#Yuri Garden

[ladyloveandjustice]

twitter making me want to eat glass

Do ya'll seriously think lesbian stories don't say basic ass things like 'i can't stop thinking about you, i want you." Are you that up your own ass.

Do you think there are not pick up lines in yuri.???do you think they don't have ~poetic lines~ in wlw media???~ that are way better than this shit?

Apparently if some basic ass shonen said stuff like this you'd be acting like it's the height of poetry. Too bad it's actual wlw stories that aren't queerbaiting you. so it will get ignored.

[chishnfips87]

Eden's Garden ch1 rn:

(Eden's Garden ch1 spoilers)

Poor Wolfgang, man...

[problematic-yuri-poll]

Problematic Yuri Tournament Season 2 - Round 2

Malcatras' Maiden vs. In the Gardens of Gehenna

Malcatras' Maiden (visual novel by Nadia Nova)

thriller, action, erotica

Sexual Content: HIGH; Gore: MODERATE; Violence: HIGH // Note: contents in question are mainly described in text.

Mod submission.

Mod-submitted problematic elements:

A doggirl maid is in love with her master and adoptive mother, and overall navigates complicated and toxic relationships with her family.

Official content warnings:

Malcatras' Maiden is a game for adult audiences only. This work contains intense themes of toxic relationships, manipulation, child abuse, regular abuse, dubiously consensual sexual acts, incestuous themes and explicit bloody acts of heavy violence, including death and murder.

Mod-submitted propaganda:

Battle maid visual novel with cool powers... We love messy relationships and toxic incest yuri and messed up broken maid girls... we love Liliana.... trans puppygirl maid who just wants a place to belong..

In the Gardens of Gehenna (manga by Sakasana)

psychological, drama, horror

Sexual Content: LOW; Gore: LOW; Violence: LOW // Additional warning for psychological horror.

Submitted problematic elements:

It's a tragic story of messed-up little girls being toxic to each other in different ways.

Submitted content warnings:

Lolicon, rape, violence, death, visual depiction of a baby's corpse, non-yuri incest

Submitted propaganda:

It's so sad but so good! It's the best lolicon horror since Happy Sugar Life, and leans even heavier into the horror. Still ongoing, but there doesn't seem to be a happy ending for anyone involved. I still hope for one, though!

[itsjesscapade]

Magic Garden Yuri Real!!!

[yeetushaitus]

diva you will always be famous

[crystalchespin]

pvz again.......im sorry everyone im just a weird critter

[sugarsaltreading]

Goodbye My Rose Garden by Dr. Pepperco is a period piece yuri about Hanako, a young Japanese woman who travels to England in the year 1900 in hopes of meeting her favorite author and ends up getting hired as a maid by a noblewoman named Alice. The series is only three volumes long but makes every page count, with the author’s equal, obvious eyes for drama and historical accuracy shining through along their beautiful art style. Topped off by an excellent translation that is a perfect reflection of the manga’s roots in classic literature, in my opinion Goodbye My Rose Garden is nothing short of a staple for yuri fans.

[pavlikbuonarroti]

It's that time of year!

Team leader registration is open for this year's Yuri Shipping Olympics! YSO is an event promoting creation of femslash fanworks; you join a team centred around a certain ship or theme and get creating :)

Want to join me in Team RPG Maker* next week or register your own team now? Find out more and join the Discord over at @yuriolympics !

*not limited to horror games the graphic is just biased by my spooky preferences 🥴

[cosmicgardencreative]

[RED]

Ismaire:

Now for some Red Riding Hood tomfoolery I'm not sorry for.

Claret, you're lookin uh, little thirsty there. Need some water?

[ladyloveandjustice]

Yuri Manga for New (AND Not-So-New) Readers

I was talking on discord about some good yuri for beginners, and figured I'd repost here.

I get way more detailed some of these recommendations in this post, and there's great recs from another person too! Check it out!

I'm doing this accounting to various tones and tastes, so what works as a beginner yuri for one person might not for another, just read the info to figure out what your jam is.

I'll put a star by the ones about adults (which is the majority of them) since I've found that's always something people want.

