#Ratana Satis

[ghostgirlyuri]

read lily love by ratana satis and idk.. it was alright yknow like i was invested and nothing was terrible it just kinda felt like there was half of the story missing?? like time just goes by so quick with very little indication of when and how much and that makes it difficult for me to judge some characters actions at certain points cause to me it seems like they've been dating for 2 weeks or a month but its apparently supposed to be much longer ┐⁠(⁠￣⁠ヘ⁠￣⁠)⁠┌ at least it hooked me in i guess id already bounced off the authors other work pulse for i dont remember why

dk if im gonna read lily love 2 i do like ploy and ice well enough and it seems to be a boss/employee thing which can be fun

[xxxsimplyhookedxxx]

Will this be released on ebook form? I would love to own a copy on my Nook.

Seven Seas Entertainment just announced it on their Twitter!

New license #1: PULSE by Ratana Satis

Seven Seas will publish this full-color, Mature-rated Girls’ Love/#yuri webtoon series from Lezhin Comics in beautiful new paperbacks!

Preorder Vol. 1 in English now: http://sevenseaswebtoons.com

[lesbian-polls]

It's NSFW and contains sex scenes so read at your own discretion.

[yurimother]

Yuri of Absence and The Chair of Yuri: Combining Lesbian Manga and Science Fiction - The Secret Garden

This article was originally written in 2021 as part of The Secret Garden, YuriMother's exclusive series of articles, available only for Patrons. If you want to access other articles and help support Yuri and LGBTQ+ content, subscribe to the YuriMother Patreon.

In the “olden days” of Yuri, which is really to say anything in the ‘00s or earlier, there was not much variety in the mainstream Yuri market. If you wanted to read a manga about the romance between two women or watch an anime with clear lesbian elements, choices were between a sweet school story or a classic tragic school Yuri story. As I have mentioned many times recently, one of the most significant advancements in the recent Yuri genre is the advent of sub-genres. Once considered an element or subgenre itself, Yuri hosts various works from isekai to feminist literature. However, one of the most curious and certainly most well-known subgenres is science fiction.

Yuri science fiction is in the spotlight right now, with everything from visual novels like Synergia to webcomics like Ratana Satis’s Soul Drifters. However, one of the most prolific and rightly celebrated titles is Iori Miyazawa’s Otherside Picnic. The series began publishing under Hayakawa’s Bunko JA imprint in 2017, and over the past few years, it exploded onto the scene.  It has an upcoming sixth book, a manga adaptation serialized in Monthly Shounen Gangan, healthy overseas publishing, and of course, an anime adaptation helmed by Kase-san and Stiens;Gate director Takuya Sato. It has garnered praise from critics CBR, Anime News Network, and Erica Friedman of Okazu. I wrote glowing reviews for the first few books, complimenting its worldbuilding, pacing, and characters. However, Otherside Picnic did not spring out of anywhere. Indeed, it is the product of gradual shifts in Yuri and sci-fi storytelling and Miyazawa’s genius theories and knowledge of the genres.

The mixture of Yuri and science fiction is not anything new; it predates most other forms of Yuri save Class S school romances. You may not picture many of these when you think of modern Yuri sci-fi, but as early as 1975, we had Yuri stories like Boku no Shotaiken that included small sci-fi elements, in this case, transferring the mind to another body. Over the next two decades or so, a time during which so few Yuri titles surfaced, it is occasionally referred to as Yuri’s “era of Darkness,” multiple titles sci-fi titles including Dirty Pair, Project A-Ko, Bubblegum Crisis, and Iczer featured science fiction settings and Yuri elements. At this time, Yuri was not much of a genre as we think of it today, but more of a factor inserted into a larger narrative. Think of Yayoi and Shion from Psycho-Pass for a more contemporary example. In fact, except for Iczer, none of these titles feature any outright lesbian characters, just female casts with “Yuri-ish” moments of women standing close together and being companions.

These titles feature two key elements that many current series have shifted further away from, soft sci-fi and Weak Yuri. Soft, as opposed to hard science fiction, is the more established of these two scales. Science fiction can be separated between outlandish and impossible ideas, sometimes known as science fantasy, and those based in reality, research, and the hard sciences such as physics, astronomy, and mathematics. Sorting works between these two labels is, ironically, not an exact science, and fans and critics alike argue about their precise definitions. However, let us consider soft and hard science as a spectrum, with outlandish premises like Dragonball on the soft end and the reality-based concepts of Space Brothers at the other. One can sort most titles along this continuum. M Alan Kazlev does an excellent job dissecting this scale in further detail. Many of the titles we enjoy today, including Otherside Picnic, inhabit this transitory space, as it is not fantasy. Still, its reliance on anthropology and psychology’s soft sciences may put it a small step below more grounded hard sci-fi. Still, it is far above the aliens and superpowered robots in ‘80s anime, so we shall consider it hard sci-fi for the sake of this argument.

