first recommendation! who does the big honor go to???
"My Girlfriend's Not Here Today" aka 今日はカノジョがいないから featured in yurihime monthly (get used to that lol)
links to support: english localization by seven seas || original japanese on bookwalker (volume 1)- angst
- love triangle featuring cheating
- big boobs
- a girl who is weird and messed up and like a chungie lesbian version of griffith berserk
check it out if you are interested in:
to go a bit further into detail (a bit, bea! a bit! just a bit! *sobbing*) asahina yuni is in a relationship with her gf nanase but they both have decided to keep it a secret from their friends. yuni wants to spend more time with nanase but getting in the way of that are nanase's commitments in the volleyball club and the aforementioned "not letting anyone find out they're together"
the love triangle gets its start when yuni is waiting outside for nanase's club to finish up so they can go hang out, when she bumps into her classmate fuuko reading on the stairs. the two don't really hit it off (from memory. i first started reading this like two years ago haha) fuuko mostly seems really weird and disconnected. a line that stuck with me of hers was "humans just can't be as selfish as caterpillar fungus." what a good introduction to a character. anyways this was supposed to be the brief introduction haha. you see why this is the first rec.
but anyways the love triangle consists of
- yuni, who wants to be with nanase and copes with it by getting it on with fuuko. she literally doesn't like fuuko. but she enjoys having someone actually want to spend time with her. someone who will put her above everything else.
- nanase, who wants to be with yuni, but is worried about their relationship being publicly known because she had a bad experience in a past relationship where her friend got bullied just because people thought she was gay with her. so she's understandably worried.
- and fuuko, bringing her own can of personal issues between the two. she doesn't have any plans to be the only girl for yuni. she says something like "there's countless stars in the sky but only one moon." and so she says that she's fine if yuni wants to stay with her gf at the same time. she doesn't need to be the one and only. her actions at times do make it seem like she really likes to stir things up and make things hard for yuni. but i think she does really care about her. she's just messed up. don't tell me i'm projecting. anyways she's not normal and she looks like a chungie lesbian version of griffith from berserk so i love her.
bottom line! what i like about the series Personally is the love triangle and the drama. i connect with it because i feel like i've been in a love triangle similar to this (i am fine and good now don't worry lol). especially around the time i started reading it i really felt like i could relate to yuni. i feel like i get how yuni feels a lot of the time. when she's doing something she probably shouldn't i can understand why. and i really want her to be ok in the end, no matter what else. and really i want to know what is going to happen to the yuni, fuuko and nanase. i wanna know if they end up happy. i wanna know if they can end up happy. but besides that, i'm really interested in the little change in dynamic that happens in the most recent arc. it's caught me off guard and i really don't know how things are going to be going forward. it's awesome. i would like to write more about the series and what i like about it and what makes it really special. i'd do so right now, but i've been reading each chapter as they release in yurihime monthly (in japanese. this was actually the first manga i decided to commit to reading fully in japanese!) so i don't have the best recollection of earlier parts of the story. a lot of the introduction to these characters happened, for me, like two years ago haha.