Looking for light-hearted/cute shoujo-ai
11 years ago
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Well, first of all, darn, people care so much about yaoi here but no one has some love to spare for yuri ):
I've been in the mood for some light-hearted shoujo-ai/yuri (or however you call love between girls with focus on the romance instead of sex, though I don't mind sex at all).
After reading some recommendations here, I've read Girl Friends and I loved it very very much. It was easy to read and yet had moments that really touched me. And it had a lot of things I was looking for on a manga, namely, it was cute and light-hearted, didn't have a dark or heavy atmosphere, it had the protagonists discovering their first love with another girl and the whole process of confusion and acceptance and etc. I also loved the way sex was not thrown at you as fan service but yet was present in a realistic amount.
So, is there any other manga kinda like that? The most important thing to me is to be an easy read but yet touching. I guess that means I want a cute and sweet romance. All the things I've mentioned above would be nice pluses though.
I've read Sasameki Koto and, IMHO, found it annoyingly slow, nothing ever happened at all (and when something finally happened, it ended), though it was funnier than Girl Friends. Then I've read Hanjuku Joshi and found it to be very shallow, with very little character development, so I couldn't feel attached to any character at all. I've also tried some other works by Morinaga Milk and found Himitsu no Recipe to be still quite good, though not as good as Girl Friends. Sadly, it's not completely scanlated nor licensed.
11 years ago
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Kase-san is all about first love where two girls blush and and panic at the sight of each other. Defined as sweet and light
Husky and Medley is my favorite so far. Based on a true story, a high school girl starts a thread on 2ch about a girl in her class who is perfection. The girl took advice from the responders and chronicled what happened when she did. The result is a story famous on 2ch.
yeah this forum is a reflection of the usual...mah broski
11 years ago
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Thank you very much for the suggestions 🙂
I've read Husky and Medley before, it's also a favorite of mine 😀
It's very cute and the fact there's a real story behind it gives a really nice twist to everything.
I'll take a look on Kase-san, looks promising. The art also seems to be very nice.
11 years ago
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11 years ago
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I second Kase-san, and maybe try
11 years ago
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Thank you all for the suggestions 😀
Hana to Hoshi caught my attention the most. Someone also recommended me Strawberry Shake before.
Anyway, I'll read them all and come back to say what I thought about them.
