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#1 - How Do We Relationship?, Tamifull

Officially Translated, Ongoing

What it is: Two college students navigate a relationship of convenience

Read it if: you want one of the most realistically-flawed, painful and hopeful, romance stories you could ever ask for!

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How Do We Relationship?, by Tamifull

From VIZ:
A romance of convenience between two college women soon becomes the real thing.

Fresh college students Miwa and Saeko work to navigate the highs and lows of a relationship begun solely because both of them are lesbians, and single
December 20, 2024 at 5:41 AM
#2 - Her Tale of Shim Chong, Seri (illust. by Biwan)

Officially Translated, Complete

What is it: A cross-class romance of two women amid a deeply misogynistic society

Read it if: You want to see women work to define themselves beyond their assigned patriarchal value

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Her Tale of Shim Chong, by Seri, illust. by Biwan

From Tappytoon: Based on a Korean folktale, two very different women find themselves making the same wish - to leave this world behind.

An incredibly thoughtful folktale reworking, and painfully emotional cross-class romance
December 20, 2024 at 5:41 AM
#3 - Destroy It All and Love Me in Hell, Kuwabara Tamotsu

Fan-Translated, Ongoing

What is it: A high school's class president willingly falls from the pedestal she's always hated

Read it if: You want to see a toxic yuri that deftly shows exactly what makes the genre work

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Destroy It All and Love Me In Hell, by Kuwabara Tamotsu

From Mangadex: Kurumi Yoshizawa has excellent grades and a friendly personality... on the surface. On the verge of a meltdown, she's barely able to stop herself from shoplifting, unaware that she's being recorded by Naoi...
December 20, 2024 at 5:41 AM
#4 - Girls Last Tour, Tsukumizu

Officially Translated, Complete

What is it: Two girls wander a grand and desolate post apocalypse

Read it if: You like the absolute saddest, yet life- and meaning-affirming, post-apocalypses out there

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Girls Last Tour, by Tsukumizu

From MAL: Among a scenery of barren landscapes and deserted buildings, [Girls Last Tour] tells the uplifting tale of two girls and their quest to find hope in a bleak and dying world.

Chito and Yuuri give each other daily meaning amidst grand ruins.
December 20, 2024 at 5:41 AM
#5 - Hello, Melancholic!, Yayoi Ohsawa

Officially Translated, Complete

What is it: One high school musician breaks another out of her shell

Read it if: You want a really touching story about overcoming isolation and also the most trans-coded cis girl ever put in a yuri manga
December 20, 2024 at 5:41 AM
#6 - If I Could Reach You, tMnR

Officially Translated, Complete

What is it: A high schooler grapples with her crush on her older brothers wife

Read it if: You want to see characters learn to gradually understand who they are and how to truly convey that to others, and also ignore an epilogue
December 20, 2024 at 5:41 AM
#7 - Love Bullet, inee

Fan-Translated, Ongoing

What is it: After death, loveless girls become Cupids to bring others the love they never experienced

Read it if: You want one of the most promising starts to an action series you could ask for, with a unique premise and aesthetic
December 20, 2024 at 5:41 AM
#8 - My Girlfriend is Devilishly Sweet, Yatosaki Haru

Fan-Translated, Ongoing

What is it: A woman dates her succubus coworker as she learns about love

Read it if: You want a series that, more than anything, is just delightful and fluffy and sweet, with art to match
December 20, 2024 at 5:41 AM
#9 - Wicked Spot, Sal Jiang

Fan-Translated, Ongoing

What is it: A witch comes down from a mountain, becomes a social media influencer, and gets a dedicated hater

Read it if: You want to see one of the most fun character designers in the space just having obvious fun

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Wicked Spot, by Sal Jiang

From Mangadex: This is a story of modern “witches” who break the curse and live freely and uninhibitedly!

Sada, a modern-day witch, comes down from her isolated mountain and encounters with delight the human world--and a particular online hater of hers
December 20, 2024 at 5:41 AM
#10 - Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon, Shio Usui

Officially Translated, Complete

What is it: Two office coworkers bond over a shared moment, and learn how to grow closer at their own pace

Read it if: You want a lovely, only-slightly-non-traditional, romance including potential ace rep
December 20, 2024 at 5:41 AM
They'll meet other characters too, strange and wonderful, some few travelers left trying to make their own way and seek, maybe, whatever small answers feel meaningful at this moment of utter ending. It is uplifting and beautiful, even shockingly so, for a story that could have been so somber and sad
December 19, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Chito and Yuuri wander ruins so vast that they escape real comprehension, moving ever upwards less because they expect an answer there and more because any tangible goal is a goal worth having, in the yawning absence of civilization.
December 19, 2024 at 8:10 AM
This is a uniquely bleak little manga, heartfelt and contemplative and atmospheric in the best ways even as it seems that the corpse of their world sometimes weighs more heavily on the reader than the characters. There are vignettes and moments here that I think I will remember until the day I die.
December 19, 2024 at 8:10 AM
While the manga does invoke sexuality as well, a potentially extremely uncomfortable subject to portray given that the characters are high school students, it is far from explicit and functions well within their broader relationships of image and guilt and repression.
December 19, 2024 at 7:48 AM
And despite the freedom it brings them both, Naoi and Kurumi's budding relationship is complex in deeply compelling ways, undeniably unhealthy even as they're able to offer each other a freedom and understanding that nobody else ever has.

And it's only gotten more insane chapter-by-chapter too
December 19, 2024 at 7:48 AM
Naoi is happy to drag Kurumi down from her pedestal as class president and perfect student; but it's a descent that Kurumi is more than willing to make soon enough, crushed under the weight of everyone's expectations, which would wash away any glimpse of her real self unless she abandons it.
December 19, 2024 at 7:48 AM
Destroy It All and Love Me in Hell has in the last two years, established itself as one of the current peaks of toxic yuri as a subgenre, and it manages to thread together some of the idea's most compelling elements; there is a thrill to a relationship that, while toxic, grants a certain freedom too
December 19, 2024 at 7:48 AM
And to its credit, beyond an unusual supernatural premise, Wicked Spot has also delivered on more diverse character designs than most manga generally, including maybe any other yuri I've read. And building on Sal Jiang's previous works, it seems that these diverse characters may play larger roles!
December 19, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Sada's sheer delight and *fun* comes through in every panel, a wonderful contrast against the infatuated and serious and occasionally enraged characters she finds herself amongst as she navigates the human world that witch's rules had kept her isolated from
December 19, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Sal Jiang is an absolute treasure of contemporary yuri, and after one-shots and a few office serializations, Wicked Spot provides a chance for her work to be even more wild and playful than it has been before.

Only 4 chapters in, the story is still growing, but the characters are an instant treat
December 19, 2024 at 7:21 AM
It's a beautiful manhwa, surprising and visceral, with art that lets its highs shine spectacularly as it dips in and out of history and myth, without ever alienating a reader unfamiliar with the cultural contexts from which it draws its story and setting.
December 19, 2024 at 7:03 AM