Wasurenagusa /わすれなぐさ

Wasurenagusa /わすれなぐさ

The three main characters are Makiko, who is the ordinary girl, Kazue, who is the quiet and responsible girl, and Youko, who is the spoiled rich girl. Each of them also has family issues they must resolve before the book ends.

Paris-Tokyo Complete Edition / 完全復刻版 パリ‐東京・さくら並木 (JP)

The Complete Collection of Takahashi Makoto’s trendy “modern girl” stories, with a mixture of captioned art and manga. Set in girls’ schools, following the ins and outs of girls’ relationships, these two titles were significant trendsetters for later girls’ manga.

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抒情画の巨匠・高橋真琴の少女漫画を初復刻!パリ、バレエ、女学生の友愛…半世紀前に、乙女の憧れを華麗に描き、少女漫画の原型を作った幻の名作。

Otome no Minato / 乙女の港 (JP)

Michiko is a first-year middle-school student in Catholic school in Yokohama, a large port town. She develops an ‘S’ relationship with a second-year high school student, Youko. Youko has a troubled past that makes her the target for some unkindness from the other girls, but is herself a beautiful, smart and accomplished young woman. She and Michiko become close over spring, into summer, in slow, relaxing days walking the harbor town or spending time together on Youko’s father’s farm. A first-year high school student, Katsuko, sets her sights on Michiko and tries, through rather unsubtle means, to separate her from Youko.

舞台は昭和初期、横浜のミッションスクール。新入生の三千子に、ふたりの上級生から手紙が届く。品よく儚げな洋子と、負けず嫌いで勝気な克子。ふたりの間で揺れ動く三千子だが―昭和12年、伝説の雑誌「少女の友」に連載された本作は一大ブームを巻き起こした。少女時代特有の愛と夢、憧れとときめきに満ち満ちた、永遠の名作。雑誌初出時の中原淳一の挿絵を全点収録。

Yaneura no Nishojo / 屋根裏の二処女 (JP)

In Yoshiya Nobuko’s historic novel, Akiko enters the Young Women’s Association school as a naive somewhat timid young lady. Her time in the attic room with Akitsu changes her forever. This book established tropes used in Yuri for decades to come.

Honey & Honey / ハニー&ハニー (JP)

This book was designed to explain lesbian and sexual minority life to straight women, with gentle humor. Everything from “how did you know you were lesbian?” to breaking up, from debunking “all lesbians were abused by men” to dating basics. Sachiko (neko) and her girlfriend Masako (tachi) go out together to buy underwear and have dinner and face confusion, derision and misunderstandings from friends and family, as well as find support, love and community.

Yuri no Real / 百合のリアル (JP)

Makimura Asako is a former Miss Japan finalist who is an out lesbian. She is married to a women from France and works as entertainer (a “talent”.) To answer a lot of questions she gets about being gay and about LGBTQ people, life and sex, she has written a book called Yuri no Real (百合のレアル), or, as we might say it, “Real Yuri.”

game (JP)

Moriko is facinated by the foreign student in class, Becky. Becky’s smart, attractive…she’s shiny. And when she really gets a good long look at Moriko, she sees a strong resemblance to a character she really likes in a series of h-games.

This is a Japanese-language book.

Lesbian-teki Kekkon Seikatsu / レズビアン的結婚生活 (JP)

In spring 2013, Higashi Koyuki and Masahara Hiroko made waves all around the world with the first ever same-sex wedding ceremony at Tokyo Disneyland Resort (TDR). The two are both activists and writers, and their story was widely shared around the Internet and in print publications.

Lesbian-teki Kekkon Seikatsu (レズビアン的結婚生活 ) is the manga retelling of their story.

