Shiro Gal to Kuro Gal no Yuuwaku

[akarina_123]

Everyone and their mothers know that watching Citrus isn't the best way to enjoy it. I watched the anime and couldn't even bear it. The manga was way better. It's not the god of all Yuri mangas, but I'm not going to lie that it was highly influential on me and many other Yuri fans. In fact, it popularized Yuri to a certain degree.

However, I didn't read this manga because I didn't like the concept of it. Although, it didn't contain what you called "the big theee problems that commenly plague Yuri" you forgot that this series has one of THE BIGGEST flaws of all time in Yuri. And that, what this person said:

Usually Yuri with a guy as the MC and center always goes wrong. The only Yuri I've seen with a guy as the MC or center that hadn't gone wrong is "I'll Cheer On My Yuri Onee-Chan" by Aoto Hibiki. And I'm not going to go further than this, because I will definitely trigger certain people, but this manga is borderline sapphic fetishization where the guy is definitely for the sake of self-insert.

wow this is an old comment, but yes i agree! i dont get why a YURI work has to center a male character anyway. the point is that yuri is about romance between two girls so it stands to reason that the main character should be a girl. whenever (other than the example you provided) a male MC is made the focus in a yuri, it always ends up in either a throuple or a case like this. ie, it ends up as absolute trash in both cases. i dont see how any yuri fan could enjoy such a work

 

[akarina_123]

It's good. Definitely not fantastic, but definitely good. If nothing else, it deserves huge credit for avoiding the three big problems that commonly plague yuri works¹.

Admittedly, there is not much romantic progression here. (As a matter of fact, we don't even have definitive proof that their sexual orientations are compatible.) I'm personally fine with this, other readers were very much not. It is cute, likeable, and funny, and that for me is enough.

¹ Namely:

1. All males are absent/negligent/abusive
2. All females are homosexual
3. A yuri relationship must never be considered abusive regardless of how many red flags there are.

This has none of those, while abominations like eg Shitrus have all 3.

i fucking despise the citrus anime but even that was better than this lmao what the hell are u on about