Lizstar's Great Big Post of Yuri Recommendations
Gotta study up
A while ago on Cohost, I wrote three big posts of yuri I recommended. It’s time to bring them here. So here you go. My yuri recommendations. This will need to be updated sometime, and I will. When that happens, I’ll repost it.
PART 1: FINISHED WORKS
Every damn day before I go to bed, I lay in bed and read yuri until I fall asleep. And then I post cute little snippits from it (or really dumb snippits from it) onto this website for your enjoyment. And I get a lot of people who go “Liz, as the world’s leading yuri sommelier, what would you recommend?”
And I always say just ask and I’ll give you a yuri or two to tide you over, but someone suggested I just put that shit in a post SO I’MMA PUT THAT SHIT IN A POST
The following is a list of manga that I recommend, alongside a brief description and anything that might be controversial or content warningy. If you like any of these, let me know whatcha think, and consider supporting the artists and writers! You can often find a way to do that on the website I’m linking.
Also, this is not NEARLY a list of EVERYTHING I’d recommend, and I may add to it in the future. I’m also avoiding yuri that’s not finished or finished being translated, so there’s a LOT of amazing ones that I don’t want to get you into and then have you be sad when it never finishes getting translated. If you all like this enough, I might do another one where I recommend a bunch of yuri that’s still being worked on. I might also do another post down the line about oneshots I really like. This is ENTIRELY series.
Anyways, bring on the cute girls!
Warnings: Age gap (both adults), parental abuse
This is a historical story taking place either in the late Meiji era or early Taisho. Yuki is a young lower class woman working at a cafe frequented by upper class society. She’s a quiet and shy girl who lives her life between work and her books, her favorite of which are by the fluffy romance author, Azuma Beniko. So when Azuma Sensei shows up in her cafe, it overwhelms her. And then Azuma says that she wants to use Yuki as reference for her new novel…
Read this if you like: Extreme fluff, light drama, hot women playing with soft shy women.
If you like this, you should read: Literally anything else written by the author, Nagori Yu. She has a type, is what I’m saying. This is, to my belief, the only thing she has ever actually FINISHED, but all of her unfinished manga that’s halfway through has this dynamic of hot powerful woman and shy cute woman.
Even If It Was Just Once, I Regret It ***
Warnings: Oh boy, a lot. Age Gap (both adults), starts with sexual assault, power imbalance dynamics, light ecchi
Okay now listen, when I describe the conceit of this manga to you, you are not gonna like the sound of it. This is the hardest manga to recommend but it’s also one of my favorites, okay? Here we go.
Koduka-san is a game dev who has recently gotten fired from her job. She’s drowning her sorrows in alcohol, and is unable to function or pay rent. Her landlord (the manga CALLS her a landlord, and Miss Landlord, but she’s really more of a person who works at the apartment complex managing it and working with the occupants, she does not own the building) comes by to check up on her and gives her an offer on how to keep living there. The offer, at least through Koduka’s drunk haze, seems to be “sleep with me, and you can stay here”. So Koduka does.
Once she awakens, she immediately regrets it, and Miss Landlord gives her another offer. She can stay there with her, and if Koduka “services” her, she will consider the debt repaid.
Now I know how this sounds. It sounds fucking horrible. But trust me, this is actually a REALLY good manga. It’s light and fluffy, but is built on MASSIVE misunderstandings that will eventually give way to almost slice of life pleasantness as these two live together and grow closer.
Read this manga if you like: Lots of fluff and can put up with a bit to get there, enjoy seeing “straight” girls realize “oh shit wait why DID I immediately jump to having sex with her”, idiot couples, medium levels of drama
After School ***
Warnings: School girls in high school, lightly echii. Nothing explicit, but they are REALLY makin’ out.
Shiine and Ichika aren’t quite friends. Barely even acquaintances. They know of each other, as the other… fascinates them in a way they can’t explain, but they never had a chance to interact. However, at the start of the school year, they’re both selected as class representatives, and thus work together on the student council. After Ichika is late to a meeting, Shiine offers to help tell her what she missed, and they begin to talk to get to know each other… and the conversation goes to kissing.
Ichika assumes Shiine has dated and kissed COUNTLESS boys, after all, she’s so hot and cool. Shiine hasn’t but feels embarassed and embraces the lie. So Ichika wants to know… what is it like to kiss…?
Once the two start… they fall into a routine. Once a week, sometimes even two or three times a week, after school, the two meet up and kiss each other. They’re less than friends, but also more than friends. Kissing friends. Can they move past how they feel and become something even more?
Read this manga if you like: EXTREME LEVELS OF FLUFF. OVERLOAD. OVERLOAD. Girls making out with girls. Idiot couple, like holy shit REALLY BIG IDIOT COUPLE ENERGY. “THIS GIRL KEEPS ASKING ME TO MAKE OUT WITH HER EVERY DAY AFTER SCHOOL I WONDER IF SHE LIKES ME LIKE I LIKE HER”
Lily Love ***
Warnings: Light to medium drama. Abusive relationships, stalking. Homophobic and abusive fathers.
This one is Thai, so if you read it and think the vibe is different, it very much is! And so are the names. Trust me, these are the character’s actual names in the story. This isn’t some mistranslation.
Donut is a young girl who is just entering college. She’s nerdy, not conventionally attractive, and has never really experienced love. One day she runs into an older student at the dorm washing machine, a cool lady named Mew. Mew is friendly, and maybe a little… flirty? No, that couldn’t be, they’re both girls! The two hit it off as friends, and find out they’re actually neighbors! What a coincidence!
This is a story of their friendship as it grows into something more!
Read this if you like: Girls who are more experienced picking up “straight” girls. Simple concepts. This one doesn’t have some major grand arching plot, except for some stuff involving an ex. It’s not OVERLY fluffy, but it’s good pleasant romance.
