inspired by @perplexingly's yuri recs, here are some yuri titles that i've enjoyed lately!
Yuki and the Authoress - a romance between a dreamy cafe waitress and a beautiful authoress in the Taishou-era. Super gorgeous art, with a sensual, romantic story at the center of it. The characters are so cute, and at fourteen chapters it's a quick and sweet read!
Collectors - established relationship oneshots between a woman who loves collecting books and her girlfriend, a woman who loves collecting clothes. This is just really cute and feel-good, and it's lovely to have a mature established relationship where they have to navigate the complexities of having a partner as passionate as you, but about a subject absolutely foreign to you.
Itsuwari no Marigold - a girl travels to visit her brother's lover, who she had never met before, to inform her of his passing. And to kill her, if she finds out that the girl had been using her brother. Upon meeting the girl, who she finds is blind, the FL's guilt leads her to pretend to be her brother/the girl's lover. Incredible psychological yuri with some truly fucked-up characters (/affectionate).
Pink Ribbon - a quick manhwa about a lolita seamstress who really wants a local butch jock to try on some of her creations, and the butch who is slowly realizing how much she loves her. Super adorable style!
Soulmate - A 27-year old woman switches bodies with her 17-year old self, meeting of them meeting their future/past lover for the first time. Despite the premise, it's a pretty sweet, low-stakes story, mostly about two people choosing to fall for each other over and over again.
Qualia the Purple - look. I love Qualia the Purple. I will never stop loving Qualia the Purple. I will not spoil Qualia the Purple for you. It's like if Madoka Magica swallowed fifteen books on astrophysics and merged with Serial Experiments Lain. MC defies time and space to save the girl she loves, at any cost.
she is beautiful - another fucked-up sci-fi yuri! This time, a girl raised in an enclosed, sterile facility falls asleep on her 10th birthday only to wake up and find that 14 years have passed. Her childhood friend, now grown, tells her that they're married now, and she has a disease that has made her lose her memories. As time goes on, she finds that the situation is far more strange and horrifying than that.
Akuyaku Reijou no Oyome-sama - I love a good villainess manga, and this one is just. Gorgeous. An ostracized lady is cast into snowy mountains, where she meets a wolf-girl who falls for her at first sight. She agrees to marry her in order to gain revenge on those who turned their backs on her, including her ex-fiance the prince, and her sister who he's marrying. Lesbian revenge plot with complicated relationships yay!
Urasekai Picnic - ending with another favorite! Two women find themselves exploring doors to 'other worlds,' one to look for her lost friend and the other out of curiosity and a growing devotion to her partner. Incredible horror and weird settings, grounded in creepypasta and r/nosleep story-esque mythology. The light novels are also incredible and absolutely worth reading if you want to get ahead of this slow-burn!
The Wind Spell - a beautiful oneshot about a girl in a superstitious village who meets a mermaid, and is forever changed for it. For the monsterfucker lovers! The art in this is genuinely some of the most breathtaking shit you've ever seen.
