I get asked a lot what series I recommend. People tell me I have impeccable taste, and love to hear what I think about things. You're all correct, my taste is incredible and I have only the best most nuanced opinions. Instead of writing up a bespoke list of suggestions for everyone who asks on bsky I'm just going to dump a whole bunch of stuff here.

The most important caveat here is that things that I like are not always good. Keep that in mind.

Himegoto - 19sai no Seifuku by Minenami Ryo

A tomboy-type is caught between a girl who sees her as a Man Who Won't Assault Her and a trans girl who sees her as A Type Of Egg (Cis). This is one of the all-time greats, honestly. It is so chock full of difficult gender feelings and it is going to hurt you.

Kaito is a trans woman who models herself after her favorite girl at college, Mikako. Yuki is a cis woman whose tomboy presentation catches Mikako's attention, seeing Yuki as a type of man who would never get violent with her. I love all three of these women for being so messy and earnest.

This is a no-caveat suggestion for Himegoto. If you like anything I've read or anything I've written, you should check out Himegoto.

Black and White by Sal Jiang

I love Sal Jiang, and the way that Sal Jiang writes women, so while this is specifically a recommendation for Black & White, also check out her other works and especially some of her one-shots. I've come to understand this love for her work isn't so universal but that's okay. Conflict and friction between characters is good, and she's especially good at weaving that with all the correct parts of common communication failures.

Black & White is very conflict-forward and opens swinging.

Junko Shirakawa and Kayo Kuroda are some of my favorite fucked up girls ever. Junko is full of incredible faces and Kayo is the leader of the of the "I thought we were flirting" branch of after-hours fight club.

This is also, of course a recommendation for Sal Jiang's other work.

• Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko! by Sal Jiang
• Tamao & Nobu by Sal Jiang

My Girlfriend's Not Here Today by Iwami Kiyoko

Gods, what do I even say about it. The art is beautiful. Iwami Kiyoko has cooked up some of the most toxic girls of all time and put them in a horrible knot of relationships. It's NTR gold. I adore Yuni, dumb and gullible and so desperate for any sort of affection. And Fuuko, playing all the same tricks on Yuni that were played on her, hoping that she can finally find someone who will want her. Yuni is absolute scum, and Fuuko is even worse, and somehow they're the most real couple in this mess.

I understand NTR isn't for everyone, but I think it's particularly fun to read because it shortcuts a lot of powerful and volatile emotions. And few have hit better than this one, you know?

It's a Detached Relationship by FLOWERCHILD

Okay. Here's where we get into my personal tastes. FLOWERCHILD is one of the mangaka that writes things just for me. Put a young woman in the arms of a dangerous older woman and watch me go insane. I go feral for student-teacher stuff, especially if the teacher is a pathetic loser.

Sei is a fucking loser and a creep but smart enough to keep giving Aya one more reason, one more little promise or obligation, to come back and resolve. Bring back my shirt. Here's a key, you can return it if you don't want it. You have the sort of dependable personality, I bet you can't turn anyone down who asks. I can just text you I wanna go home. a dozen times and you'll come running because you can't help yourself.

A Face You Shouldn't Show by FLOWERCHILD

In almost the exact same vein, FLOWERCHILD has also been knocking it out of the park with A Face You Shouldn't Show. This one is currently running, and is about Misa, an expensive host and secret lesbian preying on (cough) I mean falling in love with a younger fashion model and actress, Io.

It's A Detached Relationship and A Face You Shouldn't Show both open up with sexual assaults so consider that a filter for what you're getting yourself into.

Dumb Mutt Girlfriend by Kuwabara Tamotsu

I'm largely a fan of Kuwabara's work. By which I mean, Kuwabara can do no wrong. Dumb Mutt Girlfriend is a "revenge" romcom that has Kuwabara's toxic little barbs all over it.

I love pet play. I love dogs. I love how Dumb Mutt Girlfriend runs right into the silliest parts of pet play while still having space for actual kink and relationship conversations, awkward learning moments, and of course lots of lesbian trauma! Yay!

This is also a broad recommendation for everything Kuwabara has written:

• Destroy It All and Love Me in Hell!
• What Was I Just Thinking?
• Dazzling, Dizzying Trash
• TANKOBU
• Wonderful Life by Kuwabara Tamotsu and Shasendou Yuuki

I Don't Know Which is Love by Oku Tamamushi

This is really where I have to make my stand that not everything I love is high art. This is a yuri harem series that is light-hearted and fun. Soraike Mei is a charming girl running toward every woman in sight and making every single one of them fall for her without fail. I lovingly call it "five senses perverts" because each of the competing harem members have a fetish for one specific sense (sight, touch, taste, hearing, scent).

This girl has half a brain cell at any given time and it is wholly dedicated to thinking sexual thoughts about every woman she interacts with, in a very wholesome way. I'm personally deeply, deeply invested in scent pervert because I will argue that she is the most fully-rounded person of all of the girls with interests and ambitions beyond satisfying her specific fetish. She will win, I am not coping, they're bringing her back and she's got a fighting chance I'm dead serious on this. She'll fucking win. It's not cope.

YOU CAN DO IT, SCENT PERVERT! YOU CAN STILL WIN!

