#shuninta amano

[houkagokappa]

[yuribookclub]

[aspec-manga-snom]

My Aspec Manga List

This list will be continuously updated from time to time.

Everything on this list will be my personal recommendations for manga that either give off the aspec vibes, have a canon character or have an indirectly labeled character. I will admit a lot of these may be headcanons more than anything, but they aren't without their backing.

I'm using the term aspec as an umbrella term for arospec and acespec.

Trigger Warning Key:

*Contains Sexual References (Jokes, Mentions, etc.)

+Depictions of Sexual Imagery/Complete Nudity (Usually won't go that far, but just to be safe.

-Homophobia,Transphobia, Aphobia, etc.

!Themes of Suicide

/Gratuitous Violence, Gore

Aspec Stories with Canon Characters:

In which the words are said.

Mine-Kun is Asexual by Isaki Uta (ace)

My Astible by Amupaka * (aroace and demiaroace)

Our Dreams at Dusk by Kamatani Yuhki *-! (aroace)

Is Love the Answer? by Isaki Uta - (aroace)

Sex Education 120% by Takaki Kikiki, Illustrated by Hotomura *+ (aroace)

I Want to Be a Wall by Shirono Honami (aroace)

Scum's Wish Décor by Yokoyari Mengo *+- (aroace) (sequel anthology, haven't read the original)

Ame ga Shinai Koto by Okaya Izumi * (aroace) (they don't say the words but "never falls in love" is just right there)

Bloom into You by Nio Nakatani * (aroace) (demiromantic lesbians)

Kiryuu-sensei wa Renai ga Wakaranai by Haruka Ono * (aroace)

Kanojo ni Naritai Kimi to Boku by Umi Takase *-! (alloace)

Ano Yoru no Pool by Pukupuku (aroallo)

Romantic Killer by Wataru Momose * (aroallo)

Hatsukoi, Catharsis by Nuko Hatokawa * (gayace)

Lilies and Voices Born Upon the Wind by Mei Renjouji *- (aroace) (pan, demiace)

She Loves to Cook, She Loves to Eat by Sakaomi Yuzaki (ace lesbian)

Sensitive Boy by 46 *+! (aroace supporting)

Basically Unconfirmed but Implied Aspec Headcanons (Some Personal, Some Universal):

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. by Asou Shuuichi (aroace)

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End by Yamada Kanehito, Illustrated by Abe Tsukasa * (aroace)

Oshi no Ko by Akasaka Aka *! (aroallo)

It's Not Meguro-san's First Time by 9℃ *+ (alloace and aroallo)

Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon by Usui Shio *- (demiaro ace lesbians)

Last Gender: When We Are Nameless by Taki Rei *+-! (arospec aspec)

Umi ga Hashiru End Roll by Tarachine John (aroace)

Fly Me to The Moon by Hata Kenjiro * (aroace)

I Think Our Son Is Gay by Okura *- (aroace)

Renai Daikou by Akasaka Aka, Illustrated by Nishizawa 5mm * (arospec)

Spy x Family by Endou Tatsuya */ (aroacespec) (I'll die on this hill)

One Piece by Eiichiro Oda *+-!/ (aroace)

The Apothecary Diaries by Hyuuga Natsu & Nanao Ikki, Illustrated by Nekokurage *!/ (aroacespec)

Something Like the Dust That Is My World by Amano Shuninta*+- (aroallo)

Seibetsu "Mona Lisa" no Kimi e by Tsumuji Yoshimura *+-! (aroacespec) (kinda bad ideology of gender binary)

Dr.Stone by Riichiro Ingaki, Illustrated by Boichi * (aroace)

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun by Izumi Tsubaki * (aroace)

My Love Story!! by Kazune Kawahara, Illustrated by Aruko * (aroace)

Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge by Nozomi Uda * (aroallo)

Skip & Loafer by Misaki Takamatsu * (demiaro? demiace?) (strong platonic relationships)

Dungeon Meshi by Kui Ryoko*!/ (aroace)

Girl Meets Rock! by Kuwahali, illustrated by Tetsuo Ideuchi (aro)

Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto desu! by Miman *+ (aro & demiaro coded)

[funeralcity]

the youth dont know about amano shuninta

[gloop898]

Media Thread 2024 - Part 22

Sweet Guilty Love Bites

By Amano Shuninta

A fun, adult anthology. It's sexy, romantic, and sweet all at once. I enjoy that the relationship are a little messy but ultimately end up clear and strong.

| Full List | Prev | Next |

[ladygwyndolin]

Read "Philosophia." A bit of a wheel-spinner and generally morose but Amano Shuninta's mastery of the genre managed to tug at my heartstrings despite it all. You could certainly do worse, but I wouldn't call it an essential part of her catalogue.

[vixvaporub]

BOMBSHELLS / In the Pool, OLs Around Thirty by Shuninta Amano

[rotts-home]

[zoegmiller]

éclair: A Girls' Love Anthology That Resonates in Your Heart

With yuri manga, as a genre being especially vulnerable to endless cycles of will-they-won’t-they (often without even directly acknowledging the characters have romantic feelings for each other in the first place), the one-shot format is a great way to cut the BS and get straight to the meat, as immediately illustrated by Nio Nakatani’s “Happiness In The Shape Of A Scar,” which gets first billing and provides the cover art. It’s an angsty, internal little piece which delivers all the set up-pay off-resolution of a “crush from afar” storyline in a few dozen pages that I found infinitely more compelling than what I read of Bloom Into You.