A Timid Woman Longing For Her Delivery Girl ***
Warnings: Sexual Assault in backstory. Sick grandmothers as a plot point. Mid level drama.
Ms. Takase is a woman who works from home, and rarely leaves her house. She is afraid of the outside world, and others, after she was sexually assaulted at her old work, and her coworkers blamed her for it. Now she just wants nothing more than to be alone… until her delivery girl, who brings her her weekly groceries and other things, enters her life. Rinko is a bright and cheerful girl from the boonies, and while Ms. Takase is hesitant at first, they quickly become friends… or perhaps more?
Read this if you like: Short and sweet stories. It’s only three chapters long. Mid level drama, there’s some heavier misunderstandings, the pre-mentioned assault, and sick loved ones.
Warnings: Age gap, mild drama, ecchi and has some smut that’s easily skipped
A half human half monster girl wander the wilderness alone. She is incredibly lonely, and not mean, but her appearance causes people to run from her, and since she’s a half monster, other monsters shun her. She lives in an abandoned shack full of books she’s found, and reads them to herself. One day, however, she runs into a young girl who doesn’t run from her. Lily, the young woman, is blind. The monster, for the first time in her life, lies, and claims she is a traveler, wandering far and wide. Lily asks her to tell her stories, and the monster recounts stories from the books she’s read so that she can keep this girl as her friend. As the monster has no name, Lily names her Heath, after her favorite flower.
Read this if you like: Monster girl stuff! Mild angst. but mostly cute fluff of two girls who are DEEPLY in love with each other, one of which just happens to be a big scary monster who would die for the other.
Itoshi Koishi ***
Warnings: MAJOR age gap. One girl is a senior in high school and the other is nearing her 30s. Their relationship is “pure”, but y’know, that’s still massive squick.
This is a cute couple life manga about Hina-chan, a high school student, and her girlfriend, an office lady named Yayoi-san. Yayoi can’t take care of herself, and Hina comes over and cooks for her and other such things. It’s mostly cute sweet fluff, but has huge themes of age, maturity, and growing up.
Read this if you like: The themes of maturity and growth. Couple life manga. If you handle such a large age gap, it’s actually quite good. Just y’know, illegal.
Can’t Defy the Lonely Girl ***
Warnings: Blackmail, kinda noncon
Ayaka is a young girl in highschool who wants to be JUST like her older brother, who is the perfect student and perfect older brother. She wants to get top marks like him and go to his college, which is REALLY hard to get into… but she’s absolutely TERRIBLE at taking tests. So her teacher offers to give her a recommendation so she can get in easily, if she’ll just get the delinquent, Honda-san, to actually come to school. Honda isn’t your typical delinquent. She’s kind of a quiet emotionless girl who just… doesn’t want to come to school, possibly due to depression.
Honda learns of Ayaka’s deal with the teacher, which worried Ayaka. If word gets out that she’s doing favors to get a recommendation, it could kill her socially with the other students! But Honda san offers a deal. If Ayaka does whatever Honda asks her to do, once per day, then Honda won’t tell anyone. And what kind of things will Honda tell her to do?
Yep! Gay things!
Read this if you like: Shockingly wholesome stuff. Like, considering how it starts with noncon kissing, it evolves in a great way. Read this if you like seeing someone come to grips with loving someone else and just being too fucking dense to realize it.
Warnings: Major angst
Nanaki and Kanade couldn’t be further opposites. Nanaki is a gyaru who is OBSESSED with being the prettiest girl. She’s rude and forceful, and a bit of a bully. Kanade, meanwhile, is a shy and quiet otaku wallflower. However, once Nanaki is dumped brutally by her cheating boyfriend, she can’t go to any of her friends, because they’re just as cruel and as big bullies as she is. So who is there to support her and give her a shoulder to cry on? The “ugly” wallflower, Kurosawa Kanade.
Thus begins Nanaki’s slow character growth and transformation as she and Kanade grow closer…
Read this if you like: Major character growth plots. LOTS of angst and drama, no one in this manga is actually alright deep down.
Tadokoro-San ***
Warnings: Very lewd
This one is interesting cause at one point, it was my #1 suggestion. I LOVED this manga. It’s severeled cooled on me though, especially after it just unceremoniously ended, with the artist ending it with a big sex scene that felt a little odd, after the entirely of the manga. Anyways, the description.
Tadokoro-san is a quiet gloomy otaku in high school. She draws manga and keeps to herself. Sakurako, meanwhile, is the school idol. She’s gorgeous, rich, and perfect in every way. So when Sakurako falls hopelessly in love with Tadokoro after seeing her art and how adorable she is, Tadokoro can’t help but be overwhelmed.
Read this if you like: Essentially yandere, without any of the actual violence or death or anything. Sakurako is BASICALLY yandere levels of in lvoe with Tadokoro. So, read this if you like seeing really horny girls be VERY horny for other girls, because that’s like 70% of this manga. Also lots of height gap and gap-moe.
Sekai de Ichiban Oppai ga Suki ***
Warnings: This is practically just porn, it’s so ecchi.
This is one of the goofier ones I’ll recommend.
i got this new anime plot. basically there’s this high school girl except she’s got huge boobs. i mean some serious honkers. a real set of badonkers. packin some dobonhonkeros. massive dohoonkabhankoloos. big ol’ tonhongerekoogers. what happens next?! transfer student shows up with even bigger bonkhonagahoogs. humongous hungolomghononoloughongous.
In all seriousness, there’s two girls. The cool prince of the school, Chiaki, and Harumi, who is a normal school girl who happens to have some serious honkers. Chiaki confesses to Harumi, but not y’know, a love confession. This isn’t about love. This isn’t even about sex or perversion! Chiaki just REALLY likes tits.
