Steal, Break, Devour
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.
I'm in Love with the Villainess
Rae Taylor wakes up inside her favorite otome game, in love not with the prince route but with Claire Francois, the silver-haired villainess every other player is supposed to despise. I'm in Love with the Villainess is a Japanese yuri manga adapted from Inori's novel, an isekai-otome love story about a commoner who refuses to leave the noble bully alone and the noble who can't figure out why this commoner won't hate her back. Full color and black-and-white panels, school setting, slow-burn, devoted.
The Moon On A Rainy Night
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.
Rival College Girls: Lez Battle
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.
In the Dark
A cozy dinner at home, the lights low, a blindfold for Elichi — Nozomi has been waiting all week to play. A short, tender Love Live! oneshot where touch carries everything sight isn't allowed to.
Happy Go Lucky Days
A long, sun-warmed Love Live! omnibus tracing Eli and Nozomi from a first held hand on the walk home all the way to mornings where waking up next to each other is just the way things are. Tender, fumbling, and happy in every dialect of the word.
Synergy
"Elichi is cute." Long limbs, blonde hair, translucent skin, Nozomi has been collecting little proofs all day and now she gets to do something about every single one of them. A warm, slightly unfair Love Live! oneshot.
Amethyst
A monochrome violet study in want and ache: Eli watching Nozomi watching Umi, glass-fragile feelings none of the three knows how to put into words. A long, sad, beautifully drawn Love Live! oneshot about the kind of love that doesn't fit cleanly between two people.
Spiritual Lesson
Eli orders a VR program, a perfect simulation of Nozomi for the lonely nights. Then the real Nozomi catches her using it. The "spiritual lesson" that follows is anything but virtual. A short, playful Love Live! kink piece.
Cherry Blossom
"When you smile, you look just like the blossoming cherry flowers." A long, sun-drenched Love Live! oneshot, Eli and Nozomi rolling through spring like cats in the sun, in love and in no hurry to be anywhere else.
NozEli Sabotage
New Year's at the shrine, Nozomi in her miko robes, Elichi waiting in a side room with her sash already untied. The two of them sabotage an hour of shrine duty for something more important. A warm, sneaky Love Live! oneshot.
My Dear Queen
A white flower swaying in the dark. Two hands reaching, never quite touching, then touching everywhere. A long, sensual Love Live! oneshot about quiet, total devotion, "I'm hers to command. My dear Queen."