#hayashiya shizuru

[nyaa]

Mime / 舞夢 (1995), PC-98

[daily-yuri]

Strawberry Shake Sweet by Hayashiya Shizuru (translated by Lililicious)

[snarp]

Hayate x Blade. FYI

[yurioutofcontext]

Strawberry Shake by Hayashiya Shizuru

[yuri-caps]

strawberry shake: special order

[seijanyuri]

The legendary pair, Hitsugi and Shizuku, from the manga Hayate X Blade by Hayashiya Shizuru :)

[arianod]

There’s this on-and-off project I have, of a tarot deck based on characters from different yuri series.

(Kuga Jun from Hayate Cross Blade; Ran Asakawa and Julia Tachibana from Strawberry Shake Sweet. All by Hayashiya Shizuru)

[bisexualbaker]

Hayate Cross Blade

Sword w cellphone charms

[miraworksstuff]

This series added in.

[super-sexy-commando-kyouko]

why is ltla getting an anime

it's not even really yuri

it's more like a cliche shounen harem manga with the protag made into a girl at the last minute

[sean-gaffney]

Zan Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei:  End Card #6.

Shizuru Hayashiya is best known as the creator of Hayate x Blade, and Ayana from that series is about to hit Nozomu with her trademark nailbat back there.

[daily-yuri]

Strawberry Shake Sweet by Hayashiya Shizuru (translated by Lililicious)

[aeondeug]

I think the issue is that the noodle arms humor doesn’t feel like it exists in the same universe as the serious bits of the work. It’s not that I don’t like that sort of humor. The fact that Rumiko Takahashi and Shizuru Hayashiya are two of my favorite mangaka reveals that yeah no I am super on board for people being hit by trucks while I giggle at their pain. But things like Ranma 1/2 and Strawberry Shake Sweet just feel more...integrated. Like the tones that they’re trying to set make it feel like, yeah, Ranma getting run over or thrown off a building just EXISTS in the same world as Ranma getting serious about his romantic feels. Ed being wrenched in the head while noodle arming though feels like it’s part of some separate fucking universe and it just feels like an annoying fucking intrusion on the story I was enjoying.

That being the case can be shown by the fact that I do generally enjoy Arakawa’s bonus 4koma panels and that I do really like the better melded bits of comedy in Hawkeye and Mustang’s banter. She’s fine when she’s either sequestering the wacky to its own little corner of the comic that isn’t part of the main story, or when she’s doing character based comedy that is more in line with the general tone of the work.

but noodle arms in the middle of the comic just feels fucking out of place even though it’s been a consistent part of the work since the start and i am not even sure why it’s not meshing like ranma’s shit does

I think it might be a rules of the world type deal? Like Ranma’s set up from the start to be like goofy kungfu world. So it’s easier to believe that Ranma can survive this shit. But most of FMA is fairly serious about its shit and its world tends to be a very ‘PEOPLE DIE WHEN THEY ARE KILLED’ kind of thing. So it just doesn’t feel right when Ed can get bonked on the head by a wrench with no consequences when Ed has a fucking scar that has remained throughout the series or when people are losing arms and almost dying of blood loss on a regular ass basis (Arakawa has some sort of arm loss kink jesus fuck).

[princessknightt]

Why You Should Give Yuri A Chance

So I made a reddit post and I’m just gonna dump all the text here and link it so you lovely folks could give it an upvote ;) I’ll link it first and just lol, do a read more thing under it if you’d rather read it on tumblr.

https://www.reddit.com/r/actuallesbians/comments/9paqmt/yall_should_try_reading_yuri_mangamanhwa/

So I've noticed a lot of lesbians and other wlw don't really read yuri manga or manhwa or manhua. And yes those are all different. Manga is Japanese, manhwa is Korean, and manhua is Chinese. There's also Thai yuri but I'm not sure what their comics are called. I have an idea why wlw don't read them and I'll agree with you gals. Yuri is sexualized and does have a bad reputation. BUT, and here's a huge but, it's definitely getting better. I could go into the history of yuri and why it was low-key, even high-key homophobic or sexist back in the day, but it's definitely getting better. If you only know of yuri from anime, then please throw that idea right in the trash. Yuri manga is different, there's actual lesbian authors and just woman authors in general that save the genre. 

I guess we can call this my Defense of Yuri. First of all, what yuri do people usually see and what's usually popular? It's stuff like Citrus and NTR that are popularized because they were animated. Also Happy Sugar Life and that new Loli Maid anime that's super gross. These manga are not really serious and end up being gross representations of what lesbians are like. And yet it's what's popular, leading people to believe most yuri is like this. This is wrong. There's a lot of yuri that is not fetishized and are published in yuri exclusive magazines such as Comic Yuri Hime or Yuri Shimai or Tsubomi. They also might just be original doujins that aren't officially published.