Chiaki must grope Harumi like, once a day, or she will run out of energy. Boobs are her recharging spot. She LIVES for boobs. This manga is so fucking stupid but I kinda like it anyway?
Read this if you like: dobonhonkeros. massive dohoonkabhankoloos. big ol’ tonhongerekoogers. humongous hungolo-
Warning: MASSIVE angst. Abusive relationships. Cheating. Pregnancy. Lots of self enforced heterosexuality and internal homophobia.
Maki and Midori dated all through highschool. Come the end of highschool, however, Midori decided to call it off. After all, they were “too old” to be “playing” at that anymore, right? They had to grow up. Start a family.
Ten years later, by a chance of luck, the two run into each other again! Midori is living her dream. She’s getting married, and she gets to meet her old highschool best friend again! At least, things look good… on the surface. Her marriage is worse than it looks, and re-discovering this long lost love isn’t helping. Can the two of them run away together, away from all of this?
Read this if you like: Really heavy stories exploring homophobia, homosexuality, and societally enforced heterosexuality.
Warnings: None I can think of
Hinako wants to be normal. She just doesn’t GET it. All her life, she’s been surrounded by a society that tells her she should fall in love. But she can’t. No matter what, she can’t. And then she ends up getting closer to her coworker in the office, Satou-san, a serious working scary girl… and something begins to change. But it’s not what society always told her it would be. What is this new feeling?
Read this if you like: Explorations of asexuality, amidst two girls falling in love with each other in a way neither of them ever expected.
Warnings: Really pushy girl with a crush
This comic is TECHNICALLY still going, but it’s two chapters away from the end and you can read it early if you pay. Which I have. So it goes here.
The Demon Queen sits up at the top of her tower. Whichever adventurer can reach the stop, through 100 floors and her right generals, can take her head and gain the admiration of the human kingdom and riches beyond their wildest dreams. But to reach that point, not even just kill the queen, you have to be top of your class. And the top of the adventurer guild’s school is none other than the mage Malori.
Too bad Malori has NO INTEREST in actually killing the Demon Queen and getting all that power and riches. No, she wants to marry the Demon Queen instead.
Read this if you like: Slow burn with one girl head over heels. Idiot couples. Comedy, this one is actually very funny. Video games, it’s heavily inspired by JRPGs and is in an Isekai world, but is NOT actually an Isekai story, just takes place in a world where people from Earth get Isekai’d to.
Vampeerz ***
Warnings: Vampires. Blood. Violence. Older than she looks age gap, though she’s still mentally a child, she IS a vampire.
Ichika is a normal kid. Her grandmother, a shrine maiden, just passed away. On the day of her funeral, a strange foreign girl named Aria appears… who claims to have been her grandma’s friend. She needs Ichika to do something for her, something ONLY maidens of this shrine can do. Aria wants Ichika to kill her.
What follows is a strange romance story where Ichika can’t help but fall in love with the terrifying, but very attractive vampire.
Also I fucking LOVE the art in this one.
Read this if you like: Action manga spiced with yuri. Vampires and monsters. Some horror and scary themes.
Pink Ribbon ***
Warnings: Not much tbh. Gay girl pining for straight girl? Is that a thing to warn about?
Lumiao is a senior in high school who loves dressing up in lolita fashion. One day she meets another cute student, Yuxuan, who she’s CONVINCED would be perfect for lolita! Yuxuan, however, is a shy tomboy, who isn’t into fashion whatsoever. But the two become friends anyway. But what is Lumiao to do when she realizes her feelings of friendship move past that… and when Yuxuan starts to develop feelings for the popular but friendly sports jock?
Read this if you like: Cute girls and lolita fashion. Gay girl pining for straight girl.
Soul Mate ***
Warnings: Sick girlfriend
Yu Qi wakes one morning to find that she has traveled back in time. Now in the past, she is determined to fulfil a mission! Her future girlfriend, Yuanzi, who she didn’t even know in highschool, will one day get diabetes from her terrible habits and diet. Yu Qi must not only meet Yuanzi and keep her cool about the girl she loves, but also try to save her life!
Meanwhile, in the future, Yu Qi wakes up to find that she has been transported a decade into the future. Yes, her future and past selves swap places! Now she has to tackle with the fact that she is living with a woman who claims to be her girlfriend, and that she has to do shit like work and get a stable income, while this girl she doesn’t even know wastes away from illness next to her. Is she going to be able to keep it together?
Read this if you like: Supernatural stuff, themes around fate and soulmates, serious trials and themes.
About a College Girl Who Gets Picked Up At A Mixer By An Older Girl ***
Warnings: Age Gap, both are adults
One more for now! This one is… exactly what it sounds like on the tin. Rika is a shy but sweet college student who is invited to a mixer. The men there are kinda handsy, and she’s saved by an older woman, Natsuko, who… slyly takes her out to a cafe and back home instead.
Read this if you like: Fluffy slice of life about cute couples
PART 2 - CURRENT AND UNFINISHED WORKS
Warning: Some might have finished since making this a year ago
I Don’t Know Which One is Love
Warnings: Harem. One of the pairings is teacher x student. college kids.
Mei-chan just graduated highschool with her heart broken. The girl she was crushing on, her best friend, is straight as can be. Now that she’s going into college she’s decided not only will she reinvent herself, but she’ll GET A GIRLFRIEND! Very quickly, however, she meets five girls that she immediately falls head over heels in love with, and they also seem to be pretty into her, each in their own ways…
You have Riri, the touchy snuggly sweet friend who’s a bit reserved and shy, but has a surprising past as a sexy model. There’s Maria-Sensei, a psychology professor at the college who is The Mommy type and thinks Mei is the cuttest thing in the world. Minato Senpai, a prince-like older student who’s extremely into music, sound, and especially ASMR, and immediately falls in love with Mei’s voice, and also gets Mei involved in the local arts scene. That art scene also includes Karin-Senpai, an aspiring actor who is a kiss demon playgirl who IMMEDIATELY starts making out with Mei. Then finally, there’s Mei’s roommate, the irreverent ace senpai Kaoru, who takes a liking to Mei… and has a tendency to have her Switch Get Flipped when smelling Kaoru, due to a rather strong kink.
