When Budding Lilies Blossom

I ordered this manga as a physical copy, directly from its English publisher, Fakku, because I wanted to own a physical copy of a yuri hentai manga, and this was my only choice. Apparently, Fakku was so busy shilling aggressively for Shindol and trying to make the ahegao face a huge trend that they forgot to actually publish a single 18+ manga, out of the thousands on their site, that doesn't feature any penises, until this one. So, yeah, if I could get an eromanga by someone like Homura Subaru or even Mira in print, I would have gotten any of those, but instead Igot this collection of short vignettes of cute girls having mostly super vanilla sex with each other. It was fine. I will say the printing was very nice, and like I said, I'm glad to get to put an actual yuri eromanga on my shelf, but as a manga I can't say I'm super impressed. The problem is, for a book with 9 separate stories, there's just no diversity here. And I don't mean in terms of sexual content or kinks--I'm actually fine and in fact very happy that it stays super cute and vanilla. I mean in terms of couples, and even just how the girls themselves look. The artist draws fairly detailed and cute--though interestingly rough-looking--images, but their character designs have a bad case of sameface that leads to different characters in different stories rather annoyingly looking exactly the same. The stories are also too short to be focused on anything other than the scenarios for the sex, followed by the sex itself, which again would be fine (it is porn, after all), but the problem is most of the scenarios aren't that interesting and most of the girls don't really have any standout traits other than "cute, and maybe sort of a top," or "also cute, and I guess shy?" All the girls in this manga are tiny, feminine, and cute in the exact same way, which gets really boring. This all leads to this book essentially feeling like 9 chapters of the same uninteresting couple just having sex a bunch of times. That is to say: its cute, its hot, but its essentially the most generic yuri you can imagine--exactly what I expected Fakku to publish, come to think about it. So, yeah, if you want some personality with your porn, look up those authors I mentioned above. If you have some extra money lying around and want to own some real, authentic, translated adults-only GL, though, you could do worse. You could pick up their other "yuri" manga, Twin Milfs *vomits*.