School settings are a cornerstone of yuri manga. First crushes in the classroom, confessions under cherry blossoms, and relationships that define formative years.

Yuzuko Aihara, a high school girl whose main interests are fashion, friends and having fun, is about to get a reality check. Due to her mom's remarriage, Yuzu has transferred to a new, all-girls school that is extremely strict. Her real education is about to begin. From day one, happy-go-lucky Yuzu makes enemies, namely the beautiful yet stern student council president Mei. So what happens when a dejected Yuzu returns home and discovers the shock of her life: that Mei is actually her new step-sister who has come to live with her? Even more surprising, when Mei catches Yuzu off-guard and kisses her out of the blue, what does it all mean?

Yuu has just begun her first year in high school but has still not yet responded to a middle school graduation confession by a boy who she has always liked, but whose confession did not excite her. Yuu loves shoujo manga and she knew how confessions were supposed to feel, but she didn't feel it and she has not found a way to respond to him in months. Yuu then sees Nanami the student council president turning down a confession very thoughtfully. Yuu later discovers that Nanami has never accepted a confession because none made her feel something. Inspired by Nanami's honesty and their likemindedness, Yuu consults Nanami, but after helping her, Nanami confesses to Yuu!?

Saki Kindaichi is hurrying to a piano lesson under heavy rain when she collides with a classmate at the doorway and realizes the girl in front of her is deaf. The Moon on a Rainy Night by Kuzushiro is a quiet masterpiece of Japanese yuri manga, an aching first-love arc between Saki and Kanon Sugumori told in soft black and white, with sign language as a love language and silence as the heaviest thing on the page. Patient, restrained, and one of the most acclaimed yuri manga of the 2020s.

Two rival alchemists clash in a high-stakes competition where poison and passion intertwine in the immortal world.

ぜんぶ壊して地獄で愛して. Yoshizawa Kurumi is the student council president her mother wants her to be, the one with perfect grades and a polite smile, and at night she is the girl who cuts herself in her own room because nothing else makes her feel anything. Then she meets Naoi, the bad girl who looks at her like she sees through the act, and the thought of being beaten up and ruined by her is the first thing in years that does not feel like a lie.

A first-year tennis club kouhai resents her senior Hasumi for being cold and untouchable, so she spends a cheap impulse-buy on a hypnosis app and tries it on her. What she does with that hypnosis lands her in trouble, but Hasumi's reaction at the end is not the one she expected. Original title: ワンコインラブ (One Coin Love).
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It is a secret that two high schoolers are dating the love of their lives, because they are both girls and nobody can know. The hiding builds, the loneliness builds, and the silences in between start growing darker thoughts. A psychological school yuri about a couple kept invisible, the third girl who slips into the gap, and the cost of love that cannot be said out loud.

The summer before college, Saki's childhood best friend Mako finally tells her how she really feels, and Saki, panicking, says she only likes boys. Once Mako is out the door, Saki begins to suspect she had just rejected the only person she will ever want. A slow, tender first-love story. Original title: 私の親友 (Watashi no Shinyuu).

Six standalone yuri shorts by Yoshino Shiho, mostly orbiting the forbidden pull between strict teachers and the girls who cannot quite behave themselves. Vintage 90s art with a sly, slightly devilish sense of humor. Original title: エレベーターレッスン (Elevator Lesson).
While trying on new swimsuits, a bold student pushes the boundaries of friendship with her shy companion during a steamy encounter in the bathroom.
A tomboyish student tenderly explores her feminine friend's desires in the quiet intimacy of a sunlit study room.