Yes, every character loves Mei for a different reason, and they’re all based on the five senses.
No real clue where this one is going yet. It seems to ME to be a deconstruction of a lot of harem anime tropes, intentionally, and a bit of a parody of the idea, while also just being a good gay harem manga. Pretty much all the characters are fun in their own way. It’s 100% possible this will go the mythical route, the route that people like me would DREAM of seeing in a harem manga: THE POLYAMORY ROUTE. But we will have to see.
Read this if you’re into: Cute blushing girls. Girls being OBVIOUSLY super into each other. Lots of horny energy. A varied and fun cast.
If you like this, consider checking out: Tamamusi’s previous works. Bright and Cheery Amnesia girl is good and I would have recommended it in my previous post but that post was 18 works long and I needed to stop somewhere. That one is a goofy romance about a girl who loses her memories, reverts to her high school self, and finds out she’s ten years older and has a banging hot girlfriend now.
Warnings: High school girls. Mild drama.
Nagisa has just entered high school. It was not her first highschool choice… she, in fact, failed the exam for her first choice, because she missed the exam time because she was helping a sick girl. In her shame of failure, she reinvents herself, becoming a cool beauty. On her first day at her new school, however, she finds out that same girl who caused her to fail is in her class! And though she knows it’s not her fault, she can’t help but hate this student, Mashiro. Mashiro, however, quickly takes a liking to Nagisa…
This quickly evolves into some cute fluff romance between the two of them as they grow closer, both trying to change who they are. Nagisa doesn’t want to hate Mashiro for something she couldn’t control, and Mashiro wants to stop being a sickly burden on everyone. They carry each other out of this depression and these negative feelings. There’s also side romances that I’ll be real, I’m not as into. Nagisa and Mashiro are the real stars.
Read this if you like: blushing girls who can barely contain crushes but don’t quite get it yet. Some mild drama but nothing serious.
She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat
Cooking is how Nomoto de-stresses, but she has a tendency to cook way more than she could ever possibly eat by herself. So she invites her neighbor Kasuga, who lives alone and seems to really enjoy her food. What evolves from this is a close relationship, born of food and a love for it, which grows closer with each meal.
This one is honestly pretty stunning. What starts as just a cute slice of life slow burn romance becomes one of the gayest god damn things. It has commentary on everything LGBT, with good ace rep, and you get real invested in the romance between these two.
Read this one if you like: Gay women. Seriously. Also, food. Every chapter is about cooking a different dish.
Warnings: Highschool girls. Not much else.
Chidori and Nanoha are best friends. But even more than that, they are in love. But they keep their relationship a secret from everyone. Hiding from prying eyes, they spend their days flirting sneakily, fretting from the constant interruptions.
This is a slice of life manga about two girlfriends in an all girl school who are hiding their relationship because they don’t want to be teased by their friends. Not like, in a homophobic way. More in a “we will never hear the end of it” way. So this is easier. It’s simple and cute.
Read this if you like: Simple, slice of life. Very VERY mild drama, if any at all. Idiot couples.
For Some Reason Suddenly I Wanted To….. With the Coworker Who Sits Next to Me
Warnings: Lightly NSFW.
Hayami Tomoka has a really serious problem. She wants to get laid. But that’s such a hassle, and boys are too much… Anyway, unrelated to that, there’s a coworker who sits next to her at work, the uptight Kohashi Mami. They don’t get along very well. But one day after a long day at the office, the two go out and grab some drinks and find they’re easier to talk to than they expected! And it turns out, Kohashi also has a serious problem, herself…
This was originally a short story that has been updated and added to with new chapters every now and then when the author feels like it.
Read this if you like: Some spicy lewdness to your gay.
How do I Get together With my Childhood Friend?
Warnings: High school girls.
Minami and Yuzu are close as friends can be. Friends and neighbors all their lives, they are inseperable, doing everything together. They’re quite opposites, the two of them: Minami is a serious hardworker who hyperfocuses on things she puts her mind to and is friendly and well loved at school, and Yuzu is an ADHD addled spacey girl who really only focuses on her hobbies and interests, like astronomy, and is kinda shy and keeps to herself. But they’ve been together as long as they can remember, and nothing will ever change that!
Then one day, Minami overhears Yuzu being confessed to… and she realizes something about herself.
Read this one if you like: Idiot couples and useless lesbians. ESPECIALLY Minami. For a smart serious girl she’s so god damn wife-brained that it overwhelms everything else about her.
Warnings: Incest as a plot point. Pushy main character (it chills out extremely after the first few chapters).
So, there’s a genre of manga that is very, very popular. Isekai into an otome game, where the main character falls in love with the villain of that story. I’m about to post like, three of these in a row, and they all have similar tropes and ideas, but are all good in their own ways.
In this one, ordinary office worker Rei wakes one day to find she’s in the body of the protagonist of her favorite otome game, Revolution. She knows this world inside and out, as she’s one of the most prolific fanfic writers of this world, so she’s researched it back and forth, especially involving her favorite character, the villainess, Vlaire Francois. The character has a tragic end in the story of the game, and Rei always wrote fanfic to change that. Now that she’s the mary sue protagonist, with incredible magic power, she will do everything in her power to protect Claire. The same Claire who hates commoners and is annoyed at Rei’s very existence.
Read this if you like: Serious fantasy and political storylines, but with gay romance smacked into it. Isekai with a super knowledgable main character. villainess isekai, specifically ones with an ineffectual not actually bad villain (Claire is rough but good deep down). Good art.