*Note: Many science fiction circles use the abbreviation sci-fi for soft science fiction and SF for hard science fiction. For ease of readability and common vernacular, this article uses “sci-fi” for both instances.*

Sci-fi Yuri did not break out of soft science fiction territory until very recently. In the 1990s, Yuri underwent dramatic changes thanks to Sailor Moon and Revolutionary Girl Utena, which helped reform it as a genre rather than a feature. Maria Watches Over Us revived S Yuri traditions, and new titles were set in schools and focused on modern girls’ lives. In the 2000s, Yuri magazines began serialization and featured stories such as Kisses, Sighs, and Cheery Blossom Pink and Strawberry Shake Sweet (both serialized under different names). Despite being primarily aimed at adult women, the magazine found success with male audiences, prompting new stories appealing to men and boys. These works reintroduced action and science fiction into the genre with pieces like Kannazuki no Miko: Destiny of the Shrine Maiden, Blue Drop, and Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl (Yuriboke does a better job breaking all these down). However, all these were still vehemently in soft sci-fi territory, with Kashimashi’s only surreal element being an alien because the author was, to simplify grossly, unable to fathom the existence of transgender people (coming full circle from Boku no Shotaiken). Possibly the only contemporary mainstream hard sci-fi title to include Yuri and enjoy a modicum of success was Qualia The Purple. However, this series did not have the genre-defining power that later works would.

However, what changes between these series and those mentioned earlier is the Yuri itself. The relationships become much more explicit and central to the plot. You can deliberate whether or not Bubblegum Crisis is sapphic, but just try sitting someone down and arguing that Kannazuki no Miko is not built around the crux of two women holding romantic interest in each other. Yuri science fiction author Gengen Kusano proposes a dichotomy similar to soft and hard sci-fi to analyze these titles, Weak and Strong Yuri. He explains it in his own brilliantly convoluted and philosophical way, but in short, Weak Yuri relies on using logic and the mind to make the real imaginary, while strong Yuri is about emotionalism and realism, making fiction into reality.

Strong Yuri is Yuri that focuses on realism through feelings and emotions. Kusano describes it as fiction characters having real emotions. They have strong connections and affection for each other that are real and powerful. The audience experiences the feelings between the characters as they are felt and portrayed. Think of how emotional the exclamations and love, sorrow, confusion, and affection are in titles like Bloom Into You and Citrus. In a sense, they can be so strong that they transcend their fictional confines and become real, as they are experienced by considers, a stage called “radically Strong Yuri.” Most explicit Yuri, which is not subtext or suggestive content but in-your-face lesbianism, is Strong Yuri, although not all Strong Yuri is outright depictions of lesbianism; it is a square rectangle situation, not all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles.

Weak Yuri is cemented in the areas of thought, logic, and epistemology. It deals with the theory of mind, the ability to attribute mental states to others or ourselves. For example, when we see someone smiling or laughing, we may not feel their emotion ourselves, as we do not have direct access to their mind, but we recognize that they are happy. In Weak Yuri, one uses their theory of mind to observe facts and deduce the existence of a Yuri relationship, even if one is not present. So-called “Yuri-ish” titles like Yuru Camp or K-ON! do not outright state or depict romantic or sexual attractions, but is attributed by the viewers onto characters.  Said observer witnesses the interactions between girls and, using that factual and observable data, puzzles out a lesbian attraction they prescribe to the subjects, whether real. Shipping culture relies on Weak Yuri’s logic Kusano’s most extreme, “Radical Weak Yuri,” the relationships of real people, like idols, become imaginary through these projections.

Blue Drop and Kashimashi may have been soft Sci-fi, but unlike the soft sci-fi, Weak Yuri series of the twentieth century, they featured Strong Yuri and placed it more as a central aspect of the work with other elements built around, rather than as a side element. The next revolution in sci-fi Yuri came when hard sci-fi titles began production. A few of the principal players here are Kusano himself, Otherside Picnic Creator Iori Miyazawa, and editor Rikimura Mizoguichi, all of whom feature in the viral Yuri Made Me Human interview of Miyazawa. Most of the theories and ideas discussed in this article, including Kusano’s Weak and Strong Yuri arguments, came from these seminars.