Goodbye my Rose Garden (Victorian yuri w/ beautiful art, just beautiful all around)*

How Do We Relationship? (messy adult relationships and lots of actually realistic intimacy)*

She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat- (A woman loves to cook but doesn’t have a huge appetite, only to find the woman next door to her does! She cooks for her and they really start to bond over food and the trials of being working adults. Yes, this is the one where the woman googles lesbian. It's really good)*

Bloom into You- a common go-to yuri for beginners for a reason, about a girl who believes she can't fall in love meeting a girl who wants to date her specifically BECAUSE she can't fall in love. Find out more about it and hear my thoughts here. It has a gorgeous anime that doesn't cover the complete story.

Doughnuts Under the Crescent Moon (sweet office lady romance, ace rep) *

Catch These Hands! (These two women were delinquents and rivals in high school, they meet up again, one reveals she was always into the other, she challenges her to a fight on the condition that if the other woman loses she'll date her. Lots of slapsticky fun and great for any lover of girl delinquents)*

Run away with me, Girl (there's some abuse shown in this one, but it's a story about healing, the premise is these girls dated in high school, but one of the pressured herself "normal" and marry a man, that man turns out to be abusive, so when the former lovers reunite, they decide to run away together. It's got beautiful art and a well done story)*

The Moon on a Rainy Night (absolutely spectacular, explores the relationship between a hard of hearing girl and her closeted classmate, the characters are complex and the writing is so good!)

Kase-san And...- Starting with Kase-san and the Morning Glories, this is a very fluffy and sweet high school romance. It also has a short movie. (as the manga goes on they become college students, too)

The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This (slice of life about a voice actress and anime screenwriter who live together as a couple. Unfortunately the ending is a bit abrupt (and likely premature) but I love their relationship)*

My fave Otherside Picnic is great for scifi and (mild) horror lovers. It's Scifi creepypasta adventure yuri. It's a slow burn but does truly spectacularly deliver on the gay. Has an anime, it's not great, you should start with the novels. Wrote an article here. https://www.animefeminist.com/how-otherside-picnic-masterfully-uses-horror-to-explore-abuse-and-show-healing-queer-love/ *(v young adults, college students)

The Guy She was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All: (A web manga about a girl who works at a record shop. Her classmate , Aya, wanders in but doesn't recognize her because she has her hair hidden with a hat and is wearing a face mask, and Aya assumes she's a guy. They bond over music and slowly start to get closer...and Aya's finds her heart is fluttering not only over this mysterious boy, but her female classmate that seems a lot like him...) It's going to get a physical release soon.

This Monster Wants to Eat Me: (A depressed girl who's been searching for death gets approached by a mermaid who wants to eat her...but the thing is, our monster mermaid is a gourmet who wants her to be as delicious as possible, which means she's going to make her happy first (as apparently that enhances her flavor), and fight off all the other monsters who want to kill her. This is TOP TIER yuri horror and a must read for any lover of monster girls, especially monster girls drenched in the blood of their enemies, it's so good)

I Married my Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up (girl and her friend get married simply so her parents will stop bugging her about being single. You can probably guess where it goes from there) *

I Married my Female Friend (similar premise, except no parents involved, it's a platonic marriage they both agreed to with the promise they'll divorce if one of them falls in love. But one woman has decidedly not platonic feeling for the other that she's hiding from her, so It will likely turn romantic, it hasn't all come out here yet so I haven't finished it)*

Whisper Me a Love Song: (A girl named Himari sees her upperclassman, Yori, perform with her band and falls in love with her music. She confesses her love of Yori's music, and Yori mistakes it as Himari confessing to being in love with her. Yori falls head over heels at first sight. (if you don't like miscommunication, dw this is cleared up fairly quickly and new drama ensues) Has an anime covering early material)

Monthly in the Garden with my Landlord* (it didn't really hit with me but I might give it a shot again, it's solid despite the terrible title, a woman moves into a house and finds she'll be cohabitating with an idol) (Some more titles I haven't fully read that could appeal: Still Sick*, Cheerful Amnesia*)

Hana and Hina After School: (a cute three volume about a gyaru and shy girl working together at a shop after school and catching feelings)

After Hours: (A cool punk girl meets a girl who's been abandoned by her friend at the club, and she introduces her to the world of DJ'ing...and romance!)*

My Cute Little Kitten (two roommates adopt a cat...and maybe fall in love?)*

I think all of those work as solid intro- though it does depend on what flavor you're looking for!