Coming Out Letters / カミングアウト・レターズ (JP)

Coming Out Letters (カミングアウト・レターズ)、edited by Sunagawa Hideki and RYOJI, is a collection of correspondences between gays/lesbians and their parents or teachers and the responses. Chapters begin with the lesbian or gay person writing about the circumstances in which they came out to their parent or teacher – about aborted attempts, fears, and consequences

Couleur de bijoux d’amour /宝石色の恋 西UKO作品集

Couleur de bijoux d’amour (宝石の恋) is a collection of non-Collectors stories from Rakuen Le Paradis magazine, augmented by 2 online comics for Rakuen Le Paradis and an original doujinshi story by Nishi UKO.

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社会人ガールズラブの最高峰「コレクターズ」(第1巻好評発売中)で大人気の作者待望の作品集。
「楽園」本誌&web増刊掲載作品を中心に構成されたオトナの女性同士の恋愛模様。
読み応えに満ちた一冊。

Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls’ Culture in Japan (EN)

Deborah Shamoon’s Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls’ Culture in Japan traces the development of girls’ literature and, eventually, Shoujo manga from the end of the 19th century through the 1970’s, with particular attention to the girls’ magazines of the 1930’s, the Magnificent 49-ers and the birth of Shoujo, Josei and BL manga.

Maria-sama ga Miteru 3 – Ibara no Mori / マリア様がみてる―いばらの森 (JP)

A brand new novel has become a hit among the students of Lillian Academy. Yumi hears rumors that it may be the autobiographical tragic love tale of Rosa Gigantea, Satuo Sei. The rumors fly as Yumi is drawn into an old story, and a new one.

期末試験で落ち着かない学園に、驚くべき噂が流れた。リリアン女学園をモデルにしたと思われる自伝的小説が出版され、しかもその作者が白薔薇(ロサ・ギガンティア)さまだというのである!小説の内容が二人の少女の禁断の恋を描いたものであることも加わって、学園は大騒ぎ。白薔薇さまの過去はタブーとなっていて、事情を知っている人もみんな口をつぐんでいた。祐巳と由乃は、真相の解明に乗り出したが…。

Book Girl and the Famished Spirit (EN)

Each one of the Book Girl Light Novels is steeped in the idea of “Books.” A book – a classic of literature, whether Japanese or Western – runs through and intertwines with the plot of the story, almost as another character. Anyone even remotely familiar with the “book” will immediately gain hints as to the backstory of the plot, but Nomura doesn't make it that easy, even if you have read “the book.” She throws book McGuffins into the plot.

Miniskirt Space Pirates 3 / ミニスカ宇宙海賊3 コスプレ見習海賊 (JP)

The professional crew of the Bentenmaru have come down with an influenza-like disease carried by improperly shipped cat-monkeys. This would be merely an inconvenience, but the Bentenmaru's Letter of Marque can only be maintained if the ship is properly hired to conduct piracy within a certain period of time. The crew is quarantined for a month, but the ship needs to do something within the next two weeks.

Miniskirt Pirates Volume 2 /ミニスカ宇宙海賊2 黄金の幽霊船 (JP)

Miniskirt Space Pirates, Volume 2 Ougon no Yureisen (ミニスカ宇宙海賊 2 黄金の幽霊船) opens with a stowaway on the Bentenmaru and ends with two transfer students into Hakuoh Academy’s Yacht Club. In between is a centuries-old mystery, a gene bank in the form of a golden spaceship, and several space battles, all of which make for a rollicking tale of intrigue and space piracy.

Miniskirt Pirates Volume 1 / ミニスカ宇宙海賊1 (JP)

Marika is a normal high school student – or so she thinks, until she learns that her father was a famous Space Pirate. Now, called upon to step into her father's shoes, she will have to become one of the greatest pirates of all time. With the help of her crew and the school Yacht Club Captain Marika will learn to enjoy “Pirating time”.

Kanoe-san no Hidari Te / 鹿乃江さんの左手 (JP)

At Daishima girl’s school, there is a rumor that a witch will appear if a girl has a sincere enough wish. Once you’ve sealed the contract with a kiss (which does not have to be on the lips) your wish will be granted. And, as we learn in three unrelated scenarios, this rumor is absolutely true.