The Fed Up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Mitori is an ordinary office worker who is Isekai’d into the world of her favorite otome game, one she knows inside and out. She is summoned, through her phone, to the world by the villainess, Lapis Tenenbrae, who is a cold chessmaster that Mitori knows is going to start a genocide against commoners. But Mitori, who had just been fired and was finding it hard to continue to live, now is given a new place to live, and new work to do, as her “miraculous future-telling” (she just knows the story very well) and office worker skills gets her hired by Lapis as her personal secretary. Mitori finally has a place to belong. And she decides, she’s going to do everything in her power to save Lapis and give the story a happy end.
Read this if you like: Useless women. Some unhealthy relationship vibes. Love triangles. Isekai, specifically villainess isekai. Serious and political plots.
Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess!
Yvonne has been reincarnated into the world of an otome game as the rich villainess! According to the game’s plot, her loathsome role is to do little more than bully and mistreat the poor heroine of the story, Elsa. Yvonne doesn’t want to fit into her new role, but the game has a built in Villainess System that will punish her and harm those she cares about if she doesn’t do exactly what it says. It’s hard to do that though, when she doesn’t want to hurt Elsa, and when Elsa seems to be… intentionally getting closer and closer to Yvonne, almost as if…
Read this if you like: Villainess Isekai but with a bit of a twist compared to the others. Gay girls trying to avoid the Obvious. Some mild drama and serious plot, but mostly it’s about Gay Girls Being Gay.
Warnings: High School girls. Some love triangle stuff later on.
Yamada-san and Kase-san are accquaintences in high school together. Kase is the star track runner of the school, and Yamada is the simple but sweet plant appointee. It’s love at first sight for Yamada, as she keeps finding her eyes drawn to the cool Kase-san. And Kase keeps getting closer to her, acting friendly… This is about their growing relationship, and them growing as people as they graduate high school.
This series IS done, but the same characters got a sequel series, which is still going!
Read this if you like: Cute and sweet slice of life. I dunno if I’m doing this one justice, it’s one of the most popular yuri series out there right now, very cute and sweet. I legit just started reading it instead of continuing with this post okay continuing now
Warnings: Some heavy drama and angst
Rena and Yuna are roommates, and have been roommates since college. Yuna is a serious hardworker, and very very gay and in love with Rena. Not that Rena knows that. Rena is a bit of a slacker and goofs off. But one day Yuna comes home to find that Rena has adopted a kitten she found outside. Their entire dynamic in the house changes as that cat enters, and feelings begin to overflow….
Read this if you like: Serious romance with angst drama and interpersonal issues. Also, cats.
My Wish is to Fall in Love Until You Die
Warning: Violence, blood, death, child soldiers
Shiina is a child at an orphanage that raises magical assassins. They are sent, while still in school, to fight against a neighboring country they’ve been at war with for generations. No one even remembers why. Shiina’s roommate dies in one of these battles, and she’s left alone. She’s not particularly skilled in magic, or noteworthy in any way. But one day, she meets the school’s “Secret Weapon”, Mimi, a young girl who happens to be immortal. Mimi grows attached to Shiina, and the two start their new life together as Mimi becomes her new roommate.
Read this if you like: Some seriousness in your yuri. Like, people die. Main characters die. Anything can and will happen, and it doesn’t hold back on the gruesomeness and depression of it all. But at the center of all of this is Shiina and Mimi, growing closer.
Warning: Vampires, blood, some angst and drama
Maria is an ancient vampire who sealed herself away, hundreds of years ago. She’s suddenly reawoken from her slumber by a cute werewolf girl, Xinglang. Her coffin had a curse, however. Whoever wakes her up must be her food for one whole year, and then they will forget everything about Maria once that year is up. This becomes… complicated once Maria moves in with Xinglang and her friend, living in the modern world surrounded by Humans, and she begins to fall for the cute werewolf girl…
Read this if you like: REALLY cute stuff. Really, there’s some really good fluff here, and werewolf x vampire is an adorable pairing. Also lots of interpersonal drama and relationship stuff.
Warnings: NSFW echhi, some violence and horror
Hijiri Ryouyou is Japan’s top exorcist, great at her job… but disliked by basically everyone for being kind of insufferable. One day she’s sent to exorcize one of The Three Great Ghosts, evil spirits with the power to destroy the land. She’s not strong enough to exorcize this spirit, but if she pacifies it, it might pass on peacefully… and what does this spirit want?
This spirit, Okiku, wants to spend every day flirting with cute girls. Yeah, mood.
Read this if you like: Ghost stories. Horny energy. Goofy but also scary and threatening at the same time. “Now I’m scared AND horny!”
Our Yuri Started With Me Getting Rejected in a Dream
Warnings: School girls
Exactly what it says on the tin. Tsukushi awakes one morning from a terrible nightmare. In the dream, she confessed her love to her childhood best friend Hinoka, and was rejected! The weird thing is she’s not even in LOVE with Hinoka! But wow, that rejection REALLY hurt! Huh I’m sure that’s nothing though.
Read this if you like: Some of the best fluff I have ever read. MASSIVE idiot couple energy, like, holy moly. Two gay girls who are so in love with each other you’re afraid the love energy is gonna collapse into a black hole but no, there’s no way she’s into me, BECAUSE A DREAM SAID SO.
Warnings: Aaaaangst
Saeko and Miwa are college students that meet by literally bumping into each other. They hit it off as friends, despite Saeko’s first words to Miwa being how great her tits are. They join a band together and become good friends, and then jump heeaaadfirst into a relationship. Sure hope nothing bad happens here!
Read this if you like: Dysfunctional lesbian relationships. Lots of relationship angst.
