Moonlight Flowers - Gekka Bijin

Description

About a woman who leaves her husband for an old friend from school. The story is told in two parts - one from the married woman's point-of-view, and one from the friend's point-of-view.

Also includes Flower Demon (Unscanlated).

Type

Manga

Related Series

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Associated Names

Midnight Flowers

Moonlight Flowers

Moonlight Flowers 月下美人

Groups Scanlating

Lililicious

Latest Release(s)

c.Part B by Lililicious 17 years ago

c.Part A by Lililicious 17 years ago

c.3 by Lililicious 18 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

1 Volume (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 7.8 / 10.0 (99 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.45 / 10.0

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Last Updated

December 6th, 2024 8:08am PST - 5 months ago

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Genre

Drama Mature Romance Yuri
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Original Publisher

Shueisha

Serialized In (magazine)

Office YOU (Shueisha)

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English Publisher

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Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #772

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Monthly Pos #1717

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3 Month Pos #2262

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6 Month Pos #4545

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Year Pos #7331

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List Stats

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On 115 wish lists

On 249 completed lists

On 9 unfinished lists

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Moonlight Flowers

by akari_mizunashi
15 years ago

Rating: 9.5 / 10.0

Love at girls' schools has long been an entirely noncontroversial staple of girls' fiction in Japan for one reason: the accepted idea that such affection was a phase that would be grown out of after entering the mixed-gender world. Moonlight Flowers reads as a sequel to all those innocent girls' school romances, a sequel where the women don't shed their "fake love" and are forced to learn what Japanese society really thinks of lesbianism. It's yearning and feminist and beautiful.

That said, because it is 1980s Japanese feminist, man-hating sentiment runs thick in this manga. Men are described as wanting nothing more than to completely dominate women, which is why they hate lesbians, who have no need for men. However accurate this is for the time and place, it does give a slight unpleasant flavor to what would have otherwise been a perfect josei yuri.

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Kaoru with her short hair

by tekiteki
12 years ago

Rating: 7.9 / 10.0

The only thing i really liked in this manga was Kaoru with her short hair : P Gorgeous! Resembles the badass main heroine from Hana no Asuka-gumi in the grown-up stage. What turned me off was that lesbians in this story were depicted as women who hate men, always feel pain and even want to puke while having sex with men (who are normal, not abusive, at least at first ^^). I admit, that for homosexuals sex with an opposite gender might be unpleasant, but pain and puke ^^? It looks like a bad cliche for me. And all those pathetic feminist talks, which would be ok, if they were put in a more elegant way)). I also found the main heroines to have rather boring personalities (except maybe Kaoru-san ^^).

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