Harem series are really interesting because they live and die on how well they can get you invested in the competition. If you aren't going to commit to a polyamorous ending, then you need to give readers a girl to root for and the feeling that they've got a real chance. They're fun series but not especially serious you know? Here's some other harem series I recommend:

• The Death Defying Princess Creates a Yuri Harem to Survive by Yuji Nakamura
• Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels! by Itsuki Kuro
• Girls x Vampire by Mikami Teren, Chigusa Minori

Virgins' Empire by Kishi Torajirou

Also known as Otome no Teikoku. I don't know how to really describe this one. It's a monolithic work, 500+ chapters long, and it ended one day and that was it. It ended on a silly slice-of-life chapter like the rest of it. A set up, a punchline, and nary a goodbye.

It really is so difficult to talk about because of it's sheer size. A classroom full of girls at an all-girls school, having various relationships and problems and interests. The art style starts out a little rough for my tastes, but settles into something much more readable by the fourth or fifth book. I'm so invested in these girls and some of their stories make me cry.

If you ever want to just sink time into something and get too invested to see it ever finish, this is it.

Hand Jumper

Alright. Love Thy Neighbor was great but I had some general issues with the kind of whitespace that webtoons and those kinds of long-strip comics have that are meant to be read on a phone. Hand Jumper really stood out to me, especially after it got into season 2 (around 60 chapters) where the art just takes such a steep jump in quality and every single moment was fantastic.

It's a little like JJK, a little like After God. There are abberations and gods in the world that can only be slain by people with similar powers. Saeyon's power lets her go back in time 20 seconds. As we all know, girls can be trusted with time travel.

I know it's a lot to ask to put up with something for 60 chapters. But I don't think the story is bad, because it sucked me in that I read 150 of the available chapters in a day. But how do I tell you what it's about? I guess I should start by saying it's also not yuri. You are not going to get Saeyon and Ryujin going knuckle-deep hate-fucking each other, even though they clearly want to. It's shounen battle slop featuring some of the coolest and most unhinged women I've seen in a minute and I adore them. I don't know, trust me. Read it. Make it to season 2 and then try to tell me you don't adore Saeyon's descent into time-madness.

Murciélago by Yoshimura Kana

They're gonna put this shit on television for real. I cannot fucking wait for the insane discourse about our lesbian rapist predator groomer queen Kuroko Koumori. I love it to pieces I couldn't not mention it. If you haven't read it, you need to.

I've been buying up physical copies but there's like over 30 of them and it's still going and the story just keeps escalating and she keeps finding new ways to be a creepy pervert and I adore her so much. You will too. I was also really selective with the stuff in the gallery above so, yeah. It's gory, sexy, it's just kinda doing whatever it wants and that's wonderful.

That's a bunch of them already!

But I've got some more lists of just kinda general ones that I suggest, lightly grouped by vibes.

Teacher-Fucker Runners-Up

Alright I've also got a list of other things that I wanna suggest in the same category as It's A Detached Relationship because this dynamic really does make me go crazy. I love fucked up power dynamics like this, I really really do. These aren't ranked, I'm just listing them as I think of them.

• All My Sadism, Just for You by Nanatsu Fuji
• A Story About a Married Teacher Who Becomes Obsessed with Her Female Student by Iruma Hitoma, Kawakami Shion
• I Went to a Lesbian Brothel and My Teacher Was There by Pandacorya
• Can You Honestly Call This Haze 'Love'? by Suzume Hattori
• A Bookmark For You by Tsuke
• Hey, Sensei by nmi

If I forgot any, I'm sorry. My organization system is very poor and I have a terrible memory.

Toxic Yuri Runners-Up

Various just toxic yuri. Nothing that calls to a particular category. Just women in relationships or not in relationships being generally bad to each other in a way I enjoyed.

• Two Birds in the Bush by Yuni
• An Undesirable Relationship by tmfly
• If I Could Become Your Drug by Suzuki Senpai
• I Like You Because You Bully Me by Hanasaki Manio
• Fatale Game by Battan

Various Girl-Perverts Runners-up

This is just girls being perverts. Not particularly sleazy, but just girls with particular tastes and interests. Camera fetishists, bullying fetishists.

• Reshooting the Afterglow by Wakadori Nikomi
• Secret Shot by Hijiki
• Exposing the Depths of Her Perversions by Yuino Chiri
• Bullying and Being Bullied by Chida Daisuke
• The Sound of Her Voice by Flowerchild
• Witches and Cigarettes by Shibata Kouhei
• A Couple Drifting in the Wind by Puebro
• Our "Love" is Disgusting by Usui Shio
• Gushing over Magical Girls by Ononaka Akihiro
• Satsujin Gokko by Yuino Chiri

I just like these ones

These ones are just series that I like that don't particularly fall into other categories.

• After God by Sumi Eno
• Majo Taisen by Kawamoto Homura (the Kakegurui guy)
• This Monster Wants to Eat Me by Naekawa Sai
• A Story About Buying a Classmate Once a Week: 5,000 Yen for an Excuse to Spend Time Together by Haneda Usa, Migihara
• Lilies Complex by Tateyama Keita
• Con Cafe Jou wa Koi wo Kiru by Uhana Ririka
• Oshi to no Yuri wa Arienai! by Hinosaka Aki
• Qualia the Purple by Ueo Hisamitsu
• What Does the Poisonous Butterfly Dream of? by Karasu Piero, Mimishiki
• 1 x ½: My Half of You by Taiyaki
• How Do We Relationship? by tmfly