Portrait of Yoiko

[MangaDex]

 

[girlsgirlsgirls]

the art is so beautiful and i love the story!! thank you sm for translating it

 

[DumFck]

this is gold! but c'mon, to fall in love with a ghost, girl, stop it

 

[nickinerdface]

this was amazing!! i loved it. ty for the translation!!

 

[k1rumaaa]

im adding this to my collection

 

[Machaka22]

So one chapter remain untranslated ?

 

[TheOverTaker]

So one chapter remain untranslated ?

6th chapter has been translated, it's just not been uploaded here

 

[konpelto]

wow. what a shit yuri story. as usual, the lesbian suffers and all alone, while doing everything she can to make the bi woman happy who was in love with a man. what a joke. i also saw the credit pages from chapter 6, and needless to say, I'm glad they removed that chapter from MD.

anyway. typical yuri bait and typical lesbian suffering. -10000000/10.

 

[CrowMaiden]

wow. what a shit yuri story. as usual, the lesbian suffers and all alone, while doing everything she can to make the bi woman happy who was in love with a man. what a joke. i also saw the credit pages from chapter 6, and needless to say, I'm glad they removed that chapter from MD.

anyway. typical yuri bait and typical lesbian suffering. -10000000/10.

I'm glad I'm not the only one with a similar opinion. At first I loved it, but later on it felt more like a love story between the Ghost and the painter rather than a Yuri, where Hanna is left to fix everything related to those two so Yoiko can finally rest while she'll be alone once it's over. The translator's message on chapter 3 said that the story was a win for the sapphics, and thus they planned to release chapter 6 on June, during pride month, but this seems like another case of queer baiting more than anything else. Even if it wasn't intentional, there was more chemistry between the painter and yoiko than with Hanna. All Yoiko did with Hanna was comfort her after visiting her parents and that's about it. It felt more like a one sided love from Hanna's part.

 

[LilyPeep]

Great art, decent story, but i genuinely forgot it was supposed to be Yuri until the end. Kind of came out of nowhere, without any real romantic development between the two until afterwards.
The moments we get with the main duo are pretty brief, and most of it is glossed over in a month long time-skip, then the story shifts to exploring the spirit womans previous relationship(?) with another dude for a good chunk of the volume. Wouldn't mind so much but the womans longing attachment to him and his work seems like a much bigger focus of the story and the womans character than anything with the MC. The MC ends ups feeling more like an errand runner in a one-sided romance, although that might be intentional as she even acknowledges the woman tends to seduce people she finds useful.

all in all it feels like the author intended for the series to be much longer than it was, and had to skimp out on developing the main pair.