Catfight yuri is the niche where rivalry stops being subtext and becomes the entire engine of the story. Two women, one confrontation, and a question the genre answers in different ways: does the fight end in a pin, a kiss, or both? On Yurivan, the catfight tag collects every story where physical combat between women is the central spectacle — from school-rooftop hair-pulling and pro-wrestling exhibitions to the explicit sexfight subgenre, where the loser is whoever orgasms first.
What separates catfight yuri from generic ecchi action is intent. The fight isn't an excuse for fanservice; the fight is the relationship. Rivals push each other into contact they couldn't initiate any other way, and the genre's best stories use that misdirection honestly — the punch lands, the grapple holds, and the tension that's been building for chapters finally has nowhere left to go but intimacy. For a deeper rundown of the form, see our best catfight yuri manga roundup, which ranks 13 titles across mainstream and adult tiers.
The catalog spans wrestling matches, martial-arts duels, magical-combat tournaments, and the explicit sexfight doujinshi tradition that runs through Comiket and DLsite. Mainstream fans will recognize the lineage — Ikkitousen, Queen's Blade, Killing Bites, Valkyrie Drive, Murcielago — while adult readers will find the dedicated sexfight subgenre where pleasure is structured as competition. Adjacent tags like sexfight, rivalry, tit-fight, and wrestling overlap heavily; if you came for catfight yuri you'll likely want all four.
Below: every catfight yuri story currently on Yurivan, sorted by popularity. New chapters added weekly. All content depicts adult women (18+). For the formal genre primer with reading recommendations, the catfight & sexfight yuri guide is the canonical companion to this catalog.

Two wives. One husband. A 100-round private war waged in silk dresses, then stockings, then nothing at all. A long, sweat-soaked ringo piece about pride, possession, and refusing to surrender first.

After-hours in the empty infirmary, the beds officially "for sick and injured students only" — two girls settle a score the only way they know how. A long, ice-cold ringo showdown about pride, jealousy, and refusing to be the one who breaks first.

A long, intimate ringo piece — two girls who shouldn't want each other this much tangled together in a low-lit room, repeating each other's names like a vow they're both afraid to break.

Years after high school art club, two would-be painters reunite around the same crush — and discover the bigger canvas was always each other. Who's prettier? Who's the fake? Neither knows, but they're going to figure it out the hardest way.

A two-volume descent in three verbs: steal, break, devour. A predator who won't take "no" and a prey who learns her own body answers anyway. Heavy, dark, deliberately uncomfortable. Reader discretion advised.

On a quiet summer night, two tall women in pale dresses circle the same suburban playground, each sure the hunt is hers alone. The pleasantries fall apart fast, and the grass behind the swings ends up the only witness to what two Hachishaku-samas do when they meet for the first time.

Two college rivals meet in a love hotel after the bell, daring each other to call it sport while neither will admit who breaks first. What starts as bared teeth and crossed arms ends with sweat-slick thighs, ruined lingerie, and a rematch already on the calendar.

A homeroom teacher and one of her students' mothers face off in an after-hours classroom, but the argument over discipline collapses into something neither of them planned, with the daughter watching frozen from the doorway.

Thirty-two-year-old housewife Tian Ai opens her door to her new dark-skinned neighbor, who needs to borrow the bathtub while her own is being installed. The borrowed bath turns into a slow, fevered tangle that leaves the two of them a lot more than just neighbors.

Silver-haired Oriho Hanabigawa and her black-haired rival meet across the school in fight after fight, every match ending in torn uniforms, bruised cheeks, and bodies pressed too close to call it just a brawl.

Trapped underground with no way out, two stranded women decide the rules of survival don't apply down here. They take the boy who came looking for them and drag him into a long, sweaty cavern threesome neither will admit happened.

The real Mai Shiranui meets her imposter and there's only one way to settle who's the genuine article. Two identical fighters in identical red, throwing identical curves at each other until pride breaks and one of them screams the answer.