Warnings: Aaaangst, Highschool Girls
Minamo is an antisocial girl. Yurika is the cheerful idol of her grade. The two could not be any more different. And yet, one day, Minamo sees Yurika with another girl. Yurika isn’t out to the school yet… That sight will set in motion events that will bring the two of them closer together.
Read this if you like: Interpersonal conflicts. Lots of drama and angst. Looks into unhealthy relationships and exploring them (backstory, not main character relationships).
Warnings: None I can think of, except that the series was dropped and there’s no finished translation
Chaeyon Kang and Seungha Sohn are models. One day they meet during a lesbian-themed photo shoot, but it turns out, they’ve met before… They were in school together, in fourth grade. Back then, Seungha would often tease and bully the young Chaeyon. And as they meet now, years later, turns out that hasn’t changed much.
Read this if you like: Gay longing looks. Really really good art, very hot expressions, and don’t mind a not as interesting or well written story.
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy At All
Warnings: School Girls, Mild Drama
This is one of the BIG ONES right now. Like, the most popular yuri you could imagine. This shit slaps.
Mitsuki is a wallflower at school. Your typical nerd. But in reality, she’s really into grunge and punk rock from the United States. She works at her uncle’s shop and lives and breaths music. She doesn’t have anyone to connect with about this, but that’s okay… until it turns out her classmate, the popular gyaru Aya, is really into that kind of music too. And one day she enters the shop, and falls head over heels for Mitsuki, dressed up in a hoodie and mask… not even realizing the gender of the person she’s crushing on!
Read this if you like: Amazing art. Really cute gay energy. A story that is, as described by the artist, “NOT yuri”, but “about gay girls”. It’s got a bit of a different energy, in a good way IMO.
Trying Out Marriage With My Female Friend
Warnings: Mild Drama
Ruriko and Kurumi are highschool friends, and very close! Kurumi is a go with the flow kinda girl, and Ruriko is a more serious quite natured sweetheart. As their other friends get married and have kids aroudn them, Kurumi doesn’t think she’ll EVER be able to achieve that kind of life, and isn’t sure if she WANTS to. But Ruriko offers her a suggestion: Hey, gay marriage is being legalized soon. In five years, if neither of us are married, why don’t we just… get married?
And so it begins. Now for her magazine column, Kurumi writes about her new life as a newly-wed to her best friend! I’m sure there’s no deep hidden emotions behind all of THIS, right? Just some friends!
Read this if you like: Slice of life with some mild drama. Cute married couple wife vibes. Idiot Couple.
Warnings: Alcohol, obviously. Mild Drama. Some violence.
Naori has always loved alcohol. Not neccesarily drinking it, but making it. The beauty of it, all the different concoctions you can make! She got it from her grandfather, a bartender. And now, in college, she likes to make drinks for herself… and no one else, because she’s a bit of a misanthrope with no friends. At a party trying to meet some people however, she ends up saving Hinata, a girl who was having alcohol pushed onto her by some pushy guys. Hinata goes back with Naori to her place, and ends up asking for a drink. And it turns out…
In this world, Oni are those who need alcohol to survive. But they are cursed to only be able to drink alcohol given to them by Humans. Naori suddenly finds herself in a world she never would have imagined.
Read this if you like: Monster girls. Fantastical stories. “Food” manga, but for alcohol this time.
An Illustrated Guide to Sapphic Behavior
Warnings: None I can think of
Luoluo is your typical disaster lesbian. One day she sprains her arm and goes to the doctor. The doctor, Dr. Yu, is a cool beauty and Luoluo IMMEDIATELY falls in love. And now she’s finding any excuse she can to go to the hospital and see her…
Read this if you like: Not too serious goofy yuri
Warnings: Angst and Drama, especially around disability. Internal Homophobia.
Saki is a quiet girl trying to live her life. She’s into playing the piano, as she’s been taught by her sensei since she was 7. Her sensei, however, is suddenly getting married and closing down her school, so now Saki needs a new piano teacher. At the same time, a new student comes to school, Kanon, a deaf student who prefers to be alone. Saki’s new teacher turns out to be Kanon’s mother, so the two of them end up seeing more of each other than they expected! As they grow closer, Saki must discover what living with a disability is truly like, and what it means to support those with them. At the same time, Saki has her own troubles that she’s keeping hidden inside. Namely, these feelings she had for her piano teacher all her life, they weren’t normal… and now she’s developing similar feelings for Kanon
Read this if you like: Stories with a strong emphasis on disability, and the troubles that come with them.
Warnings: Lots of violence, death, and horror
Satsuki is an outcast at her school. She’s a creepy weirdo who is infamous for constantly lying to people. But she’s never actually lied. Not once. She cannot lie. She just keeps telling people… they’re going to die.
Satsuki can see “ghosts” of people’s corpses 24 hours before they’re going to die. Using this power, she does everything she can to try and save her classmates from their inevitable deaths, becoming more and more hated with every word she says to try and warn them. And the ghosts keep coming. Something keeps trying to murder the students at her highschool. Why is that…?
Read this if you like: Mysteries and horror. This series is REALLY tense, like upsettingly so. I actually can’t bring myself to read it sometimes, it’s too much. Also, it IS yuri, but the yuri is much, much more subdued than anything else I’ve shown here. Satsuki is gay, and there are characters around her who are gay too, but that’s not the point of the story. So read this if you like horror with yuri elements.
Warnings: Lots of violence, abusive relationships. Lightly NSFW. Hasn’t been updated in ages.
In a major bank, Shirakawa Junko, working in the overseas investor business department, is the shining star of the company. One day, Kuroda Kayo, who entered the company at the same time, is transferred to Shirakawa’s department. Shirakawa is put in charge of Kuroda’s department training… and it looks like Kuroda keeps trying to upstage her! Every little thing they do, seems to cause the other to bristle… how will their relationship evolve?
