I debated whether to drop this in the 吸血鬼 thread or here, but I’ve seen some people on Twitter talking about 猫ノ山寧々子はネコになる (not yet on Natively), which appears to be a 猫耳✕吸血鬼 百合 light novel, with art by someone I’ve followed for awhile whose style I really like. Perhaps it could be of interest to someone here?
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I have been reading this yuri VN recently (I’m about 300k characters into it) Fuyukara, Kururu. | vndb
The story has been really good and its an interesting murder mystery game with yuri relationships. The story takes place at an all-girls school (where the girls are eternal) and the mission there is for everyone to become a genius. In order to do that, they go through something they call カーネーション. They age until they’re 18 and then de-age until they’re a newborn and repeat that cycle until they’re qualified as a genius. Once someone deems them a genius, they graduate the school and leave (no one knows what happens to them then). The VN talks about this process being inspired by Hebbian theory.
As for the mystery part, its explained on the vndb page but I’ll spoil it here in case someone is interested and would rather go in blind.
It seems Shihon-chan’s headless body was found in the meditation room.
A murder isn’t unusual, after all, there’s at least one bloodthirsty killer at school.
Murdering people is fine and all but it’s considered a taboo that must be never violated to decapitate and hide their head because one can never be revived if so.
If her head isn’t found within two days, she’ll really kick the bucket!
The game also has a lot of cute/funny CGs. I’m not finished with the story yet but from what I’ve read so far, I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes yuri or murder mysteries
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If anyone ever wanted to dip their toes into some R18 yuri smut, I can recommend https://bookmeter.com/books/12757749 (can’t be added to natively for now. too NSFW. 
). It’s around 36k characters long and so far I am enjoying it. It’s very much NSFW but seems written for women (i.e. not with a male gaze) which I appreciate. The MC is an inexperienced woman in her late 20s who - up until now - has not really fallen in love with anyone or been in a relationship. She visits a beauty salon where one of her former classmates (a ハーフ) works and apparently that classmate has been in love with MC for a while… “shenanigans” ensue from there. 
Language-wise I’d say N3. It’s pretty easy.
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I was digging through my home collection and realised I have nearly a full set of 篠崎さん気をオタクしかに！ which I’m… pretty sure I fumbled my way through when I bought it many years ago. Maybe I can actually read it now? Would be good to log it in any event (have requested it added).
So far just dug up and read my physical copy of あさがおと加瀬さん。 | L19 and have another two of these to go. I think I have a few more Yuri physicals to get through before I have to start ordering them from Japan…
I’m also really hopeful that 気になっている人が男じゃなかった will get some kind of physical, so I can log it.
/edit woo, they announced a tank physical! https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4046817321/
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Stumbled upon 感情図鑑: 社会人百合短編集 | L30?? today and thought someone here might also be interested. 
Finally some adults living adult lives. 
I hope it’s good.
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there’s a 百合 manga/novel discussion thread and I only just now discovered it by coincidence
blasphemy
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let me just add 2 recommendations just in case
this is a 百合 magazine, each volume has a bunch of manga oneshots - so far I onyl have the 1st volume and read some of it and can honestly recommend.
about 2 women working in a bank. they have an extremely antagonistic relationship to the point of violence. I honestly love the characters and the dynamic and can whole heartedly recommend. The whole “secret mean girl and very lesbian about it” vibes are absolutely crazy 
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Galette is an interesting development, because (AIUI) it’s an independent magazine funded on a patreon-style supporter model, so the artists (many of whom have also been commercially published) seem to be more free to do the kinds of story they’re interested in without some of the “this is the kind of plot that sells to our readers” constraints of the commercial yuri magazines.
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Speaking of commercial yuri magazines, I feel like aiming to be able to actually read a full mag of 百合姫 is one of my aims. Maybe all that time I spent lurking dynasty can be put to some use…
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eefara reminded me of this place when liking s comment here and it occurred to me that this artist is a good fit here:
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for anyone interested we opened up a yuri book club!!!
currently seeking nominations 
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@bbo found something you might like while I was looking around bookwalker
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Heads up that book has a rather weird and fetishy vibe (the author/character is very into licking)… so while I don’t know @bbo’s tastes I’m not so sure it will help their lack of faith in yuri LNs 
(I gave up after 51 pgs)
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I keep accidentally creeping closer and closer to that, when I try new series 
I don’t think I’ll fully get there tho, cuz there’s some current YH series I just don’t want to read…
Plot summary reminds me of 女同士とかありえないでしょと言い張る 女の子を、百日間で徹底的に落とす百合のお話, which was a bit trashy and pretty bad with consent. And I found a review for https://www.novelupdates.com/series/story-about-buying-my-classmate-once-a-week/#comment-340750 with similar complaints for 週に一度クラスメイトを買う話.
I really think it might be better to try a non-light novel.
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that definitely makes me feel good about deciding to drop it
I actually don’t like much content from YH at all. I think I’ve only read about one series from YH that I really liked.
Oh? What’s the series of honor?
Their selections are pretty varied, so it can go either way for me
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The one I was thinking of is 徒然日和 | L21 since I own that one physically. I just checked my list to see if any others are from YH, and I also enjoyed 女ともだちと結婚してみた。 | L23 and ロンリーガールに逆らえない | L21, though to a lesser extent.
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Since this thread is active suddenly, does anyone have any yuri light novel recs? The first ever light novel I finished was way above my level, I started a few others but nothing that made me feel super motivated to keep reading. Ideally, I’d want a light novel that’s easy (below level30, maybe even below level25 but that would severely limit my options), but not generic schoolgirl romance. Other than that I’m open to any genre.
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