I LOVE...
How Do We Relationship (付き合ってあげてもいいかな) (Tsukiatte Agetemo Ii Kana) ("Maybe I'll go on a date with you.")

More thoughts forthcoming... but this is a delightful manga that I had to stop reading and squealing about (actually in real life, yeesh) to post somewhere about. I'm almost done with it so I'm dreading that, but it's so... nice.
I suppose it's romance but more and more when I read it that just seems like 'coming of age' for the college years. Which may or may not be interesting to someone. Also if the cover is not obvious, it's about women loving women, or yuri. The main characters are the two girls on the cover but it covers a lot of other relationships of various sexualities and situations... shituationships even. And its very heartwrenching and heartwarming.
It's heartmaxing I guess.

Something about the characters makes them so real... I have to work through why, but they've worked their way into my heart in a way I haven't experienced in manga for a while. I care for them like real people, I'm worried for their mental health. I hope they can get over, hope they can figure it out? When they're hurt, I feel it. Something like that.

Maybe because for a while, despite myself, I've been caught up in fantasy, sci fi, or action type stories, where the stakes always have life on the line? So maybe this change of pace is something I really needed.
I digress. But I'm fighting insomnia and waiting for my sleepy tea to kick in.

I had been waiting for a while to post about this manga. In this moment, I feel like I might just stop reading it for a while to linger on the chapter I just finished haha... the final volume is not released in English yet (though it is available through serialized chapters on Viz's platform) so it's not the end of the world... but I'll probably get hungry for knowledge of 'what happens next' soon. For now I'm in that liminal space of what happened, being the only thing that is happening... until I turn the next page.

Anyway I hope some more people check out this manga :)
Edit: this turned out to be quite a cringe post but it's appropriate.

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How Do We Relationship? Is A Brutal Stumble Toward True Love

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/how-do-we-relationship-yuri-manga-tamifull-viz-media/

Picked up volume 9 of How Do We Relationship. Time for more yuri couple stress.  

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I just finished the first volume of How do we relationship? It's a sweet, but far from saccharine, love story about two college girls in Tokyo trying to figure out how to be together. Definitely tending towards a realistic portrayal rather than something idealised.
Great art, believable characters and an interesting premise in that the whole series basically starts with them already dating.

Highly recommended.
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