Read this if you like: Fucked up relationships. Hate sex. The most fucked up lesbians you can imagine. Strangely hot sex scenes.
If you like this, read: Anything by Jal Jiang, her stuff is impecible and she writes the best fucked up lesbians. Though they’re never quite as fucked up as this.
Warnings: Light Drama
Song Liaoliao has never gotten over her childhood friend, Pei Yu, who disappeared suddenly when they were young. Now suddenly and without warning, Pei Yu reappears in her life, getting a new job as a director in her company! Liaoliao at first is nervous, but then is happy to be friends once again with her childhood friend! But Pei Yu seems to have other plans…
Read this if you like: Light fluff, one girl madly in love and the other realizing she always has been too.
Warnings: Horror
Class rep Minegishi Hinata is saved from a traffic accident by the new transfer student Nagatsuki Shion. Shion is perfectly fine after being hit by the truck, however, it turns out she’s actually a Half-Human Half-Zombie! The impact from the car breaks Shion’s special apparatus that keeps her heart beating, and if Shion’s heart stops for even a moment, she’ll become a full zombie! The only way to prevent that from happening is for Hinata to get Shion’s heart pounding…
Read this if you like: Very goofy horror, or just horror in general. Also goofy comedy yuri.
Snake Woman and Little Miss Offering
Warnings: Age Gap, Monster Girl, not updated in years
The Great Serpent God Suiren is often given maidens by the locals to appease her and keep her docile… And thus she is given another maiden, Suzu, a quiet demure girl who’s only desire in life is to be eaten, and thus please, Suiren. Suiren however, claims… not yet. She’s not ready to eat her offering yet. And now Suzu finds herself in Suiren’s mansion, being doted on and taken care of. Can she handle this?!
Read this if you like: Yuki and the Authoress, my #1 reccomendation last time. Hot sexy powerful woman playing with cute shy girl.
Warnings: Angst, homophobia, parental abuse, bullying, small age gap
This one is technically done but Webtoons is doing this new thing where it’s like, re-airing it? I’m not sure I get it. It’s a good series tho.
Emma Lane, despite her tough exterior, has never really been into the outdoors. But her mom has custody of her over the Summer, and instead of actually spending time with her, ships her off to Camp Mapplewood. Angry about the whole situation, Emma decides to get kicked out as fast as she can. However, this draws the attention of Vivian Black, a mysterious and gorgeous assistant counselor, and EXACTLY her type. Emma never wanted to be at camp, but it might turn out the camp, and Vivian, is exactly what she needs.
Read this if you like: Teenage angst coming of age romance drama. Cute gay panic scenes.
Warnings: Monster Girl, slow to update
This was originally a bunch of images and ideas originally posted on Tumblr, but the author made it a full fledged story comic.
Dr. Simon is a scientist working at an undercover multi-government facility, studying what might be an alien artifact. In an accident, she gets some of her blood on the orb, and it hatches like an egg. She finds herself face to face with the alien inside, a mute alien entity, who she named Ada. Ada forms a peculiar connection with Dr. Simon, and a strained relationship with the rest of the facility, who are anxious, nervous, and terrified of how… flippant Dr. Simon is about all this.
Read this if you like: Sexy aliens and monster girl stuff. Light GL themes, mystery, and human curiosity.
Warnings: Violence
Lenore awakens on a beach. She remembers nothing, not even her name.But she has a briefcase with belongings that state her name is Lenore, so good enough. She finds a girl in a similar situation, Annabel Lee, and the two swear to help each other. When they reach the building on the hill, they find out that they are dead, and now enrolled in this acadamy. Whoever can graduate will get a second chance at life. Whoever flunks out will be cursed to wander this world, forever.
Whoever they once were, and who they are now, they’re still not sure. But as memories of their past lives come flooding back, one thing is clear: Lenore and Annabel Lee are more connected than they could ever imagine.
Read this if you like: Really exciting action webcomics with gay tones and vibes. Constant plot twists and lots of great characters. Edgar Allen Poe. Seriously, all of the characters are based off his different stories and poems.
Warnings: Cheating, abusive spouses, drama
A cute slice of life webcomic about two mothers, mother of four and doting wife Imogen, and open lesbian and single mother of one, Alex, who moves in next door. This is the story of their friendship and life as they move through hardships and the tough life of… well, being moms.
Read if you like: Interpersonal drama. Moms.
Warnings: Racism, class and species divide.
Tess is a gloomy and quiet Gorgon with a massive crush on her sweet and chipper Dryad coworker, Mira. The two get along well, but Tess doesn’t want to move any further than that. She CAN’T. So when Mira, on one of their lunches after work, asks Tess to pretend to be her girlfriend to get her parents off her back, Tess knows she SHOULDN’T. But….
Made by the same artist who made the amazing Always Human, if you’ve ever read that!
Read this if you like: Anxious lesbians and serious background stories involving racial tension.
PART 3 - ONESHOTS
This is by no means an expansive list, and I’m going to almost certainly make another one of these someday. Every single one of these is a recommendation, but I’ll give a small little note for each of these so you can make informed decisions about what you’d like to read~
The Amazing Magic Only You Possess
CWs: Kinda weird, maybe some power dynamics issues. A tad lewd at parts.
A Magical Girl, with her enchanted plushy Lappi, saves the world from the Dark Queen, thus granting herself one wish. Her wish is to stay with Lappi forever. Now, many years in the future, Lappi finds herself living with Megu, the office girl. She wishes she could do SOMETHING to earn her keep, but she’s just a little stuffie…
A cute and interesting oneshot. I think some people might find this Very Weird, because it’s a sentient plushie and a human woman. But uh, I find it adorable. There’s also a lot of metaphor going on here, with parallels to like, disability and such. Very sweet, and one of my absolute favorites. But y’know, you’re warned. It can be seen as Weird.