It all started with Kusano’s existential widescreen Yuri baroque proletariat hard sci-fi Love Live AU fanfic of the popular ship NicoMaki, consisting of Nico Yazawa and Maki Nishikino. The revised edition of this story, Last and First Idol, was published in 2016 and became the first debut title to win the prestigious Seiun Award in 42 years. Satoshi Maejima’s post-script essay at the end of the Last and First Idol collection gives far more detail into these works’ history. However, Idol was the first prominent story to feature Yuri in a hard sci-fi narrative. It was not perfect. In fact, in its push to feature gruesome content and insane hard sci-fi that Yuri is pushed to the wayside during most of the story.

*Author’s note: The first time I read Last and First Idol, I was completely unaware of its contents, which was a shocking experience; the story comes with a severe content warning).

Last and First Idol did not create a woven hard sci-fi, Strong Yuri narrative. However, it was a definite proof of the concept, a testament that the sprawling details and imagery of hard Sci-Fi could work with Yuri relationships. Kusano’s next short story, Evolution Girls, which would appear alongside Last and First Idol in the collection of the same name, saw the author focus more on emotionalism and create a Strong Yuri work. Nevertheless, Last and First Idol was a massive success. Future hard proof that Yuri hard sci-fi was coming in force came in December 2018, when Hayakawa Shobo ran a special edition of its long-running S-F Magazine featuring Yuri stories. The issue, planned by Rikimura Mizoguchi, proved so popular for the second time in its then 59-year history, the magazine had to reprint before release.

While Kusano was developing theories on Yuri and Hayakawa Shobo worked to push the public eye onto Yuri sci-fi, author Iori Miyazawa was refining his own Yuri premises, ones that, though he did not know it at the time, would not only see Strong Yuri and Hard sci-fi standing side by side in the same story but would synthesis the two into a unique product that could attract new fans and expand the borders of science fiction and Yuri. The work in question, of course, is Otherside Picnic. This light novel series about girls journeying to another world to hunt creatures from occult internet lore is to date Yuri science fiction’s best execution.

As Miyazawa admits, he strives to create Strong Yuri by focusing on emotionalism and realistic characters. However, such character-driven narratives are often at odds with hard science fiction, which requires dense walls of text to explain the complicated science behind its concepts and world. Miyazawa avoids this trap by utilizing Yuri tropes, specifically scenic Yuri and “Yuri of absence,” and integrating Yuri relationship into these explanatory literary lectures. Examining the latter first, rather than using narrative or exposition dialogue to unravel the intelligence behind the world or elements of science fiction, Miyazawa uses the relationship between Sorawo and Toriko.

In Otherside Picnic, explanations of the mysterious Otherside come primarily from two sources, dialogue and Sorawo’s inner monologue. When Sorawo and Torikko discuss a nuance of the paranormal creatures they investigate, it no longer becomes a large infodump but a Yuri scene about their relationship through their interactions and responses. According to both the strong Yuri theory and Yuri’s traditional definition, these emotions and discussions are the crux of the genre – stories about females’ relationships. Similar emotionalism fills Sorawo’s inner monologues, specifically in the frequent romantic admirations of Toriko. Thus, an explanation existing in that same space becomes Yuri, as it mirrors the same emotions and attraction. Merely by placing the usual exposition into interactions and relationships, Miyazawa was able to open hard science fiction to new readers, who may have been apprehensive before because of these text walls.

Miyazawa’s other secret weapon is, as he describes it, “Yuri of absence.” Relying on the principles of Strong Yuri, that Yuri is fiction made real through emotions, Yuri of absence extends these parameters outside of characters. As Strong Yuri relies on feeling, not observable data like characters, anything that invokes two women’s feelings together is Yuri. It could be a song, or an empty bench, as one can imagine two women on it and feel emotions tied to that. Of course, taken to its extreme, nearly anything can then be Yuri, as I have joked before, gesturing to an empty chair proclaiming, “Behold, a Yuri!” However, Miyazawa uses this Yuri of absence sparingly, rendering it closer to scenic Yuri’s intimacy.

