Trust me when I say that this round will be intense! I can basically see all of the remaining manga winning this tournament and for the first time I have absolutely no clue which ones might actually make it to the next round. How exciting!
As always, you can find the updated tournament bracket right here.
With that said, enjoy this round!
Girl Friends
Pulse
Milk Morinaga
Ratana Satis
Kase-san
Fluttering Feelings
Hiromi Takashima
Ssamba
Magan & Danai
Lily Love
Ermuzibu
Ratana Satis
Bloom Into You
Prism
Nio Nakatani
Show Higashiyama
YuriReviews and More 
I’m really sad to see Kiss and a White Lily out but not surprised.
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I haven’t read much of either of Magan & Danai or FF, but any of the remaining series would make outstanding anime. Cheers to the fallen for battles well fought.
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Okay you guys, you really gotta start reading these outstanding non-japanese works. There’s a good reason why they made it so far~
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And after that we will make a petition for the anime which has won. xD We need more Yuri Anime,that’s for sure.
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I’d be down for that! 😛
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Yeah! Lena knows someone at KyoAni!! Wait… no, that was a dream. Still we should totally do this. Lena might be able to back it up with statistics about the number of people that voted, the site demographics, etc… 😛
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How awesome would that be 😀
I’d prepare a whole presentation with all the information I can get from the site, the internet and maybe some made up stuff so it all looks and sound better 😛
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(I can’t really speak for the remaining manhua/manhwa candidates, since I stick to Japanese productions, keep that in mind as you continue reading this post)
I definitely think either Kase-san or Girl Friends will win, Bloom Into You is good, but not nearly as good as those two.
With this in mind, I honestly don’t know which one I’ll go for, they’re pretty evenly matched, I guess it boils down to which one would translate best into an anime.
The thing about Kase-san is that it has a fairly small cast in comparison to Girl Friends, so parts of the budget that would be used on voice actors in a Girl Friends anime adaptation could be put towards other things in a Kase-san anime adaptation (I’d really like a Kase-san anime to have especially good animation for the running scenes and whatnot), among many other budgeting differences according to each manga’s specialties.
Like I said before, this isn’t just a “Which is your favorite yuri manga” list, this is a “Which yuri manga should get an anime adaptation” list, and I think we need to keep that in mind.
But maybe I’m just overthinking things, we should be having fun above all else, after all.
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Does that mean it isn’t fun to overthink things? ★~(◠‿◕✿)
When I cannot choose between two evenly matched alternatives, I engage in the same kind of analysis as you have. I hadn’t looked ahead to this likely match-up, but now that you’ve made me aware of it, I’ll overthink it, too.
I agree that Kase-san has several characteristics that make it a more economically viable choice for an anime adaptation. I also think the smaller scale of the story and the self-contained episodes would make it easier to tell the entire story of Kase-san, as anime adaptations of manga usually require some pruning of the source material, and I believe some chapters in Kase-san could be dropped without losing the core of the story (that being said, they better leave unedited the chapters where Kase reveals just how and why she fell in love with Yamada). Nonetheless, while Kase-san might be less expensive to produce and easier to adapt, GF could be turned into a great anime, if the right writers, voice actors and studio are involved.
I like both series, but they are very different in character. One of the main differences between the series is that GF fully explores the process of recognizing and accepting one’s lesbian identity, while Kase-san begins with the assumption that Yamada’s lust for and love of Kase is natural and right (Yamada’s friend Mikawachi “warns” Yamada that Kase is gay, but Yamada mostly receives the warning as a green light). I prefer the art of Kase-san, and very much like that Yamada falls in love with Kase and doesn’t worry much about what that means or what others might think. As far as friends go, I appreciate Mikawachi’s complexity and conflicted feelings for her childhood friend.
Next up, Lily Love vs. Bloom Into You. Anyone want to start?
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The two favorites, Kase-San and Girl Friends are still leading the pack it seems and I hope Kase-San takes the win! Too bad about Miss Sunflower not making it any farther though… 😦
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I’ll be extremely surprised if Kase-san manages to beat Girl Friends in the Semi-finals. I think it’s a solid Yuri manga, but I’m really not into it as much as I am into Bloom Into You. I’d have to reread Kase-san to explain it, but it just doesn’t hit the top for me.
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Hm, honestly, it’s a more recent one and thus maybe a little more popular right now than Girlfriends. Though, I’m actually rooting more for girlfriends seeing that it would simply make a more drama packed and thus probably also more awesome anime than maybe Kase-san would.
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Such a brutal and heart wrenching tournament T.T but Girlfriends, Kase-san and Bllom into You are my tops picks! I hope one of them can go the distance. The ones I want to win the most is Girlfriends though. I can feel even more pain and suffering in the final rounds… we will all be able to make it out ok?!?! >.< Also, I didnt know you guys worked for Aperture Science! 😀
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We do what we must because we can!
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I can only say that the winning yuri manga will receive a huge delicious cake…
but the cake is a….
finish the sentence 😛
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Start from the beginning fellow geeks and nerds? 😛
This was a triumph!
I’m making a note here:
Huge success!
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A lie! 😛
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I must be the only yuri fan who thinks girlfriends is average.
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I think Girl Friends is really good but it just didn’t blow me away like it seemed to with everybody else. I’m fairly sure that part of why it’s got so much love is that it a fairly early release in pure-yuri history, was good yuri and also completed.
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Oh that much is very true I think. Back in the day there simply were not that many translated works around, especially not such lengthily ones. Also, I believe that for soooo many fans Girlfriends was just the first yuri manga they read and maybe even got into all of this thanks to this work.
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Well for me Girlfriends hit a bit of a personal chord. I mean yeah, I agree it was an early yuri favorite, and one of the first longer format manga’s that I (finally) took the time to read.
But I guess it just resonated with me. It taught me a thing or two that I took away and helped me out.
So, yeah, personal attachment definitely factors into these things too…
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All of these posts assuming Pulse’s imminent demise, and look at the tally now, ~50/50. Interesting!
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I know right! It’s super interesting that it turned out like that
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Holy cow! We may see Lena casting a tie breaking vote! with hours to go, Girlfriends and Pulse are only split by about 0.4%… That’s really interesting! Let us know how many votes were cast either way. =)
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drthompson, have you cast your vote?
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To quote one of my favorite Broadway musicals: “Agony! Oh, the torture they teach!”
Firstly, I really like Pulse. The characters are great, there’s lots of drama, the NSFW scenes are pretty steamy and there’s a fair amount of lighthearted, sweet moments… but after much agony, I may have to vote for Girlfriends here.
Girlfriends seems to make for a much more rounded story, is filled with lost of sweet moments and, as as mentioned by Kinda Private earlier, there’s is that struggle of discovering and coming to terms with one’s own self. Plus, Pulse isn’t finished yet (as far as I know), and the story could go anywhere. I’m sure you guys have all seen anime that are amazing then trip at the last few episodes leaving you going: “What just happened?”.
Geez. I still can’t believe we asked to be tortured like this. 😛
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Let’s be honest here, all the remaining ones would make for great anime 😀
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Kase-san Vs Fluttering Feelings… tough decision for me, I will love to see both
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really happy that some of my favorites made it, i hope they can continue into the next round, but the hardest one had to be yagate kimi ni naru vs prism both are some of my favorites but it was so hard to choose. im excited for the outcome
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I’m gonna be that guy and say it:
I DEMAND A RECOUNT ON GIRLFRIENDS VS. PULSE!!!
There’s no way I’ll believe that outcome.
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I actually found it hard to believe too, but you guys have spoken, Pulse it shall be~
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