#yagate kimi ni naru

Yuu: I did a bad thing.

Sayaka: Does it affect me?

Yuu: No, but …

Sayaka: Then suffer in silence.

Riko: What did you do?

Miyako: Alright, but you cannot be mad at me.

Riko: What. Did. You. Do.

Miyako: First of all I was minding my own business …

Riko, slamming hands on table: BULLSHIT!

Miyako: I WAS!

Touko: At least i will die doing what I love.

Yuu: And that is?

Touko: Dying.

Yuu: In your opinion, what’s the height of stupidity?

Sayaka: How tall are you?

Yuu: I hate you with every inch of my body.

Sayaka: That’s not a lot.

Yuu: I could strangle you.

Sayaka: You cannot reach high enough.

Yuu: You’ve sunken so low I can.

Sayaka, throwing Haru a map: This is where we’re going!

Haru: It’s a barren, featureless wasteland out there, isn’t it?

Sayaka:

Sayaka: Other side, my love.

Sayaka: Why didn’t I get full points for annotations?

Riko: You just wrote “savage” every time Lady Macbeth spoke.

Touko: I loathe physical contact. I never let anybody touch me unless it’s absolutely necessary.

Sayaka: You’re literally sitting in Koito-san’s lap right now.

Touko: … and it is absolutely necessary.

Touko: I bet you’d look adorable grasping at the sheets on my bed.

Yuu: No matter how many times you compliment me, I’m notmaking your bed.

Touko:

Yuu: There is nothing you could say that would make me doubt our relationship.

Touko: I eat kitkats without breaking them apart.

Yuu: ….we’re over. 

Sayaka: I don’t believe in love at first sight.

Touko: *walks by*

Sayaka: God dammit.

Touko: The truth is, I don’t really have that much willpower.

Yuu: You want me to develop your willpower?

Touko: Curious as I am as to how you would do that, that sounds scary, so I’d really rather you didn’t.

Sayaka: I thought you’d just be a meek underclassman, Koito-san … but you’re actually quite impolite.

Sayaka: Well…

Sayaka: At the very least, I like girls who are straight with me.

Yuu: No, Saeki-senpai, you definitely don’t.

Haru: If the singular form of “mice” is “mouse”, shouldn’t the singular of “lice” be “louse”?

Sayaka: Haru, love, I have like, the best news for you.

Touko, having just met the love of her life in a random book shop: D-Do you have any books on turtles?

Yuu, bored: Hardback?

Touko, dreamily: Yeah, with little heads.

Miyako: I was put on this earth to do one thing, and one thing only.

Riko: … which is?

Miyako: Luckily I forgot.

Miyako: Which means I can do what I want.

yamete-kudasai:

【Ｂｌｏｏｍ　ｉｎｔｏ　ｙｏｕ】

I really like romance, and there’s not much in modern fict that captures the silly fluttery-heart feeling I get from classic 1930s-40s Hollywood romantic comedies and love stories.

The past couple years though, I’ve tumbled into manga and manhua again after pretty much sticking to western comics for ages. In particular the yuri (girls love) sub-genre. A few well done same sex romance comics really capture that same daydreamy fun I get from films like “Sabrina” “It Happened One Night” “Design for Living” or “Some Like It Hot”. With the benefits of lgbtqa+ inclusion and an absence of most retrograde racism and sexism found in those old stories.

A couple of my favorites have been:

“Bloom Into You”

“Crescent Moon & Doughnuts”

“Accept My Fist of Love” and

“Still Sick”.

All of these are available in manga form, getting US translations, but only “Bloom Into You” has an anime adaption so far (and that doesn’t look like it’ll ever get completed).