Scenic Yuri, a particular type of Yuri of absence, focuses exclusively on setting and imagery, a feature that works particularly well in science fiction as according to Masahiro Noda’s “sci-fi is all about images.” Traditional Yuri uses character interaction and supplements it with images and sights that help communicate characters’ emotions and intimacy, like fleeting shots or descriptions of the sky. Take the shot from Kase-san and Morning Girls where Yamada stands by the bus stop. The distance between the girls, the tree in the foreground on Yamada’s side, and the pole on the right all invoke emotion and help tell the girls’ story, distanced by their differences and upcoming life paths. Now remove the girls, the scene remains, as does its meaning and emotions, whether the characters are present or not.

Scenic Yuri is employed vigorously in more male-targeted S Yuri (a minority of the Class S genre). Here, the imagery provides intimacy so that the voyeuristic viewer could look into the characters’ private and forbidden lives, specifically the girls in all-girls schools. Take the shot from Strawberry “Mo Man May Enter Here” Panic. The sweeping view of the Strawberry Dorms atop Astraea Hill, a place where men are forbidden, gives the consumer an exclusive inside look at the private home of its subjects. Otherside Picnic uses these same scenic Yuri principles in its descriptions. In this case, the intimacy does not come from a place where men are prohibited or a shot describing women’s relationships. Instead, the reports of abandoned ruins and deserted open fields where only Toriko and Sorawo exist provide extreme intimacy. It is an emotional view of two of the few women in this world with nothing but each other; thus, Yuri.

Yuri science fiction is easily the most exciting place in the genre right now. Its creators are experimenting with new theories and storytelling methods to expand the boundaries of what science fiction or Yuri alone could never do. The subgenre has undoubtedly come a long way from its Weak Yuri roots and continues to grow. Industry leaders like Miyazawa and Mizoguichi will continue to push into this excited and uncharted territory, using tactics new and old to bring together Yuri’s emotional and romantic core with science fiction’s epic and provoking imagery. I have few doubts that we have seen all these pioneers have to offer and that Last and First Idol and Otherside Picnic are just the beginning.

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This article was originally written in 2021 as part of The Secret Garden, YuriMother's exclusive series of articles, available only for Patrons. If you want to access other articles and help support Yuri and LGBTQ+ content, subscribe to the YuriMother Patreon.

[lgbtqmanga]

New Releases Feb. 6, 2024

Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels! vol. 4 by Kuro Itsuki

On the hunt for long-lost love, Asumi has devoted her time to visiting brothel after brothel. She has no idea that her antics are making Nanao more suspicious of her by the minute. Nanao, determined to find out if Asumi is a lesbian call girl herself, makes a booking with a girl to find out the truth. Instead, she opens a door to further misunderstandings. Exactly where is their relationship headed?

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (manhua) vol. 5 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu and Luo Di Cheng Qiu

Seeking the truth behind Xiao Xingchen’s death, Wei Wuxian uses the dangerous power of “Empathy” to gaze into the past. He discovers that years ago, the newly blinded Xiao Xingchen journeyed to the remote countryside, where he and a girl named A-Qing became inseparable. Unfortunately, the peace they found together did not last—everything changed after they saved a mortally wounded man. That man was Xue Yang, a villain who used charm to hide his bitterly cold heart. Weaving a web of lies and deceit, Xue Yang joined their quiet life while secretly scheming for a bloody encounter between old friends and foes!

Magic Knight Rayearth vol. 2 by CLAMP

Three girls who couldn't be more different meet on a school trip to Tokyo Tower--and find themselves beamed into a parallel world called Cefiro, where the mysterious Pillar has recruited them to avert a calamity! With the help of a motley troop of rogues and wizards, they will unlock the power of three transforming giant dragons known as Rune Gods and rush to the Pillar's aid...but there's more going on at the heart of Cefiro than they know!

The Moon on a Rainy Night vol. 3 by Kuzushiro

Saki and Kanon are walking around town when a sudden gust blows some flyers for a hair salon toward them. The two girls gather them up and return them to the owner, a salon apprentice, who unexpectedly asks Saki if she would come to the salon to sit for a test cut. Saki agrees, and when she visits the salon later that week, the young stylist recounts a story about a “friend” who fell in love with one of her female classmates during their school days. Could she be trying to tell Saki something...?

Saki’s confusion about her feelings for Kanon only deepens when Kanon ends up spending the night due to a situation at home. As the two girls are lying in bed facing each other, Kanon tells Saki about her conflicting dreams for the future: she wants to live on her own someday, but she also wants someone around whom she can count on...someone like Saki. Kanon drifts off to sleep, but Saki remains awake long into the night, wrestling with the turmoil within her. All she knows is that she can’t go on like this much longer...

