#yuzumei

[stella-so-sly93]

Decided to get me the Citrus art book as a special birthday gift to myself. All the text is in German, which bugs me a little bit (might try to get a English version later) but overall, I love this art book so much already.

Here are few illustrations:

This group pic is so cute.

This marriage two page panel is just as beautiful (if not more) in this bigger art book print.

[anime-ships-all-good]

Aihara Mei x Aihara Yuzu

Citrus

[bubblelady123]

Moments before disaster

[7evenmoon]

hello, if you like citrus and wanna read a harumi x matsuri fic i'm currently writing an abo au fic! here is the link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44669218

alpha harumi and omega matsuri 😋 (also yuzu and mei are a thing but they're a side pairing and won't appear a lot)

i have other harumatsuri fics, you can check them out on my ao3 account. there's fluff, smut, hurt/comfort, bratty matsuri, dom harumi, anything really lol

[coldgoldlazarus]

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On one hand, it's kinda ironic that I don't like YuzuMei of Citrus, because I hold not only the position that "sisters kissing is hot" but more importantly, "maybe incest between consenting siblings/cousins in the same age range isn't that bad actually and shouldn't be conflated with actual pedophilia?" And yet, I massively prefer HaruYuzu and the main pairing just grosses me out, not because they're sisters but because of everything else about their dynamic.

On paper, I should be all about it, but in practice I just do not like Mei's vibes or how Actually Uncomfortable she makes Yuzu feel on a regular basis, and how the attraction between them feels very much based on the Suspension Bridge Effect from Mei's frequent sexual harassment. Which yeah, I realize is her paying her own trauma forward, and it apparently eventually tapers off after the point where I stopped reading, but it still feels like a pretty shitty origin for their romance. "Hey kids, you wanna know how your mother and I got together? She all-but-outright raped me until I started liking it."

But on further thought, I think it's also partially because I have a more lenient view on certain types of incest, that my bouncing off of Citrus actually makes perfect sense. Because even if it is on a surface level presenting this as romantic, there's still an implicit undercurrent here (intentional or not) of agreement with the idea that all incest is inherently toxic and unhealthy. The fact that the taboo nature of their relationship alone isn't seen as enough to carry an engaging conflict, but it has to be presented as Steamy And Torrid and Softcore-Hypersexual as possible.

It carries somewhat similar vibes for me as like, those old lesbian pulp novels that could have all the gay romance and sex they wanted, as long as one or both of the women got killed off by the end as editorial punishment for their transgressions. Like, a different approach, but still that same vibe of fetishizing something while still ultimately condemning it in the same breath. With those pulp novels it was a conscious decision, whereas with Citrus it feels more like a result of unconscious biases creeping in and affecting the presentation, but the end impression I get is the same. "Sure you can have the gay, but it's still a sin so they have to die at the end!" and "Sure you can have incest, but it's still a sin so it can only come from sexual abuse and manipulation!"

(And don't even get me started on fucking Oreimo, ugh.)

Idk where I'm going with this, just needed to get that off my chest, even knowing most people who might see it will probably not respond well.

EDIT: Like, I guess what I'm getting at, is that as much as I am in support of problematic media getting to exist and not be censored away, there is also some stuff that I disagree with being considered problematic in the first place? And that seeps into the way it is portrayed, even in media that's ostensibly taking a positive approach to it like Citrus. The way incest and pedophilia are lumped together even in leftist circles doesn't sit right with me, when everything wrong with irl cases of the first ultimately stems from overlap with the second, or otherwise is just plain old abuse with the incest aspect being incidental.

[kwamiwayzz]

i dont know how to explain it, but i can only get really obsessed with ships that have some sort of parallel dynamic mirror bullshit or whatever going on

[last-knight-who-was]

My favorite is probably Kara and Alex from the CW Supergirl show. I've never seen a pair of foster sisters with better chemistry than those two. Yuzu and Mei from Citrus are a close second though.

What is y'all's favorite pseudo-incest couple? (When they're related, but not by blood) Share please, I'm curious! 😘

[mangaverse]

Trying to understand her feelings...

[alexiaxlena]

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[stella-so-sly93]

Just messing around with my phone mount because using it to record myself flipping through my books and reacting to stuff sounds like a lot of fun. Maybe even making comic dubs.

This is volume 5 of Citrus+

[flower--boiii]

[transbian-uprising]

[naomichan100]

Epic moment redraw🌈🌈🌈

[imdcathsmeow]

I see the parallels 👀

Yuzu and Harumin basically telling their respective significant others not to regret anything, leaving them speechless 🧡💜

[lilumiko]

From the Citrus+ volume 2 extra chapter :)

[mangaverse]

Anybody reading the fluffy continuation of Citrus? I haven’t started yet!