LotteMakesStuff

Hi im Lotte and i make stuff.

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saralily
@saralily

Trying this out based on @LotteMakesStuff's awesome weekly list, and her encouragement!

Pretty much everything I read was about interpersonal communication and knowing what you want. The interesting part is when the line between those things blurs, where it's not outside norms or conventions being read in and internalized from without, but when we really don't know what we want, or what we can even have. None of these really scratched my itch for this kind of thing in a lasting way, but some got pretty close.


Hungry for You vols 1-2

This is a very silly manga that revolves around four idiots, all students. One is a vampire, one is her source of blood, one is a girl who loathes the vampire, so she hires the last, an American vampire hunter. The story revolves around their antics. The scenes between the generous blood source girl and the vampire are sweet and veer towards sultry, but this is not a work that takes itself seriously or has its characters behave earnestly.

I haven't really been into this kind of thing lately; I find it kind of tiresome when irony or gratuitous fan service without a foundation to stand on become the main thrust of the story. It's kind of fun, but a few times I found myself opening the volume, reading a page, and realizing that this is not what I want at all right now, and putting it away. It's well-illustrated and goofy, so if you're after that, it's good at that!

It's so, so different from some of Flowerchild's other work, like Warikitta Kankei Desu Kara.

The Forbidden Peach

This is a story about four women that revolves around a lesbian brothel. It's psychological, drawing tension between a woman who goes to a brothel and has her first sexual encounter. Later as her job as a professor/TA/postdoc(?), she discovers the girl she spent the night with is a new undergraduate research assistant in her lab. Much of the story is presented through recollections or flashbacks that show compressed versions of past parts of the story, quite literally compressed in the panels. It's a long continuous strip, which is a format I've never really seen before; there's very little white space or breaks between scenes or depictions.

I really enjoyed this one. It's sultry and hot and has an earnest interiority. It flounders a little bit towards the end, where it seems rushed in a moment of tension, but it's worth reading through to the end.

Sora & Hena

This is a really sweet story about two girls who slowly become friends and realize they're into girls and into each other. It also highlights the relationships between their friends, which complement their story well. It's incredibly earnest and gentle and sweet. There are some parts that just do not make sense and don't reflect how any person capable of empathy would behave, but that's mostly one arc that's over quickly.

I think the side stories at the end between Ah-Young and Jae-In are the most interesting part. Their relationship is much more nuanced and layered.

Re-Blooming

A very intriguing series with a somewhat predictable twist that ends mid-arc because the author and publisher put it on "infinite hiatus." Tapas would not refund my "ink" I spent on this. They describe it as completed. Don't bother.

A Witch's Love at the End of the World

An interesting love story set in a witch academy between a destined, high-borne witch and a half-human. Sort of vaguely yuri. It's a sweet depiction of love blooming between a very autistic girl and an aloof and alienated girl, but turns into a different kind of thing with a different tone halfway through. There are some really good scenes, but this is more of an adventure fantasy story than yuri. (I am not of the Miyazawa school.)

Sheep Princess in Wolf's Clothing

Cute love story of a wolf butler and her sheep princess. Sincere and straightforward, very cute.

Relationship Guidelines

A beautiful mess of what it means to be in love with your best friend from childhood, and how hard it is to learn how to communicate what you want and what you need from other people. The vortex made by these two sweeps in other people into the relationship, and into their own relationships, and really sits with the mess. I liked this a lot.

Yuri Is My Job vols 9-11

This is such a soap opera of a work. Each subsequent volume focuses less and less on in-character scenes and more on the lives of the women who work in the cafe and how they interact and collide. These later volumes don't have fluff or many tropes; it's all interpersonal drama about communicating needs and desires, and about learning those things about yourself.


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in reply to @saralily's post:

I absolutely love the Ah-young / Jae-in side story; it's by far my favorite part of the Sora and Haena webcomic, in large part because Ah-young and Jae-in are such worthy opponents for each other. To be honest, if it weren't for wanting to know their backstory, I'd recommend people skip the main webcomic and just read their side story.

!! You did it!
I’m glad you liked The Forbidden Peach, for the most part I think it’s an incredible piece of work, but I know we’ve hatred about that before heh.

Sheep Princess in Wolf's Clothing Is getting an English release later this year and I’m super looking forward to picking it up and reading that again. Like you said it’s very straightforward but it’s got a real heart to it and the art is so fluffy and light. It’s a good one.