Pulse vol. 6 by Ratana Satis

Lynn’s surgery has begun, and Mel is right by her side, assisting with the operation. Things are going smoothly—until the director hears that Mel has postponed her surgeries so she can operate on her girlfriend. The tension sky rockets in an already tense situation as Sue bursts in on the operation and orders Mel to leave the room immediately. With Lynn’s heart literally on the line, Mel is forced to choose between giving in to her ex’s orders and seeing her girlfriend’s surgery through to the end.

There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless… vol. 4 by Teren Mikami and Musshu

Still fake-dating Satsuki, Renako finds herself caught in a dangerous love triangle between herself and the two starlets of Ashigaya High. As their conflict reaches its peak, and Satsuki’s true feelings towards Mai begin to emerge, Renako suggests a three-way battle to save her clique, her peaceful high-school life, and above all, her friends’ relationship!

[ghelgheli]

The Stuff I Read in November 2023

Stuff I Extra Liked is Bold

Books

Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu

System Collapse, Martha Wells

Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin, Ervand Abrahamian

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney

Volodya, Selected Works, Vladimir Mayakovsky (ed. Rosy Carrick)

Yuri/GL

Pulse, Ratana Satis

Sabishisugite Lesbian Fuzoku ni Ikimashita Report / My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, Kabi Nagata

Serenade, Kyesoo Keum

Even Though We’re Adults / Otona ni Nattemo (Vols. 1-6), Takako Shimura

Heaven Will Be Mine [itch]

Short Fiction (SF/F)

Rabbit Test, Samantha Mills [uncanny]

Story of Your Life, Ted Chiang

Mr. Death, Alix E. Harrow [apex]

The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington, Phenderson Djèlí Clark [fireside]

The Mermaid Astronaut, Yoon Ha Lee [bcs]

Paper Menagerie, Ken Liu [archive]

History & Contemporary

Stalin, Soviet Agriculture, And Collectivisation, Mark B. Tauger [DOI]

Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931-1933, Mark B. Tauger

Armed Struggle: Strategy and Tactic, Masoud Ahmadzadeh [marxists dot org]

An Analysis of One Year of Urban and Mountain Guerrilla Warfare, Hamid Ashraf [marxists dot org]

Sartre, European Intellectuals and Zionism, Joseph Massad [link]

‘Selective Historians’: The Construction of Cisness in Byzantine and Byzantinist Texts, Ilya Maude [DOI]

Special Interview With Khaled Barakat: Gaza Demands End of Genocide, Not ‘Ceasefire’ [link]

Philosophy and Related

The Emergence of Classes in a Multi-Agent Bargaining Model, Robert Axtell, Joshua M. Epstein, H. Peyton Young

The Evolution of Conventions, H. Peyton Young [JSTOR]

Cognitive Psychology and Neo-Phrenology, Gibbonstrength [link]

The Runabout Inference-Ticket, A. N. Prior [JSTOR]

Monster Culture (Seven Theses), Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Who Owns Frantz Fanon’s Legacy?, Bashir Abu-Manneh [jacobin]

[queer-book-society]

Title: PULSE Vol.7

Author(s): Ratana Satis

Description: Mel, a renowned heart surgeon, is well-known for being a stoic loner. She views her erotic flings with other women as a tool for pleasure rather than a show of affection. Then she meets Lynn, a beautiful and spirited cardiac patient who needs a new heart, but refuses a transplant. The two women meet with minimal expectations but soon become enthralled in a relationship that changes everything for them both.

[lonelypond]

Doujin Suggestion List

Okay, so a question rolled across the dash and my one real vice is answering questions and we all need more yuri, here's a quick list of some of my favorite manga reads new and old.

Notes From The Garden Of Lilies -- all time fave

The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy At All -- fun, love the green

Kase-san just frikkin' adorable

Candy -- angsty but love it

Edible Flowers cute

Their Story I LOVE these goofs, so much fun

Collectors Adult life, amazing, work of art in communication dynamics

Crescent Moon And Donuts Nicely done, two characters probably on the asexual spectrum

Like, Share, N Subscribe slow but interesting

Office Romance Just cute

Takemiya Jin, author many many flavors, some not my speed but quality very high

Fluttering Feelings sadly unfinished, but so so good

Ebisu-san and Hotei-san two coworkers friction their way to helping each other

Accept My Fist Of Love Different, but worth it, by one of my favorite NicoMaki doujin artists

The Sea, You, And The Sun Who doesn't need a tropical vacation

From Aiu Station On The Hiragana Line I love a good opposites attract

Koigokoro Metronome Musicians mad crushing

Lily Love This and/or Pulse. Ratana Satis is a must read

My Dear Lass As sweet as the peaches on so many pages; lovely art

There you go.