The Demon Disappears Through a Lens
Chiaki arrives at her new school and has a run in with the school delinquent! Everyone’s terrified of her,but Chiaki is curious what her deal is. She’s always squinting and glaring at everyone. What could it be??
Akiho wakes up early for once in her life and takes the early bus to school. No one else is around this early, except for a single girl who’s also taking the bus. She’s a prim and proper girl from the rich school, but the two hit it off quickly…
Tamaki is a new hire at a deli, and hits it off quickly with Saho, becoming good friends. A boy also keeps coming to the Deli to flirt with Saho, which seems to bother Tamaki. Saho becomes convinced that Tamaki must like him, and that’s why she’s bothered! It’s time to fix this, for Tamaki’s sake!
I love the character designs in this. Saho is a girl on the larger side, but it’s not treated as anything more than just, what she is. It’s never mentioned or mocked. In fact, everyone loves her, she’s very sweet. Also EVERYTHING Sal makes is just, amazing.
CW: Alcohol
Sakura and her senpai are celebrating Sakura’s 20th birthday with some alcohol! Sakura is hoping that the alcohol will give her the power to confess her feelings. Can she muster up that courage??
This one is about one of my absolutely favorite topics in yuri, one I don’t see often. Happy families, two loving women and their kid(s). Or as Dynasty Scans calls it, uh, “non-science babies”. Dynasty Scan’s tag system is weird sometimes.
Hina is a young pre-schooler who gets into a spat with her overworked and exhausted mother, who isn’t even LISTENING to her! Her mom’s wife, Ric-chan, tried to teach her how important her mother is, but she’s so young. It’s a fluffy and sweet loving family, and like all families, they have some rough spots now and then, but they’ll make it through, to a sunny tomorrow.
Rin is a young girl who’s confessed to by a girl! That’s weird, isn’t it, a girl liking another girl? Uh no, of course not. After all, Rin has two moms. Why would that be weird?
More cute family stuff.
CW: Violence, tragedy, monster girls
Claire is a Human with a pure heart, but took up a job of hunting Monsters, despite never wanting to hurt others. While out on a hunt, she meets Alyn, a dragon, and her child, Asha. Now, several years later, Claire is taking care of Asha as her adoptive mother, and is haunted by the past. Asha realizes that Claire is in pain, and wants to help.
This one can get real heavy, but is pretty sweet.
CW: Age Gap, kinda? In like, both ways. You’ll see what I mean.
Mizuki was a sickly girl who one day died in her hospital bed. Now a ghost, she finds herself haunting a young girl living in her old home, Misao, who seems to be the only person who can see her. Mizuki hovers around Misao as she grows up, watching time pass by…
Miyazaki hits her head one day and wakes up in the infirmary. The class rep comes in to check on her. She’s always been distant to Miyazaki before, though Miyazaki has a crush on her. While visiting, however, Miyazaki keeps hearing her voice, even though she’s not speaking. And the class rep seems to have VERY strong feelings about her…
Goofy and cute.
Fussa is an actual IRL city in Japan, which has a US military base on it. One day, while walking by the chain link fence seperating the two countries, Risa meets a young American girl named Delphi living on the other side. The two, despite not speaking each other’s languages, want to become closer! Can they cross both the language barrier, and the actual physical barrier, and become closer?
I love language barrier stuff and international love (I wonder why this is so important to me huh), so this one hits me in a good way.
5 Seconds Before a Witch Falls in Love and its sequel Five Seconds Before Falling in Love With a Witch
CW: Technically age gap, they’re both adults but Meg is apparently an ancient and powerful witch, though she just looks like a young woman.
Lilith is a Witch Hunter, and Meg is the Grand Witch. Meg’s whole deal is she like causing mischief out of boredom, so Lilith is here to stop her. They play cat and mouse a lot, but things get a little wild when Meg manages to cast a curse on Lilith.
A good two parter. I feel like there can, and SHOULD, be more.
From Aiu Station on the Hiragana Line and its sequel I’ll Send Her Home on the Last Train
CW: Foiled train molestation, not shown as the biggest deal
Asaki is a high school third year, getting ready to graduate. She’s kind of a vain pretty girl, who’s goal is to win a beauty pageant and marry some famous rich guy. Simple stuff. Things change a bit when she meets Tsune, a first year in the school who saves her from a guy on the train trying to shoot pictures up her skirt. The two start to hit it off, and Asaki’s dreams and view of her future begin to shift…
CW: Alcohol
MORE SAL! Her stuff is so good. This one is a short and sweet story about two accquaintences, one of whom shows up home drunk as fuck. It’s big height gap hours, ANOTHER thing I love. scratches head in 6’4 Hmm I wonder why
CW: NSFW, but no like, explicit sex scenes
Eiko is a pornographic manga artist. To help her with human anatomy reference, she buys a sex robot, Leeza. Leeza helps her with her art considerably, but Leeza is a little concerned about one thing: Why won’t Eiko try her out for her original function??
Adult Women Don’t Try Too Hard
An and Kyouka are office women who go out drinking together all the time. Just drinking buddies, nothing more, despite how An feels… but tonight’s the night. An is going to muster up the courage, finally, to ask her out. She’s an ADULT now! She can DO this!
CW: Lots of religious references, blind main character and another main character having some unhealthy feelings about that
Keiko and Haruka are students at some kind of Christian school. Keiko is a sweet girl who likes cute things, but it doesn’t fit her appearance as a delinquent. But that doesn’t matter for her relationship with Haruka, because Haruka is blind. When Haruka has the opportunity to gain her sight back with a surgery, Keiko doesn’t know what to think. She cares about Haruka deeply, but if she could actually see her… would Haruka want anything to do with her anymore?