See, I felt the feeling There's no doubt about it, it must be special

love me a little casual intimacy

the thing to understand about otherside picnic is for every slightly weird look sorawo gives toriko in the anime, the light novel has a full page and a half of unadulterated autistic lesbian longing. this is not to decry the anime against the light novel, but you must understand every noment of the anime as dripping with desperate, urgent, need

There are plenty of yuri series where I think the anime did it better, so I promise I'm not just trying to be an annoying "Read The Book" person with Otherside Picnic, but you have to understand, the reason you have to read the book is because 80% of it consists of Sorawo's extremely gay and constantly running internal monologue. Every time Toriko looks at her, it's a violence against her personally, and she WILL tell you all about it in great detail.

congrats on the graduation!! could you draw kozakura being silly? ^^

shes so fucking funny i need to draw her more

YURI POLL SEMI FINAL

Note: Bloom into You contains some suggestive scenes and mild depictions of homophobia. Otherside Picnic contains horror elements as well as gore, body horror, gun violence, and loss of sanity; character backstories touch on themes of abuse, grooming, and cults. Reader discretion is advised.

Happy birthday, Toriko!

Hey, so like in yuri polls I see a couple misconceptions about Otherside Picnic that kinda bother me. I'd sorta like to try setting the record straight on them:

"It's not actually yuri" - it is very much a slow-burn lesbian romance. Much of the slow burn comes from Sorawo working out her feelings as she grows out of the extremely weird and stark headspace she's in when the series starts. Yes, it's taken seven novel volumes (and counting) for SoraTori to work out what their relationship is, but at various points they have kissed, mutually expressed their love for one another, and worked through obstacles that threaten to kill their relationship. It's never been a "will they/won't they" drama, but one of a couple of women working through their past traumas while finding companionship in the ones they experience together.

"The author is a male who erases lesbians from yuri" - This is a really unfortunate takeaway from all of the "Yuri Made Me Human" screenshots. I think it's really easy to come away from seeing all of those screenshots thinking Iori Miyazawa is a galaxy-brain dude who sees everything *but* lesbians in the genre. But it's really worth remembering that the interview was basically him being asked to step in and explain yuri culture and literary techniques at a sci-fi panel.

A lot of what he says there is less an original philosophy than it is an attempt to summarize and distill ideas floating around the broader yuri writers' community. Even the infamous "yuri of absence" and "landscape yuri" are not about trying to strip lesbians out of yuri. They are attempts to isolate particular writing mechanics to show *why* they work so well in combination with yuri.

Also, to be blunt, I often pick up a really strong gender essentialist undercurrent to this particular criticism. It's weird.

It's totally okay to not like Otherside Picnic as a story. But please don't gatekeep it as being "not yuri" or accuse the author of appropriating yuri aesthetics just to win polls? idk

sfw sorawo. happy vol 8

forgot to post this here on 5/14, sorawo and toriko's anniversary of their first meeting :')

So I got to use a riding lawn mower for the first time today….

It’s that time of year again. Happy Pride Month from Otherside Picnic 🏳️‍🌈

Otherside Picnic - Volume 4 (manga)

“J-Novel Club has announced on their Twitch stream that Iori Miyazawa & shirakaba's Otherside Picnic Volume 8 will launch with Part 1 on their service May 26.”