[ladygwyndolin]

Finished reading the currently released chapters of "Beast Knights." Ratana Satis is in fine form here. Her writing is still questionable, way too horny, and usually very predictable, but it's still a fun ride with a key shakeup of the formula that I liked a lot. Would recommend!

[mithliya]

Pulse by Ratana Satis is a great Thai Yuri. Written by a lesbian too! It's my favourite

i had no idea pulse was Thai or written by a lesbian !!!

[shompu]

DSA 8. synne and mira. Read Beast Knights

[theburiedgay]

[three-musqueerteers]

How often is Beast Knights translated to English on MEB? I believe it's up to 34 in English but on its original language it has reached around 47 chapters.

Sorry but I don't know the answer for that. We are not working on it

[shoujoaiforlife]

Lily Love by Ratana Satis

[yurimother]

Adult Yuri Webtoon 'PULSE' Released in Paperback

On August 30, The first volume of Ratana Satis' award-winning Yuri webcomic series Pulse was released physically in full-color English paperback.

The print edition is published by Seven Seas Entertainment, which describes the series:

Mel, a renowned heart surgeon, is well-known for being a stoic loner. She views her erotic flings with other women as a tool for pleasure rather than a show of affection. Then she meets Lynn, a beautiful and spirited cardiac patient who needs a new heart, but refuses a transplant. The two women meet with minimal expectations but soon become enthralled in a relationship that changes everything for them both.

A total of three print volumes containing the entire series are scheduled for release by Seven Seas. The second volume will be released on November 1. The third will follow on March 21, 2023.

Pulse was initially released in English on Lezhin in 2016. It was adapted into English by author Ratana Satis' official English translation team, the Three Musqueerteers, Shompu, Coco Roco, and Alextasha, who are also credited in the Seven Seas releases alongside letterer Karis Page. The 18+ series was celebrated for its artwork, storytelling, characters, and sexual scenes and was the winner of Lezhin's 2nd World Comic Contest.

Ratana Satis is a lesbian Thai creator known for her mature Yuri webtoons. Her works include Pulse, Lily Love, and Soul Drifters. She is self-publishing her current series, Beast Knights, digitally on Meb.

Reading official releases helps support creators and publishers. YuriMother makes a small affiliate commission from sales to help fund future coverage.

[lgbtqmanga]

New Releases Oct. 3, 2023

Citrus+ vol. 5 by Saburouta

SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

Thanks to Mei’s help, Yuzu has been studying hard and getting good marks on her mock college entrance exams. While out celebrating, Yuzu bumps into two old friends from junior high, Kana and Manami. When Yuzu tells her old pals about her plans for the future, Kana gets mad that Yuzu has changed so much. Can Yuzu smooth things over with her former besties, or have they grown too far apart?

My Love Mix-Up vol. 9 by Aruko and Wataru Hinekure

*FINAL VOLUME*

Aoki and Ida are hard at work studying so they can go to the same college. They pray for their exams to go well at their first shrine visit of the year, but will their bond hold strong when it’s tested?! Meanwhile, Akkun and Hashimoto have taken different paths, but they still cheer each other on. Graduation is right around the corner!

Pulse vol. 5 by Ratana Satis

GUILTY PLEASURE

After a tumultuous visit with the director, Mel heads home to Lynn, haunted by memories and the guilt they stir up. Will Mel let her regrets about what she did to Sue distract her from the woman she’s with now? Or can Lynn help the heart surgeon work through her complicated past…and maybe blow off some steam in the process?

There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless... vol. 3 (manga) by Teren Mikami, Musshu, and Eku Takeshima

TWO’S COMPANY, THREE’S A CROWD

Things between Renako and Mai have just taken a turn for the complicated. After hurting Renako’s feelings, self-flagellating Mai has abandoned all hope of becoming her lover, leaving Renako on a mission to save her from herself. Just what will become of their relationship?! Then, as the pair’s showdown reaches its conclusion, the raven-haired beauty Koto Satsuki throws Renako for a total loop with an unexpected confession of her own!