This brings me to my second point. Because the popular yuri titles are fetishized and really just paint yuri in a bad light, people wouldn't want to try diving into the genre. And that's the sad part because there are definitely queer authors who are making really good stuff that just isn't seen and supported enough to become popular. Nakatani Nio's Bloom Into You is a better yuri manga about discovering the MC's sexuality that isn't sexualized and is actually a serious work. It's also getting an anime adaptation so hopefully more people will give anime a chance. It's noteworthy that Nakatani Nio is a woman who, while she may not be queer, she actually understands how women think. That's honestly more important since the fetishized yuri tend to be made by men who have no clue.

So basically what I'm trying to get at is that the popular yuri titles are bad examples of what yuri is and can actually be, I'll list some examples of good yuri manga and a few manhwas and manhuas too. Before we go to the examples and recommendations, I just want to make sure that I reiterate that the popular yuri anime ain't shit and honestly you shouldn't really stream them either. Citrus is literally pseudo-incest, NTR is about cheating, Happy Sugar Life is about a pedophilic yandere, and the Loli Maid anime is pedophilic too. So yeah, just don't bother with them, they were definitely not written with women in mind. What you should do is try and support the queer and/or women authors who produce actual good yuri.

1. Tamen de Gushi by Tan Jiu (Chinese): So this one is one I think a lot of lesbians have actually read but this shit is super cute and about those two high school girls figuring out their feelings for each other. Unfortunately because of China's censorship laws, the author isn't allowed to show any explicit or even overt homosexuality in the story but it's still a really nice slice-of-life.

2. What Does the Fox Say? by Team Gaiji (Korean): Ah yes, another one that is fairly popular with lesbians I think. It's basically a dramatic romance between two office workers that's also a bit of a love triangle. It's very dramatic, kinda like a kdrama, and it's also very much gay. There's explicit gay content and you get invested in the story easily. (VERY NSFW)

3. Pulse by Ratana Satis (Thai): This is a more racy story about a heart surgeon and her patient haha. So it's definitely very dramatic but also very gay. Like wow it's gay as fuck. And the story itself is interesting and I got heavily invested in the drama too. (ALSO IT'S NSFW)

4. Collectors by Nishi Uko (Japanese): So this is a gem following the lives of two women who are avid collectors of things, and their relationship together. This is one of those rare ones where they're already together and it's just navigating their day to day lives in a very mature way. It's really nice.

5. Wife and Wife by Minamoto Hisanari (Japanese): So this is literally what the title says. It's slice of life with two women who married each other and it's their newlywed life. It's super cute and diabetes inducing and gay.

6. Bright and Cheery Amnesia by Tamamusi (Japanese): This one is a comedy about the trope where your lover gets amnesia but it's super cute because said lover immediately falls in love with you again. Except with two women and the humor is on point.

7. Strawberry Shake by Hayashiya Shizuru (Japanese): This is also a comedy, even going so far as a gag comedy about two idols and their love story. It's super funny and cute and one of my favorites because I read this when I was like, 15 and still questioning and it really just made me laugh. It was nice having a romantic comedy with a lesbian couple, er, pining lesbian couple.

8. Cirque Arachne by Saida Nika (Japanese): This is an interesting story about being in a circus and falling in love there. I'm not really sure how to describe it but it's really good.

9. The Love Doctor by Chamsae (Korean): This is a story about a college student consulting a "love doctor" about why she can't get a boyfriend (she doesn't actually feel any attraction to guys *hint* *hint*). And the doctor happens to also be gay oh my. But it's a nice drama that was honestly pretty relatable for me because I completely understood where the MC was coming from. And their relationship does get really cute and like all Korean manhwas, it's very reminiscent of a kdrama.

10. Bloom Into You by Nakatani Nio (Japanese): I already mentioned this story but this is a high school coming of age story. It's navigating the feelings the MC has and how those feelings "bloom." I think it's a very mature take on the typical high school love story and there's even an asexual male side character. I think it was nicely written and you can even buy the printed translated copies if you wanted.

These are just a few recommendations I have so if this post gets a lot of attention, I can make another post of recs that I think are good reads. You can find sites to read these through googling them and adding manga online or something, but most are found on dynasty reader (google it). Oh right, and also it's important to note whether it's Japanese or not because the Japanese ones are the only ones you read from right to left, the others are left to right. As an additional note, if anyone wants me to do like, a history of yuri or something, I can probably do that because god, I read too much. Or if you want more recs haha.

[yuri-caps]

can you help me find a manga? i read it years ago back when i was a baby figuring out sexuality. it was about two actresses (i believe) and the older one was trying to figure out her feelings for her energetic kohai and there was a lesbian group there too i think they were musicians? i think it started with "strawberry"

o shit i do know that! it’s “strawberry shake” by shizuru hayashiya. it’s about two idols, actually. a really cute series :0

and there was definitely a lesbian band, and this^ was their frontwoman lmao

[seijanyuri]

fanart for my two fave characters from Hayate X Blade (Hayashiya Shizuru)!

they’re still up to no good after highschool