneko no Karte

Te o Tsunai de Koi o(”oh you guys don’t get along? okay now you have to hold hands the entire walk home until you do” lmao archery club president knows what’s up)

Tear Drop

The Killer

Tight Rope(i’ve already exposed my love for yakuza and ‘young master in love with his childhood friend’ archetypes which means me loving Tight Rope was written in the fucking stars because Ryuu is b o t h, and I just really love Naoki as well)

Toki no Maigo o Sagashite!(amnesia plot!)

Tsukiatte Agete mo Ii n Dakara ne (this one is f u c k i n g ridiculous, the love interest is a giant fucking ham, it’s r i d i c u l o u s lmfao)

Twinkle (Kanda)

Wakabaryou de, Kimi to

Wakadanna ni Goyoujin

Work In

Yachin Hanbun no Ibasho desu

Yakozen

Yamada to Shounen

Yamete Kudasai,(this one gave me cavities)

Yozora no Sumikko de,

Yuki no Shita no Qualia

Yuugure no Machi

Zantei, Koibito

[hooshizzoria]

tsukiatte agete mo ii kana scanlations havent updated T_T

[zhuhongs]

the impact fucking tsukiatte agete mo ii kana had on me....

[zhuhongs]

usshi from tsukiatte agete mo ii kana. i love u so much. i feel u. all of my friend group has a partner or partner in progress rn and im like... i understand her sooooo much

[goldom]