The vast majority of the stories are high school dramas, which is basically what you expect going into anything yuri, but there are a few that break the mold, and, if you’ll forgive the inelegant formatting, I’ll rattle off a list of the stand-outs below:

Shuninta Amano’s Human Emotion is the tale of a low-affect, underemployed service worker and the klutzy clod of a co-worker she learns to love (to bully). As a sort of “full disclosure,” Amano is my favorite artist in the genre, and I *believe* this is her first English-released story, and also a new one for me,  AND it’s about bullying a cutie, my favorite trope! So it’s like stumbling ass backwards into a full-on treasure trove of horny zoh-based stereotypes. Really, if I’d known she was in it in the first place, that would’ve made my purchasing decision for me (and I’d kill to see any of her other stories—ESPECIALLY her long-form The Feelings We All Must Endure, translated into English). So, that kinda makes Eclair a five-stars-by-default sort of thing for me……..

THAT BEING SAID, the rest volume is no slouch. Izumi Kawanami’s “My Cute Bitch,” which dives deep into another perennial favorite trope of mine “the “straight” girls who—shocker!—actually only has eyes for each other best friend, but torques the method slightly, as the title aptly suggests, by toying around with who’s the top/bottom in their relationship.

Kagekichi Tadano’s Game Over justifies itself by its twist alone, which I won’t spoil, except to say that it’s one of the few stories to acknowledge modern day homophobia—albeit obliquely, and without angst. It’s pretty rare for yuri to address that sort of societal ostracisation (and when it does, it feels like it’s more often in manga that are technically categorized as “seinen”). Game Over is barely 10 pages long, but it tells a complete tale with all the obverse details it doesn’t portray about its world.

That trifecta forms the stand-outs for me, but other relevant stories include Canno’s The Unemployed Woman and the High School Girl skirts age lines—which is something you often have to stomach just to read yuri in the first place—but I’m a sap for overachieving younger partners paired up with useless couch potato older ones, so sign me up! Kazuno Yuikawa’s A Tale of Weeds is a sweet, and thankfully chaste, grade school story of trust and betrayal. And, finally, I was surprised by the penultimate story, Hachi Itou’s Belle the Rabbit and the Wolf. I wasn’t expecting a dose of kemono-mimi in here, and while the story itself, about cute animal people running a pastry shop, was a little too twee for my tastes, I’ll never say no to an aloof wolf girl (*with* ~kakkoi~ facial scar, no less). And seeing the author essentially making their own built-in Coffee Shop AU was a nice way to bring the anthology to a close.

As far as I know, Eclair is basically the only anthology of its kind in the English mangasphere (though I’d be happy to be corrected!) and it comes out of the gate swinging for its genre. If you’re interested in more traditional yuri stories, there’s easily twice the amount of standard high-schoolers-being-cute in here as the ones above, that appealed more to my “ughhh wait i’ve almost spent more of my life PAST high school than UP TO high school sensibilities. Either way, Eclair’s a hard recommend, and you can… take that to the bank? …i guess? i don’t have catch phrase worked up and I’m a little done with writing this and you’re probably a more than a little done with reading it, so thank you for your time and let’s call it at that!!)

(as a side note, both the cover and the paper stock feel a little flimsier than your average manga release, even Yen Press’s other recent, Delicious in Dungeon. I understand it’s probably a given, since it’s got a bigger-than-average page count for a manga volume, but just be warned if you’re picking up the hard copy. It’s not a big deal, but I thought it was worth mentioning that I felt I had to be a little more careful with throwing this into my bag on the way to work than I usually do)

[yaoifangirlsvstheworld]

S 3, E 17: The Infamous Gratuitous Yuri Episode

To conclude this overly-long season, E & Z step outside their usual zone to talk about the spear counterpart of yaoi: YURI!

Yes, another discussion of the yuri genre. Check out the links below. That said, “see” y’all next time!

******************************

Ice: The Last Generation (2007)

MyAnimeList: https://myanimelist.net/anime/2169/Ice

TV Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/ICE

******************************

Houseki-iro no Koi (2014) by Uko Nishi

Specifically the oneshot “Up and Down”, which sadly, isn’t licensed, but can be viewed online.

Baka-Updates Manga: https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=113240

******************************

Hatsukoi Kouzoushiki (2012) by Shuninta Amano

Not licensed either, unfortunately. But can also be viewed online.

Baka-Updates Manga: https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=52927

******************************

Listen to the episode here:

https://anchor.fm/yfvw/episodes/The-Infamous-Gratuitous-Yuri-Episode-e187j60

[rosycheekies]

I Wouldn’t Mind Being Loved by Amano Shuninta

[houkagokappa]

[yuribookclub]

[yuri-caps]

i wouldn’t mind being loved • ch. 3

[hakonohanayome]

A Passion for Your Work, Amano Shuninta in Syrup: A Yuri Anthology vol.2

[codependentcentipide]