Hirari, Special Issue Club Life Anthology After School 1 / ひらり、別冊 部活女子アンソロジー ほうかご! 1

Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture

Presenting a fresh examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book breaks new ground in its investigation of love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early to mid-twentieth century. As a literary and cultural history of love and female identity, Becoming Modern Women focuses on same-sex love, love marriage, and maternal love—new terms at that time; in doing so, it shows how the idea of “woman,” within the context of a vibrant print culture, was constructed through the modern experience of love.

Love Gene Double XX 2 / 恋愛遺伝子XX 2

Koshiro Aoi has come to the toppest of all the top schools to take her revenge on the Kokonoe family for the insult done to her mother, but instead falls in love with a scion of the Kokonoe family, Sakura.

Love Gene Double XX 1 / 恋愛遺伝子XX 1

All the men of the world have died and women have rebuilt society along a new version of gendered lines. There are ADAMs, and there are EVEs. ADAMs are given the privilege associated with male roles and EVEs are the women of the world.  The story follows the arrival of Koshiro Aoi at the extremely elite school of Kingdom, her subsequent run-ins with the elite of the school and how she infiltrates the school leadership in order to take it down from within.

Inferno Girl / インフェルノガール

Kurokiri Misao’s Inferno Girl (インフェルノガール) is a collection of her Comic Yuri Hime shorts. It has no defining theme or factors, but has a few notable selections.

Vespa

A soldier in a snowy country fights for a sadistic princess and fights off a besotted superior officer.

Yurikago no Otometachi / ゆりかごの乙女たち

In a girls’ school in Taisho Japan, by chance, Tamaki meets Yukiko, another girl in the same year as she and they hit it off as friends. As their feelings deepen, circumstances threaten to pull them apart. Is this ‘S’ or is it more?

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“S(エス)”とは…、心の在り処をどこに定めるかということ。
特別な彼女(ひと)のこと。

時は大正。高等女学校では、上級生と下級生が特別な関係を結ぶ「S」が流行中。
開校以来の才媛・環と軍人の令嬢・雪子は、「S」とは異なる普通の友情を育んでいたはず、だけど――?

 

 

 

Itazura Choucho 3 / 悪戯ちょうちょ 3

As the big competition approaches, Nanoha is unable to sing at all, and Sakura has been playing piano at a wine bar to get past the stress of performing in front of an audience.

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この気持ちが、音で伝わればいいのにと思ってた――…。
「ともだち」としてではなく好きなんだ、となのはに伝えたさくら。
その想いに触れて、なのはもまたさくらを意識し始める。
少しずつお互いの距離を縮めていく二人だったが、コンクールを前にさくらは大きな壁にぶつかることになる…。

Itazura Choucho 1 / 悪戯ちょうちょ 1

Sakura has a contentious relationship with the piano she plays, although she needs to play, like other people need to eat, she cannot just relax and play. Luckily for her, Nanoha adores the way she dominates the piano, and finds beauty in Sakura’s art.

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好きな物はピアノ。それと…あの子。凛々しい容姿とは裏腹に情熱的な内面を持つさくら。ピアノにかける激しすぎる熱意を胸に、伝統ある音楽の名門女子校へ進学。そこには、さくらが幼少期から「特別な想い」を抱く幼馴染、なのはもいた。音楽を通じ深まっていく二人の絆、同時に焦がれる程に強くなるさくらの想い。儚く、そして切な過ぎる恋心とピアノへの情熱が今溢れ出す――。音楽の園で二人の少女が奏でる幻想的で情熱的な「究極の片想い」物語。