This article also covers some of these recs and some manga I didn't mention due to not having completely read it. so check it out: The Beginners Guide to Yuri Manga.

Here's some titles to try when you're a little more familiar with yuri (or you can try them now! I'm not your boss!)

SHWD (action yuri that's taking forever to come out over here physically, featuring extremely muscular women fighting monsters. I think it was forced to end prematurely too)*

Kiss and White Lily for my Dearest Girl: (I'm only three volumes in, but it's really enjoyable. The main storyline is about two academic rivals, where one is determined to rank first in class, and the other is an effortless genius who becomes intrigued at the possibility of someone beating her. Honestly they have the kind of messy combative sexual tension I wish we'd see more often in yuri because it's so good. The story follows other couples too. However, big warning for some nonconsensual kisses in early volumes, and a storyline in volume 7 that has implied incest and an age gap, though the older sister doesn't go through with it onscreen).

Sweet Blue Flowers/Aoi Hana- (This one is a little bit dated, and boy is the ending weirdly paced, but a lot still holds up imo. A painful and sweet coming of age tale, it also has an anime that's good but ends too soon.

One teenage characters backstory involves incestuous (older cousin) the perpetrator of which pulls the "oh no did I turn you gay? thing" but it's definitely framed as a bad thing. )

The Summer You Were There: (For tragic and doomed yuri lovers. A deeply depressed girl starts her journey to healing thanks to a girl who courts her and enjoys her writing. Unfortunately, said girl is terminally ill. The manga is a heart wrenching meditation on grief, redemption, and how being sick doesn't mean you can't still be loved).

Yuri is My Job- a story about messy lesbians in a yuri-themed cafe, and how their real relationships differ from the personas they put on. Read more about it here. Big warning for sexual assault of a minor (by an adult villain) in volume 12. Has an anime covering early material.

[abdy-18]

If from day one, somehow Twilight had realized that Yor is a Garden assassin (just as he quickly realized that Yuri was an SSS officer), would he have walked away from her or would he have married anyway?

[crabpeach]

I was watching an episode of Spy x Family and it really got me thinking about how we see a lot of Yor misinterpreting information thrown her way as she tries to relate it back to something she knows (killing) and I think it's easy to forget she probably never had an education. We know she made sure Yuri got an education through books and that he shared a lot of anecdotes with her when they had time together but hearing "did you know XYZ fact about random animal?" is not as enriching compared to sitting with the entire book of animal facts for hours.

It's ambiguous when the Briar parents died, but Yuri remembers them enough to reminisce in home cooked meals from his mother. Based on that flashback, Yuri was probably 4 years old when they were orphaned meaning Yor was 11 years old. The house from all of their flashbacks seems to be the same as well, meaning it's likely they were just told of their parents' deaths or realized it on their own when no one came home.

Maybe Yor realized it first and went looking for them only to stumble into the Garden. An 11 year old girl, distraught and looking for food and her loved ones is taught that to survive she will have to kill to do it. At first, she's hesitant. Killing is bad. But after the Shopkeeper gives her her first warm meal in a long time, he tells her about how all of the plants and meat used in that meal came from living things- that in order to live it's impossible not to kill something in return. The Shopkeeper sees her potential just in her unnatural resiliency and promises that she can live a happy life in the Garden. But she declines. She can't live there. She has to get home to her brother.

He makes her a deal. Return to him whenever you are in need, be it clothing, food, money or anything fathomable. In exchange for their lives to continue, she must take another's.

And she accepts, quickly taking her leftovers home for Yuri.

[eenakulot]

[scarletsillyartblog]

my god, my universe

[xulips]

Ik you're not as active in P:eg anymore but tysm for the Graceva art it fills me with such joy when I see it

ykw. just for you anon

[florence-ghoul]

I've only checked a few of these out so far, so I can't make any claims to the quality of all their stories, but just seeing the greater variety of styles, especially the increase in adult couples, in these yuri manga covers compared to 10 years ago, heck even 5 years ago, makes me so happy for how far the genre has come and excited for progress in the future. I'm always on the hunt for more authentic yuri manga, so please let me know if there are any I should read, or which of these I should be checking out first!